Tag: human rights
A power more supreme than any judge
What matters most is not who is sitting on the Supreme Court, but who is “sitting in” and who is marching outside the Supreme Court, pushing for change.
‘A beautiful moment:’ Arundhati Roy hails Indian Court legalizing gay sex,...
It's a major victory for LGBTQI groups.
As months pass in Chicago shelters, immigrant children contemplate escape, even...
Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors.
Why defending indigenous rights is integral to fighting climate change
Climate change isn't just a scientific issue – it's an issue of racial inequity, economic inequity and cultural genocide.
Women’s March determined to disrupt Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, dozens arrested
“Women are disrupting this hearing today because our lives are at risk."
In a changing climate, access to cooling is a human right
And each government building, library, or church that opens its doors and offers a cooled space for those who need it, contributes to a growing message that cooling is in fact a human right.
Dead end Amerika
We who ‘know better’ should teach our young that Socialism is not totalitarianism, or fascism. Rather, it can be a solution to this terrible and deadly income polarization our nation has been operating under.
‘Focus’ on the Neo Nazi revival
Many will state, and perhaps rightly so, that we have come a long way since the 40s, 50s and 60s. Yet, the hate is still there, engrained in the minds of white Christian Americans... or should I say Amerikans.
Warren urges delay in confirmation vote for CFPB Director until release...
“Kathy Kraninger helped implement a policy to punish innocent young children – that is a moral stain that will follow her for the rest of her life."