Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Penn sells out trans athletes Lia Thomas Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania caved to pressure and struck an agreement on July 1 with the Trump administration to ban trans athletes. In exchange, the government restored $175 million in federal funds to the university. In March, Trump paused the federal funding,…
Friday marked the 17th anniversary of the opening of the United States prison compound in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama failed to fulfill his promise of closing the facility and little attention has since been given to the issue by the Trump administration, but activists continue to work behind the scenes to shut down…
WASHINGTON — The meeting at the White House in the spring of 2012 was not going well. Running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in the polls, President Obama had his closest advisor, Valerie Jarrett, summon nearly 20 progressive activists to the White House to defuse the tension surrounding his administration’s deportation of more illegal immigrants than…
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Penn sells out trans athletes Lia Thomas Philadelphia The University of Pennsylvania caved to pressure and struck an agreement on July 1 with the Trump administration to ban trans athletes. In exchange, the government restored $175 million in federal funds to the university. In March, Trump paused the federal funding,…
Philadelphia museum workers ready to join ranks of striking unions There can be no doubt that Philly is a union town! The essential city workers of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 are doubling down against Mayor Cherelle Parker. In a historic strike, the first in almost 40 years, D.C.…
This week on State of Play, host Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot, an independent journalist recently arrested while covering anti-ICE protests for MintPress News in Los Angeles, and Robert Inlakesh, a Middle East analyst and MintPress contributor known for his reporting on politics, repression, and empire, to examine a rapidly expanding surveillance regime…