Friday, June 9, 2023

Tag: justice

‘Enough is enough’: Australian PM throws support behind movement to free...

A growing number of politicians are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.

How urban planners disenfranchised black communities in west Oakland

“The planning profession has to reconcile that because they have been complicit in this whole issue, not only in Oakland, but in cities all across the country.”

Study shows large minimum wage hikes boost both earnings and employment

In the absence of federal action, a record number of U.S. jurisdictions are set to raise their minimum wages in 2023—in many cases above $15 an hour.

Donald Trump and America’s democratic reputation

Because of Donald Trump, U.S. democracy has become an object of derision around the world.

Rejecting ‘brazen’ interference in Trump criminal case, New York DA sues...

Bragg is seeking to bar Jordan from enforcing the subpoena and from demanding testimony from anyone else, including the district attorney himself.

‘Absolutely insane’: Greg Abbott seeks pardon for man convicted of murdering...

"Now the man who killed Garrett Foster, while Foster protested George Floyd's murder, will be pardoned. George Floyd's pardon is still stuck with the Board of Pardons. If a fiction author wrote this, no one would believe it."

US Justice Department tells Supreme Court to reject Big Oil petition...

The Justice Department is siding with communities in Colorado and across the U.S. that are fighting to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their climate lies.

How detested abortion bans can abort the right

Reproduction isn’t unilateral/ And sex delivers huge collateral.

New Biden rule denounced as ‘Trump’s asylum ban under a different...

"This asylum ban is, at its core, Trump's asylum ban under a different name."

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Clinging bitterly to guns and religion

What will it take to convince Americans to turn their backs on empire and war before it’s too late?
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‘Enough is enough’: Australian PM throws support behind movement to free Julian Assange

A growing number of politicians are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.

Brazil’s beef industry linked to deforestation in Amazon

800 million trees were cut down in six years due to cattle ranching, which accounts for 80 percent of current deforestation throughout the Amazon.

When 3 men richer than 165 million people, Sanders says working class must ‘come...

Big-money special interests "want to divide us up," said the independent senator at a living wage rally in South Carolina, "and we are determined to bring working people together."

AI Genie is out of the bottle—UN should take the challenge to make it...

The global community should be comforted knowing that the leadership of the United Nations already knows well what steps are to be taken at this juncture.