A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against officer Timothy Runnels for violating the constitutional rights of Bryce Masters in an incident that resulted in the teens cardiac arrest and left the 17-year-old in a medically induced coma.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The heat over Indiana’s new religious objections law spread Friday across social media and to the White House as many local officials and business groups around the state tried to jump in and stem the fallout.
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HT @mixed_race
Ferguson and Beyond: Race, State Violence, and Activist Agendas for the 21st Century
Panel: #Blacklivesmatter: A Universal Call for Social Justice
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by aleamargret
listening to this NPR story.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/28/134855801/private-prison-promises-leave-texas-towns-in-trouble
made me want to re-read this angela davis transcript.
http://www.time.com/time/community/transcripts/chattr092298.html
and really wonder why our prisons are built…empty…and then suddenly overflowing…
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Source: sproutinghealth.wordpress.com
Panel: The Past is Always Present: Contextualizing U.S. State Violence
Filmed by Jonathan Lewis, Evan Swope and Scott Macklin”
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Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed to death in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003. On Reality Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, “we inherited from our daughter a cause”; her experiences “completely changed our view of the whole situation.”
Source: therealnews.com
A man was burned alive inside his vehicle as border patrol agents refused to grab one of their many fire extinguishers and help him.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
Police have released a short video showing an officer kill a mother in front of her husband and child as he attempted to shoot their dog.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com
by Starlette McNeill
You can search through my hair to ensure airport security.
You can bar and color- code my skin.
You can socially position my body, marginalize or center.
But, you cannot touch who is within.
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You can count me, number me: minority and majority.
You can in and out me, believe in and doubt me.
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Source: racelessgospel.com
After a man he put in jail over 30 years ago was exonerated, this prosecutor realized he was complicit in a system that seeks “winning” instead of justice.
Source: thefreethoughtproject.com