Jacobin
Shadowproof
- Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Won’t Go Back’ By MILCK
MILCK's latest protest anthem was the result of attending a pro-choice rally on the steps of the Supreme Court in DC, just prior to the court overturning Roe v. Wade. The tune features samples of protesters shouting, "We won't go back!" The post Protest Song Of The Week: ‘We Won’t Go Back’ By MILCK appeared first on Shadowproof.
In These Times
- The CIO Was One of the Most Successful Anti-Racism Movements in U.S. History
How industrial unionism laid the groundwork for today’s anti-racist struggles.
- Women Are Taking Over the U.S. Labor Movement
The pandemic has created an opportunity for new movements in industries that haven’t organized before—movements also led by women.
- Frontline Physicians in L.A. Can’t Pay Rent, So They Threatened to Strike
Medical residents and interns in LA County have kept their hospitals running while making minimum wage and struggling to pay rent. Then they overwhelmingly voted to strike and won big.
Occupy.com
- Green New Deal XVII: Climate Litigation Is One Track To a Just Green Future
Worldwide climate litigation is a surging movement taking high polluting corporations, complicit nation-states or other climate criminals to court—and increasingly winning.
Current Affairs
- Is J.B. Pritzker The Democrats’ Only Hope For 2024?
The Illinois governor is not a democratic socialist, but he’s taken a lot of solidly progressive steps and delivers on promises.
- The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari
The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.
- The Arguments Against Abortion Do Not Make Sense
A new anti-abortion book shows that the “pro-life” movement defends a bizarre, irrational morality that aims to turn back the sexual revolution and considers embryos equal to adults.
Mother Jones
- DOJ Sues Arizona Over “Textbook Violation” of Election Law
The Department of Justice filed a suit yesterday against an Arizona law that will require people to provide proof of citizenship to vote by mail or in federal elections. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke called the law a “textbook violation of the National Voter Registration Act.” Ever since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013—and
- My Daughter Ran. My Father Was Shot. I’ll Never Forget the Strangers Who Helped Us.
For years, Allison Kamen has had a birthday tradition: the Fourth of July parade at her parents’ town of Highland Park, Illinois, followed by a barbecue and fireworks. This year was particularly special since it was her 50th. She drove with her husband and nine-year-old daughter from their home in Evanston, a half hour away,
- If Republicans Retake Congress In November, Here’s What Their Agenda Will Look Like
During a press conference earlier this year, a reporter asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about how Republicans would govern if they reclaimed both congressional chambers in the upcoming midterm elections. “That is a very good question,” McConnell replied. “And I’ll let you know when we take it back.” But you don’t have to wait
- Wendy Davis Reflects on the End of Roe Nearly a Decade After Her Iconic Filibuster
In June 2013, when Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis held a remarkable 11-hour filibuster that delayed one of the most devastating state-level abortion restrictions in recent history, she created something of an iconic moment for abortion rights—which also marked one of the last high-profile points of success, though fleeting, for the movement. “I just couldn’t
- When Abortion Was Illegal, Adoption Was a Cruel Industry. Are We Returning to Those Days?
A few weeks ago, before the final decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which ended the constitutional right to an abortion, I downloaded the audio version of American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by the journalist Gabrielle Glaser. Glaser’s book details the history of what became known
Dissident Voice
- Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis
Rousseau wrote: We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us. Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on The post Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- Future Dating
A humorous look at human-nonhuman relations. The post Future Dating first appeared on Dissident Voice.
- AUKUS Submarines: Beasts of Nuclear Proliferation
When faced with the option of acquiring nuclear technology, states have rarely refused. Since the splitting of the atom and the deployment of atomic weapons in war, the acquisition of a nuclear capacity has been a dream. Those who did acquire it, in turn, tried to restrict others from joining what has become, over the The post AUKUS Submarines: Beasts of Nuclear Proliferation first appeared on Dissident Voice.
The Progressive
- Jim Goodman, a Life Well-Lived
The Progressive contributor who focused on immigration issues passes away at age seventy-three.
- How Drag Queens are Fighting Queer Censorship
After the Proud Boys targeted Drag Queen Story Hours throughout Pride Month, one San Francisco-based drag performer is finding hope in young people and the LGBTQ+ community.
- Images of Gun Violence Could Prod the Public
Perhaps we need to witness the dead once again.