[UPDATED 3/4/3016] Berta Caceres was assassinated today, murdered in her sleep, in her home in Honduras at about 1 a.m. Berta was coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (COPIHN) and the 2015 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Her death is not the first: in 2015, Global Witness reported that “at least two people are being killed for taking a stand against environmental destruction” every single week: Continue reading
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Tax Day: Who Pays, Who Evades
The lower your income, the more likely you are to pay your fair share of taxes–or even more than your fair share. Billionaires and big corporations still manage to evade taxes and Republicans in Congress continue to block funding for auditing them. Also: contrary to Republican propaganda, immigrants pay more than their share of taxes.
ICYMI: Turning up the heat on workers; Gun-runner to the world; Russians and Republicans; Starve the children
One good news note this week— A federal judge slapped down Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his buddy Elon Musk, granting a preliminary injunction against his subpoena of Media Matters. The judge’s 40-page opinion details the chilling effect of Paxton’s actions, as both Media Matters and the individual journalist who reported on Musk/Twitter/X pulled back from that […]
ICYMI: Killing the news; Pinocchio politics; Trump’s foreign adventures; “Kevlar Ken” Paxton
Killing the news: Sadly, the newspaper where I first wrote about 60 years ago became one of the latest victims of a vulture hedge fund. The Litchfield Independent Review will end its almost-150-year run this month, alone with the Hutchinson Leader and seven other Minnesota local newspapers. They are not alone. Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism reports on […]
Lies, Damn Lies, and Democracy
Homegrown political lies grow in the soil of racism, fertilized by liberal application of stupidity. Such was the anti-immigrant lie spread loud and wide by Michigan legislator Rep. Matt Maddock (R) who denounced the arrival of “illegal invaders” landing at a Michigan airport. But the dark-skinned people he saw and instantly hated on were not […]
Honoring the Legacy of Cesar Chavez
Marching on picket lines, fasting for justice, calling a grape boycott that galvanized supporters across the country, never stopping and never failing, Cesar Chavez led the struggle for farmworkers’ rights in the 1960s. As the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW), he denounced employers who denied just wages, access to bathrooms, and unemployment benefits, […]
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- Mary Turck is a writer, editor, and blogger. She is also the former editor of theTC Daily Planet and of the award-winning Connection to the Americas and AMERICAS.ORG and a recovering attorney.
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