The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays

Texas Democrats flee state to stop Republicans from passing bill to limit voting rights; President Joe Biden calls for gun control at White House meeting on rising crime; Fire season starts with more than 1,200 wildfires in the west, California sees largest wildfire this year

Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Texas Democrats flee state to stop Republicans from passing bill to limit voting rights. Former President Donald Trump keynote speaker at CPAC-Conservative Political Action Conference. Progressive Senator Bernie Sanders meets with President Joe Biden, pushes a $3.5 … Continued


What happens when missionaries try to get indigenous people to read and write English? Sometimes what results is very different than what the missionaries intended. Laura Rademaker describes how members of an aboriginal community in Australia resisted and repurposed English literacies. Tony Ballantine, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, eds., Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing … Continued