Disaster Capitalism Hits New York
The city will adapt to flooding—but at the expense of the poor?
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Vermont: One Tiny State’s Movement to Ban Private Prisons
Vermont, the most progressive state in America, spent over $14 million last year to lock up Vermonters in for profit prison like Lee Adjustment Center in Kentucky. A dialogue about mass incarceration, budget crises, and privatization is unfolding. A group of Vermonters working out of Church basements and living rooms is attempting to build a movement to push this conversation forward by passing a historic law banning Vermont’s use of for-profit prisons.
Armed and Dangerous: The Gun Debate
Effective regulation, combined with a comprehensive national database and a training program for gun users, would establish over time that less access to guns leads to less violent crime. This has been the case in Europe and some US states. Success would help shatter the myth that government is the problem, and that people are better off armed to the teeth and on their own.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Intifada
An Intifada has already been joined by thousands of Palestinian prisoners some of whom are shackled to their hospital beds. It offers little perks aside from a chance at dignity and a leap of faith towards freedom.
Turtles and Tomahawk Missiles, Together at Last? War is Not the Answer to Climate Change
The tendency to invoke a national security framework in discussions of climate change can lead to misguided and opportunistic policies centered on greenwashed imperialism.
Photo Essay: Tar Sands Pipeline Blockade at Keystone and TransCanada Headquarters
On Monday, January 7th the Tar Sands Blockade participated in a national day of action against the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline in which they occupied space in the lobbies of both the Keystone headquarters and TransCanada headquarters in Houston, Texas.