Interview | LGBTQ Rights Chase Strangio Will Make History as First Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court Strangio discusses the case he will be arguing next week, as well as the recent cultural backlash against trans rights. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! November 27, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Amnesty International Urges Biden to Free Leonard Peltier “Before It’s Too Late” The 80-year-old Indigenous activist has been incarcerated nearly as long as Joe Biden has been in national politics. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! November 26, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Activists Say COP29 Finance Deal “a Drop in the Ocean” Compared to What’s Needed It’s unclear how much is going to be in grant-based finance vs. debt-creating loans, says climate advocate Asad Rehman. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 25, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Jewish Anti-Zionist Activist Describes His Arrest Under UK’s Anti-Terror Law Activist Haim Bresheeth, the son of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, speaks out. By Derek Seidman , Truthout November 23, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Activists Slam COP29 Draft Climate Financing Plan as “a Great Swindle” Power Shift Africa’s Mohamed Adow says the finance target for rich countries is just 20 percent of what is needed. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 22, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Activist Points Out Rich Countries’ Hypocrisy at COP29 as Negotiations Stall Countries that have industrialized off of fossil fuel exploitation must offset these injustices, says Harjeet Singh. By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh , DemocracyNow! November 21, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Politics & Elections We Must Contest the Christian Right’s Agenda in Every Venue of Our Lives “It is a self-replicating authoritarian system that has persisted over the course of generations,” says Talia Lavin. By Kelly Hayes , Truthout November 21, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Education & Youth Trump Taps Billionaire Linda McMahon to Head Department of Education The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment has no experience in education, says education historian Diane Ravitch. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 20, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Environment & Health Diné Activist Warns Against New Uranium Mining Amid Renewed Nuclear Energy Push Organizer Leona Morgan highlights the risks of the uranium mining required to produce nuclear power. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! November 19, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing Abolition Work Shows Us There’s Joy to Be Found Even as the World Is on Fire Care work and parenting work are not an accessory to abolition — they are core to the struggle itself. By George Yancy , Truthout November 19, 2024 Truthout