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Posts by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

2June 15, 20222022 West Michigan Candidate Policy Platforms: 3rd Congressional District

0June 15, 2022Watch A People’s History of the LGBTQ Community in Grand Rapids, a film the GR People’s History Project produced in 2011

1June 14, 2022After his arrest by the FBI last week, Ryan Kelley might be the front runner in the GOP race for Governor

0June 13, 2022Another manifestation of West Michigan Nice: When systems of power insist on telling people resisting oppression, how they should protest

8June 12, 2022The Grand Rapids lawyers defending the killer cop, Christopher Schurr, already want to control the narrative about the murder of Patrick Lyoya

1June 11, 2022Policing in this city is so normalized we often don’t recognize it: The Matrix of Policing in Grand Rapids

6June 10, 2022Reactions and responses to the news that GRPD cop Christopher Schurr is being charged with second-degree murder

0June 8, 2022What are the Grand Rapids Police Union and City Officials hiding from us? FOIA documents on police union arbitration case about cop who called ICE on a former US Marine

1June 7, 2022We need to think about and develop strategies in the event that Officer Schurr is not charged or found guilty of killing Patrick Lyoya

0June 6, 2022Grand Rapids has the largest percentage of the budget going to the police than any other urban communities in Michigan