MintPress goes to Detroit to meet the activists, entrepreneurs, social experimenters and proactive members of the community who are ready to show the rest of the country and the world that Detroit is more than a played-out image of a dystopian has-been.
MintPress goes to Detroit to meet the activists, entrepreneurs, social experimenters and proactive members of the community who are ready to show the rest of the country and the world that Detroit is more than a played-out image of a dystopian has-been.
“This was a political statement. It was an endorsement of their drug war. And the drug war is a failure,” Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht, tells MintPress News.
“This was a political statement. It was an endorsement of their drug war. And the drug war is a failure,” Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht, tells MintPress News.
As the legendary hunger striker passed his 30th day of a new fast against Israel’s imprisonment without charge or trial, supporters mobilized in Palestine and online.
As the legendary hunger striker passed his 30th day of a new fast against Israel’s imprisonment without charge or trial, supporters mobilized in Palestine and online.
“Commander” Dale Brown is bringing nonviolent conflict resolution training to Detroit, a city where the police department struggles to maintain a basic level of security for what’s left of the city’s dwindling population.
“Commander” Dale Brown is bringing nonviolent conflict resolution training to Detroit, a city where the police department struggles to maintain a basic level of security for what’s left of the city’s dwindling population.
Corporate customers with past-due bills continue to operate in Detroit, yet the city’s families who are unable to pay have their water shut off. It’s just one drop in a flood of crises, and the Detroit Water Brigade has had enough.
Corporate customers with past-due bills continue to operate in Detroit, yet the city’s families who are unable to pay have their water shut off. It’s just one drop in a flood of crises, and the Detroit Water Brigade has had enough.
A “re-engineering” proposal bankrolled by the wealthiest interests in New York City will likely push for the NYPD to hire hundreds of new cops for an already bloated police force under scrutiny for its brutal police practices.
A “re-engineering” proposal bankrolled by the wealthiest interests in New York City will likely push for the NYPD to hire hundreds of new cops for an already bloated police force under scrutiny for its brutal police practices.
“The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation,” one California judge writes in a damning indictment of the practice, while another describes agents as “trolling poor neighborhoods.”
“The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation,” one California judge writes in a damning indictment of the practice, while another describes agents as “trolling poor neighborhoods.”
