Become a Patron! This week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I speak with journalist Kit O’Connell about the media’s use of language around police violence and shootings. The favored phrases of ‘unbiased’ news outlets around these incidents are often in a passive tone – not wanting to lay blame on anyone in law…
Charles McMillian, Witness to George Floyd’s Murder Speaks to Visu.News
“Everybody got pay and including me, watch a man die and watching me right now, waking up to the first thing I hear is Mr. Floyd is saying mom, they killing me in the street and I lost my mom two years ago. Devastated and it hurts.” Charles McMillian Become a Patron! Charles McMillian witnessed…
Black Georgia Rep Arrested at the Capitol – Voting Rights Once Again Under Attack
Please support our coverage voting rights and activism at Patreon or at Paypal. Become a Patron! Once again the cops in the Georgia State Capitol have arrested a black elected representative of the state. In 2018 it was Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams who was daring to view a voting rights protest that was going on…
‘The Day the Klan Came To Town’ – Interview with Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell takes an incredible amount of research and information on the KKK and his hometown at the time and builds a narrative arc that will keep everyone reading.
VisuNews Podcast: Jackson’s Water Crisis with Laurie Bertram Roberts
Become a Patron! This is a new bi-weekly special for the Visu.News podcast where we check in on activists across the country – especially ones in quote-unquote “RED STATES.” These are some of the most badass activists around – they’re not just fighting for their causes with passion and way too little money… if any,…
The Gang Starts the Class War
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is perhaps one of the greatest cult classic TV shows in recent history. Rob McElhenney, the show’s creator, combines the lovable absurdity of the show’s main characters with subtle but cutting social commentary. In fact, I’d go so far as to argue that no TV show has ever so faithfully,…
VisuNews Podcast – COVID Disaster Response
Chicago and NY are dealing with COVID-19 vaccine rollout in varying degrees of terrible. Aaron and Zach discuss.
VisuNews Podcast – Catching Up on the Sh*t Show
We’re back! (Again). This week Aaron Cynic and I catch up and discuss the last years news… err I mean the last months news. We catch up on the January 6th marauders, our hopes for what the incoming administration will do and more. Support our Visu.News work on Paypal Become a Patron!
Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ is the Best Song About Class in America
There is no shortage of great American songs about class. From Bruce Springsteen’s driven anthem of escape “Born to Run” to Scarface’s ode to his 5th Ward neighborhood in ‘My Block’ musicians have chronicled what it feels like to be working class in America.
Why did the Georgia GOP team up with a Riot Instigator?
“WE’LL LIGHT THE WHOLE SH*T ON FIRE!” [Atlanta] The star of the GOP’s get-out-the-vote door-knocking program in the Georgia Senate run-off, standing next to Alex Jones, was blasting his threat through a megaphone in front of the Governor’s home. “We’ll light the whole sh*t on fire!” Ali Alexander’s threat in December would become all too…