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 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...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Inequality, Race, White Nationalism
Whitehall Street, Atlanta Georgia, 1864. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / cc Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Jamie Dimon may personally associate with individual African Americans, Latinos and other minorities. They might even employ them. They...
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 April Short | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Tim Brown / GPA Photo Archive / cc Even before COVID-19, the U.S. has had one of the lowest voter turnout rates among developed countries. This is a critical election year, and even before the pandemic, it was a voting season unlike any before in...
