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Police & Prisons
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Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supply
Read more: Putting LSD in Chicago’s water supplyAs the Yippies prepared for protests at 1968 Democratic National Convention, Yippie Paul Krassner rattled Chicago leaders by suggesting that the Yippies were planning to put LSD in the city water supply. As Abbie Hoffman said at the Chicago Seven…
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Read more: Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election” Kathy Aoki, Aileen Bassis, Sue Coe, Donna Coleman, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Tim Fite, Robert Geshlider, Todd Hanson and Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, Cheryl Harper,…
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When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest Art
Read more: When Luxury Stores Decorate Their Riot Barricades With Protest ArtThree months ago, when New York government officials ordered nonessential businesses closed to slow the spread of coronavirus, high-end retailers sheathed their stores in plywood barriers, as though readying for civil unrest. Did Louis Vuitton and Coach anticipate this human…
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Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC
Read more: Black Lives Matter Plaza in DCD.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser renamed a street in front of the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and had the slogan painted on the asphalt in massive yellow letters, a pointed salvo in her escalating dispute with President Trump…
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Unprisoned: Stories From The System
Read more: Unprisoned: Stories From The SystemIndependent producer and longtime WWNO collaborator Eve Abrams brings us Unprisoned: Stories From The System. From New Orleans and Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, we meet those serving time inside and outside the criminal justice system. Unprisoned shares stories to…
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JEWISH-LED CAR PROTEST SURROUNDS HUTTO DETENTION CENTER
Read more: JEWISH-LED CAR PROTEST SURROUNDS HUTTO DETENTION CENTERApril 19th, 2020 Taylor, TX – On April 19th at 4 pm, around 70 human rights defenders in cars circled the T. Don Hutto Residential Center operated by CoreCivic in Taylor, honking and displaying signs urging ICE and local officials…
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Sneaking the Jews out of Denmark
Read more: Sneaking the Jews out of DenmarkIn September 1943, the Nazis prepared for the deportation of all Danish Jews to the concentration camps and death. But Georg Duckwitz, a German diplomat with a conscience, deliberately leaked the plans for the roundup, which was due to begin…
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Balloons Not Bars
Read more: Balloons Not Bars“Formerly incarcerated people, activists and family members of people detained on Rikers Island released dozens of white balloons into the air from the base of the Rikers Island Bridge. The balloons, each one representing someone who had died at Rikers,…
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Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’
Read more: Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’Caucus-goers in Des Moines will arrive to a disturbing sight on Monday, with dozens of chain-link cages appearing to hold migrant children cropping up across the city overnight. On Monday, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services…
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CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISON
Read more: CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISONIn its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving…