News | Environment & Health “I’m Mad as Hell”: Air Force Members Blame Health Horrors on Toxic Exposure Chronically ill service members say their health issues result from past exposure to contaminants at George Air Force Base. By Dan Ross , Truthout April 17, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Participatory Democracy Drives Anti-Gentrification Movement in New York’s El Barrio In New York City's East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, a movement led by immigrant women is resisting economic displacement. By Jessica Davies , Truthout April 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health The Shadow Lobbyists Protecting Fracking From Regulation: The IOGCC The IOGCC claims to be a govermnet agency but acts like a shadow lobby for the fracking industry. By Jesse Coleman , Greenpeace April 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Meet the Jeans-Wearing, Nature-Loving Nuns Who Helped Stop a Kentucky Pipeline As fewer women enter the convent, what will become of Kentucky's tradition of socially and environmentally engaged religious women? By Laura Michele Diener , YES!Magazine April 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Forty Percent of US Electricity Could Come From Rooftop Solar Integrating rooftop solar shouldn't just be about retrofitting existing homes. By s. e. smith , Care2 April 16, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Four Common Tax Confusions Quick comebacks to the regressive tax rhetoric you hear on the radio and around the dinner table. By Chuck Collins , Inequality.org April 15, 2016 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections The Spirit of Occupy Lives on in France’s Emerging Direct Democracy Movement Five years after popular uprisings and Occupy-style movements spread around the world, another movement is growing in France. By Marisa Holmes , Truthout April 15, 2016 Truthout
News | Federal Government Finally Forgives Billions in Debt of Students Who’ve Become Disabled The move comes after an investigation that documented the difficulty for disabled borrowers to get their loans forgiven. By Cezary Podkul , ProPublica April 15, 2016 Truthout
News | Shadowy Conference of Nationwide SWAT Teams to Feature Notorious Anti-Muslim Crusader Designated an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ryan Mauro will conduct a training for police. By Sarah Lazare , AlterNet April 15, 2016 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor ALEC Touted “Transparency” in Pushing for the Panama Free Trade Agreement Bankruptcy helped corporate interest groups sell the US public on free trade. By Jessica Mason , PRWatch April 14, 2016 Truthout