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At 350-person rally organized by Torrance Refinery Action on the third anniversary of a giant explosion at Exxon Mobil’s facility there, people were eager to hear about how Richmond is working to hold Chevron accountable for its pollution. His piece ref

A key challenge facing progressives is translating general strategy into concrete action priorities in 2018.

Although proponents of the act are disappointed in the DOJ’s limited support of it, they remain hopeful about the future and the potential for such legislation to help Native women.

Amid thousands of semi-cultivated wheat and barley fields in the area of Abu Safia, east of Jabalia in North Gaza, around 30 beige canvas tents have been set up within 700 meters of the adjacent Israeli border fence, ahead of a six-week protest camp under the gaze of wary Israeli soldiers.

The initiative behind the march defies the Israeli policy of disconnecting Gaza from the rest of the Palestinians. However, Gazans are not wretched and passive charity cases but a politically aware public

How a secret deal with the Fujimori clan struck a painful blow to Peruvian democracy.

North Carolina’s economic recovery has not been widely shared

A deregulatory push led by top-level Republicans could turn back the clock to the heyday of predatory lending.

In the wake of the March 4th electoral rout El Salvador’s left is facing its starkest crisis in decades. The resounding rebuke of the FMLN and its government has resulted in significant gains for the quasi-fascist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and exacerbated serious internal divisions.

The protests were organized as “The Great March of Return,” a nonviolent gathering of Palestinian refugees who demand the right to return to their families’ homes inside Israel.