Judge Restores Coal Lease Moratorium on Public Lands That Was Undone Under Trump
Climate and Indigenous activists applauded Friday’s reinstatement of an Obama-era moratorium that prohibited new coal leases on public lands, until after an environmental review was completed. Brian Morris, chief judge at the U.S. District Court of Montana, issued an orderReintroduce the 2016 moratorium, which Ryan Zinke, former President Donald Trump’s disgracedInterior secretary reversedThe following year. […]
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EPA Proposal to Limit PFAS in Drinking Water May Boost Grassroots Efforts
Rome, Georgia — The intake pumps that once drew 6 million gallons of water a day from the Oostanaula River now sit mostly dormant in this northwestern Georgia city. Local officials contend that years of contamination miles upstream sent toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, into Rome’s water supply, rendering it potentially dangerous […]
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Video Game and Tech Workers Are Putting Unions at Play in Their Industries
This article was originally published at Labor Notes. My co-workers and me at the videogame studio Tender Claws left our desks at noon on July 17. Two of our work-from home colleagues came into the office unannounced. Our out-of-state colleagues joined them virtually via a laptop. We passed out a letter and read it aloud […]
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On Social Security’s 87th Birthday, Progressives Warn GOP Wants to Destroy It
Advocates and progressive lawmakers on Sunday celebrated the 87th birthday of Social Security — one of the most popular and successful federal programs in U.S. history — and warned that its modest benefits remain under serious threat as Republicans openly signal their desire to gut the New Deal mainstay, a move that would hurl millions […]
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Wealthy Donors Bankroll Christian Nationalists to Sustain Unregulated Capitalism
“They’re just going to let me die?” Madison Anderson asked. Her doctor ruled it too risky to perform an abortion. Anderson shared the following: The New York Times she’d been informed the fetus would not live after birth — and carrying it could kill her. Due to the Supreme Court, many Americans now face life-threatening […]
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Unhoused Activists Are Fighting a Surge of Bills Criminalizing Homelessness
This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Advocates across the country are fighting a host of state and local laws that criminalize homelessness and threaten those living on the streets as a result of rising rents. Police in riot gear stormedAfter one protester climbed onto a bench to confront Nury Martinez, Council President of […]
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I Stole to Feed My Family and Was Incarcerated. We Need Resources, Not Prisons.
This essay was a winner of the Keeley Schenwar memorial essay prize in 2022. “A menace to society,”At the age of 14, that was what the judge called me. These words rang in mine and stabbed me in the heart. “Not my baby,” she cried, “Not my baby.” I was a bad child in the […]
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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
TruthoutThe winners of the Keeley Schenwar II are proudly announced Memorial Essay Prize. We were astonished by the response and are grateful to everyone who submitted essays. We regret that only two essays were selected. Each essay was original and moved in its own way. The 2022 winners are Kwaneta Harris, for “Working in Prison […]
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Working in Prison Fields Didn’t “Correct” Me, It Revealed the System’s Brutality
This essay was a winner of the Keeley Schenwar memorial essay prize in 2022. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) mission statement explains its rationale for prison: “Public safety” … “promote positive change” … “reintegrate … into society.” During my 15 years of incarceration, I’ve never witnessed anything to support this view. The hypocrisy […]
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Labour unveils £29bn cost of living plan
Sir Keir Sterner, Labour leader has laid out a cost of living plan he would create if he was in-power to ease the impact of the energy crises. Branding the crisis as a “national emergency”, Labour said it would scrap the £400 cost of living payment and freeze electricity and gas bill prices at their […]
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