Undercover investigators uncover cruel conditions at factory farms every year. But the agricultural industry is fighting back. Jeremiah Scanlan investigates what is happening in Iowa in the battle over what the public has a right to know about the food
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Friends of Systemic Justice Project will want to read Tala Alfoqaha’s excellent new article on The [F]law examining how private companies incentivize public police to prioritize property over people. The article asks: What happens when the state’s monopoly on violence,
Ralph Nader gave inspiring keynote remarks to students at Harvard Law School at the launch of The [F]law on February 10, 2022. Here’s the video:
See Julio Colby’s important article on the possible resurgence of American labor. Although private-sector union membership sits at a historic low of 6 percent, the number of strikes and union elections have significantly increased since the pandemic, with successful unionization
Although the relationship between eroding wages in the working class, and unprecedented increases of wealth in the top 1% of income-earners is alarmingly clear, little has been done to remedy the issue; minimum wage remains unchanged since 2009 and is
Tucked into the fine print of millions of consumer and employment contracts, forced arbitration clauses are nearly ubiquitous in modern America. Most people who agree to them, however, have no idea that in doing so they’ve given away their right
Child labor is a widespread problem in global cocoa supply chains. Nestlé, one of the largest cocoa companies, offers an example of how major cocoa companies describe the problem. Nestlé tells the public that child labor is a local problem
Fast fashion is the rapid turn-over of low-cost clothing, which is the focus of business models of companies such as H&M, Zara, and Gap. Although the fast fashion industry generates billions of dollars every year, this industry has continued to
Corporate Racial Justice Washing: Explaining Corporate America's coalition with racism's meta script
“Blackout Tuesday” featured abnormal corporate responses to the murder of George Floyd. Specifically, Fortune 500 companies made statements that expressed their alleged support of the black community and a belief that black lives matter. This critique aims to explain this