Massive Crowds Protest Police Violence
Hundreds of people take part in a protest at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2020. Rod Lamkey Jr./Sipa via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For more than a week, Americans have been in the streets to protest the murders…
Here’s Where the Movement to Defund Police Is Gaining Momentum
Matt York/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, resident after masked resident lined up outside a public hearing on the city’s budget. They waited, in some cases for hours, for their turn to share the same message with the city council: It was…
“I Refuse to Transport Radical Youth to Jail”: More and More City Bus Drivers Are Done Helping Cops.
An arrested protestor looks out of a bus at a Brooklyn protest against the police killing of George Floyd on May 29, 2020. (Joel Marklund/Bildbyran via ZUMA) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bus drivers around the country are refusing police demands to cart detained protestors to jail—and…
Chicago PD Made Bus Drivers Ferry Them to Protests. One Driver Is Suing His Bosses to Fight It.
Amid protests over the Minneapolis Police Department’s killing of George Floyd, Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver Erek Slater, a 14-year veteran of the city’s transit system, is filing a federal lawsuit against his employer—for allegedly cracking down on a rank-and-file effort to resist driving Chicago police. Days of rallies and sit-ins across the city…
Trump’s Crackdown on Protesters Is Great News for Chinese Propagandists
Ivanov Artyom/TASS/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As tensions between China and the United States have escalated in recent years, June 4 has become an increasingly important date for American political leaders, especially ones who are hawkish on China. On that day in 1989, Chinese security forces…
Obama Sees Hope in Protests: “There Is Something Different Here”
President Barack Obama also addressed youth during a virtual graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 on May 17.Amanda Rose/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On a Wednesday afternoon livestream, President Obama delivered an optimistic message about the protests gripping the nation in response to police violence:…