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Police Violence
Chicago Just Became the First US City to Pay Reparations to Victims of Police Torture
For nearly 20 years, officers of the Chicago Police Department tortured more than 100 people. How survivors and their lawyers won a decades-long fight.
From Belfast to Baltimore, Police Tactics Spread. Can Justice Go Global?
The police tactics a far-off stranger is facing today just may be what you're up against tomorrow.
How Data Can Help Fight Police Violence
In 2014, Black people in the US were nearly three times more likely than Whites to be killed by police.
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Edmund Perry 30 Years Later: A Harlem Retrospective
Today, you'll pretty much find much of the same on the news - pictures of black males killed by police and uprisings.
Jewish Voice for Peace Speaks on White Racial Justice Organizing in Black Lives Matter Times
The national organization has transformed years of training into its most powerful actions ever to support racial justice organizing.
Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors on Creating a New Economy of Nonviolence
Black Lives Matter's Patrisse Cullors speaks about her violent childhood and the “economy of violence.”
More Than 100 Wounded in Brutal Police Reaction to Teachers’ Strike in South of Brazil
The clashes were the result of violent acts by the military police against public servants, mostly teachers of the state of Parana.
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From Rage to Reform
Police violence is a national problem, and everybody has a stake in solving it.
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Is Buffalo Baltimore?
Urban unrest is disruptive to the sacred free market that “the capitalist's tool” exists to serve.
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Toronto’s 1992 Yonge Street Uprising: Afrikan Resistance to State/Police Violence
“By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”