Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war | Video on TED.com

Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

In Clear Lake county California there were Native Americans in a row of old run down houses. As a kid I would look at those houses from the back seat as my parents drove by them. They never explained who those people were and I never thought to ask :/

This video is a sort of condensed version of the documentary movie 500 Nations – but with modern photographs.

See on www.ted.com

Police Plant Drugs and Frame an Innocent African American Shop-Owner in New York [VIDEO]

ColorLines today carried a local news report from Schenectady County in New York of a local police department using undercover agents to purposely plant crack-cocaine in the shop of an African American business owner, with the intention of hauling him off to prison for up to seven years for a crime he did not even commit.”


Community Village‘s insight:

I wonder how many prisoners are incarcerated due to drugs being planted on them? 

See on ushypocrisy.com

Antoinette Tuff: The Woman Who Prevented a Mass School Shooting

Antoinette Tuff feared the worst when she encountered the gunman carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and other weapons in her school office. She told reporters, ‘I…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

How a loving and calm personality can calm a person down and prevent a mass shooting.

 

Even though he was wacked out (didn’t take his meds), she still calmed him down. She treated him with dignity and respect and difused the situation. An NRA person would say they only solution would have been for her to be armed and to shoot him.

 

We can reduce the amount of guns on the street and still be okay. The U.K. is an example we can follow.

 

We don’t have to fight oppression with oppression.

See on www.blackeconomicdevelopment.com

Deaths at U.S.-Mexico Border Rise as Patrols Crack Down – Photos

The growing U.S. crackdown on immigration is leading to a grim reality: While the number of people crossing the border is down, the number who die while doing so is rising as immigrants take more dangerous routes to avoid apprehension.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

463 people died last year on the U.S. side of the border attempting the crossing from Mexico

 

via

Blogs from the Border: “Carlos Danger”

 

See on online.wsj.com