Above Photo:Glen Ford. (Glen Ford / LinkedIn) Glen Ford Spent More Than Four Decades Delivering The News From A Black Perspective On A National Scale. Glen Ford, a veteran broadcast, print and digital journalist who hosted the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on TV before goi…

Above Photo: Activists in the US-city San Francisco organized a rally and car-caravan in support of Cuba and against the blockade. (PSL) Let Cuba Live Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad on the failed attempt by the Biden administration to push for regime change in Cuba as the US-blockade worsens…

Above Photo: A protester holds up a sign during a protest to demand the resignation of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. ( AP Photo/ Dieu Nalio Chery) U.S. Media Has Called For A U.S. Military Intervention In Haiti Following The Assassination Of Pr…

Above Photo: As the heat wave impacts accumulate, many will suffer cascading health consequences. (Rsndetre / IStock / Getty Images Plus) The heat waves of 2021, which have pummeled western regions of the United States and Canada, have killed, at a minimum, hundreds of people. In British Columbia…

‘Honk For Humane Jobs’ On a warm Saturday morning in May, a group of demonstrators gathered in a public square in Asheville, North Carolina, for the kind of protest lawmakers don’t usually foresee when they haggle for a share of the United States’ massive military budget to be spent in their…

Above Photo: Grand America Hotel The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its first post-Trump in-person meeting this week in Salt Lake City, Utah at the five-star Grand America Hotel. While Trump is no longer in office, ALEC members still wearing their MAGA hats can participate i…

Above Photo: Photos of workers who have passed away displayed at an event held on November 5, 2020 in Raleigh to commemorate the lives of farmworkers and meat processing plant workers lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Episcopal Farmworker Ministry) And The Hidden Industry That Shoulders It How a c…

Above Photo: Striking United Mine Workers and allies on the picket line in Brookwood, Alabama, June 15, 2021. (United Mine Workers of America) Canary In The Mine The five-month strike is about worker power in America. It’s also about fighting for a just transition for carbon-intensive industries…

We are The Gym, an organizing network focused on mutual aid and community support along the Myrtle-Broadway corridor of Bushwick on the occupied Lenape land known as Brooklyn, New York. On Saturday, July 24, the NYPD violently attacked our neighbors, friends, and comrades at the behest of the landlo…

Above Photo: Sidewalk and security dry moat along the J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters of the FBI in Washington, D.C. (Tim Evanson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) From the Michigan kidnapping plotters to the Portland occupiers to my own brush with a sting, not much has changed since J. Edgar…

Above Photo: Protesters in San Antonio, Chile joined countless Chileans in an “estallido social”, or social explosion, in late 2019. Their actions, including a general strike by major unions, overthrew the old constitutional order. (Vivian Morales C., CC BY-2.0) Many Americans have become accust…

Above Photo: People participate in a rally led by Memphis Community Against the Pipeline in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 14, 2021. (Steve Jones / Southern Environmental Law Center) As the dust settles on their victory, the coalition of activists and community members that opposed the Byhalia Connec…

 Above Photo: Antonio Cabrera Palestine Action Has Made Headlines For Its Forceful Commitment To Shutting Down The Arms Trade Between Israel And The U.K., Trying To Do With Direct Action What Anti-War Organizations Have Long Been Calling For. Trying To Do With Direct Action What Anti-War Organiza…

Above Photo: Detail from NPR image of climate change–linked flooding in Germany. When detailing catastrophic weather events, prominent corporate news outlets show less reluctance than in the past (FAIR.org, 9/22/20, 4/22/21) to prominently pointing out that these events are caused by human-drive…

Above Photo: Daniel Hale (Bob Hayes) Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison. It was a severe sentence but not the harshest sentence ever issued in an Espionage Act prosecution against a former United States government employee or contractor for the “unauthoriz…

Above Photo: Delia Jovel and members of Tierra Fértil Co-op plant seeds and examine their crops on June 13, 2021 in Herdersonville, NC. (Juan Diego Reyes) In addition to building economic security, small-scale cooperative farms in North Carolina are strengthening community and a sense of home-grown…

Emerge and Twin Cities Nonviolent show us how to use nonviolent security to create safer, more hospitable schools. At a school in North Minneapolis, the school day starts with a team of four peacekeepers escorting teachers and staff into the building. Then the team watches out for the students as th…

Land • Back noun1. The ongoing movement to return land to the stewardship of Indigenous peoples. What Is The Goal Of The Landback Movement? Beyond its explicit demand, landback is about transforming settler-colonial relationships to land; restoring the language, culture and sovereignty of triba…

Above Photo: New Yorkers rallied at City Hall in 2018 to call on NYC to divest from banks that fuel climate change and to establish a municipal public bank to fund the transition to a just, sustainable economy. (Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images) A Municipally Chartered Public Bank Would…

Above Photo: Thomson Reuters At one McDonald’s in Marseille, France, everyone eats for free. Locals don’t pay a dime — or euro — for food there because the location is now a food bank. The restaurant originally opened with government backing in 1992 in a majority-Muslim neighborhood grapplin…

Above Photo: Protesters surround the Los Angeles Superior Court on August 21, 2020 to prevent an upcoming wave of evictions in the city. (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters) Renters struggling with housing costs because of the pandemic have been shielded from eviction for nearly a year, but now the national b…

Above Photo: Original illustration by Mr. Fish The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable. The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the…

Above Photo: Rio Tinto workers on the picket line in Kitimat. (Unifor) Around 900 workers walked off the job at mining conglomerate Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelting facility in Kitimat and power plant in Kemano, British Columbia early Sunday morning. The workers, for whom Unifor Local 2301 is the ba…

Hillary Clinton famously said, “’I don’t want my grandchildren to live in a world dominated by the Chinese.” During his tenure, President Obama launched his “Pivot to Asia,” moving 60% of US naval power to bases surrounding China, developing the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty specifica…

Above Photo: Members of The National Council, Life After Release, Maryland Justice Project and Out for Justice demonstrate outside of the Department of Justice on behalf of Gwendolyn Levi and the more than 4,000 people released under the CARES Act, on June 30, 2021. (Sharon Smith / The National Coun…