Sorry, there was a YouTube error. 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 fro, sometimes […]
‘Sacrifice Zones’: The New ‘Jim Crow’ That’s Sickening and Killing People of Color
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. 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 by intensive […]
Labor Education Starts in School
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. 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 age by […]
We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve: By April M. Short
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. 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 potential of […]
Making Sense of Florida’s Nonsensical History Curriculum: By Sonali Kolhatkar
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. 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 2022, DeSantis […]
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.
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.
The Deadly Intersection of Labor Exploitation and Climate Change: By Sonali Kolhatkar
As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to be delivered to us.
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