After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women are not simply sitting back and watching as their rights get swept away from them. No, they are fighting back. When the Taliban previously held power in the country from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were denied the...
Before Hurricane Ida made landfall nearly two weeks ago in Louisiana, the big question was: “would the levees hold?” This of course referred to the infamous levees that failed in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, allowing New Orleans to be flooded and nearly 2,000 people...
In September, a strike started in several bus stations in Ile-de-France (the area surrounding Paris). Workers are very angry. In several stations, 100% of the workers have gone on strike, except for temporary workers. The main reason for the strike is to oppose the...
In northern Idaho, hospitals are invoking “crisis standards of care,” which means they will turn away some patients who normally would be hospitalized, because they lack health care providers and facilities to treat them. In California, people who lost their homes to...
It’s been one month since the start of the school year in Oakland, and teachers’ and parents’ fears over COVID safety have not disappeared – but neither has their will to keep their children or themselves safe. We spoke with one Oakland Unified...
