Looks like Target's "expect more, pay less" motto extends to the workers who sew their garments 😒 Since 2013, Target has known that its Guatemalan workers have been denied the benefits they spent their lives earning. More here: www.workersrights.org/app/uploads/...

went to a fundraiser by ppl from Dawei in southern Myanmar, which lost over 50 villages recently to flooding. no intl orgs are collecting funds because it's also a conflict zone. and the junta isn't letting aid orgs in, and turned off the internet 😐 (i can route donations, dm or signal)

Just Ground joined 60+ U.S. human rights orgs to send letters to the President of the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights demanding action to investigate and monitor the human rights crisis in the U.S. Read more here: ccrjustice.org/home/get-inv...

U.S. Engagement with the Universal Periodic Review Process (UPR)

The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the

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Engagement that comes after decisions are made isn't genuine or meaningful. Here's what rights holders said about what real participation requires.

Just Ground@justground.bsky.social · last mo.

At the UN Asia-Pacific Business & Human Rights Forum, rights holders called for power, not process: a say from the start, respect for FPIC, safety from reprisals, respect for their expertise. They demand agency. Reflections here👇 tinyurl.com/b9p3uehb #BHR #FPIC #BizHumanRights

R.I.P. Gloria.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gloria Steinem's essays, organizing, and institutions like Ms. magazine reshaped American life for women. She understood that progress would provoke resistance, because, as she so eloquently put it... "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

The #nepal floods damaged 13 hydropower projects and 600 project workers remain missing. The @adb.org and other development banks failed to assess the projects' climate resilience despite a history flood damage to 34 other projects -- and Nepal still has to pay them back: tinyurl.com/5c8tze7y

Flood risks to Nepal hydropower project were known – but banks ignored them

Over 70 Indian workers have been rescued from the Upper Trishuli-1 project. Many are still missing.

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If you're a startup looking to bake your values and mission into your company, this Founder's Hub has some great resources: founders.transformfinance.org. I love that Transform Finance is doing the work of maybe not dismantling, but at least rewiring, capitalism.

Monitoring planes, trains or automobiles in an investigation? Our Bellingcat Toolkit includes a range of resources for transport tracking, geolocation, and movement analysis: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/cate... Here are a few of the tools we use and how you can get involved 🧵

Transport | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

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If you are a U.S. lawyer interested in resisting fascism, or just want to help out a local non-profit, this site helps you find a way to volunteer your skills to do some good: wetheaction.org?ref=6306dca0...

Join the cause

We The Action connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofit organizations. Together, they advocate for a more equitable, inclusive, and just society.

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The Investor Alliance for Human Rights program is hiring an expert on technology and human rights to engage with companies, policy makers and standards-setting bodies re: the corporate responsibility to respect human rights - app.beapplied.com/apply/bheu1a...

Associate Director, Investor Alliance for Human Rights

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is seeking an Associate Director to support the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, an initiative of ICCR which is a collective action platform...

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These cohort meetings are a bright spot in my month - hearing and sharing with young activists doing inspiring work despite numerous difficulties and the risks of restrictive settings.

Just Ground@justground.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Community-led research builds community power to define and demand their rights. This cohort supports the frontline human rights defenders doing this deep work. tinyurl.com/3722rz76

After the Trump administration threatened to revoke it's status as a law school accreditor, an ABA committee voted to eliminate DEI standards. It lowered standards to keep its power to set standards. 😤 Not final yet tho! Time to lobby the ABA House of Delegates. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools

A longstanding diversity and inclusion requirement for U.S. law schools is teetering amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration and Republican states.

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Kings Day in Manatee County,Florida. These boomers are registered voters and they are fighting mad.

I'm attending Manatee County Democratic Party's event, “Volunteer @ No Kings” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Volunteer @ No Kings · Mobilize

Going to NO KINGS 3? Help the MCDP spread the word about our BIG BLUE TEAM - Help register voters* & promote the MCDP Events, Groups and Volunteer Opportunities. We'll train you & you can make a BIg d...

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"A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a thousand actions in their favor without that trust." - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What’s done to them weighs double." Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

I once worked for a judge, so maybe have more faith in the judicial system than it deserves. But I'm encouraged by this U.S. District of W. Texas order granting habeas to asylum seeker Liam Ramos. Does it change much? No, but every act of resistance counts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In NL, 156,000+ signed a petition urging the Dutch national team to boycott the World Cup. "We do not want our footballers . . . to implicitly support Pres. Donald Trump's violent terror policy against innocent migrants (whether or not holding a US passport)." actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...

Just called my FL senators (Republican) re: vote no on additional funding for ICE, bc every little bit helps. Left a msg w/Rick Scott. Ashley Moody's main voicemail was full and then when I stayed on a line for an operator, it hung up. Not surprised. Sample script: unitedwedream.org/actions/call...

Call Your Senators: Tell Them "No Raise for ICE"

The House of Representatives passed a funding bill that would give an additional $400 MILLION to ICE for the detention of our neighbors and expand their enforcement budget to $5.45 BILLION! This bill ...

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They are your studies; they are part of what you are part of; do not let them be taken from you by those who would close them off by weird jargon and pretentions of expertise. - Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire

It was such an inspiration to facilitate this workshop and an honor to work with community advocates on ways to build power and defend human rights. Let's keep building and resisting in 2026. It's so much better than despair.

Just Ground@justground.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just Ground and EarthRights International recently concluded workshops on participatory research as a tool for communities fighting for their human rights. Together, we grappled with questions of community agency, ethics, safety, and knowledge production. Here's what we learned: tinyurl.com/37um6zzz

Marking the end of the longest night of 2025. Now, each day more light will come.

"As important as those values of right and justice are in the modern world, law is not only, or maybe even fundamentally, based on them. A large part of what has driven the development of the legal structures we take for granted is the economic demand for law." - G. Hatfield, Rules for a Flat World

“Liberty has sons who are not all legitimate or to be admired. Those who applaud it only when it justifies their privileges and shout nothing but censorship when it threatens them are not on our side.” - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death, 1961

“We knew that there could be no lasting peace so long as there were large populations in the world living under primitive conditions and suffering from starvation, disease, and denial of the advantages of modern science and industry.” - Harry Truman, 1945

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." Judge Immergut, quoting James Madison, halts sending Natl Guard troops to OR tinyurl.com/29fx8vv5

Order on motion for Temporary Restraining Order – #56 in State of Oregon v. Trump (D. Or., 3:25-cv-01756) – CourtListener.com

OPINION & ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER: Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6 , is GRANTED. Defendants are hereby enjoined from implementing Defendants' S...

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“She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous.” - James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

A civil society win! After the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition exposed the huge presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at COPs 28 and 29, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) now requires non-govt attendees to publicly confirm their full alignment w/ the Paris Agmt and Kyoto Protocol.

Corporate Accountability@stopcorpabuse.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS Ahead of #COP30, people power moves UNFCCC to take next steps to address industry interference. Non-governments must publicly disclose funding and if they are fully aligned with the #UNFCCC. No more writing the rules of climate action. #KickBigPollutersOut

I first read this book 30 years ago, and yeah, it's still relevant.