WNYC News covers the efforts of campaigners for an elected community board with real authority to curb abuse by cops.
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Whistleblower Ramsey Orta still in prison
Chokehold killer cop walks free. Join the fight against police abuse.
Sudan: after heroic uprising, military keeps the power
The resistance movement needs all the international support that workers, feminists and radicals can give them.
Legal system protects police, but not videographer of Eric Garner’s murder
No cop has ever been charged, but the man who exposed the 2014 chokehold killing has been persecuted and imprisoned.
Jussie Smollett is not the best example of the lack of accountability in Chicago. Rahm Emanuel is.
From NBC News, Chicago writer Mikki Kendall blasts Mayor Emanuel for hypocrisy after he calls the dropping of charges against Smollett a “whitewash of justice.”
Close the School of the Americas now!
The U.S. trains “graduates” to lead military coups and massacres in Latin America.
Partners in crime: Saudi Arabia and USA
The U.S. is deeply implicated in Saudi crimes like the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — or, at best, silent about them.
“Oppression breeds resistance”: the recent prison strike
Video featuring Bilal Mafundi Ali, lead coordinator for the Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee
Government repression fuels Nicaraguan revolt
Betrayed and sorely afflicted, Nicaraguan workers and students and campesinos are sustaining a massive uprising against a reactionary and corrupt regime.
CRIR: We condemn the militarization of the Mexican and U.S. Borders
The Committee for Revolutionary International Regroupment calls on the presidents of both the U.S. and Mexico to solve the refugee crisis with humanity and justice.