To Help Democrats Survive 2022, Biden Should Legalize Marijuana Right Now

Take Action Now Legalizing marijuana allows President Joe Biden to address important issues without Congressional approval and could help Democrats stave off major losses in 2022. By Ryan Black Medical marijuana is already available in 36 states. Recreational marijuana is legal in 18, while 27 states have decriminalized its use. In states where…

Rahm Emanuel Opposition Comes to DC

Take Action Now By Ryan Black Led by longtime Chicago political consultant and activist Delmarie Cobb, progressives spoke to the media on Monday in front of the Senate steps. They were there to make the case for why Rahm Emanuel must not be confirmed for a high profile ambassadorship to Japan. The news conference focused particularly on Emanuel’s role in covering up the murder of Laquan…

Rahm Emanuel’s 30-Year History of Being Wrong — and Why It Matters

By Ryan Black Rahm Emanuel, an avowed Third Way centrist, has been on the wrong side of the Democratic Party’s worst decisions for the past 30 years. Now, he has been nominated to be Joe Biden’s Ambassador to Japan — a country with constant military tension and pressure from the West to stand in opposition to China. Emanuel is uniquely unfit to handle the responsibilities of navigating these…

Why Pipelines Are Bad, Actually

By Ryan Black Despite a global climate emergency that worsens year after year, multinational corporations continue to invest in fossil fuels and build risky oil pipelines across the country — all for private profit and at the expense of vulnerable communities and tribal lands. Right now, as with Keystone XL and DAPL before, resisters of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota are facing the brutal…

Indigenous Line 3 Activists Link Militarism and Climate Crisis

By Olivia DiNucci and Ryan Black In what’s known as northern Minnesota, environmental activists, under Indigenous leadership, are taking action to stop the Line 3 pipeline. But the protests aren’t exclusively about pipelines and tar sands; Line 3 resistors also focus on the link between militarism and the climate crisis. Line 3 is a tar sands pipeline -- currently under construction --…

‘The World Is At Stake’: Defuse Nuclear War Kicks Off Nationwide Week Of Action

Take Action Now "The need for action to curtail the possibility of nuclear conflict could not be more urgent," said the campaign's organizer. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Activists from the Defuse Nuclear War coalition on Sunday launched a week of action to demand the U.S. government take steps to reduce the existential threat of thermonuclear annihilation, including by reinstating arms…

Nina Turner and Cori Bush Reveal Democrats’ Compromised Dynamic

By Sam Rosenthal & Ryan Black, Progressive Hub It was a night of contrasts. While in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, Nina Turner was conceding to Shontel Brown — whose campaign was propped up by millions of dollars from Republican donors and pro-Israel PACs, first term representative Cori Bush succeeded in saving millions of families from being thrown out onto the streets. On August…

Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking The Most Israel Lobby Cash

Take Action Now Internationally, Israel has lost virtually all its support. But it still has one major backer: the United States government. By Alan MacLeod, Mint Press News As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of…

Cop City Taps Atlanta’s Long, Anti-Working Class History

Take Action Now The Stop Cop City movement recalls Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic bid and the city’s long history of prioritizing tourists, business interests, and wealthy white communities over Black and working-class people. by Micah Herskind, Prism On Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where they shot and…