Tag: human rights

SCOTUS rules 5-3 that Texas’s abortion law is unconstitutional.

This town’s residents just showed Nestle they’re not backing down against corporate greed.

“Somewhere in time, a semantic shift occurred in the minds of enough people that it has now reached the level of law where we see a classic battle between a reform-minded, liberal federal government and that old standby of conservatives and bigots, states’ rights.”

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

The Labour Party’s Sadiq Khan has just become London’s first Muslim mayor.

Frustrated by a somnolent Congress, a bipartisan group is tackling campaign finance reform one city at a time.

For the first time, victims of the CIA torture program will be able to sue the Psychologists responsible for the program.

“So, as we grapple with the need to regulate banks and pharmaceutical companies, greenhouse emissions and guns, let us give some thought to the regulating of racism and other hateful attitudes through the judicious use of those public institutions that help shape attitudes from generation to generation.”

Thousands of Verizon employees will take to the streets demanding the company run more fairly.

“The US government has already built, at a not inconsiderable expense, a wall and fence along the border with Mexico to keep out people many of whom are refugees fleeing violence in their home countries.”