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Volunteers Marching during Iraq Anniversary 2011

Occupy Our Homes at the Dawn Butler Eviction in DC

Report backs from the World Social Forum

Submitted by meddo on Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:18pm

Other Social Justice Issues

Occupy the WSF

Dear people,

In 1999 the counter-globalisation movement burst onto the streets at the WTO conference in Seattle. Two years later, in Porto Alegre, the movement began to organize its own alternative summits.

Since then, every year, representatives of NGOs and social movements gather in a Third World location to discuss, to connect, to teach, to learn, to share.

Our Evaluation of the Mayor’s FY2014 Budget

Submitted by cmason on Mon, 04/08/2013 - 1:46pm

DC Local Justice

We are very pleased to report that last Thursday Mayor Gray unveiled a FY2014 budget that offers significant investments in safety net programs. In this post we will evaluate his budget based on how it fulfills our human rights standards of protecting dignity, advancing equity, and ending poverty in the District.

Don't Follow the Loser on Immigration Reform

Submitted by dsigwalt on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 11:40am

Remind me again: who lost the past election? Oh...yes, it was Mitt Romney, failing to recognize the contributions of millions of Americans, discarding 47% of the population as victims, and proposing that self-deportation was the cure for our broken immigration system.

“Self-deportation” is the notion that the U.S. government should make conditions for immigrants so harsh and painful that they would voluntarily leave the country. This controversial approach doesn’t take into account that the overwhelming majority of immigrants have strong ties in their communities and many are parents children born in the United States.

Melissa Harris-Perry: GLAAD Changes Name to Include Transgender Equality

Submitted by dsigwalt on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 11:13am

DC Local Justice

"We need to redefine what equality is. If we're defining equality as something that is scarce and limited. [Something] that is for a very select few in our community, and that some of us need to wait for a little bit - that's not equality. That's upholding very systematic oppression. " - Janet Mock

Is the State Department Being Downright Fraudulent in Assessing the Risks of the Keystone XL Pipeline?

Submitted by dsigwalt on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 12:29pm

Environmental Justice/Climate Change

At least one of the several oil-friendly corporate authors was apparently paid by Trans-Canada, the corporate applicant for -- and the owner of -- the Keystone pipeline. And that's not all.

So it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact statement issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That's the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed no matter what, and anyway, climate change wouldn't hurt the pipeline.

And it turns out that at least one of the several oil-friendly corporate authors was apparently paid by Trans-Canada, the corporate applicant for - and the owner of - the Keystone pipeline.