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Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons

Arm our Cities with Military-Grade Healthcare, not Weapons American police are armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons, and the results are in. The more combat gear, the more combat. So how about we arm our...

Ada Colau: Barcelona’s Fearless Mayor

And at the level of principle, Colau has not finished making change yet. Having polled her base this weekend, Colau’s putting the question to the people. Barcelonans will vote on what deal she should make. Let the people decide. Putting that principle into practice has got to be a win, no matter what.  
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Divest / Invest

Divest / InvestThe US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out...
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What Does It Take to Imagine the Future? Ask a NIC Unit Nurse

What does it take to imagine change and bring it into being? It’s hard to think of a better place to consider that question than Buffalo, New York’s second largest city, the first in...

After Ida, Build Back Green, Not Gray

As Hurricane Ida approached the Gulf Coast this August, exactly sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina, all eyes were on New Orleans’ new levee system. The city levees that failed so disastrously back then have...
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Big Pharma vs The People

I recently visited Morgantown, WV where 2,000 well-paying jobs are on the chopping block with dire implications for local people, public health, and even national security. The factory across the street from the University...

We Treasure What We Measure

We Treasure What We Measure – F Word   To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player above.  A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this...
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If Trump Had HIV, He Could Be in Prison

Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If the Donald was a poor man, poorly defended and in poor...
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Capital Not Charity

Capital not charity, that's what people need. It's an obvious point, but worth making again and again, and it's one South Bronx native Majora Carter makes well in a new book titled "Reclaiming Your...
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Take Pride in Desire

It takes work to keep people divided, and culture can help or hurt that project. The award-winning documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen looks at history through the lens of how movies and television have...

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