School Board Elections Could Make (or Break) Our Democracy
Attacks on school boards are part of a strategic, deliberate, and well-funded effort to erode public schools and advance a broader political agenda.
Attacks on school boards are part of a strategic, deliberate, and well-funded effort to erode public schools and advance a broader political agenda.
Both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders, dismissing it as crazy bluster. Here’s why not taking his words more seriously is dangerous.
The report calls for a fundamental shift in the global economy that must immediately move beyond fossil fuels, while “decoupling” economic growth from extractive resources such as timber, minerals and ore.
It’s disheartening to many of us that our local politics have become so mean-spirited and even downright nasty.
Republican candidates for the school board, including two with ties to Moms for Liberty, used the public comment portion of last week’s meeting to give campaign speeches filled with distortions and highly offensive personal attacks.
This past – complete with settlers’ brutal violence that often targeted Native American women and children and was often encouraged through scalp bounties – is often ignored in the U.S.
History can teach us lessons to better understand today’s rising antisemitism and white supremacist ideology in the United States.
Shell’s plant is spewing air pollution and blowing past permit limits in Western Pennsylvania, so we’re pushing to hold it accountable, write Food & Water Watch’s Mia DiFelice and Robin Lesko.
Despite Republican lawmakers’ attacks that DEI is part of some liberal “woke agenda,” these programs have been time-tested as changing campuses for the better and attracting more diverse student and faculty bodies.
What’s next? Labelling them Antifa. Local voters must deport this MAGA sheriff from his office on Nov. 4 to end his ICE 287(g) agreement once and for all, writes Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
PA FIRE’s goal is to create “a groundbreaking, statewide initiative to protect immigrant rights, expand vital services and drive long-term systems change across the commonwealth.”
“Families are feeling the pressure, and so are the systems meant to support them,” said Elizabeth Zbinden, Food Program Manager with Bucks County Opportunity Council.
Our crime? Journalism.