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Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?
Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?
Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath · As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter · The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
We Are All Minnesota
We Are All Minnesota
Mary Papenfuss · ​Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
A Radical Approach to Psychedelics and Mental Health
A Radical Approach to Psychedelics and Mental Health
Mike Pappas and Dimitri Mugianis · The so-called psychedelic renaissance is here. Proponents claim that the drugs can alleviate an array of psychological suffering. But while they try to gain medical acceptance, they...
Healthcare Workers Are Fed up and Hitting the Picket Lines
Healthcare Workers Are Fed up and Hitting the Picket Lines
Mike Pappas · The fight of healthcare workers against poor working conditions and a decreasing standard of living is expanding across the country. It’s time to broaden the struggle.
Sidewalk Socialists and the Path to Power ❧ Current Affairs - filed 13 July 2021
Sidewalk Socialists and the Path to Power ❧ Current Affairs - filed 13 July 2021
Max Chapnick · A number of impressive socialist candidates are running in Somerville, MA—and their nitty-gritty approach to municipal power may have broader implications for the left project as a whole.
Biden’s Climate Irresponsibility ❧ Current Affairs
Biden’s Climate Irresponsibility ❧ Current Affairs
David Lapp Jost · It would be nice if having a Democratic president automatically meant real action on climate change. Sadly, it isn’t true.
A Healthcare Worker Answers Governor Cuomo
A Healthcare Worker Answers Governor Cuomo
Mike Pappas · Recent data out of New York City shows a large number of people with COVID-19 have largely been staying home. Governor Andrew Cuomo called this a “surprise.” But capitalism is forcing...
The Art of Exploiting a Pandemic: From Propaganda to Profit
The Art of Exploiting a Pandemic: From Propaganda to Profit
Mike Pappas · Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting the ongoing pandemic to benefit their public image and their bottom line. We must recognize...
Neither Trump Nor Cuomo: Socialist Healthcare Workers Tell Us How to Fight the Pandemic
Neither Trump Nor Cuomo: Socialist Healthcare Workers Tell Us How to Fight the Pandemic
Tre Kwon and Mike Pappas · Capitalism has birthed a nightmare. Nearly two million people around the world have already fallen ill as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals like ours have been completely...
Community Resilience in a Time of Pandemic
Community Resilience in a Time of Pandemic
Happen Films · Those who’ve already made the transition to a permaculture-based life are beacons of hope for a more sustainable way of life. Featured in our short film ‘Creatures of Place’, Meg Ulman...
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus
Mike Pappas · As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, millionaires and billionaires, who have been key to oppressing the working class, are trying to position themselves as everyday Americans. We need to...
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
Healthcare Workers Are at War, but Trump Isn't on Our Side
Mike Pappas · An NYC physician on the war against the coronavirus and the ongoing war against for-profit health care, Trump and capitalism itself. The coronavirus pandemic is magnifying capitalism’s...
Capitalism Is an Incubator for Pandemics. Socialism Is the Solution.
Capitalism Is an Incubator for Pandemics. Socialism Is the Solution.
Mike Pappas and Tatiana Cozzarelli · Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world. Capitalism cannot adequately respond to a global health crisis. That’s why we need socialism.
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
'Progress Comes From Changing How Humans Think' — a Conversation With 'Soldier of Peace' Paul K. Chappell
Paul K. Chappell · "What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence...
Democrats Team up With Trump to Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System
Democrats Team up With Trump to Maintain Disastrous Healthcare System
Mike Pappas · Both Republicans and Democrats have blocked all attempts to build a rational, universal health care policy for the U.S. This is because capitalism prioritizes profit over the health and...
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
Noam Chomsky and Robert Scheer and Natasha Hakimi Zapata · “There’s another word for lesser evilism. It’s called rationality. Lesser evilism is not an illusion, it’s a rational position. But you don’t stop with lesser evilism. You begin with it...
Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?
Nurses Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?
Mike Pappas · Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are...
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Capitalism Is Killing Patients... and Their Physicians
Dr. Michael Pappas · Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide...
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
The Opposite of Evil Is No Longer Goodness
Frances Moore Lappé · My headline is provocative, so let me quickly explain, starting with a huge claim about what’s unique about our world in this moment. Then I ask, What, right now, is most required of our...
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
We Have What It Takes to Meet the Crisis of Our Democracy
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen · In 1999, Dee Hock, founder of Visa, quipped, “It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.” But 18 years later, pessimism can feel like the new realism.
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé · People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity...
The Revolution Is Acceptance
The Revolution Is Acceptance
David Heaps · "Waiting for some distant point in the future when we're all magically agreeing with one another to begin working together, is like deciding to climb Mount Everest on the condition that...
