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![Maya Schenwar, left, and Kim Wilson co-edited We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0924-maya-schenwar-kim-wilson-400x300.jpg)
How the Shared Goals of Prison Abolition and Parenting Can Shape New Futures
Truthout’s Maya Schenwar and organizer Kim Wilson reflect on their new anthology “We Grow the World Together.”
![Residents wait in line to vote early outside a polling station on November 29, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0924-georgia-400x300.jpg)
Warnock Derides Georgia’s Hand Counting of Ballots Rule as Anti-Democratic
The rule requiring hand counts will lead to unnecessary delays and hurt the integrity of the election, critics said.
![Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni receives U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Villa Doria Pamphily, Rome, on September 16, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0924-starmer-meloni-400x300.jpg)
Why Is New UK Prime Minister Seeking Immigration Advice From Italy’s Far Right?
Keir Starmer of the Labour Party has looked to Giorgia Meloni, who has unleashed draconian measures against migrants.
![The sun amid smoke is seen during the wildfires in San Marcos Sierra, CĂłrdoba Province, Argentina, on September 23, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0924-wildfires-400x300.jpg)
Study Finds Wealth Tax, Oil Subsidy Phaseout Could Generate $5T for Climate
The new report was released as world leaders gathered in New York City for UN General Assembly talks.
![Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with the Egyptian foreign minister after a meeting at Tahrir palace in the center of Cairo on September 18, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0924-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Blinken Rebuffed Agencies’ Findings That Israel Knowingly Blocked Gaza Aid
Law requires the government to cut off weapons shipments to countries that prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid.
![Rescuers sift through the rubble at the scene of an Israeli strike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs a day earlier, as search and rescue operations continue on September 21, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0923-lebanon-b-400x300.jpg)
US Sending Troops to Middle East as Biden Insists He’s Working on De-Escalation
The US has already been maintaining an increased military presence in the region amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
![An employee prepares a dose of Comirnaty Omicron XBB 1.5 Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a pharmacy in Ajaccio, Corsica, on October 5, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0923-vaccine-400x300.jpg)
Florida Issues Blatantly False “Guidance” on Latest COVID-19 Boosters
The CDC recommends that everyone over the age of 6 months old receive the updated COVID-19 booster.
![Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks alongside Shawn Fain, President of the United Automobile Workers, at a press conference calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East outside of the U.S. Capitol on December 14, 2023, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0923-rashida-tlaib-400x300.jpg)
Tlaib Says US Must Stop Funding Israel’s “Genocidal Wars” Amid Lebanon Assault
The US has already maintained an increased military presence in the region amid Israel’s genocide.
![Palestinian people walk by an unexploded ordinance](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0923-unexploded-ordinance-400x300.jpg)
When Wars End, They Still Continue to Take Lives
Hundreds of people each year are injured or killed from weapons and explosives left over from wars.
![Smoke billows at the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar on September 21, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_0923-lebanon-400x300.jpg)
Israel Kills 492, Wounds 1,645 in Airstrikes Across Lebanon
At least 24 of the people killed in Israel’s airstrikes on civilian areas were children.