The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Surveillance Tool was Used to Arrest Baltimore Protestors
For years, the social media giants have provided data to Geofeedia, a company marketing surveillance tools to police, creating real-time maps of activity in protest areas that were later used to identify and arrest protestors.
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Justice Department to Open Ferguson-Style Inquiry Into Chicago PD
U.S. attorneys will investigate whether the police department systemically engaged in constitutional violations of policing.
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Number of U.S. Police Officers Charged In Fatal Shootings Hits 10-Year High
Public outrage over the killing of black men by police in New York, Missouri and elsewhere have spurred prosecutions, and body cameras and bystanders' videos also helped bring cases – but still only a small percentage resulted in charges.
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Bankers Are Buying Baltimore’s Debt, Charging Crazy Interest – Then Taking Families' Homes
Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group and L.A.-based Imperial Capital bought up hundreds of small debts — from unpaid water bills to delinquent property taxes — and could take property worth tens of millions of dollars if families can’t pay.
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White Officer Pepper-Sprays Crowd At Black Lives Matter Conference In Cleveland
The incident occurred Sunday during protests against the arrest of a 14-year-old.
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Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide
The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.
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Police at the Freddie Gray Protest in Austin Proved Just How Much They Love Pepper Spray
An unexpected use of chemical weapons by officers in the Texas capital has a police accountability expert questioning their training.
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We're Building a Moral Commons, and We're All in This Together
The scars of our fear smolder in Baltimore and other cities, but as we turn towards one another we need to feed another part of ourselves – collective justice, economic justice, materialized empathy.
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Devoted To Justice, Not Order, In Baltimore
The prosecution of six officers involved in the murder of Freddie Gray probably would not have occurred without an urban revolt in Baltimore.
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Are Baltimore's Protests the Prelude to a Revolution?
The people have demanded to be heard, and now, the city, state and federal government have to listen – the real fight is just beginning.
