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NationofChange ‘Sacrifice zones’: How people of color are targets of environmental racism A product of environmental racism, “sacrifice zones” are located near pollution hot spots and are usually communities of color. , a project of the Independent Media Institute. The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and minority populations. One harsh reality of this systemic r...

How people of color are targeted in sacrifice zones (Photo credit: wisepig/Flickr) A slew of enormous petrochemical facilities shape the skyline and pollute the environment along the Mississippi River corridor. The Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted how systemic racism disproportionately places danger and harm on low-income and minority populations. One harsh reality of this systemic racism is the existence of "sacrifice zones," which are ...

Sarah Nearman Herbert doesn’t want the late U.S. Senator George McGovern’s place in history to be forgotten. That’s why she wrote her book “George McGovern: South Dakota’s Legendary Legislator” in honor of him. Inspiration for the childrens book came shortly after McGovern’s death in 2012, Herbert said. The book was written for a fourth- through eighth-grade reading level to teach students about McGovern’s significance to South Dakota, the U.S. and the world. She released the bo...

Wed, 03/17/2021 - 1:25pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Wednesday introduced the  Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act to take on corporate greed by raising taxes on companies that pay their top executives at least 50 times more than the pay of a median worker. Americans across the political spectrum are outraged by the extreme g...

Reply March 5, 2021 DENVER -- Colorado advocates for children, low-income workers and other vulnerable populations are urging Congress to pass President Joe Bidens COVID relief package to address growing food and housing insecurity. Subscribe The American Rescue Plan cleared the U.S. House and is now before the Senate. Fifty-four percent of Coloradans with children have reported lost earnings in the pandemic, and one in five said they havent always been able to afford food. Subscribe Stephanie ...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Labor and allies pressure Congress to pass American Rescue Plan February 24, 2021 3:18 PM CDT By Rosalío Muñoz And Janice Rothstein AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Secretary-Treasurer Liz Schuler speak with President Joe Biden and other administration officials about the ...

Conversations with Ryan Graham Chair, Libertarian Party of Georgia, About Austro-libertarianism and Much More We three probably agree on 99% of libertarian theory. Strategy and tactics are a very different thing. We all have the same goals, we diverge virtually only on means. Best regards, Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 3:01 PM Dear Walter, I listened to the show today and appreciate the tone of the conversation very much. It was a good conversation between two people who disagree(and not real...

Advocates on both sides flood Capitol Hill with calls, emails Democrats want to make wage increase part of virus relief February 16, 2021 1:24 PM By Megan R. Wilson A proposal to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 has triggered a fierce lobbying battle on Capitol Hill, pitting some powerful business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against large labor unions and civil rights coalitions. These groups have been holding virtual meetings and mobilizing grassroot...

“Be sure that when your parents were younger and when my parents were younger, they also worried about who liked, and did not like them. That is a big part of what it means to belong to a social group. We worry about this constantly as individuals. Human beings are fraught with this sense,” says political psychologist Prof Rajen Govender of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT. Today, technology has, in many ways, given us an instrument to enhance our sense of belonging: tha...

Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism? Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence. January 22, 2021 Shay Horse / NurPhoto / Getty In response to law enforcement’s hands-off approach to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, some on the left have demanded harsher policing of right-wing extremism to match the often-brutal treatment of Black Lives Matter and leftist protest. That is,...