This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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The FBI’s Dangerous Crackdown on "Black Identity Extremists"
The "BIE" movement, just recently invented by the F.B.I., is as frightening and dangerous as the bureau’s infamous Cointelpro program of the 1960s and ’70s under which J. Edgar Hoover set out to disrupt and destroy virtually any group with the word “black” in its name.
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His Act of Defiance Went Viral. Now Elected, Braxton Winston Aims To Fix the System From Within
One of the newest faces of politics in Trump-era America is a man who became a prominent activist after a police shooting in Charlotte and a snapshot that went viral.
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Act Out! [119] - G20: View from the Streets + A Pipeline Fight from the Tree-Tops
We take you to the streets of the recent G20 protests in Hamburg where hundreds of thousands of people stood, sat and protested as law enforcement once again made clear who it is that cops are meant to serve and protect.
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Resistance At Standing Rock: The People From Oceti Sakowin Camp
Some of the faces and voices from Standing Rock, in their own words.
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People Vs Big Oil, Part II: A Mosaic of Oil and Attack Dogs
Few things appear more threatening to the economic order than the demand to accelerate oil’s demise – and the most robust democracies will suspend civil liberties when the people, particularly indigenous people, voice that demand.
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Black Lives Matter Shifts Police Brutality Focus to Britain
“It's very difficult to live in Britain as a black person."
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Banlieues Debout Movement Targets Police Brutality, Economic Hardship In Paris Suburbs
The suburb-centric movement is a spinoff of Nuit Debout Paris, but functions independently of the horizontal, democracy-based protests from which it takes its name.
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Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror
Impoverished urban communities have evolved into miniature police states.
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza On the Movement’s First 3 Years
BLM’s main success has been in achieving a “cultural shift that is moving through this country,” one that is “necessary for real policy change to happen.”
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Michael Brown’s Mom, on Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
Death isn’t pretty for anyone, but what these families now face is the horror of seeing their loved one die over and over, in public, in such a violent way.
