Interview | Environment & Health Bill McKibben Says Rutgers Divesting From Fossil Fuels Is a “Big Deal” About 5 percent of Rutgers’s $1.6 billion endowment is invested in fossil fuels. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! March 10, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Texas Governor Lifts Pandemic Restrictions While Blaming Migrants for COVID Texas is the largest state so far to lift its mandate on face masks and fully reopen businesses. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! March 9, 2021 Truthout
News | Human Rights Millions Honor International Women’s Day Amid Pandemic and Global Violence Women have been disproportionately impacted by rising poverty, unemployment and violence during the pandemic. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 8, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Economy & Labor Rev. William Barber to Democrats: “Stick Together” and Pass the $15 Minimum Wage An estimated 140 million people in the U.S. were already living in poverty before this pandemic. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 5, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health COVID Deaths Soar in Brazil as Bolsonaro Blasts Lockdowns Less than 4 percent of Brazil’s population has been vaccinated as President Jair Bolsonaro opposes lockdowns and masks. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! March 4, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Racial Justice Latinx Farmworkers Risking Their Lives During COVID Struggle to Access Vaccines Roughly 2.5 million U.S. farmworkers labor under dangerous and exploitative circumstances By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! March 3, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Reproductive Rights Anti-Choice Forces Use Pandemic as Pretext to Slash Abortion Access States have tried to use COVID to ban abortion as a nonessential service. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! March 2, 2021 Truthout
Interview | War & Peace Biden Jeopardizes Nuclear Talks With Iran by Bombing Militias in Syria Rep. Ro Khanna says Biden’s recent airstrikes in Syria lacked legal authority: “This is not an ambiguous case.” By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! March 1, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Racial Justice Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI and NYPD Conspiracy Targeting Malcolm X The FBI and NYPD face renewed calls to open their records into the assassination of Malcolm X. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! February 26, 2021 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Over 100 Countries Push to Loosen Rules on Vaccine Patents as US Blocks the Way Intellectual property rules give pharmaceutical companies monopolistic control over vaccines they develop. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! February 25, 2021 Truthout