Friends of Mayor Densmore

A new report by Oxfam has found the richest 10 percent of the world’s population produce half of the Earth’s climate-harming fossil fuel emissions. The poorest half – about 3.5 billion people – are respons […]

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, says the U.N. Climate Summit reveals the “scoreboard” for activists pushing governments to take action on global warming, and shows “how much more work we have to do.” He […]

One of the world’s leading climate campaigners is missing from the U.N. climate summit in Paris, because he is sitting in a prison cell after being deposed in a military coup. Former Maldives president Mohamed N […]

Oil giant ExxonMobil is under criminal investigation in New York over claims it lied to the public and investors about the risks of climate change. Now Exxon is fighting back against the journalists who exposed […]

In India, one of the country’s oldest newspapers, The Hindu, did not print today for the first time in more than a century due to massive rains and floods in the southern city of Chennai. The publisher said it w […]

The seventh largest economy in the world has “de-linked carbon from GDP,” says Kevin de León, president pro tem of the California Senate. De León led the effort in the California Senate to pass a resolution to di […]

The growing campaign for divestment from the gas, oil and coal companies reached a new milestone today. 350.org Executive Director Mary Boeve announced more than 500 institutions representing over $3.4 trillion in […]

France: Ban on Protests Extended in Central Paris & around COP21Republican-Controlled House Blocks Rules to Regulate EmissionsIndia: Flooding Prevents Newspaper’s Printing for First Time in 137 YearsPentagon: M […]

Yesterday, in Backpage.com v. Dart a unanimous panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a lively opinion ordered Thomas Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, to end his “campaign of suffocation” aga […]

Following the Senate’s September hearing, the House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the federal law that regulates government access to private c […]

The official release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on November 5 not only confirmed our fears about how it would threaten our rights online and over our digital devices, but also kicked off a […]

A Case Study of a California Father Fighting His Daughter’s School District Over Digital Privacy
Katherine W. was seven years old, in the third grade, when her teacher first issued Google Chromebooks to the c […]

The tools that governments could use to contain public demonstrations by remote control — firing tear gas from drones, for example — are advancing at a troubling and unregulated rate, says a new report from res […]

If your child’s school issued them a Chromebook, there are some important settings you can chance to improve their privacy.
Be sure to also check out our Guide to Google Account Privacy Settings for […]

Today, Tuesday, December 1st, we want to invite you to celebrate #GivingTuesday with the Tor Project! Now in its fourth year, #GivingTuesday is a day of charitable giving fueled by the power of social media […]

Big banks will lose a portion of a multi-billion-dollar government handout they’ve enjoyed for over 100 years, thanks to a compromise highway bill released Tuesday. One estimate pegged the loss to the banks at $ […]

My first reaction, when I heard that Robert L. Dear had shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, was, oh no, not another religious nut. The media seemed to tiptoe around the question of motive, portraying […]

Lawyers for the House of Representatives have escalated their legal fight to block the first-ever congressional insider trading investigation.
The case revolves around allegations that Brian Sutter, a former […]

NEARLY A YEAR AFTER THE RELEASE of the summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, a major human rights group is calling for the immediate prosecution of U.S. government officials […]

Even if your student doesn’t use a Chromebook, they may have a Google Apps for Education (GAFE) account, which is essentially a Google account provided by the school. GAFE accounts can be accessed from any […]