by Love and Rage Team / Love and Rage – NY UTICA – Almost a week after the murder of Heather Heyer in during the Unite the Right rally, a cohort of activists held another of several rallies in Utica to show solidarity with Heyer and the activists who […]
by Democracy Now! – The States St. Louis, MO – Friends and family held a candlelight vigil Tuesday evening for Kiwi Herring, an African American transgender woman who was killed by a St. Louis police officer. Relatives say the police officer shot Herring earlier on Tuesday while responding […]
by Black Cat Connolly / Upstate NY IWW – NY ALBANY – A large group of community members supported by a smaller contingent of Wobblies, anarchists, socialists, and other local activists gathered yesterday at the corner of 9th and Rensselaer in Troy in response to the shooting of […]
by Democracy Now! / The States CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – James Alex Fields Jr. appeared in court via video link from jail for his first court appearance, where he was charged with second-degree murder for driving his car through a crowd of counterprotesters during the white supremacist rally on […]
by BLM Syracuse / Releases SYRACUSE – Yesterday, white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia. People in Charlottesville came together to protest them, and in response a white nationalist ran his car into their protest, injuring several and killing one. Today, we are coming together here in Syracuse to […]
by TeleSur – Global The decision forces authorities to reopen the files of the inmates and replace pretrial detention with release under bond. Nearly 400 inmates of Mexico’s Chiconautla state prison will have their cases reopened after winning collective protection for torture and case fabrication. The petition for […]
by TeleSur – The States Police body cameras automatically recorded the incident, before the officer formally activated the device and “discovered” the package of drugs. A video released by Baltimore’s public defender office shows Officer Richard Pinheiro walking into a garbage strewn lot, stashing a bag filled with white […]
by Yanilda Gonzalez / The Conversation – Views and Analysis President Donald Trump’s appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has led people to speculate about the fate of recent police reform efforts. Early into his tenure, Sessions said he intended to “pull back on” the Justice Department’s investigations of police department abuses, […]
by John Broich/The Conversation – Views and Analysis Very recently, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that will expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that country’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175.” That law dates back to 1871, when modern Germany’s first legal […]
by Mari Matsuo – Views and Analysis I am Japanese American. I have experienced anti-Asian racism since grade school, whether it was generalized calls of “chopsticks,” “ching-chong,” “chink,” “chi-fry-ryce”; or the more specific, “Jap,” “Hiroshima,” “sushi roll,” “geisha girl.” I have been hit with “too bad your egg-roll […]
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