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Never eat the candy on your pillow: The setup
Dear Reader, Welcome to the seventh installment of Never Eat the Candy on Your Pillow, which is now coming to you bi-weekly. Thank you for reading and for your kindness. There’s power in this...
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Environmental pollution lawsuit may pump the breaks on Cop City construction
Earlier this month, the South River Watershed Alliance (SRWA) filed a civil rights complaint against the city of Atlanta, saying the rapid construction of a police training facility, locally known as...
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‘You cannot have 10,000 dead Palestinians and not say anything’
The genocide Israel is currently carrying out against Palestinians in Gaza correlates almost exactly with the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians...
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Miami-Dade County commissioners postpone heat standard vote
Miami-Dade County commissioners buckled under lobbyist pressure on Nov. 7 during what was supposed to be the final vote on a county-wide heat standard for outdoor workers. The bill, which received...
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‘The goal is to eliminate Gaza’
It’s been more than a month since the apartheid State of Israel began its relentless military offensive on Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Israeli airstrikes have unleashed force equivalent...
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Green New Deal Network leads nationwide For the People Tour in a push for...
A coalition of community organizations around the country wants you to imagine a future that centers climate justice. They hope you remember a past—not so long ago—when the largest climate bill in...
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COP28 must address militarization
The annual meeting of United Nations member countries to discuss climate change will begin on Nov. 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Known as the Conference of the Parties (COP), this is the 28th...
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Palestinian activists on Vermont shootings: Blank check for killing has to end
Three Palestinian college students were shot by a white man on their way to a Thanksgiving dinner in Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday night. The two of three students, Hisham Awartani, Kinnan...
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Flint searches for environmental justice 10 years after water crisis
When Dionna Brown entered high school as freshman in Flint, Michigan, in 2014, she wasn’t initially aware of the city’s contaminated drinking water supply. Blemishes broke out on her skin, only to...
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Wartime propaganda experts explain why Israel’s social media strategy is...
On Nov. 5—shortly after Israel bombed a refugee camp and multiple universities and forced the only cancer treatment hospital in Gaza to close after it ran out of fuel—its official state Twitter...
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Why I am renouncing my Israeli citizenship
On Nov. 6, I was supposed to have an appointment at the Israeli consulate in New York to begin my application to renounce my Israeli citizenship. That morning, I finalized a letter of explanation to...
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Palestinian authors grapple with a wave of censorship
Books by and about Palestinians have been censored in subtle and overt ways for decades, and since Oct. 7, Palestinian authors have seen their book events canceled and are experiencing other forms of...
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Animal Legal Defense Fund and ALDF United ratify their first collective...
After more than two years of negotiation, the union for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, ALDF United, has officially ratified its first collective bargaining agreement with its employer. The agreement...
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Columbia University student activists say they won’t be deterred after school...
Weeks after causing an uproar by suspending two vocal student groups organizing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, Columbia University has canceled another Palestine-related event. The event, initially...
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Why journalists must speak out about Gaza
This op-ed was co-published by In These Times, Mainline, Mondoweiss, Prism, The Real News Network, Reckon, Scalawag, and Truthout. As journalists and media workers, we know that silencing a free press...
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SAG-AFTRA’s new contract falls short on protections from Artificial Intelligence
After 118 days on strike, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) board voted Nov. 8 on a tentative new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
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UAW is the largest US union to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
The United Auto Workers (UAW) have endorsed a ceasefire, making them the largest national union to do so in a major development for labor and the larger movement for peace and justice in Palestine and...
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OB-GYNs file brief debunking Florida attorney general’s anti-abortion rhetoric
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is attempting to keep a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in the state off of the 2024 ballot. Moody has been distorting medical guidance from...
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Never eat the candy on your pillow: Friend or foe?
Dear Reader, Prison can be extremely lonely. Upon incarceration, we are completely removed from everything and everyone we ever knew, and we have no choice but to adjust to our new environment. The...
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University of Pennsylvania-led medical experiments harmed incarcerated women
As reported this summer by Prism, the notorious experiments conducted by University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert Kligman at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison have been under renewed scrutiny as...
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