LGBTQ people who seek to become parents experience barriers to care every step of the way, from restrictive insurance policies to geographic barriers to welcoming providers. Authors from Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health, a groundbreaking new anthology named by Book Riot as one of the…
By David Rovics World War 3 Illustrated has been going on for several decades now and itâs still going strong. The latest issue is #51, and this is a discussion with five of the artists who made it happen. David Rovics has been called the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. Since…
On November 19th, 2020, the eve of âBlack Consciousnessâ day in Brazil, security guards at the Carrefour retail store in Porto Alegre brutally murdered a black father of four named JoĂŁo Alberto Silveira Freitas while store employees and shoppers stood by (Video of the murder can be viewed here…
       "Signal is okay but it's owned by one non-profit company (which you may or may not trust). Matrix is better. It's also end to end encrypted and open source, but you can run your own servers (and connect to other servers seamlessly) so you have much more control over your own data. The…
Chignautla. Puebla. Mexico. Militants in Chignautla set fire to the municipal presidency on Monday morning and blocked the main road of this municipality located in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, to protest against the âmunicipalizationâ of the drinking water service. Originally published by Abolit…
Suppose that we endorse something like this moral principle: The most moral way to live is to prevent as much suffering as possible. This principle is quite demanding, as it means (for example) that spending six dollars on an expensive cup of coffeeâwhen those six dollars could more effectively…
Above photo: XR grandparents mad hatterâs tea party outside Chevronâs headquarters before it was demolished by the WA Police. Petrina Harley. Western Australia â Extinction Rebellion WA (XR) hit the streets with a Festival of Love and Rage on November 28 with a message to the Western Australia…
Above photo: A DâArrigo Brothers worker with a union button on her cap talks at lunchtime with an organizer. Companies are trying to shut down such access to workers through the courts. David Bacon. Not long before Donald Trumpâs election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit agains…
Above photo: Officer Vickjord walks the floor of the 4B SHU at Corcoran State Prison. The prison started accepting inmates in 1988. Grant Slater/KPCC. Corcoran, CA â CDCrâs negligent and careless response to the COVID-19 outbreak at CSATF has now killed at least three people. Active cases at the…
Above photo: Imagine wanting to drill for oil in a place this gorgeous. Steven Chase/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Getty Images. We got another one. On Monday evening, Bank of America said that it will no longer finance fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic, joining Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, C…
Above photo: Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wetâsuwetâen chiefs. LNG Canada. Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and gas projects shouldnât be classed as an essential service. M…
Above photo: PSUV campaign rally in Portuguesa. PSUV. The upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela are going to be held in a context of great adversity are an important step in the democratic recuperation of the countryâs institutions from the US-backed opposition. On December 6, the Venezuelan…
Above photo: Iranians mourn Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Tehran, Nov. 28. The targeted assassination of top Iranian physicist and nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, and Donald Trumpâs immediate approving Tweet, confirm the determination of U.S. and Israeli rulers to sabotage every possible…
Above photo: Detroit. Barry Lewis/ Corbis via Getty Images. Dr. Jared A. Ballâs new book, âThe Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Powerâ explains the history of the black âbuying powerâ canard. It is a commercial and political propaganda tool for the black political class, a cudgel to bla…
Above photo: President Trump leaves after speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on November 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Erin Schaff/Getty Images. In the weeks remaining before Joe Bidenâs inauguration, Donald Trump is taking actions â including aiding and abetting murder â t…
Above photo: A factory worker processes cannabis flowers to make them ready for export on November 10 in Kasese, Uganda. CNN. A United Nations panel has voted to remove medical cannabis from a list of dangerous drugs. In the Wednesday vote, the Commission for Narcotic Drugs voted on several World He…
Email: press@risingup.org.uk Phone: +44(0)7756136396 Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Media Assets | Donate #ExtinctionRebellion #OvenReady #TellTheTruth Many will herald todayâs announcement as reason to celebrate how far weâve come. But the reality is, these empty promises from a gove…
From Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition Comrades, Hello, my name is Antoine, better known as Indy. Iâm a 28-year-old Black, Bisexual man, incarcerated in Pennsylvania. I am an LGBT activist and prison abolitionist. Iâm serving an 8 to 20-year sentence and Iâm 10 years into it. I have been i…
(ANTIWAR.COM) â The US slapped more sanctions on Iran on Thursday, claiming that Tehran is operating a secret chemical weapons program despite a lack of evidence and Iranâs staunch opposition to chemical warfare. The Treasury Department announced that the Shahid Meisami Group and its director…
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden on Thursday urged President Donald Trump to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. âYou alone can save his life,â Snowden tweeted. Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange…
Who polices the police? Is a question that has vexed many in recent decades, and remains largely unanswered. This years protests against police brutality & racism, as epitomised by the Black Lives Matter protests, has once again put the question high on the agendaâŚalthough not it seems on the agen…
20th November, Germany. Via local media: According to local media, four hunting towers were set alight in GĂśdenstorf during the evening of the 22nd November, causing a total damage of 5000 EUR. On the 19th, in Viernheim, nine more towers were destroyed, legs sawn off, ladders broken or overturned…
Incarcerated folks at 9500 Men's Central Dorm in Los Angeles' Men's Central Jail are experiencing inhumane circumstances. Many of their court dates have been pushed 4, 5 or 6 times, keeping them in the system for far longer than necessary. The person I spoke with said for many of them, they're ther…
      More and more groups and individuals are starting to use "Signal" as their chosen messaging service, it's free, open-source and encrypted end to end. Your message leaves your device encrypted arrives at signal encrypted, is forwarded encrypted and then deleted at the server's end. Even…
Working with the German publisher Unrast, our friends from Black Mosquito have published a collection of our writing from 2012-2020 in German, entitled Writings on the Wall. Together, these texts offer a view from the front lines of struggles from Minneapolis to Kurdistan, exploring some of the most…
