The recent decisions by two of the most influential national newspapers of record to not publish their endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris says a lot about how seriously they take Trump’s threats to democracy and his promises of vengeance against his enemies.
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Black Activist Jailed for his Facebook Posts Speaks Out About Secret FBI Surveillance
Rakem Balogun spoke out against police brutality. Now he is believed to be the first person prosecuted under a secretive U.S. effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’.
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Act Out! [160] - Illegal Recycling, The Framing of Iran & The Woman at Starbucks You Didn’t Hear About
Water wars in the West are heating up – and did you know you could go to jail for more than a year for recycling? Next, Iran is on our shit list now more than ever, but why? And who actually deserves that prime spot?
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The Return of American Race Laws
The warmup act for a full-blown American fascism and orchestrated race war is taking place in immigrant and marginal communities across the United States: Racial profiling. Random police stops. Raids at homes and businesses.
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Native Lives Matter: Violent Police Encounters On Dangerous Rise for Native Americans
A day after attending a Native Lives Matter march, a Native American man in South Dakota was killed by a police officer under very shady circumstances.
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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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Police Killings Raise Tensions As Protests Continue in Salinas, California
The shooting death two weeks ago of Carlos Mejia was caught on a cell phone and quickly went viral, prompting outrage as he became the third person killed by Salinas police in three months.
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Kimani's Story: An Interview with the Directors of “Defended in the Streets"
The new film tells the story of the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray by plainclothes police in Brooklyn – an event that sparked outrage and widespread protests against police brutality.
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Civil Rights Lawyers Challenge Judge's Removal After Stop-and-Frisk Ruling
Attorneys from the Center of Constitutional Rights say that a ruling to remove U.S. district judge Shira Scheindlin, who sought to overturn New York City's stop-and-frisk policy, was "unprecedented and unwarranted" and want the court to reconsider.
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Federal Lawsuit Charges Sheriff's Deputy Unconstitutionally Killed Andy Lopez
A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the family of Andy Lopez, contending that a sheriff deputy's killing of the 13-year-old was unconstitutional in that it violated the Fourth Amendment limiting police authority. Huge demonstrations are planned for Saturday.
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Chris Hedges: The Origins of Our Police State
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state. These thuggish tactics are now being used against activists and dissidents.