Community Repair: Pop-Up Alternatives to a Throwaway Society
Community Repair: Pop-Up Alternatives to a Throwaway Society
​Christine Cole, Alex Gnanapragasam · A not-so-quiet repair revolution is taking place in communities across Britain. Consumers, fed up with having to throw away broken phones, toasters and other appliances, are instead...
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Inside Unilever's Sustainability Myth
Daphne Dupont-Nivet, Anouk Ruhaak, Marije Schuurs, Emiel Woutersen · Unilever is regarded as a champion of sustainability. According to CEO Paul Polman, what benefits the company also benefits the earth. But when US competitor Heinz Kraft tried to take...
Incredible Photographs and Witness Statements from Charlotte and Baton Rouge Protests
Incredible Photographs and Witness Statements from Charlotte and Baton Rouge Protests
Mankaprr Conteh · On September 20, a black father named Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by an officer of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. It is not clear if he was armed. Witnesses are...
Celtic management must stand with fans against FIFA & UEFA hypocrisy
Celtic management must stand with fans against FIFA & UEFA hypocrisy
Football Against Apartheid ·
Freedom Song - What Is Reality?
Freedom Song - What Is Reality?
Rolf Versteegh Fine-Art Photography/Film/Video · Culture is a matter of the heart. The heart needs time and space to shape the places that it meets. Who are we without this? Where do we exist emotionally? These photos were...
Why Hope Has Power in This Gut-Wrenching Election Year
Why Hope Has Power in This Gut-Wrenching Election Year
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen · Cynicism and despair are among democracy’s worst enemies.
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
April M. Short · The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has...
20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How'd They Do That?
20,000 Domestic Workers Are About to Get Fair Wages. How'd They Do That?
Sheila Bapat · Left out by traditional unions, women-led domestic workers are winning fights for minimum wage and overtime across the country.
Shocking Aerial Images Show Extent of Canada's Oilsands Operation
Shocking Aerial Images Show Extent of Canada's Oilsands Operation
Written by Carol Linnitt - Photographs by Alex MacLean · Alex MacLean is one of America’s most famed and iconic aerial photographers. His perspective on human structures, from bodies sunbathing at the beach to complex, overlapping highway...
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)
Marty Kaplan · A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?
Indigenous Board Game Brings Collaboration, Stewardship, Generosity, and Gratitude to the Table
Indigenous Board Game Brings Collaboration, Stewardship, Generosity, and Gratitude to the Table
Elizabeth LaPensée · If you look on a board game shelf, how many games will you see with actions based on collaboration, stewardship, generosity, and gratitude? Most likely, you’ll find mechanics like...
Dealing With the Killer Called Stress
Dealing With the Killer Called Stress
Captain Paul Watson · Stress kills Mindfulness. Here are Ten Things you can do to avoid it.
Why Saturday's Bernie Sanders Rally Left Me Feeling Heartbroken
Why Saturday's Bernie Sanders Rally Left Me Feeling Heartbroken
Pramila Jayapal · Washington State Senator Pramila Jayapal (not pictured) was at the Bernie Sanders rally that got interrupted yesterday in Seattle. She offered some thoughts about the event on Facebook...
These 10 Award Winning Photos Provide a Wonderful Window to Our World
These 10 Award Winning Photos Provide a Wonderful Window to Our World
National Geographic · The 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest judges reviewed nearly 18,000 photographs. These ten pictures won the top prizes.
One Handy Infographic Puts Shark Attacks Into Shocking Perspective
One Handy Infographic Puts Shark Attacks Into Shocking Perspective
Infographic by Joe Chernov and Ripetungi · Sharks get a bad rep, but it's humans who we should really worry about
My Generation Does Give a Damn about Climate Change, Says 14-year-old activist
My Generation Does Give a Damn about Climate Change, Says 14-year-old activist
Lilah Raptopoulos · Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez has been campaigning since he was six. He explains why young people are not afraid to take on the fossil fuel industry
'I'd Rather Die at Sea than Stay There' - Migrants on Crossing the Med
'I'd Rather Die at Sea than Stay There' - Migrants on Crossing the Med
Photographs by Gideon Mendel - Interviews by Alessandra Bonomolo · After a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean, thousands of migrants arrive in Sicily every week. These are their stories.
Nonviolence for Whom? If Violence Isn't the Answer, Somebody Should Tell the Police
Nonviolence for Whom? If Violence Isn't the Answer, Somebody Should Tell the Police
Nathalie Baptiste · Ferguson. New York. Baltimore. As cities erupt after decades of oppression and violence at the hands of police, calls for nonviolence can be deafening. “Violence isn’t the answer,” the...
