Sorry, there was a YouTube error. During a recent visit to Portland, Oregon, my husband and I watched a private security guard help up an unhoused man from the sidewalk. Three white women looked on at the interaction that took place in the trendy Nob Hill neighborhood on August 7, 2023, right in front of […]
Our Food System Is the Bullseye for Solving the World’s Climate Challenges
The impact of agriculture on climate change is significant. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agriculture sector is responsible for 10 percent of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,
Is Earth Close to “The Great Dying”? By Thom Hartmann
You may remember the 2004 disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow, in which large parts of Europe and the American East Coast suddenly freeze up?
Five Critical Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers
Narrowly avoiding, for now, what might have been the largest strike in United States history of workers employed by a single corporation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters came to a tentative agreement
Burn the Barbies, Pause the Pink
A few months ago, my two sons, aged 10 and 15, told me they were excited to see the new Barbie film. I was surprised.
The Impact of Plastic on Human Health
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. Author: Robin Scher In 2019, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks published a statement that identified 14 emerging health and environmental issues. Right near the top of that list was plastic waste. The committee emphasized the “urgent” need “for a better assessment of hazard and risk” […]
Hollywood Executives Bring Industry to Halt Rather Than Pay Workers a Fair Price
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Sonali Kolhatkar Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with the […]
Learning From History, if We Dare
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Gary M. Feinman The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert once observed: “If history tells us anything, it’s that we never learn […]
The Potential Impact of Wireless Technology on Wildlife By Reynard Loki
Electromagnetic radiation from Wi-Fi and cell towers may pose a “credible risk” to birds, mammals, insects, and even plants.
Why Workers Demand Julie Su’s Confirmation as Labor Secretary
Sorry, there was a YouTube error. By Tom Conway It wasn’t enough for owners of lucrative Southern California car washes to cheat their workers out of wages and overtime. They made workers pay for the towels they used to clean cars, denied them rest breaks, forced them to toil in filthy water that bred foot fungus, and even […]
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