Tag: Trump Administration
Peace activist Medea Benjamin said Wednesday that the current political moment “is a time where we have to build up an anti-war movement again.”
Fighting back against the Trump administration’s “vile” new policy of separating young migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, the ACLU is launching “Families Belong Together” rallies at immigration enforcement offices nationwide on Friday in an urgent effort to “end this practice for good.”
With the #ArmMeWith social media campaign, educators are calling for the government to provide them with school supplies, books, and other resources instead of spending an estimated $1 billion to train teachers to act as armed guards—while also being responsible for educating the nation’s children.
While President Trump promised to “drain the swamp” when he was on the campaign trail, a new report from a non-profit, nonpartisan research group shows that after one year of the Trump administration, lobbying is at records levels in Washington.
Deporting hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents back to the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere is not just an affront to American values, but a near-homicidal act.
You MUST be aware of what is happening in the Interior Department. Our public lands are being stripped of protection and sold. Read this!!
The Trump Administration is once again trying to push industry forward and safety and environmental concerns to the side. Read this!
Compared to other wealthy nations, the U.S. is doing “very badly” in the fight against income and wealth inequality. “The USA is the wealthiest country in the history of the world, but its level of inequality is also the highest among major industrial countries, leaving tens of millions of working people impoverished—especially women and people of color,” Oxfam’s Lawson and Martin observed.
Want to know what the Trump administration has done to the EPA? Read this!
In a 91-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg declared that the Corps “did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effects are likely to be highly controversial.” Native American tribes and activists across the country deemed it a substantial win.
Want to know why you won’t find real climate change data on the EPA website? Read this!
The Social Security Works president says latest proposal is “a Trojan horse: It appears to be a gift, in the form of middle class tax relief, but would, if enacted, lead to the destruction of working Americans’ fundamental economic security.”
The consumer revolution platform now is an ambitious one: double organic sales in the next four years… As noted by Ronnie Cummins, by speeding up the rate at which we reach the tipping point where 15 percent of our food supply is organic or grass fed, the acceleration will multiply exponentially thereafter.
The Trump Administration is limiting the EPAs access to both regular media and social media. Read this!
