[Racial Policing]
Vandenbroucke: “Stories of murdered Blacks are stunningly familiar even when the sites are not: Ferguson (Missouri), Brunswick (Georgia), Sanford (Florida).”
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Will Incidents of Protest Violence Help Trump win Battleground States?
[Trump Reelection\Protests]
Hastings: “Those who in the name of resisting police violence on Black people are breaking windows, committing arson, throwing or launching projectiles at police, shutting down freeways, and even occasionally looting, are helping Trump in battleground states.”
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Trump Using Secret Police Tactics to Target Peaceful Protesters
[Trump’s Secret Police\Portland]
Sen. Jeff Merkley: “Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, send unmarked authorities after protesters…these agents are snatching people off the street with no underlying justification.”
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Donald Trump and America’s Real Organized Crime Looters
[Trump’s Presidency of Corruption]
Hastings: “Organized crime carried on as usual, figuring out how to use punked legislators to enrich the wealthy even more at the direct expense of everyone who pays taxes.”
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Armed Protests And The Dangers of Another U.S. Civil War
[NFAC\George Floyd]
Koehler: “Several hundred mostly Black, mostly armed men and women marched through the iconic Confederate “theme park” that features an enormous carving of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.”
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Language of Voter Suppression Crucial in Purging Black Vote
[Voter Suppression]
Moss: “The language of vote suppression has played a crucial role since Emancipation placed the issue of suffrage, the suffrage of a newly emancipated people, at the forefront of public debate.”
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Is America Finally Acknowledging Its Wretched Past to Change Future?
[George Floyd Aftermath]
Koehler: “What matters about the present moment is that change seems to be coming from multiple directions, both outside and within the corridors of political and economic power.”
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American Policing Like America’s Military Should be Defunded
[American Policing & Militarism]
Myers: “Militarism has always been rationalized by the ancient Roman bromide: if you want peace, prepare for war. With the deaths of George Floyd and too many others, this has become a deeply questionable notion.”
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Will U.S. Military Have to Remove Trump After He Loses 2020 Election?
[2020 Elections\Donald Trump]
Gurtov: “Former defense department officials recently wrote to urge that military leaders ‘get ahead of Trump’s temptations and insinuations and vow publicly they will only support a peaceful, democratic transition of power.”
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George Floyd Protests And “CHAZCHOP” Show Pathway Toward Change
[George Floyd\CHOP]
Koehler: Protesters then declared a small, cordoned-off area to be police-free. Initially known as CHAZ…it eventually became CHOP…the area maintained a certain organized autonomy — complete with patrolling paramedics and sentinels.”
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