
How Black Women Continue to Shape American Democracy
Shirley Chisholm paved the way. We’re carrying the torch forward.
Progressive.org
A Mother’s Struggle Through War in Gaza
As she cares for her two children and husband amid displacement and siege, forty-one-year-old Nesma Al-Gharabli is also fighting health problems of her own.
Progressive.org
The Cost of Bolivia’s ‘White Gold’
As the world races to secure coveted lithium for the green energy transition, Indigenous communities in Bolivia are left to bear the environmental burden.
Progressive.org
Bringing White Appalachians into the Fight
In ‘Song for a Hard-Hit People,’ Beth Howard shares her story of activism and organizing in Appalachia.
Progressive.org
Israel urges Iranian uprising while privately saying they’d ‘get slaughtered’
Israeli officials told US diplomats that the Iranian government is “not cracking” in a State Department cable.
The Real News Network
Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.
Mother Jones
Fisherwoman Diane Wilson is on hunger strike to stop Dow’s pollution of Texas Gulf Coast
“We're saying, ‘Oh, pretty please, will you save the bays? Will you not pollute us today?’... I think we're way too polite and way too well-behaved. And that's why I advocate being an unreasonable woman.”
The Real News Network
The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment - Greenpeace International
The environmental impacts of the war on Iran and Lebanon illustrate again that war does not only kill people and destroy homes. It also damages the systems that make life possible. Water, climate, biodiversity are all harmed.
Greenpeace International
AI-powered robot dogs guarding reviled data centers is where we have arrived
These robots, known as “quadrupeds,” are being used to patrol the sprawling energy-sucking complexes, which are increasingly being met with protest around the country.
The Real News Network
DHS waited until it was sued to remind ICE agents about the First Amendment
New legal filings reveal an internal scramble over an alleged “domestic terrorism” database.
Mother Jones