Brian Osgood

Par­tic­i­pants say poor liv­ing con­di­tions and wages of $1 a day have pushed them to launch the weeks-long protest.

The ap­pear­ance of a for­mer SAVAK of­fi­cial at a US ral­ly has un­der­scored schisms with­in the Iran­ian di­as­po­ra.

Ad­vo­ca­cy groups say ‘com­mon sense’ bill would help pro­tect in­car­cer­at­ed peo­ple’s right to re­li­gious free­dom, ex­pres­sion.

As droughts, fire and se­vere storms rav­age the west­ern Unit­ed States, lo­cal li­braries of­fer sanc­tu­ary to those in need.

Lo­cal groups call for greater trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty fol­low­ing the death of the 29-year-old US fa­ther.

The state’s agri­cul­tur­al work­force has long strug­gled with low wages and vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty stem­ming from im­mi­gra­tion sta­tus.

Has­san Al Kon­tar told Al Jazeera he has not seen his fam­i­ly since 2008 and hopes to ob­tain a Cana­di­an pass­port.

In­fla­tion in US econ­o­my has trans­lat­ed to added costs for im­pris­oned in­di­vid­u­als and the fam­i­lies who sup­port them.

While union­i­sa­tion rates re­main low, work­ers have shown a grow­ing in­ter­est in col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing at ma­jor com­pa­nies.