Heroes of the 2010s: Kshama Sawant, the Socialist Who Beat Amazon
Mother Jones illustration; Jason Redmond/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. In 2013, an actual Trotskyist named Kshama Sawant was elected to the Seattle City Council. A Trotskyist is a kind of communist—not in the sense that Republicans call Democrats communists, but in the sense that communists…
Europe Has Its Own Green New Deal
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels.Aris Oikonomou/Getty This article was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Nearly every major aspect of the European economy is to be re-evaluated in light of the imperatives of the climate and ecological…
The Federal Reserve Acknowledged the Reality of Climate Change. That’s Actually a Big Deal.
US Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard Eric Baradat/Getty During a conference on climate change and the economy in San Francisco, one year after the deadly Campfire’s wildfire smoke made the city’s air quality among the worst on the planet, the Federal Reserve announced that it would incorporate climate change into its considerations when making policy…
Photos: Inside the Raucous, Colorful Protest that Shut Down “Wall Street West”
Leidesdorff Street, a shadowy corridor stretching just three blocks, is hardly the hub of San Francisco’s downtown Financial District. Yet for a few hours on Wednesday morning, a lively climate change protest swept through the alley, turning it into the front line in the fight for divestment—a movement to force big banks and financial institutions…
Trump Wants to Log an Enormous Alaska Forest. These Native Women Traveled 3,000 Miles to Stop It.
The WECAN Indigenous Women’s Tongass Delegation on Capitol Hill, Washington DC.Melissa Lyttle “If we had dressed in office clothing to meet the standards of DC,” says Wanda Culp, who wore vibrant red, blue, and black robes, “we would have just melted into the crowds that were going into those offices every 15 to 30 minutes.”…
49,000 Auto Workers Could Shut Down GM’s Plants at Midnight
General Motors employees demonstrate in Flint, Michigan.Jake May/AP At midnight, 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union plan to go on strike at General Motors plants following the breakdown of contract talks. It will be the union’s first strike since a two-day shutdown in 2007 and could bring vehicle production at GM’s plants in…