Race Should be
Centerpiece of Revised Community Reinvestment Act Standards
Under the Skin:
The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
(Hardcover)
https://thishouseofbooks.indielite.org/book/9780385544887
Texas police fires officer who shot a teen sitting in his
car in a fast food parking lot: James Brennand confronted the 17 year old who
was in a car that had evaded him a day earlier and began shooting when the car
drove off
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/08/texas-police-fires-officer-shot-teenager
Community Reads: Community Reads: Fall 2018 | When They
Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
https://guides.lib.uw.edu/bothell/communityreads/F18
Webinars of the International Center for
Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma
H.R.5444 - Truth and Healing Commission on Indian
Boarding School Policies Act. 09/30/2021
- Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the
Committee on Natural Resources. 10/03/2021
- Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States. 05/12/2022 - Subcommittee Hearings Held. 06/15/2022 - Subcommittee for Indigenous
Peoples of the United States Discharged; Committee Consideration and Mark-up
Session Held; Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5444
Brown Peoples: Inside the Cave of Quetzalcoatl
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Cintli.html
America’s Response to the Holocaust: We Can’t Whitewash
Our Tragically Imperfect Past.
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Polman.html
Tlaib calls out “Progressive except on Israel,” and
Wasserman Schultz inadvertently makes Her Point for Her
https://www.juancole.com/2022/09/progressive-wasserman-inadvertently.html
History Rhymes with ‘US and the Holocaust’
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Patterson.html
Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members
spark outrage, disgust
Why Black Wombs Matter: Produced by Tonya Lewis Lee and
Paula Eiselt, Aftershock features families directly and painfully impacted by
how Black women are treated as they deliver children.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/why-black-wombs-matter
Protesters demand L.A. City Council members resign after
leaked racist remarks
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-11/nury-martinez-city-council-seat-audio-leak
Baltimore prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed, as
last-ditch DNA tests exclude him
Condemning Hateful Comments: The elected officials,
Latina/o leaders in the Los Angeles City Council, have let us down and should
face consequences for their actions.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/condemning-hateful-comments
Instead of Having a Racist and Corrupt City Council, Los
Angeles Should Try Proportional Representation: A gaggle of bigoted municipal
lawmakers have become unlikely—but effective—poster children for electoral
reform.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168150/city-council-scandal-proportional-representation
50+ Women Voters and the Midterms - Started streaming
October 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70b1LUxAlo
How Midterm Campaigns are Framing Crime: According to
data from AdImpact, Republican candidates nationwide have recently increased
their spending on ads attacking Democrats' approaches to crime and public
safety. We look at how these narratives might impact voters' perception of
their own safety and dig deeper into the data available on crimes rates — and
what it can tell us about both causes and solutions to crime. We're joined by Rena Karefa-Johnson, Director
of National programming at FWD.us, and Ames Grawert, Senior Counsel at the
Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/how-midterm-campaigns-are-framing-crime
The captain of a busy Philly police district is often
absent. Yet he’s in line for promotion.
Community organizers and police staff in North Philadelphia's 22nd
Police District say that, amid soaring rates of violent crime, the district's
commander is elusive. Some say 'chaos' has ensued.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-22nd-district-nashid-akil-absent-20221014.html
Why Crime Is On The Ballot In The Pennsylvania Senate
Race - Oct 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRux4V-Z3JE
In Conversation: Patrisse Cullors and Angela Davis - Jan
28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qBRukP3gQM&t=73s
Angela Davis in Conversation with Joyce McMillan | How We
endUP 2022 - Oct 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDmaQyni4M
Crowd Cheers and Laughs When Trump Threatens Journalists
With Prison Rape: The crowd reveled in Trump's sick idea to bully members of
the press into revealing their sources
Adidas breaks with Ye after antisemitic remarks
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3702800-adidas-breaks-with-ye-after-antisemitic-remarks/
Paul Krugman smacks down red state Republicans on crime
stats
https://www.rawstory.com/red-state-crime/
Retired Military Officials Are Finding High-Paying Jobs
With the Saudi Government
Navy SEAL Impostor Admits Defrauding Up to $1.5 Million
in Romance, Other Scams
Fire Watch | A Military.com Podcast
How Big Should a Jury Be? That’s Suddenly Up to the
Supreme Court to Decide. Not every state
in the U.S. requires the fabled “12 angry men.” Some require as few as six
jurors. Now the justices are being asked to rule on whether the number should
be uniform.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168294/supreme-court-twelve-jury-size
Why Does Sacramento Need a Bigger Jail? Policing and criminalization don't prevent or
solve crimes. It doesn't cure addicts.
