Aaron Miguel Cantú

Aaron Miguel Cantú is an investigative reporter currently based in Los Angeles.

News Analysis

Why Did Fort Lauderdale Police Arrest an Old Man for Feeding Homeless People?

The rationale for Fort Lauderdale's anti-homeless ordinance has everything to do with land and money.

By: Aaron Miguel Cantú ,; Truthout

November 7, 2014

News Analysis

Policing for Wealth

When proponents claim that the broken windows policing strategy reduces crime, they overlook that it has marshaled state power for a very unfair model of urban development in every …

By: Aaron Miguel Cantú ,; Truthout

September 28, 2014

News

Street Sweepers, Part I: The Battle for the Cecil

Downtown Los Angeles is home of two extreme phenomena: hypergentrification and a homeless population rising more rapidly than any other city in the nation.

By: Aaron Miguel Cantú ,; BeaconReader

August 28, 2014

News Analysis

How the Mainstream Media Helped Kill Michael Brown

It took three days for the mainstream media to report any version of events surrounding Michael Brown's killing other than the police's.

By: Aaron Miguel Cantú ,; Truthout

August 12, 2014

News Analysis

Beyond Drones and Stop-and-Frisk

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

By: Aaron Miguel Cantú ,; Truthout

June 17, 2014

News

CommonBound: A Revolution Needing a Spirit

The New Economy Coalition's CommonBound conference was an invaluable summit for building a vision of a post-capitalist system. It just needs a unifying revolutionary spirit.