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How many more disaffected black men have to self-radicalize before we take their claims seriously?
Tavis Smiley
Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.
Kate Stringer
Three police officers were killed and at least three wounded in a shooting early on Sunday, July 17 in Baton Rouge. Ten days earlier – on July 7 – a sniper gunned down five police officers in Dallas.
Frank Rudy Cooper
In 1991, when video was released of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers, Alton Sterling of Louisiana was 12 years old. Philando Castile of Minnesota was seven.
Sarah Kendzior
I keep thinking since the horrific police assassinations in Dallas that we’ve been here before. It’s not that so many police officers have been summarily executed. It’s that a palpable tension still exists between police and black people in our country, despite the efforts of...
David C. Couper
17 min
If you have money, committing a municipal violation may pose you a minor inconvenience. If you don’t, it can ruin your life.
2 min
If you're not worried about the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka the Snoopers' Charter), you don't know enough about it. Visit Privacy International and join the campaign against new Government snooping powers.
It's time to start imagining a society that isn't dominated by police
José Martín
Amid heightened tensions and fear for safety after deadly Dallas sniper ambush, Black Lives Matter protests against police violence took to the streets in major American cities and the UK
Nika Knight
8 min
"Loved Ones" is a series of short documentaries that follow the work of Lisa Ganser, an artist and anti-police terror activist. This first episode is dedicated to people with disabilities that have been killed by police in the United States. An audio-described version...
After tonight's #BlackLivesMatter vigil, I don't have the words to speak to how powerful and moving this event was. It appeared there was about
When people ask me, “Who will protect us,” I want to say: Who protects you now?
Mychal Denzel Smith
I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by the police. Last night, I wanted to say something that hasn't been said a hundred times before. It finally dawned on me that there...
Michelle Alexander
Garner sold loose cigarettes; Alton Sterling hawked CDs — and they both died at the hands of police
Daniel Denvir
Martin Luther King Jr. said it best in 1966: "[The] law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also."
Two years later, he was shot and killed in Memphis. But his dream that the United States legal system might...
Zak Cheney Rice
This may be hard to hear but the truth isn't aided by mincing words.
2 min
At the time of this publishing, 559 people were killed by police in 2016. And disproportionately, these people were black. They include Alton Sterling — who was killed in an encounter with police while selling CDs outside a supermarket in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was tased...
A few years ago, I contacted my local police department asking them to send an officer over to put down a doe that had been hit by a car on the street in front of my house. She had suffered a left front and right rear leg break but had somehow flopped herself well into the...
Dave Lindorff
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Thoughts on the first weeks at Nuit Debout, how it functions, its massification, its relationship to the labour unions, to violence, to police brutality and to the post-colonial left.
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Struggle[s] at Nuit Debout, Lutte[s] à Nuit Debout, Part 1: Paris
FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials should be handled: that they be released in conjunction with careful reporting that puts the...
Glenn Greenwald
42 min
Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of protest policing, a set of strategies developed in the wake of 9/11 to preempt forms of mass protest at major events in the US and worldwide. The film tracks the development of the Miami model...
21 min
This week we take a look at the multiple converging flashpoints of resistance in France, which have combined into a popular movement that has inspired over a million peeps to take to the streets in a massive expression of collective rage. On the music break, we have French...
Paranoid politicians, sensational journalists – the Isis recruiting officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity in Belgium
Simon Jenkins
4 min
Anonymous published information about Donald Trump, including his cell phone number and Social Security number, online. The response from the Trump team was to call for the arrest of those responsible and for an apparent investigation by the FBI and Secret Service. However...
18 min
Strong encryption poses problems for law enforcement, is weakening it worth the risks it presents? It's...complicated.
Modern society — industrial civilization — is built on violence.
Max Wilbert
272 min
This video playlist compiles all of acTVism Munich's work that include a wide range of topics - privacy, democracy, economy, politics and social issues.
3 min
The moment Helen Steel confronts the former police spy who deceived her, before disappearing without a trace, is caught on camera at Sydney airport. The British social justice campaigner had flown from London to Australia to confront John Dines, finally seeing him...
More than 60 groups sign letter calling for full investigation into government spying on protest groups
Lauren McCauley
30 min
On May 13, 1985, one of the most shameful, horrific attacks by U.S. police ever took place in West Philadelphia. 11 people-including five children-were killed in a deliberate massacre. A racist and political attack on a radical community group known as the MOVE Organization...
Fred Hampton participated in a mock people’s trial, where he articulates why the Black Panther Party, and he as a leader within the party, was being viciously targeted by the US government.
Hampton Institute
Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.
Frank Castro
9 min
Stand Up Sunday is a group of Black Lives Matters activists from Louisville, KY. With a dynamic approach to social justice reform and racial and economic equity, the organizers have been eliciting policy change in a wide range of issues from schools to housing, hunger to...
