Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license A progressive coalition representing 62 million people and nearly 500 member organizations on Tuesday urged new Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan to end the coffee…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Lawyers for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, who as chair of the House Judiciary…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Marking the four-year anniversary of Julian Assange’s arrest and imprisonment in a high-security London jail, dozens of Australian lawmakers signed an open letter on…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license More than 100 people including at least 30 children were reportedly killed Tuesday in airstrikes by Myanmar’s military dictatorship targeting opponents of the coup regime. Witnesses…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license A coalition of 13 green groups on Tuesday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to set limits on harmful chemicals that petroleum-based…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Both the Biden administration and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are facing criticism this week for proposals related to restricting transgender athletes from participating…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Three unions representing faculty members and graduate student workers at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Tuesday rejected the school president’s accusation that their…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license Unequal access to clean water in cities around the globe—an injustice poised to grow worse this century as the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis intensifies droughts—can be…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license In a high-speed “karma boomerang” delectable to see, Rep. Justin Jones, expelled for daring to protest the slaughter of America’s children, made a triumphant…

Published originally at Common Dreams on April 11, 2023 under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license With global finance leaders set to gather in Washington, D.C. this week for the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund,…