" The website asserts that "Black poverty and genocide is state violence"; that "2.8 million Black people are locked in cages in this country is state violence"; and that African-Americans with "disabilities and different abilities" have been burdened by "Darwinian experiments that attempt to squeeze us into boxes of normality defined by white supremacy, and that is state violence.
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There is no safe space for profiteers of state violence.
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State violence has done much to boost the body count.
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But she was also a fearless critic of state violence.
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Barring state violence against American citizens, that would be a mistake.
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There is no safe space for profiteers of all state violence.
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"Leftovers" launches Camnitzer's commentary — sometimes ironic, sometimes bluntly transparent — on state violence.
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Talking about having a spouse also opens me up to state violence.
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Mr Selyamiev's latest experience of Russian state violence is much more recent.
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Black people are more likely to be the targets of state violence.
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But there's a historical precedent of resistance to state violence in the sertão.
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Today & every day, we stand w/ #Charlottesville and against State violence & white supremacy.
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It is not extreme to protest against unjust state violence against innocent people.
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Prejudice against Asian-Americans, not to mention state violence, is often papered over.
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The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
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Indeed, the skill of "reading" state violence from these photos varies by generation.
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State violence is so ubiquitous and visible that citizens, experienced, can recognize its approach.
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The U.S. war on terror has led to other state violence against Muslim populations.
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Though Argentina was confronted with state violence and a severely devalued peso, hacker culture bloomed.
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Among other demands often forgotten, King wanted an end to state violence against black people.
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Both state violence and community violence are problems, and they are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Critics of the government also became targets of state violence, the United Nations team said.
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The government crackdown had "provoked an unacceptable totalitarian situation using state violence," student Albert Lopez said.
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The Black Lives Matter movement has brought further national attention to state violence that goes unfilmed.
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The killing was considered the gravest act of anti-state violence in the four-decade conflict.
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As a black person, she faces a legacy of state violence that dates back to chattel slavery.
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And what the movement is trying to do is address state violence in all of its manifestations.
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Pride started as a commemoration of visionary trans women of color taking a stand against state violence.
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Father's Day will be painful for too many like us, who've lost loved ones to state violence.
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The movement that shares that name has mobilized an entire generation to call out against state violence.
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The Iranian government has successfully stopped protesters from sharing content, mobilizing and increasing awareness about state violence.
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Daily headlines have never been without tales of great suffering and stories about state violence targeting my community.
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Onscreen, our heroes are accidental witnesses, innocents for whom the contagion of state violence triggers an extraordinary metamorphosis.
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The campaign "reconocer es reparar" (recognizing is repairing) asks the government to recognize its responsibility in state violence.
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Those who've known Ortega say the escalation in state violence is a clear indication of his diminshing power.
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The images and videos that they collect are the most important pieces of evidence for exposing state violence.
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Even though you could say that images of state violence against black bodies is not a new thing.
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Assad's criminalization of Muslim Brotherhood membership, then, is inseparable from his larger policy of suppression and state violence.
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It confirms the ongoing vulnerability of black people to state violence, which creates and reinforces social and political marginalization.
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She's also an artist whose work blends performance, visual, audio, and dance techniques into chilling denunciations of state violence.
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Here, any sense of safety in the vehicle is destroyed by faceless state violence, which reaches in to kill.
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This ushered in nearly four decades of dictatorship and horrific state violence, which the U.N. later determined was genocide.
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Last month, European lawmakers lifted her immunity in a separate case which concerns her tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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State violence in the form of contaminated water or no access to water at all is pervasive in Black communities.
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It forces us to ask fundamental questions as a society about state violence that we should have answered long ago.
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Because it deploys anti jewish stereotypes in its attacks on Israel, even if those critiques about state violence are legit.
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That means a future based on neither justice nor on international law, but on more control, oppression and state violence.
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With rampant state violence and the absence of any semblance of justice, Egyptian society is beyond polarized — it is broken.
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Nothing speaks more to our unequivocal commitment to nonviolence than our continued insistence on peaceful resistance, despite unprecedented state violence.
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Aviña, whose research focuses on state violence and the drug trade in Mexico, pointed to other showdowns like that in Culiacan.
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So there's this perpetual engagement in state violence, and we should expect that violence to reverberate throughout society during and after war.
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As a sex worker, with a brand to maintain for my income and under threat of state violence, I'm closeted both ways.
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That coalition must hold the United States and Israel to the same standards, demanding an end to state violence, bigotry and dispossession.
