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Abortion Bans, Climate Crisis, and Attacks on Iranian Women: What’s Hiding Behind It All?

Sep 27, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates

To say patriarchy, or anthropocentrism, or exploitation, would all be correct. But is there something antecedent, something lurking upstream, that precedes these words? Perhaps it is simply the failure to take a base condition like human rights and democracy...

How the New York Times Undercuts Democracy by Ignoring Its Source

Sep 25, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates

David Leonhardt and others have wisely sounded alarms about threats to democracy in the United States. But their analysis misses the key question: How are we actually empowering people to participate in making the rules under which they must live, and limiting the...

Pro-birthers Pushing Scarlet Letter and Other Misogynistic Laws Are Worsening the Climate Crisis. Push Back.

Sep 19, 2022 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates

While the Black Lives Matter movement focused on systemic racism in police violence, that violence was more direct than indirect. A more subtle form of violence involves the combination of massive economic inequity inflicted on black families that has been passed...

The Death of Queen Elizabeth II Raises Valid Concerns About Race, Inequity, and Privilege

Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates

The Death of Queen Elizabeth II has saddened millions, but has also raised conversations about the past, race, inequality and political privilege. Fair Start has previously encouraged the Royal Family to embrace more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable...

The Patagonia Giveaway: What Really Matters for the Climate? It Tries to Capture the True Cost of Wealth.

Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates

The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard has given away the company to an environmental trust and non-profit. All profits will go to the organizations to fight the climate crisis and pursue other environmental goals. The act is courageous and begins to break down the...

Iran Moves Towards Forcing Women to Have Children. Will the United Nations Step In?

Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates

Like other top-down concentrations of power that rely on unsustainable population growth to grow their base, Tehran is now moving to force women to have children. According to the Los Angeles Times: Now, ultraconservative lawmakers have combined with the...