Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Tag: human rights

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.

How the idea of personal liberty is quickly fading away

The world is changing far too quickly for people to get used to it, and the rate of expansion isn’t slowing down. No one can keep track, at least not alone.

We like simple solutions. And that creates complex problems

Whether it’s politics, economy, healthcare, social issues or foreign policy, Americans are extremely divided on what to do, even though they agree that the system is broken.

Latin America lacks clear policies to tackle human trafficking

Human trafficking is one of the hidden violations of the human rights of hundreds of thousands of people.

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The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston. Photo: Mbfitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Judge blocks Trump policy of fining immigrants up to $1.8 million after deportation orders

The Boston ruling halts penalties of $998 a day that DHS says it has assessed in more than 103,000 cases, after finding the forms lacked individual allegations
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

America’s Archvillain, And His Arch of Tr(i)ump(h)

Tom Engelhardt on the 250-foot triumphal arch Trump plans to build in Washington, D.C.
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Photo: jimcintosh (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Nearly 4,000 Brigham nurses set open-ended strike for Oct. 14, the largest in Massachusetts...

Mass General Brigham says it has contracted 1,300 temporary nurses, while the union says the system conditioned further talks on a multi-year pay freeze
A farmers market. Photo: USDA / public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

States take on 75 percent of SNAP administrative costs as federal share drops to...

Forty states have appropriated money for the shift, while New York and North Carolina passed the costs to counties and Arkansas and New Hampshire declined
The Los Angeles skyline at night. Photo: BrianLiao / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

No, Mr. Trump, Iran can’t “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego

US intelligence agencies have assessed for 25 years that Iran has no military nuclear weapons program, and Iran has no intercontinental ballistic missile, writes Juan Cole.