John Cavanagh

The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 -- a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.

The former mineworker received the Institute’s Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award in 1990 for his leadership in the successful Pittston coal strike.

Leading research and movement organizations and progressive Democrats call for rapid passage of legislation to transform the economy.

Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.