Over the past year, the political prisoner support movement has won an exciting number of releases, with long-term political prisoners from MOVE and the Black Panthers finally gaining their freedom.  But many other political prisoners remain behind bars, and their supporters are not slowing down.  Leonard Peltier is a member of the American Indian Movement who has been behind bars …

Anti-War protesters gathered on the Monroe County Courthouse lawn, yesterday. The demonstrators told WFHB they’re trying to build an anti-war coalition, to oppose national escalations against Iran. About two dozen demonstrators waved signs at passing cars and spoke against U.S. antagonism in the greater Middle East. Speakers included veterans, activists, and academics. IU College Democrats’ Bryce Greene was one of …

In other business, a juvenile justice grant will allow Monroe County to continue offering young offenders alternatives to jail. The fifty-four thousand dollar grant comes from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. Deputy Chief Probation Officer Troy Hatfield says the county’s circuit court and probation department have been offering alternatives to juvenile detention since 2014. Commissioner Peggy …

Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to participate in tonight’s Democratic presidential debate in Miami; Brown County State Park’s water treatment plant is up and running; The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has issued an Air Quality Action Day for Friday in Central and Southeastern Indiana; The Indiana DNR Deer Hunt Registry opens on Monday; Bloomington Township Trustee Kim Alexander is moving …

Bloomington community members continued to call for the ouster of the proprietors of Schooner Creek Farm, from the Bloomington Farmers’ Market, during last night’s Board of Park Commissioners meeting. Schooner Creek Farm proprietors Sarah Dye and Douglas Mackey are alleged to be members of the white supremacist group, Identity Evropa. Neither has incited violence at the market, or distributed threatening …

South Bend Mayor and Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg cancelled campaign events to return to the northern Indiana city, last week. Buttigieg – who is finishing his second term as South Bend Mayor – returned to the city, after a black man was shot dead by a white police officer. Buttigieg held a town hall meeting on Sunday about the …

Indiana Secretary of State, Connie Lawson, announced statewide voter turnout was 13%, for May seventh’s municipal primary elections. Monroe County had 10% voter turnout, or 5,390 voters. This year’s municipal primary saw a 48% increase in voter turnout from the last municipal primary, between Mark Kruzan and David Sabbagh, in 2007. In the Kruzan-Sabbagh primary race, nearly 3,000 voters cast …

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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed into and maintain the prison system: anti-black racism, predatory lending, algorithmic policing, privatized prisons, credit scams, data analytics and histories of exclusion. The so-called ‘race-neutral’ technologies like credit scoring, data mining, and algorithmic policing provide a …

The South Bend Fraternal Order of Police issued a public letter yesterday, in harsh criticism of Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, who hopes to secure the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination, suspended campaigning last week, after a Black man was shot to death by a White officer in South Bend. In their letter, the South Bend police union criticized, “Mayor Pete,” as …