On Father's Day, Let's Promise Our Children We Will Not Stop Hoping

Sunday, June 16, 2019 Combat misinformation! Keep independent media strong by making a tax-deductible donation to Truthout. [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [On Father's Day, Let's Promise Our Children We Will Not Stop Hoping]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout As a father, my fear rides sidecar with hope. My hopes for my daughter are not pegged to any particular outcome beyond survival. All I can do is the best I can do to prepare her for what awaits. I tell her integrity is all. We could use more of that these days. I am afraid for her, and with good reason, but until I am in the ground, I will have hope for her, and for us all. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Want to Be a Principled Billionaire? Stop Being a Billionaire.]( Daniel Uncapher, Truthout The news about MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, pledging half her billions to philanthropy should remind us that the giving of wealth under capitalism is entirely facilitated by the stealing of wealth from workers who create that wealth. The petty charities of capitalism will never fix the problems it has created, and in an equitable economy, billionaire philanthropy would simply cease to exist. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The DNC Strategy Will Defeat Climate Voters, Not Trump]( Alison Rose Levy, Truthout The Democratic National Committee's strategy of crowding the presidential debate with a surplus of largely Wall Street-funded candidates appears designed to defeat not Trump but progressives and the serious issues they raise, especially the climate crisis. Rather than fall into the DNC's game-show trap, concerned citizens must focus instead on building a powerful policy-based movement to transform the system. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Father's Day Gift For Myself: Activism]( Peter Certo, OtherWords News about climate change has been so spooky for so long that it can feel like background noise. In 30 short years, everything modern humans have built could be rent apart by an ecological catastrophe of our own making. But I'm resolving to join the hundreds of thousands of children who have walked out of school demanding their right to the future. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day]( Carl Davidson, LeftLinks Flint Taylor's The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago is at once a history of the battles -- still ongoing -- against Chicago's racist police department and City Hall; a catalog of the city's human rights abuses; and from the perspective of a founding member of Chicago's People's Law Office, who's been suing the Chicago Police Department since 1969, a manual of strategy and tactics. [Read the Review →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Labor Movement Comes to Virtual Reality: Unionizing Digital Media]( Sarah Jaffe, New Labor Forum Union drives at media organizations have been a source of rare good news for the labor movement. Nearly 10 years ago, Truthout became the first digital newsroom to unionize. Organizing in media has continued to attract a lot of attention -- and shape the coverage that unions get. As the industry continues to wrestle with shutdowns and layoffs, the momentum ushered in by these workplace struggles carries on. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [With Ongoing Cuba Sanctions, U.S. Has No Moral Authority to Talk About Freedom]( Janine Jackson, Counterspin The recent people-to-people group bans on travel to Cuba are yet another move in a multifaceted and protracted war against Cuba since 1960. Nefta Freeman, director of the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses the failures of media to challenge misinformation from U.S. officials and acknowledge the shared objective among all presidential administrations: regime change. [Listen to the Audio and Read the Transcript →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why the Demand for Black Bone Marrow Donors Is High -- and Awareness Is Low]( Deonna Anderson, YES! Magazine Black people seeking a bone marrow transplant have about a 23 percent chance of finding donors -- two to nearly three times less than other racial groups. For Black people, whose donor pool is exceptionally small, closing those disparities is crucial. But, advocates say, medical professionals must first acknowledge historical and current racism in the field. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Supreme Court Ruling on Census Could Deal Grave Blow to Democracy]( Marjorie Cohn, Truthout The Supreme Court is poised to decide two cases that could prove devastating to the right to vote -- the very foundation of a democracy. One will review the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The other will determine whether partisan gerrymandering is constitutional. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Don't Accept the "New Normal" -- Keep Outrage Alive]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout A lot of people are feeling broken now, but there is iron in those broken places if you look for it. A callus has grown over the tender spots within which hope resides. To stay in the fight, that callus must be torn off, again and again if need be. Fury must be fresh, else it curdles into despair, and despair is exactly what Donald Trump is shopping for. Do not give him what he wants. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you're reading? Support Truthout's independent news and analysis by making an automatic monthly donation. 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