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killings by police, political prisoners, etc.

Alabama prisoners organize demonstration in response to horrible living conditions

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African prisoners started a demonstration at the prison camp known as the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama on March 12, 2016. The demonstration was recorded on cellphone video.

Barack Obama attempts to reform the colonial U.S. criminal justice system by reducing sentences of 61 prisoners

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Neocolonial U.S. president Barack Obama attempts to reform the criminal justice system by reducing the sentences of federal prisoners, many of whom may have been imprisoned as a result of the 1994 crime bill written by Obama's vice president Joe Biden.

Police union hires killer cop who murdered Laquan McDonald as janitor

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Jason Van Dyke, the killer Chicago Police Department cop charged with murdering 17-year-old African Laquan McDonald in October of 2014, was hired by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to work as a janitor for the city's police union while he awaits trial.

“Manslaughter conviction in the Akai Gurley case is not justice”

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NEW YORK, NY—On February 11, 2016 NYPD cop Peter Liang was convicted for manslaughter in the Akai Gurley case. Sources say the jury did not believe the pig’s defense, that his “gun fired accidentally”.

Cover-up in Texas: Still no justice for Sandra Bland

Omowale Kefing -
HOUSTON-In the same federal courthouse where Muhammad Ali was convicted for draft evasion in June of 1967, a wrongful death suit was initiated on December 17, 2015 by attorneys representing the family of Sandra Bland.

Justice for Lamontez Jones

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SAN DIEGO, CA.--On Thursday evening, members of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) San Diego were notified that the San Diego police department killed an African man in the streets of downtown San Diego in the Gaslamp District.

ANWO calls out Spring Valley attack as colonial violence

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On Monday, October 26 at 10:30am a young African girl was battered by an agent of the state (video).  The African National Women's Organization (ANWO) recognizes this as colonial violence, which is structured to indiscriminately carry out the mandates of the ruling class to control oppressed poor and working class African people.

Black Lives Matter: Opportunism by any name must be exposed!

Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party -

'"Black Lives Matter," while it appears to some to be a catchy, innocuous slogan, is in fact a pitiful, empty, directionless cry that barely conceals the opportunism and opportunists responsible for its prevalence."

The London front of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) organized community fight-back against police containment

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"The London police rounded up black youth, whether they were involved in the incident or not-a move similar to what police do in New York, Ferguson and every other black community in the U.S."
 
 
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