Activism - Part 5

LA rules against sleeping overnight in cars will be enforced starting today
Enforcement of new regulations targeting homeless people who live in their vehicles will start today, reports KPCC. The new rules dictate where people living in RVs and cars can park. For example, parking “for habitation purposes” on residential stree ...[Read more]
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Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
IN 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year late ...[Read more]
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Newborn baby dies in frigid cold after being found with his homeless mother at Portland bus stop
Portland, Oregon, is reeling after a newborn baby birthed by a homeless woman died the morning after a punishing ice storm tore through the city. ...[Read more]
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Arizona Bill Would Ban Discussion of Social Justice, Solidarity in Schools
Arizona state representative Bob Thorpe, a Republican, has just proposed a bill that would ban any school courses or extracurricular activities that "promote" any kind of "social justice" or "solidarity" based on race, class, gender, politics, or religion ...[Read more]
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James Mattis Is a War Criminal: I Experienced His Attack on Fallujah Firsthand
More importantly, Mattis, known to some by the nickname of "Mad Dog," has shown a callous disregard for human life, particularly civilians, as evidenced by his behavior leading marines in Iraq, comments he made about enjoying fighting in Afghanistan becau ...[Read more]
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Athens 1944: Britain’€™s dirty secret
When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn'€™t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill'€™s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seed ...[Read more]
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Cornel West: Unlike Bernie Sanders, I’m Not Convinced the Democratic Party Can Be Reformed
In the wake of Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, some progressives are now pushing a shake up of the Democratic Party'€™s leadership in efforts to reform the party. But Dr. Cornel West says he doubts the Democratic Party can be refor ...[Read more]
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Clinton Raising Election Doubts to ‘Keep Her Options Open’ for 2020
Democrats intend to repeat the party'€™s failed strategies. If the recount efforts weren’t a partisan effort being pushed by Hillary Clinton and her supporters—or a publicity stunt led by Jill Stein to subvert attacks claiming her candidacy is the r ...[Read more]
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Donald Trump blasted by Russian foreign ministry over Fidel Castro criticism
After news of the former revolutionary leader of Cuba's death yesterday, Trump issued a strongly-worded statement calling Castro a "brutal dictator who oppressed his own people." That was in stark contrast to a statement issued by Russian President Vladim ...[Read more]
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The TPP wasn’t killed by Donald Trump – our protests worked
The reports are rolling in: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. If you read the obituaries, most news outlets seem to agree that the cause of death was simple: the election of Donald Trump, who railed against the deal during his campaign. But the ...[Read more]
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Buying Silence: Why So Many Democrats are Mute About Standing Rock
After weeks of calling for the United States Government to provide the efforts of water protectors at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, Bernie Sanders finally has some company in the United States Senate joining him in that call. ...[Read more]
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