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Once Anonymous Archeologists Come Forward with Report Indicating More Burial Grounds of Enslaved People Likely Exist on Site Proposed for Controversial Plastics Plant

March 11, 2020

Archeology Firm Identifies Five Additional Possible Cemeteries, Concludes Formosa’s Consultants Repeatedly Looked in Wrong Place for One of Them March 11, 2020, St. James Parish – Today, community...

For First Time, Polls Find Majority of Country Supports Decriminalizing Sex Work, as Do 2/3 of Democrats and Voters Under 45

January 30, 2020

Data for Progress, ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Campaign, Women’s March, and two dozen other organizations release report and united policy platform on decriminalizing sex...

Residents and Experts Testify, Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

January 22, 2020

They point to alarming new information about cancer risks, company’s failure to comply with promise to protect children and residents, and alert parish about burial grounds of enslaved people January...

Landowners Challenge Oil Pipeline Companies’ Power to Exercise Eminent Domain in Louisiana Court of Appeal

January 8, 2020

Pipeline is Environmentally Destructive, Not in the Public Good January 8, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, attorneys representing Louisiana landowners whose property was taken by an oil pipeline...

Residents, Civil Rights Groups, National Legal Organizations Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

December 23, 2019

Letters Raise Alarming New Information about Cancer Risks, Company’s Failure to Protect Residents and Alert Parish About Burial Grounds of Enslaved People December 23, 2019, St. James, LA – Today,...

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Once Anonymous Archeologists Come Forward with Report Indicating More Burial Grounds of Enslaved People Likely Exist on Site Proposed for Controversial Plastics Plant

For First Time, Polls Find Majority of Country Supports Decriminalizing Sex Work, as Do 2/3 of Democrats and Voters Under 45

Residents and Experts Testify, Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

Landowners Challenge Oil Pipeline Companies’ Power to Exercise Eminent Domain in Louisiana Court of Appeal

Residents, Civil Rights Groups, National Legal Organizations Call on St. James Parish Council to Rescind Formosa Plastics Land Use Decision

Graves of Enslaved People Found on Proposed Formosa Plastics Site

Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Secretive ALEC Meeting

New Report Details Impact of Secretive American Legislative Exchange Council on Communities of Color

Coalition Against Death Alley Marchers Arrested Protesting at Pro-Petrochemical Association Headquarters in Baton Rouge

Rights Attorneys Ask Court to Vacate 2005 Conviction and LWOP Sentence After Khashoggi Revelations

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