Boost Now or Wait for New Vaccine? Many Wonder How to Face COVID’s Next Wave
Gwyneth Paige didn’t want to get vaccinated against covid-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Her mother was diagnosed with colon cancer. “At that point, I didn’t care if the vaccine killed me,” she said. “To be with my […]
Read More
Rwanda scheme won’t fix Channel crossings, warn MPs
MPs have claimed that the government’s attempts “find a silver bullet solution” to end channel crossings will fail. In a report published today, the House of Commons’ home affairs committee finds that the asylum agreement with Rwanda so far shows no evidence of being a deterrent. It calls on the government for a fix to […]
Read More
Post-Roe, Republicans Continue Taking Aim at Comprehensive Sex Ed Classes
This story was originally published in The 19th. What students learn in sex ed has taken on new urgency following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to reverse Roe v. Wade, leaving abortion access up to the states. Advocates are focusing on this dynamic as the Texas Republican Party targets what students learn in school. […]
Read More
Despite Broken Promises From Politicians, Sex Workers Continue to Organize
In February 2019, almost two years before the presidential election, candidates described their efforts as a “battle for the soul of America.” Sex workers and their loved ones, particularly ones who relied on the internet for work and/or community, were slowly figuring out how to survive one year after SESTA/FOSTAA set of bills that aims […]
Read More
Oakland Parents Occupy Elementary School to Prevent Its Closure
This story was first published in Waging Nonviolence. On the last day of school at Parker Elementary, following tearful moving up ceremonies for fifth and eighth grades, one group of mothers — frustrated over a decision to permanently shutter the school — refused to leave. Over 50 days later, they’re still there, occupying the school […]
Read More
Labour accuse government of ‘clocking off’ amid heatwave
Labour have accused Boris Johnson and other ministers of “clocking off” amidst the Conservative leadership election. Shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News this morning that Johnson has “clearly clocked off” along with e “many of the ministers in his government”. Nandy argued that “today of all days” demonstrated her complaints regarding the […]
Read More
Let’s Replicate Chicago’s Antiwar Organizing Victory Against Boeing
This spring’s news that Boeing, a corporate weapon manufacturer, will be moving its headquarters from Chicago, Illinois is a victory for the anti-militarist movement. It comes just weeks after a more significant victory for youth organizers, who prevented the company from receiving a $2 million tax cut before they left. It’s a victory that organizers […]
Read More
The National Weather Service Is Unwittingly Obscuring Reality of Global Warming
Today’s 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) average global temperature rise above preindustrial levels is now as warm as any time in the last 10,000 years. It is three-times warmer than the average temperature in the last 2,000 yearsThe period in which the Earth systems that our advanced civilization relies upon developed. These systems include […]
Read More
NLRB Is Understaffed and Underfunded at Critical Moment for Labor Movement
The budget for National Labor Relations Board fiscal year 2022 was $274million, which may sound like a lot. But it is the same amount as the Board’s budget for Trump-era fiscal years 2021 and 2020, and that is a problem. In fact, the NLRB has not had an increase in funding since 2014, the year […]
Read More
Trump Campaign Continued Steering Donor Money to Firm Involved in Jan 6. Rally
Former President Donald Trump’s political operation continued to pay individuals and firms involved in organizing the rally that preceded the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, steering them more than $15.4 million since the start of the 2016 election cycle. The political operation paid more than $1.4 million to a single firm in May […]
Read More