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Heleodora: Proyecto de vendedores ambulantes

International Women’s Strike Interview Project

March 1, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

En este proyecto miembros del comité del paro internacional de mujeres de Nueva York entrevistaron con organizadoras de trabajos y cooperativas, como parte de un processo de co-produccion de sabiduría militante. Estamos interesadas particularmente en esclarecer las condiciones que a la vez permiten y limitan la organización laboral autónoma y la auto-determinacion. También nos interesa ...

Heleodora: Proyecto de vendedores ambulantes

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Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

A dangerous throwback to the persecution of Zoot Suiters

February 1, 2018 • by Lori Flores

Police in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands recently announced a pilot program to target young men in designer clothes who, if they cannot provide proof they obtained their garb legally, will suffer its confiscation or even being stripped on the street. “We know they have clothes that are too expensive to ...

Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

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An Unreasonable Standard

Reconsidering law, race and police violence

November 13, 2017 • by Jennifer M. Page

Wilcox escaped the Coburns, but 30 minutes later, was confronted by another police officer, Jesse Kidder. Wilcox left his vehicle and ran at Kidder. “Shoot me, shoot me,” Wilcox said again and again, still running forward. “I don’t want to shoot you, man,” yelled Kidder as he backed up. Wilcox ...

Multi Media

Presidential Debates, Stop and Frisk, and Fat Shaming

Past Present Episode 53

October 6, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the presidential debates, the constitutionality of stop and frisk, and obesity and medical care. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Do presidential debates change election results? Natalia pointed to research that showed debates had only small electoral ...

Presidential Debates, Stop and Frisk, and Fat Shaming

Multi Media

Police and Protesters at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

September 20, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

Every four years Congress gives each city hosting a major party convention $50 million dollars to protect the convention and police the protestors. They usually use it to bring in cops from across the country. In Cleveland I saw shoulder patches from the California, Florida, and South Carolina Highway patrols, ...

Police and Protesters at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

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Police Procedurals: Harmless Entertainment or Propaganda?

June 3, 2016 • by Ana Miljak

The police procedural is one of the most popular genres on American television. Twenty-four scripted series and three reality programs that center on the lives of law enforcement agents are currently on air. Although some of these shows may be unfamiliar to the casual TV watcher -- such as The ...

Police Procedurals: Harmless Entertainment or Propaganda?

Race

Learning Baltimore

May 21, 2015 • by Elaine Lewinnek

A student asked me whether I had arranged the Baltimore riots to take place now, at the end of our semester. The news out of Baltimore too perfectly illustrates so much of the history I teach. I suspect I am not alone in this odd feeling of validation -- at ...

Europe & Central Asia

We Say No to the “Sacred Union”

January 22, 2015 • by Public Voices

In the aftermath of the killings at Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, critical voices have largely been drowned in the general sea of undifferentiated outrage. But this statement by French colleagues, which recently appeared in Le Monde, is a major intervention and a welcome exception.

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Race

A Crowd of Whites, A Sea of Blue

A Report from Cleveland

December 31, 2014 • by Chris Crews

This past week hundreds of residents gathered in downtown Cleveland for a “Sea of Blue” rally to show support for police officers and law enforcement official across the nation. The rally, held in Public Square in response to the recent shooting of two NYPD officers and to counter ...

Race

Reflections on Ferguson

November 26, 2014 • by Angela Jones

I have spent much of my academic career researching and writing about the Civil Rights Movement. Today, I am heartbroken, and I believe my greatest heroes would be too -- Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Race

Cop Violence and the Order of Urban Terrorism

October 8, 2014 • by Floyd W. Hayes III

Immediately after Ferguson, MO cop Darren Wilson murdered unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, the city’s police mounted a show of militarized power that represented the rising tide of police-state terrorism in growing numbers of urban communities throughout the United States of America. Treating the community as a ...