Thursday, October 17, 2024

Firearm stocks spike after mass shootings as investors dismiss the chance of tightening gun laws

Mass shootings occur with such frequency that we can no longer implement this kind of analysis looking at the effect of isolated incidents and the stock market effect on gun companies.

Chicago Officials Release Footage Showing Police Misconduct That Led To Unarmed Black Teen’s Death

A police review chief called the footage "shocking and disturbing.”

What the overlooked history of post-1960s organizing can teach activists today

A conversation with the editors of "Remaking Radicalism"—a collection of writings from one of the most underrepresented periods of leftist organizing.

Ex-Cop Indicted on Murder Charge for Gunning Down Unarmed Man

After South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager, fatally killed Walter Scott during a routine traffic stop, a grand jury decided to indict Slager for the murder. Will the indictment of another officer involved in covering up the shooting give us the answers?

How Oregon is turning the page on America’s disastrous drug war

“Our immediate focus is to ensure every Oregonian knows these critical harm reduction and recovery services are being invested in and expanded so that they will be available to anyone who wants and needs them, and that they can feel comfortable and safe accessing them.”

Native Candidates Make a Historic Push for Congress

As the presidential race has demonstrated, 2016 is the year for outsiders, and no group can be considered further from the establishment than Native Americans.

Activists working to defund Baltimore’s police face roadblocks

While grassroots activists have made progress on the aforementioned fronts, the demand to defund police remains stubbornly out of reach—for now.

From a concert in Las Vegas to a funeral in Yemen, we must stop...

Just as we are trying to get Congress to take action on gun control, so we must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.  
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Remembering Stonewall: On 50th anniversary, leaders of uprising look back on sparking the LGBTQ...

Fifty years ago today, just after midnight, at 1:30 in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York City police officers raided...

VIDEO: New Report Rejects Mexican Government’s Story About the Disappearance of 43 Students from...

After 43 students went missing in Mexico, the students’ families have started a rallying cry as mass protests across Mexico and around the world take place. So what really happened to these students?