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This is the most high profile attack in recent years, though Erbil has not been spared Islamic State violence in the past.
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Donald Trump is critical of the Black Lives Matter movement against state violence and the peaceful direct actions that I've participated in.
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This was an understandable conclusion in 2009, when Iranians protested the fraud-ridden presidential election and were met with appalling state violence.
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The Diaz sisters jump head first into previously, for them, uncharted territory; trading quiet subtlety for overt swipes at sexism and state violence.
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Demand fierce accountability from perpetuators of state violence, from individual officers who commit harm to the institutions that fail to hold them responsible.
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Communities who are targeted by this sort of violence aren't responsible for the emotional labor of educating everyone about race and state violence.
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Another police spokesman, Georgian Enache, said "the legitimate state violence" was justified because protesters had been warned several times to leave the square.
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Armed militancy is not confined to West Africa and its spread has been aided in many areas by poverty, corruption and state violence.
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There is a local organization I started, Dignity and Power Now, that does work around people who have survived trauma and state violence.
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The combination of images insists we understand a continuum of state violence against black citizens from Birmingham to Ferguson, to whatever comes next.
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It would be a chance to end the starvation and shortages, the hyperinflation, and state violence his country has suffered from for years.
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I just returned from Honduras with 75 religious leaders, looking at the systemic economic and state violence that enables the gangs to thrive.
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Today, this diversity, or what political scientists are calling the new oligopoly of state violence, is what undemocratic regimes and failed states prefer.
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He faces an April referendum on sweeping new powers he deems vital to a country facing spillover of Islamic State violence from Syria.
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European Union lawmakers lifted the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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It is a solid homage to Camnitzer's lifelong practice, especially urgent today as new forms of state violence lobby to become the new normal.
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Lee Won-jae of Cultural Action, an artists' collective, says the blacklisting is an instance of "state violence"; they plan to sue the government.
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Bacurau, a ferociously angry film, straddles the thriller and the social drama, invoking the history of resistance to state violence in the Brazilian sertão.
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The true death toll from the weekend of violence remains unknown, but accounts across the country tell a vivid story of shocking state violence.
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"Propaganda and incitement of hatred and all violence, particularly state violence against Rohingyas must stop, discriminatory laws and policies must go," the letter reads.
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As the Google worker cast it, the opposition is to state violence broadly conceived, not merely a particular defense contract at a particular company.
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"The Language of Resistance" is the theme for Saturday night, with a program of poetry and spoken word dealing with state violence against women.
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One hopes that those to whom we entrust the power of state violence—cops, soldiers, spies—would keep the oaths of a constitutional order.
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"A Mulan who supports state violence and police brutality is not representing the true spirits of this character: brave, assertive and dedicated," he said.
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The Iranian government fears acts of state violence being recorded and going viral online; it's another reason to cut off access to the internet.
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While addressing the world's longest-ruling dictators about terrorism, Trump failed to mention how state violence and repression feeds ISIS and al Qaeda's propaganda campaigns.
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Le Pen also faces an investigation into the financing of past election campaigns and a probe into her tweeting of pictures of Islamic State violence.
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What was new was the indiscriminate state violence, escalating in plain sight: the first artillery attack, the first airstrike, the first use of chemical weapons.
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State violence and control, whether through racist policing, the criminal justice system or the welfare system, are all issues at the core of reproductive justice.
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Her anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-state violence screeds (and the occasional Nirvana cover) come filtered through a corrosive howl, delivered with the utmost conviction.
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The event, which spanned late into the night, was the culmination of a turbulent week — marked by state violence and demonstrations against systemic inequality in Chile.
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The end of 2015 had been marred by the return of large-scale state violence in Turkey, particularly impacting the Kurdish-dominated regions of the southeast.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers lifted the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Thursday for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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The Murder Vote is not won simply by promising a hawkish foreign policy, supporting the death penalty, or otherwise indicating a willingness to deploy state violence.
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So, for example, with the Movement for Black Lives, the specific issues of state violence against black people are on the forefront of the political agenda.
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"We are interested in the ideological justification for state violence and the mythologized threat of terror, and how the two interlace," Jake Chapman wrote via email.
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He called for a higher minimum wage, denounced police killings of African-Americans, which he described as "state violence," and embraced the Black Lives Matter movement.
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A court has ordered her to undergo a psychiatric test in connection with a case, brought under an absurd law, for tweeting images of Islamic State violence.
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Nor has Wisconsin's tougher regime obviously limited crime any better than its neighbour's laxer one: rates are similar in each state (violence is somewhat lower in Minnesota).