https://www.laprogressive.com/prison-reform-2/why-does-sacramento-need-a-bigger-jail
The Death and Life of My Father, Donald S. Kelley: Reckoning
with a legacy of violence, fear, and love.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donald-kelley-memoir-father/
Is the Fourteenth Amendment Color-Blind? As the Supreme Court prepares to consider two
affirmative action cases, originalism will be put to a test.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168334/14th-amendment-affirmative-action-originalism
Coffee with Dick & Sharon: Kanye Meets Kevin. When Kanye meets Kevin, "Ye" is out
on his ear as quick as you can say "Jew," while Kevin and Gil still
draw their City Council paychecks.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/kanye-meets-kevin
With Musk Owning Twitter: Like other strongmen, with Musk
owning Twitter, he's now accountable to no one
https://www.laprogressive.com/techie-tips/with-musk-owning-twitter
Every person is made in the image of God. No life is
beyond His reach. Founded in 1976, Prison Fellowship® exists to serve all those
affected by crime and incarceration and to see lives and communities restored
in and out of prison—one transformed life at a time.
https://www.prisonfellowship.org/
“My Heart is Ripped to Shreds”: Sarah Aaronsohn’s Moving
Letter. The letter from over a century
ago in which Sarah Aaronsohn writes of the tragic death of her beloved friend,
Avshalom Feinberg.
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/sarah_aaronsohn_1917/
Science Proves There are More than Two Human Sexes - 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0HJkr1jj4
At Least 32 Trans
People Have Been Killed So Far This Year: The real number is likely far higher,
according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign.
https://newrepublic.com/post/168925/32-trans-gender-non-conforming-people-killed-2022-report
37 Republican
Senators Tried To Stop the Marriage Equality Bill From Moving Forward: The
Senate has cleared a major procedural hurdle on the bill, but not without
opposition from Republicans.
https://newrepublic.com/post/168919/37-republican-senators-tried-stop-marriage-equality-bill-advance
ADL sent a second
letter to Amazon executives regarding an antisemitic film/book that is still
available, and promoted, on the platform after the retail company said it would
work to add a disclaimer containing additional context. Dave Chappelle’s
monologue sparked backlash for normalizing antisemitism amid high-profile
incidents from Ye and Kyrie Irving. ADL announced it would incorporate the
nonprofit Jewish investing group JLens and enter the impact investing space to
combat antisemitism and anti-Israel boycotts in the corporate arena.
