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Incarcerated Workers Launch Nonviolent Work Strike Against “New Jim Crow” Across Alabama Prisons
Peaceful protest demands wages for labor, end to overcrowding and inhumane conditions, transformation of American justice system.

Was Kansas Shooting Avoidable? White Supremacist was Ex-Informant with Criminal Past and Hateful Views
Notorious white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller has been charged with killing three people at two Jewish community sites in Kansas. Miller has openly railed against Jews and African Americans …

The Boston Marathon Bombing Shows Why Surveillance State Doesn’t Work
One year after the Boston Marathon bombing the ACLU's Kade Crockford questions whether the surveillance practices of law enforcement and an increased militarized police force equals safer streets.

Statement of Make It Safe Coalition on 25th Anniversary of Whistleblower Protection Act
Today, the Make It Safe Coalition marks the 25th anniversary of the Whistleblower Protection Act, the primary law ensuring freedom of speech and accountability in the federal workplace, and …

The US and the Indonesian Right: A Look at Anti-Democratic Pro-Capitalist Crimes
Many in the international human rights community see what is happening in West Papua as a deliberate, ongoing process of genocide of West Papua's indigenous people.

CCR Gitmo Client Seeks Approval for Release from New Review Board
Center for Constitutional Rights client Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Yemeni citizen who has been held without charge at Guantanamo for over 12 years, asked the Obama administration's new Periodic Review …

Solidarity Economics, a Forgotten Practice of the Black Radical Tradition: An Interview With Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Economist and author Jessica Gordon Nembhard talks to Laura Flanders about her book, Collective Courage, and the forgotten history of African-American cooperatives.

Bill Defunding Universities With Ties To Israel Boycotters Dies In Committee: Watered Down Condemnation Appears In Maryland State Budget Bill
As the Maryland General Assembly completed its work on the state budget bill, legislators inserted language that weakly condemns the American Studies Association (ASA) decision to boycott Israeli academic …

Immigrant Advocates and Families Tell President Obama “Not One More”
A group of families and activists fight to reunite Jaime Vasquez and Ardani Rosales with their families.

Twenty Years Later, Rwanda Commemorates Genocide the World Ignored
Rwanda is holding commemorations for the 20th anniversary of the genocide in which 800,000 people were killed.