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The Foundation To Combat Antisemitism was founded by Robert Craft, a billionaire who is best know as the owned of the New England Patriots NFL football team.  Using is vast amounts of money, Kra...

https://griid.org/2024/05/09/foundation-to-combat-antisemitism-video-makes-false-claims-and-promotes-their-own-brand-of-hate/

Last week, the local news ran several stories regarding the August Primary Election Ballot Initiative that will ask voters to support a hotel tax.  After a majority of the Kent County Commission...

https://griid.org/2024/05/08/who-is-behind-the-hotel-tax-ballot-initiative-and-what-does-it-really-mean/

Last week I reported on Rep. Hillary Scholten’s vote to censor and punish campus protests that are happening across the country, with her claims that students were engaging in antisemitism. Sin...

https://griid.org/2024/05/07/rep-scholten-continues-to-vote-in-support-of-genocide-censorship-and-to-suppress-international-solidarity/

In Part I of this two part series, I looked at how the local commercial news media reported on the sunsetting of the Richard & Helen DeVos Foundation. I concluded that the local news was rather s...

https://griid.org/2024/05/07/the-end-of-the-richard-helen-devos-foundation-part-ii-manipulating-social-and-economic-outcomes-in-west-michigan-and-beyond/

Last week, if you consumed any of the daily local commercial news media, it would have been near impossible for anyone to not come across the announcement from the DeVos family. The announcement ...

https://griid.org/2024/05/06/the-end-of-the-richard-helen-devos-foundation-part-i-the-news-medias-subservience/

I sat down with Jose Rodriguez on Sunday to talk about why the GRPD contact him two weeks after he participated in a march demanding Justice for Patrick Lyoya and then charging him with a misdeme...

https://griid.org/2024/05/06/griid-interview-with-jose-rodriguez-police-repression-happens-when-activists-want-to-hold-the-grpd-accountable/

In today’s West Michigan Far Right Watch we want to look at a recent rant from our favorite cop apologists, Voice for the Badge, as well as a recent podcast from the Acton Institute, where 3 wh...

https://griid.org/2024/05/05/west-michigan-far-right-watch-cop-apologists-and-those-calling-for-student-campus-protesters-to-be-expelled/

It has been roughly 7 months since the Israeli government began their most recent assault on Gaza and the West Bank. The retaliation for the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, has escalated to wha...

https://griid.org/2024/05/05/palestine-solidarity-information-analysis-local-actions-and-events-for-the-week-of-may-5th/

This is the third and final article where we look at entities that are making substantial campaign contributions to people at the state level for the upcoming Primary Election in August and the N...

https://griid.org/2024/05/02/follow-the-money-realtors-pac-and-rental-property-owners-association-of-kent-county-contributions-to-candidates-to-insure-a-market-driven-housing-practice/

Editor’s note: This article was written by Kellan Martin.  On April 30th at 6:00pm, dozens of community members along with organizers from the Grand Rapids Area Tenants Union joined Gretchen S...

https://griid.org/2024/05/02/grand-rapids-area-tenants-union-and-community-members-stand-united-against-exploitative-landlords/