HT Steven Riley @mixed_race
“The library at Washington University in St. Louis is building a digital repository called “Documenting Ferguson.” The collection will provide the community with a space to save the media they’ve captured since the death of Michael Brown.
The online collection is open for anyone to contribute material.The archive will accept photos, audio, video, and written stories.”
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Source: news.stlpublicradio.org
Shooting at a UPS facility in Inglenook, Alabama, leaves three people dead Tuesday morning.
Source: www.cnn.com
RCMP report on Aboriginal women puts numbers to our national shame: Tim Harper
We are quick to work to protect women’s rights abroad, but when it comes to murdered Aboriginals at home, we are quick to look the other way.
Tim Harper – TheStar.com – May 18
Last week, while Aboriginal demonstrators were marching outside the Centre Block, New Democratic MP Niki Ashton rose in the Commons and asked the government — again — to convene a national inquiry to provide answers and justice for the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
– See more at: http://www.ammsa.com/content/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls#sthash.tWPSkhjc.dpuf
Source: www.ammsa.com
1) Make residents feel they’re being treated fairly2) Take a closer look at how bias influences cops’ decisions3) Make sure police and community leaders are talking honestly
Source: www.vox.com
A prosecutor announced Thursday that no criminal charges will be brought in the case of an unarmed black man killed while being restrained by mall security guards.
McKenzie Cochran, 25, died at the Northland Mall in the Detroit suburb of Southlan…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Cochran was killed in January (2014) and I am just now hearing about it.
So much oppression it’s hard to keep track of it all.
Background:
In 1978, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indan Tribe, declaring that American Indian Nations could no longer exercise jurisdiction over non-native offenders who commit crimes on tribal lands. Although the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”) in March 2013 restores a portion of the jurisdiction that Oliphant stripped away to American Indian Nations, VAWAspecifically excludes 228 federally recognized tribes in Alaska. Consequently, as a result of Section 910 of VAWA 2013, Alaska Native women remain the only group of Native women whose tribal governments cannot protect them. To learn more, read: www.sliverofafullmoon.org
Source: joespub.tumblr.com
Video of an officer kicking a civilian who was being held on the ground has sparked outcry and an investigation.
Source: www.cnn.com
The police in and around Ferguson have shot and killed twice as many people in the past two weeks (Mr Brown plus one other) as the police in Japan, a nation of 127m, have shot and killed in the past six years. Nationwide, America’s police kill roughly one person a day (see chart).
This is not because they are trigger-happy but because they are nervous. The citizens they encounter have perhaps 300m guns between them, so a cop never knows whether the hand in a suspect’s pocket is gripping a Glock. This will not change soon. Even mild gun-controls laws tend to fail.
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Source: www.economist.com
