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Tribe Uneasy About Border Surveillance Plans on Their Land
Tensions are high on the Tohono O'odham Nation, where Border Patrol has proposed high-tech surveillance towers.
This Is Our Land: The Rebirth of Mass Resistance
Now here's the thing about domination: it is never absolute. When capitalism is most reckless, it is also most vulnerable.
Nonviolent Resistance in the Age of Trump
Nonviolent resistance, it seems, is on the rise.
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“Stop the Violence”: Can Community Groups Replace Police Without Supporting the Police?
Anti-violence initiatives face hard decisions about how to align themselves in relation to the state and the police.
For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror
Abolition, then, is the only answer to a system whose currency is terror.
Trump’s Political Soulmate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Goes Down Big in Arizona
Arizona ousted immigration hardliner Sheriff Arpaio, but will he now find a role in the Trump administration?
2016 Is “Biggest Year Ever” for Marijuana Reform, Advocates Say
Marijuana is on nine state ballots this election. Is this a turning point for the US's failed 80-year-long prohibition?
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How the “Use of Force” Industry Drives Police Militarization and Makes Us All Less Safe
Racial and ethnic fears and prejudices are bound up in law enforcement anxieties over control and use of excessive force.
A Growing Asian-American Movement Calls for Prison Abolition
The movement for abolition has meant renegotiating Asian Americans' relation to the prison industrial complex.
National Guard on Standby in North Dakota Before Court Ruling on Dakota Access Pipeline
North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has activated the National Guard ahead of today's ruling on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's lawsuit.