Tag Archive: Social Justice

How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy

Released for Syndication: 10/23/2020

The pandemic has revealed the barbaric nature of an economy that has largely left the care of children to the whims of market forces. The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color is at stake.

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Haiti Has a Long History of Being Assaulted by Its Latin American Neighbors

Released for Syndication: 10/22/2020

A 15-year peacekeeping mission by the UN in Haiti that ended one year ago still has unanswered questions about how Latin American nations came to participate in the occupation against a small, unarmed and impoverished Caribbean nation.

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The Police System That Terrorizes the Poor and Minorities Is Rooted in the Colonial Past

Released for Syndication: 10/20/2020

The Minneapolis City Council’s attempt to defund police may have fizzled out for the moment, but the problem of police violence across the United...

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In Trump’s America, There Is Death Before Due Process

Released for Syndication: 10/16/2020

The president promises “law and order”—by which he means “no law” and “order at gunpoint.”

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How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine Government

Released for Syndication: 10/14/2020

The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed...

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How India’s Leader Modi Is Changing Laws to Help Imperialists Dominate the Country’s Agriculture

Released for Syndication: 10/13/2020

Foreign investors and multinational companies have been pushing countries like India to become food-import-dependent and divert land devoted to food grain toward crops that imperialist countries can’t grow.

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How Trump’s Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic Put Every American at Risk

Released for Syndication: 10/12/2020

Jackie Anklam realized that Donald Trump was failing the American people when her father died of complications of COVID-19 in a Michigan hospital that...

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Trump Is Waging War on Us—We Ignore It at Our Peril

Released for Syndication: 10/09/2020

The president has made clear that he intends to cling to power at all costs, including the U.S. Constitution and our democracy.

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How Donald Trump Intends to Weaponize the Supreme Court Against Ordinary Americans

Released for Syndication: 10/08/2020

As a union griever, Jason Haynes fought constant battles against employers ever ready to cheat workers out of overtime pay and other hard-earned benefits....

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Voting Advocates Call on Officials to Do More to Stop Voter Intimidation and Election Violence

Released for Syndication: 10/07/2020

As right-wing militants have the president’s blessing to behave menacingly, voting rights groups are asking why aren’t local officials doing more to assure voters that Election Day will be safe.

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