Originally published in NationofChange The protests across the country this past week calling for a ‘reopening of America’ is the obvious conclusion to the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency. Roughly a thousand people rallied in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this week in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has so far taken over 45,000 American…
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Covering the ReOpen Protests with John Rudoff
This week for Aroundthelens.com and Visu.News I spoke to photojournalist John Rudoff. John is a photojournalist who has been working in the industry for several decades covering activism, music and theater, and many foreign stories such as refugees in Greece. You can find his work at RudoffPhoto.com.
WATCH LIVE: Greg Palast on Vote Theft
Part Two: This Saturday, April 18 we’ll be hosting a special Facebook LIVE Event to preview Palast’s new book, How Trump Stole 2020, which reveals how Trump’s already got the November election in the bag — unless we snatch it back! The event will feature exclusive reports from the scene of the crime — plus interviews…
A Pandemic Might’ve Been Inevitable. How We Respond Can Help Ameliorate Future Crises
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.
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…