Saturday, April 20, 2024

Exxon, Qatar Petroleum get ok to export U.S. fracked gas amidst tangled ties to...

For Exxon, Rosneft, and Qatar Petroleum, it's looking like it'll be a very merry Christmas, indeed.

Protests break out in Wisconsin after police shoot Black man in the back multiple...

Following the police shooting, hundreds of Wisconsinites marched through the streets of Kenosha and gathered outside the Kenosha County Public Safety Building chanting, "No justice, no peace!"

Musical “Zuccotti Park” Brings Economic Justice to New York International Fringe Festival

"Easily the liveliest of the productions, 'Zuccotti Park' follows the Occupy movement in its early inception and the many narratives that echo a 'People work their ass off and cannot pay the rent' refrain."
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Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder helped lead 2016 anti-DAPL uprising

“I don’t understand why America doesn’t understand how important water is. So we have no choice. We have to stand.”

Atlantic City police officer charged with beating man on video

After footage of the incident became public, the victim later agreed to settle his lawsuit against the city for $3 million last year.

What COVID-19 reveals about incarceration and how we can transform the prison system

We are being offered an opportunity to carefully examine a destructive, expensive, punitive system and transform it into one that could be just, restorative, and good for individuals and society as a whole.

VIDEO: Pulling a Gun on a Pool Party? Texas Cop Suspended After Manhandling Bikini-Clad...

Hundreds are protesting against a white police officer who threw a 4-year-old African-American girl to the ground and pointed his pistol at other black youths at a neighborhood pool party. It's time the police brutality ends.

BREAKING: Maryland Legislature Restores Voting Rights To 40,000 Ex-Offenders

The majority-Democratic legislature voted to override the Republican governor's veto.
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“Disaster patriarchy”: V (Eve Ensler) on how the pandemic has unleashed a war on...

“Women are losing their safety, their economic power, their autonomy, their education, and they are pushed onto the frontlines, where they are often used, unprotected and sacrificed.”

‘We teach, we vote!:’ 10,000 teachers rise up against Republican legislature in deep red...

Led by the grassroots group SC for Ed, teachers from across the traditionally deep red state took personal days to stage the walkout.