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Amended autopsy: Black man died due to sedative, restraint
DENVER (AP) — A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday. Despite the finding, the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was still listed as undetermined,…
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Gainesville neighborhoods covered in antisemitic flyers, again
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – Multiple neighborhoods in Gainesville were papered with hateful flyers in an apparent repeat of an incident earlier this year. Residents found their property littered with bags of corn kernels attached to flyers containing antisemitic messages. Gainesville Police Department officials say they received multiple complaints about the flyers. Some of the areas…
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The California County Where MAGA Took Control
REDDING, Calif. — Times are grim in the cowboy far north of California. Wildfires rage. Covid-19 lingers. Drought has stripped most of the snow from Mount Shasta and shrunk Shasta Lake. But other business has consumed the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meetings. “We’ve been duped!” one resident charged during an epic six-hour debate in…
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UW-Madison denounces antisemitic chalk messages that appeared around campus
Antisemitic messages were written at various spots across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on the first day of classes, prompting an apology from frustrated administrators at the school, which has a significant Jewish population. The chalk messages targeted student Jewish groups by labeling them “racist,” “genocidal” and “having blood on their hands.” The messages appeared in…
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Hundreds of Law Enforcement Officers Listed as Members of Oath Keepers Militia
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a bid by the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia to delay his trial on seditious conspiracy charges over his role in the January 6 assault on Congress. Prosecutors say 57-year-old former U.S. Army paratrooper Stewart Rhodes ordered Oath Keepers under his command to spread out…
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White nationalism, fueled by social media, is on the rise and attracting violent young white men
White nationalists keep showing up in the hearings of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Evidence is mounting that white nationalist groups who want to establish an all-white state played a significant role in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five dead and dozens wounded. Thus far, the…
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Sweden’s election marks a new far-right surge in Europe
Another taboo in Europe is about to be broken. In Sweden, voters delivered a narrow mandate after elections on Sunday to a loose coalition of right-wing parties, including one with a neo-fascist past. On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, a center-left Social Democrat allied to other left and green parties, conceded defeat. Her party…
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A Mich. library refused to remove an LGBTQ book. The town defunded it.
JAMESTOWN, Mich. — Two librarians had quit since the trouble began, and Kaitlin McLaughlin didn’t want to be the third. But the same term kept coming up in board meetings and on yard signs, making her feel awkward and wrongly accused: grooming. People in this western Michigan farming town said the Patmos Library was “grooming”…
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86 more extremist-related incidents reported in 2021 than 2020, ADL said
A new report by the Anti-Defamation League claims that extremism and antisemitism in Florida are on the rise. The ADL is an organization aimed at stopping the defamation of Jewish people and identifying anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, according to its website. Ben Popp, an investigative researcher with the ADL, said extremist-related incidents nearly…
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CALL TO ACTION:
On Sept. 22, Richard Glossip is scheduled to be executed by the state of Oklahoma. There will be an anti-death penalty vigil at 5 pm on Sept. 22 at the corner of McIntire and Preston Ave. It is Cosponsored by Charlottesville Friends’ Meeting and Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Endorsed by The Activists’ Guide….
