Nika Knight

‘This Is Not A Game’: Sanders-Inspired Movement Mobilizes Against Trump

Galvanized by Donald Trump, progressives inspired by Bernie Sanders’ presidential run are organizing on all levels to take on the looming right-wing administration

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Protesters hold banners during a rally outside the CNN studios, in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sunday, Nov .13, 2016. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

The progressive supporters who fueled Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) presidential campaign are mounting a resistance on all levels to President-elect Donald Trump's impending right-wing administration, bringing Sanders and his progressive colleagues, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.), into the spotlight. "I think what they have to

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With Post-Election Urgency, Water Protectors To Rally Worldwide Against Dakota Access

“The election last Tuesday made this Tuesday’s demonstrations in support of Standing Rock even more important”

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Over 200 Indigenous Nations have descended upon Canon Ball, ND to take a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Water protectors battling the Dakota Access Pipeline are taking their increasingly urgent fight directly to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, making a final push for the Obama administration to reject the pipeline's permit before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Trump has invested in the pipeline company and denies climate change,

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Defying Obama Request, Dakota Access Co. Mobilizes To Drill Beneath River

Energy Transfer Partners chose Election Day to announce plans to drill under the Missouri River, flouting Obama Administration request and ongoing Indigenous protests

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FILE - In this May 9, 2015 file photo, pipes for the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline, that would stretch from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois, are stacked at a staging area in Worthing, S.D.

In defiance of both the Obama administration and ongoing Indigenous protests, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline announced Tuesday that it would soon begin drilling under the Missouri River. The pipeline operator, Energy Transfer Partners, made the announcement late in the afternoon on Election Day, when most media

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Filmmaker Facing 45 Year Prison Sentence For Reporting On Pipeline Protests

“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.”

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Emmy-winning filmmaker Deia Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota and charged with three felonies on Thursday.

In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure. Schlosberg was arrested in Walhalla, North Dakota on Tuesday

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Up To 14 Million Children Exposed To Toxic Industrial Chemicals In Schools

Harvard researchers estimate toxic PCBs may be present in up to 26,000 U.S. schools.

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Millions of children in the U.S. are being exposed to deadly polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in their schools, despite the fact that such chemicals have been banned for decades. That's according to a new report from Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) that analyzed Harvard research and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, and which also

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Donald Trump Calls For ‘Nationwide Stop-And-Frisk’

‘The idea of creating a national stop-and-frisk policy is the equivalent of advancing martial law and is beyond the constitutional power of the presidency’

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during while speaking at a rally in Millington, Tenn. Tough talk about torture is a guaranteed applause line for Donald Trump on the GOP presidential stump. Trump has repeatedly advocated waterboarding, an enhanced interrogation technique that simulates the feeling of drowning. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHEqvgHwcP4 As the nation reels from two recent fatal police shootings of black men, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday called for cities nationwide to adopt "stop-and-frisk"—a widely condemned police practice that New York City was forced to abandon after a federal judge struck it

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Protesters Clash With Riot Police Following Fatal Police Shooting In Charlotte, NC

The fatal police shooting in Charlotte came only a few days after police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed an unarmed black man

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Police stand in formation in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. Authorities used tear gas to disperse protesters in an overnight demonstration that broke out Tuesday after Keith Lamont Scott was fatally shot by an officer at an apartment complex.

Protests erupted late Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina after police officer fatally shot a black man while attempting to serve a warrant on a separate individual. The demonstrators clashed with police in riot gear, several people were injured, and five protesters were ultimately arrested, the New York Times reports. The Los Angeles Times

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