Protesters in London march against police atrocity against Black teenager
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-13
On Friday, December 11, anti-racism groups in the UK protested police atrocity against a Black teenager in North London. Video footage which shows a police officer punching the teenager in the head while he was pressed against a police car, was widely circulated on social media on Thursday night and triggered widespread outrage across the UK. Scores of people under the leadership of Black Lives Matter Movement and Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) marched to North London's Tottenham police station and protested the police brutality and demanded punishment for the officers involved in the incident. | According to a Mornin…
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Dozens arrested in Paris protest against new security law
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-13
Police in Paris have arrested dozens of people during a tense demonstration against a proposed security law.Arrests: Officers targeted protesters who they suspected might gather in violent groups, like those who vandalised shops and vehicles at previous demonstrations. The interior minister said 81 people had been arrested on Saturday 12 December.The proposed new law has sparked successive weekends of protests (Lewis Joly/AP)Riot police escorted the march through the streets of the French capital.The proposed security law has been met by successive weekends of protests. The most contested measure in the ne…
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Protesters in London march against police atrocity against Black teenager
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-13
On Friday, December 11, anti-racism groups in the UK protested police atrocity against a Black teenager in North London. Video footage which shows a police officer punching the teenager in the head while he was pressed against a police car, was widely circulated on social media on Thursday night and triggered widespread outrage across the UK. Scores of people under the leadership of Black Lives Matter Movement and Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) marched to North London's Tottenham police station and protested the police brutality and demanded punishment for the officers involved in the incident. | According to a Mornin…
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Police drop probe into Tory MP accused of rape who's been conducting parliamentary duties from home
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-13
Police have reportedly dropped their investigation into a Conservative MP and ex-minister who was arrested after a woman accused him of rape, sexual assault and coercive control. rape | The Metropolitan Police had said they received allegations on 31 July of sexual offences and assault. The allegations related to four separate incidents at addresses in London, including in Westminster, between July 2019 and January 2020. | Police arrested the Conservative MP on 1 August on suspicion of rape and took him into custody at an east London police station. They later released him on bail, the force added. | But the Sund…
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Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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French Police Round Up Protesters, Mainstream Media Ignores
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-12
French citizens held another day of large-scale protests in Paris against the global security bill, which limits the dissemination of images in which police officers can be personally identified, among other things. | RELATED: | Six People Arrested in Brazil Over the Death of Joao Silveira | Parisian police repressed the march, making several arrests, reportedly to prevent the formation of the so-called "black blocks" of protesters. | Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that…
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Military-Grade Weapons Do Not Make Cops Or Cities Safer
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
Over the last forty years, state and local police budgets have increased at astounding rates, with billions of dollars going toward military-grade equipment for law enforcement. The premise is simple: a better-equipped police force ought to be able to do their job–protecting the public–better, as well as offer more protection for the officers themselves. But two independent studies have punctured those ideas, finding that militarizing police forces does not reduce crime, nor does it increase officer safety. | As ABC News reports, the two peer-reviewed studies, one coming from the University of Michiga…
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Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During Covid-19
Annie Levin | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown New York's mutual aid collectives how to navigate the line between mutual aid, solidarity, and charity. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia — You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
All political eyes are on Georgia's runoff election on January 5th, 2021. Two Senate seats are up for grabs and will decide whether the evil Trumpster and corporatist Senator Mitch McConnell stays in total control of the U.S. Senate or not. If the Democrats win both seats, the Senate would be split, 50-50. Vice President…
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On International Human Rights Day, Chileans demand release of political prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
This December 10, on International Human Rights Day, hundreds of Chileans took to the streets to demand the release of all political prisoners in the country. There was special emphasis on the demand to release the protesters arrested during the protests of October 2019 and in demonstrations in the following months as well as the Indigenous Mapuche political prisoners. | Several small demonstrations were c…
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Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During COVID-19
Annie Levin | progressive.org | 2020-12-11
The pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have shown New York's mutual aid collectives how to navigate the line between mutual aid, solidarity, and charity.
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Six People Injured After Car Plows Into Crowd at BLM Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-11
At least six people have been injured after a vehicle struck into a crowd of racial justice protestors at 39th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York City. | According to a spokesperson for the New York City police department, the incident happened at 4 pm local time and occurred in the Midtown East section of Manhattan. | RELATED: | US: Protests Grow After LA Police Officers Kill a Black Man | Not many other details have been revealed at this time, but so far, none of the injuries a…
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Videos: Several People Injured as Vehicle Drives Into Manhattan Black Lives Matter Protest
sputniknews.com | 2020-12-11
According to reports, a vehicle has crashed into a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City, injuring at least seven people.
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Jon Wiener: What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-11
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play " The Trial of the Chicago 7," an Aaron Sorkin film that recently aired on Netflix, brought an important chapter in the history of American activism to screens around the globe. Based on real events, the film dramatizes the 1969 trial of eight activists who were arrested during the Vietnam War protests that took place in Chicago at the 1968… | Source…
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What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing
aclu.org | 2020-12-11
In the middle of the 2020 pandemic, America was shaken by the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the protests that erupted in the aftermath. But the disturbing trends we see today in police violence are the same patterns we've seen over the last 100 years. Again and again, commissions convened to examine why police brutality sparks unrest have come to the same conclusion: We must address the poverty and systemic racism that go hand in hand with policing communities of color., , This week, we launched a series of four short films taking a critical look at what we've learned from the last 100 years…
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Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Turkish lawyer on hunger strike sent back to prison after release | Aytac Unsal re-arrested as a flight risk despite being released on health grounds in September after 213-day hunger strike | Alex MacDonald | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 11: 44 | Aytac Unsal recovering in bed following his hunger strike (People's Law Bureau) | A Turkish lawyer who was released from prison on medical grounds after spending more than seven…
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One Question: How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Impacted the Prison Abolition Movement?
progressive.org | 2020-12-10
Q: How Have the Black Lives Matter Protests Impacted the Prison Abolition Movement?
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Mass incarceration is declining — but not for women
Robert P. Alvarez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-10
Election after election, voters are turning against mass incarceration and the war on drugs that sustains it. In 2020, the people of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota voted to legalize marijuana, joining 11 other states and the District of Columbia. In Oregon, voters opted to decriminalize possession of all drugs. And even during the deeply divisive …
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