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“first writing since” by Suheir Hammad
Think of it as an antidote to jingoistic propoganda masquerading as grief and remembrance that we’ll be bombarded with today.
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NYPD activist surveillance documents surrounding the RNC released
After a long legal battle, I-Witness Video has obtained and posted more than 600 pages of NYPD RNC-related activist surveillance documents, spanning from October 2003 to September 2004. On the I-Witness site, you can read more about the preceding legal fight, download a large PDF of the documents, or perform single-word searches on the documents.…
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2005: a very bad year for human rights…
And not surprisingly, we have the United States and the War on brown people, I mean Muslims, I mean Terror, to thank for it. As described in this press release, the Human Rights Watch has released its World Report 2006. It’s rather grim. New evidence demonstrated in 2005 that torture and mistreatment have been a…