“We’re under siege,” said one witness. “We’re being invaded by our own military.”| The Real News Network
Kenya has now joined a disturbing global trend.| The Real News Network
“Most people think, ‘If you're under US Marshal jurisdiction, you must have committed some horrible crime.’” Wanda Bertram of Prison Policy Initiative tells us. “But there's a lot of people there who are just undocumented, and their cases are becoming criminalized.”| The Real News Network
“We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison… detoxify the land, give it back to the local communities.”| The Real News Network
Since last year’s protests against a controversial finance bill that would have sharply raised taxes, over 100 demonstrators have been killed and thousands arbitrarily detained or abducted.| The Real News Network
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.| The Real News Network
Cop watchers are a diverse community of First Amendment activists who exercise this right through recording encounters with police. We launched a 4-year investigation to expose the truth in all its complexity and contradiction.| The Real News Network
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”| The Real News Network
"The agent lied and said he was in hot pursuit of a person who punched him," explained one local defense attorney. "The entirety of the affidavit is false."| The Real News Network