health and safety
Sanders: ‘National security involves a lot more than bombs’
July 1, 2020The senator introduces an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act that slashes the military budget by 10 percent and redirects billions of dollars into eradicating poverty and homelessness."
Read moreUFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
June 26, 2020LOGANSPORT, Ind.—The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a “rival” of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport,...
Read moreAs COVID-19 rages, America’s meatpacking workers battle for their lives
June 26, 2020Their sons and daughters, the Children of Smithfield, organize to save their parents, their children, and themselves.
Read moreNative Alaskan village’s water under threat after 15,000 gallon oil spill
June 24, 2020It is one of the only two spawning grounds for the Kobuk/Selawik population of sheefish and also an important habitat for grayling, arctic char, whitefish, chum salmon and lake trout.
Read moreMasks, gloves – the ocean is filling up with COVID trash
June 19, 2020“It has been really disgusting to watch the plastic industry exploit people’s fears, when everyone is just trying to understand what they need to do to keep safe."
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