Tag: protests
‘This is what solidarity looks like:’ Mass demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport...
"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."
5 ways Indigenous groups are fighting back against land seizures
While no measure can guarantee land security, these actions have helped communities protect their homes.
Parkland students join Chicagoans to march against gun violence
"We just want peace. With this type of movement, with this amount of people we can definitely get something done."
#FamiliesBelongTogether rallies around the country
Rallies nationwide have popped up to call out local officials and government policies that separate children at the border.
Keep resisting!
"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."
Could a risky pipeline bring together a politically divided state?
"This project threatens some of our most basic American values; I think you'll find the people in Pennsylvania care a lot about public safety especially of their most vulnerable residents – children and seniors."
After latest Gaza slaughter: Open an investigation, end the occupation
The occupation must end, and those responsible for the slaughter must be held accountable.
Today’s Poor People’s Campaign: Too important not to criticize
Provided, of course, today’s PPC attacks the bipartisan disease.
Pipeline exec. refers to activists opposing construction near bald eagle nest...
The backdrop to this tension is Millennium’s impending drilling on a crossing of the Neversink River, less than a mile from a bald eagle’s nest, as part of its Eastern System Upgrade project.
Arizona teacher who spent $2,000 of her $31,000 salary on school...
Zoe Hyde: "I had to get markers, crayons, pencils, tissues. All those supplies that you think are part of the education environment, I had to buy myself."
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.
Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has...
The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despite appointing every member of its board.