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‘Took Away That Statue and Got Rid of It’: Black Mayor Who Personally Tore Down Confederate Statue Faces Criminal Investigation, KKK Threats
A Black mayor is under investigation after he personally tore down a Confederate monument in his town of Enfield, North Carolina, however, since the monument’s removal, a white nationalist group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan is pushing back with threatening flyers. “It is ridiculous to believe that statue should stand in a park that…
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The Bible is among dozens of books removed from this Texas school district
Students at the Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth, Texas, went back to school. But instead of the focus being on their return, much of the attention has been heaped on an email that was sent out the day before, instructing school staff to pull all copies of a list of more than 40 books from…
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West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall
For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York have walked past a panel of three large bronze plaques mounted at the entrance of Bartlett Hall Science Center that includes an image of a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” written below it, according to findings in…
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Amazon Advises Supremacists
The white supremacists behind Antelope Hill, a hate group that churns out books that idealize fascism and denigrate marginalized groups, exploit the low standards for entry of online retailers such as Amazon to run their business. Hatewatch reported in June that extremists Vincent Cucchiara, 24, Sarah Elizabeth Cucchiara (née Nahrgang), 25, and Dmitri Anatolievich Loutsik, 25,…
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Teenager shot by police in Prince William County dies
A 19-year-old from Woodbridge, Va., who police said was shot during an undercover drug operation last week died Sunday, Prince William County police said. Jaiden Malik Carter was one of two males who police said were shot Thursday during an exchange of gunfire connected with an operation to investigate the potential distribution of fentanyl, an…
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Flyers for neo-Nazi group left in driveways of High Point, NC neighborhood
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — High Point Police have been taking calls for the last 24 hours about white supremacy messages left in bags on people’s driveways. A neo-Nazi group called the Aryan Freedom Network is believed to be behind the flyers. Their name is tied to the bags filled with rice and a card…
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Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’
Measures across the country aim to restrict what children can read. In one Virginia school district this fall, parents will receive an email notification every time their child checks out a book. In a Florida school system, teachers are purging their classrooms of texts that mention racism, sexism, gender identity or oppression. And a Pennsylvania school district is convening a panel…
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WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT IN HISTORY CLASS
In the last two years, dozens of state legislatures have introduced bills that would limit what teachers can say Here are some video interviews with teachers https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/17/us/teaching-critical-race-theory.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Education
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Anti-Hindu attacks grow, from N.Y. to a California Taco Bell
A tirade recorded at a California Taco Bell punctuated a string of discriminatory incidents this month aimed at Indian Americans and Hindu temples, deepening concerns that “Hinduphobia” is on the rise. Krishnan Iyer had stopped into a Fremont, Calif., Taco Bell near his home on Aug. 21 to pick up an online order for his…
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Columbus Police Release Body Camera Footage of Fatal Shooting
A police officer fatally shot an unarmed Black man in an apartment in Columbus, Ohio, early Tuesday morning, moments after encountering him during an attempt to serve a felony warrant, body camera footage released hours after the shooting shows. The city’s police chief, Elaine Bryant, said at a news conference on Tuesday that Officer Ricky…
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A statue honors a once-enslaved woman who won her freedom in court
Her story, while remarkable, remains relatively obscure. State Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli grew up not far from Sheffield in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts yet didn’t hear her story until about 20 years ago. He found that many of his colleagues in the Statehouse were also largely in the dark about the significance of her…
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The Bible is among dozens of books removed from this Texas school district
Students at the Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth, Texas, went back to school. But instead of the focus being on their return, much of the attention has been heaped on an email that was sent out the day before, instructing school staff to pull all copies of a list of more than 40 books from…
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Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering
President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad. The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between…
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Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’
In one Virginia school district this fall, parents will receive an email notification every time their child checks out a book. In a Florida school system, teachers are purging their classrooms of texts that mention racism, sexism, gender identity or oppression. And a Pennsylvania school district is convening a panel of adults to sign off on every title that school librarians propose…
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Mississippi Grand Jury Declines to Indict Woman in Emmett Till Murder Case
Carolyn Bryant Donham had accused the 14-year-old boy of whistling at her in 1955. His killing helped galvanize the civil rights movement. NASHVILLE — A grand jury in Mississippi examining the case of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy whose abduction and killing more than six decades ago became a galvanizing force for the civil…
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Albert Woodfox Dies of COVID; Loved Ones Remember the Life & Legacy of Famed Political Prisoner
FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third time…
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“War Poisons Everybody”: Remembering Legendary Historian Howard Zinn on His 100th Birthday
A personal note: Howard was my mentor and friend during my days as a student and anti-war activist at Boston University aka “the Berkeley of the East” in the early ’70’s. His influence in Boston and nationwide was profound. We were the city where over 100,000 people participated in the 1969 Moratorium. We were the…
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Va. Gov. Youngkin faces second suit over teacher tip line
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is facing a second lawsuit over his administration’s repeated refusals to release records related to an email tip line he set up for parents to report school employees who teach “divisive” subjects. Nonprofit ethics watchdog group American Oversight and the law firm Ballard Spahr filed the suit in Arlington County Circuit…
