Video shows mentally ill man’s death in sheriff’s custody
“I don’t want any violence in my city. I want us to view this tape and I want us to learn what we don’t want happening here.”
Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost nothing happened to...
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
Matt Nelson self-immolates outside Israeli consulate in Boston, condemning US support for Gaza genocide
Nelson’s extreme act of protest marks the third self-immolation in the U.S. since Israel’s war on Gaza began, drawing attention to America’s ongoing complicity in the killing of over 41,000 Palestinians.
Monsanto faces hundreds of new cancer lawsuits as debate over glyphosate rages on
The biotech giant refutes the classification and insists that glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer.
Native Candidates Make a Historic Push for Congress
As the presidential race has demonstrated, 2016 is the year for outsiders, and no group can be considered further from the establishment than Native Americans.
Police Department Added to Lawsuit After Off-Duty Cop Tazes Girl on Bike
Assaulted and arrested for riding her bicycle through a parking lot, Tillman recently expanded her lawsuit to include the Tacoma Police Department in order to limit the use of reasonable force and to hold officers accountable for using excessive force.
The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.
Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.
What the Pegasus Project has revealed about the rise of for profit surveillance
For journalists and activists what we’ve learned about Pegasus has created new doubts about security.
Clinton And Sanders Call Out America’s Racist Criminal Justice System
"There needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system."
Timely lessons for keeping people safe in the streets
As Trump looks to increase repression, a new training guide explains how peacekeepers reduce fear and build solidarity.









