5 pitfalls Black Lives Matter must avoid to maintain momentum and achieve meaningful change
There are steps the Black Lives Matter movement can take to carry on the remarkable energy it has built—and steps that could cause it to disappear.
New local lawsuit challenges ‘violent and unlawful’ attacks on Portland protesters by Trump’s secret...
"The administration can expect legal challenges, and, as we have seen in Portland, their attacks will only bring more people out to protest."
Window breakers for Trump
Bring the issue back to the best policing possible and remove the politics by removing the violence. We as U.S. citizens deserve nothing less.
Oregon Senator promises to block Trump from sending armored federal law enforcement to US...
“We won't let these authoritarian tactics stand.”
Trump to send federal troops to protests in Chicago & Seattle amid violent crackdown...
“We’re looking at the infringement on our rights that is just escalating.”
Portland
The central question is as old as the Republic itself: What is the limit of federal power?
Inside the battle for Portland with the independent journalists on the streets
As federal agents snatch protesters in unmarked vans, the reporters covering the Portland uprising are facing intense and unprecedented repression.
Former police officer charged with murder after using chokehold on video
Initially charged with manslaughter and fired from the police department, the officer was recently hit with a murder charge after a new prosecutor reviewed the case.
Trump condemned for authoritarian ‘abuse of power’ as secret federal police snatch protesters off...
"This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety."
From trans rights to treaty rights, the U.S. Supreme Court breaks progressive?
While American progressives will need a laser focus on the courts in the years ahead, these four decisions will likely reverberate around the world and create new possibilities for justice in many places beyond the country’s borders.