Author: Oppression Monitor

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Must see tweets 1.15 #BlackLivesMatter #Oscars #SFBart

#BlackLivesMatter protest shuts down Massachusetts highway

#BlackLivesMatter protest shuts down Massachusetts highway

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Retaliation Against Cop For Reporting Police Brutality

 

Because of numerous reports of police brutality and use of excessive force, many have asked why the good cops do not report the bad  ones.

 

I no longer need to address that in the comment section of this blog.

 

Now former Baltimore police detective Joe Crystal tells his story in the following video. Joe has sued both the Baltimore Police Department and the police commissioner for not protecting him from retaliation.

 

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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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Charlie Hebdo: Free Speech for Whom and to Say What?

 

Introduction
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Western media has wasted no time tooting its own horn regarding the value of “free speech” in our liberal societies.
But what should we think about this defense of “free speech”?

 

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Source: anti-imperialism.com

 

The U.S. claims free speech but goes after whistle blower Edward Snowden.

 

 

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Must see Tweets 1.13 #MLK2015 #MLK15 #Nigeria2000 #FreeNicoll

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The Colonialism of the Present

 

Scholar and activist Glen Coulthard on the connection between indigenous and anticapitalist struggles.

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Demonstrations against the police murders of Eric Garner and Mike Brown in recent months have adopted tactics that, to me at least, seem reminiscent of some indigenous practices in Canada: the seizing and blocking, if only temporarily, of major public infrastructure, for instance.Do you see connections in these struggles?

The blocking tactic, the impeding of critical infrastructure and flows of capital through that tactic is an important one, but more so, I think the expressions of anger and outrage and resentment towards a state that is profoundly violent, colonial and racist is really where I see the relationship.

 

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Source: www.jacobinmag.com

 

Powerful article.

 

HT unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com

 

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WATCH: Ohio State Students Get a Hefty Dose of the Police State for Celebrating Football Victory

 

Columbus, OH — Ohio State won the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, but the way police responded to celebrating students was a loss for all.


“We are just innocent students celebrating our football team,” one person told the the Columbus Dispatch.
Upon news of the victory, overjoyed students took to the streets in a carousing yet peaceful manner late Monday night. But their revelry was short lived as the police state descended on Columbus.
Video published by the Columbus Dispatch newspaper showed a militarized police force callously doling out tear gas and pepper spray on completely peaceful students, whose only crime was happily celebrating their team’s victory.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/watch-ohio-state-students-hefty-dose-police-state-celebrating-football-victory/#ZqTsIoY8vZvRWVW3.99

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

If a person has asthma or a heart condition, how does pepper spray effect them?

 

Also, why do government leaders allow the police to continue to do this to us?

 

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Must See Tweets 1.12 #JamesBoyd #GunDeaths #NAACPbombings

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Must See Tweets 1.11 #Selma #TamirRice #BlackLivesMatter