Chicken Farming Is the 21st Century's Sharecropping
Vertically integrated poultry companies that own most of the supply chain trap small farmers into debt — until they lose everything.
Leighton Akio Woodhouse
Leighton Akio Woodhouse is a journalist and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. His print stories have appeared in The Intercept, Gawker, The New Republic, Newsweek, VICE News, The Nation, and The Awl. He has directed documentary videos for The Intercept, The Nation, KQED, the Fusion Network, and Participant Media. Leighton has a Master’s Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley.
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In Iowa, Politicians Protect the Meat Industry by Making Animal Rights Activists Criminals
Our short documentary tells the story of one undercover investigator whose footage of a pig factory farm is at the center of Iowa’s ag-gag backlash.
Climate Crimes
A New Generation of Activists Put Their Bodies on the Line to Defend California's Forests
In Humboldt County, California, activists prevent logging companies from felling trees by using their own bodies as blockades.
As San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris's Office Stopped Cooperating With Victims of Catholic Church Child Abuse
Thanks to Kamala Harris’s predecessor, the San Francisco DA’s office had files on clergy sex abusers. But Harris refused to share them with victims.
“We Have Exhausted All Our Options": Oakland Teachers May Be the Next to Strike
The expansion of charter schools has been a major contributor to the fiscal crisis in the Oakland Unified School District.
They Rescued Pigs and Turkeys From Factory Farms — and Now Face Decades in Prison
Six activists from Direct Action Everywhere have been charged for rescuing animals from factory farms in Utah.
A Billionaire-Backed Democrat Is Facing Off Against a Democratic Socialist in Berkeley. And It's Getting Rough.
A race in Berkeley, California has become a microcosm of the struggle for control of the Democratic Party.
Roundup of Wild Horses in California Could Lead to Illegal Slaughter
This week, the Forest Service began a roundup of 1,000 wild horses in the Devil’s Garden region of Modoc National Forest, a designated wild horse territory.
The War on Immigrants
Citing Trump’s Racism, a Federal Judge Restores Protections for Immigrants Fleeing Wars and Disasters
A federal court has suspended the Trump administration’s termination of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of refugees.
The War on Immigrants
Immigrant Detainees Describe Abusive Conditions in “Guantánamo Bay for Asylum-Seekers”
The ACLU has filed a class-action lawsuit enumerating egregious conditions for immigrant detainees at a federal prison in Victorville, California.