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The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning
On April 24, as students were wrapping up their semester at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, the school’s provost convened an ad hoc committee to discuss a planned protest against the war in Gaza that was set to begin the following day. It was less than a week after Columbia University had called in the NYPD to break up an encampment in Manhattan, arresting more than 100 students, and tensions were running high nationwide. Already, over the winter, Indiana University had suspended a professor for sponsoring a talk by the student Palestine Solidarity Committee and canceled a major retrospective exhibition — in the works for years — by the 87-year-old Palestinian American painter and IU alumnus Samia Halaby, an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation.
The Backstory: Adam Federman
For over a decade, Type Investigations reporting fellow Adam Federman has been looking into the ways corporations and governments have responded to protest movements. In February, in partnership with Grist, he reported on newly-obtained documents detailing how the FBI and other government agencies were surveilling anti-Keystone XL pipeline protestors far earlier than previously known. And in his most recent cover story for In These Times magazine, he investigated the wave of anti-protest laws sweeping the country.
Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps
This story was produced with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. On an October morning, a small army arrived to evict Rudy Ortega from his home in the Crash Zone, an encampment located near the end of the airport runway in San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s largest city. As jets roared overhead, garbage trucks and police squad cars encircled Ortega’s hand-built shelter. Heavy machinery operators stood by for the signal to bulldoze Ortega’s camp.
How the U.S. Government Began Its Decade-Long Campaign Against the Anti-Pipeline Movement
This article was produced in partnership with Grist, a nonprofit media organization covering climate, justice, and solutions. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter here. On the morning of March 5, 2012, Debra White Plume received an urgent phone call. A convoy of large trucks transporting pipeline servicing equipment was attempting to cross the Pine Ridge Reservation near the town of Wanblee, South Dakota. White Plume, a prominent Lakota activist, immediately dropped what she was doing and headed to the site, where, within a few hours, a group of about 75 people from the Pine Ridge Reservation gathered.
Louisiana Law Gives Judges a Financial Incentive to Set High Bail and Secure Convictions
A judge in Lincoln Parish leased a BMW. Another, from Jefferson Davis Parish, booked a week’s stay in a two-bedroom beachfront condo for five people. A third judge bought an $850 iPhone 12. A fourth had a security system installed in his home. Defendants who appeared in their courtrooms...
Type Investigations Names Aviva Shen as Executive Editor
Type Investigations is pleased to announce that Aviva Shen has been appointed as our Executive Editor, effective immediately. Shen has served as Deputy Editor at Type Investigations for two years, after joining the organization in March 2021 as a Senior Editor. “Aviva’s innovative approach and editorial excellence have already left...
The Eric Adams Table of Success
Long before he became the internationally known Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams had a favorite saying about haters and waiters. Sometimes it’s used for inspiration, like in 2018, when he told Brooklyn College graduates, “Let your haters be your waiters!” In other cases, it’s a kind of rebuke, a cautionary tale for those who doubt him. “As a little boy, as a police officer, as a state senator, as the borough president, as the mayor, all I know is, all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success,” Adams told a heckler earlier this year.
Report Finds Arizona 911 Dispatchers Fail to Help Lost Migrants
On June 27, 2022, around 1:44 a.m., a man lost in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona called 911. An emergency services dispatcher for Pima County answered. The man, clearly distressed, tried to describe his surroundings and explain that he was lost, wet and freezing. But before he could finish, the dispatcher interrupted him, saying, “I don’t understand, un momento,” and abruptly transferred the call to the U.S. Border Patrol. The agent who picked up shushed the caller as he started to speak —“Cállate!” (“Be quiet!”) — and spoke to the dispatcher instead, in English. Then they hung up, leaving the man to the agent. An incident report suggests that no actions were taken to follow up or locate the lost caller: “No additional calls have come from the subject. … At this time the caller has not been identified and not located.”
Solitary Confinement is Widespread in New Jersey Prisons, Watchdog Finds
New Jersey prisons are holding hundreds of people in disciplinary units in conditions tantamount to solitary confinement, a recent report by a state watchdog found. On an average day, some 750 people are living in Restorative Housing Units, or R.H.U.s, in the state’s prisons. The New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) does not consider R.H.U.s, where prisoners are sent for disciplinary sanctions, to be solitary confinement, which state law defines as at least 20 hours a day in a cell. People in R.H.U.s are supposed to be offered at least four hours a day outside their cells.
Anatomy of a Police Shooting
This is the second part of a two-part investigative series into the death of Donnell Rochester. Go here to read the first part of the story. This story was produced with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Around 3:10 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2022, on a residential street in northeast...
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