Mapping US attacks on Yemen’s Houthis
US warplanes have launched more air raids in Yemen, targeting seven provinces, as the death toll rises to 53 The United States has, for a second night, launched dozens of air raids targeting at...
Category: Human Rights
Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, civil rights leaders in Selma continue fight
What would John Lewis do today? On a Sunday morning 60 years ago, activists rewrote the story of the civil rights movement in their own blood on the streets of Selma, Alabama. State troopers...
America’s Human Rights Crisis: Prison Slavery
Why does American society remain so deeply implicated in the enslavement of Black Americans? Slavery was never abolished in the United States, and today it enjoys widespread support among both Republicans and Democrats. Almost...
Juan González: Immigrant Rights Groups Are Playing Key Role in Confronting Trump’s Neofascist Coup
Democracy Now! co-host Juan González describes how immigrant communities are organizing to fight back against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. “Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance,” he says. “It’s obvious that the...
Black Folks Have Been Calling for A Boycott and It’s Happening on February 28th. Here’s
Incensed by DEI Rollback, Black folks started calling for boycotts of Walmart and others. There is a call for anyone who is upset about corporations bowing to the whims of the president to boycott...
“Antiwar” Trump Wants the US to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
Donald Trump and his allies have often promoted him as antiwar. Yesterday Trump said that he wants the US to “own” Gaza and kick out all its inhabitants — which, in addition to being...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln...
Trump’s Tariffs Will Create a Hunger Games Landscape Where the Little Guy Is Guaranteed to Lose
A banner 2024 whet the appetites of banks and crypto bros. Now the largest companies are salivating over Trump’s economic policies. The super-rich are ecstatic. Bitcoin’s value surged past $100,000 last year, and bankers...
Half a Trillion Reasons for Shame
A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of...
Why speech could be a target for the anti-abortion movement in 2025.
The anti-abortion movement is looking at ways to control information about how and where to obtain abortions The next front in the US abortion wars may be what people are allowed to say about...