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GAZA CITY — In 2008, Momen Faiz Quraiqea was a budding 21-year-old video journalist when an Israeli airstrike blew off his legs. The experience as a victim of what many considered a war crime only hardened his resolve to document the …
Israel Destroyed Offices of More Than 20 Palestinian Media Outlets in Gaza More >
From the Black Organizing Project. We write to you today with urgency and excitement. Our urgency comes from the critical issues to be addressed in our country—the climate crisis, racial injustice, worsening income inequality as a result of the pandemic, …
Why Ongoing Power Building Matters and How Every Nonprofit Can Do It More >
With enormous pro-Palestine demonstrations erupting across the world — including a historic general strike today in Palestine itself — Israeli apartheid is feeling the heat. The next step is to bring it down. Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrate in Haifa, …
There is a universe in which Hurricane Sandy didn’t create quite so much devastation back in 2012; where the waters, which surged deep into subway tunnels and left parts of New York City in the dark for days, left some …
Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages More >
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. As the Israeli bombing of Gaza continues through its ninth day, Palestinians across the occupied …
Foto: Reprodução/Instagram; The Intercept Brasil Protegida por uma peixeira, um copo de catuaba e com o amor revolto de 500 romances “Sabrina” no peito, lia alguns dos afagos endereçados por parte da direita gratiluz para mim na semana passada (“burra”, …
Há uma revolução na academia brasileira – e Felipe Neto precisa conhecê-la More >
In ‘Finding the Mother Tree,’ a maverick forest ecologist relates her scientific journey — one that follows in the footsteps of traditional Indigenous knowledge. A healthy forest hums with aboveground stimuli: deer shuffling through dead leaves, breezes ruffling conifer …
Under Tali Farhadian Weinstein’s leadership, Brooklyn’s unit exonerated just three people—a far lower rate than in previous years. This article is part of a partnership between New York Focus and The Appeal to cover Manhattan’s 2021 DA race. As general …
As part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on domestic extremism, the Pentagon plans to launch a pilot program for screening social media content for extremist material, according to internal Defense Department documents reviewed by The Intercept, as well as a …
Pentagon Plans to Monitor Social Media of Military Personnel for Extremist Content More >
Monterrosa, 22, was killed by a police officer who had a history of shooting at civilians. His sisters are pushing for a law they believe could have saved him. When Derek Chauvin was found guilty for the murder of George …
The Israeli government’s claim that Hamas operated a military intelligence unit in a Gaza City building that housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera is false, a Hamas official has told The Intercept. The Israeli military destroyed the …
Hamas Official Denies Group Used Destroyed Gaza Media Tower for Intelligence More >
There’s a scene in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television series Fleabag where her character, Fleabag, finds herself in a confession booth on one side of a thin scrim from a character we know only as the Priest. Fleabag’s mother has recently died, …
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. On Saturday, Israel leveled a 12-story building housing the offices of Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other media …
Two weeks into her first-ever research cruise, doctoral student Solveig Schilling still could not stop smiling. The trip, which was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, would provide her with data that will form the basis of …
A sunken river valley could hold the key to protecting the Texas coast More >
‘I think there will be a reckoning in the party.’ Liz Cheney is Wyoming’s only member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives. This story was originally published by WyoFile and is republished here by permission. Within minutes …
A group of five former rehab participants have filed a class-action lawsuit against The Salvation Army, alleging they were not paid for work they performed at the venerated charity. The Salvation Army is one of the largest providers of drug …
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Friday, we updated our Nonprofit Explorer database in two big ways. First, we’ve added the ability to …
New: View an Organization’s Employees and Officers on Nonprofit Explorer More >
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a …
Border Policy Is Getting More and More Convoluted. That’s Creating False Hope for Migrants. More >
A California lawmaker is calling for the Biden administration to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the Paycheck Protection Program in response to an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The program, known as the PPP, was established …
Lawmaker calls for ‘immediate action’ to address racial disparities in PPP lending More >
Image Credit: Michael Coghlan / Rethink Over the last two years, I’ve received many calls from racial justice consultants and practitioners. The two main requests have been for new models and to be convened as a community of practitioners. So, …
Mass protests that began in 2019 in Chile — and have deep roots in the country’s militant history of resistance to neoliberalism — are about to bring about a new constitution. This is an attempt to correct the constitution imposed …
How Chileans went from jumping subway turnstiles to rewriting the Constitution More >
The proposal by Mike Elliott, if passed by City Council, would also create a department of unarmed professionals trained to respond to mental health needs. Less than a month after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright in Brooklyn …
Brooklyn Center Mayor Unveils Plan To Decrease Police Traffic Enforcement Powers More >
Birthed largely out of necessity and shared rage, 2020 was a landmark year in the explosion of bottom-up organizing. While the pandemic only highlighted widening disparities in health care and economic insecurity, the murder of George Floyd by police struck …
What the overlooked history of post-1960s organizing can teach activists today More >
A disproportionate number of Black residents have left the city, and advocates say the next mayor needs to ensure greater access to housing. Between 2013 and 2019, Pittsburgh’s Black population fell by nearly 8,000, more than 10 percent of all …
How Demands for Affordable Housing Are Defining Pittsburgh’s Mayoral Race More >
Despite a 2019 California law mandating the release of certain records related to police misconduct, law enforcement agencies in the state are still fighting records requests. This story was produced in partnership with Oaklandside, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on Oakland, …