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Reading The Pictures: Denver Not Quite A Riot

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, DNC Protests, Police, Protests, DNC Security, DNC Photos, Security, DNC Media, DNC 08, Dnc, Democratic National Convention, 2008 Election, Denver, Media News

The most disjointed element of Monday's visual convention coverage involved the media exploiting the security angle.

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Denver - Your Protestors Should Be Greeted With Flowers!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, AT&T, Democratic National Convention, Activism, Police, Lobbyists, Mile High Station, Codepink, Democracy, Patriot, Dnc, Activist, Denver, Peace, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

At the very core of patriotism is the desire to preserve and enhance democracy. For true patriots - those who take their love of nation beyond the c...

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Stark Contrasts In Denver On Eve Of DNC

Judah Freed | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Democratic Convention, Despair, Police Riot, Anti-War Movement, Hope, Police, Dances of Universal Peace, Police Brutality, Meditate 08, Riot, Peace, Spirituality, Denver, Protesters, Home News

As we passed the strong police presence around the Denver Convention Center I realized that my quiet home town now looks like the police state scenes in the most terrifying cyberpunk videos. Soon afterward, however, I arrived at the site of Meditate 08 where they spoke about the benefits of letting go of hate and fear within the self as a way of transforming society.

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Held Suspect

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Louisiana, Tasers, Crime, Police, Police Brutality, Racism, Race, Baron Pikes, Jena 6, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Politics News

I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia -- my mother, my youn...

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Newlyweds Tasered At Reception, Spend Wedding Night In Jail

The Durango Herald | Ted Holteen | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Police Brutality, Newlywed, Tasers, Police, Excessive Force, Home News

The Michigan wedding of Durango newlyweds Andy and Ania Somora came to an abrupt end last weekend after the bride and groom were tasered by local poli...

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Attorney General Mukasey Must Act To Address Police Brutality

Paul Peete | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Brian Ragan, Maxine Waters, Kevin Wicks, Jacqueline Seabrooks, Ruben Walton Ortega, Michael Byoune, Attorney General Mukasey, Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, Baron “Scooter” Pikes, Police Shootings, Police, Police Abuse, Civil Rights, Home News

America can no longer afford to wait for an Attorney General to be selected by the next president to address the breakdown in control over the nation's police departments' use of force policies.

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Vegetable Profiling: Tomatoes See Red

Suzette Standring | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Police, Fda, Jalapenos, Profiling, Food, Salmonella, Salsa, Prejudice, Tomatoes, Outbreak, Poisoning, Living News

Tomatoes are seeing red at being wrongly blamed as the contamination cause of a national Salmonella outbreak. Now jalapeno peppers have replaced tomatoes as the possible culprit.

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Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul

Jennifer Nix | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Nationalism, Short Stories, Literature, To Kill a Mockingbird, Police, Chicago, Anarchist, Xenophobia, George W. Bush, George Lakoff, Progressives, Fiction, Pet Goat, Terrorist, Immigration, Democrats, Bestsellers, Politics of Fear, Politics, History, Activism, Racism, Nonfiction, Aleksandar Hemon, Grapes of Wrath, Fox News Channel, The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo, Huffpost Books, Living News

I once again see the potential and power of literature, and hope to tell new and necessary stories. As activists, we must not lose sight of art. Here are some questions I posed to Aleksandar Hemon.

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Police Turn To Foot Patrols As Gas Prices Rise

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Gas Prices, Police Foot Patrols, Police Cars, Police, Politics News

People around here are seeing a lot more of Officer Robert Stewart. Following strict new orders, he frequently leaves his squad car, hopping out to v...

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Welcome to my neighborhood: Indianapolis cop gets shot

Bil Browning | Posted 07.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Indianapolis, High Crime Years, Crime, Police, Crime Rate, Crime Reduction, Police Shooting, Cops, Living News

I've been blogging repeatedly about the overwhelming crime problem plaguing my neighborhood. When our car was stolen or when the windows were smashed...

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Beating the Jaywalking Rap

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jaywalking, Crime, Police, D.C., Washington, Washington Dc Crime, How to Fight Traffic Tickets, Washington DC, Politics News

While gunshots ring out and drug deals are executed just blocks away, DC's police officers spend entire days nabbing pedestrians who cross streets a little too soon or a little too late.

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Confronting Our Inner Vigilante (Part 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Rudolf Giuliani, Police, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Bernard Goetz, Justice, New York City, Living News

There's an even stronger impulse driving some to the vigilante act than grandiosity: the realization that if you do nothing, you've essentially allowed yourself to be held hostage, not necessarily to the perpetrator, but to fear.

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Confronting Your Inner Vigilante

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Police, Rudolf Giuliani, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Justice, Bernard Goetz, New York City, Living News

If spontaneous and proportional to the crime, the vigilante act, as opposed to the practice, is not a crime. In fact, there's no shortage of situations which call for taking the law into one's hands.

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Fixing Iraq: Cops for COIN

Adam Elkus | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Police, Afghanistan, Iraq, Intelligence, Counterinsurgency, Iraq Police, Iraq Reconstruction, Police Reconstructrion, Peackeeping, Afghan Taliban, Politics News

The time has come for the development of standing constabulary forces that can draw talented and intelligent individuals for overseas policing.

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NRA, Guns On Campus: 0-for-15 in 2008

Paul Helmke | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: School Shooting, Law Enforcement, National Rifle Association, Police, Guns in School, Lsu, Virginia Tech, Nra, Guns, Politics News

The gun lobby made "guns-on-campus" bills a big priority across America this year, and what do they have to show for it? A goose egg.

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NYC Recycling Guns Seized After Crimes

New York Times | Al Baker | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Seized Guns, Police, New York City, Green News

In New York City, where taking illegal handguns off the streets is high on the mayor's agenda, thousands of firearms make it into the hands of law enf...

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Attorneys Hold 'Know Your Rights' Training for Democratic Convention

Colorado Confidential | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Crackdown, Press Rights, Police, Colorado Confidential, Bloggers, Democratic National Convention, Press, Weapons, Denver, Home News

In response to news that Denver police have been stocking up on security equipment, local attorneys are training protesters in anticipation of clashes at the Democratic National Convention to be held there in August.

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Watch: 140 Arrested In San Francisco Iraq War Protest

The Uptake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Arrests, Police, Occupation, theuptake.org, War, Protest, 2008 Election, Iraq, Offthebus, Home News

With the Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq, protests against the continual occupation sprung up all over the United States. In a somewhat dramatic...

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