Conservatives in Tennessee, Oklahoma Introduce “Abortion Trafficking” Bills
Right-wing lawmakers in Tennessee and Oklahoma have introduced “abortion trafficking” bills that would criminalize helping pregnant minors access abortions out of state. These bills mirror Idaho’s...
View ArticleI’ve Been Unhoused. It Could Happen to You. Let’s Stop Criminalizing It.
For a period in 2005, I was one of the more than 740,000 people who were experiencing homelessness at that time in the U.S. On an eastern section of Sunset Boulevard where tourists never venture,...
View ArticleIVF Patient Speaks Out Against Alabama High Court’s Embyro Ruling
Reproductive health and medical groups are asking the Alabama Supreme Court to rehear the case in which the justices ruled frozen embryos should be considered children. The decision sent shockwaves...
View ArticleCriminal Charges Filed Against Russian Gay Club for “LGBT Extremism”
Russian authorities have initiated the country’s first-ever criminal case into “LGBT extremism,” according to Yekaterina Mizulina, head of the Kremlin-aligned Safe Internet League. Mizulina asserted...
View ArticleSCOTUS Ignores Housing Crisis in Hearing on Laws Criminalizing Unhoused People
Grants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, has passed three ordinances since 2017 to prohibit “sleeping on public sidewalks, streets, or alleyways,” and prohibit camping on “sidewalks, streets, alleys,...
View ArticleGrieving Mothers Say Punitive New Drug Laws Won’t Solve the Overdose Crisis
Ahead of Mother’s Day, grieving moms who lost their children to drug overdose are warning that the wave of punitive anti-drug legislation sweeping the country would not have prevented the deaths of...
View ArticleWill Involuntary Homelessness Become a Crime?
On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused — the term that has generally replaced “homeless” — people with no indoor...
View ArticleAnti-Mask Laws Target Gaza Protests, But They Threaten All Progressive Movements
Across the United States, right-wing legislators are targeting protesters who oppose the genocide in Palestine by resurrecting laws against wearing face masks in public. In North Carolina, the...
View Article2 Years After the End of “Roe,” We Must Demand More Than Its Restoration
Two years after the Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended federal protections for the legal right to abortion, the number of people traveling across state lines to...
View ArticleSCOTUS Ruling Sets Stage for Battle Over Camping Bans Against Unhoused People
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled last week that cities can enforce bans on sleeping outside and essentially criminalize homelessness. City governments in western states now have the...
View ArticleIllinois Students Who Protested Gaza Genocide Are Facing Felony Mob Charges
Pre-trial hearings for students who participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment in central Illinois last spring are being held on November 20 and December 4, 2024. The outcome of the four students’...
View ArticleThe Right Has a 150-Page Battle Plan to Shut Down Progressive Civil Society
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, after a campaign in which Trump threatened the press, the left and “the enemy within,” 204 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the House of Representatives decided...
View ArticleUS’s First Overdose Prevention Site Continues Research-Backed, Lifesaving Work
At 8 a.m. on a Monday morning, most of the soft recliners in the waiting area of the three-story East Harlem overdose prevention center (OPC) are already occupied by those who have come to consume...
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