Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people. By Aric Sleeper The United States was founded on the declaration that all people are… more »
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https://www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/about-us/ We work to ensure that no one loses their rights because of pregnancy or because of their capacity for pregnancy, focusing on pregnant people who are most at risk of state control and criminalization: those… more »
https://www.mahotline.org/ We are pro-choice doctors with years of experience in caring for miscarriage and abortion. We are freely giving our time to you. Reach us by PHONE orTEXT and we can give expert advice on self-managing your miscarriage or… more »
https://www.girlsrocknc.org/ Girls Rock NC is a youth-centered organization dedicated to building community and power among girls, transgender youth, and gender expansive youth through musical collaboration, political education for social change, and… more »
https://ncnw.org/ The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) was founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune, child of slave parents, distinguished educator and government consultant. Mrs. Bethune saw the need for harnessing the power and extending the… more »
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/ The National Women’s History Alliance formerly, the National Women’s History Project, is a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.… more »
Many women, young people and people of color are motivated to organize and vote by the drumbeat of gun violence. By Errin Haines Students shot to death at a Christian school in Tennessee. Employees killed at a bank in Kentucky. Black… more »
This is an update from INDIVISIBLE about what RepubliKKKans in the House are up to this week House Republicans plan to force a vote on their horrific “Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023,” as early as Wednesday this week. The aptly-named legislation will… more »
What do we know, and what can we support about the following? By Colin Greer 1. The Psychology of the Scarcity Experience Humans across all evolutionary forms have faced scarcity—from the impact of weather on the food supply to competition with nonhuman… more »
A strike authorization by the Writers Guild of America is threatening the television industry’s corporate business model of relying on an underpaid workforce to pay for its mergers. By Sonali Kolhatkar Television has been experiencing a boom in the… more »
When the way things are isn’t working, we can build something better if we draw from our collective power and focus on care and interconnection By April M. Short We are alive in a unique time of challenges that arrive not one by one, but all at once,… more »
Caribbean, Updates and Events, Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa By Sophia Kulow When media reports on conflict zones, the gender-based violence that occurs in these areas is often left out in favor of military action. The reality is that conflict… more »
Apr 8, 2023 #CNN #News During remarks at Fisk University in Nashville, Vice President Kamala Harris shared her support for the state representatives expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives after they protested with a bullhorn on the… more »
If justices can be bought by billionaires, lifetime terms only enable corruption rather than protect the U.S. Supreme Court from undue influence. By Sonali Kolhatkar A pair of new investigative reports from ProPublica about Supreme Court Justice… more »
If you could speak out in support of people who are being oppressed, discriminated against and legislated into oblivion, and you had a platform where you could reach tens or hundreds or thousands of people all at once, would you use it? In case you… more »
By Maxine Gordon Harvard Radcliffe Institute Quartette: Stories from the Lives of Four Women Jazz Musicians—Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott Maxine Gordon is an independent scholar with a lifetime career working with… more »
For the first time in nearly 60 years, a state is poised to reverse its “right to work” law and begin to undo the damage of a corporate-driven anti-union trend. By Sonali Kolhatkar Michigan is expected very soon to reverse its so-called… more »