| You did it! Because so many of you pitched in, Truthout managed to reach our fundraising goal late last night. Thank you all so much: Our work to share real news stories and spread transformative new ideas will continue because of your support! May Day: While the World Celebrates Workers, the US Celebrates "Loyalty" and "Law" Justin Doolittle, Truthout: Let us mourn the loss of May Day here in the United States, and defy it by expressing solidarity with workers all over the world and gratitude that the US government's shameless attempt to replace May Day with contrived expressions of obedience and propaganda has so utterly failed. Read the Article "Rising Voices for a New Economy" Connects the Dots Sam Knight, Truthout: "Rising Voices for a New Economy" brought over a thousand activists together in Washington DC to protest rising economic inequality, poverty and family-destroying deportations in the absence of immigration and other structural reforms. Read the Article Taking Back Cinco Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, Truthout: From no acknowledgment at all, to a proud celebration of "Mexican-ness," to a commercialized beerfest, Cinco de Mayo has seen many transformations in the last half-century. It is time to transform it again and recover meaning. Read the Article The Untold, Real-Life Story of the Prison in "Orange Is the New Black" Victoria Law, Waging Nonviolence: The Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, is the prison made famous by Piper Kerman's memoir-turned-Netflix-show "Orange Is the New Black." It's also where the real-life group Families for Justice as Healing got its start. Read the Article The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the 21st Century Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability: Each of these 21st century mini-revolts, whether or not successful in realizing immediate objectives, succeeded in transforming the understanding of the world and of the possibilities for action for millions of people. Read the Article In Spite of Corporate Lobbyists, Vermont Residents Organize to Raise the Wage Jonathan Leavitt, Truthout: While legislators in the Vermont State House seem to more often be swayed by Koch-funded lobbyists than the concerns of their constituents, The Vermont Workers' Center and other activist groups are organizing to win livable wages in the state. Read the Article The Serendipity of Social Media - Sevim Irmak's Fight for Her Country John de Graaf, Truthout: The author of Affluenza learns the power of social media to help him understand the world beyond his borders, specifically the strange case of neoliberalizing and fundamentalizing Turkey. Read the Article Execution Chaos: Witness Recounts Botched Killing That Caused Oklahoma Prisoner's Fatal Heart Attack Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Oklahoma death row prisoner Clayton Lockett was injected with an untested cocktail of lethal drugs and died of a heart attack after a botched execution Tuesday night. Journalist Ziva Branstetter was present and discusses what she witnessed. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript This Land Isn't Your Land, This Land Is Their Land: An Empire in Decline (City by City, Town by Town) Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: As the US economy starts to look more like the old economy of the Great Depression, the divide between rich and poor seems to grow ever starker. Peter Van Buren has been traveling the Rust Belt, taking the temperature of a land with a significant fever. Here's his account. Read the Article The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care A. W. Gaffney, Jacobin: The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care. The law leaves intact a system of health care based on key neoliberal beliefs including the "moral hazard" of free care and the primacy of health consumerism. Read the Article Economic Update: Shameful Economics Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on Alabama prison/slave labor; automobile irrationalities; and the California drought. Major discussions of cutting public employee pensions; cutting state support for public higher education; and lotteries as disguised taxes on middle and poor Americans. Responses to listener questions on the Federal Reserve "creating" money and why corporations operate overseas and then want government (taxpayers') support for corporations' foreign operations. Listen to the Radio Segment Take Roots Action: The FCC is proposing to end the open Internet in favor of a system that favors corporate content. The Internet is pushing back, trying to save itself. You can help: Tell Chairman Wheeler and the rest of the FCC that we will not stand any move to end net neutrality. | 
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