by Vijay Prashad | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Future of Work
Photo credit: goldmanprize.org On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), led by Berta Cáceres Flores, went to protest the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River. This river, in western...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Feb 28, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...
by David Goodner | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...
by Alexa Kasdan | Feb 26, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...
by David Goodner | Feb 25, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the Democratic nomination for president and...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Education, Featured
This is the second of a two-part article by Jeff Bryant on Career and Technical Education (CTE). Click here to read part one. The national discussion about the movement to privatize America’s public schools has mostly focused on the issues of charter schools and...
