We Are All Playing Covid Roulette
Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you By George Monbiot You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and…
Q&A with George Lakey
By Carl Hintz On January 18th George Lakey, a long time activist and author, visited the Raleigh (Quaker) Friends Meeting to share from his new memoir Dancing with History: A life for Peace and Justice….
A Revolution in Clean Indoor Air
It will take re-engineering, not just medicine, to close the door on COVID Andrew Nikiforuk In this, the fourth year of the pandemic, one question is on everyone’s lips. How the hell will this thing…
‘Cancel This Failed Experiment’: Physicians Tell Biden HHS to End Medicare Privatization Pilot
By Jake Johnson A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its…
Eliminating Healthcare Debt: A Liberatory Approach
By Chuck Bell A liberatory or emancipatory approach to eliminating medical debt begins with truly hearing the voices of one hundred million Americans who are struggling with bills they can’t afford to pay. As a…
It’s Class Warfare
In America today, we have informal labor cartels for the college-educated elite, while private sector unions for the working class are all but annihilated. By Michael Lind What was called “the Labor Question” a century…
Strikes Are Stronger Than Laws
There’s a simple reason why the government can’t win unless you let it. By Hamilton Nolan When people get frustrated and petulant, they lash out. So too do governments. When labor unions are looking a…
Unions Have Plenty of Money to Organize—They Just Don’t Spend It
By Hamilton Nolan Many people who are passionate about the labor movement, myself included, have long had the vague but haunting sense that the most powerful institutions in the union world are not doing enough…
Corporate Rail’s Deadly Greed
Shareholder Payouts Boosted 4,500%, Workforce Slashed 33% Prior To Ohio Disaster By Eric Gardner The derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying 20 railcars of toxic chemicals in western Ohio has renewed scrutiny on precision…
“I Am an Optimistic Person”
Friederike Otto, the scientist who studies climate catastrophes By Sandra Laville Cycling over London Bridge as the dry heat pushed the temperature above 40C and a hot wind gusted down the River Thames, Friederike Otto…