United States US House passes police reforms, voting rights bill 04-03-2021 15:33 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday.
AS I SEE IT Censorship is on the march 16-01-2021 09:05 Once upon a time, progressives, or “liberals” as North Americans call them, agreed that censorship was bad. They would have been appalled by the notion that the richest men on Earth were entitled to prevent the sitting US president, however obnoxious many thought him, from communicating with his followers. by James Neilson
US ELECTION 2020 Oregon police face off with anti-Trump protesters 05-11-2020 02:29 Hundreds of state police and left-wing protesters were locked in a tense standoff in downtown Portland late Wednesday after rampaging anti-Trump groups smashed shop windows, prompting the state governor to activate the National Guard.
HUMAN RIGHTS Portland's Wall of Moms builds on a long protest tradition 13-08-2020 00:38 Kelsy Kretschmer, associate professor of sociology at Oregon State University, explains why the Wall of Moms protest group attracted so much attention in the coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, and how the group draws on a long tradition of mothers’ movements around the world.
KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD Black Lives Matter movement goes mainstream 11-06-2020 15:29 Black Lives Matter has gone mainstream — and black activists are carefully assessing how they should respond.
KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD Grassroots US protesters take call for justice to streets 06-06-2020 08:00 Protests have erupted across the United States in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. With tensions running high, grassroots campaigners explain why they’ve taken to the streets and what they’re fighting for. by Jennifer Heiman & Anina Hoffman
Killing of George Floyd World outrage grows at Floyd's death, France bans protest 02-06-2020 15:11 Unrest grows throughout the globe, as protesters denounce racial inequality in the United States over death of George Floyd.
BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO Police disperse anti-Bolsonaro protesters in Brazil 01-06-2020 15:39 Police used tear gas to disperse protesters who gathered to march against President Jair Bolsonaro in São Paulo on Sunday, as well as in "Black Lives Matter" protests that took place Rio de Janeiro.