Protesters are being snatched from the streets without warrants. Can we call it fascism yet? First Portland, then Kansas City, Chicago, Albuquerque, and plans for Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.
Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr.
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We need to come away from the current upheavals with organization, with vision and goals, with program and campaigns that all persist and mature and strengthen rather than folding back into business as usual.
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Two-hundred thirty-six current and former staffers for Mayor de Blasio signed an open letter calling on him to live up to the promises of reform that initially drew them to work for him. One demand is to cut the $6 billion police budget by 1/6.
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Only if the screams and tears and protests shake the very conscience of this nation can we hope for a better society on the other side of this
Protesting wartime food shortages, thousands of women in 1917 protested with food riots and boycotts.
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