Hawaii’s Water Protectors Lead Movement to Close Navy Fuel Site After Leak
This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Upwards of 100 water protectors ralliedOn December 10, 2010, outside the Hawaii State Capitol, Honolulu. Their worst fears had just come true. The U.S. Navy had kept decaying fuel storage tanks just 100 feet above a water aquifer that functioned as the main source of drinking water […]
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GOP’s 2022 Candidates Could Push the Party Even Further Into Extremism
Trump era saw a far right takeover of Republican Party. But the Big Lie as well as the fallout from last January’s Capitol riot could push the party even further. further into the extremist fringeAfter the 2022 midterms. Republicans have long inched toward extremist positions on issues like immigration, women’s rights and gun rights but […]
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Neoliberal Era Was Rich in Revolutionary Lessons. Movements Must Learn Them.
Colin Barker was a prominent Marxist intellectual who was based out of Britain. He died in 2019, shortly before the publication his last work. Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal AgeIn 2021. This extraordinary volume, published in 2021 by Haymarket Books, examines events and outcomes of mass rebellions that took place between 1989-1999 in Central Eastern […]
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Staten Island Amazon Workers Pause Unionization Battle, But the Fight Isn’t Over
Derrick Palmer was at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island when he heard that the petition to form a union he had spent the last six months acquiring signatures for had failed. Palmer, a warehouse associate in packing, was working a shift packing and loading orders onto conveyor belts. Chris Smalls, the president of Amazon […]
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Trump Appointee Resigns as FDIC Chair After Failing to Stymie Policy Review
What has been described as both “open lawlessness” and a “partisan brawl” came to an end Friday when Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Jelena McWilliams — an appointee of former President Donald Trump — revealed she is resigning, which will give Democrats control of the agency. In a letter to President Joe Biden published on […]
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Twitter Boots Marjorie Taylor Greene From Platform for COVID Misinformation
Twitter has permanently suspended one of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accounts for “repeated violations” of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, a spokesperson for the service confirmed Sunday. @mtgreenee was her personal account. She will be allowed to post from her official Congressional webpage, @RepMTG. Her final tweet falsely referenced “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths” […]
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Nuclear Power Doesn’t Belong in the Green New Deal
Amid rising public outcry over government inaction toward the climate crisis, the nuclear power industry has attempted to advertise itself as “zero emissions,” “carbon-free” and even “renewable” in order to convince politicians and the public that it is essential to solving this world-historical disaster. However, nuclear power is not one such thing and can actually […]
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700,000 US Teens Navigate School Without Family Support or Permanent Housing
Luisa, age 19, was fed up with her mom’s demand that she complete all the household cleaning, from scrubbing the toilets, to washing the dishes, to doing the laundry. “I couldn’t take it anymore,” she tells Truthout. “I did not want to be the only one in the house doing chores, so I left. I […]
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Lessons From a Trump Appointee
Shortly after taking office as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson recruited a retired finance and strategy expert to become the agency’s chief financial officer. Donald Trump appointed Irving Dennis in late 2017 to the job. He quickly found the mess he had inherited. Dennis spent 37 years […]
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Dialysis Patients Have Faced a Deadly Catch-22 During the Pandemic
By the time Cheryl Cosey learned she had COVID-19, she had gone three days without dialysis — a day and a half more than she usually waited between appointments. She was worried about how long she could wait before she would be able to go without her life-saving treatments. Cosey, now 58, worked as a […]
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