Tag: human rights
Judge determines Flint residents can sue US government for water crisis
“The EPA was well aware that the Flint River was highly corrosive and posed a significant danger of lead leaching” into residents’ homes.
‘Egregious abuse of power:’ Report says Trump offered pardon to CBP...
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) called it "a textbook example of abuse of power and reckless disregard for the rule of law – and it's no 'joking' matter."
Decriminalizing the Drug War?
Projecting this experience into the future, it seems likely that harm-reduction measures will be adopted progressively at local and national levels around the globe, while various endless and unsuccessful wars on drugs are curtailed or abandoned.
What Black Lives Matter activists can teach us about the pitfalls...
Interviews with 11 Black Lives Matter social media page administrators highlight the challenges of scaling grassroots activism through digital organizing.
Why Activists Fail
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and...
The roots of police violence in Chicago: How cops have targeted...
"It’s been part of the culture, along with the code of silence, along with the systemic racism that is so prevalent in the Chicago Police Department."
ACLU: The US is acting like an authoritarian regime by barring...
In September, national security adviser John Bolton threatened U.S. sanctions against ICC judges if they continued to investigate alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Vulnerable US citizens are still trapped in the ruins left by...
Abandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover.
‘They used the kids to get to parents like me’: How...
That new policy is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in Virginia that says the Trump administration is using migrant children as bait to arrest their undocumented family members.
‘Shocking’ report reveals thousands of migrant children have been sexually abused...
"This is not normal! Why would any member of Congress or person of conscience support increasing funds and enabling this agency?"














