Throughout history, economic boycotts have been a powerful tool for social and political change. Now, it's being employed as Americans seek ways to voice their opposition to the federal government's aggressive immigration crackdown and the corporations that work alongside the Trump administration in enabling it. Martin Luther King spoke of the "power of economic withdrawal," and it's a force with which Americans are using once again. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name ...

BREAKING: Judge denies Minnesota effort to end 'Operation Metro Surge' A federal judge has denied Minnesota’s effort to temporarily halt ICE’s Operation Metro Surge. In a statement, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the operation “has not brought public safety” and described it as an “invasion" that needs to stop. ...

We'll be right sense of moral urgenc to protect neighbors, to defend rights, to demand accountability. But as we've learned together and through history, protesting is not without risk. Alex Preddy and Renee Good were observing or documenting ICE or CBP activity, a form of resistance when they were shot and killed by agents of the state.So I understand if you are now afraid to do the same. I also understand that many of you are going to protest anyway, and that the deaths of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti have ...

Joining me now is Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben n and Jerry's Ice Cream. Cohen is a longtime activist serving right now as the leader of Up in Arms, a movement aiming to bring common sense to the Department of Defense. Ben, good to see you again.Thank you for joining us. You and Jerry are steeped in this, the idea that companies do not have to be at odds with their communities. They are actually builders and supporters of their community.I have to say some of these responses I just read are a bit mealy m ...

May 4th, 1970, Kent State University. Students have been protesting the Vietnam War for days. The Ohio National Guard is deployed to the campus at the request of the mayor of Kent, Ohio. The National Guard opens fire on a group of unarmed protesters.28 soldiers fire about 67 rounds in 13 seconds. Four students are killed, nine more are wounded. The country sees this photograph, a young woman kneeling over the body of Kent State student Jeffrey Miller, screaming into history.And then 17 days later, music ans ...

“In our country right now, every democratic muscle that we have is flexing. And it turns out that that’s way stronger than Donald Trump.” Rachel Maddow highlights growing political unrest and widespread protests by Minneapolis residents against the Trump administration following the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. ...

Senate Democrats demand answers from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to explain why she joined an FBI search of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office related to the 2020 presidential election. The search comes amid lingering political tensions over President Donald Trump’s repeated, unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged — particularly in Georgia, a state where he narrowly lost. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name. » Subscribe to MS NO ...

President Trump's obsession with the 2020 election he lost is now apparently the focus of the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. She appeared at the site of an FBI search of an elections facility in Fulton COUNTY, GEORGIA, THIS WEEK. AGENTS SEIZED MATERIALS RELATED TO THE 2020 ELECTION.THE SEARCH ITSELF RAISED ALARMS FOR ELECTIONS OFFICIALS AROUND THE COUNTRY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDY'S DEMAND FOR VOTER ROLLS FROM MINNESOTA. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS REQUESTED VOTE ...

WITH THE JUSTICE This department' release has more than three million additional pages of Jeffrey Epstein files. The DOJ has claimed that it has met its obligation, finito, in releasing all of the files in its possession as legally mandated by Congressional Democrats were quick to disagree, with some pointing to the six million pages Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the DOJ had identified as, quote, potentially responsive to the law during its collection ELECTION EFFORTS, BUT ONLY RELEASING HALF TH ...

As the Trump administration continues to go after Democratic-led states on several fronts, state leaders like New York Attorney General Letitia James are fighting back. She joins “The Weekend”’s Eugene Daniels for an exclusive conversation on the DOJ’s attempts to seize states’ voter rolls, President Trump’s extreme immigration crackdown, and attacks on the rule of law. ...