KEVIN FOSTER – Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.
How do we balance political correctness against reasoned beliefs?
TOM HASTINGS – Destructive conflict will destroy us; constructive conflict will save us. Our choice.
Why Food and Nutrition Deserves Its Own Public School Curriculum
SANDRA ERICSON – A national human ecology curriculum that begins with food education could help address our most pressing crises—from climate change to inequality—by teaching students how to live well and care for one another.
ICE, a Standing Army Inside America, Defies the Genius and History of America, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights
KARY LOVE – Patrick Henry warned, prophetically, that standing armies would be turned on the people. History is resonating. Are we not Americans? Are we not bound to resist, pledging our lives and our sacred honor to preserve the Republic won by generations refusing to acquiesce to such tyranny? Are we not duty bound to proclaim when asked “where is Spartacus” to say: “I am Spartacus!” I am Patrick Henry! You are an American, you are “we the people” of the Constitution, your country needs you, and you can stand with Patrick Henry and the Constitution.
A.I. and I-Thou
ANDREW MOSS – We are social beings, and by asking us to reexamine our humanity, A.I. is calling on us to reexamine our social relations in all aspects, from the personal to the political. There are ways, too, of curbing the most malign aspects of A.I. In considering the current state of our society, individuals must consider what’s most important to them in making better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Groups Announce Support of DNC Resolution for Israel Arms Embargo
NORMAN SOLOMON – Progressive Groups Announce Support for DNC Resolution Urging “Arms Embargo” and “Suspension of Military Aid to Israel”