Melanie Brazzell

Nov 5, 2024 | inquest.org | Melanie Brazzell

The global movement for Palestinian liberation has reignited leftist internationalism for a new generation and revitalized the movement against war, militarism, and imperialism.

May 26, 2023 | truthout.org | Erica R. Meiners |Shirley Leslie |Melanie Brazzell |Austin McCoy

Part of the SeriesThe Road to AbolitionIn the summer of 2020, at the onset of a deadly pandemic, George Floyd’s murder propelled unprecedented numbers of people across the globe to take to the streets. From Australia to India, from Johannesburg to Saskatoon, demands reverberated to defund police and invest in safer communities.

May 4, 2023 | thelancet.com | Tristan Bridges |Tara Leigh Tober |Melanie Brazzell

SummaryBackgroundThe United States experiences more mass shootings than any other nation in the world. Various entities have sought to collect data on this phenomenon, but there is no scholarly consensus regarding how best to define mass shootings.

Mar 15, 2023 | wagingnonviolence.org | Melanie Brazzell

This story was first published by ROAR. In the early days of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, the sight of Minneapolis’ Third Precinct in flames was something many had scarcely imagined. It kindled with it a vision also previously unimaginable for most: the abolition of policing itself. In this era, many of the newly abolition-curious have wondered who to turn to instead of the police. Abolition inserts a question between the moment of crisis and the choice to dial 9-1-1.

Mar 2, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Melanie Brazzell |Tara Leigh Tober |Tristan Bridges

On November 1, 2013, a young White man entered Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon and over 500 rounds of ammunition. He harbored radical anti-government sentiments and came with the intention of killing TSA agents. He fatally shot the first agent he identified, Gerardo Hernandez, a father of two who had immigrated from El Salvador at 15. In the chaos that ensued, three more people were shot and others were injured.