Don’t Be Fooled by Gas Industry Lies
Commentary by Carl Hintz Terms like “blue hydrogen” and “bridge fuel” are used by the gas industry and electric utilities to obscure how disastrous methane is for the climate. So what is “blue hydrogen”? It’s…
Back Yard
‘Save the Forest’ Petition Surpasses 5K Signatures
By Joyner-Harris Forest Conservation WAKE FOREST, NC — A Change.org petition, spearheaded by long-time Wake Forest resident Angela DiPaolo, pleading with stakeholders to preserve the 68-acre forested parcel located on Harris Road directly across from…
Haw River Tribunal Puts a Pipeline on Trial
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
United for a Fair Economy
Supporting Durham City Workers’ Campaign for Fair Pay By Jen Douglas Durham city workers organizing with UE150—a member group of the UFE-coordinated Raising Wages NC coalition —are out in the streets and testifying at City…
As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty
Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza By Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European…
Tenants Organize State-Wide
By Greg Childress Two years ago, Crystal Towers residents in Winston-Salem successfully fought to prevent the sale of their public housing building, which is home to more than 200 low-income, elderly tenants. In Raleigh, Grosvenor…
NC Truck Workers Reach Deal with Daimler
By Jack Ewing The United Automobile Workers reached an 11th-hour deal on Friday, April 26 with Daimler Truck in North Carolina that gave workers 25 percent raises over the next four years and averted a…
These Hands
Solidarity in tapestry for Volkswagen workers Commentary by Tabitha Arnold Last weekend, I brought my new tapestry to the big community rally for Volkswagen workers ahead of their much-anticipated union vote. Just minutes before I…
The Freedom Flotilla Is Sailing Into Its Most
Dangerous Waters Yet By Saliha Bayrak The voyage of the Free Gaza Movement began in 2008 when two small fishing boats carrying 44 passengers sailed toward the Gaza Strip. The boats brought in about 10…
What Does It Take to Organize Immigrant
Workers in the South? By FLOC Media At 7:30 a.m. workers begin filing into the large tin building, surrounded by heavy machinery and pallets stacked high. Tucked away amongst sweet potato farms in rural North…