On July 17, 2014, New York City Police officer Daniel Pantaleo put 43-year old Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold while attempting to arrest Garner for selling loose cigarettes without proper tax stamps. Despite Garner repeating, “I can’t breathe” several times, Pantaleo continued to choke Garner for 15 seconds. Garner lost consciousness and suffered an […]
Lindorff: Pentagon budget is planned obfuscation
The Department of Defense’s budget is laden with made-up numbers and purposefully obscure as to avoid audits — this according to Dave Lindorff, award winning investigative journalist and founder of the group “This Can’t Be Happening“. Despite requirements by the GAO for all federal departments undergo financial audit, the Defense’s $1.3 Trillion budget has been […]
Gaza Freedom Flotilla comes to Madison
The “Gaza Freedom Flotilla” is a group of multinational volunteers whose goal is to provide much needed food, medical supplies, and construction materials to the Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza strip, and to bring public awareness to the imprisonment of these people. The group is taking representatives of their floatilla around the U.S. and will […]
Rape Kits Languish on Evidence Shelves
Across the country, police departments have stacks and stacks of DNA swabs provided by rape victims in the hope of identifying their attacker — commonly known as rape kits — sitting on shelves, untested by any labs. In 2009, revelations in Cleveland and in Detroit showed how bad the situation had become. After whistleblowers highlighted […]
New Mayor, Same Anti-Homeless Policy
In 2018, Madison mayoral candidate Satya Rhodes-Conway gave an interview to Madison 365, where she stressed her compassionate, collaborative approach to the issues of homelessness and racial equity. That marked a stark contrast with the combative approach articulated by then-mayor Paul Soglin. Largely on the strength of her promise of a more collaborative approach, Rhodes-Conway […]
Abortion Access Front supports choice options
The Abortion Access Front’s mission is creating edgy, hilarious media and comedy events that destigmatize abortion and engage audiences to take action to fight laws restricting abortion access. Local comedian and activist Dina Nina Martinez and national comedian Lizz Winstead talk about their group and the upcoming event in Madison on July 20 @ 5:30 […]
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