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“Earth or Death!”  — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)

What Russian leftists have to say about the almost coup

The Minneapolis Police Department routinely engaged in a pattern of racist and abusive behavior, according to a Justice Department investigation. The city will now begin negotiating a court-enforceable consent decree.

The protest was during the uprisings right after George Floyd’s murder. And simply, we were exercising our human rights, our civil rights, and we were demonstrating and standing up against all of the racial injustice that happens day in and day out in this country.

Proposed reforms at the federal level would not have saved the life of Tyre Nichols. Only the fundamental transformation of systems of punishment that have been normalized in American society and culture can do that.

A reign of terror from coast to coast

Roy Wood Jr. Explores Police Militarization & Atlanta's "Cop City." Make the Super-rich Pay Their Fair Share. Memphis BLM Activist on Tyre Nichols' Killing. Why We All Need Subtitles Now. When Culture Changes Our DNA.

"Tortuguita's 'crime' was defending a forest in the heart of Atlanta—yet police moved in full force to evict the encampment, using their usual litany of brutal tactics," said one activist.