Showing posts with the label racism
Why I Believe the Supreme Court Needs to Stop This Georgia Execution
Georgia: Should juror's racial bias halt execution?
Execution set for Georgia man who killed his sister-in-law
What Most People Saw: David Bacon Reports on Anti-Racist Demos in the Bay Area
March against racism, San Francisco, August 26. Photo: David Bacon Making the scufflers so visible makes everyone else invisible. Sure, editors choose what to put on the page or website. But as med…
Fascism, American Style
Essay: The problem of innocence in death penalty cases
Organizing Against Racism: Two Articles
We feel these two articles make points that are important for all of us interested in organizing around immigrant rights. The articles don’t focus on immigration specifically, but there’s no way to a…
Gov. Greitens: Pull down Missouri’s racist death penalty statutes!
Florida murderer says he's ready for his execution - but denies racism
A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof
The Blissful Ignorance of American neo-Nazis
MUFON Unravels
A few years ago, MUFON - the largest UFO group in the U.S., and probably the world - seemed to be riding high. Its motto is, "The scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity.&quo…
Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidency
The president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence. By Dara Lind, Vox July 28, 2017 In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the U…
Supreme Court won't let Trump travel ban hit grandparents
Several analysts said the signals from the high court increase the possibility that the case may never be argued or decided on the merits. The 90-day period for the six-country ban is set to run out …
NYC, July 19: “Resistance at Tule Lake” East Coast Premiere
"A dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans is that they behaved as a 'model minority,' cooperating without protest and proving their patriotism by enli…
‘Clear Victory’ for President Trump on Muslim Ban 2.0? Hardly.
By Cody Wofsy, ACLU June 26, 2017 After the Supreme Court ruled today that it would hear arguments on the Muslim ban that a number of lower courts have ruled against, the president claimed “clear vic…
A Presumption of Guilt
MUFON, Racism and Dodging the Questions
Although the MUFON Inner Circle is announced on MUFON’s website, and there seems to be no attempt to keep the elite organization hidden, very few of the MUFON members I queried had any idea th…
Your immigrant ancestors came here legally? Are you sure?
A good article, but the quote from historian Mae Ngai must have been cut short. Ngai, the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America , the definitive history of U.…