- "Now big business is in charge and they're looting public education and turning it into a profit making venture." http://t.co/36WEe4KkFp
- School closings: corporate "market based" approach to public education is new norm. No longer are educators in charge of public education.
- In response to school closures, a new movement is born. http://t.co/36WEe4KkFp #CPSClosings
- RT @opliberation1: “He who opens a school door closes a prison,” Victor Hugo 19th-century masterpiece, Les Miserables. #CPSclosings #school…
- On Sunday, June 9 at 3 PM, the @NAARPR will co-sponsor an Assata teach-in with the Occupy Freedom School in Washington Park (6026 S Vernon).
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Mothers of Chicago Police Torture Victims Demand the Return of their Disappeared Sons
CHICAGO – For an entire Saturday afternoon on February 23, 2013, the Mothers of Chicago Police torture victims addressed an audience of 200 people at the University of Chicago. Speakers took to the podium one after another to communicate the … Continue reading
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Does Stop-and-Frisk Create More Crime?
Stop-and-frisk proponents argue that the aggressive police tactic is necessary for “crime prevention.” But rather than deterring crime, do aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk paradoxically generate crime by creating the conditions in which “criminals” … Continue reading
New NYPD Tapes Reveal Racism behind Stop-and-Frisk
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s concentrated regime of stop-and-frisk received international attention this week as a landmark class-action federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the draconian police tactic got underway. One of the more important pieces of evidence revealed in … Continue reading
NYPD Detectives Who Killed Kimani Gray Have Rap Sheets
The two NYPD plainclothes detectives who shot and killed Kimani Gray in Brooklyn on March 9 have a documented history of lawsuits related to the use of extrajudicial violence and other civil rights abuses, according to reports by several news … Continue reading
Silencing the Chicago “Code of Silence”
CHICAGO—In an unanticipated move, the City of Chicago took tangible legal steps in federal court this week to silence the Chicago Police Department’s “code of silence.” The city announced it had struck a macabre deal with Karolina Obrycka, a bartender … Continue reading