Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against it. Florida’s Republican attorney general,...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Montreal, Canada – Civil rights advocates and Palestinian solidarity groups in Canada have raised alarm over a growing wave of municipal bylaws prohibiting protests outside houses of worship, schools, and other sites. They say...
José Carlos Cueto BBC News Mundo Colombia correspondent AFP / Getty Images The recruitment of children is one of the most serious challenges remaining in the armed conflict in Colombia When Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in the head on 7 June, it shocked the international community. After years of...
Jeremy Ball Social affairs correspondent, BBC East Midlands BBC Armed police seized four kits containing guns, silencers, bullets and latex gloves Detectives have revealed how they uncovered a makeshift factory that produced lethal “assassination kits” for organised crime groups. Armed police arrested Ronald Knowles as he tried to burn a “treasure trove” of evidence in...
Back in 2023, Elon Musk sued Media Matters over a report it put out claiming X was serving ads next to extremist content. Elon Musk, as promised, is hauling Media Matters into court — alleging the liberal watchdog group “knowingly and maliciously manufactured” images depicting neo-Nazi and white-nationalist posts on X next to major marketers’...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a busy highway that runs northwest of the city’s iconic French Quarter....
Community and arts groups in Exeter are being invited to apply for crucial funding. Exeter City Council is making £50,000 available through its City Grants Fund. The Fund supports projects and activities taking place across multiple wards or across the city. Groups can apply for a maximum of £2,500. The City Grants Fund supports groups...
Thousands of Gazan’s stampede towards a food distribution centre Crowds of Palestinians have overrun a distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Videos showed people walking over torn-down fences and earth berms at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) compound in the southern...
The brief videos posted by a group called Seniors 4 Better Care to YouTube look just like the political ads that take over the airwaves during campaign season. The voiceover in one breezy video claims without context that former President Joe Biden “broke” Medicare, the popular government insurance program for seniors, and that only President...
Caroline Hawley BBC Diplomatic Correspondent NurPhoto/Getty Human rights groups are warning of a “surge” of deaths of migrant construction workers in Saudi Arabia, as it prepares to host the World Cup in 2034. Labourers are already dying from preventable workplace accidents in the country, according to Human Rights Watch and FairSquare which have both published...
Advocacy groups called Tom Homan’s threat against Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers a “chilling attempt to normalize fascism.” A coalition of advocacy organizations on Saturday expressed support for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and warned that the Trump border czar’s threat against the Democratic leader marks a “dangerous escalation” of the administration’s assault on the rule of...
Leading human rights organisations have renewed calls for investigations into the killing of protesters by Kenya’s security forces during demonstrations against a rise in taxes last June. It follows a BBC Africa Eye investigation, exposing members of the security forces who shot dead three protesters at Kenya’s parliament, igniting public outrage and demands for justice....
A new report from human rights experts urges the United Nations to condemn the “evaporation of fundamental rights” in the United States, where the Trump administration is using high-tech surveillance tools and a nebulous “anti-terrorism” legal framework that has ballooned since 9/11 to weaponize law enforcement against social movements that challenge state power. While the...
South West Water bills rise by a third following worst performance in sector with 550,000 hours of sewage spills Tariffs increase as Environment Agency publishes damning data after South West Water owner Pennon Group issues £24.5 million in dividends to shareholders. Tuesday 22 April 2025 Devon & Torbay CCA sets sail for regional democratic deficit...
Yasin Rasouli & Zia Shahreyar BBC Afghan Languages Getty Images US military equipment and vehicles, including abandoned Humvees, fell into the hands of the Taliban in 2021 Half a million weapons obtained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been lost, sold or smuggled to militant groups, sources have told the BBC – with the UN...