Human Rights
What Took Down ACORN May Take Down the Rest of Us
By David Swanson In Seymour Hersh’s new account of his career, Reporter: A Memoir, he recalls that Martin Luther King Jr. told him upon the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that he planned to register 900,000 Negroes to vote.…
“Home”, a poem about immigration written by an immigrant
We publish below the beautiful poem “Home” by Warsan Shire, a young British woman of Somali origin. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole…
John Pilger and Courage Foundation announce “urgent campaign” to free Assange
Internationally-acclaimed journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger issued the following statement on behalf of the Courage Foundation. Pilger is a trustee of the organization, which raises funds for the legal defense of persecuted whistleblowers, journalists and publications, including Julian Assange and…
Face 2 Face with Matthew Shapiro
On this show we speak with Matthew Shapiro, Legal Director with the Street Vendor Project. We discuss the present situation of street vendors in New York the number of vendor licenses and permits have been frozen since 1983 and the…
We must resist and not allow a single step backwards to be taken in the right to health
Carmen Esbrí is a human rights activist. Member of the Madrid Public Health Defence Committee MEDSAP – Marea Blanca and of the National White Tide Coordinator. The Madrid Public Health Defence Committee MEDSAP – Marea Blanca (White Tide), is a…
Young people are leading a growing movement against low pay and precarious work
Wil Chivers, Cardiff University; Helen Blakely, Cardiff University, and Steve Davies for The Conversation Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the first of their kind in the…
Criminalisation of solidarity, Hungary at the forefront
Hungary, ruled by Viktor Orban’s racist right wing, has always distinguished itself for its anti-immigrant policy (just think of the barbed wire barrier built in 2015 on the border with Serbia), but those who oppose it are now being harshly…
An end to ‘apartheid polls’ in Israeli media?
Jews-only polls on matters relevant to the entire Israeli public and polls that present Jews-only polls as representing the views of the entire Israeli public constitute discrimination against the country’s Arab population, Israeli Press Council’s Ethics Court rules. By Oren…
‘Land grab’ on hurricane-hit Barbuda could leave the island almost entirely owned by banks
Tomaso Ferrando, University of Bristol for The Conversation Hurricane Irma passed directly over the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda in September 2017. Irma was the fifth strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, and it reached peak intensity just before landfall,…
The problem with generating a unique narrative is that we can’t imagine other models
Sara García Toledano is a law student and activist at the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca PAH Madrid (Platform for Victims of Mortgages PAM Madrid). She has participated in the European Humanist Forum, recently held in Madrid, as a…
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