Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, has witnessed firsthand the systematic inhumanity of the death penalty in the US. If more people saw what she’s seen, they would join the fight to abolish it.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Biden ‘fights’ climate crisis with kid gloves on
President Joe Biden and other leaders from wealthy nations used a lot of nice-sounding rhetoric about tackling climate change at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, but they’ve made it clear that the oil and gas industries are still running the show.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Opinion | Nurses unions around the world mobilize against Big Pharma
The Progressive International is mobilizing nurses unions around the world to take on Big Pharma and the governments they have captured.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
WHO, South Africa urge nations to lift ‘naive’ Omicron travel bans
“The only thing the prohibition on travel will do is to further damage the economies of the affected countries and undermine their ability to respond to, and recover from, the pandemic.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Hungarian teachers’ unions join forces against the Orban government’s refusal to improve working conditions
Two major Hungarian teaching trade unions join forces to set out four new demands in the face of continued government inaction.
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Opinion | Amazon’s hunt for public contracts generates backlash
Amazon is winning big money contracts from governments across Europe, but activists hope to turn this receipt of public money against the corporate giant.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Berlin’s ‘new economy’ workers fight exploitation and union busting
Workers at Gorillas, the Berlin-based grocery delivery service, secured a major court victory as they continue their fight against “new economy” exploitation and rampant union busting.
Posted inBaltimore
‘A Nostalgic Fantasy’: Baltimore’s $1 Homes, explained
City Council President Nick Mosby wants to resurrect a decades-old program, but housing advocates warn it won’t solve Baltimore’s housing crisis and instead helps out developers.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Amid GOP attacks, UN expert warns of near ‘tyranny’ against voting rights of US minorities
“It is very far from, to borrow from the country’s Constitution, ‘a perfect union.'”
Posted inEconomy and Inequality
Organize students, organize everyone, and fight like hell
Ten years after the right-wing assault on workers, unions, and public education, multiracial and multi-generational grassroots coalitions in places like Racine are carrying on the fighting spirit of the Wisconsin Uprising.