Since the protests that broke out in Atlanta and elsewhere after police killed George Floyd in 2020, the state of Georgia has decided that the legislative priority is ensuring that people understand that they just won’t be tolerated again.
Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hasn’t just been pursuing supposed voter fraud. His office has also criminally investigated at least 10 election workers, in a harbinger of potential post-midterm turmoil.
Jay Jordan’s criminal record barred him from job after job, leaving him in poverty. Now he’s helping California take a transformative step
Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.
The demand is still, more than ever, #DefundThePolice, #FundThePeople #DefendBlackLives.
We can choose to confront the historical roots and systemic racism of the drug war and mass incarceration and to see the alignment between people who want to end both.
Police program meant to empower landlords leads to more people of color being excluded.
The United States will be a multiracial democracy – a democracy in which people of color have full democratic rights — or it won’t be a democracy at all.
"This effort has one goal: silence, criminalize, and penalize Floridians who want to see justice for Black lives," said ACLU of Florida executive director Micah Kubic.
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