One law professor told Common Dreams the detention of Maj. Jason Watson was a "blatant case of illegal pretrial punishment."

Nationwide, communities are protesting existing and proposed data centers that consume enormous amounts of energy and water at a financial and environmental cost borne by residents. The United States has more than 3,000 data centers. Of particular concern are “hyper-scale” data centers that demand at least 50 MW of power—enough electricity for a small city. Sixty-eight hyper-scale facilities operate today, and 267 more are planned. In this webinar, we will begin by hearing from Alexis Humphreys, a grassroots leader in the struggle to confront Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis,...

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

Several US allies call to 'defend' and 'protect' the ICC following Washington's decision to sanction the judiciary body.

No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.

This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.