Exclusive: Poll comes as 350 union, business and religious leaders issue call for fair and green recovery
Only 6% of the public want to return to the same type of economy as before the coronavirus pandemic, according to new polling, as trade unions, business groups and religious and civic leaders unite in calling for a fairer financial recovery.
Guardian analysis shows how organizations and officers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago work against reform
Police unions and officers active in America’s three largest cities spend tens of millions of dollars annually to influence law enforcement policy and thwart pushes for reform, a Guardian analysis of local, county, state and federal campaign finance records found.
As calls to defund the police gain traction, bloated police budgets are coming under scrutiny for siphoning public resources away from black and brown communities. While police budgets are typically public documents that must be approved by elected officials, there are other institutions in place with the sole purpose of funneling even more resources toward law enforcement.
School board chairperson says mere presence of police officers in schools ‘difficult for some students’
Three Vancouver trustees have drafted a motion that calls for the suspension of the school liaison officer program operated by the Vancouver Police Department and another that RCMP officers run in three schools in the University Endowment Lands.
Building a More Humane, Robust Way of Putting Food on the Table
Covid-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards and vegetable fields, long the targets of intense exploitation, are seeing their health put in even greater jeopardy as they’re pushed to feed an increasingly voracious supply chain in pandemic-time.
