Originally printed in the Bucks County Beacon The festival, a two-day carnival of MAGA dripping madness, offered an unfiltered look at the Republican Party’s present and future. The Rod of Iron Festival in the woods of Greeley, Pennsylvania, sure knows how to put on a show: a 50 person choir flown in from Japan, firearm…
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Conviction Upheld in Murder of George Floyd
Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin appealed his second degree murder conviction last year to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Chauvin appealed claiming that due to media coverage, he was unable to receive a fair trial. Today they refused his appeal. Chauvin will serve an over 22-year sentence – 15 years behind bars and 7.5 on…
PHOTOS: On the Line: The Fight for Abortion Rights
Originally published in TheProgressive.org Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) On December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest case that seeks to chip away at abortion rights across the country. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi urged the Supreme Court to ban abortions after…
CPAC 2022—no war, but the culture war
Originally published at NationofChange.org Orlando, Florida Become a Patron! Support our work at Paypal, Venmo (ZDRoberts) or cashapp ($ZDRoberts) Every year the who’s who of the “real” conservative America meets at the Conservative Political Action Conference organized by the American Conservative Union. Over the Trump administration, the faces of CPAC have changed from a more traditional conservative (tax cuts, pro-corporation)…
Why Local News Matters – A Visual News Behind the Scenes Story with Andrew Dolph
Become a Patron! Support our work via PayPal Subscribe to the Visu.News podcast: iTunes Google Podcasts or on Podbean. Hi, this is Zach D Roberts with a special episode of the Visu.News podcast AND the Around the Lens podcast. For those who are new to the pod – Around the Lens is a visual imaging show that…
The Time I Went to Jail (Occupy Wall Street)
Become a Patron! It’s been ten years since I was arrested at Occupy Wall Street while working as a journalist. I wasn’t by far the only person to be arrested that day… not even the only journalist to be arrested. The piece below was originally published by Suicide Girls, yes the same site that published…
US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Greg Palast and Zach D Roberts for Buzzflash Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of…
A Delusional Rally for ‘Freedom’
Become a Patron! Originally published in The Progressive Across the country, Trump supporters are still showing up at state capitols to spread conspiracy theories and demand the 2020 election results be overturned. Anti-vaccine protests are the new MAGA rally. With a President despised by the right and little hope of reinstating the previous one, the…
Watch: Clip Reel from March on Washington
Scenes from the ground of the March on Washington and the Good Trouble Rally. Check out the photo-essay here.
Thousands Rally in D.C. for Voting Rights
Originally for GregPalast.com [Aug 28, 2021: Washington, D.C.] On Saturday, thousands marched and rallied in Washington, D.C. in support of voting rights. The day also marked the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s seminal March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which he gave his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. On one side…