racism
Mother arrested while standing and waiting for family
October 22, 2014Absurd and humiliating acts of police overreach have become familiar; there are incidents of false arrests, harassment, and use of force against innocent victims by the police daily.
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Trumka backs measure to limit crimes classified as felonies
October 14, 2014He stressed that mass incarceration of people of color is not a result of a higher crime rate, but of laws that criminalize a whole class of people.
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Fast food workers to travel to Ferguson for weekend protests
October 9, 2014Members of the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago will travel with other community groups to Ferguson, Mo., on Friday, October 11.
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Teaching Tolerance hosts webinar with “New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander
September 25, 2014Released in 2010, "The New Jim Crow" outlines the use of the justice system in the United States as a form of racial control that especially impacts young African American males.
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“We have to care, We do care, We’re all in,” Inspiring report from Missouri labor
September 19, 2014"We need to clearly, openly discuss the reality of racism in America, we have a big vision of a better nation.""
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