Social Movements & the Law

US district judge Thomas Parker grants temporary injunction, finding the law clashes with first amendment on free speech

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In the nine months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a rapidly shifting patchwork of abortion bans and restrictions has emerged.

In a statement to HR Dive, Achilles International denied the allegations, saying they were previously dismissed by a state agency.

PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will publish an environmental …

The Gila River Indian Community will receive up to $233 million in funding for conservation agreements that will help the tribe and other water users along the Colorado River Basin protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System.

Colorism is an insidious, globally prevalent bias that deeply impacts the lives and livelihoods of darker-skinned women. The term refers not only to the preference for lighter skin between different racial and ethnic communities, but also within those communities. Colorism is an enduring vestige of colonialism and white dominance around the globe and disproportionately harms women of color. Inclusive leaders must work to prevent women of color from experiencing colorism at work — and make sure they don’t leave. The author presents three ways to disrupt colorism in the workplace.

House lawmakers heard hours of testimony over legislation that would strip school and library employees of a legal defense against charges they distributed material harmful to minors.

By Mikayla Redden (Follow us on LinkedIn) Imagine you’re jumping up and down on a giant trampoline enclosed in a safety net. You feel an intense, childlike joy. Then someone dumps a bucket of …

The decision by a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas could upend access nationwide to the standard two-pill regimen for medication abortions.

A new rule proposed by the Biden administration would prevent schools and colleges from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but it would allow certain limits to promote fairness or reduce injuries.

“The ability to read is fundamental to a child’s success,” Little wrote.

2021 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey: Highlights and key academic library instruction and group presentation findings

An Idaho federal judge granted a partial win to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying the agency violated a 1900 federal law that limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.

A Bay Ridge activist on anti-Muslim sentiment, the death of Eric Garner, and the fight to change Brooklyn for the better. Interview by John Surico

Missouri library leaders say a plan by state legislators to strip state funding for public libraries across the state would weaken rural libraries.

Nearly half the states in the U.S. now allow people previously convicted of felonies to vote.

A Kansas proposal with some of the nation's broadest bathroom restrictions and a ban on transgender people changing their driver's licenses has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature. The state Senate voted 28-12 on Tuesday with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s expected veto. The action came the same day Arkansas lawmakers sent Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders a scaled back bathroom bill of their own with criminal penalities. Both are among several hundred measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the U.S. The Kansas measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities.

When Native people, allies, and visionary funders worked together to create the Native American Rights Fund in California in 1970, the team decided that to create an effective national legal defense for Native people...

Summary of H.R.1065 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Queer and trans youth led actions across the United States Friday, marking International Transgender Day of Visibility amid intensifying discrimination, violence and anti-trans laws pushed by Republicans. Here in New York, hundreds took to the streets in a march organized by NYC Youth for Trans Rights. Democracy Now! producers Tey-Marie Astudillo and María Taracena were there and spoke to 17-year-old Raven. Raven: “It is so amazing to look around and see people like me that have had the same experiences as me, who know what it’s like to be trans. And it’s so great to just, you know, watch everybody be happy and be themselves in a safe place. … I’m the happiest I’ve been in a really, really long time here in this space with these people. And I think that it’s so good for people who think that they’re alone to know that they have people out there, people fighting for them, people fighting with them, people on their side, because, like, a lot of them just don’t have that. They go through so, so, so much. And gathering around, being able to look at people and hug people and talk to people that are like them, is something that can really heal the heart.”

AMENDING TITLE 15, CHAPTER 5, ARTICLE 1, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING SECTION 15-509; RELATING TO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.

A state representative announced she identifies as nonbinary, gender-nonconforming on Monday during a House Appropriations Committee discussion of a Republican bill that would prohibit school employees from calling students by their preferred pronouns or a name not listed on their school record without parental consent.

Republican state legislators keep sending bills to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and she keeps vetoing them, including one she struck down Monday that critics say would have helped to codify fetal personhood.

pIn March 2020, the Internet Archive, a nonprofit created by the entrepreneur Brewster Kahle, launched a new feature called the National Emergency Library. Restrictions linked to the spread of COVID-19 had made it difficult or impossible for people to buy books or visit libraries in person, and so the Archive removed limits on the digital […]/p

An attack on trans youth is an attack on us all.

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The move “allows them to exist in their own context,” library cataloger Kate Peck says.