JPMorgan Chase Made a Secret $159.5 Million Deal To Finance a Private Prison
Leave your thoughtsActivists have been pressuring the bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, to stop their dealing with the private detention industry.…
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Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention
Leave your thoughtsActivists are targeting the companies that make ICE run. About 60 members of ICE Out of LA faced off with…
The Big Banks and Corporations Financing Trumps Deportation Machine
Leave your thoughtsHundreds marched on a JPMorgan Chase shareholders’ meeting demanding that the bank denounce Trump’s agenda of hate. (Make the Road…
The Two Faces of Obamas Immigration Policy
Leave your thoughtsRosario Reyes, 38, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, had been standing on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court…
The Lessons of Zapatista Women Activists for Todays Social Movements
Leave your thoughtsOn January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), made up of mostly indigenous peasants from Mexico’s southern…
Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: This Is A Big Deal
Leave your thoughtsTrade agreements are about more than business—they’re about who has final say in the way people around the world live,…
Whose Recovery?
Leave your thoughtsIt’s been a year since Superstorm Sandy devastated swaths of the East Coast, but Staten Island resident Victorina Ramirez remembers…
Overriding Bloombergs Vetoes, New York City Council Bans NYPD Racial Profiling
Leave your thoughtsStop-and-frisk is dealt the second serious blow in as many weeks, and this one may be even more significant. Mayor…
Si, Se Pudo!: New Yorkers Win Paid Sick Days
Leave your thoughts“We have a deal.” New Yorkers involved in the fight for paid sick days have been waiting to hear those…
Imagining a Just Recovery from Superstorm Sandy
Leave your thoughtsThree months have passed since Hurricane Sandy battered New York and trashed the New Jersey coastline, and she hasn’t left.…