Publications

Climate change is quickly melting the sea ice that polar bears depend on as their hunting ground …

After weeks, and in some places months, of protests following the murder of George Floyd, …

Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …

John Lewis was a civil rights leader and activist that fought to end racial segregation in the United States …

Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …

As the U.S. COVID-19 death count approaches 145,000 people, Betsy DeVos, the Federal Secretary of …

In West Virginia, there is only one abortion care clinic to serve the population of the entire state …

For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …

We’re only halfway through the year and 2020 is already expected to break global temperature records. …

At the height of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, the Supreme Court ruled that doctors performing abortions did not have to have admitting rights at a nearby hospital …

Workers at Highland Hospital are walking out for the safety of their patients and themselves …

In Portland, Trump has taken advantage of ongoing demonstrations against police brutality to send in officers from the Department of Homeland Security …

On Monday, July 13, with coronavirus cases in California rising steeply, Governor Gavin Newsom reintroduced some restrictions on the reopening …

On July 10, Trump’s administration announced that international students had the option of either taking in-person classes or losing their student visa …

At Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a 30-year-old man who attended a so-called “COVID party” died after being infected with the virus …

The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …

5.4 million people lost health insurance coverage in the U.S. during the pandemic between February and May …

It was recently announced that the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline out of North Dakota, will be shut down, as well as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …

The administration is “of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it…the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day” …

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of oil and gas companies on Monday when they approved fast-track permitting for pipeline construction …

Jair Bolsonaro, has just tested positive for COVID-19. …

ICE has announced that they will deport any immigrant on a student visa in the US who is enrolled only in online classes this fall …

The South Pole is warming at a rate three times faster than the rest of the globe. …

Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …

July 4, the United States celebrates Independence Day. But what does that mean? And independence for whom? …

people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …

On June 22, shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, went on strike due to a contract dispute …

“The master class has always declared the war, the subject class has always fought the battles …

Nurses at St. Rose Hospital fight back! …

The U.S. is currently number one in all coronavirus statistics and far ahead of all …

BAND-AID recently released a new line of skin colored bandages, featuring shades for black and brown skin tones …

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver Erek Slater was suspended from his job in early June after attempting to …

The epicenter for the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been nursing homes, where over 40% of the total number of deaths in the country have occurred. …

Last week, a member of a right-wing armed militia group shot an anti-racist protestor in Albuquerque …

On Tuesday, Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona at the Dream City megachurch …

Online townhall: June 20, 2020 …

On June 20, the city of Verkhoyansk in Siberia hit a record high temperature over 100 degrees. …

At his political rally in Tulsa last Saturday, Trump said he wants to reduce testing for COVID-19 …

Due to all 50 states in the U.S. reopening after months of shelter-in-place, some are talking about a “second wave” of COVID-19 infections …

Presentations by Speak Out Now activists introducing a range of topics relating to socialism, capitalism, …

The question in front of us is whether we look to others for reforms or whether we stay mobilized and look to ourselves? …

Who would have thought in January 2020 that …

Recent drone footage of New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas has shown long lines of people waiting to get a bit of food …

On Thursday, June 18 The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn Trump’s plan to end DACA …

In response to massive protests, riots, and ongoing fights against racist police brutality, companies and banks are posting public relations messages …

In a recent press conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the true intention and strategy …

An emerging trend for both the advertising and entertainment industries are edited videos known as deep fakes …

After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland. …