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[created] | Published by: HuffPost
06/4/2020

Police Budgets Have Always Been Untouchable. That Could Change.

Police Budgets Have Always Been Untouchable. That Could Change.

“The United States did not have to be the country that had the highest number of [coronavirus] cases and deaths in the...

06/4/2020 | HuffPost

It’s (Way Past) Time to Redistribute Obscene Police Budgets to Schools, Hospitals, and Buses

cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore, and Houston spend more than 25 percent of their...

06/4/2020 | Labor Notes

Hot & Bothered: Why Defunding the Police is Key to a Just Transition, with J. Mijin Cha

Further reading Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities (Center for Popular...

06/4/2020 | Dissent Magazine
[created] | Published by: Refinery29
06/3/2020

The Movement To Defund The Police Is Getting Stronger — Here's Why

The Movement To Defund The Police Is Getting Stronger — Here's Why

police being armed to the teeth is particularly striking given that research has found no evidence that shoring up...

06/3/2020 | Refinery29

Philly plans to increase police funding while cutting city services. Critics say that’s a mistake

are continuously increasing the amount of spending that we do on policing and criminalization, and that naturally comes...

06/2/2020 | Philadelphia Inquirer

As cities make deep cuts because of COVID-19, police departments are keeping their funding

Even if former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted in the murder of George Floyd, that won’t fully...

06/1/2020 | Fast Company
[created] | Published by: Marketplace
06/1/2020

Activists propose reforming policing by cutting budgets

Activists propose reforming policing by cutting budgets

“When you have more and more police officers in a community, research has shown it leads to more and more sort of...

06/1/2020 | Marketplace
[created] | Published by: Los Angeles Times
06/1/2020

Thousands of cars protest in caravan through Oakland

Thousands of cars protest in caravan through Oakland

Oakland resident Tracey Corder said she took part in the caravan because she is immunocompromised and felt safer...

06/1/2020 | Los Angeles Times

Bill de Blasio Needs to Resign. By Defending Police Violence, He Has Betrayed New Yorkers.

To quote New York human rights lawyer Kumar Rao, “This is Bill de Blasio’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ moment.”

05/31/2020 | The Intercept

Want to avoid another #GeorgeFloyd? Start by defunding the Minneapolis police, organizers say

That investment, as evidenced by findings in a Center for Popular Democracy report, has been a costly one. Between 2011...

05/29/2020 | Prism

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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