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Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

Safe Tap Water Should Be a Human Right

| Oct 5, 2022 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe water drips lethargically from the tap, if at all. Its appearance shifts from chemical brown sludge to ghoulish clouds. The accompanying stench is revolting. Unsafe tap water is unacceptable in any modern society. But from Michigan to Mississippi to Tribal...
We’ll Keep Fighting to Protect Our Bodily Autonomy

We’ll Keep Fighting to Protect Our Bodily Autonomy

| Feb 16, 2022 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEarlier this year, a small group of women and I gathered to post artwork around Washington, D.C. We were celebrating the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which protected women’s constitutional access to abortion. As the conservative Supreme Court considers new...
To Protect Women’s Health, Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

To Protect Women’s Health, Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

| Jan 26, 2022 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyLate January marked the 49th anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It could very well be the last. In 1973, Roe codified the right to terminate a pregnancy up until viability — around 23-26 weeks. Anti-abortion...
A Chance to Protect Our Essential Workers

A Chance to Protect Our Essential Workers

| Aug 18, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyImmigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at poultry plants across central Mississippi two years ago in what remains the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded...
On Marijuana, Republicans Are Canceling Their Own Voters

On Marijuana, Republicans Are Canceling Their Own Voters

| May 26, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe majority of self-identified Republican voters — as do most Americans of all political persuasions — support legalizing marijuana. But you wouldn’t know that by observing the actions of their elected officials. In recent months, Republican lawmakers have led...
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