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![Leonard Peltier Has COVID. Will Biden Finally Consider Freeing Him?](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/SEG1-Sharp-split-1-400x300.jpg)
Leonard Peltier Has COVID. Will Biden Finally Consider Freeing Him?
Sen. Brian Schatz and others are calling for Peltier to be granted clemency.
![Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1144980326-400x300.jpg)
Pro-Highway, Pro-Car Public Transportation Policy Is Fueling Inequality
Transportation policies prioritizing private vehicle use leave the poor and people of color behind.
![Yurumanguí Women’s Collective traveling along the Yurumanguí River in early December 2021, just days after Abencio Caicedo and Édinson Valencia García were kidnapped and disappeared.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/YurumanguíWomensCollective-photo2-400x300.jpg)
“We Want Them Alive”: Afro-Colombian Women Lead Search for Disappeared
In November, Abencio Caicedo and Édinson Valencia García set out on a community organizing trip. Now they're missing.
![A protester holds a sign reading "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE MUSLIM TO STAND UP FOR PALESTINE; YOU JUST NEED TO BE HUMAN"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2022_0124-palestine-400x300.jpg)
Leaked Report Suggests Impunity for IDF Soldiers in Killing of Elderly Man
The report summary said that soldiers did not provide medical assistance to Omar Assad, despite the presence of a medic.
![Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and their supporters participate in a car caravan around City Hall to protest against in-person learning in Chicago public schools on January 10, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1363878037-400x300.jpg)
Pandemic Accommodations Proved We Can Vastly Expand Disability Access If We Try
Significant accommodations were offered once the pandemic started affecting the capitalist class.
![President Joe Biden meets with members of his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on January 20, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1365920125-400x300.jpg)
It’s Time for Biden to Fulfill His Pledge to End the Federal Death Penalty
Aside from a 2021 moratorium on federal executions, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to end the practice.
![A funeral ceremony held for 80-year-old Palestinian Omar Asad, at Jaljulia village in Ramallah, West Bank, on January 13, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2022_0120-omar-asad-funeral-400x300.jpg)
The IDF Killed a Palestinian US Citizen. Why Is the US Doing Nothing?
It's imperative we demand accountability from the source of funding for Israel’s war crimes -- the U.S. itself.
![A protester holds a placard reading "Close Guantanamo" and portrait of detainee during an outdoor demonstration.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2021_0114-guantanamo-protest-400x300.jpg)
Even After Release, Guantánamo Survivors Live Under Surveillance and in Anguish
The least the Biden administration can do is ensure that former detainees are actually given a chance to know freedom.
![Students make their way to class for the first day of school at Tustin Ranch Elementary School in Tustin, California, on August 11, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2022_0114-students-400x300.jpg)
Hundreds of Thousands of Children Are Homeless — and the Problem Is on the Rise
With the end of the federal eviction moratorium, experts fear child homelessness is even higher than the data suggests.
![An officer walks through a prison cell block in Camp V where prisoners are housed in the single cell facility at the U.S. military prison for so-called enemy combatants on June 25, 2013, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2022_0113-guantanamo-400x300.jpg)
Guantánamo Isn’t Ancient History. It Has Become a “Forever Prison.”
I’ve fought to close Guantánamo for 16 years. It should never have opened.