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![Tania Aubid, a longstanding activist and member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, speaks to protesters about the environmental and human risks of allowing Enbridge Line 3 pipeline to be built across Northern Minnesota, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 29, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/GettyImages-1230877410-400x300.jpg)
Water Protectors Say Enbridge Is Pressuring Local Governments to Silence Them
Opponents of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota are concerned about recent curbs on their free speech and assembly rights.
![A homeless camp under a bridge on I-35 in Austin, Texas, on February 17, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0223-homeless-400x300.jpg)
We Could End Homelessness Right Now, If Only Capitalism Didn’t Get in the Way
At the heart of today’s housing crisis is a capitalist economy built on shadowy finances and esoteric debt.
![Activists with Services Not Sweeps place signs on their vehicles for a car blockade before Los Angeles City Bureau of Sanitation workers conduct a cleanup sweep of a homeless encampment during the COVID-19 pandemic on January 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0219-shelter-400x300.jpg)
Cities Are Razing Homeless Encampments Despite Record Cold Weather and COVID
Municipalities are flouting CDC advice and carrying out forcible evictions of the unhoused during a record-cold winter.
![Palestinian children pass in front of an Israeli checkpoint as they walk to their house in Al-Shuhada Street, which is largely closed to Palestinians, in the city center of the West Bank town of Hebron, on September 24, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0217-israel-p-400x300.jpg)
As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State
Palestinians are not allowed to walk on streets decreed as “sterile” by Israel. This goes beyond Apartheid South Africa.
![Illustration of Ahmed Rabbani cooking with Guantanamo fencing behind, in past](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/02/2021_0209-guantanamo-cooking-400x300.jpg)
I’m on Hunger Strike in Guantánamo. I Dream of Cooking for My Family.
Before I was kidnapped, tortured and flown halfway around the world in chains, I loved cooking.
![President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, arrives to speak to the staff of the State Department during his first visit in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0208-biden-blinken-400x300.jpg)
Biden Administration Announces the US Will Rejoin UN Human Rights Council
The U.S. seeks to join as an observer but could become a full voting member of the council later this year.
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Landmark ICC Decision Could Open the Door for Prosecuting Israel on War Crimes
Human rights lawyer Raji Sourani says the decision restores “the independence and the credibility of the ICC.”
![Tenants display a banner reading "HERE TO STAY" during a protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0125-eviction-400x300.jpg)
As an Eviction Crisis Looms, Tenant Organizing Explodes Across the Country
Tenants are organizing to hold widescale coordinated direct actions like rent strikes to avert the looming crisis.
![Volunteers help distribute water at the community center at the Asbury United Methodist Church in Flint, Michigan, on October 20, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-1229334777-400x300.jpg)
Don’t Forget About Flint. The Roots of Its Water Crisis Remain Unaddressed.
Criminal charges and a class-action settlement should not take the spotlight off of the city's ongoing struggles.
![Demonstrators protest President Trump's executive immigration ban at O'Hare International Airport on January 29, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0121_muslim-ban-protest-400x300.jpg)
American Muslims Demand More of Biden Than Simply Not Being Trump
As a Muslim, I am relieved that Trump is out. Now let’s demand more from Biden than a return to “business as usual.”