US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to preserve the millionaire's surcharge (passed by the house) in the tax and investment package.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121. If you call, please spread the word!

*Restoring US abortion access won't be easy — but we need leaders who will try.*

Illegal gold miners in Venezuela are shooting the indigenous leaders that are trying to keep their land free from gold mining and the poisonous mercury it releases.

Deep-sea mining is noisy, and the noise can travel for hundreds of miles in water. It can interfere with marine animals' reproduction or safety, and thus disrupt ecosystems.

After public criticism, a national store chain in Australia agreed to stop using facial recognition on customers.

Sad that the organization that criticized this undermined itself by suggesting that maybe this tracking would not be so bad if the company had better informed customers about it.

If the customers were well informed about the practice, the company could argue that they had implicitly consented to being tracked. That means nothing — it is no excuse for establishing universal tracking! Even explicit consent from millions of people would be no excuse. Systematic tracking of people is the soil in which repression grows, and that is an injustice to everyone.