Courtney Teasley: Breaking the cycle of incarceration
“A Black family with five children [was] driving through Manchester, Tennessee, and had their children taken and forced into foster care all over marijuana. … I had to publicly put it out to people and let them know what’s going on in this city that we consider a sundown town. … We know what it…
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‘Major win’ for democracy as Supreme Court rejects Trump attack on mail-in voting
“This executive order was a blatant power grab designed to silence voters and undermine our elections, but it failed because the people and the law were on our side.”
‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”
The Shift: 25 years after 9/11, our country is still dominated by the “War on Terror”
25 years after 9/11, the War on Terror’s legacy is everywhere, from rampant Islamophobia, to another open ended war on Iran.
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Fearless Speech: Examining myths around the First Amendment
Professor Mary Anne Franks analyzes the persistent myths surrounding the history of free speech in the United States.
Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don’t let those stories go to waste! There is power in them. We have power in them.”
Why is YouTube demonetizing so many cop watchers?
First Amendment auditors and cop watchers with YouTube audiences ranging from thousands to more than a million subscribers say their channels have suddenly been demonetized.
Israel’s Gaza ‘solution’ is to empty it of Palestinians, defense minister says
“There is no real solution for Gaza in the end without this migration,” said Israel Katz.
‘The most powerful publishers the world has ever seen’: Fara Dabhoiwala on the real battle over free speech
Historian Fara Dabhoiwala on the 18th-century hack who invented free speech absolutism and then sold out to the government—and why that same doctrine now shields Big Tech and the powerful instead of the public.
‘Treated worse than cattle’: 2,500 Tyson workers laid off, plant shutters overnight
“They gave no reason, nothing… people have no job. No money to pay our bills. For 11 years, I made money for them. And now they’re not doing anything for me.”
‘American dominance’: Boat strikes, Cuba, and Latin American pushback
This is episode 13 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
