(2019-08-15). Face of privilege Ben Shapiro slammed for calling poverty a 'you problem'. rt.com 
Right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro has been eviscerated online, after a tone-deaf attack on Americans forced to take a second job to make ends meet. He called poverty a "you problem" as the country faces a possible recession.
(2019-08-15). SPLC publishes Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama's Community Corrections Programs. splcenter.org A new investigative report published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center reveals serious flaws in Alabama's community corrections programs, an otherwise promising system for diverting people from the state's prisons.
(2019-08-15). America's "War on Terrorism" and The Globalization of Poverty: Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca SPECIAL: 30$ for America's "War on Terrorism" + Globalization of Poverty: | Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky | Click here to buy! | America's War on Terrorism | To understand the complex web of deceit aimed at luring the American people and the rest …
(2019-08-14). Immigrants Welcome to the US as Long as They Are White and Wealthy. therealnews.com 
The Trump's administration's Kenneth Cuccinelli rewrites Emma Lazarus's words on the Statue of Liberty, telling the poor and oppressed they're no longer welcome. This comes right after Trump proposes to limit legal migration to the US. We speak to Michael Paarlberg of IPS…
(2019-08-13). Philippines: Precarious work, extreme inequality persist a year after historic strike. greenleft.org.au 
The Philippines' labour movement commemorated the first anniversary of the historic Pacific Plaza Towers workers' strike on August 6. | The workers, all members of Pacific Plaza United Action of Labor (PUNYAL), had long been exploited by the condominium's managers. | Half the workforce were employed on short-term contracts, via dubious third-party job contractors (labour hire), paid starvation wages, and deprived of their right to join a union and collectively bargain for higher wages. | These workers live in squalor in the Palar slum area. Their workplace, located a couple of kilometres away, is one of the ritzi…
(2019-08-10). HBO's "Succession" Is a Masterful Demolition of the Absurdity and Cruelty of Our One Percent Overlords. theintercept.com 
"Succession" isn't directly about the Murdochs and Fox. It's about a class of super-wealthy individuals who are manifestly unfit to rule.
(2019-08-09). 'Preserve, revitalize and promote' indigenous languages, or lose a 'wealth of traditional knowledge', UN chief says. un.org Secretary-General António Guterres underscored the urgency to "preserve, revitalize and promote indigenous languages" in his message for the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, celebrated on Friday.
(2019-08-09). Brazil's stride into authoritarianism. greenleft.org.au 
Since Brazil's 2016 parliamentary coup d'etat, in which former president Dilma Rousseff was removed on a later-exonerated technicality, Brazil's ultra-right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has made every effort to destroy any remnants of the legacy left by the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT). | More than just replacing logotypes and email accounts, Bolsonaro's administration has taken steps to remove environmental protections on the Atlantic and Amazon forests to allow his wealthy rural base access to slash and burn, evict and even kill Indigenous peoples, introduce extreme farming and to use an exhaustive list of to…
(2019-08-08). SPLC statement on Mississippi immigration raids. splcenter.org Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Julia Solórzano, with the SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on today's workplace raids in Mississippi:…
(2019-07-31). 48 hours of overpolicing in NYC. liberationnews.org 
Recording the police or offering Metrocards will not end the criminalization of poverty, it will not end police terror.