Meghan Krausch

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Anti-LGBTQ Censorship Is Endangering Trans People Behind Bars

May 21, 2024 | truthout.org | Meghan Krausch

The rampant banning of texts about queer and transgender people has been in the news a lot recently, but nowhere is book banning more of an issue than in prison. Trans people, in particular, suffer from prisons’ arbitrary restrictions. Sophia Alexsandra Brett Laferriere, a trans woman living in a Washington state prison, told Truthout via the prison’s online messaging system, “Most of the information we ask for doesn’t get to us, or staff steal it or write over it.
Police and Prison Guards in Maine Are Committing Abuses With Terrifying Impunity

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.
Philips Ignored Complaints About Breathing Machines Despite Evidence of Hazard

Sep 27, 2023 | truthout.org | Eleanor Bader |Meghan Krausch |Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |Julia Conley

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This story was co-published with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The first complaints landed at the offices of Philips Respironics in 2010, soon after the company made a fateful decision to redesign its best selling breathing machines used in homes and hospitals around the world.
Police Further Traumatize Sexual Assault Victims by Turning Them Into Suspects

Sep 25, 2023 | truthout.org | Rachel de Leon |Kwaneta Harris |Meghan Krausch |William Lopez

Sequestered in a small interrogation room, sipping an iced coffee, Nicole Chase was trying to explain just how dysfunctional things had become at Nodine’s Smokehouse Deli and Restaurant, a family-owned place in Canton, Connecticut, that specialized in smokehouse meats and toxic masculinity. There was the time one of her colleagues came to work high on acid, she said. On a day the restaurant made only $100, a manager closed early and got fired.
Grassroots organizing in red states is at the heart of abolitionist struggle

Sep 12, 2023 | nationofchange.org | Meghan Krausch

This story was originally published by Truthout. In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses.
Grassroots Organizing In Red States Is At The Heart Of Abolitionist Struggle

Sep 11, 2023 | popularresistance.org | Meghan Krausch

Above Photo: Demonstrators gather outside the Texas capitol in Austin, Texas, on July 18, 2023. Sergio Flores / AFP via Getty Images. Here’s what we can learn from abolitionists organizing in some of the most conservative areas. In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new.
Grassroots organizing in red states is at the heart of abolitionist struggle

Sep 8, 2023 | wagingnonviolence.org | Meghan Krausch

Embed from Getty ImagesThis story was originally published by Truthout. In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses.
Abolition Everywhere | Meghan Krausch | INQUEST

Sep 5, 2023 | inquest.org | Meghan Krausch

In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses.
As Book Bans Sweep the US, Incarcerated People Face the Worst Censorship

Jul 25, 2023 | truthout.org | Emily Drabinski |Jaime Taylor |Ryan Moser |Meghan Krausch

The freedom to read for everyone requires an end to prisons.
Musk Calls New York Times “Propaganda” as He Removes Its Twitter Verification

Apr 3, 2023 | truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Meghan Krausch |Chris Walker |Jake Johnson

Over the weekend, self-described free speech absolutist Elon Musk appeared to personally request the removal of the blue check verification for The New York Times’s Twitter account as he derided the publication’s reporting as “propaganda” and its social media feed as “diarrhea.”On Saturday, Twitter was slated to remove blue check marks that, before Musk’s takeover, indicated that a user’s identity was verified.