Tag: Alton Sterling
Police officer fired in Alton Sterling case
“Fear cannot be a driver for an officer’s response to every incident. Unreasonable fear within an officer is dangerous.”
Videotaping A Crime Is Not A Crime
Videotaping a crime is not a crime. It's a public service. Police harassment of citizens who provide video evidence of police brutality has to stop.
Man Who Posted the Video of Alton Sterling’s Death Arrested by...
If LeDay was targeted for his role in the viral release of the Alton Sterling shooting, he wouldn’t be the first to face retaliation for releasing videos of police brutality
5 Officers Killed During Dallas Protests Against Police
The protests themselves were generally peaceful, with people gathered to march in solidarity with the recent victims of police violence, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
Officer Names, Details Emerge in Fatal Shooting of Alton Sterling
On Wednesday the US Department of Justice announced they will be overseeing the investigation.
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Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal. Here’s why that matters.
If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.
Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...
What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.
The US war on Cuba’s doctors
“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve done for rural and poor Jamaicans is immeasurable.”
Supreme Court opens door to conversion therapy in free speech ruling
In an 8-1 decision, the Court struck down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, prioritizing a therapist’s First Amendment claim over state efforts to restrict a practice rejected by major medical organizations.