Driven by Industry, More States Are Passing Tough Laws Aimed at Pipeline Protesters
When Nancy Beaulieu’s Ojibwe ancestors signed a series of treaties with the federal government in the 19th century, one of the goals was to protect the land, she said. So she sees it as not just her right but her duty to protest the building of a major oil pipeline underway in northern Minnesota. As […]
Living Through the Climate Emergency
IMAGINE A WILDFIRE was bearing down on your community. Smoke was darkening the sun; flames were hopping from one canyon to the next. The local fire expert, who had been warning of this moment for years, said the time had come to evacuate. Right now. But the local newsroom wasn’t so sure. Wouldn’t businesses suffer if […]
A New Union of Musicians Is Taking on Spotify
There was a time when Los Angeles’ Arts District was actually an arts district. The 1960s and ’70s saw plenty of broke artists in search of affordable space move into the area’s abandoned warehouses. In a few short years the misused industrial area was completely transformed. Cheap bars and coffee houses hosted DIY art exhibitions […]
The Union Campaign at Amazon Was Just the Beginning
Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, have lost their bid to seek union representation in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election, in what would have been the first of the company’s U.S. facilities to unionize. Unfortunately, despite a strong campaign led by the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (of which the Amazon workers […]
Protests Erupt After Police Kill Black Man During Traffic Stop Near Minneapolis
Police fatally shot Daunte Wright—an unarmed, 20-year-old Black man—during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday afternoon, sparking protests in the northern Minneapolis suburb located just miles away from where George Floyd was killed by police last May. “Yet another Black life was taken by those sworn to protect,” the state’s ACLU chapter said in […]
Howard Dean Pushes Biden to Oppose Generic COVID-19 Vaccines for Developing Countries
HOWARD DEAN, the former progressive champion, is calling on President Joe Biden to reject a special intellectual property waiver that would allow low-cost, generic coronavirus vaccines to be produced to meet the needs of low-income countries. Currently, a small number of companies hold the formulas for the Covid-19 vaccines, limiting distribution to many parts of the […]
Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweet Led to a Huge Rise in Anti-Asian Tweets
On March 16, 2020, as COVID-19 was first spreading across the U.S., then-President Donald Trump issued a tweet about his support of U.S. industries, saying that he would protect them from the “Chinese Virus.” What followed, a new study has found, was a steep rise in tweets containing anti-Asian hashtags as anti-Asian sentiments rose across […]
‘Someone Needs to Actually Do Something’: a Grim Reflection on Anti-Asian Hate
A year ago this month, Eddie Song was accosted by a stranger at a Costco in New York City. The man accused him of spreading the coronavirus and threatened to punch him in the face. It was a clarifying moment for Song, a Korean American entrepreneur who grew up in the city. He later witnessed […]
Hesitant Coverage of the Hateful Atlanta Shootings
ON TUESDAY EVENING, a white gunman killed four people at Young’s Asian Massage, a spa in a suburb of Atlanta. He then traveled into the city and killed four more people, also at spas—three at a business called Gold Spa, and one at Aromatherapy Spa. In total, six of the victims were Asian women. The four […]
Austerity-Addicted Media Scaremonger Over Infrastructure ‘Spending Spree’
As soon as Democrats took over Washington with big plans for reviving the economy, corporate media started sounding the alarm about government spending (FAIR.org, 1/25/21). With the party’s infrastructure bill—which could come in around $2 trillion over four years—now pending, the media deficit hawks are on high alert, tossing around big, scary numbers to throw cold water […]