News Release Category: Black Lives Matter
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George Floyd’s Killing, Martin Gugino’s Abuse and Witness Against Torture
“… Black Lives Matter and other activists impressed on us an uncomfortable truth: that many of the abuses in War on Terror prisons, like solitary confinement, are routine in America’s domestic prisons, holding predominantly people of color. Access to the law, moreover, is no guarantee of justice. Sometimes the law is the problem.
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Police Should be Under Community Control
“People most impacted by police repression have a legacy of struggle that should inform what demands any allies support. Black radical tradition of the 60s and 70s has conceived of and fought for Community Control Over Police (CCOP) as a solution and this was readopted by the more contemporary Movement for Black Lives policy platform…”
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Rev. Hagler on Trump and Protests
“The problem with white America [is the] deluded and myth-based thinking that they built this country and made it wealthy. No, its wealth is because of exploited and enslaved labor” concluding that “unless the nation can confess … it will remain divided.”
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Police Targeting Reporters; Big Media Hiding Police Abuse
“Police are purposefully targeting reporters all over the country, in video after video. There’s no other way to describe it.”