Tag: protests
Innocent mother beaten by Philly cops on video filing lawsuit
Attorneys representing the victim have confirmed she is filing a civil rights case against the police department.
How hypocrites in high places have contributed to the riots in...
A decades-long wealth grab by the richest Americans has left millions of Americans on the brink of poverty — and poverty begets violence.
What will it take to defend the election? Here’s one winning...
The way to meet a possible disaster with strength and confidence is to have a plan.
What to know when someone blames Black people for all the...
Our society should move away from racist conclusions, and toward the outrageous indecencies that a well-to-do society forces on us less fortunate members.
Banned from protesting in the nation’s capital for five years back...
Back in October 1967, I was one of hundreds arrested and beaten on the Mall of the Pentagon during a night-long sit down in front of armed U.S. troops.
Popular movements can overcome authoritarian policing
While Trump sending in militarized troops to cities needs to be opposed, police violence is bigger than Trump.
The terms of the protests: Systemic and institutional reform
People may even want different things, such as more radical change like abolishing the police entirely, but these ten proposed changes are a crucial contribution to the conversation of what to do about police brutality in America.
Cities reimagine public safety amid calls to #DefundPolice
Lawmakers across the country are proposing policy measures to cut or loosen ties to traditional policing.
Today’s progressive movements must learn from Black Lives Matter—and join together
A coalition of movements that joins a future whirlwind moment to win the struggle can at last make racial justice a reality.
Protesters for black lives are America’s true patriots
These activists wanted a better America, one that actually realized its ideals of equal justice and ensured life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
Russia escalates bombing campaign on Ukrainian cities amid missile defense shortages
Rescuers pulled a 93-year-old woman from a damaged Lviv apartment block as Kyiv pressed allies to speed delivery of anti-ballistic interceptors.