Tag: gun violence
‘I don’t want prayers:’ A mother of a victim from California...
"I have two words: gun control. Now, now, now, now. No more NRA. No more money. Gun control now."
BREAKING: 12 dead after mass shooting took place at a bar...
The gunman, Ian David Long, who was a Marine Corps veteran, killed at least 12 people at the bar and country music hall in Thousand Oaks.
Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg: Voters must reject racist, anti-semitic NRA on...
As the nation reels from the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and the Kentucky grocery store killing of two African Americans, Guttenberg is calling on voters to elect politicians who stand for gun control in next week’s midterm elections.
Interfaith solidarity: A Muslim-led crowdfunding campaign raises $120,000 in two days...
"We wish to respond to evil with good, as our faith instructs us, and send a powerful message of compassion through action."
How white supremacist ideology & conspiracies have fueled US domestic terror...
“The shooter in Pittsburgh was not just anti-Semitic. He had been radicalized by white supremacist ideology."
USA: Gun violence is ‘a human rights crisis’ – New Report
Amnesty’s report shows how all aspects of American life have been compromised by the availability of guns in a country lacking proper regulations and safeguards.
NRA spokesperson: Dallas shooting in which a cop killed a man...
"And this could have been very differently had he actually had a firearm on him."
Books, not magazines: Outcry grows over DeVos plan to divert federal...
DeVos’s plan would use federal Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants to pay for firearms and to train educators in their use.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 29
Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico, California joins nine other states and enacts trio of gun control bills that affect domestic violence offenders and more.
California joins nine other states and passes trio of gun control...
“People at risk of harming themselves or others should not have easy access to firearms."
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Here are the 19 companies that have laid people off after fighting for the...
More than half of the coalition of companies that fought for slashing the corporate tax rate have made layoffs since the GOP tax bill's enactment.
Third police officer sentenced to prison for framing black males
“These three police officers from Biscayne Park disgraced themselves and damaged the public’s trust in law enforcement."
Demand an end to the taxation of Social Security benefits
And no fix they come up with should come out of the pockets of workers or retirees.
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are pushing a bold new plan to tackle climate...
For the first time in recent memory, there is a growing clarion call for a response that goes beyond the limits imposed by our economic system.
An Elkhart police officer was convicted of drunken driving — then the chief promoted...
Last year, Chief Ed Windbigler said he doubted the case against the officer would stick. After the officer pleaded guilty, the chief didn’t discipline him. This year, Windbigler promoted him to detective without telling an oversight board.
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