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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The Counted: U.S. Police Have Killed 1,000 People In 2015
A man fatally shot in Oakland over the weekend was also the 183rd death by police recorded this year in California – by far the greatest total of any state.
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From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter: Where Does Radical Protest Go From Here?
New movements have had more material success than Occupy Wall Street, but the age-old challenge that Occupy put into stark relief remains: will they settle for reform when they came to have a revolution.
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Anonymous Vows To Unhood 1,000 Ku Klux Klan Members
The hacktivist collective says it will release the identities around the anniversary of the Ferguson protests.
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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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Homan Square Revealed: How Chicago Police "Disappeared" 7,000 People
A Guardian lawsuit has exposed the fullest scale yet of detentions at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse – where nearly twice as many people were held secretively than was previously disclosed.
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The Ferguson Commission Won't Bring Social Change – Black Lives Matter Will
It just got a lot harder to pretend the suffering in Ferguson, Michael Brown’s death and the explosive reaction after his shooting weren’t all about race now.
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Baltimore Approves $6.4 Million Settlement In Death of Freddie Gray
The settlement could play a role in whether a judge decides to move the trials for the six officers charged in Gray’s death out of Baltimore – a move their defense attorneys say is necessary if the officers are to receive a fair trial.
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Justice Dept. Declares Ferguson An Example of How Police are Not to Act in Protests
A DOJ report released Thursday denounces poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among law enforcement groups, police orders that infringed 1st Amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.
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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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The Other 1%: Healing the Wounds Of Native American Tragedies On Turtle Island
Issues of police brutality – like the July killing of Paul Castaway near Denver – are opening the public's eyes to the continuing struggles of Native Americans and other groups unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
