To Help Democrats Survive 2022, Biden Should Legalize Marijuana Right Now
Take Action NowLegalizing 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
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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…
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…
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…
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
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"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…
Who Is India Walton and What’s Happening in Buffalo?
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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.…
Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking The Most Israel Lobby Cash
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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…
Cop City Taps Atlanta’s Long, Anti-Working Class History
Take Action NowThe 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, PrismOn Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where…