The Associated Press reports that a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy has been held in Israeli military lockup since last week after Israeli soldiers “burst[ed] into his family home and arrest[ed] him in an overnight raid for allegedly hurling rocks at Israeli motorists in the West Bank.” The boy’s father, Abdelwahab Khalek, said his 14-year-old son Mohammad […]
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6:15pm ET: I’m still waiting to hear back from the offices of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Superintendent Cami Anderson. All three have yet to publicly comment on the walkout as far as I know. The protest seems to have gone very well and best of all, the students aren’t […]
Sorry I haven’t posted much this week, I’ve been under the weather. The good news is that I’m finally feeling better, just in time for the National Conference for Media Reform this weekend in Denver, Colorado.
One of the most popular and apparently controversial posts I have ever published on this site—The Best Take Down of Hipster Racism You Will Ever See—led to lots of heated debate in the comments section. Some (mostly but not exclusively white) people angrily denied the existence of hipster racism while others (mostly but not exclusively […]
On Wednesday, March 27, hundreds of inmates at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico, engaged in a peaceful demonstration against poor treatment. Somewhere between 250 to 500 prisoners refused to leave the recreation yard in a demonstration that lasted for over 12 hours. The Center, which houses over 1,100 minimum-security federal prisoners (all […]
Nearly 93 percent of children stopped for curfew violations in New Orleans between 2009 and 2012 were black, reports Ramon Antonia Vargas at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
Stealing cars is wrong and there is no excuse for it. But does that mean car thieves deserve to be executed by armed vigilantes? Is a car worth a person’s life? One man seems to think so. The Spokesman-Review reports:
Education “reformers” are seeing their privatization dreams come true as mass public school closings spread from one city to the next. Chicago is currently ground zero for this scheme with 54 schools slated for closing this year in what the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss called “the largest mass district closing of schools ever in the […]
(Update at the bottom) A reader of Dispatches from the Underclass who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, has alerted me to a protest planned for Saturday, March 30, in support of Steubenville High School head football coach, Reno Saccoccia. “This man does alot for kids, you cannot blame a coach for the actions of a few kids!”, […]
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