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While the troubled bank has settled several of the charges against it, it's still undergoing scrutiny by the Justice Department and other federal regulators.
Trump's admirers around the country have seized on a strategy to push back against mass protest -- by criminalizing it. Lawmakers in multiple states are proposing measures explicitly designed to curtail dissent.
Whole swaths of the American public -- Muslims, African Americans, Latinxs, LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, Indigenous people -- have been targeted by the wrath of the New Know Nothings in the White House. In our shared darkness, Imam Ibrahim Rahim holds a candle.
"The Star Spangled Banner" -- with its boast about the "land of the free" and its rarely sung third verse about slaveholding -- reflects and enforces the divisions between us. Simple acts of "taking the knee" can continue to inspire other public acts in kind and reveal the possibility for a new nation. In this perilous political present, singing and listening are tools; toward what ends remains our choice.
Tired of living for generations in the toxic shadow of Chevron's profit-over-people policies, residents of Richmond, California, formed a community-labor coalition in 2004 to organize around the interests of the city's multiracial, working-class population. Activist and author Steve Early discusses how the Richmond Progressive Alliance won control of the city council and put Chevron on the defensive.