April 22, 2024 (SFChronicle.com) San Francisco is changing. These are people whose decisions will shape that change — for better or worse. You might not know them all. But you should. Jennifer Friedenbach At the height of a battle over street encampments, Jennifer Friedenbach stepped out of a federal courthouse last August… Continue reading
April 29, 2024 (TheOnion.com) BREAKING NEWS Americans Explain Why We Should Call The National Guard On College Protesters In response to growing antiwar protests at American universities, including Columbia, Yale, and MIT, some outspoken critics have demanded the U.S. military take action. The Onion asked Americans why they believe the National Guard… Continue reading
Joan Donovan/Guardian UK ‘Media mobilizes movements, so coverage of police repression of peaceful protest is often met with more protests.’ (photo: Mike Stewart/AP) 29 april 24 (RCN.org) There is some truth to the popular protest slogan: ‘They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’ University students… Continue reading
Justices consider constitutionality of punishing people for sleeping outside as western states seek to address encampments Diana Ramirez-Simon, Dani Anguiano, Isabeau Doucet and agencies Mon 22 Apr 2024 (TheGuardian.com) With Fruitdale Elementary School in the background, a homeless man adjusts his shoe at Fruitdale Park in Grants Pass, Oregon, Credit: Jenny Kane /… Continue reading
Claire Parker, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Hajar Harb/The Washington Post An aerial view of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday. (photo: AFP) 28 april 24 (RSN.org) More than six months into the war in Gaza and with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal, Palestinians… Continue reading
Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh mourns his son and another journalist killed by an Israeli airstrike on January 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images) “To sit and schmooze with the president while he sends billions of dollars in weapons to Israel to kill their colleagues in Gaza… Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confers with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during their meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Photo: Miriam Alster/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) “There is absolutely no reason for Biden to be involved in this,” said one analyst. “But once again,… Continue reading
Students at the University of Central Florida take part in a campus protest against the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza in Orlando, Florida on April 26, 2024. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images) Amnesty International has documented several cases in which Israeli forces used Boeing-made weaponry to commit atrocities in… Continue reading
Erwin Chemerinsky/The Atlantic Abortion rights demonstrators rally outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Md. Monday Sept. 13, 2021. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP) 28 april 24 (RSN.org) The difference between a private yard and a public forum As a constitutional scholar and the dean of the… Continue reading
