New Yorkers #SwipeItForward to protest policing of fare-beating
This is easy. This is effective. And it’s legal. And this is a way for everyone to be an everyday activist.
Nearly 2 million people in India could lose citizenship in biggest disenfranchisement in history
Nearly 2 million people in the northeast state of Assam are at risk of being rendered stateless in India after the government...
Alaska Supreme Court hears oral arguments in kids’ climate change lawsuit
‘Is there a time to declare that air that sustains life is a fundamental right?’
For veterans in jail, this anti-violence workshop provides support
The effectiveness of the program is clear: a study shows that recidivism rates for participants are down by half.
Former vice detectives charged with fraud and violating civil rights
“The FBI and the Southern Ohio Public Corruption Task Force are committed to rooting out public corruption and working to ensure that those who abuse their law enforcement privileges are held accountable.”
It’s not an immigrant tsunami we should fear, it’s a climate change one
It would make much more sense to take all that money that Trump wants to waste on walling off Mexico and apply it to at least pushing back the demise of America’s great coastal cities.
How black & indigenous groups won the fight to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Communities that would have suffered “irreparable harm” from the pipeline “now have that cloud lifted from them.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the threat of science denial
The astrophysicist says that when you have people who don't know much about science denying it and rising to power, it's a recipe for the complete dismantling of our democracy.
Parents of Michael Brown settle wrongful death lawsuit
U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber approved an undisclosed settlement for a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown.
Stop dumping offshore fracking waste into Gulf of Mexico
"The agency has no business rubber-stamping the dumping of dangerous, disgusting chemicals without even trying to understand the risks."