Green New Deal, Part VII: No justice, no peace, it’s time to defund the...
“Many of us know police and state violence intimately; we live in or come from communities with a constant knee on its neck; one that bears no promise of letting up.”
Chicago cop under investigation after body-slamming man on video
“While a single video does not depict the entirety of the interactions between the police and the individual, this particular video is very disturbing.”
Cops fired after dragging doctor off United Airlines flight
Using violence to eject an innocent doctor from an airplane only weakens the public’s waning trust of law enforcement.
Nonviolence and trust
This week I joined others from my town in a State Department initiative called City Pair; in this case, "pairing" Portland, Oregon...
Protect the bats from lethal wind turbines
Please sign the petition to tell the AWEA to make these changes so that we can save 90 percent of the bats rather than just 30 percent.
State Dept. science envoy resigns with hidden message in letter: ‘IMPEACH’
Kammen's resignation is just the latest in a string of resignations following President Trump's comments on the events in Charlottesville.
25 Dallas police officers face disciplinary measures for bigoted social media posts
“We hope this is shifting the conversations in the department away from a them-versus-us mentality and into a community policing mentality.”
Protests across Britain against Johnson’s suspension of parliament
“We're fighting for democracy and for a society that works for the 99 percent, not the elites that Trump and Johnson serve.”
Vermont immigrant rights group sues ICE for monitoring, infiltrating & ‘hunting down’ organizers
At least 20 active members of Migrant Justice have been arrested and detained by ICE.
Khizr Khan and the wisdom of Gold Star families
"If it was up to Donald Trump, [my son] never would have been in America."