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The foundation awarding the prize credits Black Lives Matter for "building a powerful movement for racial equality, courageously reigniting a global conversation around state violence and racism."
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It exaggerates the state violence of the time, with scenes of soldiers confronting miners with guns and frequent threats of execution for anyone going against the KGB.
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White America has to wrestle with the reality that state violence is an everyday worry for black Americans, or there will be no change to the system.
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His writing is part of an op-ed series curated by #WeBuiltThis in which Black millennial contributors explore the sordid relationship between state violence and elected politicians.
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European Union lawmakers "overwhelmingly" voted on Tuesday to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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Will you make clear, actionable commitments to address state violence, using the federal government as both a model and lever of accountability for state and local governments?
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If America demands your respect it must grant you respect and the first order of that respect is equality and eradicating the ominous threat of state violence.
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Most Anglophones had only demanded autonomy, but against the glare of state violence, the movement for independence, which had been considered fringe and insignificant, suddenly seemed legitimate.
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" Dr. Hilal writes that the travel ban magnifies the "legitimate fear that one will either be targeted by state violence or become a target of societal violence.
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And throughout the 20th century, we have many instances of the power of nonviolent movements to overcoming state violence, from Gandhi in India to Solidarity in Poland.
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" Those institutions, the letter continues, "provide cover for the likes of Kanders as they profit from war, state violence, displacement, land theft, mass incarceration, and climate disaster.
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When you said that you had a "pit in your stomach," that the "odds of non-state violence soar" after rhetoric like Trump's — what did you mean, exactly?
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The reality is that liberal economics and technology liberated most of the world from slavery, serfdom, and state violence enforced class control in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The silence surrounding rape and sexual assault and the silence surrounding state violence against black people and communities seems like it is at least partially beginning to lift.
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The story follows Jess's attempts to organize while doing factory work; it explores upstate New York's lesbian scene; and it shows the police and state violence she experiences.
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If we have to stand and honor a song about freedom, why can't all our country's citizens be free, instead of subject to state violence and extrajudicial killings?
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers "overwhelmingly" voted on Tuesday to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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The film has a chilling effect that calls to mind the steady stream of state violence, mass shootings, and racism broadcast today all over our TVs, computers, and smartphones.
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It allows us to run campaigns around issues of ending police violence, campaigns on economic justice, and what those two things look like in broader systems of state violence.
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See the comments from Charles Blow's last article for numbers on state violence on blacks vs blacks violence toward each other for who is really doing the most harm.
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But Mr. Obama should not now endorse state violence and ideological bigotry as acceptable side effects of the United States' larger goals of promoting free markets and security cooperation.
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Perhaps one day, the US's "reckoning" of its violence will include victims and a critical analysis of the institutions whose sole existence is to promote and conduct state violence.
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Their wound-like indentations and charming facial features, such as thin or parted lips, register compassion and awe, even as they embody the immanent threat of brutal state violence.
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OO: Just looking at how social media has made acts of state violence against brown bodies incredibly apparent, and transmitting it over the landscape in a very present way.
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Given that Americans have been taught that all non-state violence is either mentally ill or criminal, it's hard to argue that it helps build the mass movement we need.
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Lawmakers, public figures, and the relatives of Black women killed by institutional state violence have gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls this week.
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There's no way it could've been the bloody aftermath of the Civil War, when Southern whites reestablished control of their territory through a campaign of state violence and political repression.
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In early 2015, the African American Policy Forum launched a social media campaign, #SayHerName and released a report drawing attention to the acute experiences of state violence by Black women.
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When sex workers live together, support each other financially or materially, or even drive each other to work, they're at risk for state violence and can be charged with pandering.
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Mahsa Alimardani, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, explained to me in an email that the Iranian government was trying to limit the spread of evidence of state violence.
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Plans to ramp up immigration enforcement will increase the risk of state violence against undocumented women, and make women less likely to seek protection from the police for fear of deportation.
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We must continue to follow the direction of women of color, who are leading the multifront struggle against racism and Islamophobia, mass incarceration, state violence, wage inequality and gender-based violence.
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But in the case of police or state violence and practices, we must be careful not to limit our outrage or attention to the killings of only the seemingly "perfect" victims.
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I believe we can mobilize around ending state violence without circulating snuff films … There's no need to simply reproduce those [violent] images without a critical engagement of them and their histories.
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Due to the state violence that has been inflicted here and lives that have been lost, a positive environment should be created where some light can be brought to these lives.
