Santa Cruz County, in California, is considering punishing the big criminal banks by refusing to do business with them for 5 years.

It's a great idea. Beyond moving money ourselves, we should push for our cities to do so.

US citizens: call on the US to sign the domestic workers' convention.

Here's the text of that treaty.

Everyone: call for a strong climate agreement in Paris.

Wikileaks' release of Saudi Arabia's foreign affairs communications shows "little surprising so far … but the details will hurt a lot of corrupt people."

Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens to ignore the leaked documents, but the US went far beyond that in response to some of Chelsea Manning's leaks: it threatened to punish some government employees if they so much as looked at them.

PISSI has rigged Palmyra's ruins for demolition.