Throughout this nation’s history, appeals to law and order have been as much about defending privilege as dealing with crime, writes Austin Sarat.
ELECTION 2020: Trump’s Law & Order Campaign Taps US Tradition of Racist & Anti-Immigrant Politics
Category: Police Brutality
Why Police Unions Are Not Part of the American Labor Movement
Paul F. Clark says the strain between law enforcement and labor goes back to the origins of trade unions in the mid-19th century.
UPRISING: Protests Break Out in Wisconsin After Police Shoot Black Man in the Back Multiple Times at Point-Blank Range
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said 29-year-old Jacob Blake’s children were in the car he was attempting to enter as police fired seven shots at his back.
UPRISING: Calls to Drop ‘Absurd’ Charges Against Journalists Covering Protests
The Committee to Protect Journalists speaks up for members of the press who were arrested while covering Black Lives Matter protests across the U. S.
UPRISING: Immunity for Police Under Attack by Federal Judge
A federal judge in Mississippi is challenging the long-standing qualified immunity for police officers after the harassment of a motorist in that state, reports Marjorie Cohn.
UPRISING: Call to Dismantle US Homeland Security
“The very premise of a ‘homeland security’ bureaucracy is chilling and ought to be questioned,” wrote the executive director of the ACLU.
Chris Hedges: America’s Death March
Regardless of the outcome, the U.S. election will not stop the rise of hyper-nationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire’s terminal decline, writes Chris Hedges.
UPRISING: Don’t. Side. With. The. Powerful.
Caitlin Johnstone calls reflexive subservience a zombie infection; a mental virus spread by propaganda and toxic ideologies.
UPRISING: Militias’ Warning of Excessive Federal Power Comes True – But Where Are They?
Amy Cooter has been tracking developments within the U.S. domestic militia movement during the nation’s uprisings.
