Justice

Abu-Jamal’s current health crisis clearly illustrates this national atrocity. His situation is also clearly unconstitutional, as leaving an inmate untreated, including for a disease like diabetes, has been declared by the US Supreme Court to be "cruel and unusual punishment."

Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.

“The FBI will not tolerate correctional officers who violate a person’s civil rights.”

We can’t change the generation we get born into. We can change how the world we enter distributes income and wealth.

Despite all the successes of women, such as earning the right to economic equality, the white male establishment has prevailed. Are women still second-rate members of society today?

The loss of federal unemployment assistance at this moment "will be a double whammy of hardship" for the unemployed and their families.

Climate change rendered these communities and countless others across the country vulnerable to increasingly frequent and powerful storms.

The Democratic candidates are missing an opportunity to pitch sweeping criminal justice reform as an economic justice issue.

“As a nonpartisan organization, the ACLU does not oppose Judge Kavanaugh based on predictions about how he would vote as a Justice. We oppose him in light of the credible allegations of sexual assault against him.”

Tara Houska, an indigenous lawyer, praises the decision by the Army Corps to deny the DAPL permit, but cautions the water protectors and their supporters to remain vigilant.