We've extended our fundraising drive as far as we can, so you have one last chance to contribute today. Please make it count! Can you help Truthout raise the remaining $7,000 we need to meet our goal? Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming Maryam Henein, Truthout: We do not need genetically modified plants and monocultures to feed the world. To save the planet, the United Nations is calling for us to get rid of modern agriculture as we know it and adopt organic farms and a localized food system. Read the Article Is Walmart the World's Worst Corporation? John Logan, Truthout: Domestically and abroad, Walmart wreaks havoc on the lives of its employees and supply-chain workers, making it a serious contender in Public Eye's competition for world's worst corporation. Read the Article Free Marissa and All Black People Mariame Kaba, Prison Culture: For Marissa Alexander, Mike Brown and black people everywhere, the US criminal punishment system cannot deliver any "justice." Read the Article New Sanctuary Movement Seeks to Protect Undocumented Immigrants Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: A growing number of congregations across the country are defying the law by sheltering undocumented immigrants who are at risk of deportation. Read the Article Media Must Tell What Happens - and Why - in Ferguson Christopher Benson, The Chicago Reporter: The story of this St. Louis suburb is the story of power. It is power that is enforced at street level by the police and up throughout a justice system that has been engaged in the mass incarceration of people of color, and the political system that created it. Read the Article From Buy Nothing Day to Independence Day Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk, Truthout: What if "Buy Nothing Day" were reframed as "Independence Day?" It would symbolize independence from corporate control, the idea that we are merely what we consume and the life-denying tendencies of late stage capitalism. Read the Article Should We Impeach Chief Justice John Roberts? William Greider, The Nation: While the Republicans in Congress have blocked Democrats from enacting much of substance, the GOP majority in control of the Supreme Court has been effectively legislating on its own, following an agenda neatly aligned with their conservative party. Read the Article No Justice in Ferguson Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future: In the coming days, Officer Darren Wilson will sit down for major media interviews, and Thanksgiving dinner with his new wife. Meanwhile, Michael Brown's parents will sit with his empty chair and the knowledge that the man who killed him is not only free, but all over the media. Read the Article Economic Update: Economics of Private Property Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This week's radio segment provides updates on unpaid internships, extreme wealth and economic perceptions as well as responses to listener questions on the real economics of public pensions and home refinancing. Listen to the Radio Segment Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: A grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for killing unarmed black teen Michael Brown set off outrage in Ferguson and communities across the country who see Brown's killing as part of a wide-scale pattern of police mistreatment of people of color. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript |