Repression Committee News Today

Wednesday morning, police continued to guard every entrance to Cal Poly Humboldt. Police refused access to the campus to the Times-Standard following a crackdown on a week-long occupation of the quad area, with 25 protesters being arrested by riot police early Tuesday morning and 6 more later in the day.

The university said of the 32 people who were arrested 13 are students, 1 is a faculty member and 18 are nonstudents.

The recent conviction of a New York woman for vandalizing a pro-life pregnancy center has Attorney General Merrick Garland coming under pressure to walk the talk.

Activists Push for Charges to Be Dropped Against Demonstrators for Black Lives A woman holds a Black Lives Matter flag during the funeral service of Daunte Wright outside the Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 22, 2021. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images By In early June 2020, a young Black mother who had just finished grocery shopping with her husband and 2-year-old child in Austin, Texas, was abducted by agents in an unmarked vehicle as part of a joint m...