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  1. American Blowback
    Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  2. As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly Predictable
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city. The murder of anybody, whether it's a police officer or someone who is simply stopped by a cop for a minor traffic violation and is then shot because a jumpy officer mistakes reaching for a wallet to be reaching for a gun, as happened just two days ago in Minnesota, is a dreadful thing.
  3. Beirut riot police use violence against journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the many cases of violence against journalists by security forces in recent weeks in Beirut during demonstrations in protest against the collapse of garbage collection.
  4. Bonus March, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL footage of the 1932 Bonus Army demanding early redemption of their service certificates in Washington D.C. through protest.
  5. "Calm Reflection" or Justice?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Afterthoughts on Justice and racism after the movie Fruitvale Station.
  6. A Camera on Every Cop
    Taser International cashes in on police misconduct
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On December 1, 2014, after several months of protests against police brutality that began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras.
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  8. Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the city over the last three years. The assault, detention, and arrest of reporters by the Montréal police is in violation of freedom of the press, as cited in Section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as Section 3 of the Québec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. To address these issues, CJFE and CAJ would like to arrange a meeting with you and SPVM Chief Marc Parent to discuss police policy on journalists covering protests in order to come up with a solution to end the existing practices.
  9. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  10. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  11. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  13. Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
    Shooting Mirian Carey
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
  14. Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traces to 1 Police Plaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Wikipedia content can be freely changed by anyone. Unfortunately, this also seems to mean that Wikipedia can be freely censored. A police department is under investigation for altering pages related to cases of police brutality which they were involved with.
  15. Egypt's Revolution at Three
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
  16. Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
  17. First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single Year
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
  18. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  19. Ford Massacre
    Detroit Workers News Special, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL newsreel of the March 7th Detroit/Dearborn demonstration and hunger march of unemployed Ford workers.
  20. "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
  21. Handbook to Survive Bad Policing
    Resource Type: Book
    Guide to surviving police harassment and abuse. Helps anyone targeted by the police but especially Aboriginal youth, people of colour, and recent immigrants. Explains rights and strategies for dealing with the police.
  22. IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizalan in criticising the Public Security Law
  23. An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an admission that it may not be able to. The unpunished murders of Black men by police are just the most graphic proof of this truth.
  24. Land of Impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
  25. LAPD Chickens Come Home to Roost
    Why I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  26. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  27. Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
    Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
  28. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
  29. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  30. Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
  31. More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
  32. The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL Documentary of the Second National Hunger March to Washington, D.C. 1932.
  33. Officers caught on video beating California homeless man to death acquitted of all charges
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Two former Fullerton, California police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, are found not guilty in the killing of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic living on the streets.
  34. Operation Soap
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Operation Soap was a raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981. More than three hundred men were arrested, the largest mass arrest in Canada since the 1970 October crisis, before the record was broken during the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs in Edmonton, Alberta.
  35. Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. Many members of Azadliq’s staff have been individually persecuted in connection with their work.
  36. Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
  37. Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
    Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
  38. The People's Police Commission
    Trial By Amateur Video
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
  39. Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killings
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
  40. Police actions in Ferguson, U.S. interfere with freedoms of assembly, press
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Though the majority of the Ferguson protests were peacful, the police still responded with overwhelming military force. Journalists were one of thier specific targets.
  41. Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was Justified
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community. Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was "a danger to herself," requiring them to taser her.
  42. Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
  43. Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She Stand
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
  44. Police Terror in the Big Apple
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
  45. Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
  46. Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
    Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
  47. Police Violence and Media Coverup
    Against The Current vol. 156
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
  48. Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politicians.
  49. The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
    Police War on the Poor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
  50. RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson police
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
  51. Seven Reasons Police Brutality is Systemic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for "trespassing" at her own apartment complex in Houston. A Georgia toddler was burned when police threw a flash grenade into his playpen during a raid, and the manager of a Chicago tanning salon was confronted by a raiding police officer bellowing that he would kill her and her family, captured on the salon's surveillance. An elderly man in Ohio was left in need of facial reconstructive surgery after police entered his home without a warrant to sort out a dispute about a trailer. These stories are a small selection of recent police brutality reports, as police misconduct has become a fixture of the news cycle.
  52. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  53. State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
  54. The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
    The Nature of the Beast Revealed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect them. No one should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
  55. 10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape
    Finally, a Reason to Like CCTV
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The internet is full of videos exposing police officers’ use of excessive physical force when trying to apprehend or detain “potential criminals”. Every year in fact there seems to be an increase in YouTube video uploads, video views, and news stories depicting this type of injustice.
  56. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  57. UK police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects’ heads during arrests and in police stations. The mesh bags are used to restrain suspects and protect the police from those who might try to bite or spit at them. The Met insists the hoods prevents exposure to diseases and serious infection.
  58. Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrations
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear instructions not to use violence against media.
  59. Violence Goes to College
    Are We Going to Hell?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
  60. The Weaker Sex? Violence and the Suffragette Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fern Riddell investigates the campaign of terror orchestrated by the Edwardian suffragette movement before the First World War and asks why it has been neglected by historians.
  61. With My Heart in Yambo
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
  62. Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 1982
    WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.


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