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"CHF believes that Mr. Taibbi's investigative work into Eric Garner's death merits attention and an opportunity to continue the national conversation concerning state violence against people of color," Engleman told Reuters.
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The pushback against the now infamous Pepsi ad, in which reality star Kendall Jenner solved police state violence armed only with a can of soft drink, is only the most recent example.
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Black Lives Matter is being awarded "for building a powerful movement for racial equality, courageously reigniting a global conversation around state violence and racism," the Sydney Peace Foundation said in a statement.
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Performing under the moniker Moor Mother, she culls textures from rap, punk, free jazz, spoken word and noise, creating musical missives on a range of injustices, including domestic abuse and state violence.
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The report was published as a video on Monday by B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, and Forensic Architecture, a London-based research group that investigates state violence and human rights violations.
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The magnitude of racial and state violence often came down upon Black people who defended themselves from police and citizens, but that did not stop some from sparking personal and collective insurrections.
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He sees a world that is zero-sum in every way, from foreign trade to domestic policing, and security can only be achieved through granting impunity to the agents of state violence.
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The group has also distilled its unity principles into 10 issue areas, including reproductive justice, disability rights, and ending state violence, and formed policy committees to identify specific goals in each area.
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PTM, which was founded to protest against the death of a Pashtun man killed by police in the southern port of Karachi, regularly draws thousands of protesters to its demonstrations against state violence.
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Aveta presents places, such as a former detention center, where crimes were committed under the last dictatorship, and the emptiness evoked by the uninhabited interiors suggest what was lost due to state violence.
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I would imagine that there's some part of what we're doing that could make DSA more appealing to people of color, and more appealing to people who are disproportionately subject to state violence.
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The group — Kurdistan Freedom Falcons — said in a statement that two of its members had carried out the suicide attacks in retaliation for state violence in the predominantly Kurdish region in southeast Turkey.
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And when they do, it is often presented in a way that justifies state violence vis-à-vis those oppressed minorities on the wrong side of history or glorifies individual over mass suffering.
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While not every biography contains such a trauma, Soviet-era stories featuring an experience of state violence are not rare, and a careful eye can find traces of such experiences in family photos.
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He moved toward the inclusion of parallel narratives, using formats like storytelling to develop critical exhibition themes around subjects like state violence, cultural memory, urbanism, and social research presented under the veneer of art.
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"The machinery of state violence has too often been used against black people for a song about bombs and rockets to hold much appeal," writes journalist and screenwriter Cinque Henderson in the New Yorker.
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Whether you have a body that is subject to state violence […] or whether it's your tax dollars […] or you find yourself going to see an Andy Warhol show that was funded by Warren Kanders.
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The entire scene is meant to evoke not just the countless names of those that the black community has lost to state violence, but also the history of violence against black folks in America.
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These were racial, sexual and gender deviants who were politically and economically disenfranchised, who created networks of care for each other and who took to the street to resist various forms of state violence.
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Jayson Musson has produced a maudlin elegy for victims of state violence; you gaze at a night sky and constellations appear, labeled with names of the dead, while elevator music plays in the background.
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As Syria's battle lines have shifted in nearly 303 months since, the two young men have watched their camp swell with families and fighters escaping government territorial gains, insurgent infighting and Islamic State violence.
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It's indicative of a hunger on the left, amid administration horrors like child detention camps and the scary rise in far-right non-state violence, to create a "with us or against us" mentality.
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"There is currently little evidence to suggest that their cyber-attack capability extends beyond common website defacement," it said in its annual cybercrime threat assessment in a year marked by Islamic State violence in Europe.
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Venezuela's socialists wouldn't have had their chance in power if not for the austerity imposed by neoliberal adjustment policies of the 1980s—policies that were met by popular protest that was suppressed by state violence.
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"We wanted to intervene in this current political moment where there is all this amazing and inspiring work that is resisting state violence and corporate power," said M. Adams, co-executive director of Freedom Inc.
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After building with comrades in the Netherlands and South Africa on protest strategies in their movements for decolonization and free education, I understood even better that resistance to state violence is a global freedom struggle.
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For instance, when it comes to recognizing state violence against Black women and girls as a social problem, the sense is that "there is no there there," even as evidence surrounds us in plain sight.
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The zines are simultaneously canaries in the coal mine of a protest movement that may be at the edge of state violence, and offer a glimpse of the protestors' very real conditions, fears, and aspirations.
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The answer is deeply rooted in the long history of the United States, which for much of its history was a nation in which white supremacy, backed by state violence, was the law of the land.
