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Will the DNC Repeat Chicago 1968? Or — Charlotte 2012??

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I wasn’t in Chicago for the 1968 DNC disaster.  Instead, I was glued to a radio, at a small conference in upstate New York.
Yet at moments it felt like I was there, right next to Grant Park, and that rocks or tear gas canisters could crash through a window at any second.

The large antiwar protests, met by police and national guard rampages, shaped the campaign that followed. The images and divisions did much to doom Hubert Humphrey’s effort to stop Richard Nixon from becoming president. Continue reading Will the DNC Repeat Chicago 1968? Or — Charlotte 2012?? →

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Dyer: Police Killings & Trouble In France

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Violence in France

On Saturday, the fifth day of violent protests all over France against the police killing of an unarmed teenager,, the daily arrests dropped below 1,000 for the first time – but the violence became even more extreme.

By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion — July 4 2023

Nahel Merzouk, shot by a French policeman


In L’Haÿ-les-Roses, a southern suburb of Paris, protesters rammed a stolen car through the gates of the mayor’s home shortly after midnight, and then set the vehicle on fire so that the blaze would spread to the house.

The mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, was still at his office trying to deal with the situation, but his wife, Melanie Nowak, and their two children aged five and seven were in the house.

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From Politico: Under the Radar, Many DC cops are Coup-sympathizers, or Worse —Politico

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Changing a System: A Police Chief Confronts a Neo-Nazi Cop

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[NOTE: In the post featuring “TUD” (The Unforgettable Diagram) about racism and its roots, the “stick person” of individual attitudes and actions was surrounded  (embedded?) by many systems, which showed the impact of racism, and in may ways preserved and reproduced it; and both were enclosed (imprisoned?) in the larger encompassing culture. Continue reading Changing a System: A Police Chief Confronts a Neo-Nazi Cop →

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Rep. Cori Bush: An Interview

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The Guardian — Sat 29 Oct 2022

‘I’m changing Congress’: how Cori Bush brought her lived experience to Capitol Hill

David Smith in Washington

Member of ‘the Squad’ on how her abortion experience, sexual assault and front-line fight in Ferguson, Missouri, affected her politics

Her new memoir is bracingly, sometimes painfully honest, but there is one passage that Cori Bush seriously considered striking out before publication.

Bush contends that the Black Lives Matter movement still has momentum.Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images

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