Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on How Today’s Abolitionist Movement Can Fundamentally Change the Country
On this week’s episode of Intercepted, Robin D.G. Kelley discussed the concept of racial capitalism and the current movement for police abolition.
Justice
Voices
Black Lives Matter Wants to End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further.
The Movement for Black Lives says, “We seek not reform but transformation.” Here’s what that would mean.
BlueLeaks
Law Enforcement Scoured Protester Communications and Exaggerated Threats to Minneapolis Cops, Leaked Documents Show
The fears stoked by the unfounded warnings appear to have set the stage for the police’s escalating, violent response to the protests.
The Coronavirus Crisis
How Trump’s Deportation Flights Are Putting Latin America and the Caribbean at Risk
The U.S. has forged ahead with deportations amid the pandemic, creating a petri dish for the virus in crowded ICE facilities and then exporting it overseas.
Voices
Defunding the Police Must Include Ending the Surveillance of Muslims
We must defund the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism programs that target Black Muslim communities.
Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged With “Terrorizing” for Nonviolent Stunt Targeting Plastics Giant
The two environmental activists face 15 years of prison in the latest instance of the criminalization of dissent.
Voices
De Blasio's Fireworks Crackdown Is the Same Violent "Quality of Life" Policing That Got Us Here in the First Place
To desire the policing of the fireworks over the presence of the fireworks is to stand on the wrong side of history.
Voices
As Black Vigilance Becomes Armed Vigilantism, Accountability Is Lost in Atlanta’s Streets
Street justice administered by people who don’t want anyone to know who they are is not a substitute for policing.
Voices
Crisis Fund of $200,000 Launched by Press Freedom Group to Support Journalists
The Press Freedom Defense Fund will provide grants of up to $1,500 each to journalists impacted by the pandemic’s economic fallout.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Revealed Sick-Call Requests From a Federal Jail Show People Desperate for Medical Attention Amid the Pandemic — and Waiting Weeks to Get It
Medical requests from MDC Brooklyn, which the government tried to keep secret, paint a grim picture of the federal jail amid the coronavirus pandemic.