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This use of cameras associated with drones reminds viewers of the United States' forever wars abroad, opening a searing critique of the domestic surveillance of Queens's diverse population, by staging this elaborate decoy diverting state violence.
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The older works never let you forget that they are about the war in Vietnam; the new paintings instead conjure a pervasive air of political idiocy and state violence, an abstraction of the problem of aggression.
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But for me, in this moment, it's important to first find a way of accepting that we can both protest state violence and detest community violence — and not let either discussion deprive the other of oxygen.
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To this end, the US's brutal history of state violence, whether by the CIA or other institutions, is left unquestioned while the film de-centers the US's many victims — who in this case, are all Muslim.
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Like 9/11, that could come from a non-state actor – but it could also be an act of state-on-state violence at a time of growing international tension, potentially igniting a devastating wider conflict.
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It's a law that represents state violence and police brutality against sex working people and survivors, and it's evident all around me at the International Whores' Day demonstration that this law has transformed and united the community.
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In the face of the festering trauma caused by state violence against Black life, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter sought to confront an overwhelming sense of impotence and to build a reality of creative agency.
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The group, which was founded a year ago to protest against the death of a Pashtun man killed by police in the southern port of Karachi, regularly draws thousands of protesters to its demonstrations against state violence.
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But once again, people in the southern African country are living in fear after enduring the worst state violence in over a decade, which left at least 12 people dead, hundreds more injured and over 1,000 detained.
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The Women's March outlines these platforms in its "Women's Agenda," a page on its website that includes bullet points for ending state violence and violence against women and promoting reproductive justice, racial justice, immigrant rights, and more.
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Myanmar's brutal response to the ARSA attacks — a wave of savage state violence, mass murder and rape that the U.N. has said bears the "hallmarks of genocide" — has been the subject of broad international scrutiny and condemnation.
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Meanwhile, every time I hear "Swag Surfin" it makes me feel pride and self-love that stands in stark opposition to all the pain and demoralization I feel due to recent events of state violence and marginalization.
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Think about what this kind of trauma (or our modern versions, in the form of things like televised state violence or mass family separation and internment) does to a child's — a person's — sense of trust and belonging.
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And while a degree of homoerotic attraction fueled Genet's initial interest in the Panthers' paramilitary aesthetics, by 1970 Genet was savvier about American-style forms of power and state violence than he had been two years earlier.
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Left unexplored is whether the Soviet system, as it stood when Gorbachev inherited it in 1985, was worth saving, and whether it could have been saved without the kind of state violence Gorbachev was uniquely unwilling to use.
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As it turns out, after centuries of enslavement and state violence against black people, decades of plunder of black wealth and resources, and herding black people into the least desirable neighborhoods, the byproducts of poverty and trauma emerge.
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With the rest of the Caravan for Justice I traveled between communities all over California, holding rallies and speaking about the loss of life caused by police and state violence that was commonly experienced in our two countries.
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Attempts to recatalyze discussions on the future bombings of brown countries, the silence about indigenous resistance to corporate interests, and the number of black bodies that would continue to experience state violence would have been dismissed as distractions.
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The international community should demand accountability for the perpetrators of state violence and insist that all sectors of Nicaraguan society — most notably, the university students who demanded changes in the first place — have a seat at the table.
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It's an account of heroic resistance that essentially begins in 2011 when the Arab Spring reached Syria ("we started to scream for freedom"), and peaceful demonstrations against President Assad were met with state violence followed by power grabs.
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"The Sûreté du Québec is still investigating [Bony's] case even as they're being investigated for all the sexual assault allegations," says Robyn Maynard, 237, who is working on a book about state violence against Black persons in Canada.
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The status quo, though never as peaceful as it appeared to white Americans, existed precisely because society had created enough legal and social mechanisms to enforce inequality and oppression without obvious acts of state violence and extrajudicial terror.
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The scandal sparked discussions about monopolization in the airline industry, the nexus of corporate greed and state violence, and even whether the death of customer service contributed to the populist furor that swept the country in the 2016 election.
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In the wake of the incredible level of attention garnered last year by citizens who were rightly outraged by state violence — often at the hands of law enforcement, directed disproportionately at black citizens — the issue of community violence receded.
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It was Khan-Cullors who first used #blacklivesmatter in a post; Tometi saw that hashtag and decided it should be the name for an organization that would advocate for the end of state violence and repression against black people.
