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Dec 6, 2018  As world eulogizes George H.W. Bush, activists like Mother Jones would have us remember his victimsAs this week's national day of mourning concludes in the U.S. with the funeral of George H.W. Bush, the country's 41st president, labour activist Mother Jones' words are worth remembering. |
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Nov 29, 2018  U.S. midterm results show the fight against voter disenfranchisement is workingGrassroots organizing gets results but there is a huge amount of work yet to be done to ensure a fair, representative democracy with an engaged and empowered electorate. |
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Nov 22, 2018  U.S. rejection of war would be fitting tribute to Jamal KhashoggiThe murder of Jamal Khashoggi may sway enough Republican senators to join Democrats in voting to block further U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's destruction of Yemen, and to suspend arms sales. |
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Nov 15, 2018  Amazon headquarters auction another example of corporate welfareWill Amazon's HQ2 spark a magical, high-tech age, or will it kill small businesses, drive up rents and leave the cadaver of a working-class neighbourhood in its wake? |
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Nov 8, 2018  Progressive politicians spark hope in U.S. election, but their work is just beginningAmid white nationalism linked to the presidency of Donald Trump, the 2018 midterm elections are ushering in a slate of elected officials representing the country's diversity more than ever before. |
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Nov 1, 2018  U.S. midterm elections defined by struggle for voting rightsWho will come out to vote -- and, critically, who will be denied the right to vote -- in the next U.S. midterm elections? |
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Oct 25, 2018  Donald Trump is the biggest threat to U.S. national securityAs Trump campaigns around the country, he gins up fears of foreign enemies attacking the U.S. But he has shown that the greatest threat to U.S. national security is Trump himself. |
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Oct 18, 2018  Archbishop who resisted repression in El Salvador is canonizedSalvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero spoke out against the U.S.-backed military violence that ravaged Central America in the 1980s. His assassination helped galvanize a global solidarity movement. |
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Oct 11, 2018  Hurricane Michael is a sign of things to come if climate change denial continuesU.S. President Trump says the government is doing all it can for the victims of Hurricane Michael. By denying climate change, he is assuring many more storms and countless victims to come. |
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Oct 4, 2018  U.S. Senator Jeff Flake's elevator confrontation shows the power of womenAs U.S. President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to be reaching a controversial conclusion last week, a remarkable encounter took place on live TV. |
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Sep 27, 2018  Women are fighting for their lives in Trump's AmericaFrom women's control over their own reproductive rights, to sexual assault and abuse, we'll know we have made progress when women's bodies are no longer a battleground in the U.S. |
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Sep 18, 2018  Prisoners fighting California wildfires face climate injusticeJoining the professional firefighting crews on the front lines of California's massive fires are thousands of prisoners, brought out of their jails to engage in this dangerous work. |
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Sep 6, 2018  Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for votingOn Nov. 8, 2016, Crystal Mason, an African-American mother of three, went to the polls and voted. What Crystal didn't know was that in Texas, you can't vote while on parole or supervised release. |
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Aug 30, 2018  Betsy DeVos proposes using public education funds for gunsAccording to reports, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering allowing federal education funds to be used to buy guns to arm teachers in the classroom. |
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Aug 23, 2018  Students tear down Silent Sam statue as resistance to racism growsAround the U.S., people are resisting racism amid a rising white supremacist movement emboldened by the election of President Donald Trump. |
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Aug 9, 2018  Members of MOVE 9 remain in prison 40 years after police attackForty years ago this week, Philadelphia police launched a massive attack on the house of MOVE, a radical, back-to-nature, anti-police-brutality and largely African-American organization. |
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Aug 5, 2018  A Mexican journalist's fight for asylum and a free pressEmilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas. |
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Jul 27, 2018  From Sweden to the U.S., resistance Is in the airAmy Goodman Denis Moynihan The Swedish government officials accompanying a refugee to Afghanistan tried to force Elin Ersson away from them. Turkish Airlines flight attendants tried to take her phone. But she persisted. |
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Jul 19, 2018  The fight to stop digital oligarchs and save net neutralityISP corporations are trying to control the internet, to restrict the free flow of information, to restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear. |
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Jul 12, 2018  As the world rallies around Thailand, children in Yemen and U.S. also deserve helpJuxtapose the outpouring of compassion and solidarity in Thailand with the catastrophe facing millions of children in Yemen, and the ongoing debacle created in the United States. |
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Jul 5, 2018  Trump's family separation policy inflicts pain and fuels hateDetention of immigrant families in the U.S. has been happening for years. But, on May 7, the cruel triumvirate of Trump, Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions enacted by fiat the "zero tolerance" policy. |
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Jun 29, 2018  U.S. Supreme Court upholds Muslim ban, endorsing Donald Trump's racismThis week the U.S. Supreme Court gave Trump the green light to make his racist ban permanent. |
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Jun 21, 2018  Press coverage of immigrant family separation crisis has parallels with Vietnam WarQuestions about babies have arisen again at the White House, this time about thousands of immigrant children, ripped from their parents and jailed in cages on the orders of President Trump. |
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Jun 14, 2018  Supporting Trump's diplomatic efforts may be the way to avoid nuclear warPeople have been organizing long before Trump to end the 70-year state of war on the Korean Peninsula. Political parties should unite behind the peace movements driving this diplomatic opening. |
