Many people don’t know that for a time, Dred Scott lived in Fort Snelling, where he met and married his wife, Harriet Robinson. Full story: MSR News (MN Spokesman Recorder) [youtube=http://youtu.be/0kubhN6dXvk] Published on Aug 18, 2014  http://www.democracynow.org - Just miles away from the scene of the protests in Ferguson lies the grave of Dred More
"But I want to introduce a caveat. I think it is a mistake to simply focus on the militarization of the police and their racist actions in addressing the killing of Michael Brown. What we are witnessing in this brutal killing and mobilization of state violence is symptomatic of the neoliberal, racist, punishing state emerging More
 National Guard troops have been ordered to Ferguson, MO, after two nights of mandatory curfew were ignored by protesters and rioters following the officer involved shooting death of teenager Mike Brown. Image credit: DVIDSHUB  Nick Bernabe | The Anti-Media August 18, 2014 What looked like a deescalation only a few days ago following the transfer More
BOB BUTLER, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS, WRITES THAT THE ARREST OF TWO JOURNALISTS IN FERGUSON REMINDS HIM OF 1964 By#TEAMEBONY Â August 15, 2014 Â Â Press freedom in Ferguson: Is this 1964 or 2014? Â Fifty years ago, America's living rooms were interrupted with images of peaceful protesters in Selma or Washington or More
"A striking recent report from the American Civil Liberties Union indicates that . . . policing is being militarized nationwide in all sorts of unsettling ways. It is, more precisely, being SWATified (a word that doesn’t yet exist, but certainly should)."  By Matthew Harwood  TomDispatch.com   August 14, 2014 Think of it as a different kind of blowback. Even when More
