| Wichita Abortion Clinic Continues the Fight for Reproductive Justice Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Four years after Dr. George Tiller's death, the newly reopened and renamed South Wind Woman's Center continues the fight for reproductive justice in the conservative state of Kansas. Read the Article Agribusiness Subsidy Cuts Could Save Food Stamps in the Farm Bill Staff, Center for Effective Government: Billions of dollars could be saved by cutting subsidies while still protecting vital nutrition programs for the poor, if policymakers are willing to make them. Read the Article The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism Michael A. Peters, Truthout: In the five years since the Global Financial Crisis, no policies have been developed to effectively ensure against another systemic failure of banking and insurance systems. Read the Article 50th Anniversary of The Feminine Mystique: Friedan's Rediscovered Writings on Industrial Working Women Peter Handel, Truthout: One of the most common and enduring criticisms of The Feminine Mystique is that Friedan does not say anything about working class women or minorities. Ironically, these issues were at the forefront during Friedan's former years as a labor journalist. Read the Review and the Excerpt Truthout TV Interviews Maya Schenwar About the US Prison System Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar discusses her current book project on prisons in the United States, solitary confinement, the nature of time and why the humane treatment of prisoners is integral to the preservation of human rights. Watch the Video How the System Worked: The US v. Trayvon Martin Robin D. G. Kelley, Counterpunch: The point is that justice was always going to elude Trayvon Martin, not because the system failed, but because it worked. Unless we challenge the entire criminal justice system, there will be many more Trayvon Martins. Read the Article This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land Peter Rugh, Waging Nonviolence: The Obama administration has proposed new regulations for fracking on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force. Read the Article ALEC and the NRA Have Blood on Their Hands Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future: How many people have died because ALEC and the NRA have made it easier for more people to get guns, legal for more people to carry concealed weapons in more places, and easier to "shoot first and ask question later?" Read the Article Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers and the Horror of Solitary Confinement Staff, Angola 3 News: Author Sarah Shourd discusses her solitary confinement project, Opening the Box, as well as the ongoing prisoner hunger strike in California, the Angola 3 case and the politics of prisons in the US. Read the Interview This week in SpeakOut: Nicholas Powers reviews the powerful new film Fruitvale Station, discussing the constant threat of violence that hangs over the lives of young African-American men; Tom Barry writes from the borderlands, looking at the victims of border patrol - immigrants terrorized on a daily basis that risk life and limb for the chance to support their families; Makani Themba analyzes ways to combat structural racism exemplified by the modern vigilantism of the Stand Your Ground laws; David Palumbo-Liu looks at the George Zimmerman verdict and asks what is the cost of stereotypes and fear in the argument of self-defense; James Anderson reports on the ever evolving Occupy Wall Street movement; Paul Redd, Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit prisoner and hunger striker, writes an open letter on the cruelty of forced solitary confinement; and more. Read the Articles | 
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