by Tom Conway | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Inequality, Protest
Photo credit: Rosa Pineda / Wikimedia Commons / cc When demonstrations erupted across the country after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers, Donald Trump portrayed the protesters as America’s enemies. Trump called them “thugs,” “lowlifes” and...
by April Short | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
Photo credit: Tim Brown / GPA Photo Archive / cc Even before COVID-19, the U.S. has had one of the lowest voter turnout rates among developed countries. This is a critical election year, and even before the pandemic, it was a voting season unlike any before in...
by Kenza Hadj-Moussa | Jun 4, 2020 | #PeoplesWave, Blog, Democracy, Featured, Protest, Race
Memorial to George Floyd in Minneapolis. Photo credit: Take Action Minnesota / cc First published by Take Action Minnesota on June 4, 2020 Today, George Floyd’s memorial was held in Minneapolis. The pain, rage, and grief across the Twin Cities is palpable. At the same...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
Voters in line in Union City, Georgia. Photo credit: All Voting Is Local / Twitter / cc More in-person voting sites in metro areas. Better information about where polls have been relocated. More public education about how to vote from home and what to do if an...
by About Face | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Military, Organizing, Protest
An Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard Troops Attention Members of the National Guard, We write you as fellow veterans and service members with full knowledge of what’s at stake as many of you are being asked to mobilize against civilians in...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, Supreme Court
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual...
