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![Climate activists gather on the first day of the ExxonMobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1177642504-400x300.jpg)
Is There a Path Toward Climate Accountability in the Courts — Even Under Trump?
State and local governments are fighting to put Big Oil on trial for climate deception.
![Then-President Donald Trump (right) with Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (left) and South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune (center) during a meeting on April, 12, 2018, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-948964746-400x300.jpg)
Anti-Abortion Forces Used Deceptive Tactics to Defeat Nebraska Ballot Measure
What happened in Nebraska’s election was a coordinated effort to sow confusion -- and may be replicated in other states.
![Even as academic librarians live in dread of what will happen to their libraries after January 20, many of them are also already facing termination now.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-605378503-400x300.jpg)
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
![Sereyrath “One” Van rallies with his family, close friends and community supporters outside of the Philadelphia ICE Field Office before his check-in on August 15, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/Photo-1-400x300.jpg)
ICE Isolates Me From Community So Corporations Can Profit From My Imprisonment
I constantly ask myself why I’m being incarcerated again when all I want is to turn my life around.
![Participants walk past the hashtag COP29 logo on the opening day of the COP29 Climate Conference on November 11, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2184099908-400x300.jpg)
Activists’ Alternative to COP29 Brings Frontline Communities Together
Feeling excluded from the UN climate summits, organizers say the solutions that come out of them can harm communities.
![Ben & Jerry's shop in Watkins Glen, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/33019581020_f7f47c6aea_4k-400x300.jpg)
Ben & Jerry’s Sues Parent Company for Silencing Support for Palestine
The lawsuit adds that Unilever rejected Ben & Jerry’s choice to make donations to Jewish Voice for Peace.
![Immigrant rights supporters join an anti-Trump protest march in anticipation of the newly elected president's immigration policies on November 9, 2024, in midtown New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2183906965-400x300.jpg)
Let’s Translate Our Outrage Over Trumpism Into Action
There is no better antidote to hopelessness than action in community.
![A mail carrier loads a truck.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-1177460097-400x300.jpg)
Unionized Letter Carriers Organize for Better Than Meager 1.3 Percent Raise
One analysis found that postal workers had fallen farther behind inflation than any other job it analyzed.
![Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina and candidate for governor, delivers remarks prior to Donald Trump speaking at a campaign event at Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 14, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2166169078-400x300.jpg)
Several of the GOP’s Most Fiercely Anti-Trans Candidates Lost Their Elections
In spite of a Trump win, state and local elections showed mixed results for those who ran on bigotry.
![Benito Lopez, a Familias Unidas por la Justicia union member, at a picket line during a strike at a Tulip farm in Mount Vernon, Washington, in March 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/11/benitotulipstrike-400x300.jpg)
Farmworkers Are Organizing to Resist Trump’s Attacks on Immigrant Workers
Organizers from Florida, Vermont and Washington discuss the rising exploitation and rollback of protections ahead.