U.S. and Canada

Supreme Court decision hits migrants

Again and again, the federal government continues to deny im/migrants the most elementary human rights. On Sept. 11, seven of…

September 19, 2019

Justice for Brandon Lee: Protect human rights defenders!

This is a slightly edited version of a statement issued by BAYAN-USA, an alliance of 26 progressive Filipino organizations in…

September 19, 2019

Real estate barons’ attack on tenants spurs fightback

Landlord-in-chief President Donald Trump dispatched top federal officials to Los Angeles on Sept. 10 to organize a crackdown on homelessness,…

September 19, 2019

In struggle over Safehouse, opioid users’ lives at stake

For decades, Philadelphia has been known as a heroin haven, with heroin of such high quality that people moved there…

September 19, 2019

Climate crisis poses life-and-death threat to people with disabilities

“It’s time to recognize climate change as a disability rights issue” was the headline for an article by Tiffany Yu,…

September 18, 2019

Labor and climate activism

The prevailing myths about U.S. workers and the organized labor movement — that labor and climate action are in conflict,…

September 18, 2019

How climate disaster impacts oppressed peoples

The following excerpts are from a statement the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network prepared for its summit meeting in Whitakers,…

September 18, 2019

GM strikers ‘shut it down!’

On Sept. 15, one minute before midnight EDT, production ground to a halt at all General Motors facilities across the…

September 17, 2019

600 cops defend 24 white supremacists from 200 anti-racists

A white supremacist rally that occupied one side of the town square in Dahlonega, Ga., was attended by about two…

September 17, 2019

70 arrested in NYC demanding ‘close the camps!’

Hundreds of people demanding the closing of detention camps on the U.S.-Mexico border joined in an energetic protest that began…

September 17, 2019