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- American Wasteland
The Most Urgent Challenge for America is Its Poorly Hidden Mental Health Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hearing the phrase "mental health crisis," one may think of the epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country since the Reagan era. Or, images may erupt of home grown terrorist attacks or the plunge toward right-wing extremism in contemporary politics. Yet, suicide outranks both homicides and car accidents as the number one killer of our fellow citizens.
- Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
- The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
- Liberals and Ultra-leftists: A Marriage Made in Hell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
What liberal defenders of ultra-left violence don’t realize is that it’s not the Nazis legally marching down main street that will sabotage U.S. democracy, but the paramilitary police state that will crush all legitimate dissent. Ultra-left violence plays into what apologists for police militarization have been saying all along -- that the police have to keep ahead of the increasing violence in the streets with updated weapons and paramilitary training. Ultra-left violence, far from stopping fascism, enables it. It makes martyrs of the right and helps white supremacists recruit more angry right wingers to their cause, just as every wedding party the U.S. bombs in the Middle East recruits angry family members to the jihadis. With every violent clash between ultra-left and ultra-right, the militarized police will grow stronger … and they’ve got minorities and peace activists in their sights.
- Magnum force cops: 'If you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
US law enforcement is increasingly using military weapons for everyday tasks. Instead of hiding behind heavy armor, they should be building trust with the community, Peter Bibring, attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told RT.
- Oil and Water
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
- Police Militarism in America
In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
- 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).
- 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."
- War Against the People
Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
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