Merula Furtado

3 days ago | truthout.org | Marianne Dhenin |Merula Furtado

On May 30, the Trump administration released its most comprehensive look yet at its proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The proposal heightened concerns that the disability community and advocacy groups have voiced in recent months regarding the administration’s plan to eliminate the Administration for Community Living (ACL) and related grant programs.

4 days ago | truthout.org | Derek Seidman |Merula Furtado

Part of the Series Challenging the Corporate University A shining light within the U.S. labor movement over the past several years has been the rising wave of unionization and militancy among graduate workers, whose labor helps prop up the entire system of U.S. higher education. Tens of thousands of graduate workers have unionized over the past half-decade at institutions like Stanford, UChicago, MIT, Duke, Minnesota, and many more.

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |Merula Furtado

We are living in a time of intense anti-trans backlash.

2 weeks ago | truthout.org | Mike Ludwig |Merula Furtado

The brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season.