Why Drop the Charges Against All 646 Arrestees in Minneapolis Post-election Demonstration on I94
Whether in war abroad or war at home, human rights in this day and age so often do not apply, especially for people of color.
DN! “All We Can Save”: As Climate Disasters Wreck Our Planet, Women Leaders Are Key to Solving the Crisis
"We should care because this is the planet that we have to live on, right? Like, we can’t actually all leave the planet. And it is interesting that you opened this segment by talking about the balance of coverage. We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media."
DN! Just Out of Jail, Winona LaDuke Decries Militarized Crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Protests
"About a month ago, the Minnesota DNR, which is probably the most corrupt agency in the state of Minnesota, allocated 5 billion gallons of water to Enbridge in the middle of a drought. They knew about..."
“Don’t you know there’s a war on?” by Patrick Lawrence
"The sooner we recognize these and many similar events as disparate dimensions of a concerted war waged against us, the better we will understand the air we breathe and the water we drink."
Our New Postracial Myth, by Ibram X. Kendi
"Just as you can recognize an impoverished country by its widespread poverty, you can recognize a racist country by its widespread racial inequity."
Moral Intelligence or Nuclear War, by Robert C. Koehler
"To declare that nuclear weapons can only "legally" be used in retaliation for a nuclear strike hardly leaves me feeling safe. Are we left with a world continually at war with itself, with our best hope being that all future wars will be waged legally and politely?"
Henry Giroux: Pedagogy, Power, and Moral Witnessing in Dangerous Times
"Economic inequality is the bedrock of neoliberalism." "In an age when it seems to me all problems are seen as individual problems and there is no understanding of how to basically conceptualize the social, That has to be one of the most powerful ideologies for domination that has come along for 400 years..."
The Problem is the Other CRT (Conservative Race Theory), by Tim Wise
"Rather than arguing detailed academic theory, we must answer the right-wing assault on anti-racism by demonstrating the real motives of those who have launched the attack on it."
“American Silence,” song by Chris Pierce
"...Pierce’s impassioned vocals and righteous message to keep fighting for justice in this country. It’s the sound of everyone who’s hungry for change, steadying themselves and marching toward a common goal.”
“It’s been burning for awhile,” song by Chris Pierce
"Together, we can be the change we seek in this world for we are all brothers and sisters in one race — the HUMAN RACE."
The hidden hand of the US blockade sparks Cuba protests
"It is unclear who Biden thinks has been “enriching themselves” in Cuba, but any criticism of Cuba that does not include a thorough analysis of the internationally condemned U.S. blockade will miss the most important factor in why Cubans are currently undergoing such hardships."
Corporate Totalitarianism: A Conversation with Chris Hedges
Destruction of the working class, the welfare system, public media, militarized police, prison system, oppression of black and brown people, deindustrialization