Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law that ignores landowners’ property rights, Indigenous sovereignty in flawed...
Despite the flawed state decision, three federal lawsuit challenges to pipeline project continue to proceed.
In historic move, China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
More than 20,000 elephants were killed for their ivory last year, leaving only about 415,000 remaining.
Today, we rise into our power!: The 2020 Women’s March
“When we’re coming into 2020 when there’s so much work to be done this is the best place to kick it off that we know now it’s time to have boots on the ground.”
“Weaponized and racialized”: Police departments use COVID-19 to target black & brown communities
Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City’s enforcement measures during the pandemic.
Black Trans Lives Matter: Movement pushes for justice & visibility amid ‘epidemic’ of violence
The trans rights movement currently has “tremendous visibility” but also faces a “tremendous backlash.”
USA downgraded as civil liberties deteriorate across the Americas
While recent brutality against protests for racial justice is concerning, the decline in basic freedoms in the USA began before this crackdown.
#DAPL mogul cut $250,000 check to Trump’s inauguration
Several other companies that later benefited from executive actions taken by President Trump also donated to the inauguration.
Videos Capture LAPD Killing Homeless Man on Skid Row
After a homeless man allegedly resisted arrest, LAPD officers fatally gunned him down on Skid Row. Recording of the incident on witnesses’ cell phones along with police officers' body cameras will be used in the investigation into the shooting.
Officer Charged with Murder After Killing Unarmed Man with His Hands Up
After fellow officers admitted that a police shooting in Fairfax County was not clean, the officer who shot and killed the victim was recently fired and charged with murder. It's about time officers are being held accountable.
Lawsuit filed against California deputies who beat innocent woman unconscious
“They are approaching me and putting me on the car with force. So those that are listening, I am not resisting arrest.”