Capitalism: A Ghost Story Arundhati Roy From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly… Continue reading
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery Mark Charles, Soong-Chan Rah You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Not back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ These are JUSTICE issues!! *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for other… Continue reading
Joe Garofoli April 9, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Comments San Francisco progressives have a lot of problems with moderate Mayor London Breed, so why haven’t any of them stepped up to run for mayor? It may seem weird that San Francisco — the progressive capital of America — doesn’t yet have a… Continue reading
Melissa Gira Grant/ April 4, 2023 (newrepublic.com) MAGA MAYHEM The MAGA circus hits the courthouse in Manhattan. YUVRAJ KHANNA FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC Protesters outside the courthouse in Manhatten wait for Trump’s arrival on April 4th. Diane was up at six this morning, customizing a Christian flag for the former… Continue reading
Satellite imagery shows the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica on February 21, 2000. The ice shelf’s collapse in 2002 was hastened by fossil fuel-driven global warming. (Photo: USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon/Gallo Images/Getty Images) “Ice sheets are retreating fast today,” said one expert. “But we see traces in the seafloor… Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (right) sits next to Justice Clarence Thomas in this October 7, 2022 photo. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) “It is well past time for the Supreme Court to align with the rest of government in a proper code of ethics enforced by independent investigation… Continue reading
BY WILL DANIEL April 5, 2023 at 1:53 PM PDT (Fortune.com) A People’s Assembly Against Austerity protest on Oct. 2, 2022, in Birmingham, U.K. MIKE KEMP—IN PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES When costs go up, so do profits? That’s not how capitalism is supposed to work, but that is the recent trend. For over… Continue reading
Rabbi Arik Ascherman talks about the current protest movement in Israel and why democracy there cannot be attained without Palestinian liberation in a special Passover installment of the “Not in Our Name” series on The Marc Steiner Show. BY MARC STEINER APRIL 4, 2023 (therealnews.com) Israeli Rabbi Arik Ascherman from “Rabbis… Continue reading
