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Latino Rebels | We Can Breath Together: A Firsthand.
Menu. Posted on December 17, 2014 by Harry Franqui-Rivera. This past Saturday I joined thousands and thousands of people from all colors, races, ethnicities, religions and ages for the New York City edition of the ���Millions March.. Racism, police indifference regarding Black lives and the incomprehensible back-to-back grand jury decisions to not indict the police officers responsible for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have triggered a nationwide phenomenon.
Man Who Says He Was Beaten By Police And Jailed For Months Now Faces.
On March 23, when Willian Guillens shift at the Peruvian restaurant Millenium Chicken on New Yorks Long Island ended around midnight, he and co-chef Neptali Robles walked to a nearby restaurant for post-work takeout food.. ���In this case, the.
A Brutally Powerful WaPo Expos��: ���How St. Louis County.
Youre going to read about people that are actually being ticketed/arrested in suburban St. Louis for doing things such as wearing baggie pants and working on their cars on their own property. I think one of. Balko continues to narrate how The Florissant officer first took Bolden to the jail in that town, where Bolden posted a couple hundred dollars bond and was released at around midnight. She was... The police are hired to, in essence, shake down poor people.
The case against human rights
Normally, de Souzas story would have ended there, but public pressure led to a police investigation, and eventually to the arrest of 10 police officers, who were charged with torturing and murdering him. Brazil.. To avoid being compelled by.
Meet the Press Transcript - December 21, 2014 - NBC News.
Also, how should the U.S. respond to North Koreas cyber attack? And can the government protect businesses and the public from cyber blackmail? Plus, two police officers are shot and killed in New York City this weekend,��.
Ferguson Police PR official calls Michael Brown memorial a.
According to an article in the Washington Post, on Christmas day someone ran over the memorial for Michael Brown set up in the middle of Canfield Drive, the spot where the young mans life was abruptly and violently.. So if Chris Christie goes down I think his Biggest fans should be punished Harsher than him for instance.. Its a bit frightening, really, that since those two officers were killed in New York, the police are taking this I dare you attitude with the public.
Meghan McCain on Sarah Palins Blue Blood Comment.
Yes, in essence that is what this statement meant.. It is not just the liberal elites versus the real American Republicans, it is now becoming a war within the Republican Party itself about what kind of people we want leading the party... ���The core team was supported by the entire PepsiCo Global RandD team from the very first day and remained so throughout the entire process,��� said Dr. Mehmood Khan, executive vice president of PepsiCo and chief scientific officer.
���Felony is the New N-Word���: Michelle Alexander on Mass.
Early in her courageous and important new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010), Ohio State University law professor Michelle Alexander offers a painful and poignant.. In the current, officially (and deceptively) ���colorblind��� era (whose illusory post-racial gloss is fed by Obamas election), much of the core substance of the old discrimination ��� objectively racist bias in the job market, housing, finance,��.
6 Books To Take Home For The Holiday Weekend
When her eccentric, antisocial father goes missing in the wilds of the American West (only to resurface later in Arizona), Novella Carpenter decides to repair their tenuous relationship before the birth of her first child. Soon, shes driving from.
Do welfare recipients get $35000 in benefits a year?
Thats after taxes.��� ��� Incoming Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), on UpFront with Mike Gousha, Nov. 30, 2014. The representative-elect has been a longtime critic of the current welfare system. Grothman, who will replace a retiring Republican, began this.
Bill Cosbys legacy, recast: Accusers speak in detail about sexual-assault.
Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, with 12 saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The Washington Post has interviewed five of those women, including a former Playboy Playmate .
Obama Calls North Korean Hack Cybervandalism
If we set a precedent in which a dictator in another country can disrupt through cyber, a companys distribution chain or its products, and as a consequence we start censoring ourselves, thats a problem, Obama told CNNs State of the Union this.
How Health Laws Medicaid Enrollees Strain the System
Washington was projected to pay about $3 billion for New Mexicos Medicaid program in fiscal 2014, up from $2.5 billion in fiscal 2013. State Medicaid spending is expected to remain flat at around $1 billion annually for now and increase after 2016.
Julian Assange - Vanity Fair
The WikiLeaks founder has video-addressed the U.N., launched a Senate campaign in absentia in his native Australia, entertained Lady Gaga, and played a key role in the case of N.S.A. leaker Edward Snowden.. Despite Mannings statement that he had first tried to get his information to both The Washington Post and The New York Times, the prosecution argued that it was ���obvious that Manning pulled as much information as possible to please Julian Assange,�����.
Kill A Cop - PoliticusUSA
We wont stop! until killer cops are in cell blocks! Below is video from C-SPAN. Hilariously, it was posted to YouTube by someone who thought Al Sharpton was leading a ���Go Kill A Cop��� march. After Fox45 had run its story Sunday night,.. In essence, the FCC held that competition would adequately serve public needs, and that federally mandated obligations were both too vague to be enforced properly and too threatening of broadcasters First Amendment rights.
