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12 Years After Degrading Mass Strip Search, Women in Prison
Feb 20, 2024 · Content warning: This article reports on explicit and demeaning language that was directed at incarcerated women. “It was horrific,” Michelle Wells recalls of the morning when the “Orange Crush,” a notorious band of prison guards, stormed through her cellblock at Lincoln Correctional Center, in central Illinois, to conduct a mass shakedown.
6 Years After Standing Rock, Native Tribes Still Fight ... - Truthout
Oct 9, 2023 · Indigenous environmental activists sing the Warrior Woman Song in front of a large tripod built to block traffic near Black Lives Matter Plaza on the north side of the White House as part of a protest against oil pipelines on April 1, 2021, in …
How the Powers That Be Maintain the “Deep State”: An ... - Truthout
Feb 21, 2016 · Retired congressional staffer Mike Lofgren illuminates the shadowy influencers behind US politics in his incriminating new book, The Deep State.Explore in detail the involvement of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex in the decisions that will shape the future of the United States.
Fascism Is Rising, But It Does Not Have to Be Our Future
May 21, 2023 · Scholars are currently tracking fascist movements in India, Hungary, Brazil, the Philippines, Russia and the U.S., among others. In each of these places, fascism has different qualities. What they have in common is that these movements seek to take over all aspects of public and private life and to eliminate people and communities who …
No, Black People Can’t Be “Racists” - Truthout
Oct 20, 2021 · The attacks waged against everything deemed “critical race theory” constitute a new form of McCarthyism that spreads fear of a future in which Black professors may again be labeled by the state as political dissidents and left to the whims of a new, updated House Un-American Activities Committee.
Here Are the Names of Every Republican Who Voted to Overturn …
Jan 7, 2021 · In the wake of an assault on the U.S. Capitol by a fascist mob ginned up by President Donald Trump, many Republicans in the House and Senate still voted Thursday to object to President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive election win in a lie-fueled, last-ditch attempt to overturn the results of the democratic process and disenfranchise tens of millions of voters.
Objecting to War: The Human Conscience vs. the US Military
Sep 26, 2015 · Conscientious objection wages an active challenge to war, one soldier at a time. Affirmation of conscience and support for conscientious objectors, or COs – helping people get out of the military – is an important part of a larger anti-war strategy, and one with real, concrete and measurable results. Military COs give us powerful insight into our own nature, and they can be strong and ...
Biden’s Racism Is More Veiled Than Trump’s — But No Less Real
Mar 15, 2020 · When it comes to race, Joe Biden’s record and rhetoric reflect the broader hypocrisy of U.S. politics. While Biden rightly criticizes Donald Trump’s racism, he then praises himself for his own ability to work with overt white supremacist Dixiecrat Democrats in the 1970s. It’s important to recognize the problematic nature of Biden’s history of working with Southern Democratic racist ...