Obama’s Police Reforms Ignore the Most Important Cause of Police Misconduct
Source: thenation.com President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing has released a long list of reforms to American policing, some of which, including independent police prosecutions and...
View ArticleTampa Students Disrupt FBI Recruitment
Source: fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On March 10, members of Tampa Students for a Democratic Society disrupted an FBI recruiting event at the University of South Florida (USF). The FBI claimed the...
View ArticleBORDC Executive Director Arrested For Questioning the Government
Source: BORDC.ORG Washington, DC –– Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), was arrested on Thursday, February 26, 2015 after a Senate Armed Services...
View ArticleUnited Statement Against the Criminalisation of Islam in UK
Source: Islam21c.com Muslim community rejects the State’s criminalisation of Islām and condemns moves to silence legitimate critique and dissent This joint statement expresses a position with respect...
View Article280 Muslim Delegates Lobby Congress on ‘Historic’ First National Muslim...
Source: CAIR.COM (A short video of the event is available at the bottom of this page) Some 280 delegates from more than 20 states met today with elected officials and congressional staffers during the...
View ArticleThe numbers are staggering: US is ‘world leader’ in child poverty
Source: Rawstory.com America’s wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent....
View ArticleAmerican Inmates Released After Decades in Prison
Source: Channel4.com As they stood to leave the court, one, Derrick Wheatt, thumped his chest, tears streaming down his cheeks. Mothers, sisters, nephews, and brothers stood tearfully almost unable to...
View ArticleHow Section 8 became a ‘racial slur’
Source: Washington Post By Emily Badger Coded language, by definition, conveys much saying very little. And so those words allegedly uttered in McKinney, Tex., before a confrontation between police and...
View ArticleTop-CEO Pay Isn’t Driven By Talent, New Study Says
Source: Wall Street Journal The rapid rise in pay for corporate executive officers, which stands in contrast to the stagnant wages of many Americans, is a key driver of inequality that’s not clearly...
View ArticleAmerica’s open secret: Racism and white supremacy
Source: Daily Sabah Racism and white supremacy are deeply rooted in America’s social, cultural, political, economic and religious structures. American society is racially stratified with economic...
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