Amanda Yee (2022-09-12). Black Brooklyn under attack: the over-policing of West Indian Day celebrations. liberationnews.org "This parade being one of the few parades that's dedicated to Black, Indigenous, brown culture, is the parade that's the most criminalized by the NYPD," said anti-police brutality activist and lifelong Crown Heights resident Kerbie Joseph. "People who live in their own communities are being subjugated to checkpoints in their own neighborhoods."

_____ (2022-09-11). Rifles, Tasers And Jails: How Cities And States Spent Billions Of COVID-19 Relief. popularresistance.org After signing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) last spring, President Joe Biden touted what the economic stimulus bill would deliver: food assistance to millions of people in need, lower healthcare premiums for millions of Americans, and $350 billion for state and local governments to spend on COVID-19 recovery. Economists say it was the largest infusion of federal funding in local governments in almost 40 years. | A year later, ARPA became one of President Biden's talking points to demonstrate Democrats are not out to defund the police. | "[T]he American Rescue Plan … provided $350 billion tha…

WSWS (2022-09-11). Pregnant women held indefinitely in Alabama jail for drug use in pregnancy. wsws.org Since 2010, around 1 women have been detained in the Etowah Detention Center in Alabama for using drugs during their pregnancies. Mandatory rehabilitation stipulations in Alabama's chemical endangerment laws ensure that many of them will remain in jail indefinitely.

WSWS (2022-09-11). Pregnant women held indefinitely in Alabama jail for drug use. wsws.org Since 2010, around 1 women have been detained in the Etowah Detention Center in Alabama for using drugs during their pregnancies. Mandatory rehabilitation stipulations in Alabama's chemical endangerment laws ensure that many of them will remain in jail indefinitely.