NYC ShutItDown and Millions March NYC called for an emergency demonstration for New York City to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis and Chicago after the horrific killings of two unarmed black youth.
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GALLERY: Vigil For Tamir Rice, One Year and Still No Justice
Organizers read a statement from the family of Tamir Rice, “My family is still grieving from the murder of my 12 year old cousin Tamir Rice. Tamir was shot and killed by Cleveland police officers while playing with a toy gun in a neighborhood park a year ago.”
Senior EU Official Suggests Leeway for National Budgets
As the EU continues to struggle with numerous crisis that have developed over the past couple of months, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloen announced that some countries could be given leeway over their budgets for the near future to help deal with the influx with migrants.
Weaving Our Garment of Destiny
Martin Luther King Jr.: “All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny…We are made to live together.” Today our “garment of destiny” is woven of threads far more multicolored than in King’s day.
The Undermining of American Democracy
In a time where inequality is widening and the concentration of wealth is greater than ever, our political system has been turned upside down. The game is rigged, and it’s not rigged for people like you and me.
Union County College and Others in the Hot Seat
Right now ugly things are happening not only at Union County College but also all around New Jersey as well as throughout all universities in Higher Education in the United States.
Protests Bash the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit
Many neighborhoods are being torn apart by skyrocketing rents and terrorized by police brutality. Low-to-middle income New Yorkers are being priced out or displaced by gentrification while the city is being made over into a playground for the super “rich”.
Where Do We Go From Here?
Some leading unions are hard at work and a few social movement groups move beyond protest. But mostly we love to demonstrate and march and respond to crisis, or to post opinion on social media, but shy away from the hard work of organizing
Filters of Truth: A Critical Perspective on News Framing
With growing awareness that the information we get is filtered through human viewpoints, we begin to question what we read, hear, and watch. How do we explain our identification with French suffering and our apparent indifference to Lebanese suffering?
Greek Debt Crisis Still Affecting the EU
As the continent struggles to deal with the migration crisis, the Greek debt crisis is still a major issue affecting the EU as lenders start to press reform