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In Idaho, the Idaho Harm Reduction Project gave out specialized information on how to safely use drugs, along with the tools to use drugs safely. They handed out clean needles and clean pipes. The police raided its facilities in Boise and Caldwell in February, because they had “drug paraphernalia” on site, and because they...
The resolution was passed in an anonymous vote of 12 to four, with three abstentions, but has generated some blowback. Two members of the student body, Regina De Nigris and Cameron Adkins, said they strongly disagreed with the decision in a resignation letter, according to The Harvard Crimson....
This is a significant development, given that the UAW lost two previous plantwide elections at VW, in 2014 (workers.org/2014/02/13088/) and 2019. In 2014 anti-union organizations and politicians ran a massive scare campaign, falsely claiming that the company would close the plant if the union won the election. In 2019, the...
While the real estate companies made distinctions between properties in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa — cities in Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in 1948 — and three West Bank settlements — Efrat, Neve Daniel and Maale Adumim — pro-Palestinian demonstrators made no distinction between the West Bank and Israel....
We’ve talked before about SB 4, the Texas immigration law that essentially enshrines racial profiling into law, making it not only encouraged but mandatory, and setting the precedent for each state to write its own version of what have always been federal immigration laws....
According to reports from participants, cops beat one of the demonstrators unconscious and left them on the ground for several minutes without medical attention, barricading several health care workers, who were blocked from helping. The injured demonstrator projectile vomited and seized several times, all while being...
By giving the President the power to ban websites, not just apps, it opens up a whole new can of worms....
An analysis piece in The Atlantic by Jerusalem Demsas puts forward a simple argument: whether there’s a migrant ‘crisis’ or not really depends on the political motivations of the people describing it as such. Why are 30,000 Ukrainian refugees assimilated into Chicago with ease, while 30,000 asylum seekers from other...
In a development on which, frankly, it’s wild there hasn’t been more reporting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is helming the construction of a military base in Eagle Pass, Texas, in support of the deadly $10 billion dollar political stunt Operation Lone Star. We’ve covered Eagle Pass before—it’s the town whose residents...
March 2 Global Day of Action: Hands Off Rafah!...
Trump claims Black Americans relate to his criminal prosecutions
Sana Wazwaz, a leader with American Muslims for Palestine-MN, explained the significance of the vote: “Our victory signals a radical shift in what is considered acceptable criticism of [Zionism]. We are the first city in the U.S. to pass a resolution to call for a complete end to U.S. aid to [Zionism’s régime]; a measure...
We won’t mince words: the military spending bill is the most stringent anti-immigration bill endorsed by a Democratic president in recent years. Progressives in both chambers of Congress are calling this a return to Trump-era politics. But what exactly is this 370-page bill and why does it have both parties so riled up?...
The extremity of the sentence “will chill future whistleblowers from revealing corruption and wrongdoing,” the Freedom of the Press Foundation (1/30/24) said. Slate writer Alex Sammon (Twitter, 1/29/24) said, “This guy is a hero who showed us how the super-rich steal from the American public.” Nevertheless, he added,...
Cambridge city authorities did everything in their power to stop the vote. The day prior, they abruptly closed the City Council meeting to in-person attendance, moving hundreds who had signed up for public comment to Zoom....
A tipping point may have been reached on Dec. 29 when Biden announced a new $147.5 million sale of artillery munitions to [Zionism]. On Dec. 30, Muslim leaders of the campaign announced plans to expand their #AbandonBiden efforts in all 50 states over Biden’s failure to call for a ceasefire in Gaza....
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Criticism of the execution poured in from around the world from organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union and Amnesty International. “He was writhing and clearly suffering,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the U.N. Human Rights Office, at a U.N. briefing in...
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is trying to do something utterly foreign to the modern political landscape: provide basic assistance to immigrants. In the face of rampant xenophobia, the CHC has not budged on its platform, from protecting Dreamers, to creating family reunification programs, to granting Temporary Protected...
