On the evening of Friday, June 13 at 6:00 PM, I was present as a diverse, impassioned group of strangers gathered in downtown Lowell to demand an end to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Lowell and beyond. The demonstrators denounced a broader system of state violence, police brutality, the state’s complicity [...]
On Sunday, the office of California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a memorandum urging US President Donald Trump’s administration to immediately withdraw National Guard troops from Los Angeles, following widespread protests that erupted over the weekend against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directives ordering mass deportations of immigrants. Governor Newsom demanded that the Trump administration return [...]
Videos and reports from activists aboard the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship called the Madleen surfaced on their personal accounts Sunday night, showing Israeli authorities seizing the vessel as activists raised their hands in the air. Shortly after the arrest footage was posted to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition X account, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the [...]
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Friday called for a full, independent investigation into the Israeli military’s killing of fifteen humanitarian aid workers and urged international efforts to locate a missing PRCS paramedic. During a UN briefing, PRCS members pleaded with the international community to challenge the Israeli government’s argument that the organization’s ambulances [...]
The Trump administration on Monday repealed a Biden-era memorandum aimed at preventing US weapons transfers to countries that use the weapons to violate both international and human rights laws. While the order has not yet been made public, US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said in an official statement: President Trump’s decision to revoke this [...]
US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants. The DOJ’s motion to end the preliminary injunction — a temporary court order preventing one party from taking further legal action until [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the Egyptian government to release arbitrarily detained human rights activists currently awaiting “unlawful” prosecution. The charges brought against them include terrorism, disseminating false news, and involvement in anti-government protests. According to Amnesty International, Egyptian security forces “disappeared” around 59 people since December 2024 for posting and sharing social media [...]
Assistant US Attorney Denise Cheung resigned from her senior-level position with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday after a senior official from the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) urged her to criminally investigate the legality of a contract and to freeze all grant funding awarded under the contract. In a letter [...]
The organization Equal Rights Center (ERC) filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users, while marketing public colleges and universities to white users. ERC argued in its complaint that Meta’s discriminatory marketing practices were unlawful [...]
A federal judge in New Hampshire granted a preliminary injunction on Monday, temporarily blocking the Trump administration from enforcing its executive order that would end birthright citizenship. Judge Joseph Laplante ruled that plaintiffs represented by the nonprofit organization New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support would likely suffer irreparable harm if the court failed to block the [...]
