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“We traveled to Central America to investigate the root causes of migration. What we found is a resilient region where corporate interests, international development institutions, and the U.S. government have played a profoundly destabilizing role."

A project the peace and justice movement in the United States can do with peace and justice activists around the world is challenge the delusions articulated by American and European leaders.

For more than a decade, Italian street artist Pier Paolo Spinazzè has been covering neo-fascist graffiti and offensive writings with colorful murals depicting all sorts of foods.

Are the people of the world condemned to live forever under the heels of the great powers?  Or is it still possible to take another step along the road to a peaceful, humane planet?

The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.

‘We are all campus workers’: New coalition confronts crisis in higher ed with coordination and collaboration.

Interrupted wheat supplies from the world’s ‘bread basket’ will profoundly affect a region already in economic turmoil.

While the peace movement argues, trying to decide who’s right and who’s wrong, the American government is doubling down on militarism. The peace movement needs to unite in opposition to war; unfortunately it’s influence is diminished by infighting.

Ten private-sector union pension funds have applied to the U.S. Treasury Dept. for the green light to slash retiree payouts, the Pension Rights Center says Among them are labor organizations affiliated with the auto industry, several from the trucking industry and others from the iron workers and bricklayer unions. Sixty-eight plans are listed as having “critical and declining status,” meaning they too will soon have to apply for permission to cut retiree payouts.

Preemption is a legal term that allows corporations to boost their profits by suppressing local government power, community groups and citizens.