The measure, known as Section 219, is included in the Pentagon budget bill advancing through Congress.
From civil rights activism to community organizing, from theater and education to radio, Marc has been standing for free speech since the late 1950s. Today, we talk with Marc about his extraordinary life and the fight for free speech. This is episode 8 of the Battle for Free Speech Podcast.
Love the World Cup but hate FIFA? Love professional sports but hate the billionaires, gambling companies, and authoritarians ruining them? Youโre not alone.
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control.
A new Medicaid rule could leave poor Americans with cancer, HIV, and other serious illnesses fighting paperwork instead of fighting for their lives.
In the report, officials condemn the dissidence of left-wing figures like Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani.
"What we're talking about is real basic human connection, ... being able to get on the phone and talk to that family member is a basic human need."
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
โClimate change isnโt a tragedy, itโs a crime. The fossil fuel industry are arsonists at a global scale. Itโs their pollution thatโs fueling these horrific wildfires,โ one climate advocate told Common Dreams.
โIsrael aims to establish a greater Jewish state from the Euphrates to the Nile. All Arabs are threatened, not only Palestinians. Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Jordanโall are threatened.โ
Why did โasking questions about tax dollarsโ turn into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
Time is running out to save the life of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was abducted by Israelโs military and has been held captive for over 18 months without charge.
Elon Musk has interfered in local politics and Big Tech is throwing its weight around, but Europeans are responding. This is Episode 7 of the Battle for Free Speech Podcast.
From Maryland to Texas, residents fighting data centers tell us the same thing: โIt doesn't matter what side of the aisle you're on. It's coming for all of us. And if we don't all wake up and work together, we're lost.โ
Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the โenemy withinโ and has recently promoted the idea that โdemocratic socialism must be criminalized.โ
Jacobin spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as prisons have exploded and what the path to ending mass incarceration might look like.
โTrump has turned Venezuela into an effective US colony,โ said one critic.
โEvery president across party lines has poured money into ICE,โ author and immigrant justice organizer Harsha Walia tells us.
โThis move undermines the integrity of nonpartisan election administration,โ said Arizonaโs secretary of state.
โWe donโt expect the truth from the Department of Justice or from the FBI,โ said the president of a legal group advocating for the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. โWe expect a whitewash.โ
