“People Are Mad”: Striking Auto Workers Are Fed Up with General Motors
“Thousands of General Motors employees are entering their fourth week on strike, with workers demanding better pay, protections of healthcare benefits and a commitment from GM to keep jobs in...
Advocates Slam Trump’s Attack on SF & Homeless People
“President Trump is continuing an all-out attack on San Francisco’s homeless population and political leaders. On Wednesday, the Trump administration filed an environmental notice of violation...
“How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World”
“We speak to journalist Sharon Lerner about how corporations in the United States are refusing to turn to more sustainable materials, with most of the country’s plastic waste ending up in...
“This Is Our Time. This Is Our Future.” Voices from Youth Climate Strike
“As many as 4 million people around the world took to the streets Friday in the largest day of action focused on the climate crisis. Students across the globe led climate strikes in hundreds of...Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching
Last Friday was the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia, we host a roundtable...
“Beaten Down, Worked Up”: The UAW Strike & the State of American Labor
“As UAW workers stand on picket lines across the country, teachers prepare to strike in Chicago, and thousands of healthcare workers with Kaiser Permanente plan to strike in October, we speak...
Newark, NJ, Faces Public Health Crisis over Lead Contamination in Water
“Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels...
An Invisible Crisis: African Migrants Stranded in Mexico Hoping to Head North
“Hundreds of African migrants in Mexico are protesting the country’s refusal to grant them transit visas to travel to the United States or Canada, where they want to apply for asylum. For...