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An era of hate-filled rhetoric and global insecurity has endangered human rights around the world, spurring an extraordinary wave of social activism. Those are the underlying findings of Amnesty International's annual State of the World's Human Rights report, released for the first time on Thursday.
The chairman of a House investigative subcommittee asked the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Inspector General to investigate reports an Obama administration appointee may have violated anti-lobbying laws. Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold wants EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins to investigate Chemical Safety Board member Rick Engler's working with union activists to pressure Congress for funding.
In some far-flung conspiracy quarters, the articulate, determined Florida high school students leading a gun-control movement are literally too good to be true. They are "crisis actors."
A DSA member stands in solidarity with immigration activists at a January demonstration to urge Congress to pass the Dream Act. On the first Saturday of the year, more than 50 people were packed into a fluorescent-lit room at the Royal Oak Senior Center with the ultimate goal of overhauling the country's economic order.
The nomination of radical student activist Joshua Wong Chi-fung, two allies and the 2014 Occupy movement adds power to the arm of hawks in Beijing and marginalises those who are not unamenable to some degree of electoral freedom for Hong Kong It is not normally known who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize - let alone who is being seriously considered - unless the nominators reveal the names to serve their own agenda. The Norwegian Nobel committee applies a 50-year secrecy rule to the nominees.
The most cataclysmic scenarios for global warming have been ruled out, according to a new report from University of British Columbia. But the report also warns that the climate will still destabilize, wreacking havoc on the planet.
The Latest on Ravi Ragbir, an immigrant activist facing deportation who was ordered freed from detention : An immigrant activist who was freed from detention as he fights deportation will attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Rep. Yvette Clarke's office says Ravi Ragbir will be the Brooklyn congresswoman's guest at the speech Tuesday night.
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U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez addresses Amy Gottlieb, left, the wife of detained immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir during a demonstration in front of the Manhattan office building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 in New York.
Friday evening, Hillary Clinton wrapped up a bizarre video in which she said that her message was "directed to the activist b*tches supporting b*tches." A universal establishment media firestorm erupted over what President Trump allegedly said in a closed-door meeting earlier this month.
U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez has invited the wife of detained immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Ragbir was in federal custody Saturday, several weeks after he was handcuffed and arrested during a routine check-in with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Earlier tonight, Huffington Post commentator and co-founder of "Bros4Hillary" Alex Mohajer apparently ran in to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and tweeted a short video of her. In the video, Clinton thanked her supporters for "your feminism, your activism" and expressed her hope that they "keep up the really important good work."
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has overseen what is said to be the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee to neighbouring Bangladesh. Risking death by sea or on foot, more than half a million have fled persecution in northern Rakhine state since August 2017.
Former New York Mayor-turned anti-oil activist Michael Bloomberg has yet to render a judgement about his successor's highly-publicized climate change lawsuit against oil companies. Bloomberg refuses to address the controversy, while other prominent activists take a skeptical approach toward the pursuit against Exxon Mobil and other companies criticized for producing emissions some argue contributes to global warming "Fundamentally, solving the climate problem is about looking to the future, not the past," Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, told Axios in an interview Thursday.
Calls for greater independence for Hong Kong's prosecutor from his or her politically appointed superior were brushed aside by the government on Wednesday, with it saying there was no "timetable" to push ahead with such reforms. The stance was made clear by embattled Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah , who herself might face possible prosecution over illegal structures at her residence.
In this Jan. 17, 2018, photo, Minnie Wood, center, makes signs with her daughters Buckley, right, and Zoey in preparation for a rally in Las Vegas. A year after more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches around the world with a message of female empowerment and protest of President Donald Trump, organizers will mark the anniversary with more than a hundred marches around the world and a rally in Las Vegas aiming to channel the activism to register voters and swing elections for progressives this year.
Maru Mora Villalpando, a well-known immigrant activist, herself an undocumented person who has been put in deportation proceedings, speaks to a crowd during a press conference on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in front of the ICE office in downtown Seattle, Wash. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained or deported several foreigners across the country who are also prominent immigration activists, prompting accusations from advocates that the Trump administration is improperly targeting political opponents.
No circle has been broken here No one who stands along The threads of life so lately broke Are woven through our own None of us who knew Paul Booth expected him to die when he did, in the early evening of Wednesday, November 17, 2018. At 74, he was young not just at heart but in body and spirit, vibrant, alive, still the fighter, the visionary he'd been for well over 50 years.