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Noam Chomsky: How the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Cruel by Design

“The US-Mexican border, like most borders, was established by violence — and its architecture is the architecture of violence.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

An eleven page article.
There is also a button to “View as a Single Page”

See on www.alternet.org

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Smiley and West | Kumi Naidoo from Greenpeace International

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“Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, gives us an update on the “Arctic 30″ held in Russia. Plus, Smiley and West reflect on the torture taskforce, terrorist labeling, and Edward Snowden’s denied clemency. And, a listener from Chicago takes Smiley and West to task for calling out the racist elements of the Tea Party.”

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Renisha McBride

 

“Renisha McBride (1994-2013), a 19-year-old Black American woman from Detroit, was shot dead in the nearby White American suburb of Dearborn Heights at 2.30am on Saturday November 2nd 2013.”

 

“The state has a Stand Your Ground law, like Florida where Trayvon Martin was killed. As journalist Rania Khalek notes on her blog:

 

The problem with a law like Stand Your Ground is that it excuses and encourages deadly force against “perceived” threats. In the United States, where implicit and structural racism persists on a vast scale, is it wise to empower people who almost certainly have irrational and racist fears, to kill instead of call police who are trained (at least they’re supposed to be) to deal with potential threats?

 

Race also appears to play a significant role in whether a homicide is deemed justifiable. A recent study conducted by John Roman of the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center found, “the odds that a white-on-black homicide is ruled to have been justified is more than 11 times the odds a black-on-white shooting is ruled justified,” a reflection of the racial disparities that plague all aspects of the US criminal justice system.”

 
See on abagond.wordpress.com

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Black Woman Shot to Death for Asking for Help in a White Neighborhood

Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a predominately white Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance.

See on jezebel.com

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demographically weighted world history

 

“A demographically weighted world history would cover times and places in proportion to the number of people who lived in them. The idea is that, as much as possible, every person who has ever lived would be equally represented in its pages.

 

For example, instead of spending 50% to 75% of its pages on the West, like most “world” histories written by Westerners seem to do, it would spend only 25%. The other 75% would be used to cover – the other 75% of the world. Western colonialism would be told from both sides.

 

“How many people did it affect?” would determine what got covered and what did not.”
See on abagond.wordpress.com