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CALL TO ACTION – EXECUTION VIGIL
James Coddington will be killed by the state of Oklahoma this week. A vigil for the execution of James Coddington will occur at noon Thursday, August 25 Albemarle County Office Building (at McIntire and Preston) Vigil sponsored by Charlottesville Friends Meeting Endorsed by The Activists’ Guide https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/board-recommends-clemency-oklahoma-death-row-inmate-87885360
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Md. governor hopeful Dan Cox says he would use state police against Biden
The Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee calls the FBI search of Trump’s residence ‘nothing short of communist stasi police state tactics’ . Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox called the FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s residence “criminal” and said if elected he would use the full force of government — including the state police and Maryland…
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How Kansans went from bombing clinics to protecting abortion rights 1974 — Bob Dole campaign uses ‘abortion issue’ 1986 — Wichita abortion clinic bombed 1991 — ‘Summer of Mercy’ 1993 — Tiller shot but survives 1997 — Woman’s Right to Know Act 2001 — Another ‘Summer of Mercy’ 2005 — Christin Gilbert dies 2009 —…
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10 Arrested at Protest of Fossil Fuel Concessions in Inflation Reduction Act
Here in New York, police arrested 10 climate campaigners Thursday as they held a peaceful sit-in protest inside the Manhattan offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The activists are demanding Schumer and other Democratic leaders reverse fossil fuel-friendly concessions in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act. One provision, added to win the support of…
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Albert Woodfox Dies of COVID; Loved Ones Remember the Life & Legacy of Famed Political Prisoner
FROM DEMOCRACY NOW: We speak with Michael Mable about the life and legacy of his brother, Black Panther activist and political prisoner Albert Woodfox. Woodfox spent nearly 44 years in solitary confinement at the Louisiana State Penitentiary after he was wrongly convicted of murdering a prison guard. Woodfox’s conviction was overturned for the third time…
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BAD POLICY ALERT:
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. — An unruly audience forced the Hanover School Board to threaten to clear the room during their meeting on Tuesday night. The commotion came following controversy over a proposed policy for transgender or non-binary students when it comes to using the bathroom. The proposed policy would have transgender and non-binary students apply…
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After the People’s Convoy disbanded, this offshoot headed to D.C.
For the past few weeks, Rose Koepsell has awakened to one of the best views in Washington. “It’s surreal,” said Koepsell. “We get up in the morning, and there is the nation’s Capitol, sir, staring us straight in the face. And then you look to the west, and it’s the Washington Monument. How cool.” Koepsell,…
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CALL TO ACTION:
RVA Unity Walk PEACE AND POWER DEMONSTRATION Saturday, August 27 | 5:30pm | Virginia Museum of History and Culture Join Coming to the Table RVA as we walk in Peace AND Power, honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of building the beloved community and taking inspired action to dismantle systems of oppression and…
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FASCIST CENSORSHIP GROWS IN SCHOOLS
The Bluest Eye by Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison was pulled from circulation last year in Virginia Beach because some parents claimed that it is “sexually explicit.” It was returned to the shelves later after being reviewed by several committees, which noted the lasting impact the book could have on students. What valuable lesson might…
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Bathrooms per ACLU
ATTN: Hanover County School Board is set to introduce a bathroom policy that would, among other things, require trans students to go through criminal background check simply to use the bathroom.Trans students deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. This is yet another attack on trans kids, from a school board that has repeatedly…
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As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence
Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language. The armed attack this week on an F.B.I. office in Ohio by a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump who was enraged by the bureau’s search of Mr. Trump’s private residence in…
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A Jan. 6 defendant is running for office in Florida — from jail
On the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a flag-waving crowd gathered outside the Florida jail where an alleged participant was being held. Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct on restricted Capitol grounds, addressed them through a phone call played over a loudspeaker. The…
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Killings of Three Muslim Men in Albuquerque May Be Linked, Police Say
The authorities also suspect the deaths could be connected to the homicide of a Muslim man in Albequerque. Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, the planning and land use director for the city of Española, N.M., was fatally shot in Albuquerque.Credit…City of Española The police in Albuquerque are investigating the killings of three Muslim men that they say…
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Trees Dedicated to Holocaust Victims Are Destroyed at Buchenwald
Seven trees near the former concentration camp in Germany were chopped down in what the International Committee of Buchenwald Dora said was a “horrible act of vandalism.” Seven trees memorializing people who died at Buchenwald during the Holocaust were chopped down near the former concentration camp outside Weimar, Germany, in what the International Committee of…
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Armed Trump Supporter Shot Dead in Ohio After Attempting to Breach FBI Field Office
In Ohio, a man wearing body armor and armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle fired a nail gun into an FBI field office in Cincinnati on Thursday, prompting a gun battle, chase and armed standoff that ended hours later when the gunman was shot dead by police in a cornfield. Officials identified the man as 42-year-old Ricky…
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Nonprofit behind Sines suits winds down operations
A VERY MISLEADING HEADLINE. IFA IS NOT CLOSING. IT IS CLOSING ITS CHARLOTTESVILLE PRESENCE. Nonprofit behind Sines suits winds down operations The organization that funded and directed the groundbreaking federal lawsuit against neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizers of the deadly and violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 will close up its shop and concentrate…
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Madison Huddle describes Aug 11
Draconian policies targeting women and people who can become pregnant, LGBTQ+ people — especially trans and non-binary youth — and communities of color have been introduced and implemented across the country Editor’s Note: including right here in Madison, Culpeper, Orange and beyond. These threats to our rights, our safety, and our democracy are massive and daunting….