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Certainly my brief flame-out at the Chronicle was a defining moment for me as a writer and as a scholar, in understanding the powerful ripple effects of bias in the media, particularly as it relates to state violence.
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"Kanders is a multi-millionaire who gets rich off of treating Black and brown New Yorkers as guinea pigs for all forms of state violence," said speakers on behalf of Sunset Park Liberated Future and the Brooklyn Defense Committee.
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It emerged last year after the killing of an ethnic Pashtun man by police in the southern city of Karachi, which led to nationwide protests and turned the issue of alleged state violence against Pashtuns into a national debate.
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" Citing the past year's spate of police officers killing unarmed African American men, the panel warned against "impunity for state violence," which has created, in its words, a "human rights crisis" that "must be addressed as a matter of urgency.
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Trump's critics sometimes interpret his martial rhetoric and encomia to law enforcement and military personnel as sinister — a sign of a leader who privileges institutions of state violence and would be unafraid to use them to secure his hold on power.
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The March for Black Women, protesting "state violence" and sexual and domestic violence against black women and girls, met with the March for Racial Justice on Capitol Hill to march toward the Justice Department and National Mall in downtown Washington.
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The New York Times is reporting that the electoral triumph of Jair Bolsonaro, who will soon be sworn in as Brazil's president, is already energizing local politicians who support unleashing state violence as a cure for the country's crime problem.
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Expanding on the work she began with the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence, Khan-Cullors founded Dignity and Power Now, an umbrella organization that combats state violence and the prison-industrial complex using art, research, resilience practices, and leadership training.
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Reuters photo of the dayThey're not waving hello Members of European Parliament vote on lifting the EU parliamentary immunity of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen after she came under investigation for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
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Ms. Franco was a black, feminist L.G.B.T. activist, a fierce human-rights defender who wasn't afraid to take on sensitive issues: the use of state violence in favelas, for instance, or the involvement of police and politicians in Rio's paramilitary groups.
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Kirkuk, a flashpoint oil-rich province in northern Iraq along the fault lines between the Kurdish autonomous region and areas controlled by Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated central government, has been the focus of some of the country's worst post-Islamic State violence.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British MPs voted unanimously on Wednesday for a motion declaring that Islamic State violence against ethnic and religious minorities in Syria and Iraq was genocide, and urging the government to do more to bring IS fighters to justice.
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The PTM emerged last year after the killing of an ethnic Pashtun man by police in the southern city of Karachi, which led to a series of nationwide protests and turned the issue of alleged state violence against Pashtuns into a national debate.
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All movements, to be sure, are pressed to do so—just look at the chorus of pundits wringing their hands about the potential offensiveness of protests against Donald Trump or in favor of some measure of justice for black victims of state violence.
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The danger that Burma still can slide back from its incomplete transition is dramatized by the continued conflict in Rakhine state, violence in the northeastern states of Kachin and Shan and the muted but still present voice of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks.
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"If we don't address the grievances which led to the creation of Daesh - Sunni grievances against sectarian Shia policies – and state violence from Assad, we're likely to see the resurgence of something that could be Daesh 2.0," De Kerchove told the RUSI conference.
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"State violence is justified by Brazilians when it's practiced against specific social groups, seen as disturbers of an abstract 'order' into which society should be organized by the state," said Pedro Geraldo, a professor of public security at the Fluminense Federal University.
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Not only do Christoph Büchel, Michael Walker (of the New York Times) and Hauser & Wirth Gallery fail at critique, they reinforce the use of art to euphemize and aestheticize state violence, and mock the lived experiences of those most affected by that violence.
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What American Communists, at their best, pioneered was to show how effectively grass-roots movements can challenge the racism, state violence and economic exploitation that people face in their daily lives, and connect those fights to a broader vision of a just world.
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According to Edmund White's biography, among many audacious acts, the older Genet, caught up in the state violence against protestors, stared down a rifle-toting National Guardsman and reassured the injured victims, many of them white kids who had never encountered police aggression.
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AR: Valhalla is described as life in a cyberpunk dystopia, but in some ways, it doesn't seem markedly worse than the world we have now — it's a place with more technologically advanced versions of our current problems with state violence, environmental dangers, and inequality.
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Novkov also wrote that even if Trump were able to serve two presidential terms, his supporters would "vociferously demand that he be permitted a third term" and added that "state violence will be necessary in response to maintain order" if his supporters' response turns violent.
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Against the backdrop of economic crisis, endless tales of official corruption, and an astronomical crime rate, Bolsonaro rode a visceral anti-progressive backlash to office with precious little substance to his campaign beyond a promise to ratchet up state violence against criminals, real or imagined.