City Council censures De León, Cedillo, Martinez after
police clear out demonstrators
Education After Affirmative Action: The Supreme Court
hears a challenge to affirmative action this week—and will likely overrule more
than four decades of precedents on college admissions.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/07/education-after-affirmative-action
Confronting Global Anti-Blackness: Global anti-blackness
is too much for some to discuss in “polite society” but not too much to
practice.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/confronting-global-anti-blackness
Florida takes next step to ban gender-affirming
treatments for kids: The rulemaking is the latest step taken by the DeSantis
administration to tighten regulatory controls over gender-affirming care.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/28/florida-gender-affirming-treatments-kids-ban-00064039
A Job and a College Degree Before You Graduate High
School: “Dual enrollment” programs are the hottest reform in education. But
they haven’t worked for lower-income students of color—until now.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/28/dual-enrollment-programs-low-income/
Radio Golf: August Wilson’s Last Word on Race and Class
in America. Radio Golf was not just the
last in his phenomenal decade of plays, it was his final work; he succumbed to
liver cancer that same year at the age of 60.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/stage/radio-golf
Taking Back Their
Power: Black veterans seek recognition, recompense for generations of racial
inequity
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/11/11/black-veterans-seek-recognition-equity
Is the Idea of
Masculinity Worth Saving? Laura Kipnis
writes that masculinity is an emblem of mobility while Phil Christman argues
that notions of manliness are better left to the side.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/masculinity-debate/
The Promise of
Freedom: Thulani Davis’s Reconstruction.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/thulani-davis-emancipation-circuit/
The Gift of a
Mixtape: Hua Hsu’s memoir of music and friendship.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/hua-hsu-stay-true/
Redefining
Freedom With Robin Kelley: A conversation with the historian about the
20th-anniversary of his seminal book Freedom Dreams, how the meaning of freedom
has changed in the intervening years, the reparations debate, and more.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-robin-d-g-kelley/
How a Royal Visit
Helped Weaken the Crown’s Grip on the Caribbean: William and Kate’s springtime
tour didn’t spark the movement for independence and reparations in the
Caribbean, but it did stoke it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/prince-william-kate-caribbean-reparations/
How to Crush a
Movement for Racial Justice: Heavy-handed policing by Arkansas authorities—with
an assist from the Trump and Biden Justice Departments—put Dawn Jeffrey in jail
and left her fellow protesters demoralized and demobilized.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/movement-racial-justice-police-arkansas/
Guilty Before
Innocent: How the courts keep the wrongfully convicted from proving their
innocence.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/daniel-medwed-barred-innocence/
The Two Wars: The
battle over who would profit from the Civil War.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/roger-lowenstein-ways-and-means/
Elizabeth Holmes
Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud: Ms. Holmes was convicted in
January of four counts of wire fraud for deceiving investors with claims about
her blood testing start-up Theranos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elizabeth-holmes-sentence-theranos.html
The Virginia
Model
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/10/22/the-virginia-model
GOP Doubles Down
On Racist Rhetoric Going Into The Midterms – October 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQqIslULgs
“An estimated
2,600 Latinos were killed by police or in custody in the past six years,
preliminary report says.
https://www.xinachtligirls.com/dr-roberto-rodriguez
Newsom with law
enforcement on solitary confinement veto
https://capitolweekly.net/newsom-with-law-enforcement-on-solitary-confinement-veto/
Letters to the
Editor: Republican Racist Fixation; Critical Religious Theory; What Made Trump
Possible?; The Mid-Terms; Tax Cuts Benefit Rich; Who Did Trump Show His Top
Secret Documents?; Returning Women to the Dark Ages; Days of Infamy; Our Cult
Associative Religiosity.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Letters.html
No Place You
Would Want to Be is Safer Than Iowa
https://www.populist.com/28.20.ArtCullen.html
As Little Rock
violence goes, so goes the nation | Gene Lyons
The Kanye West
paradox: How to treat noxious content on social media? What the Supreme Court is likely to do, and
other options.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-kanye-west-paradox-how-to-treat#details
The H Word:
Violence Against the Spirit
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Cintli.html
Stiehm: Uncle
Andy: Old Hickory and me in history
Biden’s Marijuana
Pardons are a Seismic Shift: The immediate impacts are modest, but the order
marks a top-level recognition that 100 years of cannabis prohibition were a
mistake.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Armentano.html
Beware the
Copaganda Machine: Media portrayals of police as good-hearted heroes warp our
collective view of reality. Don’t trust them.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/police-propaganda-pop-culture-violent-crime
Oregon Governor
Pardons 45,000 People Convicted on Marijuana Charges: Governor Kate Brown’s
pardon applies to people convicted for possession of an ounce or less of
marijuana before 2016.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169072/oregon-governor-kate-brown-pardon-45000-people-marijuana
The Colorado
Springs Shooting Suspect Is The Grandson of MAGA Republican Randy Voepel: The
suspected gunman opened fire in a queer club in Colorado Springs, killing five
people and injuring at least 25 others.
