The bad apple analogy refers to a ripening agent emitted by fruit as they go bad. If the bad fruit isn’t removed, they spoil the good fruit. Yet in the case of policing, the one thing we’ve all seen is this bad fruit being left right where it is instead of being removed. Continue reading Questioning Good Cops
The new police chief must demilitarize MPD, fire Matt Kenny, and forbid collaboration with ICE. Continue reading DSA Weighs In on Search for New Police Chief
“I really see myself being that Democratic Socialist voice in the capital to make sure that moderate Democrats are held accountable to Madison’s working class and Wisconsin’s working class.” Continue reading Time for a Better Madison: Nada for State Senate
If Sheriff Dave Mahoney was really concerned about public safety, we think he would have included these people in his blatantly racist press release. Continue reading Sheriff Issues Racist Press Release
As we talk about bringing down monuments that represent the racist history of the United States, Mt. Rushmore needs to be included in the conversation. It is time to give He Sapa back to the Oceti Sakowin. Continue reading Kick Trump Off Stolen Land
We’re now in the midst of what we can definitively say is the biggest wave of mass protests in the United States since the 1960’s. Protests have emerged in all fifty states, in every major city. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like a rebellion with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets, blocking highways, burning and destroying police cars, tearing down confederate monuments and every symbol they could think of economic and racial oppression. Continue reading Racism, Capitalism and Rebellion
Janelle Pérez talks about her advocacy work, thoughts on current immigration practices, and her family’s relief at the June 18 Supreme Court decision in favor of DACA recipients. Continue reading Supreme Court Victory Brings Relief, But DACA Recipients Still Need Certainty
A report from a June 28 protest in Madison’s Allied Drive neighborhood, which organizers say is the perfect place to invest funds diverted from the police budget. Continue reading “We are asking today for police to be defunded.”
Holding a greater understanding of American figures is important not because it allows us to bad mouth these leaders, but because it forces us to rethink the contradictions of this country and what we are taught from day one. Continue reading Monuments for “Good Guys”: Rethinking History
In many of the places where the rebellions are, there are organizations in the Movement for Black Lives that are joined in the resistance work. Continue reading “Enough Was Enough”: The Science Behind the Movement
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