The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Boston PD's New Assault Rifles Raise Serious Questions About Paramilitarized Police
“Do we want police officers who are sent out into our streets to be trained as if — and equipped as if — the people they encounter on their patrols are enemy hostile targets, as if in a war?”
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18 Sheriff's Deputies Charged With Inmate Abuse and Corruption at L.A. Central Jail
Four grand jury indictments and a criminal complaint allege unjustified beatings of jail inmates and visitors at downtown L.A. jail facilities, unjustified detentions and a conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation into misconduct at largest U.S. jail system.
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Richmond Expands Battle for Eminent Domain To Save Homeowners From Foreclosure
The eminent domain plan—in which cities like Richmond will forcibly acquire mortgages at discounts, then help homeowners refinance into smaller and more affordable home loans—is gaining mainstream acceptance as a form of principal reduction.
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Why Is University of Pennsylvania Hosting Secret Meetings About Secret Surveillance?
Last month's conference here, entitled "On the Very Idea of Secret Laws," featured moderated discussions about secret courts, secret laws and America's rampaging surveillance apparatus—and was kept strangely, well, secret from the public.
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ACLU Report: Thousands Serving Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
At least 3,728 prisoners in the United States will spend the rest of their lives in prison for nonviolent offenses, costing taxpayers $2 billion.
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Thousands March on Washington Demanding End to Surveillance
Masses of protesters aligned with the coalition Stop Watching Us assembled on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act to urge Congress to reform the legal framework that supports the government's secretive online data gathering network.
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Exposed: Smokers Banned From Government Employment In Florida County
The ACLU has cried foul, stating potential violations based on the 4th and possibly the 9th and 14th amendments, as Fagler County pushed ahead a law barring government workers from using any tobacco products.
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New Law Exiles Homeless People From South Carolina Capital
The Columbia City Council called an emergency meeting and passed a bill at 3:30am, now known as the “Emergency Homeless Response Plan,” which enables the forcible removal of homeless people from the city center.
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Wisconsin's Widening — And Misreported — Police Crackdown on Dissent
Since July 24, the Wisconsin Capitol Police have arrested over 150 people and issued more than 300 citations — all for participating in the two-year tradition of singing at the Capitol known as the Solidarity Sing Along.
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Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Is it justice when the U.S. president prosecutes whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity?
