If the left wants to build a mass movement that appeals to millions, we first have to address the tiny, vocal minority in our ranks holding all of us back.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools to Track and Kill Activists, Part II
Groups engaged in activism for social change are susceptible to being ranked higher on the radicalism threat-scale by the Pentagon's Minerva research program.
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Ferguson’s Citizen Journalists Reveal the Value of Filming the Police
Until police stop treating communities as war zones and people as enemy combatants, keep your phone handy.
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Exposed: Pentagon Funds New Data-Mining Tools To Track and Kill Activists, Part I
Public university-paid social scientists identify "threats" from mass movements and Muslim NGOs on behalf of U.S. military intelligence.
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Fearing Protests At Stock Exchange, London Rewrites Rules On Paternoster Square
The increased protection for the square, which contains banks and one of the country's most important financial buildings, adds to the crackdown on dissent in Britain.
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The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
America now has a domestic police force that looks, thinks and acts more like an invading and occupying military than a community-based force to protect the public.
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Ferguson Is What Happens When White Suburban Cops Get Weapons Of War
Michael Brown’s shooting was one thing. The protests are another. But military might does not belong on Main Street.
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Edward Snowden, The Most Wanted Man in the World
"I’m an engineer, not a politician. I don’t want the stage. I’m terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
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Why Police Killings Of Black Men In America Constitute A Human Rights Crisis
The father of a slain black teen in Jacksonville, Florida, is in Geneva this week before the United Nations for what he says are murders committed with impunity against young black men in America.
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Protesters Defy Martial Law-Like Crackdown In Ferguson
"We have a right to assemble, a right to freedom. But here we are facing what looks like a military imposing martial law. It is not acceptable."
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Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Sustained Protests Follow Michael Brown Shooting In Missouri
“We were just sitting on the ground in the street, singing We Shall Not Be Moved. They told us, ‘Get off the street’, and then they started shooting gas canisters at us."
