Plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision to the DeKalb County Georgia Superior Court as the movement expands nationally.
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John Wilkes, Adam Clayton Powell, and Julian Bond were elected, excluded and returned to the legislature.
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Housing secretary Michael Gove is facing pressure to abandon popular plans to reform England and Wales' feudal leasehold system, Josiah Mortimer reports
We must not allow our movements for justice to be silenced by laws that criminalize dissent.
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From the School of the Americas to Cop City, the U.S. has long been complicit in the death of environmental activists.
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This is a talk Chris Hedges gave on April 6 at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary's trustee board.
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A striking teacher talks to Josiah Mortimer about what the pay crisis looks like on the ground in a Cornish secondary school
My son’s language is made of a bundle of sounds that do not exist in the Spanish that we speak around the Río de la Plata. He repeats syllables he himself invented, he alternates them with onomatopoeias, guttural sounds, and high-pitched shouts. It is an expressive, singing language. I wrote this on Twitter at 6:30 […]
The direct action group plans to 'liberate' animals in slaughterhouses and farms over the summer – and halt horse-racing events, Josiah Mortimer reports
Earlier this week, I was at a meeting to discuss the question whether my university should cut its ties with the fossil industry, or else impose additional conditions on working with partners from fossil industries. There was quite some agreement that the university should think hard about spelling out and endorsing a moral framework, and […]