Video: Special Report From The Occupied Forest: Meet Activists Fighting Europe’s Largest Open-Pit Coal Mine

Reporting from COP23 in Bonn, Germany, Democracy Now! travels to the nearby blockade of the Hambach coal mine, the largest open-pit coal mine in Europe. Activists say the mine extracts an extremely dirty form of coal called lignite, also known as brown coal, which causes the highest CO2 emissions of any type of coal when […]

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DOJ Sends Memo To 29 ‘Sanctuary’ Cities, Counties And States

The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to force so-called “sanctuary cities” to comply with federal law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo giving 29 jurisdictions until December 8 to prove their compliance, or lose federal funding. “Jurisdictions that adopt so-called ‘sanctuary policies’ also adopt the view that the protection of criminal aliens is […]

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