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Nov 10, 2016

We Hear You. We Thank You. And We’re Here With You.

Amy Goodman at the Sacred Stone Camp in 2014

Oct 24, 2016

Crossing the Fossil Fuel Industry Could Now Get You Locked Up – For Decades

Police car and military vehicle roadblock in Morton County, North Dakota

Oct 10, 2016

The Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp

Sep 29, 2016

Federal Court Says Ballot Selfie Ban Is Like Burning Down the House to Roast a Pig

Sep 19, 2016

Why President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden

Police stopping drivers at Connecticut DUI checkpoint

Sep 19, 2016

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

Police enforce a road barricade on a public highway that leads to the protest area and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation.

Sep 13, 2016

North Dakota’s Governor Declared a State of Emergency to Deal With Peaceful Oil Pipeline Protesters. We Call It a State of Emergency for Civil Rights.

Sep 8, 2016

The San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick Kneeled So That We May All Stand Taller

Famous civil rights photo of firehose use on protesters, on Twitter

Aug 12, 2016

Making Sure the Revolution Gets Televised

Aug 8, 2016

An Impolitic Situation: When Rights Disappear