Tag: human rights
Immigrant children sent to Chicago shelters are traumatized and sick, in...
The Trump administration is sending immigrant children who are alone, afraid and sick with fever, chickenpox and even tuberculosis to shelters in...
The inhumane treatment of migrants is not new. It’s a key...
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in...
How Albuquerque hopes to meet the unique needs of urban Native...
In Albuquerque, Native Americans account for about 4% of the population, yet they make up 44% of the city’s homeless population, according...
In photos: As fury grows, tens of thousands rally across us...
Tens of thousands of Americans showed up at rallies across the country on Tuesday to demand the Trump administration close the detention...
The nonprofit hospital that makes millions, owns a collection agency and...
In July 2007, Carrie Barrett went to the emergency room at Methodist University Hospital, complaining of shortness of breath and tightness in...
Remembering Stonewall: On 50th anniversary, leaders of uprising look back on...
Fifty years ago today, just after midnight, at 1:30 in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York City police officers raided...
Fund head start, not internment camps
I came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my...
20 ways you can help immigrants now
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says...
Trump admin moves 100 migrant kids back to “child jail” despite...
The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and...
“I thought we were going to be executed”: Police held family...
An African-American family is suing the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after police held them at gunpoint because their 4-year-old daughter had allegedly...
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House progressives demand answers over alleged abuse in US-Ecuador military operation
Lawmakers are demanding the Pentagon explain the legal basis for joint US-Ecuador operations after reports alleged civilian sites were bombed and detainees were tortured.
From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism
Antiwar veterans are leveraging their unique credibility to oppose the war in Iran, stop ICE and support active duty resisters.
Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain fragile
Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.