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Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday night, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed either by government or by demonstrators acting on their own.

Uri Averny, a Holocaust survivor, never gave up on the belief that peace, never stopped organizing for an end to Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.

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In Western Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley Workers Center has created a rapid-response network it calls “Sanctuary in the Streets” (SiS). The worker center, founded in 2014, organizes restaurant workers and farmworkers in the area.

The fact that even the Mercatus Center couldn't make universal Medicare look bad is a very good sign. Fact checkers need to get a grip.

This report is from September, 2017 concerning sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy in Australia. Its conclusions are relevant to the recent report on abuse by over 300 priests and the abuse and coverup by the bishops in Pennsylvania.

Some warn that the radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s prison system – which was badly affected by Maria – may have dire consequences for inmates’ civil rights.

In September 2017, Sheerah Escudero’s world came crashing down. Her beloved younger brother Ephraim had been missing for five days and the Escudero family was growing increasingly desperate.

It's been an exciting and challenging summer for California tenants. The good news: through our collective power, we are fighting back. Here's just a slice of the work Tenants Together and our members, partners, and allies are doing this summer!

The most important thing we need to be doing right now is organizing and movement building. Period. Dot com. No ifs, ands, or buts.