Charlotte Cox BBC South West Investigations Contributor A beaver takes its first steps into the wild, picture from an unlicensed release Under cover of darkness, a nocturnal creature emerges from a crate and takes its first tentative steps into a new life in the wild. “It is just essentially God’s work. We’re undoing the damage...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Greenville, Miss. — Cedric Sturdevant woke up with “a bit of depression” but made it to church, as he does every Sunday. In a few days, he...
A security review has been launched across UK military bases after pro-Palestinian activists broke into RAF Brize Norton and sprayed two military planes with red paint. The BBC’s Phil Mackie visited the air base to look at security around its perimeter fence. Downing Street said the incident had not blocked any planned aircraft movements or...
Pro-Palestinian activists have broken into RAF Brize Norton undetected and sprayed two military planes with red paint. Footage posted online by Palestine Action on Friday morning shows two people inside the Oxfordshire airbase, with one riding on a scooter up to the Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tankers and appearing to spray paint into its jet...
There’s something I’ve found observing people all these years that I believe is unique to the Western psyche. Particularly Americans, but it can often also be found in those from other Western countries who have either spent too much time in America itself, or have absorbed much of the progressive and insular attitudes so fashionable...
Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images Activists unfurled various anti-Bezos banners around Venice Activists in Venice have launched a series of protests against Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, who is due to marry fiancée Lauren Sánchez next week in a lavish, multi-million dollar ceremony that could shut parts of the famous city down. Jeff Bezos, 61, is the world’s...
AFP The Madleen (left) was intercepted on Monday Six of eight activists who were kept in Israel after their boat was intercepted on its way to try to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza have been deported, the Israeli foreign ministry has confirmed. Earlier, Israeli human rights group Adalah said they were being transferred to...
Activists say Israeli troops have boarded a yacht trying to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. “Connection has been lost” on the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaign group said on the Telegram app. It posted a photo showing people in life jackets sitting with their hands up. The report could not be independently...
The article below is an adapted excerpt from the introduction of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic, an anthology recently published by NYU Press that chronicles experiences of ableism and diverse disability activism in New York City (and beyond) during the first four years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anthology’s authors are a collective...
On June 3, South Korea will conclude a snap election prompted by the impeachment of former president Yoon Seok-yeol on insurrection charges for a failed coup. The strong frontrunner in the race is Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party pro-peace candidate. While Lee’s election could open the window for peace talks, progressives must learn from the...
A waxwork figure of French President Emmanuel Macron has been stolen from a museum in Paris by environmental activists who disguised themselves as employees. Greenpeace activists entered the Grevin Museum posing as tourists before changing their clothes, covering the statue with a blanket and taking it out through an emergency exit, a police source told...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation “Sumūd, the process of steadfastness, of survivance, is not just a project of survival, but also one of remembrance, record-keeping, and revitalization,” write Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably in the introduction to Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader (Seven Stories Press). The world has now...
This story was originally published in at Prism. San Diego-based attorney Ian Seruelo received three separate reports in March alone about local county Sheriff Kelly Martinez violating California’s immigration policy. The California Values Act, also known as Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), ensures that local law enforcement will not cooperate with immigration authorities to deport...
Here we go again. It’s apparently reading week at Columbia University which means lots of students are preparing for final exams in the quiet campus library. No doubt that’s why a group of Hamas supporters decided to take over the library today. They want to create maximum disruption on campus. Here they are shoving their...
About a year ago there were anti-Israel protests on the campus of the University of Michigan similar to the ones taking place at other schools. Some of those protests resulted in arrests but in a pattern familiar to anyone who follows left-wing activists, charges against those involved were either never filed at all or were...