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They all leave the city and retreat to to a tranquil stretch of countryside, occupied solely by women healing from a similar heartbreak, or the loss of a loved one through state violence, or the pain of simple existence as a Black woman in America.
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He was the first authentic fascist I ever met, not because of political allegiance — he would have been offended if I had used the term — but because calling for extreme state violence to suppress dissent and maintain the social order can only be called fascistic.
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Armed with colorful banners reading messages like "WHITNEY MUSEUM: NO SPACE FOR PROFITEER OF STATE VIOLENCE," drums, a cowbell, and the aforementioned burning sage, protesters gathered on what one member aptly described as "a cold ass Sunday," to lead a protest against Warren B. Kanders.
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De Sade's fictions shred religious morals, familial taboos, and all other laws regulating sex; his extremes galvanized a new generation of writers and thinkers in France who viewed The Enlightenment as having produced a civilization that runs on moral hypocrisy, state violence, and robotic capitalism.
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One "nice" cop moment becomes yet another proxy for the goodness of the police force as a whole — a reason to assume that "nice" individuals are indicative of overall systemic goodness, rather than yet another small piece in the everyday obfuscation of state violence.
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When we think about police violence—enabled by legislation which criminalizes any part of prostitution—not only as state violence but also as male violence against women, the criminalisation of prostitution comes into focus in a new way: as a key driver of male violence against women.
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On a broader level, it's part of a larger discussion about the narrative around policing and who gets to frame it — critics point out the ways state violence and the justice system affect people of color while supporters seek to tamp down critiques of these institutions.
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Tschabalala Self's Street Scenes stitched together striking and poignant scenes of Harlem in her signature style, while Sable Elyse Smith's conceptual sculptures and accompanying sound essay (the latter made in collaboration with Henry Murphy) explore the ways state violence is enacted through mass incarceration and class stratification.
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DB: Throughout 2015 and 2016, there has been a return of large-scale state violence in Turkey impacting the Kurdish-dominated regions of the southeast, as well as seven terrorist attacks targeting both civilians and security forces in Ankara and Istanbul in the last year alone.
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When we take creative actions in the coming months, and apply a diversity of tactics and strategies, it will be an extension of the issues raised in this biennial beyond representation to examine the funding and structural complicity of the museum in state violence against communities of color.
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"I was an avid football watcher before I began my boycott against the NFL and its repression of Kaepernick and the league's contempt for those who demand justice and an end to state violence against working class communities of color," Demetrius Noble, a 38-year-old professor, told CNN.
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Rather than address the structural causes of chronic problems such as poverty, health inequities, homelessness and crime, this system centers the blame on the most marginalized communities, where the vulnerable and disenfranchised are left to bear their true costs: the brutal toll of both social disadvantage and state violence.
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The EU legislature lifted Le Pen's immunity in March to allow a separate French investigation over her posting of pictures of Islamic State violence on social media, an offence that in France can carry a penalty of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($79,567) [nL5N1GF38X].
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" TRUMP LABELED 'RACIST' WHO SUPPORTS 'INTERNMENT CAMPS' IN LSAT PREP TEST She argued that even if Trump finishes a second term as president, "they will vociferously demand that he be permitted a third term," adding that if their response is violent, "state violence will be necessary in response to maintain order.
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If George and the city are finally held accountable in this case, it could prove to be a milestone for a movement committed to ending state violence against black Americans, potentially changing the way local prosecutors handle cases of police shootings, and providing closure to Heyward's long quest for justice.
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It is shocking to imagine that, with his whole life ravaged by Russian state violence, he could fight on the side of the Russians; but Walker's portrait of the unresolved anguish of a generation of Chechens makes it easier to understand how a person can sustain this level of contradiction.
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But he sensed that Uribe, with his open disdain for journalists and the basic rights of opponents, had become a liability, if not at home then abroad—that rampant state violence, while no doubt necessary to contain the guerrilla, was preventing Colombia from taking its place among modern, developed nations.
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Natalie Kane, co-curator of the Biennale exhibition and the V&A's curator of digital design, said she hoped that, along with gathering evidence for the Yazidis and highlighting their plight, the exhibition would demonstrate how such methods could be used by other victims of state violence and human rights abuse.
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Enhancing security in those four counties before the vote is "a euphemism for state preparation to unleash even more lethal force and state violence into these counties than has been witnessed in recent times," opposition leader and co-founder of the NASA coalition Musalia Mudavadi said in a speech Friday.
