On June 17, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law declaring that teachers can no longer teach critical race theory in their classrooms. As Jennifer Bendery reported in the Black Agenda Report, “The Texas measure is part of a nationwide effort by conservative Republicans to enact laws that prevent…
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In June 2021, the Hechinger Report’s Victoria Petersen reported that most US school facilities are in dire need of repair and will not be able to sustain the damages caused by worsening weather due to climate crisis. The article reported data from the US Government Accountability Office which highlighted that…
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COVID-19 has led to increases in institutional debt for colleges and universities and significant decreases in faculty salaries and benefits, according to data from the American Association of University Professors’ 2020-2021 “Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession,” as covered in July 2021 in a three-part series by…
The Foreign Policy Centre’s “Unsafe for Scrutiny” report details the threats facing journalists investigating the financial misconduct that lets ‘dirty money’ flow through the world’s most powerful banks. Spencer Woodman’s November 2020 discussion of the report for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists details a major source of these threats:…
The City Council of Oakland, California started 2021 by strengthening its prohibitions on community surveillance through an amendment to its municipal code. The amendment, passed unanimously, prohibits the city’s police department from using biometric and predictive policing technology. Both practices have raised concerns over invasion of privacy, racial bias, and…
Researchers from the University of Maryland and Westat published a study in the journal Criminology & Public Policy, which found that increasing the number of police officers in schools led to harsher criminalization of discipline without improving school safety. C.J. Ciaramella discussed the findings of this 105-school study in an…
A January 2021 report by the American Friends Service Committee documents how local and state governments arounds the world have implemented “extreme emergency measures under the cover of responding to the virus.” The AFSC report, “Under the Mask,” identifies nine types of restrictions that indicate “governments’ tightening grip on civil…
Zoom’s popularity skyrocketed as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified in Spring 2020, and the company’s revenues rose more than 169 percent. Online conferencing has enabled people to continue their work, school, and social lives, ultimately making Zoom an essential service. However, as John Whitehead reported for OpEdNews in September 2020, “the…
Venture capital tech elites threatened by San Francisco’s homelessness and crime are pushing for a recall of San Francisco’s progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Citing an astronomical increase in crime, former San Francisco mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg initiated the petition to recall Boudin. During his mayoral campaign, Greenberg also made…
Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a union avoidance firm, obtained by Vice’s Motherboard show the disturbing lengths to which companies will go in order to derail workplace organizing. The leaked records include a spreadsheet of anecdotal personal information the company had gathered about the employees of one client, Conifer Health…
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