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Ms Williams and Mr dos Santos, a Portuguese Olympic sprinter, said they were racially profiled when they were searched outside their home. The disciplinary hearing found the actions of PC Clapham and PC Franks amounted to gross misconduct.

@trdebunked @hko yes. Cointelpro is still going, and it is everywhere. So apparent in American things like Fred Hamptons assassination and the dismantling of the black panther party, to the REAL Ferguson activists and their collective deaths. You can see it in smaller things throughout tech as well. Like FB purposely burying sites like ello, peach, tumblr… it’s everywhere. And it’s exhausting.

A lot of these white western people quietly changing their opinion on Israel are going to accuse Palestinians of having no capacity for forgiveness rather than confront their own capacity for genocide.

I still vividly remember my dean at the time, Kishore Mahbubani, an internationally renowned thinker and former president of the United Nations Security Council, repeatedly sharing his collected examples of the West’s double standards on human rights, including numerous cases in the Middle East, Asia, Latin American and Africa. In his opinion, the reason behind such double standards was that the West will take a moral stand only when its fundamental interests are not affected. That has unfor...

Despite being vilified, threatened and humiliated in public, veteran Cameroonian lawyer Alice Nkom is determined to uphold the rights of homosexual people in her country. A human rights NGO that she runs, Redhac, was recently suspended by the government and she is due to appear before investigators to answer accusations of money laundering and funding terror groups – which she denies.

The humanities are not a luxury,” said MLA executive director Paula M. Krebs. “They are a necessity, teaching people vital skills, including how to effectively communicate, construct arguments, evaluate evidence, and build connections across cultures." Which of course is why the #fascists want to eviscerate the #humanities. https://www.mla.org/Resources/Advocacy/Joint-Lawsuit-over-Dismantling-of-National-Endowment-for-the-Humanities #MLA #NEH #Resistance

“Missing son.” “Missing father.” “Missing grandmother.” The words are written in bright red letters at the top of posters hanging on lampposts and storefronts around Los Angeles. At first glance, they appear to be from worried relatives seeking help from neighbors. But a closer look reveals that the missing people are immigrants to the US who have been disappeared by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Some of the faces are familiar to anyone who has been following the news – tha...

We are at the point in the fascist coup where: - Sesame Street is bad, - NPR is bad, - Late Show comedy is bad, - accurate weather forecasting is bad, - education is bad But protecting pedophiles is a national priority