by Richard Eskow | Sep 6, 2017 | Blog
Houston has barely begun to recover from Hurricane Harvey, as Irma devastates the Caribbean and heads towards Puerto Rico and Florida. Its hard to imagine all the grief, effort, and cost it will take to rebuild from one of these thousand-year storms, much less two....
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
While President Trump's boastful comments about crowd size at his tour of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Houston struck some as egotistical and self-aggrandizing, his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had a similar performance in Florida, where she robotically...
by Gerardo, COPA | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
My name is Gerardo. I am a proud undocumented immigrant and a grassroots leader at Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA), where we fight for racial justice in our state and nationwide. I want you to know my story. I am one of the recipients of the Deferred Action for...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
The Labor Day parades are over. The bands have packed up. The muscular speeches celebrating workers are finished. The trash is getting collected from parks across the country. And now conservative politicians from Trump on down will revive their systematic efforts to...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog
Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members,...
by Krista Sperber | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
All our eyes have been glued to the devastation that is Hurricane Harvey. Here in New Jersey, we are still waiting on the help we were promised to fully recover from Superstorm Sandy, so we know the road home will be long and full of challenges. We feel heartbroken at...
