by Sulma Arias | Oct 7, 2024 | Election, Environment, Featured
The human cost from Hurricane Helene continues to rise, with over 220 people dead in six states and hundreds still missing within a 500-mile path of destruction. Helene has had a devastating impact on poor, low-income and rural people in underserved communities, where...
by Sophia Cheng | Oct 9, 2023 | Blog, Climate, Democracy, Environment, Featured
Fossil fuels are killing our planet and our communities. Michael Witten, who used to mine coal in West Virginia, has seen this up close, and that’s why he’s demanding change now. Witten worked in coal mines for more than eight years in West Virginia’s Boone County...
by Sulma Arias | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Future of Work
As a community organizer, I often imagine what it would have been like to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and win the Voting Rights Act. I always find inspiration in Dr. King’s words, especially this passage from his final book, Where Do We Go From Here? “Let...
by Kaniela Ing | Feb 9, 2021 | Environment, Featured, Future of Work
Luxury development, Hawai'i coastline Photo credit: Kai Nishiki It’s invigorating to see some of our leaders finally reckon with the most abiding problem of American climate politics: that green does not always mean equitable. Many well-meaning climate policies have...
by Warren Tidwell | Jun 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Immigration
Photo credit: Hometown Organizing Project / cc Workers throughout Alabama are reaching out to me to sound an alarm on what they are seeing inside meatpacking plants.This piece started out as an informative piece on how and why the COVID-19 virus is spreading rapidly...
by A.J. Albrecht | Jun 10, 2020 | Environment, Featured, Future of Work, Inequality
Photo credit: Government Accountability Office / cc The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on disturbing injustices in our food system—reaffirming the need for systemic change. Slaughterhouses (euphemistically called “meatpacking plants” by the meat...
