Margaret Flowers
Longtime progressive activist and organizer Kevin Zeese died early Sunday, September 2, 2020. He was 64. (Image: Portrait of Kevin Zeese by Robert Shetterly)
Tanya Wallace-Gobern
In 2012, members of the Chicago Teachers Union rocked the city with their historic strike. (Credit: flickr/cc/Sarah-Ji)
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"For the workers, their hands were forced by a combination of circumstances as toxic as the ash that falls over the region's famous vineyards."
Vanessa Warheit, Laura Neish
A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. - A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said Sunday. More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino... Читать дальше...
Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide and sentenced in December 2015 to 10 years in prison for strangling and drowning 26-year-old Jennifer Laude to death in an Olangapo hotel.
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer
The WikiLeaks founder, who exposed U.S. war crimes, faces up to 175 years in prison if the U.K. agrees to extradite Assange.
Michael Winship
Donald Trump, the Godfather wannabe, treats our troops like toy soldiers to be thrown away.
Juan Cole
President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with industry executives at the White House on April 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. At the time, Trump told the American that Covid-19 was "gonna go, it's gonna leave" just months after predicting in February that the virus would disappear "like a miracle" by April. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Every 24 hours it's pain, nothing but pain."
Alan Minsky
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, speaking at a press event to support the H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. (Photo: Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Jon Queally, staff writer
"It is extraordinarily disturbing that megadonor Louis DeJoy is abusing his power as Postmaster General to help President Trump win reelection, meanwhile apparently demonstrating disregard for key campaign finance laws designed to promote the integrity of our democratic elections," said Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn.
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Bonnie Castillo
"Nurses understand the urgency of ending the disastrous policies and behavior of President Trump this November," writes Bonnie Castillo, executive director of National Nurses United. "But our work doesn't stop there; past the election, we will continue to mobilize and organize for the transformative social changes all workers, and patients, sorely need." (Photo: NNU/flickr/cc)