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A lot of people (not least immigrants and other nonwhite Americans) have already come to the conclusion that the Trump administration lacks any respect for them as Americans or as people; in that context, the denial of passports to native-born citizens can look like racism at best and state violence at worst.
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As well as the row over party assistants, Le Pen's other legal woes include an investigation into the finances of her National Front party in northern France targeting her chief of staff, an investigation into the financing of past campaigns and a probe into her tweeting of pictures of Islamic State violence.
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Throughout that time, SayHerName has insisted that we begin to treat state violence against Black women as a fully legible social problem; its mission is as acute today as it was on the day that the demand arose during the massive protests against the non-indictment of Eric Garner's killer in New York.
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However, notably African American women, who coined the term that became a movement—Black Lives Matter—and often are on the front lines of protest and civic action in confronting state violence against Black communities, are too often invisible (or worse, ignored) when they themselves are victims from national attention and fervor of protests.
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In one of the most generous and hopefully plausible visions of the future set forward in 2017, Hamid boldly envisions that a global generosity will prevail, that state violence against refugees will eventually wither in the face of impracticality and the hard work of building new infrastructure to support the interconnected worlds of the desperate and the protectorate will begin.
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Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek Peruvian artist Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and American artist Andrew Mroczek's current (through January 15) collaborative exhibition at The Museum of Sex in New York City, Canon, is a call to action both rattling and awe-inspiring—highlighting the issue of state-violence against the LGBTQ population in Peru by depicting them as symbols of grace.
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When you tell the nation that hippies are violent, the antiwar protesters are violent, prisoners are violent, civil rights is really about thuggery instead of genuine rights, then, all of a sudden, you look at Kent State, you look at the Chicago convention of '68, you look at Attica and you completely miss the fact that all the violence was state violence.
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Before SESTA/FOSTA, Red says, getting the mainstream press to pay attention "was unthinkable"Photo: Gizmodo (Melanie Ehrenkranz)"We want to see ourselves and situate ourselves in the legacy of radical sex worker resistance to state violence," Red says, adding that it is appropriate, post-SESTA/FOSTA, that they come out boldly and unwaveringly, given the gravity of the problems now facing the community.
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Iraqis initially protested against corruption, unemployment and the failure of the government to deliver services, but after a month of brutal state violence, the protesters have called for the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, a complete overhaul of the political process in the country and disbanding of powerful political factions and their militias, most of which are backed and run by Iran.
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On topics ranging from the Russian government's semi-covert military, financial, and political support to separatists in eastern Ukraine, to massive corruption at the highest levels of the Kremlin, to state violence against Chechnya's LGBT population, to the inner workings of the very disinformation machine at issue, Russian journalists have demonstrated courage and resourcefulness in providing domestic and international audiences with resonant reporting on contemporary Russia.
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True, Dana Schutz did not create her painting at the request of Civil Rights activists — however, the fact that she was stirred to resurrect the image of Emmett Till's open casket is a sign of the success of the Black Lives Matter movement in forging awareness of patterns of state violence by politicizing the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, and others.
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To my knowledge, no corporate sponsor of Pride has demanded that the New York City Department of Corrections be held accountable for its role in Polanco's death, or the federal prison system at large for its participation in anti-Black trans violence across the U.S. There must not be a mass market for that cause, which seems peculiar, given that queer rebellion against State violence is how Pride began in the first place.
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This six-piece St. Louis metal/punk collective arose out of the city's local activist community, and the members' commitment to the struggle for justice is splashed all over this short, snappy EP. Red Tape attacks sacred cows and explicitly confronts the evils of police brutality, domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and state violence, shredding through a heady mix of Tragedy-inspired arena crust, pissy d-beat, crunchy metallic hardcore, and garage punk in under 15 minutes.
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" They continue: Efforts by the Art Workers' Coalition in 1969 to connect the economies of major cultural institutions to state violence and race and class-based oppression prefigure a string of recent crises implicating the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as well as the Tate Modern and the Zabludowicz Foundation in the UK. In December 2018, Decolonize This Place led an action at the Whitney, filling its atrium with sage, demanding that Kanders "must go.
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Photo: GettyMarine Le Pen, the leader of France's crypto-fascist National Front party, could be required to pay a $90,000 fine and spend up to three years in prison for tweets she sent in 2015 that showed images of executions by ISIS, according to the Associated Press: French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism... Le Pen's December 2015 tweets showed executions by IS extremists, including the killing of American reporter James Foley.
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