News | Prisons & Policing Facing PR Crisis, UT Austin Administrators Manufacture Myth of Outside Agitators Organizers say UT is avoiding the truth about its crackdown on students by calling the protesters “outsiders.” By Candice Bernd , Truthout May 6, 2024 Truthout Read Story
News | Human Rights Federally Subsidized Tenants Are Being Evicted for Pot Even Where It’s Legal Legalizing marijuana statewide while upholding a federal ban for low-income tenants only reinforces historic inequities. By Leah Goodridge , Truthout May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Human Rights Israel Orders Evacuation in Rafah, Hours After Raiding Al Jazeera Offices “The biggest genocide will take place, the biggest catastrophe will take place in Rafah,” one Palestinian said. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Education & Youth Conservative States Say They Won’t Comply With Rule Against Trans Discrimination Biden “needs to ensure that states follow through in compliance with the law,” said an LGBTQ advocate. By Zane McNeill , Truthout May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing “To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up. By Victoria Law , Truthout May 5, 2024 Truthout
News Analysis | Environment & Health Natural Gas Is a Climate Scam — and Consumers Are Paying for It Despite the fracking boom, the price of natural gas for US households has skyrocketed by 52 percent since 2016. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout May 4, 2024 Truthout
Op-Ed | Immigration Organizers in UK Are Defending Asylum Seekers From Mass Deportations to Rwanda The UK is carrying out raids that will deport migrants to a country where many of them have never been. By Zrinka Bralo , openDemocracy May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Culture & Media Romney and Blinken Admit Tiktok Ban Sought to Censor Gaza News Biden’s secretary of state said that content shared on the platform had “a very challenging effect on the narrative.” By Julia Conley , CommonDreams May 6, 2024 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Children in Gaza Are Suffering From Prolonged Trauma and Starvation, Doctor Says Walid Masoud of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund discusses the conditions among the besieged population. By Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Reproductive Rights Missouri Organizers Have Put Abortion Rights on the Ballot The measure guarantees a constitutional right to abortion in the first state to ban nearly all abortions post-“Roe”. By Grace Panetta , The19th May 6, 2024 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Facing PR Crisis, UT Austin Administrators Manufacture Myth of Outside Agitators Organizers say UT is avoiding the truth about its crackdown on students by calling the protesters “outsiders.” By Candice Bernd , Truthout May 6, 2024 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections To Confront Antisemitism, Stand With the Oppressed, Not Today’s Pharaohs Groups like the ADL actually add fuel to antisemitism by conflating it with critiques of Israel. By Jonathan Graubart , Truthout May 4, 2024 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing NYPD Officer Fired Gun During Violent Raid of Columbia Hamilton Hall Protest Police officers had entered Hamilton Hall with guns raised as they brutalized student protesters on Tuesday. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout May 3, 2024 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Documents Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles Numerous emails reflect how DC police deploy powerful tools to track individual organizers. By Ivey Dyson , Yeshi Milner , Helen Griffiths , BrennanCenterforJustice May 3, 2024 Truthout