TigerSwan, county sheriff sued over road blockade during Dakota Access Pipeline protests
“This road closure was directed only at Water Protectors: residents of Fort Rice were allowed to drive southbound on Highway 1806 as were employees of DAPL.”
The True Cost of Mass Incarceration Exceeds $1 Trillion
Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.
Police Refuse to Release Video of Officers Killing Unarmed Mentally Ill Man
Ignoring calls from the community for total transparency, Chief Davis refuses to release the cellphone video to the public.
Alex Acosta enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes. Now he’s gutting funding for trafficking victims
During a press conference Wednesday, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta dismissed calls for his resignation and defended the 2008 plea deal given to...
Mass shooting near polling place in Los Angeles County
At least one person is dead.
California to become the first state to ban Big Pharma’s pay-for-delay deals
“Competition in the pharmaceutical industry helps lower prices for Californians who rely on life-saving treatments.”
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
Addressing anti-Asian attacks with transformative justice
We need cross-community solidarity more than ever to fight for our collective healing and liberation from all forms of violence.
Fourth Blogger Murdered in Six Months
A fourth blogger has been murdered in Bangladesh in the past six months. "How many more bloggers must be murdered before the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina acts decisively to stem the violence and impunity?"
Woman Pleads Guilty to Torturing and Enslaving Disabled People
Linda Weston pled guilty on Wednesday for stealing over $200,000 in Social Security benefits from disabled people. She and her co-conspirators held disabled adults and their children captive for roughly a decade.