Tag: human rights

“New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office and the NYPD both recently announced they have launched separate investigations into the off-duty police shooting after reviewing the footage of the incident.”

True patriots seek to confirm and strengthen and celebrate the “we” in “we the people of the United States.”

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.”