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JULY 16. 2025

After Trump Dismissed Minneapolis Police’s Federal Consent Decree, City Attorney Prevents Reform Merge

The Trump administration ditched a federal Department of Justice consent decree on the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.

JULY 11. 2025

Gazans Make Diesel From Plastic Amid Genocide

With no diesel allowed into Gaza, citizens are successfully converting plastic into diesel and gasoline to be used for transportation.

JULY 9. 2025

Global March to Gaza Violently Repressed by Egyptian Authorities

Thousands of people departed Cairo on June 13 in an attempt to break the siege of Gaza and demand an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.

JULY 8. 2025

Sanitation & City Services Strike Continues in Philly Labor Battle

City stands in solidarity by taking trash to the curb in defiance of Mayor Parker’s orders, 2 union member arrests

JULY 7. 2025

Award-Winning Artist Javaka Steptoe Centers Community on Visit to Minneapolis

Centering Black youth and community, award-winning author and illustrator Javaka Steptoe visited Minneapolis to share his art and children's literature.

JULY 2. 2025

Sunrise Movement Executed Series of Senate Disruptions to Stop Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" passed the Senate, but not without strong opposition from environmental and human rights groups.

JUNE 30. 2025

New Conviction Integrity Unit Agrees to Review Mahdi Ali’s Case

Hennepin County's Conviction Integrity Unit agreed to look into Mahdi Ali's life sentence case, which he maintains his innocence in.

JUNE 20. 2025

Protest ‘Peacekeepers’ Shot Two People at a March in Salt Lake City. One Died, the Other Went to Jail.

Salt Lake City, UT — When friends of Arturo Gamboa heard that he had been shot at a protest last Saturday, they were shocked. A fixture in the punk and activist scenes of Salt Lake, Gamboa is a known leftist and musician who regularly carries firearms at protests in the city.

JUNE 17. 2025

Philadelphia Police Crack Down on Anti-ICE Marches Twice in One Week

Philadelphia, PA — The increasing tempo of pro-immigrant, anti-ICE protests hit Philadelphia last week, and the Philadelphia Police Department has decided to crack down.

JUNE 13. 2025

Pressure Builds to Protect Manoomin

Activists have been showing up to meetings since the start of the 2025 MN legislative session in attempts to create legal protections for wild rice.

JUNE 12. 2025

The City of Salem Told Them They Deserved a Roof Instead of a Tent. Some Ended Up With Neither.

State and local officials have long held Massachusetts, just as much of the rest of the country, is in an affordable housing crisis.

Plainclothes Feds Arrest Poet After Interview With Press, Unseal Conflated Complaint

Poet arrested by federal agents after interview with press, complaint conflates assault charges from community defense with meth bust.

JUNE 9. 2025

SEIU Protests Arrest, Injury of Union Leader David Huerta in LA ICE Raid

The Service Employees International Union is holding rallies across the U. S. demanding the release of California SEIU President David Huerta from the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.

Palestine Protests Target Philly-Based “Genocide Profiteer” Day & Zimmermann

Philadelphia, PA — “Before long the entire city will know what this company does! ” These were some of the last words spoken Tuesday morning by a protester with a megaphone and a kaffiyeh scarf after a few dozen people had gathered for two hours outside a well-appointed office building in Center City Philadelphia.