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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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) ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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, 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 ...
While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to ...
“I thank God people are in the streets,” said the Harvard philosopher and activist. “Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and people are indifferent? People don’t care? People are callous?” (By: Jon ...
While serving as Minnesota’s chief prosecutor between 1999 and 2007, Klobuchar declined to bring charges against more than two dozen officers who had killed citizens while on duty – including against the cop that killed George ...
“The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and everything. They did not care.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Video footage posted to social ...
For nearly a decade now, a collection of former heads of state, high political figures, businessmen, and cultural figures have been working to reform drug policy at the national and international levels. Known as the Global ...
The latest technological development appears to be an updated, “algorithmic phrenology,” repackaging a dangerous idea for the 21st century, all the more noteworthy because they are trying to sell it to law enforcement as an ...
“If that happened in real life, I think everyone would very clearly and viscerally understand the privacy implications, but because this is being done remotely with sophisticated video technology from an airplane, we don’t experience ...
“The Court finds that the conditions of detention in CBP holding cells, especially those that preclude sleep over several nights, are presumptively punitive and violate the Constitution.” An Arizona-based US judge ruled against Customs and ...
As we welcome the new year, it’s worth taking a look back at last year to ponder how far the world has come on marijuana law reform—and how far it has to go. The wall ...
“We’ve gotten past the symbolic stage. We’re standing up for ourselves,” said Bryan Kibler who coined the term Second Amendment Sanctuaries. Since the Virginia state legislature changed to become Democrat-controlled in the last election the ...
“If they don’t right this wrong, we’re prepared to take legal action to provide relief for those that are incarcerated and their families.” Rap mogul Jay-Z and hip-hop artist Yo Gotti wrote a letter to ...
Drug reform achieved some major milestones in 2020 including reining in civil asset forfeiture and freeing thousands of inmates under the First Step Act. As the clock ticks down toward 2020, it’s worth taking a ...
2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is receiving heavy criticism for hiring a call center that uses prison labor which can pay as little as $20 a month. Multibillionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg hired a contractor ...
The most serious harmful effect of treating ecstasy use and sales as a criminal matter is that users are forced into an unregulated, no-quality-control black market, and they don’t know what they’re getting. Every weekend, hundreds ...
Hawaiian gun deaths are the lowest in the nation, but even Hawaii’s strict gun laws couldn’t prevent the shooting at Pearl Harbor last week. On Dec. 4 U.S. Navy sailor Gabriel Romero fatally shot two ...
West Virginia officials fired and suspended over 30 corrections officers for their participation in a photo showing officers giving a Nazi salute. Three people have been fired and dozens suspended over a photo which shows ...
Republican and Democrat legislators are at odds over reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, known as VAWA, which has been stalled since last January. Reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has stalled ...
In a historic first, a House committee passed the MORE Act, the first bill to take the initial steps toward decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level. The legalization of marijuana at the federal level just ...
Multiple forensic pathologists have come forward and cast doubt on the official ruling of Jeffrey Epstein’s death as a suicide including world-renown pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. One of the top forensic pathologists in the world ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
Drug testing toddlers, felony ingestion charges, overcrowded jails and prisons, racial disparities–this state has it all. With endless miles of farmland shading into ever higher and drier terrain as one moves west, crossing the Missouri ...
The vaping crisis sweeping the nation is a reminder of the dangers of a lack of national uniform cannabis regulation and decriminalization. Both e-cigarettes and cannabis vaping related illnesses have recently hit the news with ...
“It is time to expose the contractors, lobbyists, campaign contributions, influence on policy-makers, and ultimately profits wielded by the border-industrial complex.” Although the militarization of the U.S. border has become a hot topic today, the ...
In U.S. vs. Sineneng-Smith, the Supreme Court will decide whether a federal law prohibiting speech encouraging illegal immigration for financial gain violates the First Amendment. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could put far-reaching restrictions on ...
“AB 32 is the most progressive and far-reaching bill on immigration detention in this country.” In a big win for prison reform and immigration advocates, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Friday a ...
While suspicion remains around the shooting death of Joshua Brown, a key witness in the Amber Guyger/Botham Jean murder trial, Dallas police are relating Brown’s murder to a drug deal gone wrong. Dallas Assistant Police ...
“His murder underscores the reality of the black experience in America.” Only three days after former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing Botham Jean, an unarmed black ...
“The only reason we all sit in this courtroom today is because of her actions. And for her actions, there must be consequences.” Ten years in jail is the sentence for Amber Guyger, the 31-year-old ...
“Nothing will bring Botham back, but today his family has found some measure of justice.” Amber Guyger, the 31-year-old Dallas police officer who fatally shot 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment when she walked ...
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