Blurring the Lines of Legitimate Protests with Domestic Terrorism
Published by CapitalCityHues.com July 28, 2023 Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed Act 33 in 2019, a law that criminalizes peaceful protests and protects the private property of corporations. Despite broad opposition to the bill from environmental groups to civil rights groups, Evers was tone deaf except to the singular voice of the energy industry. He […]
The High Court Goes Low
Published by BlackCommentator.com on July 6, 2023 The now clearly consolidated conservative U.S. Supreme Court ended its term in a blaze of catastrophic, far-reaching decisions. The three Democratically appointed women were solid in trying to hold back the right-wing wave but to no avail. Their attempts to uphold their judicial responsibility in the face of […]
Protecting Juneteenth from the Jaws of Consumer Capitalism
Published by BlackCommentator.com on June 22, 2023 Now that we’ve had a couple of years of the Juneteenth holiday, I have some observations to share. President Joe Biden signed Juneteenth into law as a federal holiday in 2021. If we don’t grab the reigns of this run-away horse, descendants of enslaved Africans risk losing the […]