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Much of the recent backlash against police unions has come from within the labor movement itself. The president of the Service Employees International Union, Mary Kay Henry, recently said the labor movement has to consider expelling police unions. The Kings County Labor Council, the largest labor union in Seattle, expelled the Seattle Police Officers Guild from its organization early this month, while the Writers Guild of America, East, unanimously passed a resolution calling for the AFL-CIO to disaffiliate with the International Union of Police Associations. (The AFL-CIO so far has said it won’t expel the IUPA). … [Read more...] about Police Unions Wield Massive Power in American Politics — For Now

Butterfield Jones and Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. are both thinking critically “about how this organization that’s 63 years old can be more diverse and inclusive,” she says. “A part of that is [figuring out] how we strengthen our relationship with the black music community, which is of course a cornerstone of all music worldwide. It’s about having honest and transparent conversations about where we’ve been, but more importantly where we’re headed. We want to build with everyone.” … [Read more...] about The Recording Academy Partners With Color of Change on New Diversity Initiatives

He went on to explain that journalists like himself "have to step up" and have a duty to "call out the lies and the B.S." "We're living in a country with a vacuum in leadership, a president who's trying to divide us instead of bringing us together and who's trying to stoke racial tension and dissension, and not trying to bring us together. So it's incumbent upon us as Americans to do it ourselves."  … [Read more...] about Don Lemon Talks Tackling Race in New Podcast and Why Journalists Have to “Step Up” Amid Black Lives Matter Movement

In the end, the chaos in Mexico is the direct result of America’s misguided War on Drugs — the Latin American version of blowback. Every effort to counter the cartels only serves to empower them. Cracking down on cocaine use in the United States has encouraged the Mexicans to produce more heroin and crystal meth, at the same time as they fight over the shrinking coke market. Killing the heads of the Mexican cartels has sparked a civil war, as lower-level rivals fight to replace the fallen leaders. Yet some DEA officers I speak to, who refuse to be named, ache for an even more aggressive war on drugs, the kind of force used in Iraq, with a full-frontal assault in the Sierra Madres by the United States military. Others favor supplying more aid to Mexico, as the Bush administration is doing with the Mérida Initiative. “The initiative is a step in the right direction,” says Pamela Starr, the author of a recent report on Mexico for the Council on Foreign … [Read more...] about The War Next Door

In a recent bust called Operation Rico Suave, the DEA set up on a drug cell that was dealing coke in the affluent area of Huntsville, Alabama. According to agents, the regional manager of the operation was a Mexican named Galdino Zamora, who oversaw a trucking operation that was secretly shipping 50 kilos of high-quality cocaine into Alabama each month from Brownsville, Texas. Unlike Mafia wiseguys, Zamora didn’t even bother to erect a legitimate front operation to fool law enforcement. Instead, he just hid in plain sight, living inconspicuously in a modest home and spending his days taking care of his lawn. From the cartel’s perspective, there was no reason for Zamora to hide: He had contact with only one dealer, a local coke slinger named Reco Willingham. The DEA made 33 arrests in the case — but the bust didn’t make a dent in the flow of drugs. “Only three of those guys mattered to us,” says Borland. “The big guys in Brownsville fled back to … [Read more...] about How the Cartels Work