News, Joel Preston Smith
Human Rights Watch’s latest report on governmental abuses was released today. The title offers a fair portrait of the contents: Crackdown on Dissent: Brutality, Torture, and Political Persecution in Venezuela.
We’ve been talking with activists in Venezuela for a few weeks now, hoping to share resources so that some of the healthcare needs of social-justice workers there can be better met.
Commentary, Joel Preston Smith
Since the rise of Antifa under the Trump Administration, activists have debated how to ‘label’ the group—which calls itself anti-fascist, but openly advocates and uses violence in public protests—and whether the masked, club-and-pepper-spray wielding ‘members’ are doing more harm than good.
Salt Lake City’s first official Indigenous Peoples' Day brought members of varied tribal affiliations to brave the evening chill of Utah’s fall weather and gather together in celebration. The event comes a mere six days after Salt Lake City’s Council voted in favor of a resolution proclaiming the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day.
