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Dunkin' Employee Calls Police On Student Speaking Somali With Her Family
Dunkin' Employee Calls Police On Student Speaking Somali With Her Family

"I don’t want to hear it. I’m done with it. You can leave or I will call the cops," the Portland, Maine, employee could be heard saying on video.

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Greg FordeOctober 21, 2018Comment
‘Extremely Humiliated and Traumatized’: Woman Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Euclid Police Department
‘Extremely Humiliated and Traumatized’: Woman Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Euclid Police Department

“He forced her door open, pushed her back, pushed her down on a freezer, her top fell down, so she was exposed, her breasts and stomach were exposed and while she face-down he was pulling her arms back aggressively to handcuff her,” said Gelsomino.

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Greg FordeOctober 21, 2018Comment
What We Really Learned from the Cop Who Taught an 11-Year-Old Black Boy With a BB Gun ‘A Lesson’
What We Really Learned from the Cop Who Taught an 11-Year-Old Black Boy With a BB Gun ‘A Lesson’

Given how many people, especially black boys and young men were unarmed when they were shot, beaten, or Tased, it would seem that what’s getting people killed across the country isn’t police mistaking BB guns for real weapons, but jittery cops.

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Greg FordeOctober 19, 2018Comment
Georgia County Orders Elderly Black Voters Off Bus Taking Them To The Polls
Georgia County Orders Elderly Black Voters Off Bus Taking Them To The Polls

Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”


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Greg FordeOctober 18, 2018Comment
Social Justice Is a Christian Tradition — Not a Liberal Agenda
Social Justice Is a Christian Tradition — Not a Liberal Agenda

Many Christians are wary of participating in social justice because of a deep-rooted fear of being labeled “liberal,” “progressive,” or “secular.” They don’t want to be associated with “secular” movements, and are uncomfortable delving into issues that go beyond their cultural comfort zones.

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Greg FordeOctober 17, 2018Comment
Supreme Court Enables Mass Disenfranchisement of North Dakota’s Native Americans
Supreme Court Enables Mass Disenfranchisement of North Dakota’s Native Americans

The Supreme Court chose to stand by and allow the war against voting to continue. Just a little less than a month before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, the court decided not to block North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID law, which will make it harder for people in that state to cast their ballots.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
Citing Trump's Racism, A Federal Judge Restores Protectios For Immigrants Fleeing Wars And Disasters  https://theintercept.com/2018/10/04/judge-restores-temporary-protected-status-trump-racism/
Citing Trump's Racism, A Federal Judge Restores Protectios For Immigrants Fleeing Wars And Disasters https://theintercept.com/2018/10/04/judge-restores-temporary-protected-status-trump-racism/

A FEDERAL COURT in San Francisco has suspended the Trump administration’s termination of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant refugees living in the United States.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
State Makes It Legal to Shoot Cops in Self-Defense If They Violate Your Rights
State Makes It Legal to Shoot Cops in Self-Defense If They Violate Your Rights

Is it ever legal to shoot cops? A growing number of states are passing laws that say that yes, in fact, sometimes it is well within a citizen’s rights to shoot a police officer.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
Landowners' Lawsuit Over Dakota Access Goes To Appeals Court
Landowners' Lawsuit Over Dakota Access Goes To Appeals Court

A federal judge a year ago ruled they didn't prove their case, in part because the fraud-based claims required a higher standard of proof.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
Tennessee Legislature Kills Resolution Condemning Neo-Nazis As Terrorists
Tennessee Legislature Kills Resolution Condemning Neo-Nazis As Terrorists

A Tennessee state House committee on Wednesday refused to vote on a resolution to denounce neo-Nazism, white nationalism and the alt-right as terrorist organizations.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
The Trump Administration Carried Out Thousands More Family Separations Than Previously Acknowledged
The Trump Administration Carried Out Thousands More Family Separations Than Previously Acknowledged

According to a new report … the government’s own data indicates that the campaign was far more expansive — and far more destructive — than previously acknowledged.

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Greg FordeOctober 15, 2018Comment
Trump Administration Will Formally End Opposition to Texas Voter ID Law
Trump Administration Will Formally End Opposition to Texas Voter ID Law

Justice department says administration won’t challenge the strict law, in a shift from Obama-era opposition to such discriminatory laws

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Greg FordeOctober 6, 2018Comment
US voter suppression: why this Texas woman is facing five Years' Prison
US voter suppression: why this Texas woman is facing five Years' Prison

Fort Worth is suffering a crisis of democracy – just 6% of electors voted in the last midterms – so why is it aggressively pursuing those who mistakenly cast ballots?

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Greg FordeOctober 6, 2018Comment
Crystal Mason Begins Prison Sentence in Texas for Crime of Voting
Crystal Mason Begins Prison Sentence in Texas for Crime of Voting

Mason, in a case seen as emblematic of voter suppression, faces over five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted.

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Greg FordeOctober 6, 2018Comment
Jason Van Dyke Verdict: Chicago Officer Found Guilty In Laquan McDonald Shooting Trial
Jason Van Dyke Verdict: Chicago Officer Found Guilty In Laquan McDonald Shooting Trial

Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, has been found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery.

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Greg FordeOctober 6, 2018Comment
Why Jason Van Dyke’s Conviction Matters: Cops Are Almost Never Found Guilty of On-Duty Murder
Why Jason Van Dyke’s Conviction Matters: Cops Are Almost Never Found Guilty of On-Duty Murder

The verdict against Officer Jason Van Dyke marked a historical day in Chicago, which hasn’t seen a murder conviction for a police officer in nearly 50 years. But it was also a landmark moment on a national scale.

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Greg FordeOctober 6, 2018Comment
Cosby Is In Jail While These Big Names Accused of Sexual Misconduct Are Walking Free
Cosby Is In Jail While These Big Names Accused of Sexual Misconduct Are Walking Free

Cosby is the first and only celebrity during the #MeToo era to be jailed after dozens of top celebrities were named by accusers who said they were sexually assaulted.

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Greg FordeSeptember 27, 2018Comment
Jagmeet Singh Calls For Investigation Into Israel As Trudeau And Scheer Silent
Jagmeet Singh Calls For Investigation Into Israel As Trudeau And Scheer Silent

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has condemned Israel's recent actions while Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer remain silent.

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Greg FordeSeptember 26, 2018Comment
Texas Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man For Entering His Own Truck
Texas Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man For Entering His Own Truck

Attorneys for Lyndo Jones dispute the official police version and demand to see dash cam video.

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Greg FordeSeptember 25, 2018Comment
Bobby Seale, Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn on Police Repression, Fred Hampton Murder & Prison Strike
Bobby Seale, Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn on Police Repression, Fred Hampton Murder & Prison Strike

Fifty years after the 1968 DNC protests in Chicago, we continue our conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale … and SDS activists/organizers Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. They discuss decades of police repression, the police murder of Illinois Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, and the prison strike now underway nationwide.

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Greg FordeSeptember 25, 2018Comment
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