Participate in the Global Event That Will Unite Youth everywhere
Participate in the Global Event That Will Unite Youth everywhere
DraganaPetrushevska · HeySuccess.com has already proven to be the one place where students from all over the world can search for opportunities that will bring them success on an international level. This...
5 Reasons Animal Rights Are A Feminist Issue
5 Reasons Animal Rights Are A Feminist Issue
Aph Ko · Animal rights is a feminist issue. There, I said it.
How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
How To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
john the baptist · The zombie apocalypse, of course, is a metaphor. It’s an allegory for the extremely unstable world we are living in at the moment.
White Privilege Explained in One Simple Comic
White Privilege Explained in One Simple Comic
Jamie Kapp · White privilege can be a tricky thing for people to wrap their heads around. If you’ve ever called out white privilege before, chances are you’ve heard responses like “But I didn’t ask...
Sea Shepherd's Captain Paul Watson: "Confessions of a Fat Bastard"
Sea Shepherd's Captain Paul Watson: "Confessions of a Fat Bastard"
Captain Paul Watson · How do I know when my critics have run out of valid arguments against what I am doing? It’s when they resort to making insulting remarks about my appearance. I was actually quite...
The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter
The Double Identity of an "Anti-Semitic" Commenter
Lance Tapley · Smearing a Progressive Website to Support Israel Like many other news websites, Common Dreams has been plagued by inflammatory anti-Semitic comments following its stories. But on Common...
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
April McCarthy · Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain...
Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization
Dubai and the Fantasies of Civilization
Adon Apamea · Dubai is an interesting city. A thriving futuristic metropolis in the heart of the desert considered to be the crown jewel of modernity with indoor ski resorts, gulf courses, fully...
Why Sharing News About Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act
Why Sharing News About Solutions Is a Revolutionary Act
Frances Moore Lappé · Scary stories of kidnappings and explosions lead our news feeds, but it's the good news that helps break down the myth of our own powerlessness. "If it bleeds, it leads." Ever hear...
What Five-letter Word Can't You Live Without?
What Five-letter Word Can't You Live Without?
Frances Moore Lappé · Here it is: Power. Now, quick, before reading further, close your eyes. What associations come to mind? If your list is full words like coercion, force, guns, oppression, domination...
Acts of War: Why the Greatest Perpetrator of Mass Violence is the State Itself
Acts of War: Why the Greatest Perpetrator of Mass Violence is the State Itself
Scott Nappalos · As a nurse, a human being, and an anarchist, I was horrified to see the trauma enacted on people in Boston.[1]  I was further saddened because I know that in our sick society tragedy...
Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence?
Could Our Deepest Fears Hold the Key to Ending Violence?
Frances Moore Lappé · Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. To change that, we need to recognize that we need each other to thrive as individuals.
Stephen Harper's Totalitarian State
Stephen Harper's Totalitarian State
Operation Maple ·
If You're Wondering If News Is Biased, Here's Proof
If You're Wondering If News Is Biased, Here's Proof
Deepa Kunapuli · This made me do a double take. What about you?
Climate Strike: All Storms Lead to Wall Street
Climate Strike: All Storms Lead to Wall Street
Talib Agape Fuegoverde · The city has been shut down. Bridges and subways and airports are closed. There is no school, no shopping, no work. The stock exchange is shuttered. The circuits of capital are disrupted...
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
Chemical in plastic food packaging linked to heart disease
John Von Radowitz - Belfast Telegraph · A chemical widely used in plastic food and drink containers may narrow coronary arteries, raising the risk of heart attacks, research suggests. High levels of bisphenol-A (BPA) in the...
Horror: U.S. Soldier Guns Down Afghanistan Civilians, Killing 16
Horror: U.S. Soldier Guns Down Afghanistan Civilians, Killing 16
AP · BALANDI, Afghanistan — An American soldier opened fire on villagers near his base in southern Afghanistan Sunday and killed 16 civilians, according to President Hamid Karzai who called...
Anonymous Hacks FBI Conference Call
Anonymous Hacks FBI Conference Call
AP · LONDON — Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as...
Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fund In The World Has Dumped All Of Their U.S. Treasury Bonds?
Should We Be Alarmed That The Biggest Bond Fund In The World Has Dumped All Of Their U.S. Treasury Bonds?
The Economic Collapse · Bill Gross, the manager of the biggest bond fund in the world, has forgotten more about bonds than most of us will ever learn. That is why the big move that PIMCO has just made is so...
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