Truthout
Human Rights
For the Betterment of the City
Despite California's historic drought, San Francisco's homeless will continue to be forced off Market Street with pressurized water.
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The Oscar Grant Effect: On Michael Brown and Institutional Racism in America
Who's shaping the “official” story?
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The AFL-CIO Should Be in Ferguson
Our biggest problems are political, not organizational.
“Unraveling”: Anti-Trafficking NGOs and the Garment Industry
The threads that tie anti-human trafficking organizations to the international garment trade finally give way.
Activist Mab Segrest Discusses Civil Rights, History of Structural Racism in the US
From police killings, to Stand Your Ground laws, to Medicaid refusal in majority-minority states, 50 years after Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act, activist Mab Segrest says structural …
Crying for Sandy Hook, Arming Israel: America’s Descent into Madness
Those who commit the mass murder of children don't get to mourn the mass murder of children.
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@Ferguson: It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Every day, a generation is sending a message on YouTube to the world: It's been a long time coming. Change is gonna come. Oh yes it will.
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Life for Child Migrants Is Even Harder Beyond the US Border
The need for support services is great, but their availability is sparse.
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As Men Emigrate, Indigenous Women Gain Political Opportunities and Obligations in Mexico
When men leave Mexico for the United States, indigenous systems of governance are threatened and more community responsibilities fall on women. Despite this, women are still fighting for space …
The Central American Child Migrant Crisis and Neoliberalism
The child migrant crisis is a direct consequence of our dominant economic mode of production, which creates the conditions for periodic crises many are often unable to understand or …