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  1. 2 books that explore Big Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘Dopesick’ and ‘Pain Killer’ Dope-wasted in Lee County, Va., a disconsolate farmer told his physician that the powerful prescription drug OxyContin had destroyed his life. He had lost everything. Another Virginian, an unemployed miner, admit ...

    4 Jan 2019 - Joe Martin

  2. Call of the wild: A street paper vendor and his camera

    Real Change vendor Bryant Carlin captures a rapidly changing landscape Bryant Carlin plans on spending most of the next two years without a roof over his head. He’ll be in the Olympic Mountains. Carlin is a wilderness photographer, and the pursuit of his ...

    30 Nov 2018 - Bridget Mountain

  3. What if we could fix poverty, economy, environment all at once? We can.

    BOOK REVIEW | Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus’ 'A World of Three Zeros' is focused on solutions It’s important to start with the realization that poverty is not caused by poor people.” Let me rephrase Muhammad Yunus, author of “A Wo ...

    6 Apr 2018 - Megan Wildhood

  4. Leilani Farha's worldly perspective on poverty in the wealthiest nation

    Witnessing homelessness, discrimination and cruelty in the U.S. weighed heavily on the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Leilani Farha doesn’t want to live in a world where people have to negotiate to use the bathroom. She doesn’t want to live i ...

    9 Mar 2018 - Ashley Archibald

  5. Facing deportation, immigrant-rights activist Maru Mora-Villalpando won't be silenced

    The Seattle-based activist has been a vocal critic of Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center Maru Mora-Villalpando received the notice just before Christmas: a certified letter from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that marked the start of her d ...

    2 Feb 2018 - Aaron Burkhalter

  6. 'Ratf**ked': Political pranks and modern-day tricksters

    BOOK REVIEW | Former Salon editor David Daley documents how Republicans are using technology to ensure gerrymandered victories Ratfucked! A raw epithet that goes back to the 1920s. Five decades later, it became a favorite of Richard Nixon’s dirty trickste ...

    29 Dec 2017 - Joe Martin

  7. Dig deep! This farmer and activist has some radical ideas

    BOOK REVIEW | "Street Farm" author Michael Ableman is working to grow farmers in the city You might flip through this attractive volume in a bookstore. It has lots of colorful, glossy photos of beaming people of varying ethnicities tending lettu ...

    21 Sep 2017 - Susan Storer Clark

  8. How black leaders came to support a racist criminal justice system

    Local and state officials 'built mass incarceration, and that’s who’s going to unbuild it,' says James Forman Jr., author of 'Locking Up Our Own'   It is well documented how mass incarceration reinforces a racial caste system in Americ ...

    7 Jul 2017 - Mike Wold

  9. Global lessons from Latin America’s left

    BOOK REVIEW | ‘The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left,’ by Jeffery Webber In the early 2000s, South America was a beacon of hope for developing nations. In country after country ...

    30 Jun 2017 - Mike Wold

  10. For Negin Farsad, laughter is the best defense

    BOOK REVIEW | 'How to Make White People Laugh' uses comedy to tackle social justice issues It may be possible to change the world one joke at a time. At least, that’s the thrust of Iranian-American comic Negin Farsad's May 24 release, a boo ...

    19 May 2017 - Mike Wold

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