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Finding a Safe Space in My Garden
Tinduf, Algeria. News about the historic change of relations between the United States and Cuba triggered cheers across the five Sahrawi refugee camps located near this Sahara Desert city located 1,100-miles southwest of Algeria’s capital of Algiers on the Mediterranean Sea. That news elevated hopes among many Sahrawi that the major changes in relations between the U.S. and its longtime, bitter enemy Cuba would lead to the U.S. pushing for changes with its longtime ally – Morocco.
Kill Capitalism Before It Kills Us
Here’s how I figure: Sony’s Amy Pascal, producer Scott Rudin and the marketing people took one look at Seth Rogen’s dog and knew it was a loser. Desperate, they devised a quietly brilliant marketing strategy to make it look as if the North Koreans were criminally responsible for the hacking fiasco so that the film, on line and in theatres, would be sold out because patrons would go to see it as their patriotic duty.
The Rot of Racist Police Violence Reaches Deep
The Rot of Racist Police Violence Reaches Deep Police brutality is a consequence of a capitalist society organized to funnel massive amounts of wealth to a tiny class, while keeping millions in poverty. Read Full Article »
Minneapolis' police union boss is a villain. But racist violence is bigger than Bob Kroll.
A growing chorus of voices has been identifying police unions as the key obstacle in the way of meaningful police reform. During a few days in June, the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and even the New York Daily News all ran pieces decrying the role of these unions in defending brutal cops. Police unions often defend brutal and murderous cops and resist reforms.
Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
Sam Mitrani Sam Mitrani is an Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage. He earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009 and his book The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894 is available from the University of Illinois Press.
Raising Consciousness with Reggae and Rastafari: an Interview with Raging Fyah
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Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved.
The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not ‘Serve and Protect’
Tuesday, Jan 6, 2015, 6:43 am BY Sam Mitrani We shouldn’t expect the police to be something they’re not. (David Shankbone / Flickr) In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved.
The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People, Not ‘Serve and Protect’
In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved.
The Police Were Created to Control Poor and Working Class People
THE DECAY OF AMERICAN MEDIA — Patrick L. Smith on the decline and fall of American journalism; Peter Lee on China and its Uyghur problem; Dave Macaray on brain trauma, profits and the NFL; Lee Ballinger on the bloody history of cotton.
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