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The bottom-line is that cops are outlaws. They have the power to legally kill Black people.
Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd does not change that fact. The Chauvin verdict does not change the reality of racial profiling, racism and national oppression.
Chauvin was (...)
On the brink of the Kill the Bill day of action in Britain this Saturday, Alan Cooper reports on the growing attacks on democracy across the US. Is this the direction of travel here too?
US states Oklahoma and Iowa have passed laws that grant immunity to drivers who cause injuries by driving (...)
In a decision that led to celebration in Minneapolis and throughout America, a jury of twelve black and white men and women on April 20 convicted white police officer Derek Chauvin of two counts of murder in the case of George Floyd, a black man. Seldom are police officers charged and tried and (...)
Former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty by a jury on all charges on April 20.
“I called the police on the police,” one eyewitness told the jury.
The prosecution opened the trial of George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin with a 9 minute and 29 second (“929”) video showing the police (...)
Judge says it would be ‘oppressive’ to extradite WikiLeaks founder to US, citing concerns for his mental health.
Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.
Lawyers for US authorities are to appeal (...)
BELOW ARE THE comments Clifford D. Conner made at a September 8th press conference in front of the British consulate in New York City. Conner is an historian and author of Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution and The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. The court in (...)
THE DEMAND THAT no one be caged is an old one. Decades before the U.S. prison population hit two million and the concept of “mass incarceration” entered the public lexicon, anti-racist feminist organizers called for the end of criminalization and confinement.
In the new book All Our Trials: (...)
Use teargas, batons, pepper spray, fists, feet and vehicles against protesters sparks lawsuits and international condemnation .
The nationwide anti-police brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US have been marked by widespread incidents of police violence, including (...)
California—Mass protests in cities and towns across the United States exploded after four cops murdered an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.
The white cop, Derek Chauvin, 44, for nearly 9 minutes, put his knee on Floyd’s neck. He cried out, “I can’t (...)
When my son, who’s 19, called from Minneapolis on Saturday night, I was watching the livestream of protesters defying curfew there for the second night in a row, and listening to young people dry heave, like my students in Colombia, from the tear gas. Because he has first-aid training for (...)
The uprisings and demonstrations in Minneapolis and other cities including in front of the White House that followed the brutal May 25th killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man by white Minneapolis police officers and the hesitation of local and federal prosecutors to immediately arrest (...)
The video recording of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, a black man strangled to death by a white police officer who kneeled on his throat for nine minutes until he was dead, sparked anger and outrage and has led to a full-scale national rebellion against police racism and (...)
After the African American teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, the epidemic of police violence against people of color in the US captured national and global attention, for a time.
When Brown was killed, the words of Eric Garner, (...)
“That we, as doctors, feel ethically compelled to hold governments to account on medical grounds speaks volumes about the gravity of the medical, ethical, and human rights travesties that are taking place.”
A group of over 100 doctors on Monday urged the Australian government to end its “refusal (...)
The Democratic impeachment inquiry began when a “whistle blower” revealed that President Trump had pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation of former vice-president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine, and made a White House (...)
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
The autopsy report confirmed what her neighbors said happened in an apartment complex outside of Houston, Texas. Pamela Turner, a forty-four-year-old (...)
Julian Assange Faces 17 counts of violation of the Espionage Act for publishing in Wikileaks, which he founded, government documents that were given to him by Chelsea Manning that exposed U.S. war crimes and other material the military wanted to keep secret from the public about Washington’s (...)
As an American lawyer, I don’t want to see Julian Assange extradited to my country
The UK should step in and save the US from its worst excesses.
Many fear that Assange could face life imprisonment or even execution if extradited to the US ( EPA )
Julian Assange was indicted last week for 17 (...)
A TRUE DEMOCRACY does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship.
That is why the new U.S. indictment of Julian Assange is so dangerous to liberty in America.
The Trump administration has charged (...)
BY CHARGING Julian Assange with 17 violations of America’s World War I-era Espionage Act on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Virginia might have undermined their own chances of securing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder from the United Kingdom.
That’s because the new charges relate not to (...)
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