Month: October 2020

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is readying for “an all-hands-on-deck moment” should presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump—a “one-man constitutional crisis,” according to the rights group—be elected to the White House.  Trump’s policy proposals, including pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants; to ban Muslims from entering the United States; to surveil American…

An investigation by local journalist Eliván Martínez Mercado reveals that Puerto Rico has handed over hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to multinational biotech corporations, such as Monsanto and Pioneer Hi Bred (now Dupont), even as the colonial territory’s decade-long debt crisis forced the closure of public schools. “It is the philosophy that…

Across the country on Tuesday, community members, activists, racial justice advocates, and others held a global moment of silence to mark two years since the killing of Mike Brown Jr., whose death at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer sparked a national call for change—a moment that many say has yet to arrive.…

In the wake of last week’s diesel spill in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, First Nations people and environmentalists expressed concerns over the “totally inadequate” response by industry and government. Those concerns took on even greater gravity on Wednesday, after news that a boat working to retrieve the diesel from the accident had itself gone…

Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhite House accuses Biden of pushing ‘conspiracy theories’ with Trump election claim Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton qualifies to run for county commissioner in Florida MORE is swinging back at President Trump after he reignited a social media war, suggesting some reading…

Sen. Dean HellerDean Arthur HellerOn The Trail: Democrats plan to hammer Trump on Social Security, Medicare Lobbying World Democrats spend big to put Senate in play MORE (Nev.), considered the most vulnerable Republican senator up for reelection next year, will be at the center of a new fight over gun control following the mass shooting…

Progressives and prison reform advocates hailed the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement Thursday that it would phase out federal private prisons—and celebrated the resulting plummet in private prison stocks—but many also argued that the decision does not go far enough. “Until DHS and state governments around the country break ties with these corporations, justice…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest is growing, and with it, his mission. When Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem ahead of the 49ers’ Thursday night preseason finale against the San Diego Chargers, he was joined by his teammate Eric Reid—while further up the coast, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane also sat down in…

More than 40 Indigenous activists, Gulf Coast residents, and other climate leaders have reportedly occupied the U.S. Department of the Interior, demanding no new fossil fuel leases on public lands and waters. Several arrests have also been reported. The protesters entered the lobby of the department chanting, “Keep it in the ground!” The Center for…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is taking a stand for the tens of thousands of students who, first, were defrauded by the now-defunct, for-profit Corinthian College system and now, according to an investigation by her own staff, are being “hounded” by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to pay off those debts. In a searing letter…