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“The extreme violence, environmental disasters and grinding poverty that drive people from places like Guatemala, Honduras and Afghanistan are largely the result of global phenomena like colonialism, climate change and trade.”

The Poor People's Campaign brings together people who usually are apart; leaders from the ranks of the poor are learning from each other. We got to dig deep among the people who are hurting, so we can give unity to a movement to better conditions.

By our calculations, in this “war on terror,” the U.S. and its allies have dropped a staggering 291,880 bombs and missiles on other countries—and that is just a minimum number of confirmed strikes.

Texting Trouble; Pai's Problems; EFF's Big Wins; Pentagon Woos the Valley; Bye Bye Standard

To win substantive reforms, our system is overdue for structural reforms. 2018 creates an opening.

In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.

Two high-ranking police officials have dropped out of a planned training junket in Israel after campaigning from local human rights activists.

The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.

As I see it, the challenge ahead is to build progressive infrastructure everywhere we can, but especially in key states that were narrowly won by Trump in 2016 – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania – and in key states such as North Carolina...

The U.S. aerial bombardment of the city of Raqqa, Syria, similar to its bombardment of Mosul, Iraq, was itself terror in the extreme, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. These are huge war crimes.