Ai Weiwei | Human Dignity Is in Danger. In 2019 We Must Stand as One to Survive

01 January 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Ai Weiwei | Human Dignity Is in Danger. In 2019 We Must Stand as One to Survive  Ai Weiwei, Guardian UK Weiwei writes: "What does it mean to be human? That question sits at the core of human rights. To be human has specific implications: human self-awareness and the actions taken to uphold human dignity - these are what gives the concept of humanity a special meaning." READ MORE Customs and Border Protection officer. (photo: Getty) US Forces Fire Tear Gas at Migrants on First Day of 2019 teleSUR Excerpt: "Reports of stranded migrants in the Mexico-United States border being fired with tear gas shells by United States border patrol surfaced Tuesday as another migrant 'caravan,' estimated at 15,000 people, is reportedly getting ready to leave Honduras on Jan. 15." READ MORE REI Co-op customers walk past an unstaffed ranger station kiosk, closed as part of the federal government shutdown, inside the flagship store in Seattle, December 26, 2018. (photo: AP) Federal Workers Are Suing the US Government Over the Shutdown Anne Flaherty, ABC News Flaherty writes: "Federal workers on Wednesday sued the U.S. government over the shutdown, protesting the requirement that employees who are considered 'essential' must report to work without pay, a major federal workers' union announced Monday." READ MORE Todd Entrekin. (photo: Todd Entrekin for Sheriff) Alabama Sheriff Pocketed Millions of Dollars Allocated for Food for Inmates Casey Michel, ThinkProgress Michel writes: "A series of investigations from AL.com have revealed that Todd Entrekin, the sheriff in Alabama's Etowah County, personally pocketed over a million dollars that had been allocated to feeding inmates at the Etowah County Detention Center." READ MORE Demonstrators protest outside the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, on 14 December. 'If you get injured, they don't treat you well, they don't care,' said employee 24-year-old Hibaq Mohamed. (photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images) 'We Are Not Robots': Amazon Warehouse Employees Push to Unionize Michael Sainato, Guardian UK Sainato writes: "As Amazon's workforce has more than doubled over the past three years, workers at Amazon fulfillment center warehouses in the United States have started organizing and pushing toward forming a union to fight back against the company's treatment of its workers." READ MORE Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gestures during a news conference at National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, December 26, 2018. (photo: Daniel Becerril/Reuters) Mexican President Decrees Tax Cuts for US Border Region Reuters Excerpt: "Mexico's new leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday decreed tax cuts for northern states that he says will help power economic growth and deter migration to the United States." READ MORE A jaguar. (photo: Julie Larsen Maher/Mongabay) Top 10 Happy Environmental Stories of 2018 Basten Gokkon, Mongabay Gokkon writes: "Hope for global conservation is what we wish to evoke in our readers with some of the more upbeat environmental stories from the past year that we have pieced together from around the world in this list." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation