Jun 25 2014
New Report Exposes How US Police Paramilitary Operations Target Communities of Color
Many Police Departments across the country have SWAT teams – which stands for Special Weapons And Tactics units – designed for use in situations such as a hostage crisis or an armed standoff. But the deployment of SWAT teams in home searches of disproportionate numbers of people of color seems to be the new …
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It is a curious fact that one of the most radical living black power figures in the US today is a 98 year old Chinese American woman named Grace Lee Boggs. A new documentary called American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, explores 7 decades of activism and critical thinking on progressive social …
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, author and professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
A federal judge in December granted the city of Detroit bankruptcy protection for about $18 billion worth of debts. While the city has been able to seek protection from its more than 100,000 creditors, ordinary residents, 40% of whom are living in poverty, are now being denied water in order to balance the city …
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” The question is which people have decided. Bonaparte, the French conqueror, had the power to shape how history would treat him. But what of all the ordinary people who labored, and suffered, and died from the …
Over a 24 hour period last week, executioners in Georgia, Missouri and Florida killed three death row prisoners after a seven week lull following the botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma in April. These states along with Texas are responsible for the vast majority of the two dozen or so executions committed this …
