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Posts by Jeff Smith (GRIID)

3June 30, 2020Local News Coverage of so-called unity rally in Grand Rapids makes it clear it was nothing more than a pro-police event

3June 30, 2020Taking money from Police Unions is a Bi-partisan affair across the country and in Michigan

3June 29, 2020Unity event is really a pro-police, All Lives Matter Rally in Grand Rapids

0June 29, 2020The Power of Social Movements and Organized Resistance: Part I – GRPS back tracks on School Budget cuts in the face of community opposition

3June 28, 2020Local news reports Cop exonerated from shooting civilian with 40mm chemical round during the May 30 uprising in Grand Rapids, but fails to discuss the Riot-Control Industrial Complex

8June 26, 2020Defund the GRPD campaign makes clear demands on the City of Grand Rapids during Press Conference

0June 25, 2020The dominant narrative of Grand Rapids is Whiteness: A deconstruction of the We Are GRStrong video

2June 23, 2020Why we can’t go back to the way things were in Grand Rapids: Part IV – Climate Justice, Environmentalism and White Supremacy

5June 22, 2020The Grand Rapids-based Acton Institute has essentially declared war on the Movement for Black Lives

1June 21, 2020What we can learn from the 1967 riot/uprising in Grand Rapids and how it compares to what is happening in 2020