Jeff Smith

6 days ago | griid.org | Jeff Smith

It has been more than 20 months since the Israeli government began their most recent assault on Gaza and the West Bank. The retaliation for the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel, has escalated to what the international community has called genocide, therefore, GRIID will be providing weekly links to information and analysis that we think can better inform us of what is happening, along with the role that the US government is playing.

1 week ago | griid.org | Jeff Smith

Philanthropy is just reputation laundering for the oligarchy. It is that time of the year again, when GRIID posts about the various West Michigan Foundations from families that make up the Grand Rapids Power Structure. I start with the DeVos family, which has 5 different foundations. The Dan and Pamela DeVos FoundationGRIID has always begun our Foundation Watch work by looking at the foundations associated with the most powerful family in West Michigan, the DeVos family.

1 week ago | griid.org | Jeff Smith

Three days ago, the GRPD apologist group Voice for the Badge, posted on their Facebook page an article about a Sheriff in Florida who made a statement recently regarding those protesting ICE. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued a harsh warning Thursday to protesters who use violence in his county: “Throw a brick, a firebomb or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at. Because we will kill you graveyard dead.

1 week ago | griid.org | Jeff Smith

Last night Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE hosted a rally at Calder Plaza to denounce the violence that ICE is committing in Grand Rapids, which includes the monitoring, intimidation, arrest and detention of immigrants. All four of the West Michigan TV stations and MLive reported on the rally, in varying degrees of accuracy.

1 week ago | griid.org | Jeff Smith

Since last Wednesday, when Movimiento Cosecha and GR Rapid Response held a Press Conference to condemn the detention of Carlos Menjivar, there has been no evidence that Michigan Senators Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin, along with Rep. Hillary Scholten, have shown no evidence that they have even attempted to get a father out of detention. People have sent over 2,400 online Action Alerts to Peters, Slotkin and Scholten.