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June 18, 2020

Tidbits - June 18, 2020 - Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending ; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...

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Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending Must Be Cut; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...

June 17, 2020

No Justice. No Peace.

Mehrsa Baradaran The American Prospect

Underlying the nationwide protests for black lives is the racial wealth gap.

June 17, 2020

Global Left Midweek - June 17, 2020

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Opposing views on Mexico's leader, international statements on the upsurge in the US, and more

film

June 16, 2020

Fight for Rights, Will to Power: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Greg Tate British Film Institute

Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in the Swedish television archives (filmed from 1967 - 1975) originally released as a film in 2011 and currently streaming on Amazon Prime and YouTube.

June 16, 2020

Media Bits and Bytes - June 16, 2020

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Emergency! The media are under attack - physical, professional and legal

June 14, 2020

Strike for Black Lives

Particles for Justice

Wednesday, June 10: A Strike For Black Lives #STRIKE4BLACKLIVES #STRIKEFORBLACKLIVES #SHUTDOWNSTEM WHO ARE THE PARTICLES FOR JUSTICE?

June 14, 2020

Spike Lee Has Made His Most Ambitious Film Yet

David Sims The Atlantic

Da 5 Bloods is a searing Vietnam War epic that speaks to this moment—and it’s on Netflix, so viewers can revisit it again and again.

June 14, 2020

White U.S. Police Union Bosses Protect Officers Accused of Racism

Eli Hager and Weihua Li of the Marshall Project Guardian / Marshall Project

Analysis finds of the 15 large US cities in which a majority of officers are non-white, only one – Memphis – has a union leader who is black

June 11, 2020

What Black America Means to Europe

Gary Younge New York Review of Books

Many have attempted to claim that `things are better here' for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe's colonial past and its own racist present.

June 11, 2020

How White Crime Writers Justified Police Brutality

John Fram New York Times

We don't need any more novels or TV shows about cops who do the wrong thing for the "right" reason. Early crime fiction, to its credit, often viewed law enforcement with skepticism. This started to change in the 1950s.

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