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![Members of the Kumeyaay Nation and demonstrators rally at the United States-Mexico border to protest construction of a new wall being constructed on their ancestral grounds on July 1, 2020, in Boulevard, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1223853628-400x300.jpg)
What Is the US-Mexico Border to Indigenous Peoples Who Have Lived There?
Indigenous peoples grapple with the everyday impacts of increasing border enforcement on their lands.
![Palestinians kneel on the ground in prayer while being closely surveiled by armed soldiers and military vehicles](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/08/2020_0805-palestine-400x300.jpg)
“Israeli Settlers Make a Living Out of Our Suffering,” Says Palestinian Activist
The Jordan Valley is an Israeli business based on stolen land and water, says teacher and activist Sireen Khudairi.
![Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint press conference with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at Lancaster House on July 21, 2020, in London, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/2020_0728-mike-pompeo-400x300.jpg)
Pompeo’s Commission on “Unalienable Rights” Prioritizes Property Over People
The Commission on Unalienable Rights draft report portends further flouting of international human rights law.
![Single mothers and their children have started perhaps the most significant housing take over in the country.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-108199624-400x300.jpg)
Housing Activists in Philly Launch Major Takeover of Abandoned Public Buildings
Single mothers and their children have started perhaps the most significant housing takeover in the country.
![An elderly man holds signs opposing the death penalty](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/2020_0715-death-penalty-400x300.jpg)
The DOJ Has No Reason to Execute the Federally Incarcerated During a Pandemic
The federal government is now killing prisoners after a 17-year hiatus on federal executions.
![Disability Rights Activists Take on Twin Pandemics of Racist Police Brutality & COVID-19](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/seg3-Gust-disability-rights-400x300.jpg)
Disability Rights Activists Take on Twin Pandemics of Police Brutality and COVID
According to at least one study, up to one half of people killed by law enforcement in the U.S. have a disability.
![Donald Trump prepares to speaks as Attorney General William Barr departs the stage during a White House ceremony September 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1173384979-400x300.jpg)
Trump DOJ Worked Secretly to Obtain Drugs to Resume Federal Executions
For the last three years, the Department of Justice has been quietly building a supply chain of execution drugs.
![Donald Trump crosses his arms](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/2020_0708-donald-trump-400x300.jpg)
Trump Is Trying to Hide US and Israeli War Crimes by Attacking the ICC
Trump aims to ensure that no American or Israeli is brought to the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
![Activists and members of different tribes from the region block the road to Mount Rushmore National Monument as they protest in Keystone, South Dakota, on July 3, 2020, during a demonstration around the Mount Rushmore National Monument and the visit of Donald Trump.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1224644142-400x300.jpg)
Treaty Defenders Arrested for Blocking Road to Trump’s Mount Rushmore Event
“This is our land. This has been our land for thousands of years.”
![Black Lives Matter protesters remove an American flag as they gather at a closed security checkpoint before a rally that Donald Trump will hold later in the evening at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-1221515278-400x300.jpg)
July Fourth Never Meant Anything to a Disabled Black Woman Like Me
I cannot celebrate a country that has systematically disenfranchised Black people and has written off disabled people.