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Born in Brooklyn in 1947, the oldest son of folk icon Woody Guthrie and professional dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Arlo grew up surrounded by folk legends — Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name a few.

I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.”

Rebellion in 2020 – The fury only grows

"We should have been prepared to start inoculating millions of people the day a vaccine was approved. This is a massive policy failure."

“If you want people to do the right thing you have to make it easy, and we’ve made it hard.”

The corporate media never challenge the underlying and pernicious myth that anti-racist struggle is a zero-sum game in which the oppressed gain at the expense of other non-elite sectors of the population.

Wednesday’s victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence.

Reports from the world of tech and mass media, closing out the year from hell

"It would be unconscionable, especially after the House did the right thing, for the Senate to simply leave Washington without voting on this."

These stories ask the hard questions, directly call out root causes, and remind us that we all have a role to play in creating a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.