This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 24, 2010. US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to...
Updated: June 3, 2010
This article was published on Thursday, October 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in...
Updated: October 21, 2010
by Laura Raymond and Jeena Shah, Center for Constitutional Rights. Laura Raymond is Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Follow her on twitter @laurajraymond. Jeena Shah...
Updated: February 22, 2013
September 1, 2017The events of Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, shocked many in the nation. We had not seen the brutality, racism, and anti-Semitism broadcast into our homes in such a graphic fashion. Nazis, Ku...
February 21, 2018In early 2016, Indigenous activists on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in so-called North Dakota began protesting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a 1,172-mile-long oil...
February 22, 2021WIN! Federal court again blocks Trump-era asylum transit ban A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
November 7, 2007, New York, NY – Today, a New York City anti-immigrant raids network launched with the release of this statement condemning the ICE raids across the country and in New York City: In...
October 8, 2008, Washington – The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the U.S. government’s request for an administrative stay of District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina’s order that 17 innocent...
San Francisco, CA -- Almost ten years after the events, and after four weeks of trial, a jury in federal court in San Francisco today found Chevron not liable for the shootings, killings and torture...
New York, June 8, 2009 — Today, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company...
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