Click on the video to activate live chat. By April M. Short White tarp tents lined one side of Allston Way in Berkeley, California, on a sunny week in early April 2023, beneath which a cluster of people sat on ornate pillows, sipping from ceramic cups at the tea ceremony booth. Others filtered to and […]
‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
Click on the video to activate live chat. By Reynard Loki The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and minority populations. One harsh reality of this systemic racism is the existence of “sacrifice zones”: Communities located near pollution hot spots that have been permanently impaired […]
Labor Education Starts in School
Click on the video to activate live chat. By Sonali Kolhatkar American society is steeped in narratives about economic prosperity shaped by capitalist ideas of individualism and a corporate culture of exploitation. Children are exposed to such ideas in schools and via pop culture and are required to put them into practice at a young […]
We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve: By April M. Short
Click on the video to activate live chat. Ours is a critical time in the cultural evolution of humanity that is likely to shape our long-term future, or lack thereof. As a species, we have been on a self-destructive trajectory that has led us to our current polycrisis of unlivable economic conditions, worsening climate disasters, and the […]
Making Sense of Florida’s Nonsensical History Curriculum: By Sonali Kolhatkar
Click on the video to activate live chat. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is waging a war on history. The GOP’s aspiring presidential candidate saw how effectively Donald Trump tapped into white conservatives’ fears of demographic change and seems to want to use that same tactic to catapult himself into the White House. In 2021 and […]
How to Fix Our Food System :By Reynard Loki
No food should be worth the amount of suffering experienced by sentient animals trapped in our food system.
Why Capitalism Is Leaving the U.S., in Search of Profit: By Richard D. Wolff
Early U.S. capitalism was centered in New England. After some time, the pursuit of profit led many capitalists to leave that area and move production to New York and the mid-Atlantic states.
How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy: By April M. Short
War is not innate to humanity; it is learned culturally, and intentional systems of peace can prevent it from happening, according to anthropological research. We are living at a critical time in the history of humanity in which preventing and divesting from war are essential to our future existence
Navigating the Polycrisis—Life in Turbulent Times: By Michael Lerner
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis.
History Must Record Trump’s Plan for a Nationwide “Kent State” Massacre: By Thom Hartmann
Although it’s generally only mentioned in passing in the mainstream media, there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.
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