He was 12, playing with a toy gun, in a locale with open-carry laws. Tamir Rice was executed for being a black boy
Chauncey Devega
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...
Sam Mitrani
3 min
This week, a huge portion of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais is due to be bulldozed. We can not sit back at let this happen...
The arrest of two Spanish puppeteers accused of “promoting terrorism” in a play reveals the violence of the state in a way that satire never could.
Peter Gelderloos
20 min
Activists in custody, protests shut down, warrantless house arrests, and the COP21 strangled by anti-terrorist measures, a look back on the first months of the state of emergency in Paris.
3 min
A look around Milipol, a homeland security fair in Paris, reveals the latest tools of state repression; including hacking tools and state surveillance tech.
28 min
Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing arguments, to examining the reality behind Donald Trump's...
3 min
Let the Fire Burn is composed entirely with archival footage yet unfurls with the tension of a thriller. Jason Osder’s documentary recounts the steps that led to a horrific tragedy on May 13, 1985, when a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and the controversial...
3 min
When the TV cameras are turned off and the headlines have moved on, what happens to the police officers involved in the deaths of black men in America? AJ+ takes a look at four cases in the last 18 months.
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Paradise, California Police Officer Patrick Feaster shot an unarmed man who was climbing out of a car wreck. The victim, who was allegedly drunk driving, may be paralyzed due to the gunshot, but Feaster won't face criminal charges.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder November 24 in the death of Laquan McDonald. A video released by police shows Van Dyke shooting the teenager 16 times.
Paul Hirschfield
19 min
This week we bring you black and brown power worldwide as peeps from Manila to Chicago fight the powers that be. In the Philippines, anti-capitalist warriors told APEC leaders to pack up and get the fuck out of dodge, while comrades in Minneapolis took a page from the...
22 min
The presence of numerous squats, including the biggest in Europe, a militant student scene as well as unpunished police repression make Rome one of the strongholds of radical Italian politics.
La présence de nombreux squats, y compris le plus grand d'Europe, une scène...
Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.
Arundhati Roy
I know why Theresa May has that permanently appalled expression – she’s seen my internet history
Frankie Boyle
30 min
The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons. Everyone in the United States knows that "socialist" or "communist" is considered a bad word. How did things get that way?
19 min
Former offenders face enormous obstacles once they leave prison. John Oliver sits down with Bilal Chatman, an ex-prisoner, to discuss the challenges of reentering society.
6 min
Since the police force was established in Britain in 1829 the list of their crimes, committed largely with impunity, continues to rise at an alarming rate. Is it time we started to question whether this broken institution actually does more harm than good?
560 min
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
Though a police officer exacted the physical violence caught on camera, a teacher, school administrator, and judge participated in it, too. Each of them prioritized power plays, intimidation, and coercion over teaching and learning in a safe environment.
Khadijah Costley White
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Naomi Zack and Steve Paulson
2 min
A new whistleblower inside the U.S. drone program reveals just how easy it is for the government to kill people and how little evidence is needed.
Internalized racism prevented me from seeing how the system works.
Marcus Harrison Green
History teaches us that legislative action rarely happens without organized protest. This is why the Black Lives Matter movement is so essential today.
Bree Newsome
12 min
John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn't.
Last year, Gregg Marcantel, the secretary of New Mexico's Corrections Department, voluntarily placed himself in solitary confinement for 48 hours. He was one of a rare few who could choose to do such a thing, and it was a very Gregg thing to do—dramatic, physically demanding...
Maurice Chammah
28 min
The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
#2. Bartending is far more dangerous than being a police officer.
James Woods
Why are we against prison?
John Carico
45 min
Democracynow.org - Today we spend the hour with David Simon, the man behind "The Wire," what some have described as the best television series ever broadcast. His latest project is titled "Show Me a Hero," a six-part mini-series now airing on HBO.
Black Lives Matter, a loose network of activists around the country, is currently facing backlash for storming the stage at Bernie Sanders’ events. Black people have a long and powerful history of taking over white political spaces in an effort to advance our interests. But...
R.L. Stephens
We must pursue policies that transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its people of color. That starts with addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.
Bernie Sanders
DC Entertainment has undergone some major changes as part of its summer revamp, and one of the most compelling characters to come out of the latest series is a comic book superhero we all thought we knew: Superman.
Kyle Jaeger
Sandra Bland, who died while in police custody in Texas, has emerged as a martyr, illuminating police violence against black women in a way that is finally resonating across the country.
Kirsten West Savali
On July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois, to take a new job as a college outreach officer at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over by the police for failing to signal while making a lane...
Henry A. Giroux
9 min
What would it take to turn police officers who abuse their power into protectors of the peace?
