Human Rights

Human Rights

  • Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Receives Award Named After Progressive Leader Henry Wallace

    Celisa Calacal / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 06/08/2017 - 13:05

  • Why I Can't Trust Cops: The Death of Tashii Brown, Who Asked Police for Help

    D. Watkins / Salon

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 06/07/2017 - 14:26

  • America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration

    Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren, Maureen Nandini Mitra / Truthout, Earth Island Journal

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 06/06/2017 - 12:00

  • How Florida's Lax Gun Laws May Have Contributed to Monday's Workplace Shooting

    Celisa Calacal / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 06/06/2017 - 08:23

  • Critics Rage at Uber Over Surge Pricing During London Terror Attacks

    David Ferguson / Raw Story  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 06/04/2017 - 15:47

  • 5 Signs the 'Handmaid's Tale' Dystopia May Be Our Reality

    Patricia Miller / Religion Dispatches  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 06/04/2017 - 15:39

  • Amputee Files Lawsuit Against American Airlines for Treating Him With 'Brutish Misconduct'

    April M. Short / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 06/04/2017 - 10:40

  • BREAKING: Multiple Pedestrians Stabbed and At Least One Dead in London Attack that Appears Organized

    April M. Short / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 06/03/2017 - 15:36

  • Woman Admits She Led 30 Members of a North Carolina Church In Beating a Gay Man to 'Expel His Demons'

    Tom Boggioni / Raw Story

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 06/03/2017 - 09:38

  • Two Anti-Gay Attacks Occur in New York City Just Days Apart

    Celisa Calacal / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 06/02/2017 - 14:00

  • In Stunning Act of Defiance, Baton Rouge Police Chief Refuses Mayor's Request to Fire Officer Who Killed Alton Sterling

    Celisa Calacal / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 06/02/2017 - 08:12

  • Here's a Rare Glimpse of the Local People Impacted by the Destruction of Indonesia's Rainforests

    Brihannala Morgan / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 06/01/2017 - 23:30

  • How the Public Trust Principle Can Defend Human Rights Against Fracking

    Mary Christina Wood, Rance Shaw / Center for Humans and Nature  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 06/01/2017 - 12:00

  • In an Unprecedented Court Escalation, Trump Protesters Could Be Facing Decades in Prison for Inauguration Demonstrations

    Celisa Calacal, Lauren Kaori Gurley / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Thu, 06/01/2017 - 07:39

  • Leaked Documents Expose Military Tactics Used to Defeat Pipeline 'Terrorists' at Standing Rock

    Lorraine Chow / EcoWatch

    Displayed Publishing Date: Wed, 05/31/2017 - 12:00

  • Immigrant Women Aren't Reporting Abuse Because of Deportation Fears

    Kali Holloway / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 05/30/2017 - 13:51

  • We Have Waged a War on Drugs for a Century. So, Who Won?

    Alex Wodak / The Guardian

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 05/30/2017 - 12:08

  • An Appalled Dan Rather Goes After Trump for Failing to Condemn Portland Murders as Terrorism

    Tom Boggioni / Raw Story  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 05/28/2017 - 08:38

  • How Alcoholics Anonymous Psychologically Abuses the Marginalized

    harMONEY samiruhh / The Establishment  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 11:37

  • Wake Up, Liberals: There Will be No 2018 'Blue Wave,' No Democratic Majority and No Impeachment

    Andrew O'Hehir / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 11:31

  • Maryland and Manchester: We Can’t Let Heinous Attacks Overseas Obscure Our Homegrown Terrorism Problem

    Chauncey DeVega / Salon  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 11:07

  • Mayor’s Unflinching Honesty About Confederate Monuments Gives Me Hope

    David Korten / YES! Magazine

    Displayed Publishing Date: Sat, 05/27/2017 - 10:37

  • Life Is Getting Much Worse for the Poor: Housing, Food and Essentials Eat Up the Meager Incomes

    Ebony Slaughter-Johnson / AlterNet

    Displayed Publishing Date: Fri, 05/26/2017 - 11:24

  • The Inhumanity of the American Bail System

    Kamil Ahsan / The American Prospect

    Displayed Publishing Date: Tue, 05/23/2017 - 13:17

  • Why Were the Saudi Streets So Quiet?

    Medea Benjamin / AlterNet  

    Displayed Publishing Date: Mon, 05/22/2017 - 11:15

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    Today's Top Stories

    1. Stonewalling Sessions Runs Away From Tough Questions in Senate Inquiry

    2. Paul Krugman: America Is on Its Way to Autocracy

    3. The Truth About Jeremy Corbyn's Triumph Staring Us Smack in the Face

    4. Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump's Disturbing Cabinet Meeting Befitting 'Dear Leader'

    5. Bernie Sanders Sounds the Alarm: 'We Are Drifting Toward Authoritarianism'

    6. Ivanka Trump's Garment Workers Can't Afford to Live with Their Children

    7. Donald Trump Has Lost All Touch with Reality Less Than Six Months in Office

    8. White House Staffers Are Reportedly Freaking Out Over Robert Mueller's Possible Firing

    9. The Federal Government Is Setting Up to Protect the Elite from Nuclear Attack While Letting the Rest of Us Die

    10. These Parents Suffered an Unfathomable Tragedy—Now They're Leading the Push for Single-Payer Health Care

    11. Will Trump Do the Unthinkable and Fire Bob Mueller?

    12. Now Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population

    13. Melania Trump Drops Fake Cyber Bullying Campaign She Only Pretended to Care About

    14. Trump’s Personal Lawyer Boasted He Got Preet Bharara Fired

    15. Have the Cowardly CEOs Who Pulled Their Corporate Sponsorships of 'Julius Caesar' Actually Read the Play?

    16. Russian Hackers Breached Voting Systems in 39 States: Report

    17. Entire Cities Are Cutting Ties With Wells Fargo for Its Support of the Dakota Pipeline

    18. 'We Do Not Live in a Dictatorship': Wyoming Mayor Removes Portraits of Trump and Pence From Town Hall

    19. It Looks Like the Right Wing Has Finally Given Up on the Idea of Gay Conversion Therapy

    20. The Hate Crime I Survived

    21. We Need to Get Corporate America and Police Units out of Pride Marches

    22. NRA's News Outlet Blatantly Lied About Comey Hearing to Protect Trump

    23. While Comey Testified, Trump Was Palling Around With the Christian Right

    24. Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Knocked Down Bans on Interracial Marriage—How Have Things Changed Since Then?

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      Displayed Publishing Date: Sun, 06/11/2017 - 08:21

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    6. Sandy Hook Mom Completely Dismantles Megyn Kelly's Senseless Interview with Alex Jones

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