Thursday, October 22, 2026

UK’s anti-protest laws: A threat to democracy and a dangerous global precedent, warns human...

How the UK’s anti-protest laws threaten democratic values and global credibility.
A demonstration for the right to housing in Madrid. Photo: Barcex / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“She Put Her Body on the Line”: Maricarmen, 87, Dies; Her Eviction Sparked Spain...

The 87-year-old pensioner in Spain whose eviction from her lifelong home sparked nationwide protests has died. María del Carmen Abascal, better known as Maricarmen, died on Wednesday just hours before she was set to sign a new rental agreement. She was forcibly removed from her Madrid apartment last month on a stretcher after the private investment company that owns the building hiked her rent. After massive public outcry, the landlord had agreed to allow her back into her apartment. Independent Spanish journalist María Carrión says that although Maricarmen’s story galvanized much of the country, evictions like hers are “a daily occurrence” in Spain. “Rents have gone up 80% in the last 10 years, while salaries have not kept up,” Carrión says. “Young people cannot leave their homes. They cannot become independent or start families. And this is what people are trying to change from the street.

Trump ICE crackdown has separated an estimated 145,000 US citizen children from detained parents,...

A Brookings Institution study suggests the scale of family separation tied to Trump’s expanded immigration detention campaign is far greater than previously documented, with more than 22,000 American children left without any live-in parent at home.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Housing blocks in Madrid. Photo: xGaztelu / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spain’s housing crisis is a warning for all of Europe – rights mean nothing...

Spain has a constitutional right to housing – but it hasn’t stopped rents and property prices from skyrocketing.

New infographic shows how only 10 companies control every brand we know

Regardless of what the companies claim, the Big 10 do have the power and resources to address hunger and poverty within their supply chains.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0

Supreme Court justices send mixed signals as Boulder climate case reaches argument

A ruling for the oil companies could reach more than two dozen similar climate suits, none of which has gone to trial.

Trump ban leaves 12-year-old girl facing return to war-torn Yemen

The girl, whose parents are U.S. citizens, was barred from boarding a plane yesterday and is now in limbo in Djibouti.

10 good things that happened in 2025

Let's look back on 2025 as the year movements for peace and justice freed political prisoners, slowed the war machine, and helped turn the public against endless wars.
Demonstrators protest ICE conduct in Minneapolis. Photo: Fibonacci Blue / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run

DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.