The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Magazine Publisher Brings Pizza – and Leadership – to Streets Of Ferguson
The shooting of Michael Brown unearthed in Keith Griffin powerful and once-latent feelings about race, community and an individual's responsibility in times of crisis.
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Honoring Slain Alex Nieto, San Francisco Marches In Solidarity with Ferguson
Five months after the police killing of 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, protesters are returning to the streets Friday to demand justice – from San Francisco to Ferguson, Missouri.
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Rebellion in Ferguson: A Rising Heat in the Suburbs
Current conditions in places like Ferguson could trigger a new wave of racial unrest in economically depressed black suburbs, and perhaps later in impoverished inner cities across America.
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Could The Civil Rights Movement Have Happened In Today's Militarized Police State?
Can peacefully exercising First Amendment rights create lasting change if police have weaponry and, apparently, legal authority to immediately and violently disperse crowds?
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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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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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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."
