Justice

This is why the struggle continues: Women’s rights are human rights!

On Friday, climate activists gathered at the Grand Palais in Paris protesting the COP21 "Solutions" exhibition, where businesses were pushing for corporate and privatized responses to climate change. Several protesters were evicted from the premises by the large security presence at the event.

The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech in political discourse are signs of our society’s morbidity.

Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.

The 49 Republican Senators still lined up to vote for the bill exposing their contempt for the American people.

One teacher joined the NUT the day before the strike so they could join the action. Another filled out their NUT membership form on the picket line.

Flint residents were not only drinking contaminated water for months, they were being forced to pay over double the average rate for a typical American family.

Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry.

Lack of investment in government services hurts children, both in terms of the direct harm of toxic water sources and the long-term less direct injury caused by attending schools that are physically falling apart.

"As communities pay an ever-greater price for our worsening climate crisis, it's more clear than ever that Exxon must be held accountable to pay for the harm it has caused."