For Mexican Workers, Temporary Farmwork Visas Facilitate Abuse and Exploitation After Isabella received an H-2A visa, she faced trafficking, brutal working conditions, and gender-based violence.

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How Libraries Are Creating Community Through Food Libraries nationwide are offering community classes on nutrition, food security, and how to get a good meal on the table.

Libraries, often unifying spaces, are increasingly offering public classes on nutrition literacy and food security.

“Teaching someone how to cook, how to garden, and how to encourage and include their families to participate is really impactful.” buff.ly/7buTUW8

These miners, photographed at the end of their shift in the Gilded Age, had no union, no protections, no voice. The people at the top saw nothing wrong with this picture.

This Labor Day we remember: rights were won with blood, sweat, and tears. If we stop fighting, history will repeat itself—soon.

20 years after Hurricane Katrina, St. Bernard Parish is still recovering Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.

Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.

Stumbled upon Doris the Disco Duck. IYKYK😘

20 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Residents Are Most Vulnerable to 'Die of Despair' Today, Louisiana residents are the nation's most vulnerable to 'deaths of despair' as Black New Orleanians navigate hopelessness after Hurricane Katrina.

The share of Black residents dropped by 40% while the share of white residents increased by 460%. The city’s manufacturing hub, which was anchored by NASA and was one of the main pillars of middle-class Black families, lost nearly 100,000 jobs that never returned.

The Voting Rights Act Turns 60. Its Future Has Never Looked More Fragile. Six decades after the most important federal statute protecting the right to vote was signed into law, advocates say, Black political power is hanging by a thread.

Six decades after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, advocates say, Black political power is hanging by a thread.

“BPA’s decision to join Markets+ knowing the long-term cost, consequences, and harm is shocking, especially when the benefits of EDAM are so apparent–for ratepayers, salmon, rivers, and regional clean energy goals,” said Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director of SOS: www.wildsalmon.org/news-and-med...

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester,...

"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech

It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America. The urban heat island sits in a rural heat ocean.

It’s hot out there. Farmworkers are some of the most at-risk for extreme heat injury and death. @umairfan.bsky.social bringing attention to this important issue

Artwork depicting a Latino man, a farm worker, alone in the middle of a thick field of greenery. He wears a green baseball cap, a blue work shirt and yellow gloves. He looks down while holding a large bucket on his shoulder. The bucket holds so much, which is depicted in a surrealist manner: the surface of the bucket morphs into the U.S. border wall with Mexico. Inside the bucket are people protesting, holding up signs that say "ABOLISH ICE," "Rights for Migrant Workers," "Freedom of Movement," and "Migration is Life"

Powerful artwork by @emitxin.bsky.social pretty much says it all today.

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For Some Black Angelenos, ICE Raids Reopen the Wound of Displacement As federal agents sweep through the city, Black residents face painful truths about displacement, solidarity, and survival.

Neighborhoods now under siege by ICE were once the beating heart of Black LA, before demographic change transformed them into Latino communities. capitalbnews.org/ice-raids-bl...

A black-and-white photo shows a technician standing beside a large spherical metal object being assembled in a lab, representing a nuclear weapon core. Overlaid text reads: "The US plans to spend $38 billion on new explosive cores for nuclear weapons." The logo of the Union of Concerned Scientists appears in the bottom left corner. Photo credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons.

As the US prepares to spend as much as $38 billion to produce hundreds of new explosive cores, called plutonium pits, to arm new nuclear weapons, our new analysis argues new pits aren’t necessary to maintain the existing US nuclear arsenal.

Read our report: act.ucsusa.org/4kZ4X9p

A bright yellow dandelion flower on top a yellow banner with a quote from a novel, The Dandelion Insurrection, and white squiggly lines on a black background. Quote says: When fear is used to control us, love is how we rebel.

How are you connecting to what you love?

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Their small farms helped stock food pantries. That program is going away. The Trump administration is ending a USDA assistance initiative as the country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point" and a hunger crisis looms.

The Trump administration is ending a USDA assistance initiative as the country’s food pantries are “stretched to the breaking point" and a hunger crisis looms.