Social justice

Social justice

Take their neighbors, classmates, and community members? Not on their watch. Moms around the country dedicated much of their year to protecting children and families in their communities from unlawful deportation. There was the group of over a dozen moms arrested while protesting outside Broadview Detention Center in Chicago. There was t he mom group who organized a "walking school bus" to get children to school safely if their parents feared being targeted by ICE.

As we move beyond 2030, it is crucial to rethink how we measure progress and development. The current relevance of GDP [gross domestic product] as the dominant indicator of economic performance has been widely criticized for its inability to capture the full dimensions of human well-being, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Recent policy discussions and research, including the OECD's [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's] " Beyond GDP " initiatives, highlight the urgent need to develop alternative metrics.

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world.

Every week in Palo Alto, a group of women gathers outside a Tesla showroom, sporting wide-brim hats and carrying anti-billionaire signs. They call themselves the Raging Grannies: a coalition of senior women who use humor, harmony and handmade costumes to protest inequality, social injustice and the lopsided concentration of wealth in America. Every day there's something new with these big corporations, said Sherry Hagen, who goes by Granny Sherry.

As a big fan of citizen science, I have spent the past month conducting a very important experiment. While I am not quite as hardcore as the American virologist Jonas Salk, who injected the polio vaccine into himself and his family before large-scale trials, this scientific inquiry has involved some personal pain. You see, I have spent the last month trying to smile like Zohran Mamdani.

A jury has awarded $8.4 million to a former White police officer who alleged he faced discrimination and retaliation by Korean-American command staff at the La Palma Police Department. Ross Byer joined the department in May 2022 and completed his training that August with positive performance evaluations, according to court records. His performance remained satisfactory until he was reassigned that year to a different sergeant.

Our guests today are among the many Chicagoans who have shown up with courage and care over the last few months, and I am proud to have struggled alongside them. As raids expand to other cities and the Department of Homeland Security signals that Chicago may be hit even harder in the spring, these lessons feel urgent - both for our own preparation and for anyone, anywhere, who may find themselves facing what we just lived through.

"Women were turned away after traveling to see their incarcerated loved ones and barred from future visits for six months or even indefinitely - all because they were on their period," a post from the NYCLU's Instagram page reads. "This is a clear act of sex discrimination. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision must restore these women's visitation rights and change screening procedures immediately to accommodate the basic fact that some visitors will be menstruating."

In my new research on Intuitions-at-Work Theory (IWT), I propose the problem is not that all diversity strategies are doomed to fail, but rather that business decisions involving diversity are strongly driven by intuition, and that managers have flawed intuitions about diversity -especially regarding which diversity strategies will fail and which diversity strategies will succeed. IWT, which integrates and synthesizes prior empirical findings

Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activism. Forty-three photographers have donated images of 50 artists, from John Lennon to Nina Simone to Bad Bunny, and 100% of the profits will go towards the ACLU and their efforts to protect equality, freedom and rights.

Me first joining the program, I was incarcerated... I was like, woah, I've never done this before. It helped me escape from the reality I was in, and it helped me belong,

Epstein's story is not really about one man's depravity. It is about a system legal, cultural, and institutional engineered to protect the powerful through silence. His crimes thrived not because they were hidden, but because the people who knew were coerced, encouraged, or more than willing to shut up. Silence was not incidental to Epstein's success. It was central to it. And in this, he was hardly unique.

Then, in 1905, the United States publicly disclosed the unratified treaties it had made with 18 California tribes. The tribes responded by building a legal and economic framework for tribal sovereignty. In 1988, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was enacted, and small casinos sprouted on reservations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Southern California. Similar resorts sprang up across the country, and the economic benefits have helped fuel the struggle for tribal sovereignty.

Striking Starbucks workers walk the picket line in New York City, on December 1, 2025.ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images Thousands of Starbucks workers across a hundred cities are nearly one month into an expanding, nationwide unfair labor practice strike in protest of the coffee giant's "historic union busting and failure to finalize a fair union contract," according to Starbucks Workers United, the barista union that has spread to over 650 stores since its birth in Buffalo four years ago.

I see a lot of people who get passionate about change in our world to care about people but I don't see a lot of day to day action. Daily interactions are filled with people rushing, becoming easily frustrated and harshly judging others without consideration. Claiming to care about people while judging those who struggle, lack resources, or don't meet socially approved standards is a contradiction.

Race and racism are defined and developed differently in different cultures. In the US, I define racism as white supremacy. It was invented by white people in the Jamestown colony, expanded to a global overview of people by European taxonomists, and keeps coming back after attempts to rid the world of the concept-either by reducing non-white people to lesser social status or standing with each change in US governance standards. It is a subjective idea.

You could begin with his formative school years at the foot of Te Urewera ranges, where he was made to write the lines I will not speak Maori as punishment for speaking his language lines that have since become a prominent feature of his art and activism. Or the time he pitched a tent outside parliament, his hair long, his face not yet lined with his distinctive full-face tattoo, and pronounced it the Maori embassy, making front page news.

The findings from the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, presented at a news conference in Koreatown, said there were 1,355 reported hate crimes victims in the county during 2024, a 1% decrease from the prior year. "To get a sense of the magnitude, that total represents an average of nearly four hate crimes in each day," said Robin Toma, the commission's executive director. Toma said hate crimes continuing locally at historic rates can be partially attributed to improved reporting, along with partnerships between law enforcement agencies, and community organizations such as LA vs. Hate and 211LA.

In 2020, Ms. Wanda Cooper-Jones made a promise no mother should ever have to make - a vow to fight for justice for her son, no matter how long or how painful the road ahead would be. Her youngest, Ahmaud Arbery, was only 25 when he was murdered for being a Black man jogging in a suburban Georgia neighborhood. Even with a cell phone recording of the murder taking place, it would be months before anyone was even arrested.

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When I returned a year later, the space had been transformed. The women had made it their own, covering the walls with names, phrases and small drawings of hearts, even taping up a poster of the Colombian singer Maluma. What had once been a sterile office now held traces of their presence, their effort to hold on to a sense of identity in a place meant to erase it.

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Kate tried to remain still as she waited for the decision for the fifth attempt at a protection order from her ex. Her hands trembled as she stared at the judge's face, searching-praying-for any sign of his understanding. "I am denying this request," the judge said. But Kate didn't hear anything after that. A faint mention of "no documented physical assaults this year" floated past her, but the rest disappeared under a heavy, ringing silence.

The 73-year-old Boston-born historian has long argued that, since the late-1960s, the countercultural rebellion has been playing into the hands of big business interests that is, capitalism. In his books of essays Desire and Fate (2025), published by Eris Press the writer and former war correspondent presents a fierce critique of the left. He believes that progressives have forgotten about unions, labor and class, in order to embrace other causes, such as race, gender and the environment.

It's a midweek morning in the &shy;early 1990s and I'm on Pat Kenny's show on RT&Eacute;. I've been invited on along with a fellow female Northerner to talk about what it's like living in the south: she as a Catholic and me as a Protestant. It's an illuminating, deep-dive kind of a chat, covering many &shy;dimensions of our lives and seeking to shine a light on how our advance conceptions - and our lived realities - might differ.

"Empathy as hoisted up as the highest virtue - or even a virtue at all - gets us into a really big mess,"