by Brenda Siegel | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Opioid Crisis
On June 1, Vermont became the first state in the nation to remove criminal penalties for possession of “therapeutic amounts” of buprenorphine. This amounts to a one- to two-week supply of this lifesaving treatment for people who suffer from Opioid Use Disorder....
by Ellen Glover | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Featured, overdose crisis
Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “full scale attack” on drug use. It was the beginning of the War on Drugs. Nixon — and many presidents since — promised the War on Drugs would save lives. Trillions of dollars later, incarceration...
by Ben Levenson, Connie Huynh | May 20, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Health, International, Trade
Even as COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the United States, there is no end in sight to the pandemic for the vast majority of people in the world. Many in Central and South America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East won’t get access to COVID vaccines until 2024. This is...
by George Goehl | Mar 8, 2021 | Blog, Featured, Organizing
The time has come for an organizing revival. Where we celebrate the evolution of this craft, and reground in organizing fundamentals that transcend form and context. We have shifted an organizing field that was largely designed to win the best thing possible in the...
by Tom Conway | Mar 7, 2021 | Blog, Featured
Patricia McDonald layered on sweaters, socks and mittens and huddled under blankets for 15 hours as the temperature in her Duncanville, Texas, home plunged to 42 degrees last week. Well after the water in her kitchen froze, McDonald decided she’d had enough and braved...
by Eshawney Gaston | Mar 6, 2021 | Blog, Economy, Featured, I Speak
I’m one of America’s millions of essential workers. We’re working in your children’s schools, at your grocery stores, and at drive-through windows. We’re cleaning your homes. And we’re struggling so hard to make ends meet. Congress is debating whether to raise the...
