Derek Chauvin’s Guilty Verdict Won’t End Police Violence
Individualizing the system by blaming these actions on a single bad cop like Derek Chauvin misses the point entirely. Getting one violent police officer off the streets doesn’t do anything to stop police violence because policing is violent. CW: policing, murder,
The Helpless Democrat Is A Liberal White Supremacist Myth
The Democrats are a capable group with resources most common people don’t have. They are in possession of power; they just use it to appease moderates. By Frances Coppin-Thom The grassroots #Fightfor15 has been going on for over 8 years now, with
Abolition Now: Black and Brown Children Will Never Be Protected By The State
The police don’t need any help demonizing Black and brown children. Society and the state treat them as older than they are, dangerous, irredeemable, and disposable. CW: policing, state violence, murder of Black and brown people, racism On March 29, police chased
Black Lives Still Matter to NBA Players Even If The League Doesn’t Think So
What has been obscured by statements about NBA progressivity is the fact that players, and not the league itself, are leading the resistance. This essay discusses state-sanctioned violence and Black death By Aja Witt Positioned at the intersection of a global pandemic, a
Laïcité: Islamophobia, Policing Muslims and The Myth of French Secularism
Laïcité and its rules have never been about protecting Muslim women and girls, they’re always about French control and justifying police surveillance of Muslim communities. When I lived and worked as an English teacher in France, one of the first rules