*They cleaned up BP’s massive oil spill. Now they’re sick — and want justice.*

The Australian Capitol Territory will offer abortion gratis to anyone.

This is what every country should do. No one should be compelled to have and raise a baby.

A concert to benefit poor musicians in the UK accidentally used a copyrighted work. The collecting society PRS charged it a fee that amounts to half the money it had raised, and thus revealed it has the attitude of a parasite.

Copyright is an extremely bad way of supporting musicians and composers. We should allow noncommercial use of music with no fee, and for supporting musicians and composers, we should set up other systems for that.

*Shocking messages about beating suspects and making up evidence were found when Antioch, [California], [thugs] were investigated.* Nearly half the thugs in the department either sent them or read them without objecting.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions.

The point of the article is that we have a responsibility to object to bigotry when we see it. Symbolic bigotry is nowhere near as bad as beating people up, but we should still call it out, as I am doing here.

India's population is increasing substantially — and so is its rate of coal, and its rate of deforestation.