Tag: Black Lives Matter Movement
Can a Formula 1 star send a message to the Saudi...
A lot of people say that sports aren’t a place for “politics.” But what they usually mean is that they want to maintain their willful ignorance.
Inside Portland’s autonomous protest movement
Portland, Oregon’s five months of ongoing protests in support of Black lives are sustained by a vast, multifaceted, and ever-evolving network of activists, organizers, and mutual aid.
Remembering the 1960s
The 1960s can inspire us today because as well as being a period of change, the decade was characterized by hope and optimism. We need hope.
‘I’d drop any 10 of you’: GOP Rep. Clay Higgins threatens...
The Louisiana lawmaker is a staunch gun rights advocate in an open carry state.
How the police killing of a Black Brazilian teen sparked a...
The police killing of João Pedro Mattos Pinto, a 14-year-old Black Brazilian in Rio de Janeiro, unmasked the scope of police brutality amid a pandemic and led to an unprecedented court decision.
Activist voices missing from corporate coverage of uprisings
Establishment media overwhelmingly turned to columnists, pundits and government officials for interpretation of the uprisings—rather than to the activists facing tear gas on the frontlines.
Oregon Senator promises to block Trump from sending armored federal law...
“We won't let these authoritarian tactics stand.”
Who’s really looting America?
By pitting us against each other – blaming immigrants, blaming liberals, and especially blaming people of color, and Black people in particular – they’ve divided us, and gotten away with it.
‘Stay in the streets’: Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle occupies...
“We cannot have a pacified movement.”
The American Dream: Living to 18
"You don’t want to die in a matter of seconds because of cops.” This has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement across the country and has put the American Dream for our younger generations into better perspective.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.