Above photo: Done Good. NOTE: If you are going to shop for gifts this holiday season, you can make an impact by choosing where and what to buy. â MF Ethical shopping is a somewhat new phenomenon. Weâre far more familiar with the âtried and testedâ methods of doing good, like donating our mon…
Above photo: Activist Abiodun Aremu speaks in a microphone as he takes part in a march to protest against the governmentâs failure to agree on a new minimum wage during a rally in Lagos, on October 30, 2018. Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP via Getty Images. At the root of Nigeriaâs #EndSARS movement is a…
Above photo: Steve Mnuchin/ New York Times. Last week the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Bank engaged in a rare public disagreement. US Treasury Secretary, Mnuchin, in a letter to Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, last week directed the Fed to return $455 billion that the Fed was…
Above photo: Palestinian street vendors sell candy in Gaza City. Getty. Israelâs blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclaveâs economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday. The coastal enclave has been under an Israeli-enforced blockad…
Above photo: Nathaniel St. Clair. With nearly 12 million cases and a quarter million deaths in the US so far (over 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths world-wide), the COVID 19 pandemic is ravaging civilization. The disease is on track to be the deadliest epidemic since 1918. The economic fallou…
Above photo: Demonstrators march with a banner that reads âVote for Macron they saidâ, during a rally on the Place de La Republique in Paris, Tuesday, Nov.24, 2020. Franceâs interior minister ordered an internal police investigation Tuesday after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of te…
Above photo: Members of the San Carlos Apache Nation protest to protect parts of Oak Flat from a copper mining company on July 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images. In yet another attack on the environment before leaving office, the Trump administration is seeking to t…
Above photo: Fieldstone Co-op held a community sing-along with members taking part from a safe distance, on their balconies and in the garden. A recent survey finds the sector is optimistic after arrears remained unaffected by the pandemic. Housing co-ops in Canada remain positive about the future…
Above photo: Alan Kelley, executive committee vice chairman of Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, left, and Lance Foster with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office walk the land the Nebraska Conservancy has transferred to the Iowa Tribe. Matt Dixon/The World Herald. The land on the Nebraska-Kansas…
Above photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants to slash 64 million work hours next year, but his plan isnât the only one on offer. A working group of rank and filers has compiled all the ways his vision is antithetical to the green, expanded, universal Postal Service the public deserves:Â bit.l…
Bolivia: New Arrest Warrants For Añez Regimeâs Top Officials Above photo: Former Oil Minister Victor Zamora (L) and former Immigration Director Marcel Rivas (R). Twitter/ @Opinion_Bolivia. Former Oil Minister and former Immigration Director are accused of political persecution and corruption. The…
Above photo: The Central Intelligence Agency flag is displayed, partially cast in a shadow. David Goldman | AP. In Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive. The military industrial complex is returning to its roots as the CIA turns to big tech to maintain control and rebuild the war economy. The vaunted…
Above photo: The author.Native Americans donât just live on reservations, we live in cities, and we live internationally. I grew up in the Silicon Valley of California. I was born in the city and have lived here my whole life, as an âUrban Native.â My grandfather moved to California from Mohaw…
Itâs a Centrist Co-option Strategy to Bloat the Budgets of ICE and the Pentagon. Read the fine print before rushing to deem climate change a ânational securityâ threat. On November 23, President-elect Joe Biden announced that former Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry will serve as speci…
ï»ż The Empire Update for Nov. 23 covering the Grand Finale of Trumpâs promise to end the Afghanistan War; whatâs really behind the Somalia troop withdrawal; US-backed monarchy sparks new potential war in Africa; State Department takes new action for Israel against BDS movement; and potential fo…
Above photo: Chemicals in Chesapeake rockfish are linked to birth defects and cancers. Rockfish, crabs, and oysters are highly contaminated with PFAS. Testing done in October 2020 showed rockfish containing 23,100 parts per trillion (ppt) of a variety of per-and-poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)…
Above photo: A woman sits with her son at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center after recently crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. NOTE: This article quotes the Congressional Hispanic Caucus speaking out about the deportations…
Above photo: Workers walk out wearing protective gear as they leave for the day on a shift change at Life Care Center earlier this year in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. The coronavirus pandemic is breaking records every day in the United States, filling up intensive care u…
Above photo: Protesters carry a Palestinian flag in MontrĂ©al, July 30, 2014. Flickr. Digital technology has been a fixture in the Ontario classroom setting for some years now, but with COVID it has become a particularly dominant instrument of secondary school pedagogy. Online teaching and e-learni…
Above photo: Tela Troge holding âHonk for Indigenous Rightsâ and Shinnecock elder Jennifer E. Cuffee-Wilson holding âThis Indigenous Woman âIâm Doneââ sign at rush hour. WNV/Matt Ballard. As a leader of Sovereignty Camp 2020, Shinnecock attorney Tela Troge discusses why they are protes…
Above photo: Meng Wanzhou is the deputy chair of the board and chief financial officer of telecom giant and Chinaâs largest privately held company, Huawei, founded by her father Ren Zhengfei. Matti Blume. And pursue an independent foreign policy. The current hearings on the extradition of Meng Wan…
Cancel the sanctions. Take Action: Sign the petition against US sanctions on Venezuela at [] As Joe Biden takes over the US presidency there is much speculation over how much his Latin America policy will differ from that of Donald Trump. Whilst Trumpâs sanctions on Venezuela have undoubtedly been…
Above photo: Fox 29 Philadelphia. Nurses at St. Mary Medical Center outside Philadelphia went on strike Tuesday morning, demanding safe staffing ratios to confront the growing numbers of Covid cases in Pennsylvania. Left Voice spoke with Drew, one of the nurses walking the picket line. On Tuesday, N…
Above photo: Joe Biden gives George Bush the Liberty Medal. What President Biden Wonât Touch. Foreign Policy, Sacred Cows, and the U.S. Military. In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as âDing dong! The witch is dead!â or âWe got r…
Above image: Jared Rodriguez. Truthout.org, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The government of Great Britain doesnât want English students studying how capitalism is killing us. The British government has ordered schools in England not to use resources and materials from organizations that have e…