Inside the grassroots plan to get fossil fuel money out of politics
To advocates who have been involved with both efforts, the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge represents the extension of divestment’s logic into the political sphere.
How a small town in Iowa freed local workers from ICE detention
It was the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in the state since 2008.
Liberty Is Security
The failures of both the torture and the surveillance programs to produce tangible results are repeatedly noted by experts, analysts, and officials.
WikiLeaks Supporters Launch Plan to Restore Assange’s Internet Connection
The plan, known as “Operation Hot Pockets,” involves Assange supporters gathering around the embassy, in shifts, to create mobile wireless hotspots in order to provide the WikiLeaks founder with internet access.
It’s Citizens Who Will Save Us From Citizens United
Constitutional amendment organizers are confident of an eventual victory. “The push toward justice has always started at the grassroots.”
Five years after Ferguson uprising, still seeking justice and healing
On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death, his family and the town of Ferguson look to the past—and future—to bring about meaningful change.
BREAKING: Army Corps of Engineers DENIES permit for Dakota Access Pipeline
"I heard the Army Corp of Engineers will not grant the easement and they will reroute. I would say that it is over."
“We’re still here”: Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration reflects ongoing resistance to colonization
Christopher Columbus arrived in the Bahamas 527 years ago this week, unleashing a brutal genocide that killed tens of millions of Native...
Louisiana cop sentenced to prison after beating unarmed man on video
“Officers who deprive individuals of their civil rights will not be tolerated.”
Profiting from the pandemic: Will pharmaceutical giants use patents to limit access to COVID...
The truth is that a lot of us hold out hope for when this pandemic will end, thinking that it’ll end when treatments and vaccines emerge, when a cure emerges.