Colorado Springs
Shooting – Nov 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bwhr5MO4A
Our thoughts are
with Colorado Springs and the LGBTQ community after 5 people were killed and 25
were injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub.
https://link.katiecouric.com/view/5e8b8842b523ad1d4a17c215hpts4.29b7/1e1eb1e9
The murderous attack Saturday night on Club Q, an LGBTQ+
venue in Colorado Springs which left at least five dead, dozens more injured
and countless families and communities changed forever reminds us of our need
to be ever vigilant in combatting hate-fueled violence.
The Massacre at
Club Q Should Not Have Felt Inevitable: The attack on this LGBTQ community
space did not come without warning.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169068/club-q-shooting-colorado-lgbtq
Biden reiterates
call for assault weapons ban after mass shootings: "I’m going to try to
get rid of assault weapons," the president said Thursday.
Right-Wing Media
Responds to Colorado Springs Shooting by Doubling Down on Anti-LGBTQ Hate: After
a deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, right-wing pundits
are lashing out at the left.
Herschel Walker
Delivers Unhinged Transphobic Speech the Day After LGBTQ Nightclub Shooting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/herschel-walker-delivers-unhinged-transphobic-191000350.html?guccounter=1
Herschel Walker
releases new ad targeting transgender athletes
How to Be Less
Stupid About Race: ON RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE, By
Crystal Marie Fleming
Elite Capture:
How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59463840-elite-capture
How Progressives
Can Counter ‘Tough-on Crime’ Messaging: Crime plays on primal emotions. We need
deep engagement to transform people’s thinking.
Conservatives
Don’t Actually Have an Argument for Killing Affirmative Action: The Supreme
Court hearings on affirmative action revealed just how weak the right-wing
position is—but the GOP justices will overturn the policy anyway.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-affirmative-action-arguments/
The Story of Baby
O—and the Case That Could Gut Native Sovereignty: Baby O’s case is at the
center of a lawsuit to bring down the Indian Child Welfare Act. But far from
proving ICWA should be overturned, it shows why the law is necessary.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/icwa-supreme-court-libretti-custody-case/
Mark Anthony Rolo
has been a correspondent for Indian Country Today, director of the Native
American Journalists Association, and author of My Mother Is Now Earth. He was
an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and a
regular contributor to The Progressive, including for the column, “Going
Native.” Mark passed away on May 30, 2020.
Review some of his articles here.
https://progressive.org/topics/mark-anthony-rolo/
Elon Musk Tweets
Defense of Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in Ferguson, Missouri: The
billionaire deleted his original tweet early Wednesday but replaced it with a DOJ
report.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-tweets-cop-killed-unarmed-black-man-ferguson-1849815713
Glenn Youngkin,
Who Supports No Gun Control, Is Heartbroken Over Virginia Walmart Shooting: The
Virginia governor has promised to roll back existing gun control laws in the
state.
News from the
States, November 23, 2022
UC Regents Chair
Richard Leib statement on UC Berkeley School of Law
Are Drug Laws
Intentionally Racist? – Nov 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMpnO7xoac
George Floyd Is
His Name: Floyd’s life in Minneapolis did improve. But in the end, there was no
escape from the cops, who cost him his life.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/his-name-was-george-floyd
Shatter Alley:
Though my beat was a few square miles of teeming neighborhood, I was, in
effect, covering the whole world — not from the top down but from the bottom
up.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/poetry/shatter-alley
Jews and Arabs
Descended from Canaanites: DNA analysis, from bodies found at several sites,
explains more than half of ancestry
National Sermon,
Sunday, November 27, 2022
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/
Trump talks with
white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/25/trump-nick-fuentes-ye-kanye
The white nationalist who dined with Donald Trump has
denigrated Black people, women, Jews and other groups.
