Chicago’s Guaranteed Income Project Shows Promising Results
A guaranteed income pilot project called the Chicago Future Fund (CFF) has just released its latest report. The project, run by Equity and Transformation (EAT) Chicago, is based in the city’s west...
View ArticleHow Migrant Workers Are Organizing Against Trumpism
The devastating Eaton fire in Southern California’s Altadena neighborhood led to the death of 17 people and the loss of more than 6,000 family homes in a historically Black community that is now mixed...
View ArticleMigrant Workers Lead Cleanup Efforts in Altadena
The Pasadena Community Job Center, established by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) 25 years ago, was primed to move into action when the Eaton fire devastated the tight-knit...
View ArticleMigrant Workers Shape Their Own Narratives
The Pasadena Community Job Center is in the heart of Pasadena, California, just two miles from the Altadena neighborhood where the deadly Eaton fire destroyed thousands of homes and claimed 17 lives....
View ArticleWho Will Hold Trump Accountable for Violating the Constitution?
The president of the United States has no authority to freeze funds allocated by Congress. Yet Donald Trump has done just that. He has also begun rolling back congressionally mandated government...
View ArticleNew York Passes Climate Superfund to Make Polluters Pay
In December 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that fines fossil fuel corporations $75 billion to pay into a superfund the state can use for climate-related damage. New York is now the...
View ArticleHow to Start Making Change With Those You’d Rather Cancel
Black feminist and reproductive justice organizer Loretta J. Ross has spent decades dealing with people she fundamentally disagrees with, starting with an encounter she had as a young sexual assault...
View ArticleHow California’s Fast-Food Wage Hike Benefits Everyone
In April 2024, California became the first state in the nation to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers at major corporate chains to $20 an hour. These workers now enjoy the highest base wage...
View ArticleAn Easy Fix for Corporate Tax Cheating
With President Donald Trump decimating the federal government workforce and the Republican Party attacking Medicaid, individual states are struggling to maintain social programs, even as they navigate...
View ArticleCan the Movement for Reparations Survive Under Trump?
During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a...
View ArticleWhat Does Trump Really Want From Russia’s War on Ukraine?
On March 7, 2025, there was an extraordinary confrontation between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, United States President Donald Trump, and United States Vice President JD Vance in the Oval...
View ArticleClawing Back Public Protections of Our Land, Air, and Climate
The environmental organization Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against several federal agencies over President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)....
View ArticleThe Solution to Family Violence Is Not Incarceration
The United States criminal justice system treats the issue of family violence—also known as domestic violence—as a problem that can be solved through police intervention and incarceration. However,...
View ArticleTrump Unleashes New McCarthyism Against Palestine Activism
On Mar. 8, 2025, the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian student activist at Columbia University. Federal agents arrived at Khalil’s building lobby claiming the U.S....
View ArticleHow Tariffs Can Be a Good Idea for People and the Planet
Donald Trump is moving full steam ahead on his campaign promise of slapping tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China. According to a recent report in Reuters, Trump’s decision has...
View ArticleRising Up in the Streets: Women’s March 2025
On Saturday, Mar. 8, 2025, thousands of women and people of all genders gathered for a march and rally in downtown Los Angeles. The march, organized by the Women’s March, was held to commemorate...
View ArticleProtests Across California Target Trump–Musk Assault on the Public
In recent weeks, a coalition of advocacy organizations in California have come together to protest the impact of the pro-billionaire budgeting decisions happening in Washington, D.C. As part of a...
View ArticleCan Public Education Survive Trump’s Attacks?
On Mar. 3, 2025, Donald Trump’s secretary of education, Linda McMahon, announced her intention to eliminate the department she was chosen to lead. As her first move in what she calls the department’s...
View ArticleUnderstanding Congress’s Billionaire Budget
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined forces with President Donald Trump on Mar. 13, 2025, to pass one of the most reactionary federal budgets in recent memory. According to Mother Jones, the...
View ArticleTrump Disappears Hundreds of Venezuelans Into a Gulag
Within weeks of of being inaugurated for the second time, President Donald Trump rescinded the designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals living...
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