West County Democrats hosted Tony Messenger, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author. He discussed the criminalization of the poor through a punitive system of fines and fees for prison time. For those who can’t afford court imposed bonds and Read More …
Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his series of columns on debtors’ prisons in MO. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
A young man died doing his job. Too bad his unfortunate, avoidable death won’t motivate change.
During the bleakest nights in Ferguson a few years back, men armed with assault rifles “protected” properties, most all businesses owned by white guys. More recently, a similar group descended on downtown Louisville. The group calls themselves the Oath Keepers… Read More …
Back at the end of 1936 and into 1937 workers at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a sit-in strike. Michigan Governor Frank Murphy deployed the National Guard – not to break up the strike but to protect Read More …
As we’ve seen with Donald Trump and his richly raised ilk, America is not here to help the struggling, no, the government’s job is to preserve wealth and privilege. The current Supreme Court isn’t there for most of us, it works for Brett and his kind.