By Noelle Kakimoto, Leilani Maxera, and Laurel Mei-Singh – Views Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets across the world to demand justice for lives stolen by police violence, with the rallying cry to defund the police. Many, including us, call to defund the police as […]
“Its citizens lives shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies,” said Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty. by TeleSur / Global A United Nations human rights investigator has criticized the United States for failing to alleviate poverty among its citizens, saying that U.S. authorities are “punishing and imprisoning the poor.” […]
by Love and Rage Team / Press Release Everything is FREE! No Money, No Buying, No Selling, No Barter, No Exchanges! Share what you can! Take what you want or need! The Market is in the backyard of the house at 235 Forest Ave in Buffalo, NY. The […]
by Derek Scarlino / Analysis and Opinion As student protests continue at high schools across the United States, they’ve been met with responses ranging from liberal support, right wing condemnation, and quite a mix from the left. The reasons why rest in the issue at the forefront of […]
by CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective – Take Action On January 20, 2017, while Trump was being sworn in as president, police trapped over 200 protesters, medics, legal observers, and journalists on a block in downtown Washington, DC and mass-arrested all of them. Police confiscated their cell phones and broke into […]
A police organizer was voted to the leadership of the DSA. What is the nature of the police and what should the position of socialists be? by Julia Wallace and Tatiana Cozzarelli / Left Voice – Views and Analysis Last month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) held […]
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 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 […]
We limit our resistance to fascism by relying on liberal conceptions of human rights. by Natasha Lennard / The New Inquiry – Views and Analysis After the DC police formed a kettle on January 20 to capture over 200 protesters at the intersection of L and 12th Street, I […]
