Facebook is unveiling a “Candidate Info” section ahead of the fast-approaching midterm elections, a new feature that will offer up short videos from hopefuls around the country. “These videos will make it easier for people to learn about and compare different candidates — and they’ll also be able to see the candidates’ Facebook Pages or profiles as well as the political…
Read moreAs Schumer and Pelosi Offer Up $1.3 Billion, Progressives Say 'Not One Dime' Should Go to Trump's Anti-Immigrant Agenda
“Memo to humanity that not one dime should go towards funding the human rights abuses of this administration.” With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) reportedly preparing to offer President Donald Trump $1.3 billion for his brutal anti-immigrant agenda during a scheduled budget meeting Tuesday morning, that was…
Read more'Stand With People, Not Polluters': Sit-In on Last Day of COP24 Highlights #PeoplesDemands for Ambitious Climate Action
As world leaders continue to negotiate a global game plan for climate action on the final day of the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, more than 150 representatives from movements across the globe came together for a sit-in to demand that governments “stand with people, not polluters” and “commit to action in line with the…
Read moreIn Open Letter, Scholars and Activists Call on Bernie Sanders to Embrace Foreign Policy That Rejects US Militarism, Bloated Pentagon Budget
Offering their “advice in a spirit of friendship” in an open letter issued on Wednesday, over 100 noted intellectuals, left-wing academics, and progressive activists have urged Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to lay out clear proposals for a foreign policy that rejects U.S. militarism, overseas misadventures, and the outrageous Pentagon budget that continues to cripple funding…
Read moreTo Protect Asylum-Seeking Family From Deportation, Dutch Church Holds Round-the-Clock Services for 900 Hours and Counting
A church in The Hague is going to extreme measures to show its intolerance for the anti-immigrant sentiment that has spread across Europe in recent years, as it enters its 38th day holding continuous services in order to protect an asylum-seeking Armenian family from deportation. The Tamrazyan family was given sanctuary by Bethel Church on…
Read moreRashida Tlaib: The Senate’s Anti-BDS Bill Is an Unconstitutional Attack on Free Speech
A new Senate bill would allow state and local governments to boycott any U.S. companies which are engaged in a boycott against Israel. Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Rashida Tlaib, who has come out out against the bill, tweeting, “They forgot what country they represent. This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right &…
Read more'The Right Thing to Do': Senate Dems Demand Back Pay for Furloughed Government Contractors
Dozens of Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are demanding not only an end to “this wasteful and destructive government shutdown” but also that contractors furloughed by their employers should receive back pay, with funding help from the federal agencies impacted by President Donald Trump’s “temper tantrum” over border wall funding. “Low-wage service contract workers…
Read more'Literally What Jesus Told People to Do': In Arizona, Possible Prison Time for Leaving Food and Water for Migrants
Four women were found guilty of misdemeanors and are facing possible prison time for leaving jugs of water and canned food in the Arizona desert for migrants braving the scorching triple-digit temperatures during the summer of 2017. “If giving water to someone dying of thirst is illegal, what humanity is left in the law of…
Read moreTwo Years In, Trump's Global Gag Rule Responsible for 'Immeasurable Suffering and Death' Around World
Pointing to countless examples from countries around the globe, reproductive rights organizations highlighted how in just two years, President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the anti-choice global gag rule has done serious damage to the health of women and families in some of the neediest communities in the world. “Those hardest hit by the impact of…
Read moreInvestigation Finds at Least $800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018
While President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda has been disastrous and deadly for asylum-seekers fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries, a Daily Beast investigation published on Thursday found that the White House’s xenophobic policies have been a major boon for the private prison industry—at the expense of American taxpayers. According to the Daily Beast‘s…
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