Paul F. Clark says the strain between law enforcement and labor goes back to the origins of trade unions in the mid-19th century.
Why Police Unions Are Not Part of the American Labor Movement
Tag: Black Lives Matter
UPRISING: Protests Break Out in Wisconsin After Police Shoot Black Man in the Back Multiple Times at Point-Blank Range
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said 29-year-old Jacob Blake’s children were in the car he was attempting to enter as police fired seven shots at his back.
QAnon Is a Fake, Decoy Imitation of a Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
Caitlin Johnstone calls QAnon a propaganda construct designed to manufacture support for the status quo among people who otherwise would not support it.
UPRISING: Calls to Drop ‘Absurd’ Charges Against Journalists Covering Protests
The Committee to Protect Journalists speaks up for members of the press who were arrested while covering Black Lives Matter protests across the U. S.
UPRISING: Call to Dismantle US Homeland Security
“The very premise of a ‘homeland security’ bureaucracy is chilling and ought to be questioned,” wrote the executive director of the ACLU.
The Long History of How Jesus Came to Resemble a White European
White, European representations of Christ are under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society, writes Anna Swartwood House.
‘2020’
The world is undergoing a transformation, writes Caitlin Johnstone, and it’s taking us in a direction that none of us can predict.
UPRISING: Trump, Tulsa & the Rise of Military Dissent
Danny Sjursen goes undercover in Trumplandia and comes back with this reflection on the U.S. president’s loss of loyalty among soldiers and veterans.
UPRISING: Police, Prisons & the Pentagon
In the era of Covid-19, climate change and an increased focus on longstanding structural racism, a new approach to “security” is desperately needed, writes William D. Hartung.
UPRISING: Protesters Attacked by Police Sue to Vindicate Constitutional Rights
Police have deployed toxic chemical and sonic weapons, dangerous projectiles, intrusive surveillance, physical violence and “kettling” to trap demonstrators, writes Marjorie Cohn.