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Terrorist Organization
Thought the group would like this Posted by Erica Harris August 9, 2022
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Alabama City Moves to Dissolve Police Department Over Racist Text
A small city in Alabama moved to disband its three-member police force after one of them sent a racist text message that then circulated on social media. Pending an investigation into the text message, the City Council in Vincent, Ala., suspended the police chief and assistant chief at a meeting and moved to dissolve the…
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Police officer shoot man as he runs away
Robert Adams was standing in a San Bernardino, Calif., parking lot when a sedan with tinted windows rolled up. Two police officers exited suddenly, guns drawn and eventually pointed toward Adams, according to surveillance footage. Adams turned away and ran, and within seconds, one of the officers shot him, the video shows. Adams, 23, later…
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City will not host Unite the Right anniversary event 
This year marks the fifth anniversary of the white supremacist Unite the Right rally. While Charlottesville hosted Unity Days in 2019 as a memorial for the deadly rally, City Council has confirmed that the city will not hold an anniversary event this year. “[With] no staff, no time, no money, no security, and with COVID…
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Sister of man killed by D.C. police says he was shot in back of head
A man who was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer on Saturday in Northwest Washington appears to have been struck in the back of the head, according to the man’s sister who watched a videoMonday from the officer’s body camera. Police said the officer saw Kevin Hargraves-Shird “armed with a handgun” before the officer fired one…
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Youngkin appointee who defended Confederate statues resigns from board
RICHMOND — Ann Hunter McLean, a historian who defends Confederate statues and asserts that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War, has resigned from the Virginia Board of Historic Resources over what a spokesman for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called a disagreement about priorities. “After discussion about our Administration’s goals and priorities…
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19-Year-Old Killed By Police After Restaurant Dispute
The parents of an Illinois teen want answers after their daughter went to pick up dinner at a restaurant drive-thru but never made it home. The family of Alexis Wilson, 19, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Illinois police officers accused of punching and killing the teenager. “Alexis was the sweetest girl in our…
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3 arrested during protest at Congressional Baseball Game
Three protesters were arrested and charged with unlawful entry at the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park as dozens of climate activists turned out to demand more urgent action on climate change. Before the start of the game, long a tradition in Washington, the activists moved toward the center field entry gate to disrupt…
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White Nationalist Conference Lists Former Congressman and Current GOP Congressional Candidate as Speakers
A FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN AND A CURRENT GOP CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ARE EXPECTED TO JOIN SEVERAL PROMINENT WHITE NATIONALIST PROPAGANDISTS AND A FORMER KLAN LAWYER IN NOVEMBER AT ONE OF THE LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL WHITE SUPREMACIST GATHERINGS Steve King, who represented Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2021, and Laura Loomer, a self-described…
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White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media
The social media posts are of a distinct type. They hint darkly that the CIA or the FBI are behind mass shootings. They traffic in racist, sexist and homophobic tropes. They revel in the prospect of a “white boy summer.” White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities…
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Over 180 Arrested Protesting for Abortion Rights Outside Supreme Court
Testimony that some people do act, they don’t just talk Outside the Supreme Court, police arrested more than 180 reproductive rights protesters Thursday as they peacefully blocked an intersection in a massive show of nonviolent civil disobedience. The protest took place just six days after the court’s conservative majority voted 6 to 3 to strike…
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Mass shootings intensify reform efforts at grassroots level
By THALIA BEATY and GLENN GAMBOA With protests planned for Saturday after the mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Buffalo, New York, gun control advocates hope to intensify pressure on Congress to pass laws and additional funding for research to help curb the growing violence. And they say they’re prepared to use philanthropic…