#Jelani Cobb, "Assessing Threats," The New Yorker, March 11, 2021. - "The killing of [Fred] Hampton, who was just twenty-one when he died, was part of a coordinated strategy employed by federal and local law enforcement across the country to disrupt the Black Panther Party. Yet the Bureau took no such action against the leadership of the Klan, which was responsible for an uncountable number of murders, or against George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, which formed in opposition to the civil-rights movement."
"The N.A.A.C.P. filed a lawsuit on behalf of Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers, for violating the Enforcement Act of April, 1871. The Klan Act, as it is known, prohibits the use of 'force, intimidation or threat' to prevent government officials from executing their responsibilities. The suit agues the attempts to interrupt the certification of the Electoral College vote qualifies as such a violation."
"On October 6th, the Department of Homeland Security released a threat assessment stating that 'ideologically motivated lone offenders and small groups pose the most likely terrorist threat to the Homeland, with Domestic Violent Extremists presenting the most persistent and lethal threat,' and expressing particular concern about 'white supremist violent extremists.' "
Regarding law enforcement misconduct, the New York Times has reported that at least thirty law enforcement officials have been identified as part of the mob at the Capitol on January 6th. "A year and a half ago, the Philadelphia Police Department fired thirteen police officers for posting racist or offensive messages on Facebook."
#Madealine Roache, "Finding a way out," TIME, March 15/March 22, 2021. - "As lockdowns trapped women at home with abusers, advocates and authorities report that calls for help from abuse victims doubled and tripled. In response, 120 countries have strengthened services for female survivors of violence during the COVID-19 crisis."
"A fifth of all Russian women have been physically abused by a partner, and an estimated 14,000 in the country die as a result of domestic violence each year --more than nine times the number of deaths in the U.S., though Russia's population is less than half the size. At least 155 countries have passed laws criminalizing domestic violence." "The Kremlin has effectively cast groups fighting domestic violence as 'traitors' and requires that those that receive foreign funding and engage in 'political activity' to declare themselves 'foreign agents,' a derogatory Soviet-era term for political dissidents."
#Judy Berman, "Puncturing the postfeminist fantasy," TIME, March 15/March 22, 2021. "Meanwhile, amid a booming economy, the ecstasy of female purchasing power could drown out scrutiny of what was being sold, from breast implants to snarky tabloids. And then there was the tendency of the white, middle-class feminist establishment to ignore the millions of women who weren't in a position to buy their way to fulfillment."
"Amid the anti-rape activism of the early 2010s, many Black women pointed out that sex-positive feminism didn't have the same consolations for them as it did for their white counterparts."
"As many veterans of the movement have noted, the traction feminism has gained within the cultural realm in the past decade has rarely extended to politics, where 'Roe v. Wade' is in peril, rape still goes mostly unpunished, and a disproportionately high number of single moms live in poverty."
#Marish Espoda and Abby Voesoulis, "Communal Meals," TIME, March 15/March 22, 2021. - "Even in flush times, millions of Americans, including 11 million children, lack access to nutritious, affordable food -- but Black and Latino households are most vulnerable. They were more than twice as likely as white ones to experience food insecurity during various points in 2020, according to reports by the Urban Institute." "While 17% of white individuals in America faced food insecurity in February 2021. according to snapshot polling analyzed by Northwestern University, the rates among Black and Hispanic-Latino Americans were 30% and 31% respectively."
"While SNAP and other federal food-aid programs have changed substantially since the '60s, they still have millions of Americans struggling to get enough to eat. A single person making more than $1,064 a month after taxes does not qualify for any SNAP funds at all, and those who do qualify often can't feed families on the amount provided, which maxes out at $2.60 per meal."
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