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Fox News Border Stats Distort Immigration Reality
7.3 million. This is the sensational number of purported “illegal entries” into the US from the southern border that has been making its way through public discourse. Elon Musk propagated the statistic...
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It’s Time to Stop Playing Politics With Immigrants’ Lives
President Biden’s State of the Union address makes it clear that he has decided to continue down the path of enforcing harmful and failed immigration policies rather than strengthen our country by...
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Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing
Born out of oppressive conditions of the Black experience under white supremacy, the rich musical tradition of what is commonly known as “jazz” has a long and intimate relationship with the struggle...
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Intrusive New Digital Tools In The Criminal Legal System Transfer ‘One...
In an ad released last spring by top electronic monitoring manufacturer BI Incorporated, viewers are introduced to the VeriWatch, one of the latest in the company’s suite of digital surveillance tools....
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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A Reply To Glenn Loury’s Appeal to the Court of Public Opinion on Behalf of...
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the Roman Catholic Church. So much so that In March of 2008, the Vatican...
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Zionism Killed the Jewish-Muslim World
Born in Israel, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, a filmmaker, curator, and academic, rejects the identity of Israeli. Before becoming an Israeli at age nineteen, her mother was simply a Palestinian Jew. For much...
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Ecuador is Not For Sale
Teargas for mega-mines Corporations and their government enablers prefer to keep the ecocidal and ethnocidal reality of extractivism hidden, but activists in Ecuador are exposing the truth. The...
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Outraged by White Rural Rage
I don’t like to slam books, especially those ahead of mine on the best seller list. It might seem like petty jealousy. But one recent release, White Rural Rage by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, is...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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The EU’s Migration And Asylum Pact Is Another Lost Opportunity
Anyone who believes the European Union’s new Migration and Asylum Pact will increase solidarity between member states, or with people escaping conflict or hunger, does not know the meaning of the word....
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A Tale of Two Labor Candidates
In late October, 2018, East Bay DSA members and other progressives organized a pre-election rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A wildly-cheering crowd of several thousand came to hear Senator...
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Alice Walker: A Voice of Love, Revolution, and Resilience
Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, into a farming family of eight children, Alice Walker experienced racial segregation in the South of the United States from an early age. In her teens, aware of the...
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Being Jewish In a Time of Mass Hysteria
Hi, my name is Dan. My pronouns are he and him. I went to Hebrew school for a year when I was 10 and was bored out of my mind. I am REALLY outraged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and want to see the hostages...
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A Water Crisis in Mississippi Turns Into a Fight Against Privatization
In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves...
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Sermon for Gaza
In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who...
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In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back
Twenty years ago, Geoff Plant, the then attorney general of British Columbia, made an offer to the Haida Nation. Many West Coast First Nations, including the Haida, had never signed treaties with the...
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Long Before Politicians Called to ‘Stop the Boats’, First Nations People...
Earlier this year, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of not supporting Operation Sovereign Borders – the military-led border security operation that has “closed...
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Organizers in UK Are Defending Asylum Seekers From Mass Deportations to Rwanda
When I first arrived in London from Sarajevo in 1993, it was hard to be a refugee. I was refused full protection in the UK despite the genocide happening in my country. But in many ways, things were...
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Calculating the ‘White Bonus’
The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to white people shapes systemic injustice, has been hotly contested since the term was popularized by women’s...
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Ireland Is Full… Of Berts
What is a bert? I have no clue. But recently I saw it written on a wall in Derry City where I live. To be exact, this is what was on the wall: IRELAND IS FULL OF BERTS!” It was obvious that this...
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The World’s Forgotten War
“Don’t worry, Séra, the entire world is watching them, they won’t be able to do anything.” “You think so?” “Of course.” In my heart of hearts, I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in...
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The Dead End of Liberal American Zionism
In 2014, we wrote an article titled “The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism.” At the time, Benjamin Netanyahu was in his sixth continuous year as Israel’s prime minister, while...
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Black MAGA Is Still MAGA
Consider Donald Trump to be in a racial bind when it comes to election 2024. After all, he needs Black voters to at least defect from Joe Biden in swing states, if not actually vote for him. Yet, more...
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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative...
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The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier
Despite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately...
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Handmaids in America
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, I decided it was time to reread George Orwell’s classic “1984,” which I hadn’t touched for a couple of decades. When I read it again, it was upsetting to find...
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Atlanta’s Cop City: Other Cities Are Also Building Police Training...
This year, the night before Valentine’s Day, more than 200 people attended a city council meeting in Fitchburg, a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin. The house was packed because of one agenda item in...
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How Black Lives Became The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy
The story of “John Doe 1” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle...
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Seeking Fantasies Across The Sea
A young boy, no more than sixteen, steers a battered trawler boat with an unyielding focus on the darkness ahead. Between the congestion of bodies on board, a pregnant woman passes in and out of...
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