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The Infiltration of White Supremacist in American Police Departments
Friday, August 8, 2014 l 10 pm EDT l LIVE
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National news analyst and commentator, documentarian and OUR COMMON GROUND Voice, Goldie Taylor writes of family and intimate partner violence.
Source: faultlinesjps.com
"It started with a couple of dime store t-shirts. It ended with me running half naked and bleeding from our apartment.I hadn’t done it right, the laundry. His white undershirts were now pink, thank…"
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Bravo ! to them. Check Yvette out.
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2.) Know thyself. Evolve.
“I had to go through a time of isolation in order to come to terms with who and what I was, as distinguished from all the things I’d been told I was. Right around 1950 I remember feeling that I’d come through something, shed a dying skin and was naked again.”
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Demonstrators call for dismissal of Marissa Alexander case during ‘Stand Your Ground Week’
Source: amsterdamnews.com
"The demonstration is part of “Stand Your Ground Week,” taking place in Florida. Hundreds of regional and national activists are coming together to support Alexander, build awareness about domestic violence and reproductive justice and strengthen opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing."
For more information about the case of Marissa Alexander.
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There is more behind the "poor door".
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
"The poor will use a separate door under plans for a new Upper West Side luxury tower — where affordable housing will be segregated from ritzy waterfront condos despite being in the same building.
Manhattan developer Extell is seeking millions in air rights and tax breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard, but the company is sequestering the cash-poor tenants who make the lucrative incentives possible.
Five floors of affordable housing will face away from the Hudson River and have a separate entrance, elevator and maintenance company, while 219 market-rate condominiums will overlook the waterfront."
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/building-will-have-a-separate-door-for-poor.html
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