Saturday, March 7, 2026

Tag: human rights

Three cops arrested for beating innocent teen and covering up attack

After reviewing the unedited video during Aguilar’s trial, the judge dismissed the charges against the innocent teen.

If you think DACA recipients are the only ones whose jobs...

Trump’s policy plans will end up hurting many people’s jobs, even though one of the biggest planks in his campaign platform was his promise to make jobs “great again” in America.

New federal guidelines for campus assault put heavy burden on victims

College administrators worry a more rigorous process for proving sexual assault could send the wrong message to students.

After Harvey Weinstein, women are joining together saying #MeToo

Let’s hope this movement sparks change in our society and let’s hope those who have been affected by sexual abuse continue to speak up and demand justice.

Why we need sanctuary states

California’s law limits the authority of state and local law enforcers to communicate with federal immigration authorities, and prevents officers from questioning or holding people depending on their immigration status or immigration violations.

They want Kaepernick to go Kaput!

Why is it that before every sporting event we have not only the national anthem, but honor guards and giant flags spread across the field of play?

Where are all the monuments to the progressive Americans?

The organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country often go unacknowledged.

DACA sophistry: Trumpery at its worst

Another round of punitive disruption-for-disruption-sake Trumpism – except for the innocence of the targets. DACA children, brought into the only country they know, are now reduced to ideological bargaining chips to distract from endless failures. Trump populism? Little more than an unfeeling tyranny of the shrinking minority.

Video: Cop assaults and arrests nurse for refusing to draw blood

Although Payne has been suspended from the department’s blood draw program, the abusive detective remains on active duty while under internal investigation.

A manual for the new era of activist

Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.

POPULAR

A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid

To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.

This is what accountability looks like

Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.

Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they...

ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...

New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues

"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”