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The mural in People’s Park was anonymously overlaid with the words, “Black Lives Matter” on Friday, June 19, 2020. The City of Bloomington Arts Commission Met on July 8th, during a public meeting to decide whether or not it will keep the “Black Lives Matter” lettering.  “Defund BPD” was spray-painted in the upper right corner of the mural, but the …

This week, we continue our coverage of the pandemic’s impact on prisoners across the country.  A COVID-19 uprising broke out in Washington state this week.  On April 8, 100 prisoners refused to comply with orders to disperse a protest, and were attacked by so-called “less lethal weapons” like rubber bullets and pepper spray.  They had initiated the protest after half …

Progressive organizations are calling on supporters to turn out in the streets this afternoon. Common Dreams and MoveOn.org are advocating for supporters to protest the forced resignation of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions is a Republican, and has been no friend to progressive and left-leaning organizations. But MoveOn.org and Common Dreams are protesting his ouster, after Trump announced his …

On Labor Day weekend, Rev. Forrest Gilmore drove to Madison, Indiana. Gilmore and Bloomington residents spent their Saturday with hundreds of counter-protesters, including members of the American Indian Movement, at Ku Klux Klan counter-protests during a cookout. Gilmore said the KKK “kookout” was attended by a little over a dozen members and supporters, who were separated from counter-protesters by chain-link fences …

Bloomington residents cancelled a planned protest at Mayor John Hamilton’s residence. The ‘die-in’ was planned for Wednesday, at the residence of Mayor Hamilton and his wife, Indiana University Law Professor Dawn Johnsen. The planned protest came after repeated calls for the city to remove the addresses and personal information of overdose victims from the city’s data website. In a Facebook …

Nation-wide protests are scheduled for Saturday, over the detention of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. In Bloomington, protesters will gather at 10:30 a.m. at the Monroe County Courthouse. Immigration advocate Gracia Valliant is scheduled to speak about the detentions. Valliant said, while the detention policy is not new, the sheer number of detentions are unprecedented.

The city of Bloomington is proposing a one-year moratorium on addiction treatment facilities; Today may be the last day Bloomington commuters see police directing traffic at the Second and Third Street overpasses;Demonstrators took to the Monroe County Courthouse Square on Friday, calling for action on gun violence. Big Talk Extra: Bestselling mystery and crime author Michael Koryta released his thirteenth novel, “How …

Governor Eric Holcomb signed a bill increasing regulations on abortion clinics yesterday; Students in the Monroe County Community School Corporation joined in protests across the world this weekend; The city of Martinsville has filed a class-action lawsuit against nine different opioid manufacturers; FEATURE Bloomington tech innovator and angel investor Pat East went from being a self-described “worst English major ever at Wabash …

This retrospective edition of the Daily Local News highlights some of our best reporting from 2017. We’ll hear from IU Foundation President Dan Smith about the Foundation’s offshoring of millions of dollars in the Cayman Islands; we’ll listen to IU students, as they protest the visitation of White supremacist Charles Murray; and we’ll hear from Indiana Recovery Alliance Founder Chris …

A weekend of anti-Trump activities kicked off in Bloomington Friday, with workshops, marches and a standing-room-only rally at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. An effort called Inaugurate the Revolution led workshops throughout the day, covering subjects ranging from media literacy to public education to the Dakota Access pipeline protests. We’ll have more on the Standing Rock workshop later in the show. At …