Monday night I peered out my window at the little Mexican restaurant across the street as the sunset in Chicago. There were a couple of kids hanging out on the corner in front of the place, but not a single soul inside. Like every other restaurant across Illinois, they shut the lights out later that…
VisuNews Podcast: COVID-19 Edition
Zach D Roberts and Aaron Cynic chat about mutual aid, the coronavirus response from Trump and more.
DC Police Throw Anti-fascist as Fascist March
A local DC antifascist activist was on the scene with a small group of allies protesting the Patriot Front’s march through the nation’s Capitol. The DC police tripped and threw the man. DC Police attempted to do the same thing to me… but I’m a bit sturdier… and probably have 75lbs on the other guy….
Fascists March on Washington DC, With Help of Police
Saturday, February, 8th in Washington DC150 fascists marched from Arlington, VA over a bridge past the Lincoln memorial past the African American history museum and then rallied in front of the US Capitol.
Emerald City Video Awards
Winners are announced on the podcast and tagged via social media. If they want to receive the actual award, they can. The Yellow Brick in question is a VHS tape spray-painted gold and then labeled with their project and mailed out in a rental case. You can find us (and a number of other awesome…
Federal Judge Cites Scalia, Throws Out 100k Voters
Originally published on GregPalast.com In Atlanta Friday, Federal Judge Steve Jones ruled against Stacey Abrams’ organization Fair Fight in its suit to restore nearly 100,000 Georgians to the voter rolls. It turns out that Abrams’ attorneys were not in a fair fight against this federal judge who refused to even consider if the purge would…
UPDATE: Check Out this C’Ville Police Car
UPDATE: I’m a hack and a fraud. I didn’t check if the CVille Police had bowed to public pressure or not… I never thought that they would. But it seems that they will take the car out of the fleet next year. From The Daily Progress on 12/12/2019: “We felt it was appropriate to review…
Visu.News Podcast – Chicago Teachers Strike w/ special guests from Unicorn Riot
We’re back after a long unplanned hiatus that had both Aaron and myself covering picket lines. Aaron was in Chicago, of course covering the Chicago Teachers Union strike and I was mostly in Rochester covering the UAW/GM strike. This episode we’re joined by two of the awesome people at the non-profit journalist collective, Unicorn Riot…
Voices and Stories from the NYC Climate March
Across the country and the world last Friday, kids and adults marched and rallied in solidarity in a Climate Strike. The NYC Mayors office puts the number of people who marched in Manhattan at 60,000, according to the NTY Times; the organizers say 250,000. This journalist’s estimate puts the numbers far closer to the cities…
Photos from the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention
It was quite nice to visit New Hampshire in the Summer. New Hampshire in the Winter is well, not as pleasant. On somewhat of a whim I drove the 6 hours to Manchester, NH to cover the convention and get a load of great stock photos of the candidates… all of them. Dear lord… SO…