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Dramatic scenes of Missouri and a nation unnerved by the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. PHOTO GALLERY Enter Photo Gallery By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer and Nicole Pasulka takepart.com November 25, 2014 The quiet was eerie. After months of spirited, ceaseless protest, Ferguson, Mo., residents and protesters gathered outside the courthouse, anxious and hushed, worried and More
In contrast to positions previously taken by the U.S. government, the delegation will affirm that U.S. obligations under Article 16, which prohibits cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, do not apply exclusively inside the territorial United States. By Peter Brown November 12, 2014 Editor's Note: Also note the upcoming workshops this Friday listed below. More
"From my own, distant vantage point, it certainly appears that at every turn in the still-unravelling story of the murder of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, the local status quo has outmaneuvered a compliant MSM [mainstream media] that simply refuses to question…everything!" By Bob Swern bobswern Daily Kos November 2, 2014 attribution: New Yorker Magazine More
How can we build an ethical police force based upon the concept of Constitutional policing by consent? Stephen Downing Reason.com September 2, 2014 NOT LIKE THIS (nycmonkey/Flickr) Over the past four decades, the federal government has flooded American law enforcement with billions of dollars worth of financial incentives and military equipment in order More
Each legal observer arrested in Ferguson was “arrested for doing their job,” NLG interim executive director Dan Gregor said. Gregor described other concerns he had with the kind of “police overreaching” that had occurred in Ferguson. By Kevin Gosztola The Dissenter FireDogLake,com August 30, 2014 The National Lawyers Guild had legal observers on the ground in More
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., during the summer of 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we’ve actually seen is the More
"People in Gaza actually sent messages of solidarity toFerguson – Internet petitions signed by Gazan citizens. I thought I was hallucinating. What if they could all march together? 1.8 million Gazans would really clog old Florissant Avenue."
The quest to merely survive is now legitimated through spectacles of violence that misdirect moral and political outrage into entertainment and the abyss of a moral coma. Instead of responding to crises with the desire to correct a wrong and reimagine a different future, all that appears to be left in American culture is the desire to merely survive in the face of endless representations of state and non-state violence.
“We’re finding police have a lot of capacity to set a tone,” Adams said during a recent radio interview with Sacramento’s KFBK. “When police show up in riot gear you get a different kind of interaction than when they show up in their regular uniforms.”
"Clearly, the U.S. is at war with Black America."Glen Ford By Glen Ford The Progressive August 21, 2014The corporate media, reflecting their owners’ anxiety at the failure of Black people to revert to a state of passivity in Ferguson, Missouri, have arrived at a general consensus on two counts: the need to “demilitarize” the police (fewer More
A coalition of Ferguson protesters met with reporters Friday to announce a list of demands related to the investigation of the shooting death of Michael Brown and to call for college students to participate in a national “Walk Out” from classes on Monday. By DURRIE BOUSCAREN St. Louis Public Radio August 22, 2014 Jeffery More
