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What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott
Democracy Now • Dec 10, 2025

What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus to a white man. Historian and biographer Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, argues, “Part of what her courage is, is the ability to step forward again and again, without any sense that this is going to change anything, and say, 'This is the line. And I refuse.'” Theoharis’s new piece for The Guardian is “What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott — and what we can learn from it.”

Despite Judge's Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas
Democracy Now • Dec 10, 2025

Despite Judge's Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas

Nineteen-year-old Any Lucía López Belloza was detained and deported, despite a lack of removal order, when attempting to head home from Babson College in Boston to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. “This is the first arrest of its kind I’ve seen,” says her attorney, Todd C. Pomerleau, who says the student has been the victim of “character assassination.” After López Belloza “was taken down near the border on a bus, had shackles around her ankles, chain around her waist, shackles around her wrist,” her family attempted to speak out to the press about the rights violations she suffered. They are now being harassed by law enforcement, as well.

Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's Nephew's Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation
Democracy Now • Dec 10, 2025

Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt's Nephew's Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation

Bruna Ferreira, a DACA recipient and mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, has lived in the United States since she was 6 years old, but was recently arrested by ICE in her own driveway in what her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, calls a “brazen, unconstitutional arrest, a clear violation of her rights.” Ferreira was transported to a remote detention center in Louisiana following her arrest in Massachusetts, and just released Tuesday. “All of a sudden, now the Leavitts have a problem with 'criminal illegal aliens.' Yet one of them was about to marry one of their loved ones, and there was no problem,” says Pomerleau.

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