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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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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Baltimore Revelations: Thousands of Suspects Arrive Too Injured To Go To Jail
Records obtained by the Baltimore Sun show that correctional officers refused to admit nearly 2,600 severely injured detainees who were in police custody between 2012 and 2015.
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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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On May Day, Port of Oakland To Shut Down In Protest Of Police Violence
This Friday, the Port of Oakland's rumbling cranes will stand silent as workers rally against recent police shootings and violence.
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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.
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Rise of the New Black Radicals
The almost daily murders of young black men and women by police in the United States have given birth to a new young black militant.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Police and Protesters Clash In Baltimore After Freddie Gray's Funeral
“It’s from years and years of taking shit. Now we’re at a point where people just don’t give a fuck.”
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Protests Mount in Baltimore Over Police Killing of Freddie Gray
Outrage over the police killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore continued on Thursday after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Western District police station where Gray was taken following his arrest on April 12.
