Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Low-income people and economic justice advocates from across the United States will unite on Saturday and Sunday "to challenge poverty and revive democracy amidst recession, pandemic, and protests" with a historic digital assembly and march sponsored by the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Jenna McGuire, staff writer
"After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for justice, they are dying by the day."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Global public health experts are looking on in "alarm and disbelief" as the U.S. economy reopens even as Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise in a number of states, with President Donald Trump signaling he has no intention of calling for more economic shutdowns regardless of the outcome.
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The United Nations needs to do its job—not get bullied out of doing it," said the ACLU in response.
Rupa Marya, Edwin Lindo
The Frisco 5 and their supporters marching in San Francisco on their way toward the mayor's office during the 2016 hunger strike. (Photo: Mona Caron)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's easy to understand why Trump's Covid response has been such a disaster."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a development seen as a step in the right direction but still far short of justice, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday that the city's interim police chief is moving to fire one of the three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor on March 13.
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Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"More than 150,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO yesterday—the most in a single day so far."
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Saru Jayaraman
The history of policing in the United States is also deeply tied to the exploitation of Black workers. (Photo: Dave Bledsoe/flickr/cc)
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is the level of engagement and respect he gives small business owners trying to tell him about their problems during the outbreak."
Cat Davis, Dorian Warren
A worker delivers groceries to a customer's vehicle outside a Walmart store in Amsterdam, N.Y., on May 15. (Photo: Angus Mordant / Bloomberg via Getty Images file)
Bill Moyers, Rev. James Forbes
People pray together during a Juneteenth event Organized by the One Race Movement at Centennial Olympic Park on June 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressives and racial justice advocates are pushing back against speculation that Rep. Val Demings is a likely contender for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate, saying it is not "the right moment" to choose a former police chief as a vice presidential candidate.
Yohuru Williams
We must remember that a large part of early police work, especially in the South, was to implement white supremacy through the enforcement of segregation laws. (Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The president expresses his intention to violate the Constitution by denying Americans' First Amendment right to peacefully assemble."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As criticism of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus pandemic continues to stack up, global Indigenous rights advocates and the Arara people are raising new concerns that the crisis could devastate the recently-contacted tribe in the Xingu basin of the Amazon rainforest.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"A movement requires sacrifice, and that's what we're doing as longshoremen."
Ben Cohen
"If big business wanted to, it could turn its lobbying power loose on overturning the legal doctrine of qualified immunity," writes Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. (Photo: Liz Gorman)
Thom Hartmann
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcoming ceremony November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Photo: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)
