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![A sign reads No Pipelines in this picture taken on September 3, 2016, shows makeshift tents at an encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipe, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0315-pipelines-400x300.jpg)
Court Documents Reveal FBI Sent Several Informants to Standing Rock Protests
Depositions provide details about the way that federal security agencies intervene in climate and Indigenous movements.
![Protesters with a banner reading 'veto genocide Joe,' in front of a Starbucks Coffee at a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people in Paris, France, on March 9, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0314-starbucks--400x300.jpg)
How Solidarity With Palestine Helped Boost Starbucks Workers United
There are important lessons for working-class internationalism embedded in the Starbucks organizing experience.
![A protester wearing a keffiyeh speaks through a bullhorn in the street.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/signal-2024-03-10-093933-1-400x300.jpeg)
Following Street Blockade, Chicago Activists Vow Ongoing Shutdowns for Palestine
Organizers say they will continue to disrupt “business as usual” until the genocide ends.
![Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest, a preserved forest Atlanta that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1471710315-400x300.jpg)
Why Disability Justice Activists Have Joined the Movement to Stop Cop City
Organizers emphasized that disabled people are especially vulnerable to both climate crisis and police violence.
![Demonstrators with Jewish Voice for Peace attempt to block President Joe Biden's motorcade route during a Pro-Palestinian protest near the U.S. Capitol on March 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0308-jvp-400x300.jpg)
Protesters Blocked Traffic Outside White House Before Biden’s State of the Union
“We’re horrified at our morally bankrupt President,” said one activist who was part of the blockade.
![A woman covered with an Argentine flag takes part in a demonstration outside the Argentine Congress during a national strike against the government of Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, on January 24, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0308-argentina-400x300.jpg)
Argentines Take Feminist Strike to the Streets on International Women’s Day
Activists demand an end to austerity measures, growing poverty and worsening food insecurity under President Milei.
![Protesters demonstrate at Chicago's Federal Plaza in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, on March 7, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/03/2024_0308-chicago-400x300.jpg)
24-Hour Vigil Highlighting the “State of the Genocide” in Gaza Held in Chicago
As Biden spoke in Washington, organizers in Chicago highlighted his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
![People leave notes and flowers during a vigil for U.S. Air Force active-duty airman Aaron Bushnell outside the Israeli Embassy on February 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Bushnell died after setting himself on fire while live streaming, according to published reports, in front of the Israeli Embassy in protest over the ongoing genocide in Palestine.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0227-aaron-bushnell-vigil-400x300.jpg)
We Must Resist Any Erasure of Why Aaron Bushnell’s Young Life Came to an End
He cried out for a free Palestine, and yet the US media set out to suppress the meaning and purpose of his sacrifice.
![A digital illustration of the late Aaron Bushnell, set against a rising sun and a starry sky](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0226-aaron-bushnell-400x300.jpg)
US Airman Self-Immolates in Front of Israeli Embassy, Yelling “Free Palestine”
“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,” said Aaron Bushnell, who was 25.
![A police officer and a protester argue as protesters of "Cop City" approach the Lewis R. Slaton Courthouse ahead of an expected indictment of former President Donald Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_0206-police-protest-400x300.jpg)
Georgia Senate Approves Bill That Would Criminalize Charitable Bail Funds
Activists worry that this legislation, if enacted, could serve as a blueprint for similar measures in other states.