Tag: protests
Over 2,100 anti-war protesters arrested in Russia
A total of 5,500 anti-war protesters have now been detained since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine.
Occupy Biden demonstrates how to hold politicians accountable
A coalition completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President’s home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil fuel projects.
How to counter the growing threat of agent provocateurs
Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.
‘A win for Civil Rights’: Federal judge blocks Florida GOP’s anti-protest...
"We are glad the court has agreed to suspend enforcement of this key provision while we continue to advocate to ensure that protesters in Florida can safely exercise their right to speak out against injustice."
A global anti-Olympics movement rises to challenge the games’ darker side
“The Olympics Games put tremendous pressure on the host city’s local budget, crash the democratic government process and destroy the environment."
10 world-changing protests you should know about
People are taking to the streets to resist repression, from the U.S. to Japan.
Millions mark international Women’s Day as pandemic deepens inequality, violence around...
We hear voices from protests in the Philippines, Mexico and Guatemala in a year where women have been disproportionately impacted by rising poverty, unemployment and violence during the pandemic.
Members of several well-known hate groups identified at Capitol riot
Several participants ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified from video have direct links to the white nationalist movement.
USA downgraded as civil liberties deteriorate across the Americas
While recent brutality against protests for racial justice is concerning, the decline in basic freedoms in the USA began before this crackdown.
State backers of anti-protest bills received campaign funding from oil and...
Legal experts have warned that critical infrastructure laws may well be unconstitutional.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages
Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.