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“People aren’t waiting on FEMA, or even the state and county,” said Professor Kapuaʻala Sproat, Associate Director of the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, in an Aug. 18 Democracy Now! interview. “Relief organizations are springing up in people’s homes, in their garages, and supplies are coming...
Despite its hippie, artsy beginnings in 1967 in Pasadena, California, Trader Joe’s now leads U.S. grocery giants in revenue per square foot — over $2,100. It made $13.3 billion last year from 560 stores nationwide, most located in relatively wealthy small towns and city neighborhoods....
Both people who were locked to equipment were arrested in the afternoon, after stopping work on the site for nearly 8 hours. They were charged with misdemeanors and released the same day....
Is it surprising that Native Hawaiians reported that the local government did next to nothing? It did nothing to help evacuate people before the wildfires and provided little aid in the aftermath of the destruction....
The reason, according to news reports, seems fairly petty, sparked by the complaints of local restaurateur Kari Newell, who had demanded that Meyer and a reporter be removed from an event with area Congressmember Jake LaTurner (R.-Kansas). She alleged later that the paper had unlawfully obtained personal records showing that...
The picket was followed by a press conference at the Elmwood Village Starbucks location, with some of the speakers being fired workers and the original organizers of that store. Speakers made note of the fact that, although it has been over 500 days since the first Starbucks store voted to unionize, there has yet to be one...
Many of Lujan’s posts are sensual videos that downplay her actual responsibilities as a soldier. Truth in recruitment activist Rosa del Duca, a veteran, told MintPress she was surprised that the military was letting Lujan post ‘unprofessional’ content in uniform. Lujan’s social media recruitment campaign takes place as...
It is with a heavy heart and hazy skies we announce that 2 different pipeline valves were turned off along the Line 5 route on Anishinaabae land in the great lakes region. This was done on the 13th anniversary of the Kalamazoo River oil spill. This was the 2nd largest inland oil spill in [Yankee] history, dumping 1,000,000...
In February 2023, the state of Florida threw out a promising Advanced Placement curriculum in African American History pilot, claiming it lacked “educational value.” The “Stop WOKE” legislation in Florida, Texas, and several other states represents an effort to purge U.S. history of any references to violence against...
In a corporate memo leaked on July 14, company bosses ordered employees not to mask, threatening to fire anyone who disobeys. The ban, which will go into effect on Aug. 14, applies to In-N-Out restaurants in five out of the seven U.S states where the chain operates: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah....
Hand-painted signs throughout the crowd showed working class solidarity with the Palestinian people, targeting Amazon and Google bosses for the billion dollar contracts that enable mass surveillance by the [neocolonial] apartheid state. Some of the workers’ signs read: “Tech workers united against Israeli apartheid,”...
The city’s agreement resulted from two years of sustained collective action through the UC Townhomes Coalition. Mass actions such as the 31-day encampment on the site; dozens of rallies that included disrupting University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s first convocation and Penn’s homecoming game on Franklin Field;...
Veteran actor David Morse and local elected officials and labor leaders spoke at the rally. Morse, whose work includes “The Green Mile,” Philadelphia-shot “12 Monkeys,” and “Hack,” about a Philadelphia taxi driver, told the crowd: “The studios want to make us poorer and themselves richer. There was always an excuse...
However, the real game changer was the growing success of the armed wing of the African National Congress — uMkhonto we Sizwe....
Kristen Browde has amassed over 380,000 followers on TikTok by debunking the anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” myth, and no one is more shocked by her success on the platform than she is. “TikTok is supposed to be this app where teenagers do dance moves, but it turns out it’s an incredibly effective political organizing tool,” she...
Is Biden’s dog secretly a comrade?
The press conference was an emotional gathering where families whose loved ones have died in the prison heat spoke, cried, pleaded and begged for Texas to stop the killing. It began a day of activism called “85 to Survive,” referring to the highest temperature allowed by law in city and county jails. But the state prisons...
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and Protect Choice Ohio announced that they had collected over 710,000 signatures supporting an amendment to the state constitution enshrining access to abortion. This is well above the 413,000 signatures of registered voters needed to place the issue on the ballot....
