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How to Truly Eradicate Poverty

Dorian T. Warren The Nation
We need more than just a safety net. We need a blueprint to create good jobs for all. Take ACTION with Putting Families First: Good Jobs for All.

#BlackWorkersMatter

Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Earlier this year, Los Angeles Black Worker Center was interviewed to discuss our experiences and reflections on the importance of organizing black workers here and across America. More than thirty leaders from community organizations, national groups and foundations were also interviewed, and their insights have been released in the new report: #BlackWorkersMatter. Asserting that black lives matter also means that the quality of those lives matters.

46 Injured in Ethiopian Israeli Protest Against Police Brutality in Tel Aviv

Shirly Seidler Haaretz
The trigger for the protest was the video that was made public last week, showing police officers beating an Ethiopian-Israeli man, a young man serving in the Israel Defense Forces and in uniform, but it was preceded by years of frustration. “It’s a pressure cooker that exploded. There are hundreds of young Ethiopians the police open case files against for no reason, and that ruins their lives."

Guilty of Mental Illness

Deborah L. Shelton Chicago Reporter
Illinois de-institutionalized nearly 35,000 people in the 1960s and 1970s and never fully invested in a community-based mental health treatment system and affordable housing.

The Political Roots of Widening Inequality

Robert Reich The American Prospect
The key to understanding the rise in inequality is not technology or globalization. It is the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Twenty-Nine Years After The Chernobyl Disaster, No Solution in Sight

Kendra Ulrich Greenpeace International
April 26th marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the worst nuclear disaster in history. And, according to a new Greenpeace report, preventing further major releases of radioactivity into the environment seems to be a race against time. There are more than 1.5 million tons of radioactive dust inside the ruins. And a collapse of the sarcophagus and other structures, which could lead to their release into the environment, cannot be ruled out.