Jacksonville Progressive Coalition

Thursday on First Coast Connect, on the heels of the deadly weekend in Jacksonville there are more calls to address the roots of Jacksonville’s gun…

Monday on First Coast Connect we spoke with local civil rights activists Ben Frazier and Wells Todd about the NAACP Legal Defense Fund investigating how…

Jacksonville progressive activists are asking city Finance Committee Chairman Garrett Dennis to gut Mayor Lenny Curry’s plan to beef up the city’s police…

Progressive activists say they’re keeping the pressure on State Attorney Melissa Nelson to drop charges against downtown protesters after an incident in…

Monday on “First Coast Connect” we heard reaction to the Hemming Park protest Friday that turned violent, leading to six arrests. We discussed the event…

Six people were arrested Friday when a protest downtown against the U.S. firing missiles at a Syrian airbase turned violent.Video of the Jacksonville…

With the ouster of Angela Corey, eight years of tense relations between the state attorney’s office and Jacksonville progressive groups might be coming to…

The Jacksonville Progressive Coalition led a protest in Hemming Park Friday against the policies of Republican State Attorney Angela Corey.Protesters in…

Jacksonville progressive groups say State Attorney Angela Corey’s approach to juvenile justice should disqualify her from holding public office.The…