Tag: human rights

Last week, President Trump generated widespread criticism when he falsely claimed on Twitter that thousands of people did not die in the two storms, even as a Harvard study estimated the death toll may top 4,600.

Investigators have found that laborers on the farm’s coffee plantations were working under degrading conditions and living in substandard housing without sewerage or drinking water.

American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, ICE is arresting the sponsors of undocumented children, and more.

The fact is that men and women behind bars are in most in danger in the days, weeks and months after they have dared to protest.

We evolved to be connected to nature and to one another, but our exploitative global economy is severing those relations.

"...the administration has redefined its goals to include the exit of all Iranian military and proxy forces from Syria, and establishment of a stable, nonthreatening government acceptable to all Syrians and the international community."

The Israel-Palestine nightmare.

"Four years later, my son, for example, we still can't safely use our water, he can't take a bath without telling me it burns."

Economic justice goes a long way toward improving mental health up and down the socioeconomic ladder.

It’s not too late to begin building a new politics designed to allow us as a people to respond to these crises in a constructive way.