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Punitive Measures Worsen the Homelessness Crisis. We Must Guarantee Housing.
Fortunately, many cities are adopting strategies that are geared toward helping people over judging them.
Our Responses to COVID-19 Must Center Disability Justice
Here’s how we can turn these unprecedented and slapdash coronavirus measures into actual disability justice.
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Crisis of Capitalism
COVID-19 is another blow to the house of cards that is the existence of the marginalized.
US Economic Sanctions Exacerbate Toll of Coronavirus in Iran
Sanctions are preventing Iranians from importing necessary medicine and medical equipment.
Racist Attacks and Border Militarization Intensify as Coronavirus Spreads
We are in the grip of a social panic where people are channeling their fears into racist and anti-immigrant attacks.
Mexican Women Plan Historic Strike Against Femicides
Millions of people are being called to join the country’s first all-women labor strike.
Fighting Anti-Semitism: From Terror to Solidarity and Action
Kelly Hayes talks with Brant Rosen in Truthout's podcast “Movement Memos.”
Native Human Remains Suspected to Have Been Stored on Vassar College
The elite school went public on February 12 about the fact that human remains had been found in a campus building.
Children Are Freezing to Death in Syria as Humanitarian Crisis Intensifies
The all-out offensive by the Syrian government is the single largest displacement in a nine-year war.
Hindu Nationalist Violence Rocks Delhi as Trump Visits Modi in India
The death toll from anti-Muslim violence in Delhi has risen to at least 34.