The FBI planned an undercover operation aimed at infiltrating Black “extremist” groups after the violence in Ferguson.
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Public solidarity and mutual aid provide the best antidote to this form of state repression.
In the hands of the US government, the idea of terrorism is molded to ensnare people whom the state would like to cage.
Tony Timpa called 911 to ask for help. The police responded, and within 20 minutes Timpa was dead.
Rosselló’s departure is only the beginning of the changes activists are demanding.
Grassroots feminist activism in the 1970s resisted the inclusion of imprisonment and policing in their struggles.
“All Our Trials” offers a history of feminists who challenged the idea that the state could end gender violence.
A medical examiner testified that the chokehold led to Garner’s death, which was ruled a homicide.
No one called it a crime when 10 people were hospitalized after eating Listeria-tainted Blue Bell ice cream.
Since 2015, mass shooters have killed 339 people in the U.S., while police have used guns to take 4,355 lives.