# food assistance (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover food assistance. Page: Feed: --- ## [Eat Local, Help Farmers, Avoid Pathogens](https://progressive.org/op-eds/eat-local-help-farmers-avoid-pathogens-wallace-weiner-20260826/) _2026-08-26 · Hannah Wallace · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Consumers have the power to limit the impact of this and future outbreaks. ## [The Grassroots Climate Lawyers Taking the EPA to Court](https://progressive.org/latest/the-grassroots-climate-lawyers-taking-the-epa-to-court-williams-20260826/) _2026-08-26 · Leslie Williams · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Behind a legal campaign to meet the Trump Administration’s gutting of environmental protections with slow, granular resistance. ## [Homeschooling Hate](https://progressive.org/magazine/homeschooling-hate-hay-20260825/) _2026-08-25 · Mark Hay · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home. ## [Inside Gaza’s Eye Care Crisis](https://progressive.org/latest/inside-gazas-eye-care-crisis-herzallah-20260825/) _2026-08-25 · Hassan Herzallah · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ For many Palestinians in Gaza, treatable vision problems have an outsized impact on daily life due to shortages of eye care and medical supplies. ## [Surviving Torture in the West Bank](https://progressive.org/latest/surviving-torture-in-the-west-bank-ghayad-20260824/) _2026-08-24 · Enas Abu Ghayad · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ For months, Palestinian journalist Majahed Bani Mfleh was held in Israeli administrative detention without charges and subjected to brutal physical violence. He’s far from the only one. ## [The Lesson of America’s Broken Education Politics](https://progressive.org/magazine/the-lesson-of-americas-broken-education-politics-bryant-20260824/) _2026-08-24 · Jeff Bryant · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed? ## [Art for the People](https://progressive.org/latest/art-for-the-people-lago-20260824/) _2026-08-24 · Zoe Lago · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ The enduring history of the freeway murals in Los Angeles, and their future at the 2028 Olympics. ## [The Long Con of John Roberts](https://progressive.org/magazine/the-long-con-of-john-roberts-blum-20260821/) _2026-08-21 · Bill Blum · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job. ## [End the Use of AI in Warfare](https://progressive.org/op-eds/end-the-use-of-ai-in-warfare-kim-20260820/) _2026-08-20 · Granate Kim · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ It's foolhardy to believe that humans can adequately review AI targeting without making tragic errors. ## [Overriding the Will of the People](https://progressive.org/magazine/overriding-the-will-of-the-people-jaffe-20260820/) _2026-08-20 · Sarah Jaffe · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Local democracy isn’t dead yet, despite all of the threats to it. ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZS2sg1lvgtI4) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [The SNAP Ripple Effect](https://progressive.org/latest/the-snap-ripple-effect-bader-20260820/) _2026-08-20 · Eleanor J. Bader · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was a cost-effective lifeline for low-income people and families—until the Trump Administration gutted it. ## [Playing a Rigged Game](https://progressive.org/magazine/playing-a-rigged-game-sullivan-20260819/) _2026-08-19 · Terrance Sullivan · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ When the gears of the ballot box have been tampered with, it’s time for voters to write their own rules. ## [Up Against the Theocracy](https://progressive.org/magazine/up-against-the-theocracy-lueders-20260817/) _2026-08-17 · Bill Lueders · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ In his new book, Representative Jared Huffman chronicles the rise of rightwing Christian nationalism as a threat to American democracy. ## [Empathy Is the Worst Enemy of Rightwing Ideology](https://progressive.org/magazine/empathy-is-the-worst-enemy-of-rightwing-ideology-ervin-20260817/) _2026-08-17 · Mike Ervin · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Until enemies can civilly engage with each other, hostilities fester and the spiral goes on and on ad nauseam. ## [Renewed Airstrikes and Evacuation Orders Despite the Ceasefire](https://progressive.org/latest/renewed-airstrikes-and-evacuation-orders-despite-the-ceasefire-dmeida-20260818/) _2026-08-17 · Alaa Ahmed Dmeida · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Nine months after a ceasefire was announced between Israel and Hamas, my family still has not returned home and fears for our safety. ## [Protect All Kids—Not Just Athletes—From the Heat](https://progressive.org/op-eds/protect-all-kids-not-just-athletes-from-the-heat-bythwood-20260817/) _2026-08-17 · Michelle A. Kirwan Bythwood · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Schools must protect students from extreme heat, indoors and out. ## [Say it in Sign Language: Hell, No](https://progressive.org/latest/say-it-in-sign-language-hell-no-ervin-20260817/) _2026-08-17 · Mike Ervin · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Appeal seeks to make it harder for disabled people to sue over federal discrimination. ## [Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health](https://progressive.org/op-eds/trumps-vaccine-order-will-harm-public-health-jacobs-alwine-20260814/) _2026-08-14 · Elizabeth Jacobs · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers. ## [‘We Are Coming to Get Our Check’](https://progressive.org/magazine/we-are-coming-to-get-our-check-baker-20260813/) _2026-08-13 · Brea Baker · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Black Americans have sought reparations for slavery since the Emancipation Proclamation. In the wake of Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund, could we actually make them? ## [‘Women’s Lives Have Been Shattered in Every Conceivable Way’](https://progressive.org/latest/womens-lives-have-been-shattered-in-every-conceivable-way-powers-20260813/) _2026-08-13 · Joanne Pow!ers · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ Jennifer Loewenstein reports back from a recent trip to Lebanon. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3GSagNn8pVoq) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Black Liberation Requires Investment](https://progressive.org/op-eds/black-liberation-requires-investment-brown-20260812/) _2026-08-12 · Reginald Thomas Brown · The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good_ This month, and always, let's direct our dollars toward organizations that reflect our values.