The Iowa City Council announced on Monday it would hold a special work session at 2 p.m. on Tuesday “in support of [the] Black Lives Matter movement.” As with all city council meetings since March 24, it will be a virtual meeting held via Zoom, to help prevent the possible spread of COVID-19. The meeting […]
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People in Cedar Rapids march against racism and demand ‘bold police reforms’
More than 2,000 people showed up at Greene Square Park in Cedar Rapids late Saturday afternoon to peacefully protest police violence, racism and the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. “You want to know why black people are angry?” Ture Morrow asked the crowd. “We are angry because we can’t be handcuffed and […]
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Protesters in Iowa City march to I-80 on Friday night, sing in memory of Breonna Taylor
After almost a full week of extraordinary protests against racism and police violence in Iowa City, sparked by the May 25 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, much of what happened at the protest on Friday night felt somewhat familiar. A crowd of hundreds gathered at the Pentacrest to remember the victims of […]
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After confrontations with police on Dubuque Street the night before, protesters peacefully marched past I-80 Thursday
The hundreds of protesters who gathered at the Pentacrest in downtown Iowa City on Thursday night were not going to be deterred. Not by the memory of the previous night’s protest, which ended when police in riot gear threw flash-bang grenades and fired multiple rounds of tear gas. And not by the weather forecast that […]
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Iowa City Unitarian congregants celebrate Mother’s Day with bailouts
This week, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City pledged $5,000 to National Mama’s Bail Out Day, “an initiative that seeks to bail out as many mothers as possible who otherwise would spend Mother’s Day in jail, simply because they cannot afford bail.”
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Watch: Bernie Sanders on Black Lives Matter, militarized police and the insidious prison industrial complex
Shortly after his campaign stop in Seattle, Washington was interrupted by two Black Lives Matter activists, Bernie Sanders enlisted Symone Sanders as his national press secretary to augment his campaign’s racial justice awareness and shape related public policy. “Clearly we have a failed criminal justice system,” he said in this interview with Little Village‘s Stacey […]
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Black Lives Matter forum set for Saturday at the Cedar Rapids Public Library
Proponents of the Black Lives Matter movement in Cedar Rapids are hosting an hour-long forum at the Cedar Rapids Public Library this Saturday…
