Immigration reform and “criminal alien” injustice
The Republican leadership in the House has been threatening to use parliamentary tricks to stop a reform bill even if it has majority support.
Coalition galvanizes response to “abortion Holocaust”
The pro-choice grassroots movement has also come together to tell extremists that their agenda is not welcome in New Mexico.
Petition: Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, please quit!
An online petition, supported by the Detroit branch of the NAACP, is calling on Kevyn Orr to resign for "vile and callous"comments.
Utility workers say job-killing FirstEnergy could cause another big blackout
The corporation that caused the blackout of 2003, FirstEnergy, is about to shut two power plants in western Pennsylvania, destroying hundreds of jobs and putting the region's power grid at risk, according to the Utility Workers of America.
Opponent of stop-and-frisk fears for her son
"I think about the humiliation these young men go through, being stopped and frisked, and ask myself, 'When will it be my son's first time?'"
A year after Chevron explosion, the grassroots mobilizes
A protest grew to 3,000 once it reached the gates of the Chevron refinery, and 209 were subsequently arrested in a sit-down act of non-violent civil disobedience.
Idaho natives face off against tar sands disruption
The problem? The truck was illegally advancing through tribal lands and a federally-protected river area.
Counseling center shutdown teaches important health care lessons
A right-wing governor has used an unreliable study and nonexistent federal requirements to replace local, community-based, nonprofit health care providers with out-of-state for-profit companies.
Rosanell Eaton, 92, sues North Carolina for taking her vote
By signing the new law, the Republican governor replaced one of the best voting laws in the country with one that is arguably now the worst.
Arizona mural dramatizes killings by border agents
"Mother Demands Justice" was the theme of a press conference and protest at the unveiling of a large public mural in downtown Tucson commemorating the murder of a Mexican teen.
