Sunday, June 16, 2024

Republicans Call Everyone But Governor Snyder for Congressional Hearing on Flint Water Crisis

It is unknown who will be called to testify at the hearing, or why the Governor of the State, whose administration and appointees were responsible for the decisions that led to the public being forced to drink and bathe in contaminated water for so long, isn’t being called to the hearing.

What threatens Florida more, hurricanes or the rich?

Florida’s state government doesn’t call the shots. Florida’s rich do, and the continuing immensity of their after-tax incomes has turned out to matter far more to state policy than the well-being of Floridian families of modest means.

‘It’s about terrorizing Us’: Environmental racism expert draws parallels with police brutality

“If this moment can be sustained through further conversations, I think there can be a breakthrough.”

How Amazon, Starbucks, and other companies fight unions

Big corporations are fighting dirty to keep their workers from organizing – and they’re still losing. Imagine what could happen if they had to fight fair.

3 Tacoma cops charged with killing innocent man

Pierce County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Clark determined Ellis’s death to be a homicide caused by hypoxia due to physical restraint.

The police killing of Elijah McClain and his mother’s pursuit of justice

It’s not just that movements make a difference. They make all the difference.
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Michigan State Police trooper suspended after punching handcuffed man on video

The Saginaw County Prosecutor’s Office will review the investigation to determine whether criminal charges will be filed against the suspended trooper.

Surrender, white people

My hope is that Black Lives Matter will join with the whites, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans, particularly those who have supported Bernie Sanders and other progressives, and continue to fight for justice for all members of society.

And they say I’m the crazy one!!

For that minority of us who reject both this Military Industrial Empire and its Two Party ‘One Party’ system, we are marginalized and ostracized.

US leaders are split on China policy

China adjusts to the twists and turns in the United States’ split policy approach.