Hearing is last chance to block NC restrictions before 2014 election
"The hearing in North Carolina is one with national implications," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP.
New York activists expect massive September climate march at UN
"Make it bigger, make it bolder, make it more challenging, because literally the whole world will be watching."
Republicans use child refugees to block immigration reform
The arrival in South Texas alone of over 50,000 child refugees without immigration papers has been seized on by Republicans to block immigration reform.
Texas Democrats set progressive platform
Texas Democrats put fair wages, spending on education, gender equality, immigration reform, LGBT rights, anti-outsourcing, and anti-privatization at the top of their priorities
"Workers' rights same as civil rights," says actor and activist Danny Glover
"Well first of all, I have been involved with issues about labor for a great deal of my life, I come out of a union family and my mother and my father were very much involved in organizing."
In Harris v. Quinn, labor dodges a bullet
Unlike a lobby or interest group, a union has a duty to provide a service to every worker covered in its agreement.
Supreme Court makes it tougher for women to exercise choice
The Massachusetts policy aimed to protect women as they accessed reproductive health care against a backdrop of harassment and even physical attacks from anti-choice protesters.
Supreme Court allows corporations to deny birth control coverage
The Supreme Court ruled that family-owned corporations can use religious objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
Children fleeing violence and poverty
Displaced children as young as 13 are leaving their homes in Central America in greater numbers than ever before due to violence from wars involving the cartels, gang initiations and or extortion.
No Bill of Rights on U.S.-Mexico border
Tucson is 60 miles from the Mexican border, within a 100-mile zone where immigration authorities say important due process rights can be suspended.
