Tag Archives: police brutality

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Active Against NYPD Misconduct

On Thursday, September 27th, CAAAV joined hundreds of others outside of City Hall in the Rally for NYPD Accountability and Community Safety! CAAAV is a part of the Communities united for Police Reform (CPR) campaign, which is composed of over 50 member and supporter organizations working to end discriminatory policing practices in New York City. [...]

Oakland: Self-Respect and Community Self-Defense Forum

This event is part of the No More Trayvon Martins Campaign and the organizing around building the National Plan of Action for Racial Justice and Self Determination that the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement has initiated with support from the Black Left Unity Network, and the National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights. Self-Respect and [...]

Trayvon Martin and the History of Lynching

What is lynching?  In its prevalent forms in American history, it appears as the administration of racial formations through terror.  The mutilation, shaming and degrading of black bodies, and also the corpses being retrieved and displayed as trophies, was intended to maintain the symbolic subjection of black people to, in bell hooks’ formulation, “white supremacist [...]

New Anti-Cop Poster On Streets

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Much love to the Crimethinc squad for its latest poster, challenging the police. Text reads: “The ones who beat Rodney King, who gunned down Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo and Oscar Grant, who murdered Fred Hampton in his bed. The ones who broke Víctor Jara’s hands and Steve Biko’s skull, who disappeared dissidents from Argentina [...]

If Oscar Grant’s Killer Walks: Will They Innoculate & Suppress Oakland’s Youth?

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There are preparations on many sides as the trial of Johannes Mehserle comes to a close — with a verdict possible today. Different classes prepare in different ways. What does justice for Oscar Grant looks like? And if the system follows the murder of Oscar with a new outrage — if they don’t truly punish [...]

No Alarms & No Surprises!

This article was posted  on Voxunion.com May 25, 2010. Her Name Was Aiyana Jones Her name was Aiyana Jones.  She was 7, Black, in a poor family, living in Detroit and was killed by the police.  She was the victim of an unbroken and thoroughly vicious cycle of police brutality, followed by temporary, short-lived outcry [...]

From Flashmobs to Black Power:FREE DIOP OLUGBALA!

Released May 7, 2010 by Uhuru News

Houston Police: Beasts Still in on the Loose

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Houston Police Department officers Timothy J. Riley II, Quang Tran and Victor Olivares have been assigned to other duties after allegedly beating the wrong person of color last week. That Chinese man, Yu Boren, claims cops hit him in the face. However, Yu Boren is a Chinese diplomat, deputy consul-general to be exact, and HPD [...]

Free Diop Olugbala: Organizer Brutally Beaten By Police And Charged With Felony!

The story of Diop Olugbala: why he must be set free In 1986 Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton said, “You might not have the Black Panther Party, but you have the Uhuru House; you might not have The Black Panther newspaper but you have The Burning Spear. So they really haven’t done anything [...]