| Revelations of "Postracial" Ferguson David Theo Goldberg, Truthout: "Postracial" Ferguson reveals much about race, racism and postraciality - the new modality in which race is today expressed - in the United States, and the attempt to erase race, along with police and other structural violence, from public reference. Read the Article Sen. Elizabeth Warren Blasts FHFA's Mel Watt: "You Haven't Helped a Single Family" Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Warren criticized the failure to develop a program for Fannie and Freddie to provide principal modifications to underwater borrowers at risk of foreclosure. Read the Article and Watch the Video Studies Raise Red Flags About Hazardous Compounds in Fracking Fluid; Questions Loom About Unknown Chemicals Roger Drouin, Truthout: Scientists are getting to the bottom of what's in fracking fluids. Truthout takes a detailed look at two studies that raise red flags. Read the Article The Root of Racism in the US: Ferguson Activist Speaks Out on Police Abuses After Meeting Obama Amy Goodman and Aaron Mat̩, Democracy Now!: Will body cameras end police abuses? Not according to activist Ashley Yates, who points out that "cameras didn't save Tamir Rice. Cameras didn't save John Crawford." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Los Angeles and New York Pin Down School Kids and Then Say It Never Happened Annie Waldman, ProPublica: All school districts in the country are required to tell the federal government how many times kids have been restrained in their schools. But some districts aren't following through. Read the Article Why We All Need Affirmative Action Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Dollars & Sense: Recent shootings of young black men sound the alarm for public policies that directly counter racist stereotypes. Affirmative action is an important anti-racism tool, not a program to reduce inequality. Read the Article For Climate Justice, My 11-Year-Old Brother Stopped Speaking - and Started Being Heard Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Truthout: An 11-year-old indigenous activist has vowed not to speak until world leaders take effective action to halt climate change. Read the Article Unbelievable: Cleveland Cops Who Killed Unarmed Black Suspects Sue, Claiming They're Victims of Racial Discrimination Kali Holloway, AlterNet: A group of nine Cleveland police officers Рeight white and one Hispanic - involved in a 2012 incident in which 137 shots were fired and two unarmed African-American suspects were killed, is suing the city and outrageously claiming reverse racial discrimination. Read the Article How We "Blew It" on Obamacare The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: If Democrats had gone ahead and pushed for real reform - i.e. a single-payer component, even if it was just a public option - no one would ever have to worry about dealing with a greedy, for-profit health insurance company ever again. Read the Article Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation With Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore Monica J. Casper, The Feminist Wire: The Feminist Wire and the University of Arizona will co-host the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona. The event aims to build on the visionary work of Black Lives Matter and a surge of activism emerging from the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Read the Interview Glimpses of Our Power Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance: The nationwide reaction to the grand jury decision in Ferguson and police killings across the country taught the social justice movement an important lesson: The people have the power to shut down the nation. Read the Article In the Land of Zapata, a Community Fights Natural Gas Development Martha Pskowski and Octavio Morales, Americas Program: In the same towns where iconic revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata fought for the rights of Mexico's rural majority, natural gas pipeline mega-development projects are setting off fierce protests. Read the Article Candice Bernd: Don't Frack With Denton! Thom Hartmann, RT: Candice Bernd of Truthout joins Thom Hartmann to discuss how the small city of Denton, Texas, has taken a bold step forward by banning fracking within municipal limits. Is this the sign of big things to come in the Lone Star State? Watch the Video Take Roots Action: Some 200,000 people have asked outgoing Sen. Mark Udall to make the torture report public. You can too: Release the Torture Report Now! | 
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