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The U.S. locks up children at more than six times the rate of all other developed nations. The over 60,000 average daily juvenile lockups, a figure estimated by the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), are also disproportionately young people of color.

http://bit.ly/Iu6rkc



Are We Sliding Toward a Police State?

By Steven Greenhut

We are creating a brutal and inhumane society.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31154.htm



US Border Patrol Beat and Taser Man to Death

Video

A new video shows Anastacio Hernadez-Rojas lying on the ground in the fetal position, circled by at least a dozen federal agents as one repeatedly shocks him with an electric stun gun.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31152.htm


From Information Clearing House

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40 Years on, 1960s Black Radical Still Suffers Racial and Political Injustice

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''The consequences of America s racist history still linger deep into the present. No one understands this better than Gary Freeman, a 1960s black civil rights activist whose life has been turned upside down by the racial and political injustice perpetuated first by the United States and now by Canada. Freeman has spent the last four years separated from his Canadian wife and four grown children due to false allegations that he is a former member of the Black Panthers Party. This accusation stems from an incident that took place in 1969, when Freeman, just 19 at the time, shot a white police officer in the arm, which he claims was in self-defense.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8196-40-years-on-1960s-black-radical-still-suffers-racial-and-political-injustice



Activists Occupy the Justice Department to Demand an End to Racist Mass Incarceration

Rania Khalek, Truthout: ''On Tuesday, April 24, several hundred activists from around the country gathered outside the Justice Department (DOJ) in Washington, DC, to call for an end to mass incarceration.... It s no secret that America holds 25 percent of the world s prisoners, more than any other nation on earth, yet makes up only five percent of the world s population, with the costs falling predominately on communities of color. While African-Americans make up just 13 percent of the overall population, they account for 40 percent of US prisoners.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8871-activists-occupy-the-justice-department-to-demand-an-end-to-racist-mass-incarceration



How the Amendment to End Slavery Was Damaged by Racism

Gary Freeman, Truthout: ''The Constitution of the United States of America was created to enable the founding ideals and principles of the Declaration of Independence. Yet something went terribly wrong. It failed to recognize, defend and enable those ideals. The tragedy of such a gargantuan failure is still with us today in the form of institutionalized and systemic racism and a deeply embedded exploitation of labor. Both are still given constitutional sanction.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8709-how-the-amendment-to-end-slavery-was-crippled-by-racism

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A Censored Race War?
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell88.1.html

14 Signposts to Slavery
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/sullivan-c10.1.html

Supreme Court OKs Police Tasering Pregnant Women
http://lewrockwell.com/whitehead/whitehead46.1.html



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