Policy Over Performance | NAACP & Police Performativity
Agitation Rising was live at a memorial for George Floyd on the West Side of Bloomington on Allin Street Sunday, April 25th, 2021. It...
Notes on McLean County Jail Part 6
Stats from the McLean County Jail, accurate as of the Jan 18th:Jail population: 242
Proportions by gender:28 (11.6%) are female214 (88.4%) are male
Proportions by race:120...
On Disaffiliation from Police Unions
Written by Adam Heenan
There is a growing number of workers like me who are calling on our national organization, the AFL-CIO, to disaffiliate from...
Notes on McLean County Jail Part 3
Another Justice Committee meeting and another vacuous episode of mostly geriatric County Board Members of a Caucasian persuasion salivating over Sheriff Sandage’s authority as...
Conservative Hypocrites Triggered by Boycott
On Thursday, June 26th, 2020 a small group of triggered geriatrics (mostly people of a colonial complexion) stood in front of the McLean County...
BLM BloNo Day 5
Organized the day before by a number of high school Zoomers who needed another BLM event, another protest manifested itself on Wednesday, June 3rd,...
BLM BLoNo Day 4
Tuesday, June 2nd, saw more demonstrations. The City of Refuge church, located at the corner of Jefferson and Gridley, organized a march from the...
Normal Police Politely Walk on Sidewalk Against Police Brutality
For a whole eight minutes and thirty-four seconds, police politely marched on the sidewalk in Uptown Normal in utter disgust of police brutality. They then took a 46 second moment of silence in memory of George Floyd.
Black Lives Matter in BloNo: Day 2
Sunday, May 31st, 2020 was a new day. The NAACP of Bloomington-Normal & Not In Our Town organized an event in front of the...
Black Lives Matter Even in Pekin
History was made on Saturday, June 6th, 2020 when the first ever Black Lives Matter protest occurred in Pekin, IL at the Tazewell County...