(2022-08-23). Greater Peril, Greater Reward? A New Risk Assessment Tool For Activists. popularresistance.org In March 2019, following numerous community pleas to curb graft among local police that had fallen upon deaf ears, residents of Kyere, Uganda tricked a notoriously corrupt police officer into a bribery arrangement. They caught him red-handed. Emerging from their hiding places in a community market, they seized the officer and arrested him—a man who had often used the same power of arrest to extort from them! This effective sting operation occurred without any of the usual police brutality toward activists. | As democracy erodes at an Increasing Pace, slipping our species toward the normalization of authorit…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
2022-08-23: News Headlines
(2022-08-22). The Chris Hedges Report: Psychology of a Klansman. scheerpost.com By Chris Hedges / On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after firebombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the South by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights. Terrorism by white vigilantes against religious and ethnic minorities is ingrained in the DNA of…
(2022-08-22). US: New Case of Police Brutality Reported. telesurenglish.net Three police officers in Crawford County, Arkansas, in southern United States, were suspended and an investigation was opened as a result of a video that was shared on social media that showed them beating and restraining, with excessive force, a man in a parking lot. | RELATED: | According to the police report, a man identified as Randal Worcester, 27, was threatening a store clerk on Sunday morning. When confronted by officers, h…
(2022-08-22). US police brutality against 27-year-old civilian go viral. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — Footage on the US police brutality against a 27-year-old civilian in the city of Mulberry, Arkansas has gone viral.
2022-08-22: News Headlines
(2022-08-22). US police brutality against 27-year-old civilian go viral. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) — Footage on the US police brutality against a 27-year-old civilian in the city of Mulberry, Arkansas has gone viral.
(2022-08-20). The Chris Hedges Report: Psychology Of A Klansman. popularresistance.org On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after firebombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the South by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights. Terrorism by white vigilantes against religious and ethnic minorities is ingrained in the DNA of American society going back to the slave patrols—and has only escalated in recent years. The FBI recorded 8,263 reported hate cr…
2022-08-21: News Headlines
(2022-08-20). The Chris Hedges Report: Psychology Of A Klansman. popularresistance.org On Jan. 9, 1966, the White Knights of the Mississippi Ku Klux Klan murdered the Black civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after firebombing and shooting into his house. It was one of thousands of hate crimes conducted in the South by whites who waged a reign of terror against Blacks to frighten them from abandoning calls for desegregation and voting rights. Terrorism by white vigilantes against religious and ethnic minorities is ingrained in the DNA of American society going back to the slave patrols—and has only escalated in recent years. The FBI recorded 8,263 reported hate cr…
(2022-08-20). The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery? globalresearch.ca This incisive and carefully researched article was first published by Global Research 14 years ago in March 2008. | Things have got worse since 2008. African-Americans and Latinos are routinely the victims of arbitrary arrest, incarceration and inhumane exploitation in America's …