By ALAN FRAM April 23, 2021 (apnews.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats were on a roll. The House voted along party lines to make the nation’s capital the 51st state and two hours later, the Senate overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to address violence against Asian Americans. Thursday’s twin victories let Democrats display momentum just… Continue reading
The president’s emissions reduction plan doesn’t do enough to address U.S. climate impacts on the rest of the world. Rishika Pardikar April 26, 2021 (The Daily Poster) Photo credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images This report was written by Rishika Pardikar. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced that the United States will cut emissions… Continue reading
Tony Bravo April 25, 2021 Updated: April 26, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Democratic Club issued a short response to Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, after it was revealed last week that he listed himself as a member of the Dan White Society in his 1991 yearbook from Connecticut’s Trinity College. The response:… Continue reading
By Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin | April 26, 2021 (tikkun.org) By Σ, retouched by Wugapodes – File:Noam_Chomsky_portrait_2017.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85616571 [Editor’s note: The environmental crisis is the most important challenge facing all of humanity. We at Tikkun congratulate President Biden for breaking the tradition of many moderate Democrats in office who… Continue reading
We’ve received another action report from our friends of the Anarcha-Feminist Group Amsterdam. This time they squatted a building to raise awareness and directly challenge the colonial and racist past and present of Netherlands. In response the riot police not only brutally evicted them but attempted to murder one of them…. Continue reading
April 21, 2021 by Common Dreams The announcement, said one reform advocate, “should not supplant the need to pass legislation that would fully decriminalize sex work.” by Andrea Germanos, staff writer 15 Comments LGBTQ+, immigrant rights, harm reduction, and criminal justice reform groups, led by people who trade sex, launched a… Continue reading
April 20, 2021 by Common Dreams “A supermajority of the House has voted affirmatively to recognize that the legalization and regulation of marijuana is a superior public policy to prohibition and criminalization.” by Brett Wilkins, staff writer 2 Comments The U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the SAFE Banking… Continue reading
APRIL 23, 2021 (counterpunch.org) BY SUSIE DAY Susan Sontag, speaking at the San Francisco Public Library, 2001. Susan Sontag. She was a brand long before most writers knew they needed one. Even if you’ve never read a Sontag book, you can still engage with her seriousness by studying her darkly handsome, scathingly… Continue reading
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and… Continue reading
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander “Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred… Continue reading
