Two States
Two States [a cartoon from Jordan] Truthdig  February 16, 2017 To learn more about Rise Up Times and support Media for the People! with a donation click here. No Peace! No Justice!  Please share this post.
Belén Fernández | Zumba-Thons and Other Non-Solutions to Violence Against Women
In continuing to violate nations and people at will, the U.S. could very well qualify as a pandemic in its own right.
Belén Fernández | Zumba-Thons and Other Non-Solutions to Violence Against Women
In continuing to violate nations and people at will, the U.S. could very well qualify as a pandemic in its own right.
Diana Gebrial | The Inextricable Link Between Migration and Sweatshops
Whereas most industries have seen some technological advancement, the image of the garment sweatshop has seen little modification since its inception over a century ago.
Diana Gebrial | The Inextricable Link Between Migration and Sweatshops
Whereas most industries have seen some technological advancement, the image of the garment sweatshop has seen little modification since its inception over a century ago.
Refugees: Seeing Flight as a Non-violent Option, by Erica Chenoweth and Hakim Young
One Way to Change the Discourse about the World’s 60 Million Refugees
Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice
How do citizens counter corruption and exact accountability from power holders?
UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017
Nuclear weapons remain the only weapons of mass destruction not yet outlawed in a comprehensive and universal manner...
Vandana Shiva | Ending a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Our soils are dying. Our societies are dying. Our children are dying—because of diseases caused by food loaded with toxics.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Angela Davis on Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Video)
Oftentimes there are historical conjunctures that one cannot necessarily predict, but they’re moments when things come together in such a way that new possibilities arrive. ... I don’t know whether many people are aware of the extent to which Palestinian-American activists were involved, from the very outset, in the protest against the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson.Â
Peter Dolack: Building a Better Movement
We do need to stop lamenting that we don’t know how to build an effective movement and start seriously discussing how we are going to build an effective movement.
Constructing Visions of “Perpetual Peace”: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Since the early 1980s, polls in the US have shown that most people believe that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves... I do not know of earlier polls, or polls in other countries, but it would not be surprising if the results are similar. The important question is: are people motivated to do something about it?