“What you have is a conglomerate of policy violence, and it’s deadly,” says Barber, who is organizing protests.
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On their first day guarding a mall in Minneapolis, the men met in a warehouse on the outskirts of town at 4 a.m. to get “kitted up.” They put on flak jackets and masks. Some had military fatigues. Their boss, Nathan Seabrook, wore a walkie-talkie headset. He packed two pistols and a weapon that dangled […]
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Chicago is giving the US “a stellar example of how to fight back against these xenophobic pogroms,” said one organizer.
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Chicagoans Refuse to Be Cowed in the Face of Unrelenting State Violence Read Post »
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against six protesters—including 26-year-old Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh—for allegedly impeding an ICE officer outside of a federal immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois. The move is a stunning continuation of Trump’s weaponization of judicial and police power to crush dissent. “This case is a […]
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It’s been a week since an estimated 7 million people across 50 US states and the District of Columbia—and countless others all over the world—took part in the “No Kings” protests to speak up against the Trump administration’s policies and his leadership’s slide into authoritarianism. From Washington, DC, to Oakland, California, protesters proudly waved American […]
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From Texas to Tennessee, Even Trump Country Is Marching Against Trump Read Post »
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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In another dizzying plot point around President Donald Trump’s attempts to federalize the National Guard, three judges on the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2–1 decision on Monday that Trump has the authority to deploy the Guard in Portland. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Jones (@motherjonesmag) […]
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“Fed Up Fed!” one protest sign in Oakland, California, proclaimed. Across the nation, in DC, other “No Kings” protesters lofted signs reading “Furloughed And Fired Up” and “Stop Using Federal Workers As Pawns.” An estimated 4 million to 6 million people hit the streets of US cities and towns on Saturday to protest the Trump […]
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The Federal Workers Who Showed Up at “No Kings” Are Not the Villains in This Story Read Post »
When movements let their messages be watered down, they risk the erosion of their ideas in popular consciousness.
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Protesters across southern Wisconsin called out Trump’s abuses, and vowed to defend democracy and human rights.
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From Judges to Journalists, Wisconsinites Show Up to No Kings Protests Read Post »
Saturday’s “No Kings” protests were, as my colleagues chronicled, about as wholesome as you could imagine. There were inflatable animals. There were American flags galore. Even the New York Police Department admitted that the 100,000 protesters were peaceful and that cops made no arrests; police in Washington, DC and Austin, Texas said the same. But […]
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Trump and Johnson Are Melting Down Over The Success of “No Kings” Read Post »
The first protester I noticed as I approached the No Kings rally Saturday was dressed as a giant yellow duck. All around, demonstrators were converging on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC—one wore a Lincoln-style stovepipe hat and carried a sign that read, “Protect Constitutional Rights” and “I ♥ America.” Animal costumes have become an ever-present […]
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