Excerpt from the New York Times’ “California Today,” by Jill Cowan: On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a formal apology to California’s Native American communities. Here’s more from my colleague Tim Arango about the apology and what it means: In 1851, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, told the Legislature to expect war “until the Indian race…
The effort to divest from Wall Street—and stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here’s what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking. by Deonna Anderson (posted Jan 02, 2019 in Yes Magazine) In February 2017, Seattle became the first city to pass legislation to divest from a financial institution…
Published on Saturday, June 15, 2019 by Common Dreams by Ernest A. Canning We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both. – Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis It is not hyperbole to suggest that Senator…
Editor’s Note: I first ran across this essay, a commencement address given by Paul Hawken to the lucky University of Portland graduating class of 2009, in a beautiful book of inspirational essays called Hope Beneath our Feet. When I wrote to Hawken to get permission to reprint it, his reply included this postscript: “I went to Nevada Union High…
The jobs problem today isn’t just stagnant wages. It’s also uncertain incomes. by Robert Reich Uber drivers are supporting families with children, yet 40% depend on Medicaid and another 18% on food stamps. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Uber just filed its first quarterly report as a publicly traded company. Although it lost $1bn, investors may…