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Tag Archives: Human Rights

Pope Francis journeys to Alberta to apologize for “the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples”

Excerpt: With his statements, the Pope answered a 2015 recommendation by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which called for accountability and apology for the “spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit and Metis children from Catholic-run residential schools.”
Published at:8:30 AM on Tuesday, July 26th, 2022
Written by:Joel Connelly
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The occupation convoys plaguing Canada are a slick, foreign-funded attack on democracy

Excerpt: All told, more money has flowed toward the convoy protest than was given to Canada’s three major political parties in the last quarter of 2021. One percent of donors has accounted for twenty percent of the money donated.
Published at:8:30 AM on Thursday, February 17th, 2022
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Book Review: Hilarie Gamm’s “Billions Lost” sadly has nothing useful or progressive to say

Excerpt: Read NPI's review of "Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and the Roadmap to Change" by Hilarie T. Gamm.
Published at:3:30 PM on Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Written by:David A Johnson
Categories:Media & Culture, Views & Reviews
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NPI poll finds 69% of Washingtonians favor life in prison alternatives to the death penalty

Excerpt: An overwhelming majority of Washingtonians would rather send convicted murderers to prison for life than execute them, a recent poll commissioned by the Northwest Progressive Institute has found.
Published at:1:30 PM on Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Breaking News, Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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SIFF Documentary Reviews: “Afghan Cycles” and “The Poetess” tell the stories of groundbreaking women in the Middle East

Excerpt: Read NPI's reviews of two films screened at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival that tell the stories of groundbreaking women in the Middle East.
Published at:10:00 AM on Saturday, June 30th, 2018
Written by:Theresa Curry Almuti
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SIFF Documentary Review: “The Most Dangerous Year” highlights the urgency of the fight for transgender rights

Excerpt: Read NPI's review of "The Most Dangerous Year", premiering at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival.
Published at:9:30 AM on Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Written by:Theresa Curry Almuti
Categories:Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Torturer Gina Haspel will be installed as new CIA head thanks to renegade Democrats

Excerpt: Despite the opposition of Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, the United States Senate today voted to confirm torturer Gina Haspel to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, further harming the United States' international standing and handing Donald Trump another victory.
Published at:1:46 PM on Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Open Government, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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LANDMARK VICTORY: Washington State Senate votes to abolish the death penalty!

Excerpt: In a landmark victory for human rights and dignity, the Washington State Senate made history today by approving legislation that would abolish the death penalty, ending the barbaric practice of executing people as a punishment for crimes.
Published at:5:18 PM on Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Book Review: “Fifty Million Rising” explains how women are changing the Muslim world

Excerpt: Saadia Zahidi's look at the cohort of "The Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World" doesn't contradict itself, but it is large and containing multitudes. It couldn't be anything less and still true, spanning as it does thirty Muslim-majority countries from North Africa all the way to Southeast Asia.
Published at:11:10 PM on Monday, February 12th, 2018
Written by:David A Johnson
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VICTORY! Delaware Supreme Court declares state’s death penalty law unconstitutional

Excerpt: A sig­nif­i­cant vic­to­ry for human rights has been won today: The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled the state’s death penal­ty law is uncon­sti­tu­tion­al – and the only chance at fix­ing it is to punt the issue to the already-divid­ed Gen­er­al Assembly. The top court released its rul­ing Tues­day that said Delaware’s cur­rent cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment statute vio­lates the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion by […]
Published at:4:52 PM on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Connecticut’s Supreme Court puts an end to all executions in the Nutmeg State

Excerpt: This is a great vic­to­ry for human rights that deserves to be cel­e­brat­ed: After a sweep­ing two-year review, the state Supreme Court out­lawed cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in Con­necti­cut, say­ing the state’s death penal­ty no longer com­ports with evolved soci­etal val­ues and serves no valid pur­pose as punishment. The 4–3 deci­sion would remove 11 con­victs from Con­necti­cut’s […]
Published at:11:21 AM on Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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The Progressive Christian Movement You Never Knew You Needed to Organize

Excerpt: It’s the last pan­el of the day at Net­roots Nation, but ener­gy still seems high. We start out the pan­el with a video by the Rev­erend William Bar­ber, who was unable to make it to the con­ven­tion because of a court case. In this video he talks about the need for a rhetoric of moral­i­ty, […]
Published at:5:09 PM on Thursday, July 16th, 2015
Written by:Patrick Stickney
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Nebraska lawmakers abolish executions, overriding Republican governor’s veto

Excerpt: Joy­ous news to report on today. Law­mak­ers in the reli­ably con­ser­v­a­tive state of Nebras­ka today took a coura­geous stand for human rights and dig­ni­ty by over­rid­ing Repub­li­can Gov­er­nor Pete Rick­etts’ veto of leg­is­la­tion that would per­ma­nent­ly abol­ish exe­cu­tions. With no votes to spare, the uni­cam­er­al Nebras­ka Leg­is­la­ture vot­ed to make the Corn­husker State the nine­teenth state […]
Published at:4:16 PM on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Iran frees Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — two U.S. hikers it has imprisoned since 2009

Excerpt: Iran’s auto­crat­ic regime today freed two Amer­i­can hik­ers that it has held in prison for more than two years in a move it called a “human­i­tar­i­an gesture”. Shane Bauer and Josh Fat­tal, both twen­ty-nine, were allowed to leave Iran’s infa­mous Evin prison and tak­en by a diplo­mat­ic car­a­van to an Iran­ian air­port. They were then […]
Published at:2:01 PM on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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