The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of defending the First Amendment rights of groups on both the far left and the far right. This commitment led the organization to successfully sue the city of Charlottesville, Va., last week on behalf of a white supremacist rally organizer. The rally ended with a Nazi sympathizer plowing his car into a crowd, killing a counterprotester and injuring many. Continue reading: New York Times
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Killings of Black Men by Whites are Far More Likely to be Ruled “Justifiable”
The disparity remains no matter the circumstances and has persisted for decades.
When a white person kills a black man in America, the killer often faces no legal consequences.
In one in six of these killings, there is no criminal sanction, according to a new Marshall Project examination of 400,000 homicides committed by civilians between 1980 and 2014.
Continue reading: The Marshall Project
A chilling reminder of farm labor conditions in Mexico: 80 farmworkers go missing after reporting labor abuses in the state of Chihuahua…
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Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico’s tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times’ devastating 2014 exposé on labor conditions in the Mexican produce industry. |
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Solidarity With #NoDAPL Strengthens All Of Us
A Popular Resistance newsletter:
“The Red Warrior Sioux are asking for donations to keep their encampment going. Here is an official donation site. In addition, they want communities to organize to come to North Dakota as well as to take action in their own communities to support the Water Protectors.”
Crime in Context
Violent crime is up in some places, but is it really a trend?
. . . To present a fuller picture of crime in America, The Marshall Project collected and analyzed 40 years of FBI data on the most serious violent crimes in 68 police jurisdictions. . . . In the process, we were struck by the wide variation from community to community. To paraphrase an aphorism about politics, all crime is local. Each city has its own trends that depend on the characteristics of the city itself, the time frame, and the type of crime.
Read the entire article: the Marshall Project
Emma’s Revolution’s “Peace Salaam Shalom”
‘Evil World Banking’
explained in less than 2 minutes.
Family Farmers Fighting Climate Change
“Globally, the food system—propelled by corporate-controlled, industrial agriculture—is responsible for at least 40% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which absorb and hold heat in the earth’s atmosphere and trigger climate change. The industrial food system is only possible through the intensive use of chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer, water, and large-scale transportation, storage and distribution. Each of these aspects of corporate-controlled industrial agriculture is a major contributor to climate change.”
Two Talented Sixth Graders on Captain Sams Spit
From Laurin Manning at the Coastal Conservation League.