48 Advocacy Groups Call on the FTC to Ban Amazon Surveillance
Edward Ongweso Jr.Jul 2021
The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under the FTC’s authority to ban. Read the full story here. On Thursday, a coalition of 48 civil rights and
Biden’s Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Evictions Frustrates Allies
Nancy Cook and Mackenzie HawkinsJul 2021
White House caught off-guard by resurgence of pandemicOcasio-Cortez criticizes ‘reckless’ White House for waitingRead the full story here. The day before a moratorium on evictions is set to expire, President Joe Biden faces criticism from some of his allies
Activists demand Chicago end ShotSpotter contract
Chris Mills RodrigoJul 2021
Read the full article here. Local activists staged a protest demanding that Chicago end its police contracts with the gunshot detection company ShotSpotter. “What do we want? Death to the contract! When do we want it? Now!” dozens of protesters
Activists call for city to end contract with ShotSpotter
Andy GrimmJul 2021
A study reported nearly 9 out of 10 alerts from the gunshot detection system were false alarms. Read the full story here. Activists on Thursday gathered at the Little Village alley where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot by a Chicago
Police Accused of Altering Evidence Generated By ShotSpotter Surveillance System
Shani SaxonJul 2021
Read the full story here. Analysts working for ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, are accused of manually altering police evidence at the request of police officers, according to court documents reviewed by Motherboard. Testimony from cases across Chicago,
Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI
Todd FeathersJul 2021
Prosecutors in Chicago are being forced to withdraw evidence generated by the technology, which led to the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo earlier this year. Read the full article here. By Todd Feathers July 26, 2021, 6:00am On May 31
The Chamber of Commerce says it cares about people of color. The receipts say otherwise.
Derrick Z. JacksonJul 2021
While protecting its donors from climate risk disclosures, the business lobby continues to imperil Black and brown communities it claims to care about. Read the full story here. In an attempt to respond to a volcanic eruption of discourse around
After the Insurrection | An Abolitionist Response to White Supremacy
Tracey Corder and Ramah KudaimiFeb 2021
Read the full story here. In the weeks since the white supremacist attack against the Capitol, many elected officials and policymakers have declared that we need more robust laws to tackle “domestic terrorism.” But history is very clear that this
Cancel Rent
Annie LowreyMay 2020
Even before the pandemic, three in five renters could not come up with $400 in an emergency. How are they supposed to get by now? Donnette Leftord is facing some impossible math. A mother of three and the owner of
‘This isn’t an acceptable reality’: L.A. renters hit new levels of rage under coronavirus
Liam DillonMay 2020
With L.A. under a stay-at-home order to prevent more coronavirus cases, tenants are turning their personal economic situations into mass protests. Chris Tyler lost his job at a restaurant on March 15 — the same day Mayor Eric Garcetti banned