1 dead, 5 injured
in shooting near popular Atlanta shopping center: A group of people estimated
to range in age from 15 to 21 had been escorted from the nearby mall before
gunfire erupted, police said.
An Attack Like
This Says, "Not Even Here": You tolerate hateful language, and it
leads to hateful legislation, and it leads to hateful violence.
https://www.laprogressive.com/lgbtq/club-q-shooting
BREAKING NEWS:
Neo-Nazis and Other White Supremacists Launch Massive Nationwide Campaign to
Leverage Elon Musk’s Ownership of Twitter to Deplatform the American Left. It turns out “freedom of speech” had nothing
to do with far-right celebrations of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. While we
already knew this, it’s terrifying to see how fast the far right is moving.
Gunman charged in
Buffalo mass shooting pleads guilty to 15 counts
Va. Rep. Donald
McEachin dies of cancer 4 weeks after winning 4th term
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/28/donald-mceachin-congress-dies/
Senate passes
landmark protections for same-sex marriage
Details on the AI
gun detection tech SEPTA is installing in 300 surveillance cameras: This is
ZeroEyes’ first public transit rollout of the service, which has DHS
anti-terrorism designation.
La Defensa’s
Megan Castillo Fights for Justice: As a working-class, first-generation college
student originally from South Central Los Angeles, Megan has dedicated her life
to upending the state sanctioned violence she saw around her growing up.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/megan-castillo
Sand Creek, Silas
Soule and the Voice of Conscience and Compassion in the American West: Despite
the neglect of Soule’s experience in the history of the American West, his
memory lives in the hearts and minds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people.
https://www.laprogressive.com/firstpeoples/sand-creek-silas-soule
Innocence is not
a Defense .... "Not Guilty vs Innocent – Dec 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0jQUThDlv4
How The GOP Gets
Away With Racism – Dec 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiBxoWjgRs
The Price of
Superstition and Traditional Medicine in Africa: An Untimely Death
A Lot of White
Folks Sure Need Woking Up
https://secularhumanism.org/2022/10/a-lot-of-white-folks-sure-need-woking-up/
It's not good
when voting rights cases make it to the Supreme court, author says
Boy in the Box'
identified, Philadelphia police say. They'll release findings Thursday.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/boy-in-the-box-philadelphia-police-identify-dna-homicide-20221206.html
Attorneys for
Colorado Black man beaten by police demand investigation
Claudine Gay
named Harvard's 1st Black president: Harvard on Thursday named Claudine Gay as
its next president. Gay, currently the dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, will become the Ivy League school's first Black leader when she takes
over in July.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/15/metro/claudine-gay-named-next-president-harvard-university/
White Officer
Found Guilty in Killing of Black Woman in Her Texas Home: A former Fort Worth
police officer, Aaron Dean, was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of
Atatiana Jefferson. She was shot through her bedroom window.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/us/atatiana-jefferson-aaron-dean-verdict.html
Oakland woman
claims New York’s Metropolitan Museum secretly sold her grandma’s Nazi-stolen
van Gogh: Judith Silver’s grandmother Hedwig Stern fled the Nazis, who forced
the sale of van Gogh’s “Olive Picking” and kept the proceeds, new federal
lawsuit claims.
Reimagine LA
Advances the Idea of Care: Community members and advocates push to bring loved
ones home from incarceration in LA County jails
https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/reimagine-la-advances-the-idea-of-care
DOJ Must Drop
Charges Against Assange: The U.S. case against Assange is facing mounting
criticism here at home as a threat to press freedom.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/drop-charges-against-assange
Harvey Weinstein
is convicted of 3 of 7 charges, including rape, in his Los Angeles sexual
assault trial
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/us/harvey-weinstein-trial-deliberations-los-angeles-monday/index.html
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