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Wisconsin Grandmother Jailed for Opposing Drone Murders
Bonnie Block, a Madison grandmother and long-time peace activist, was found guilty of trespassing in a jury trial in the Juneau County Courthouse on Wednesday.
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Needs to Use Public Lands for Public Benefit, Not Luxury Housing
The most important public policy priority for San Francisco is to reserve its surplus land for affordable housing.
In Strange Twist of History, Black Activist Charged With “Lynching”
Law created to protect Blacks is cited against woman protesting police violence.
Congressional Budget Plans Get Two-Thirds of Cuts From Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes
The new Congressional plans chart a radically different course, imposing their most severe cuts on people on the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
Why North Carolina’s “Religious Freedom” Bill Is Even Worse Than Indiana’s
A small change in wording could have big legal consequences.
Iran, Stubborn History and a Toast to the Future
Good stuff all around, and very hopeful . . . but it does beg the question: How did we get here?
Five Reasons Why San Francisco Must Not Give Up Public Land for Market-Rate Development
A city plan to use public land for market-rate, rather than fully affordable housing, just doesn't make economic sense.
Plutocracy the First Time Around: Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age
Americans of the 19th century managed sustained resistance to plutocratic rule.
Rousseff’s Brazil: No Country for the Landless
Some 200,000 peasant farmers still have no plot of their own to farm.
In a Win for Opponents of Mountaintop Removal, West Virginia Government Will Study Health Impacts
For decades, people in southern West Virginia have suffered from elevated rates of health problems like lung cancer.