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Attack on Academia, Part 3: Interview with Lisa Durden

By Sarita Farnelli

After appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight to defend a Black Lives Matter event, Lisa Durden was met with a wave of online harassment and subsequently fired by Essex County College. However, Durden’s side of the story, revealing the lack of due process and communication from the college, indicates deeper problems faced by adjuncts, people of color and women that regularly contribute to similar incidents to her firing, which she described as a β€œpublic lynching.”

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Stories, News, Analysis, Voices Savannah Crowley Stories, News, Analysis, Voices Savannah Crowley

Sinaloa, Mexico: Remembering Javier Valdez and Standing for Freedom of Expression

By Savannah Crowley

In her latest post for our Weaving the Streets project, Savannah Crowley reflects on her experience of traveling to Culiacan, Sinaloa (Mexico), to β€œlearn from activists and community leaders on the ground who are building peace in the heart of the Drug War” in the aftermath of the assassination of renowned journalist Javier Valdez.

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Stories, News, Analysis Ajok Deng Stories, News, Analysis Ajok Deng

What’s Written on the Walls: Gendered Resistance in LavapiΓ©s

By Ajok Deng

In the Madrid neighborhood of LavapiΓ©s, groups such as Mujeres Libres (Free Women) join anonymous street artists in expressing defiant resistance to the structures of patriarchy and the gendered violence that it generates. As part of our Weaving the Streets project, reporter Ajok Deng describes what she has been seeing on the walls, and in the streets, of LavapiΓ©s.

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Stories, News, Analysis Wyatt Adams Stories, News, Analysis Wyatt Adams

Rational Environmental Politics: Report From Vienna’s Climate March

By Wyatt Adams

β€œHow can that be?” asked the older Austrian man sitting on the next barstool. β€œHow can that many people deny accepted science?” Weave News reporter Wyatt Adams reports for our Weaving the Streets project on his visit to the annual Climate March in Vienna, where climate change denial is almost unthinkable.

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Stories, News, Voices, Analysis Savannah Crowley Stories, News, Voices, Analysis Savannah Crowley

Deported Veterans: A Visit to 'The Bunker'

By Savannah Crowley

On Sunday, April 23, I had the honor to ride alongside Mr. Jan Ruhman, a United States’ Marine Corps Veteran who served during the Vietnam War, on the drive South of San Diego to the US/Mexican border at Tijuana. Crossing the border in Jan’s Ford Ranger, a speed bump was the only thing in our way, but for Jan’s friends and the United States veterans that I would soon meet, they would never again be allowed to cross the border and return home to the United States. They’ve been permanently banished from the same country they swore to serve and defend.

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Stories, News, Analysis Gene Grabiner Stories, News, Analysis Gene Grabiner

Buffalo PBA VP Blog Post Threatens Cop Violence Against Civilians

By Gene Grabiner

In a July 2016 blog post that he refused to take down, Buffalo Police Benevolent Association (PBA) vice president John Evans said of civilian demonstrators: β€œComply with our orders and you won't get yourself killed. Enough!!!” It’s not enough that demonstrators’ First Amendment rights have already been eroded and circumscribed with the creation of β€˜Free Speech Zones.’ Now, exercise of First Amendment rights may be met with police deadly force. Is this a terroristic threat?

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Stories, News, Analysis Sheila Murray Stories, News, Analysis Sheila Murray

Calling Boston Artists to Action

By Sheila Murray

As a transplant to the Boston area, it’s been interesting to familiarize myself with the city through the lens of current politics and social movements.  Unlike my years growing up in a small New Hampshire town and my time at university in upstate New York, Boston is positively bursting with events. That said, event spaces are not always conventional.  Here, a friend’s apartment is the scene for a β€œWomen’s Brunch;” there, breweries become writing labs, bouldering gyms host β€œpostcard parties,” and a tattoo parlor converts into a local artist marketplace.  In the past few months, my eyes have been on community engagement and the spaces that crop up as hosts.

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Stories, News, Analysis, Voices Julianne DeGuardi Stories, News, Analysis, Voices Julianne DeGuardi

Justice for Migrant Workers in Vermont!

By Julianne DeGuardi

In this report Julianne DeGuardi continues her investigation of the struggles facing migrant farm workers by looking at the situation in Vermont, where grassroots organizations like Migrant Justice play a key role in advocating for the rights of workers. This advocacy work has taken on a heightened importance in light of the changing national political climate. .

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Stories, News, Analysis, Voices, Podcast Erin Corbine Stories, News, Analysis, Voices, Podcast Erin Corbine

Jim Crow on Campus, Episode 3: β€œDashawn and Andre”

By Erin Corbine

Investigative reporter Erin Corbine uncovers the story of Dashawn and Andre in episode 3 of Jim Crow on Campus. In the episode, rising sophomore Dashawn and SUNY Canton alum/former employee Andre, recount an experience with University Police that started with a haircut, but ended with two young men of color in handcuffs.

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Stories, Voices, News Julianne DeGuardi Stories, Voices, News Julianne DeGuardi

Interweaving: NCPR's David Sommerstein on Migrant Dairy Farm Workers in the North Country

By Julianne DeGuardi

As part of her ongoing research into the story of migrant farm workers in the North Country dairy industry, Weave News reporter Julianne DeGuardi spoke with another local reporter who has done extensive work on the topic: David Sommerstein of North Country Public Radio (NCPR). Enjoy the latest installment in our Interweaving series!

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