NYC first lady in Essence: We must acknowledge that being a police officer is.
In an essay for Essence magazine, Chirlane McCray, the wife of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, noted the sometimes perilous job of police officers and said that it will take retraining of officers to rebuild the severed trust between the New York.
Khadijah, Student Leader at Brandeis University, Supports.
Following the execution of two New York Police Department officers, a Brandeis University student leader wasted no time in making it clear that she did not care that they were murdered.. This is not the first time that Lynch has made questionable statements on race relations in the United States.. We must understand that we are not that far removed from this countrys legacy of slavery and that most of our laws are shaped to uphold a system of white supremacy.
Meet the Press Transcript - December 21, 2014
From NBC News in Washington, this is Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. CHUCK TODD:. But first, two New York City police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot at point-blank range Saturday afternoon, killed while they were simply sitting in.
Colo. regulators cant answer basic pot questions
The marijuana and edible products being sold to recreational consumers arent yet being tested for mold, pesticides or other contaminants because state regulators have repeatedly rolled back testing deadlines. Testing for such contaminants is.
Full text of NFLs announcement of Adrian Peterson suspension
Here is the full text of the NFLs news release detailing its decision to suspend Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, as provided by the leagues communications department. Adrian Peterson suspended without pay for at least the remainder of 2014 season.
Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen.
There we had Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, finally admitting on one side of the television that structural racism is real. There we finally had him saying that when it comes to police terrorizing black folks.
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address.
Again, we are tested. And again, we must answer historys call. One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt.. And by the way, I want to acknowledge our First Lady, Michelle Obama, who this year is creating a national movement to tackle the epidemic of childhood obesity and make kids healthier... Theyre the very essence of our democracy.
Meet the Press Transcript - December 7, 2014 - NBC News.
This Sunday, anger and disbelief across the country after a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer in a chokehold death. HILLARY CLINTON: Each of us has to grapple with some hard truths about race and justice in��.
Dallas Hospital Scrambles to Explain Initial Release of Ebola Patient
Hospital says patient did not acknowledge being around anyone ill in Africa. Ebola in Sierra Leone. The Dallas hospital treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the U.S., suggested Thursday night that a technical flaw.
State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of.
A police officer atop an armored vehicle looks through the scope of a rifle towards a crowd of demonstrators gathered to protest the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Aug.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/... If lawfulness is the essence of non-tyrannical government and lawlessness is the essence of tyranny, then terror is the essence of totalitarian domination. Thanks for posting Giroux. His is a righteous perspective we all need to see.
A response to Ferguson: Systemic problems require.
Last night, like many across the world who were watching, we experienced deep disappointment in the decision by the St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael. We need to address the pervasiveness of unconscious biases, first by acknowledging them, and secondly by working to reduce them.. For instance just a week ago a middle age white woman grabbed a cops taser and was shot dead.
Champagne: Youre Drinking It All Wrong
Champagne has become the drink of special occasions and Christmas, a status symbol in a delicate flute (Erik Segelbaum, a sommelier for D.C. restaurant Le Diplomate, acknowledged to me his guests smile a little brighter when holding a Champagne glass.
Its Time to Listen: Will White Evangelicals Ever Acknowledge
In the coming days, I will have posts from a retired police officer, a professor, an activist, pastors, and perhaps others. I hope you will take the. We, as ambassadors of the kingdom, should be deeply concerned with reconciliation. As always. ���Im sorry for being white!��� His comment glowed from the computer screen with such weight that for a moment it was as if it was etched there permanently. What, you may wonder, was the context of this comment? It was written on��.
LIVE NOW: 2k BlackLivesMatter protesters marching in NYC.
This is a Mayor who won about 75% of the vote, on platforms that included police reform and going after Wall St. 50k residents of Gotham marched tow weeks ago as pure proof positive that people are engaged and. Coming out and saying maybe the protesters should give it a rest for a little while was cowing to the RW authoritarian two-faced notion that when things happen to us, everything must stop. Theres... [new] They wont even acknowledge that their OWN.
Kindergarten Entry Tests And More Education Predictions for 2015
In response to fears about student records becoming the proverbial permanent record, there will be more examination, and perhaps increasing regulation, of how long information should be retained in a way that can be associated with an individual student.
Meet the Press Transcript - December 7, 2014
And what we have to do is we have these conversations and move conversations to real reform, is to make sure that we dont take a broad brush and paint police officers as bad people because they do a tough job. But when we see. Weve seen Washington.
Black Student Leader has No Sympathy for Executed Cops.
The American police forces of today descend from a legacy of slave captives and overseers whose job was to protect the property (enslaved black bodies) of rich, slave owning capitalists. We must understand that we are not��.