“No Hate in the Dairy State” – Family Farmers and Farm Workers Unite to Defend Immigrant Rights at WI State Capitol. Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are...
A National Park Service worker assesses a split in an exposed section of the Grand Canyon’s fragile water lines in 2014. The water pipeline, installed in the mid-1960s, feeds water from Roaring Springs, located approximately 3,500 feet below the North Rim. Grand...
Image by Salvador Rios. Like many people, I woke up early last Tuesday morning to find an excited post in my Facebook news feed from the Teamsters: “At 11th Hour, UPS Bows to Teamsters Strike Threat in 7 States.” It boasted that the union has flexed its muscles and...
Lamar River, Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Anyone who drives around the state of Montana right now can see one unassailable truth: our state’ renowned rivers and the prized fish which inhabit them are in big trouble. From east to west, north to south our...
Photograph Source: The U.S. Army – Public Domain As I write, US Marines and National Guard have been dispatched to Los Angeles, Florida, the District of Columbia and elsewhere, allegedly to help the local police enforce civil law. When asked, What’s wrong with that?...
Image by Nik. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), already a long-neglected condition, has been thrust into the spotlight by COVID-19. ME/CFS is characterized by debilitating fatigue, post-exertional malaise, cognitive impairment, and...
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Image by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona. The consequences of the Israeli genocide in Gaza will be dire. An event of this degree of barbarity, sustained by an international conspiracy of moral inertia and silence, will not be relegated to history as just another “conflict”...
Photo by the blowup One of the little noted accomplishments of the Biden years was bringing down the unemployment rate for Black workers to 4.8 percent in April of 2023. That is still far too high — considerably higher than the rate for whites — but it was the lowest...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Twenty-two years ago, I published a book with the University of California Press predicting much of what we see today in Gaza. My path towards writing that book was torturous. In 1976, I moved to Israel from the US as a nine-year-old...
Photograph Source: PunkToad – CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration is currently attempting to rewrite American history by whitewashing the country’s negative legacy and scrubbing out references to anything connected to multiculturalism or diversity. Gone is Harvey...
Image by Mohammed al Bardawil. New York Times: Patrick Kingsley Aaron Boxerman Isabel Kershner Adam Rasgon Natan Odenheimer Ronen Bergman International Editor: Philip P. Pan Washington Post: Louisa Loveluck Shira Rubin Abbie Cheeseman Miriam Berger Gerry Shih John...