This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Occupy to Ferguson: Two Movements That Are More Connected Than You Think
Occupy was brilliant in getting a message across, but these protests are specifically and deliberately setting out to disrupt the functioning of the city until attention is paid to their grievances.
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Protesters March Nationwide As #ReclaimMLK Day Highlights Racial Injustice
Tens of thousands of people across the country came out to volunteer, march and celebrate the civil rights leader's legacy and to call for an end to police brutality and violence.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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Enough Police Bullying: Stop the NYPD Coup
Police need to feel empowered so they don't fear speaking up when they see misbehavior by their colleagues.
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The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate
The crooked math that's going to crash American law enforcement if policies aren't changed.
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Tens Of Thousands March In New York, D.C., SF and Nationwide to Protest Police Killings
Tens of thousands of protesters streamed out of New York City's Washington Square Park on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black people by police officers, as part of the "Millions March NYC."
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Millions March December 13 As Anger Over Police Violence Sweeps the Nation
We are continuing where the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement left off – we are a new generation of young multiracial activists willing to take up the torch and we’re not going to stand for this anymore.
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Beyond Rage, It's Time for Solutions and Leadership from Black America
The anger and frustration at a discriminatory system is palpable – now, can the anti-police brutality movement go beyond rhetoric and offer concrete ideas for new policies and legislation?
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A Society of Captives: Battling Police Violence and the Business of Injustice
Mass acts of civil disobedience, now being carried out across the country, are the only mechanism left that offers hope for systematic legal and judicial reform.
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Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part I
One way to make the apathy of privileged whites irrelevant is to build institutions that guarantee material economic justice.