15 min
Mandatory minimums require fixed prison sentences for certain crimes. John Oliver explains why we treat some turkeys better than most low-level offenders. Connect with Last Week Tonight online..
The crisis of incarceration this nation now faces demands people of faith act with swift and fierce moral authority to transform, not just reform, an irreparably broken system. It demands that all of us—clergy, seminarians, teachers, and people in pews, mosques and temples—...
Janis Rosheuvel and Lissette Castillo Vizcarra and Pastor Lilian Amaya
3 min
Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind world—and nearly lost his life. Alex tells...
29 min
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14 to 20,1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. It was funded by...
Police dashboard camera video released on Tuesday shows no evidence that Sandra Bland assaulted her arresting officer or [was given] any reason for her arrest on July 10 after she was pulled over in Waller County, Texas.
Jennifer Baker
More training, body cameras, community policing, the hiring of more minorities as police officers, a better probation service and more equitable fines will not blunt the indiscriminate use of lethal force or reduce the mass incarceration that destroys the lives of the poor.
Chris Hedges
2 min
The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June 2015, when 545 had been killed.)
8 min
This multi-part video series highlights the impact of systemic racism on our everyday lives. And yeah, it's really a thing.
In each 1 minute video, a different example of systemic racism is covered:
Part 1: Wealth Gap
Part 2: Employment
Part 3: Housing Discrimination
Part...
3 min
In this powerful clip, PolicyLink's Angela Glover Blackwell connects today's unrelenting cases of police violence to systemic causes, underlining the urgency of systemic solutions. "You, as an individual in this society," she concludes, "may not carry personal racism. But...
5 min
In this video we break down in simple terms the only way "those in power" can stay in power. It's not as complex at it may seem. They need us more than we need them.
5 min
This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is.
What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the notion and liberals, even radical ones, haven't exactly...
Roque Planas
1 min
With Good Cop, Bad Cop action figures, you decide how to police the city!
3 min
Ever notice how the racist media treats black protesters & white rioters differently?
My Poem to friends that have responded to the Texas Pool Party with ignorance and arrogance
Prisons should not be profit centers
Mary Turck
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom...
Redditt Hudson
18 min
John Oliver explains why America's bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system.
7 min
At a pool party in McKinney Texas on Friday 5 June 2015, police respond to calls of a "disturbance". What follows is a shocking example of racial profiling, violence and aggression directed at the black teens in attendance. At the 3minute mark in this video a police officer...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation’s jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the US, totaling 6.8 million people, one of every 35 adults. We are far and away the world leader in putting our...
Bill Quigley
16 min
This week we break Bill C-51, down Klanada's sinister new law, that would give the Canucks increased spying powers over its population. On the break, long standing hip-hop act Onyx, returns with "Fuck The Law." We wrap things up with an interview with Antoine, a computer...
11 min
I look at the new powers brought in by David Cameron to supposedly aid in counter terrorism, but instead, turns us all into suspects.
It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power. They throw money at their favorites the way a gambler puts cash on his favorite horse. Money has replaced the vote. The wealthy...
Chris Hedges
A father from Ivory Coast wanted to reunite his son with the rest of his family living in Spain. But the Spanish government denied him a family reunification visa. Desperate, he paid a Moroccan woman to smuggle his 8-year-old onto Spanish soil. On May 7, 2015, she attempted...
Sonali Kolhatkar
“What struck me” journalist Christian Parenti said in a recent Truthout interview, referring to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, “was the fact that these local towns and states around the region were sending the only resources they had to New Orleans: weapons and...
Robert C. Koehler
The police—not to mention capitalism—have done far more to damage Baltimore than any riot could
When Oscar Grant was shot by transit cop Johannes Mehserle in Oakland in the early hours of January 1, 2009, a week passed with no institutional response, while videos of Grant’s...
George Ciccariello-Maher
2 min
In this essential new feature documentary, legendary radical activist Angela Davis speaks for the first time about her 1970s imprisonment as a terrorist and conspirator, which became a flashpoint in the black liberation struggle and turned her into a revolutionary icon.
5 min
What if there were a magical place where blacks could escape the indignities, dangers and inconveniences of racism?
Ferguson. New York. Baltimore.
As cities erupt after decades of oppression and violence at the hands of police, calls for nonviolence can be deafening. “Violence isn’t the answer,” the moralists chide when protesters throw rocks and clash with police.
They’re right. But...
Nathalie Baptiste
Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of local teenagers’ Twitter feeds, law enforcement had learned that a group of high school...
Michael Gould-Wartofsky
4 min
Black on Black Crime is the myth that just won't die. Despite being repeatedly shown to be ludicrous, it was still a large feature of the coverage of the Baltimore protests of the murder of Freddie Gray. This video puts the myth to rest.