USA: The world is watching
Mass violations by U.S. police of Black Lives Matter protesters’ rights
- Amnesty International منظمة العفو الدولية
On 25 May 2020, George Floyd was detained, tortured and extrajudicially executed by Minneapolis Police Department officers. His death sparked widespread protests across the USA and the world and a long-overdue conversation about systemic racism and ...
Yisroel Goldstein, the 10% Rabbi
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Hours after leaving the hospital, his wounded hands wrapped in blue bandages, Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who survived the Poway synagogue shooting, steeled himself to face the national media and delivered an emotional account of the attack.
In ...
John Lewis obituary
- Michael Carlson
Civil rights activist for six decades committed to non-violent protest and a fierecely independent Democratic congressman
John Lewis in his office in Washington in 2017. His hometown newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, called him “ ...
Seattle: How CHAZ got the CHOP – social justice Animal Farm goes to the slaughterhouse
- Robert Barnes
CHAZ got CHOPPED. America’s shortest-lived revolutionary government has folded. What else could you expect from rebels shaped in safe spaces, tutored in social media and trained in street theater. Che ain’t a T-shirt, kids.
The Capitol ...
On the day George Floyd died, police across the US shot and killed at least five other men
- Melissa Segura
The day of Floyd’s death was only in its second hour when police registered the first killing of the day.
On May 25, 2020 — the day Minneapolis police killed George Floyd — officers shot and killed at least five other men across ...
The killing of Rayshard Brooks shows how police “reform” is a joke
- Caitlin Johnstone
A black man named Rayshard Brooks was recently killed by an Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back while he was attempting to run away.
Video footage from the police bodycam and a nearby witness makes it clear that Brooks resisted arrest ...
Wrongfully accused by an algorithm
- Kashmir Hill
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.
“This is not me,” Robert Julian-Borchak Williams told investigators. “You think ...
Essential now, deportable later: Undocumented agricultural workers in USA
- Felipe De La Hoz
Undocumented agricultural workers around the country currently find themselves in the position of Schrödinger’s cat. In the eyes of the government, they are simultaneously illegitimate, an unwelcome threat to be contained and excised, ...
Juneteenth: Freedom is in the claiming
- Various Authors - Autores varios - Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
“Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.” — Ralph Ellison, “ ...
The demands of the Collective Black Voices at Free Capitol Hill to the Government of Seattle, Washington
- Free Capitol Hill
In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic. This is no simple request to end police brutality. We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes ...
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