Greenfield Nurses to Go on Strike

MNA Massachusetts Nurses Association
As a result nurses are working endless additional shifts usually without rest. In fact, 3,940 times in the past 12 months nurses had to work for longer than 12 hours because there was no one to relieve them.

Jesse Winchester | Step by Step

Song by Jesse Winchester, from The Wire, Season 1. Winchester opposed the Vietnam War, moved to Canada in 1967, and after a Presidential amnesty in 1977 resettled in the United States.

“Would You Like a Drink of Water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child

Kathy Kelly Portside
This week representatives from more than 100 countries began work on an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons. By boycotting this process the U.S. and other nuclear armed nations showed they have no intention of giving up the power to annihilate planetary life. A world in arms is theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed; it steals the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Buoyed by Election Results, ALEC Lays Blueprint for 2015

Brendan Fischer Center for Media and Democracy
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), emboldened by the mid-term success of conservative Republicans at the state and federal levels, will be meeting December 3-5 in Washington, D.C. to develop its policy agenda for 2015 and beyond. ALEC will be seeking, among other things, to "preempt" state and local level minimum wage increases, promote local "right to work" legislation, forestall shareholder activism, and increase school privatization.

#BlackoutBlackFriday

A stunning compilation of footage of police violence against people of color, juxtaposed to The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Blackout for Human Rights is a network concerned with human rights violations: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.