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Vigil marks anniversary of police murder
On December 7, the family of O’Shaine Evans, a 26-year-old Oakland resident killed by San Francisco cop David Goff, commemorated…
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Women bring the police brutality struggle to Brooklyn
On Nov. 20, Akai Gurley was shot and killed by NYPD officer Peter Liang in East New York, Brooklyn. Just…
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Pittsburgh movement growing after Garner injustice
Video of protesters singing “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem as they marched into Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. There have been almost daily…
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Cheap heroin, unaffordable solutions
On July 1 I wrote about how the emergency service workers of NYC were all being trained and equipped with…
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Syracuse shuts it down in protest of police terror
On Dec. 8, a large, militant action was held in Syracuse to protest police terror in the city and across…
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Shutting Down the Verrazano: A 7 Minute choke hold of Staten Island
The following report was received from a participant in the Verrazano Bridge action. We are a group of 30 protesters…
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Protests shut down San Francisco, Berkeley streets
Calling for an end to the epidemic of racist police murder, demonstrators shut down San Francisco’s Market Street, in the heart…
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After 42 years in solitary, Albert Woodfox’s conviction overturned
Albert Woodfox, 67, is the longest held prisoner in solitary confinement in U.S. history—held in an 8x6 cell for 23…
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Fairpoint Communications workers rally, mark 50th day of strike
On Dec. 5, around 100 union workers and their allies braved the brisk New England cold to demand fair…
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Obama’s choice: Mass violator of people’s rights
The President has placed at the head of his task force on militarized policing Charles Ramsey, an official whose own…
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Guest Analysis
The use and abuse of British Muslims
“The Use and Abuse of British Muslims: The British state continues to facilitate ‘Islamist terrorism’, but is using new legislation…
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Seattle: ‘If we don’t get no peace, we shut it down!’
Anti-racist activists, already mobilized in response to the Ferguson grand jury decision, came out into the streets with renewed vigor…
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Justice for Eric Garner protests rock Manhattan
Both organized and spontaneous marches of hundreds and at times thousands of enraged people exploded across Manhattan the night of…
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Chicago in the streets for Eric Garner
On Dec. 3, a small but vocal contingent of protesters gathered in downtown Chicago to decry the continuing police murder…
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Justice for Eric Garner! The whole system is guilty!
Today’s announcement that a grand jury in New York has refused to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric…
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700 vets, active troops tell Nat’l Guard to stand down in Ferguson
Around 700 veterans, including more than 75 currently serving or serving in the military this year, have put their names…
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Rights lawyers condemn Obama appointment
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) condemned President Obama’s appointment of Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, former chief of…
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U.N. Anti-Nazism resolution: US, Canada, Ukraine sole opposers
On Friday, November 23, the United Nations passed a resolution condemning Nazism and similar tendencies. The resolution, proposed by Russia…
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Statement by Food Not Bombs hunger striker in Florida
I am hungry. Today begins my eighth day on hunger strike in resistance to a series of ordinances passed in…
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Bay Area protests for Mike Brown on Black Friday
After protests in Oakland and San Francisco drew thousands on Nov. 24 and 25, the Bay Area erupted again on Black Friday,…
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