In the United States, if you’re a critically ill sex worker, society will leave you to die, as adult performer Eden Alexander has learned over the last few days. After starting a fundraiser to help...
Last year, naturalist Sir David Attenborough got into trouble when he called humans “a plague on the earth.” Apparently, some folks get a bit peeved when you slip ‘plague’ and ‘humans’...
Australians woke up this morning in bewilderment, anger, and, for many, without the secure future they’d been promised in the supposed Lucky Country. Federal Liberal Party Treasurer Joe Hockey...
Three weeks ago, over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from their secondary school in Borno state by the Islamist group, Boko Haram. The girls were taken at gunpoint and forced into the dark...
As a veteran protestor in the US and abroad who started out as a pacifist and later marched with the Black Blok and other groups that argue violence is sometimes necessary in defense of our freedoms,...
Allegations of sexual impropriety, abuse and violence have been an increasingly regular part of Australian football culture over the past 10 years. By pointing this out, I don’t suggest that the...
A week after the Algerian president has been re-elected, having made but one single wheeled-chaired public appearance to cast his vote in the ballot, the Algerian election has been dubbed a fraud,...
Farmworker justice may just be going national again this year in the United States, after years of coordinated activism, lobbying, and negotiations. For that, we have the Coalition of Immokalee...
International media are abuzz with the recent news out of Australia, where Scottish-Australian Norrie sued for the right to select “non-specific” as a sex option on her (Norrie’s been...
While the world watches the situation unfold in the Ukraine, and pundits argue the legitimacy of Crimea reuniting with Russia, Venice held a historic referendum. On March 21, the province of Veneto...
