John Bachtell
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Bachtell
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Support grows in Chicago for a new approach to police accountability
June 17, 2020In the epicenter of police torture the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression calls for creation of CPAC.
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Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues
June 5, 2020Minneapolis Police Department under fire for terrorizing a great city by operating a “protection racket."
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Trump steps up deadly drive to reopen at all costs
May 27, 2020The fight for truth, science, and the leading role of public health officials, is a front-line fight against the pandemic.
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Biden’s ‘crisis presidency’ and potential for transformative change
May 20, 2020Could he be a transformative president like Lincoln or FDR? That depends on the mass democratic movements and a mobilization like never before.
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‘Tyrannical’ Wisconsin court ruling puts lives in danger amid pandemic
May 14, 2020The Wisconsin GOP, like Trump, has offered no plan to end the pandemic, other than “reopening the economy.”
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Immigrant detainee hunger strikes spread amid COVID-19 danger
April 23, 2020Despite mounting pressure in the prisons and from courts and public protests, ICE has mostly sat on its hands.
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Contesting for the post-COVID-19 world
April 17, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic is sparking something akin to a social epiphany.
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Coronavirus threatens to spread ‘like wildfire’ through U.S. prisons
April 10, 2020Rights advocates say that unless the prison population is drastically reduced the contagion will get out to the general public.
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