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Gov. Jeff Landry, lawmakers to spend millions on juvenile detention center expansions

October 21, 2024 Julie O’Donoghue | Louisiana Illuminator, Verite News

Oct. 16 — Louisiana officials expect to put tens of millions of dollars over the next two months into expanding juvenile detention centers that house children and teenagers accused of crimes. At the beginning of the […]

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A law was meant to target teen violence. Instead, 17-year-olds are being charged as adults for lesser offenses.

October 21, 2024 Richard A. Webster, Verite News

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In February, a prosecutor from […]

Meat monopolies ripped off McDonald’s and everybody else

October 18, 2024 Stephen Millies

Skyrocketing food prices are a corporate conspiracy McDonald’s filed an antitrust suit on Oct. 4 against the four biggest meatpackers, claiming the outfits conspired to jack up beef prices since at least 2015. The four […]

Elections at a time of growing war budget and shrinking wages

October 16, 2024 Gary Wilson

The polls published by the mainstream media all say that the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is extremely close. The money race is not so close. In the big money competition between […]

Decaying capitalism can’t protect us from not-so-natural disasters

October 10, 2024 Stephen Millies

Cuts in public transportation mean more lives will be lost What happened in Florida is horrendous and preventable. Millions of people were trying to escape as Hurricane Milton approached. Mile after mile of expressways were […]

No more war! Young working-class activists expose U.S. imperialism

October 10, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha

Two speakers at the Oct. 5 rally and march at Baltimore City Hall The following are addresses given by young working-class activists Jace Carter and Colby Byrd at the rally for Palestine and Lebanon in […]

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: Cruel to tigers and kids

September 25, 2024 Gregory E. Williams

Louisiana governor Jeff Landry – who recently tried to stop summer school lunch programs – is pressuring Louisiana State University (LSU) to resume parading its live tiger mascot at home football games. This hasn’t happened […]

Socialism and dignity: The right to a funeral

September 22, 2024 Stephen Millies

This article was originally published on May 20, 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic when mass burials were conducted in New York City’s Potter’s Fields. Grave robbing is alive and well in the […]

Fare evasion or fatal excuse? Statement on NYPD mass subway shooting over $2.90

September 19, 2024 Bronx Anti-War Coalition

On Sept. 15, the NYPD shot Derell Mickles, a Black man in Brooklyn for the alleged “crime” of jumping a turnstile. This marks the second NYPD shooting in just 48 hours. Amidst a landscape where […]

Say no to racism in Springfield, Ohio!

September 14, 2024 Struggle - La Lucha

The racist campaign against the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, is dangerous and must be stopped. Both Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, are fanning the flames of racial hatred. They’re […]