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When my son, who’s 19, called from Minneapolis on Saturday night, I was watching the livestream of protesters defying curfew there for the second night in a row, and listening to young people dry heave, like my students in Colombia, from the tear gas. Because he has first-aid training for (...)
The uprisings and demonstrations in Minneapolis and other cities including in front of the White House that followed the brutal May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man by white Minneapolis police officers and the hesitation of local and federal prosecutors to immediately arrest (...)
The video recording of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, a black man strangled to death by a white police officer who kneeled on his throat for nine minutes until he was dead, sparked anger and outrage and has led to a full-scale national rebellion against police racism and (...)
After the African American teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, the epidemic of police violence against people of color in the US captured national and global attention, for a time.
When Brown was killed, the words of Eric Garner, (...)
“That we, as doctors, feel ethically compelled to hold governments to account on medical grounds speaks volumes about the gravity of the medical, ethical, and human rights travesties that are taking place.”
A group of over 100 doctors on Monday urged the Australian government to end its “refusal (...)
The Democratic impeachment inquiry began when a “whistle blower” revealed that President Trump had pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation of former vice-president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine, and made a White House (...)
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
The autopsy report confirmed what her neighbors said happened in an apartment complex outside of Houston, Texas. Pamela Turner, a forty-four-year-old (...)
Julian Assange Faces 17 counts of violation of the Espionage Act for publishing in Wikileaks, which he founded, government documents that were given to him by Chelsea Manning that exposed U.S. war crimes and other material the military wanted to keep secret from the public about Washington’s (...)
As an American lawyer, I don’t want to see Julian Assange extradited to my country
The UK should step in and save the US from its worst excesses.
Many fear that Assange could face life imprisonment or even execution if extradited to the US ( EPA )
Julian Assange was indicted last week for 17 (...)
A TRUE DEMOCRACY does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship.
That is why the new U.S. indictment of Julian Assange is so dangerous to liberty in America.
The Trump administration has charged (...)
BY CHARGING Julian Assange with 17 violations of America’s World War I-era Espionage Act on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Virginia might have undermined their own chances of securing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder from the United Kingdom.
That’s because the new charges relate not to (...)
Chelsea Manning, a transgender U.S. soldier who blew the whistle on U.S. war crimes, and spent 2013 to 2017 in an army stockade as a result, is back in prison again.
This time because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring Julian Assange from his refuge (...)
Move believed linked to support for Palestinian BDS movement. Activist decries attack on ‘spirit of the indivisibility of justice’
The veteran civil rights activist Angela Davis said she was “stunned” by the decision of Alabama’s Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to revoke an award she was set to receive.
The institute announced in October that Davis, a Birmingham native, would receive the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights award, calling her “one of the most globally recognized champions of human (...)
Ernest Mandel’s biographer describes the Supreme Court decision that kept Mandel out of the United States — and set a precedent for the Muslim travel ban.
Still from A Man Called Mandel (dir. Frans Buyens, 1972).
In late June, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. Hawaii (...)
President Trump has displayed enthusiasm for brutality over the past year. He has told the police to treat suspects roughly , praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for murdering people suspected of drug ties and called for the execution of drug dealers .
But one of his most (...)
Thousands from New York City to Seattle went on January 28 to the nation’s major airports to protest President Donald’s Trump’s order banning for 120 days Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations, an order issued that same day. The protests, initiated by immigrant rights groups through (...)
RASMEA ODEH, THE Palestinian community activist in Chicago who was convicted in 2015 for “fraudulent procurement of naturalization” when she obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2004, has won a new trial.
This is an important victory for Odeh and her defense team, who successfully argued on appeal (...)
As a close ally and early supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions has emerged as an early favorite to secure a spot in Trump’s cabinet, with recent speculation being that he will be nominated as attorney general.
Sessions defended Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims (...)
A British woman who was set on fire while wearing Islamic clothing in New York was not targeted in a hate attack, police have said.
American authorities confirmed they are no longer probing the case as a hate crime after linking the case to similar assaults on non-Muslims, Sky News reported. (...)
We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always struggle to understand us.
Like you, we don’t all think the same, feel the same, love, learn, live or even (...)
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