Tenant organizers speak out about the challenges in the current crisis; partisan nonprofit loses 990 status; Chicago's deficit & the defund movement
Tenant organizers speak out about the challenges in the current crisis; partisan nonprofit loses 990 status; Chicago's deficit prompts new calls for defunding the police; and more!
Amid COVID-19, tens of millions of Americans are falling behind on rent. In this webinar, two tenants organizers talk about how their communities are responding. As the panelists all make clear—a moratorium on evictions is a first step, but hardly sufficient. With eviction moratoria in place, many tenants are accumulating rent debt that will be impossible to repay when the moratoria are lifted.
An article in the Dallas Morning News talks about the terrible toll being taken on even the largest of North Texas’s charities because of the pandemic. But in some of these cases, we might suggest the pandemic is simply accelerating trends that already exist, some of which are not exactly secret.
Authoritarian governments see opportunity in pandemic—in the erosion of democratic institutions, manipulation of information, and the misuse and abuse of federal powers.
A retired FBI agent exposes the extent of the negligent enabling of open racism in the ranks of police personnel, calling it akin to official sanctioning.
