US Needs to Take Responsibility for Worldwide Plastic Pollution in Oceans
Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It can be found on beachesIn fishAnd even in Arctic sea ice. Und a new reportThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine make it clear that the U.S. is a major problem. As the report shows, the U.S. produces a large share of […]
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In Wake of Buffalo Victory, More Starbucks Workers Are Forging Unions
What organizers and other labor rights advocates have accomplished dubbed “the year of the worker,” employees at two more Starbucks stores are seeking to unionize. Workers at two Starbucks locations in Broomfield Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois, filed union petitions to the National Labor Relations Board, a Twitter account related to organizing efforts at Starbucks. announced […]
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Pentagon Spending on Military Contractors May Reach $407 Billion in 2022
President Joe Biden signed a record breaking military budget earlier this week. analysis published Thursday predicted that if recent contracting trends continue, the Pentagon will funnel $407 billion worth of public funds to private weapons makers this fiscal year — more than the federal government spent when sending $1,400 relief checks to most Americans in […]
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Industrialized Farming Has Unleashed an Insect Apocalypse
Most people are familiar with the story about the passenger pigeon. They were so numerous in the late 1800s that hundreds of millions of them dotted the sky for hours. In just over 100 years, humans exterminated them. The last wild passenger pigeon was shot in 1901. The Rocky Mountain locust is a similar story, […]
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“Localization” Can Help Free the Planet From Neoliberal Globalization
Is there an alternative to the globalization-related economic, political, and environmental problems? How about “localization”? Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director at Local Futures. Her organization focuses on creating a movement for environmental sustainability and improving local economies. Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer in the new economy movement that has now spread to all continents […]
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Doctors Are Urging Medicare to Deny Coverage for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug
As Medicare officials grapple with whether to cover Aduhelm — an Alzheimer’s medication approvedFederal regulators despite the absence of evidence that the exorbitantly priced potentially dangerous drug helps patients — many doctors are urging them not to. Medicare will make a preliminary determination this month about whether Medicare’s federal insurance program for U.S. residents aged […]
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2022 Could Be the Year of Labor and Racial Justice Coalition-Building
1967 was the year Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was published. Where do we go from here: Chaos, Community?In it, he assesses the state of civil rights movements after the passage and implementation of the Voting Rights Bill. He argued that the movement was at a crossroads in it. Dr. King won civil rights legislation. […]
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Letting Go: Wisdom From Our Grief
This certainly wasn’t the 2021 I imagined, long ago, when I thought the whole future would be in effect by 2020 — I grew up expecting flying cars and space travel any minute now. Instead of negotiating black hole etiquette and aliens, the year was filled with overwhelming grief cycles. I cried more than I […]
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Climate Crisis Fuels Late-December Wildfires Ravaging Colorado
Tens of thousands of Coloradans were forced to flee their homes Thursday as two fast-moving wildfires — whipped up by wind gusts reaching 110 mph — tore through communities just outside of Denver, engulfing entire neighborhoods in flames and destroying hundreds of buildings. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has declared a state of emergency to help […]
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Ending a Global Pandemic Should Not Rely on “Individual Responsibility”
After more than a year, the pandemic continues to ravage the world. The Omicron variant is rapidly spreading around the world and is now the dominant version of Covid in the U.SAn estimated 73 per cent of new cases are handled by the U.S. The U.S. has an average of over 213,751 new Covid cases […]
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