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Jan 12, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Cherise Morris
The early days of the COVID-19 shutdown necessitated a particular stillness. In the quiet and uncertainty of the pandemic’s first months, there was more time to pay attention to what was happening in the world around us, beyond the narrowing bubbles of our own personal lives. As the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery garnered media attention, people in cities across the country left their homes.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Cherise Morris |Meghan Krausch |Christina Carrega
Police and Prison Guards in Maine Are Committing Abuses With Terrifying ImpunityMaine’s attorney general’s office hasn’t acknowledged an unjustified use of deadly police force since 1990. ByBrian Pitman, TruthoutPublishedOctober 8, 2023Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce poses for a portrait at the county jail in Portland, Maine, on July 12, 2018.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Cherise Morris
This story is a preview of the Salt, Soil, & Supper Almanac, a forthcoming collection of stories examining climate justice and Southern environments—emphasizing the traditions, practices, festivities, and lenses of critique that have allowed Southerners to persevere in the face of hostile physical, political and cultural environments. By the time I was 13, I'd lived through hurricanes, tornados, and Earthquakes.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Cherise Morris |Sera Davidow |Victoria Law |Candice Norwood
Briefly, we wanted to update you on where Truthout stands this month. To be brutally honest, Truthout is behind on our fundraising goals for the year. There are a lot of reasons why. We’re dealing with broad trends in our industry, trends that have led publications like Vice, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic to make painful cuts. Everyone is feeling the squeeze of inflation. And despite its lasting importance, news readership is declining.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Ray Levy-Uyeda |Gigi Kellett |Anton Woronczuk |Cherise Morris
Ramona Bowles began smoking commercial cigarettes when she was a teenager. For decades, she smoked as many as four packs a day. Then in 2021, the Pine Hill Indian Tribe, the First People of Fort Jackson in South Carolina, launched a smoking cessation program to address high usage rates among tribal members like Bowles. The program offered peer support, accountability, and an Indigenous lens to tobacco use and consumption. Bowles is down to one and a half packs per day.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Cherise Morris
The movement to abolish systems of policing and prisons is often discredited as an unfeasible, utopian notion that is not possible in the context of human “nature.” We live in a violent society built from the violence of settler colonialism, slavery and patriarchy. The violence of this system and its origins make the violence of police and prisons seem necessary to many.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Kelly Hayes |Mike Ludwig |Huma Yasin |Cherise Morris
Sixty-one people involved with the movement to Stop Cop City were indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges on Tuesday. Stop Cop City organizers with the movement have long warned that such charges might be forthcoming, as part of a stunning crusade by Georgia officials and law enforcement to crush the grassroots movement.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Cherise Morris |Cristian Farias |Rachel Herzing |Alice Jennings
Part of the SeriesThe Road to AbolitionThe movement to abolish systems of policing and prisons is often discredited as an unfeasible, utopian notion that is not possible in the context of human “nature.” We live in a violent society built from the violence of settler colonialism, slavery and patriarchy. The violence of this system and its origins make the violence of police and prisons seem necessary to many.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sam Carliner |Luís Martín-Cabrera |Cherise Morris |Desiree Kane
Skip to contentSkip to footerIndigenous people and workers are resisting a reform which attacks the right to protest. For weeks now, the people of Jujuy, Argentina, have been in the streets resisting right-wing political attacks on wages and the right to protest. In the past few days the conflict has escalated with severe police repression throughout the largely Indigenous and impoverished province.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Lyric Aquino |Sharon Zhang |Cherise Morris |Desiree Kane
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. In a major blow to the Navajo Nation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the federal government had no obligation to supply water to the tribe. In a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that water security for the Nation did not fall to the judiciary branch, but rather Congress and the President.
