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Two prominent agave farmers, Julián Rodríguez Parra and Salvador Ibarra Landeros, were arrested yesterday in Tequila, Jalisco, following a peaceful protest against multinational tequila producers. The arrests come amid a growing legal battle in the United States. A federal class-action lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York accuses Diageo, the global spirits conglomerate, of adulterating its premium tequila brands, Casamigos and Don Julio, with non-agave alcohols....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2025 2:33pm PDT
Yetide Badaki visits Capitol Hill with state lawmakers who are veterans to urge complete restoration of clean energy investments, and to ensure none of these funds are used to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2025 5:50pm PDT
At its wealthier end, skilled professionals continue to jump ship for more lucrative posts in direct service to capital: Scientists give up their research to become “quants” on Wall Street; physicians can double their incomes by finding work as investment analysts for the finance industry or by setting up “concierge” practices serving the wealthy....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2025 11:40am PDT
Challenging facism and neoliberalism...
Posted: Mon, May 19, 2025 9:11am PDT
Where profit determines the diagnosis, and fear writes the treatment plan.
Where you are not seen as a human being, but as a potential patient –
lifelong dependent, lifelong profitable....
Posted: Sat, May 10, 2025 1:20am PDT
okmana is a record & resource for subversion & resistance to oppression in the ohi:yo' valley....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2025 6:24am PDT
Trump 2.0 Racist Massive Immigrant Detention and Deportation, Community Self-Defense Fights ICE Fascism...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 10:07pm PDT
Part of Nationwide Weekend of Action...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 10:06am PDT
An army of researchers, service providers, physicians, community workers, prevention practitioners, and countless others who serve the American public on a daily basis have been either fired or otherwise rendered unable to perform their duties.
A smarter way to cut waste and preserve effectiveness is to invest in an "evidence-based” approach to government. Decades of careful research have identified numerous programs that work and many that don’t. Cutting ineffective programs and providing e...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 9:03am PDT
Saul Alinsky was a master strategist, starting in the 1940s and particularly in the turbulent time of protests of the 1960’s. His 1971 Rules for Radicals is considered a classic in organizing, It has been utilized by both those on the political Left and Right. Though likely not consciously, as seen below as examples, Trump uses many of the rules himself (some sentences or wording here are taken from How Donald Trump Exploits 12 Of Saul Alinsky's Radical Rules. They can be used in reverse aga...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 8:55am PDT
And the wars drag on...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 10:08am PDT
Trump Won’t Change, But His Foes Must...
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2025 11:19am PDT
Free market doctrine aims to liberate the economy from government “interference”, but Polanyi challenges the very idea that markets and governments are separate and autonomous entities. Government action is not some kind of “interference” in the autonomous sphere of economic activity; there simply is no economy without government rules and institutions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 4:37pm PDT
CRD covers the fight for national healthcare and national organizing for May Day...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2025 6:21pm PDT
Lee Siu Hin-The story of China's Pandas Aid supporting the people of Gaza--Report from Our Fourth Trip to Egypt for Organize Medical Humanitarian Mission to Gaza, Egypt March 30-April 5, 2025...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2025 9:55am PDT
Today, voter bribery is a crime. It’s illegal to pay people for their participation in an election, plain and simple. Despite this, Elon Musk has been flagrantly bribing voters, both in last year’s presidential election and most recently in the high-profile election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2025 5:17am PDT
The U.S. Government is the greatest danger to World Peace...
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2025 5:26pm PDT
Trump regime freezes funding for Cornell, Northwestern University
An official says the pause in funding includes grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 3:36am PDT
The editors of the right-wing National Review urged Congress to take back the power it has ceded to Trump, calling it “preposterous that a single person could enjoy this much power over…the global economy.” They decried the ”raw chaos” of the last week that has made it impossible for any business to plan for the future....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 1:14am PDT
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network wrote President Trump encouraging him to build on debt relief efforts from his first term to address poverty and stabilize food and fuel prices....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2025 6:00am PDT