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Black Lives Matter


The Fire Down Below

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The popular saying is โ€œWhere thereโ€™s smoke, thereโ€™s fire.โ€ย  It is often used to explain the reasons for a rumor, or to describe another firearm metaphor โ€œthe smoking gunโ€ (the hidden truth that will blow the ...

โ€œAn Injury to One is an Injury to Allโ€ A Minneapolis Bus Driver on Solidarity with Minneapolis Protestersย 

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Adam is a bus driver in Minneapolis and a member of ATU Local 1005 and Socialist Alternative MN. In the midst of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis, he made the decision to refuse police officersโ€™ request ...

“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta

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“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...

In Plain Sight (if we looked)

John Garvey

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For the past couple of months, weโ€™ve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โ€œWeโ€™re all in this togetherโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™re strongโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™ll never forget our heroesโ€.ย  Most of the reports and ads ...

Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock

James Murray

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The Black Lives Matter movement has caused great fear and loathing in white people across the country. Police administrators have referred to them as terrorists and claimed to be โ€œAt war,โ€ with BLM members or those ...

Some Bullshit

Jarrod Shanahan

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In late December, 2014 the New York Patrolmenโ€™s Benevolent Association coordinated a work slowdown that effectively brought street-level policing to a halt in New York City.For the previous month, diffuse direct actions that would come to ...