Yearly Archives: 2021
Youth climate activists change legal strategy
They will ask the court to rule the U.S. energy system violates their constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the law, and to order the U.S. government to establish a plan to transition off of fossil fuels.
Women grow as much as 80% of India’s food – but its new farm...
“We barely have any land. If that too is gifted to [billionaires], then what will we eat?”
The problems with the bank
For some reason the Bank became hung up on mobile phones – and only AMERICAN phones.
Rutgers University makes ‘powerful decision’ to divest from fossil fuel
“This decision aligns with Rutgers’ mission to advance public health and social justice.”
Prison guard pleads guilty to beating handcuffed inmate to death
The prison guard faces possible life sentences for the two civil rights charges and another 20 years for the misleading information charge.
Over 700 complaints about NYPD officers abusing Black Lives Matter protesters, then silence
Emails show New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board leaders discouraged staff from confronting the NYPD about a lack of cooperation on abuse investigations.
Biden ends policy forcing asylum-seekers to ‘remain in Mexico’—but for 41,247 migrants, it’s too...
The migrants—many of them Central Americans fleeing endemic violence, poverty and corruption—will be allowed to stay in the U.S. as their cases move through the immigration court system.
When do the rules apply?
The Biden administration is bending rules to drop bombs but not raise wages. That’s a mistake.
WHO finds violence against women ‘remains devastatingly pervasive,’ affecting 1 in 3 worldwide
"Violence against women is endemic in every country and culture, causing harm to millions of women and their families, and has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic."
Biden must get Manchin and Sinema to fall in line
Joe Biden must learn from LBJ, and wield the power of the presidency to make senators fall in line with the larger goals of the nation. Otherwise, “what the hell’s the presidency for?”