Throughout the battle over the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), Indigenous campaigners and their allies repeatedly warned it was not a question of if, but when a breach would occur. Now, before the pipeline is even fully operational, those warnings have come to fruition. The Associated Press reports Wednesday: “At the pipeline’s pump station there’s what’s …
Responding to the results of the U.K. election, which commentators have already deemed a “political upset” for the ages and a stunning backfire for Prime Minister Theresa May, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday congratulated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the British people for “rising up against austerity and massive levels of income and wealth …
Open Internet proponents who have been fighting the Trump administration’s rollback of net neutrality protections, which has been enacted at the bidding of the telecom industry, said Tuesday that Comcast is now threatening legal action saying the website Comcastroturf.com is infringing on its trademark. As the organization Fight for the Future quipped on Twitter, “You …
More than thirty Senate Democrats and one independent—Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders—sent a letter (pdf) to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday expressing alarm at a recent memo unveiling her department’s plans to drastically roll back civil rights protections at public schools. “You claim to support civil rights and oppose discrimination, but your actions belie your …
In a development one observer calls a “win for what is right,” a federal court ruled Tuesday that Arizona’s ban on ethnic studies classes was enacted with discriminatory intent and is unconstitutional—violating students’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Click Here: los jaguares argentina “Both enactment and enforcement were motivated by racial animus,” wrote federal appeals …
Arizona Senate candidate Joe Arpaio (R) said Thursday that he would support President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE “regardless of what he says” in …
Click:electric tricycle for people transportation INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch have directed their network of conservative activists and donors to dramatically expand its political reach ahead of this year’s midterm elections in an effort to preserve Republican majorities in the House and Senate. More than 500 donors affiliated with the …
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As dozens of protestors led by Reverend William Barber crowded the halls of the Capitol and labeled the GOP’s healthcare agenda “political murder,” Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a new version of their Trumpcare plan that one critic mockingly described as “new and improved total garbage.” “The new Trumpcare bill is awful by design. The …
Just hours after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that transgender people would no longer be permitted to serve in the armed forces, the Department of Justice on Wednesday launched what is being characterized as a separate attack on the LGBTQ community, this time by arguing in a legal brief that the Civil Rights Act …
