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Tragic Slaying of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Police Remembered Five Years Later
The quest for justice continues five years after slaying of Oscar Grant, unarmed 22-year-old African American shot at Fruitvale Station.
Youth Can Handle the Truth
This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.
Joo-Hyun Kang: Ending the Stop-and-Frisk Regime
How do we as activists and citizens keep promises from being more than just talking points?
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In San Francisco and Oakland, Residents Fight Back Against Tech Giants
Protests against tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook for encouraging eviction, gentrification and displacement in San Francisco's working-class neighborhoods picked up steam with protests on both sides of the …
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Some Spanish Police Protect Immigrants
Instead of pursuing undocumented immigrants like the rest of the police in Spain, they are there to defend them from the crimes to which they often fall victim.
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Henry A. Giroux | Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence
When aesthetic and economic criteria displace moral considerations and the search for intense pleasure and profits replaces the search for justice, a police state thrives, says Henry A. Giroux.
Report Finds Police Intelligence Gathering Tactics Threaten National Security
A lack of oversight in counterterrorism programs causes critical intelligence to fall through the cracks.
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From Top Cop to the Corporate Boardroom: Ex-Police Chiefs Spin Through Revolving Doors Into the Private Sector
Present and former senior police officials have joined the ranks of those revolving between lucrative corporate jobs and government service.
Police and Rape in New Zealand
On the 16 November, 2013, a number of rallies were held across New Zealand calling for an end to the rape culture that is so prevalent in New Zealand's …
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Jesus Huerta: A Child Killed in Durham Police Custody
Another Durham resident has now died in a controversial encounter with the Durham Police Department. This time it was teenager and local Riverside High School student, Jesus Huerta.