Tag: indigenous rights
Trump fast-tracks Great Lakes oil tunnel, triggering outcry over water and...
Environmental groups and tribal nations warn the Line 5 tunnel project could endanger drinking water for 40 million people after Trump administration classifies it as an emergency.
Congressional Democrats rally against Biden-approved Willow Project in Alaska
As the legal challenges continue, the fate of the Willow Project remains a pivotal issue at the intersection of climate policy, Indigenous rights, and U.S. energy strategy.
UN report exposes alarming U.S. human rights violations, urges immediate reforms
"Systemic racism and injustice": UN slams U.S. for widespread human rights breaches.
Stand for Indigenous land justice: Stop STAMP
If the state and federal governments truly stand behind their commitments to environmental justice, then we should stand with the Tonawanda—for the Big Woods, and for Indigenous land justice.
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act
The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which maintains Indigenous children under state care stay within their tribe rather than being placed outside their community.
The rise of Indigenous candidates raises awareness of key issues
Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they’re helping increase Native representation.
A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.
Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights
The country’s Supreme Court has agreed to review the process around a past case that cancelled the demarcation of an Indigenous territory claimed by the Guarani Kaiowá people.
Indigenous youth embark on sub-zero, 93-mile run to protest Dakota Access...
"This is a critical step towards righting the wrongs of the past and setting our nation on a path of environmental, climate, and social justice."
Indigenous women call upon Biden to stop pipelines and uphold Indigenous...
““No more broken promises, no more broken Treaties.”
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White House plan would erase age from Social Security disability decisions
Sources say the administration may raise the age threshold from 50 to 60 or remove it entirely, a move that could cut benefits for 750,000 people and reduce payouts by $82 billion.
Organizers plan massive Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ protests as Trump escalates attacks on dissent
Organizers say more than 2,110 protests across all 50 states will build on June’s nationwide actions, as Trump expands National Guard deployments, ICE raids, and rhetoric about cities as “training grounds.”
Video claim challenges DHS account of Border Patrol shooting in Chicago
Attorney says body camera shows agent saying “Do something, b––” before firing; prosecutors charge two drivers as officials expand Operation Midway Blitz.
Nuclear power plants pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction
The global crisis it now embodies was foreseen 45 years ago by Bennett Ramberg, in his book “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy: An Unrecognized Military Peril.”
Will teachers save our democracy?
A new book by teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten explains “why fascists fear teachers.”