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Oct 22, 2024 | 
deceleration.news | Frances Madeson
When hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta struck Louisiana in 2020, Devin Davis was still in graduate school at Prescott College earning a master’s degree in social justice and community organizing. But by the time Hurricane Ida blew ashore as a Category 4 in 2021, he was back in New Orleans working as director of political operations for Voters Organized to Educate (VOTE), a nonprofit organization dedicated to building collective power while reforming the criminal legal system.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Frances Madeson
Part of the SeriesThe Road to AbolitionThe State of Missouri put its lethal hands on another of its longtime death penalty captives on Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre, prematurely ending his life with a poison injection of pentobarbital. The state-sponsored killing of Marcellus Williams took place at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, the same prison where the state executed Brian Dorsey in April and David Hosier in June.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
peoplestribune.org | Frances Madeson
Editor’s Note: This article by Frances Madeson originally appeared in Truthout and is republished here with permission. Michael Brown Sr. rejects any version of the Ferguson uprising that consigns the movement to the past. Ten years after his son, Michael Brown Jr. was killed by Darren Wilson, then a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Brown Sr. is still seeking accountability.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Frances Madeson
It’s been almost eight months since a prisoner in Missouri’s Jefferson City Correctional Center (JCCC) frantically phoned Oriel Moore to let her know that guards had killed Moore’s 38-year-old brother, Othel, during a routine drug sweep. But this was no routine death, it was murder. Those charged were members of a special unit contracted from another Missouri prison two hours away in Potosi.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Frances Madeson
Michael Brown Sr. rejects any version of the Ferguson uprising that consigns the movement to the past. Ten years after his son, Michael Brown Jr. was killed by Darren Wilson, then a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Brown Sr. is still seeking accountability. When Michael Brown Jr. was killed on August 9, 2014 — a Black teen shot six times by a white cop — protests erupted around the country, fueling a movement for racial justice that continues to this day.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
mondoweiss.net | Frances Madeson
As Missouri’s August 6 primary election day rapidly approaches, over $9 million of AIPAC and AIPAC-adjacent dollars have already flooded the race to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Cori Bush who represents Missouri’s First District in Congress. The asymmetrical deployment of resources against her may be paying off too as the latest Democratic Majority for Israel poll shows Bush’s challenger, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, with a 6-point lead just ahead of election day on August 6.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
scheerpost.com | Frances Madeson
By Frances Madeson / TruthoutOn June 1, approximately 50 medical students from Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University, and others interested in the topic gathered at a public library in St. Louis’s Central West End near both campuses to hear neonatal specialist Yassar Arain describe the medical apartheid he experienced while volunteering in a neonatal intensive care unit in Gaza this spring. Some openly wept as he recounted tragedies he’d witnessed but was powerless to avert.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Frances Madeson
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationOn June 1, approximately 50 medical students from Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis University, and others interested in the topic gathered at a public library in St. Louis’s Central West End near both campuses to hear neonatal specialist Yassar Arain describe the medical apartheid he experienced while volunteering in a neonatal intensive care unit in Gaza this spring.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Frances Madeson
The 2024 high school graduation season in Illinois was more than a personal milestone for the 140,090 students who earned diplomas in the state’s public high schools. One hundred and sixty-nine years after public school education was first mandated in the state, age-appropriate instruction in Native history will be offered as a matter of course beginning this fall. Last year, Illinois Gov.
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May 24, 2024 | 
bluedotliving.com | Frances Madeson
The Watch Dawg, a pale ale with satsuma and lime, is on offer for the foreseeable future at Courtyard Brewery, a nano-brewery in the Lower Garden District in New Orleans, or as its owner Scott Wood likes to call it, “a tiny little neighborhood bar that makes beer.” Satsuma is a Japanese mandarin orange originally brought to Louisiana by Jesuits in the 1700s — more than a hundred years before there was a Louisiana.
