Police Pepper-Spray LGBTQIA+ Protesters: Seattle’s Shameful Crackdown on Queer Resistance

That fascists would want to insert their hateful, transphobic, and homophobic message directly into the LGBTQIA+ community is predictable. But the absolutely shameful fact is that Seattle Parks officials recommended that this anti-LGBTQ+ group hold their rally at Cal Anderson Park—they hadn’t even originally planned to hold it there... There is a war being waged on LGBTQIA+ people—by the state and by the raising forces of fascism it is enabling.

“This is a test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond

“We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” --Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Brown’s since middle school. In the wake of the police murder of the unarmed 18-year-old African American high …

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