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Photo of industrial site on a river, with smoke rising from smokestacks

PFAS contamination and the scourge of cancer in Odawa nation

by Frances Madeson May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

Members of the Odawa nation are among the hardest hit by PFAS pollution in the state, and are at the forefront of solutions for clean water and air for all.

Politics and Movements: US

LDEQ draft permit rattles neighbors of hazardous waste disposal site

by Frances Madeson March 28, 2023March 30, 2023

April Louise as Christine Williams (left), KC Simms as Isaac Richardson (center), and Alexandra Miles as Annette Williams (right), in the Jacona family's bar and grocery, the main place of gathering in the immersive play "The Family Line," which is set during an 1892 general strike in New Orleans. Photo by Joshua Brasted.

Politics and Movements: US

A New Orleans play aims to change the conversation on labor organizing

by Frances Madeson March 2, 2023March 2, 2023

Members of the Southern Illinois University Young Democratic Socialists of America and other organizers make abortion rights protest signs and banners at the Born Again Labor Museam in Carbondale, Illinois, in May 2022.

Economy and Inequality

At the Born Again Labor Museum, art is a weapon for the working class

by Frances Madeson October 13, 2022October 13, 2022

Millie Wahl stands in solidarity with the "Native Nations Rise" march on Washington, DC, against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Portland, Oregon, on March 10, 2017.

The feds are using terrorism charges against water protectors

by Frances Madeson July 6, 2022July 6, 2022

A person holds a sign during a vigil at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 2022, for environmental activist Wynn Alan Bruce, who self-immolated at the Supreme Court the week prior to bring attention to the climate crisis. Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via Reuters. On the right: Northern Arapaho Two-spirit person, Big Wind, chants into a megaphone to a crowd at a water protectors demonstration at the Two Inlets pump station near Park Rapids, Minnesota, on June 8, 2021. Photo credit: The Ginew Collective.

The fire that Wynn Bruce lit

by Frances Madeson May 12, 2022May 12, 2022

Politics and Movements: US

Organize, don’t agonize, says Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno

by Frances Madeson March 25, 2022April 1, 2022

A woman holds a leafy twig as part of a protest for better working conditions for garment workers in Haiti

Economy and Inequality

‘We are not slaves!’: Haitian garment workers strike for a fair wage

by Frances Madeson March 4, 2022March 6, 2022

Prisons and Policing

‘Mama Glo,’ Louisiana’s longest held female prisoner, finally walks free

by Frances Madeson February 8, 2022February 9, 2022

A statue of Mary and Jesus sits in front of a damaged mobile home in Ashland

Economy and Inequality

Hurricane Ida showed us the future of climate catastrophe. Mutual aid showed us a way out.

by Frances Madeson November 10, 2021November 13, 2021