by Common Dreams | Sep 7, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett Migrant rights groups and Texas Democrats on Wednesday welcomed a federal judge’s order that the state remove from the Rio Grande about 1,000 feet of orange buoys fastened together with metal...
by Common Dreams | Aug 29, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson The U.S. State Department has declassified a pair of documents related to events leading up to the 1973 coup in Chile, a violent assault on democracy covertly backed by the Central Intelligence Agency....
by Common Dreams | Aug 22, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Brett Wilkins Saudi border guards allegedly killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum-seekers—including women and children—who tried to enter the kingdom from Yemen between March 2022 and June 2023,...
by The Conversation | Aug 20, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Joseph Ferguson, Loyola University Chicago and Thomas A. Durkin, Loyola University Chicago After three indictments of former President Donald Trump, the fourth one in Georgia came not as a surprise but as a...
by Common Dreams | Aug 13, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Jessica Corbett Texas Gov. Greg Abbott faced fresh criticism on Friday after officials confirmed a young child died during a bus trip from the border city of Brownsville to Chicago, Illinois—part of the...
by Georgia Recorder | Jul 31, 2023 | Human Rights & Justice
Republished with permission from Georgia Recorder, by Aaleah McConnell As self-affirming titles representing marginalized students are getting swept up in the undertow of book bans throughout the South, advocates say educators who choose the wrong titles for story...