Even in cases where the use of excessive force was clear and well documented officers have not faced consequences because of qualified immunity. On Tuesday June 15 the Supreme Court denied a petition by the ...
The number of known cases in the facilities has doubled since mid-May to over 68,000. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After months of warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has turned U.S. detention facilities into “ticking ...
A Q&A with organizer Aqeela Sherrills, who brokered a peace treaty between the Bloods and the Crips in the ’90s in LA and has led the charge to transform systems of safety in Newark and ...
While the right points to Antifa, right wing militias take to the streets. A group of protestors in Albuquerque, New Mexico were attempting to topple the statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate on Monday ...
“Today, by affirming that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court has confirmed the simple but profoundly American idea that every human being ...
“Racial justice is union business.” In the aftermath of four Minneapolis police officers murdering George Floyd, media coverage has focused on the street actions of protestors. But, with the protest and movement evolving some activists ...
The head of CAIR-Georgia demanded actions to “end the systemic oppression and anti-black racism rooted in the Atlanta Police Department and other law enforcement agencies.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Local activists and an attorney ...
Americans’ ultra-processed diet is fueling obesity across the world. What happens to cuisines when cultures change, or when culture becomes globalized? Naturally, so do our diets—and our health. Food research by the U.S. military, particularly ...
If you continue to fund projects that are literally putting our planet, our existence on the line, and defining the existence of our children, then you have left us no choice: that we must put ...
“You don’t have to go full abolition to see that maybe sinking 1/3 of a city’s general budget into police is a problematic investment.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Cities across the U.S. are cutting ...
Citizen Truth spoke to activists and citizens there as well as organizers in Europe about why these demonstrations are important and what needs to change. America is experiencing the global coronavirus at a more extreme ...
States that try to conceal the inherent cruelty of animal agriculture from the public continue to face legal struggles. On January 22, 2020, a federal judge struck down the nation’s oldest “ag-gag” law, the latest ...
“It’s my greatest concern, my single greatest concern: This president is going to try to steal this election.” What keeps Joe Biden awake at night? As a presidential candidate, many matters could weigh heavy on ...
Betsy DeVos is using a crisis to privatize emergency funds for public schools while her agenda trickles down to states. As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy ...
“Trump’s threat to send military to Seattle in retaliation against the youth-led anti-racist movement is a sign the right wing is growing scared…” In a bizarre, but perhaps not unexpected, turn for the “autonomous zone” ...
Americans are struggling. Around the globe, better responses to COVID-19 offer lessons to the U.S. In the United States, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on bailouts of mega-corporations and big banks. Citizens ...
The bill contains stricter rules for the use of lethal force and stronger legal accountability for law enforcement, but critics argue that the measures don’t go far enough. Representatives and Senators are in the process ...
“The government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding.” A retired federal judge called the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss the criminal case against ...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on disturbing injustices in our food system—reaffirming the need for systemic change. Slaughterhouses (euphemistically called “meatpacking ...
After a spraypainting the precinct now says “Seattle People Department” While direct confrontation between police and protesters has become less visible in recent days, Seattle protesters took their demonstration to the next level late Monday ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) There are a number of problems with the strategy of the current protest movement. No one seems to be writing about these problems. This is not to say that no one can see ...
“It was after 7:30 (a.m.) when we went inside the voting area only to be told the machines were down. We had to use provisional ballots. I filled it out and left it there.” Tuesday ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) A short while ago, we were making political demands on our states, of various kinds. Some of us wanted our governments to do more to stop the spread of the virus and save ...
Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public health grounds, and it should do so to help ...
Some activists have called upon lawmakers to defund the police, but the bill stops short of removing money or adding any for reforming departments, a Senate Democratic aide told NBC News. Democratic lawmakers returned to ...
Just nine days after protestors burned down Minneapolis PD’s 3rd Precinct, huge changes are afoot. Nine of the thirteen councilors on the Minneapolis City Council announced their intent to dismantle the city’s police department in ...
Scalia has rolled back rules that protected workers’ retirement security. This should be seen as a gift to private equity firms, not a favor to workers. (Common Dreams) Private Equity (PE) firms have had their ...
(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial ...
Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. (Common Dreams) It was a striking moment: Donald ...
“It’s happening much sooner in the cycle than you normally see it.” Organizations dedicated to spurring more voter registrations are reporting an uptick due to the George Floyd protests, CNBC reported. Before the protests, advocacy ...
As protests erupted across the country after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a dozen progressive Democratic House members filed a resolution May 29 condemning police brutality not only in the case ...
The long list of names killed due to police violence is growing. David McAtee, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd. These are just some of the names of the people killed by law enforcement as anti-racist protests ...
George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. Not since the mass protests that originated in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 when a white police officer killed a black ...
Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis wrote for The Atlantic. Thus began the retired Marine general’s sharply critical take on President Donald Trump’s response to ...
“After the Civil War, Southern police departments often carried over aspects of the patrols. These included systematic surveillance, the enforcement of curfews, and even notions of who could become a police officer.” On May 25 ...
“This is the most openly authoritarian piece of writing I’ve read from an American politician who has been in power during my lifetime.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The New York Times drew sharp criticism on ...
“The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in ...
African Americans and Hispanics have been looted of trillions in reduced pay by racist employers and giant corporations, while their safety, lives and peace of mind have been looted by racist police. (Common Dreams) Looting ...
“AG Bill Barr’s behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Attorney General William Barr is facing ...
Society in the United States has been broken by the mechanisms of high rates of economic inequality, high rates of poverty, impossible entry into robust educational systems, and remarkable warlike conditions put in place to ...
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said of the president. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump had police violently disperse peaceful protesters with tear ...
If there ever was a clear cut case for human rights abuse, it is the ongoing and pervasive disregard for communities of color by the police and concomitant prison-judicial complex in America. (By: Raul Diego, ...
Despite the threats from the President and members of Congress, the number of nationwide protests increased with over 350 cities holding demonstrations. After another day of police brutality and increasing pressure from Trump and his ...
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society ...
“Trump is rejecting the rule of law and proposing military action that is antithetical to basic premises of the American experiment.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump on Monday evening threatened to use ...
“What we found is consistent with what people saw. There is no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The family of George Floyd, whose killing ...
“When the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, made public her plans to bring a case to the court last year, the US revoked her visa as punishment.” The International Criminal Court is set to begin ...
When, in mid-May, House Democrats rolled out the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (Heroes) Act, H.R. 6800, as the latest congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic, they also included a handful of criminal justice ...
Despite repressive curfews and police brutality, chants of “No Justice, No Peace” ring around the country. This weekend’s images of police brutality and militarized police across the nation solidified America’s status as a full-blown police ...
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