Jilly Ballistic and the New Aesthetic of Dissent Rebecca Carter, Truthout: Rebecca Carter interviews street and underground artist Jilly Ballistic, who reflects on her illegal, irreverent and interrogatory art. Read the Article Apple Dodges Enough Taxes to Cover Much of the Sequester Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: Apple avoided paying $9.2 billion in taxes because of techniques it uses to keep its US-made profits offshore, and because of provision in the tax code that allows it to deduct interest it pays on money it borrows. Read the Article On the Struggle to Keep Weaponized Drones Out of Europe Elsa Rassbach, Truthout: Organized opposition to weaponized combat drones in Europe is rising, with an effective halt to drone proliferation perhaps more likely in Europe than in the US. Read the Article We Have a Dream: Farmworkers Organize for Justice Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: For decades, farmworkers have been leading a struggle for justice in our food system. A string of victories by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has taken the movement to a whole new level. Read the Article UN Finds "Little Appreciation" for Human Rights Among US Businesses Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service: A UN expert group says US businesses (both in terms of their domestic and international operations) don't do enough to protect the human rights of workers and the communities affected by those operations. Read the Article Hypocrites With Fat Wallets: CEOs Want It All Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org: America's top corporate executives love lecturing the rest of us about "fiscal responsibility." They want us to expect less from government. But they expect more, and a new report shows how they're getting it. Read the Article From Bad Jobs to Good Jobs Colin Gordon, Dissent: What happened to the good jobs? And more importantly, how can we get them back? Raising the minimum wage, collective bargaining and gender pay equity are some of the things we need to look at. Read the Article North Carolina: A Banana Republic for Dirty Energy Interests? Sue Sturgis, Facing South: A measure to repeal North Carolina's renewable energy is being pushed by a coalition of 16 influential state and national conservative advocacy groups - many with financial ties to the fossil-fuel industry. Read the Article "Mrs. Clinton Can Have Her Factories": A Haitian Sweatshop Worker Speaks Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: Marjorie Valcelat ran an embroidery machine in a factory from 2005 to 2008. She says the experience made her so sick and weak that she's not felt able to work since then. Read the Article Truthout TV Interviews Alissa Bohling About Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Former Guatemalan dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. His trial was briefly put on hold due to a legal technicality, but has resumed. What does this trial mean for human rights? Watch the Video |
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