Ninety independent movie theaters nationwide are screening 1984 on April 4 to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian approach to government.So far, none of the theaters in Wisconsin has announced participation in the project.The movie 1984 is based on the classic novel of the same name by George Orwell. The setting is a dystopian future in which the government manufactures facts, revises .... Read More
Social change often firms up around a table, over cups of coffee, believes Ebony Nyoni, who on Saturday opened a new Black Lives Matter community center, safe space, fair-trade emporium and cafe in Winooski, Vermont.Until a month and a half ago, Nyoni operated a beauty supply and hair braiding service here on Main Street.“Then I realized, hearing the stories of many, many Chittenden Coun.... Read More
President Donald Trump can bank on an all-out fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.Shortly after his inauguration, Trump put the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines on the fast track to approval, despite environmental concerns and widespread opposition to the projects.The president claimed he had not received “a single phone call” opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would carry.... Read More
A class-action lawsuit was filed Feb. 22 against the city of Milwaukee over its police department’s vast stop-and-frisk program.The suit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin and the law firm of Covington & Burling.The suit says the department targets tens of thousands of people without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, the legal requ.... Read More
Sixty feet and the U.S-Mexico border separated the unarmed, 15-year-old Mexican boy and the U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed him with a gunshot to the head early on a June evening in 2010.U.S. officials chose not to prosecute Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. and the Obama administration refused a request to extradite him so that he could face criminal charges in Mexico. When the parents of Sergio Adria.... Read More
Donald Trump has “electrified” the radical right, contributing to an alarming spike in the number of hate groups operating in the United States, particularly anti-Muslim groups.That’s the prominent finding in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released on Feb. 15. SPLC has monitored hate and extremist groups in the United States for 30 years. The report is.... Read More
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin has hired Christopher Ott as its new executive director, effective in late March of 2017. Ott, a native of Wisconsin, has served as the communications director for the ACLU of Massachusetts in Boston for 10 years, and led the state LGBT rights organization Fair Wisconsin in the early 2000s. Ott will succeed the ACLU of Wisconsin’s longtime executiv.... Read More
The National Lawyers Guild is organizing a day of action for the legal community to show solidarity in the fight against "the new regime and its white supremacist agenda."On Feb. 17 at 1 p.m. EST, lawyers, legal workers, law students and law professors will gather in front of courthouses across the country in coordination with the nationwide #GeneralStrike planned for the same day..... Read More
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation “opposes President Donald Trump’s executive orders that would stop entry for refugees from predominantly Muslim countries, halt federal funding for ‘sanctuary cities’ and expand detention for immigrants and asylum seekers,” according to a statement released in late January.The JCRC speaks as the representative vo.... Read More
Silenced on the Senate floor, Democrat Elizabeth Warren took her criticism of President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general out to the hallway — and found a much larger audience.Republican senators voted on Tuesday evening to end Warren's reading of a letter written 30 years ago by Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow that criticized U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee to lead the Justic.... Read More
