by Jeff Bryant | Jun 12, 2020 | Democracy, Education, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr / cc As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos declared her intention to “force” public school districts to spend a large portion of federal funds they’re...
by Tom Conway | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Inequality, Protest
Photo credit: Rosa Pineda / Wikimedia Commons / cc When demonstrations erupted across the country after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers, Donald Trump portrayed the protesters as America’s enemies. Trump called them “thugs,” “lowlifes” and...
by Kenza Hadj-Moussa | Jun 4, 2020 | #PeoplesWave, Blog, Democracy, Featured, Protest, Race
Memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis. Photo credit: Take Action Minnesota / cc First published by Take Action Minnesota on June 4, 2020 Today, George Floyd’s memorial was held in Minneapolis. The pain, rage, and grief across the Twin Cities is palpable. At the same...
by Rick Krajewski, Nikil Saval | Jun 2, 2020 | Breakfast, Democracy, Election, Featured
Philadelphia politics are being transformed: block by block, and door by door, upstart candidates for the multiracial working class are stepping up. The same grassroots organizers who helped elect a progressive champion as the city’s District Attorney in 2017 – Larry...
by About Face | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Military, Organizing, Protest
An Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard Troops Attention Members of the National Guard, We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what’s at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in...
by Thom Hartmann | May 25, 2020 | Blog, Conservatism, Democracy, Featured
Photo credit: DOJ, Wikimedia Commons / cc Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, had a phone call with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016...
