Tag Archives: racial-profiling
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews
Article: Should an Innocent Person Be Forced to Pay for Their Arrest? | OpEdNews – Donald Trump takes office in two short weeks. As I’ve written previously, I don’t expect much in the way of prison reform or sentencing reform. Indeed, I’ve urged readers to take to the courts for redress because we obviously won’t […]
Soldiers of Odin, Europe’s Notorious Anti-Immigration Group, Is Beginning to Form Cells in Canada | VICE | United States
Soldiers of Odin, Europe’s Notorious Anti-Immigration Group, Is Beginning to Form Cells in Canada | VICE | United States – Operating in a structure very similar to a motorcycle club, the group has opened chapters in Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, British Columbia, and possibly more in the past two months. This was […]
First Peoples Worldwide » Idle No More Calls for Day of Action, Oct. 7th 2013
The announcement comes towards the end of the popular Sovereignty Summer campaign, launched on June 21, Aboriginal Day in Canada. Sovereignty Summer is a campaign of coordinated non-violent direct actions to promote Indigenous rights and environmental protection in alliance with non-Indigenous supporters. The campaign focuses specifically on six calls for change which the movement would […]
This Is How Private Prison Companies Make Millions Even When Crime Rates Fall | Mother Jones
You might be wondering: What happens when crime drops and prison populations dwindle in states that agreed to keep their private prisons 80 percent or 90 percent full? Consider Colorado. The state’s crime rate has sunk by a third in the past decade, and since 2009, five state-run prisons have shuttered because they weren’t needed. […]
Police Kill Unarmed Jonathan Ferrell Former Football Player Just Needed Help After Car Crash
Police Kill Unarmed Jonathan Ferrell Former Football Player Just Needed Help After Car Crash. Police in North Carolina shot and killed a man running toward them Saturday morning — but he may have just been looking for help after a car wreck. Officers responded to a “breaking and entering” 911 call at a home in […]
Canada nixes UN review of violence on aboriginal women – Manitoba – CBC News
Canada’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Elissa Golberg, offered a brief rebuttal to Belarus, but did not engage directly with the other countries that criticized Canada.”Canada is proud of its human-rights record, and our peaceful and diverse society,” Golberg told the one-hour session. While no society is entirely free of discrimination, she noted, Canada […]
Mexican women forced into sex 25 times a day – Times LIVE
Mexican women forced into sex 25 times a day – Times LIVE. The investigation was among several aimed at “blockading the repugnant sex trafficking corridor” used to exploit victims from Tenancingo, Mexico, said James Hayes, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York. Tenancingo, an impoverished town in Tlaxcala state, has long been a […]
Attorney Mark Geragos Joins Legal Team For A Just Cause In Its Lawsuit Against Federal Court Reporter For Release Of Transcripts Critical To Appeal In IRP6 Case
Court records show that Attorney Mark Geragos has joined the legal team representing A Just Cause in its lawsuit against federal court reporter Darlene M. Martinez in Denver, Colorado Docket No. 12, Filed September 5, 2013, Notice of Entry of Appearance by Mark Geragos On Behalf Of A Just Cause, USDC Colorado. Attorney Cornell Johnson […]
Not a Game: How the NYPD Uses Sports For Surveillance | The Nation
The question now hangs in the air: were the NYPD youth soccer leagues as well as the teams that compete for the “NYPD Cricket Cup”—yes there is such a thing—set up explicitly for the purposes of surveillance? Was the trust of hundreds of families who signed up their children for these leagues violated in the […]
Houston Police Cleared of Wrongdoing in Hundreds of Shootings | Democracy Now!
A new investigative report is raising questions about accountability for alleged abuses and unlawful shootings by the Houston police. According to the Texas Observer, investigators have ruled that Houston officers were justified every single time in 550 incidents involving the shooting of a citizen or animal between 2007 and 2012. One of the slain victims […]
4th World Radyo: European Atheism and Latent Intellectual Imperialism 09.04.2013 | APNS Public Radyo
Summary : TheAngryindian takes a Five-Percent look at the public discourse surrounding accusations of Islamophobia, xenophobia and white privilege against UK atheism activists Prof. Richard Dawkins and freethinker/social gadfly Stephen Fry and whether or not such charges actually make any sense. Religion, spirituality and its sociopolitical dynamics are discussed including a talk by Uhuru Movement […]
Fourth World Radyo: African Economics: Capitalism, Socialism or Something Else? 08.03.2013 | APNS Public Radyo
Summary: TheAngryindian speaks with Twitter comrade SelfMade_G22 about the issue of African economic independence across the entire Afro-Diaspora. The discussion looks at capitalism, its paradigms, its faults and how Africans at home and ALA’s Africans Living Abroad must learn the rules of the game for the sake of community survival. This is an excellent dispatch […]
‘Trayvon Martin could have been me,’ Obama tells press corps | Toronto Star
WASHINGTON—You can be black. You can be candid about the pain of race in America. You can be the president of the United States. But if you’re Barack Obama, combining each of those conditions at the same time has been the electrified third rail of his historic presidency. America’s first ever African-American leader built two […]
Republican presiding over Voting Rights hearing once claimed blacks better off under slavery | theGrio
“Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?” Franks said in the video interview. Franks regards abortion as a much more […]
Why did Marissa Alexander get a 20-year sentence despite invoking ‘Stand Your Ground’? — MSNBC
Alexander, an African-American Florida woman, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for shooting what she described as warning shots into a wall during a confrontation with her husband. Alexander’s lawyers claimed self-defense in the case, and said her husband had a history of abuse in their relationship. They invoked Florida’s “Stand Your […]
Read Roger Goodell’s Letter To Congress Defending The Redskins Name
Unfortunately, NFL Commissioner Goodell’s letter is another attempt to justify a racial slur on behalf of Dan Snyder and other NFL owners who appear to be only concerned with earning ever larger profits, even if it means exploiting a racist stereotype of Native Americans. For the head of a multi-billion dollar sports league to embrace […]
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