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Rep. Al Green Calls for 'War on Racism' in Wake of George Floyd Death

May 29, 2020

‘If Black lives mattered as much as white lives, Mr. George Floyd would still be breathing.’

May 28, 2020

Minneapolis Council Member: 'Police in the City Failed Us' in Protest Response; The Death of George Floyd, in Context

Andy Mannix and Miguel Otárola; Jelani Cobb; Tony Williams, Leilah Abdennabi and Sheila Nezhad

The video of Floyd's death is horrific but not surprising; terrible but not unusual, depicting a kind of incident that is periodically reënacted. It's necessary and, pedestrian to observe that policing in this country is mediated by race.

May 28, 2020

Tidbits - May 28, 2020 - Reader Comments: I Can't Breathe - Again; Trump Second Term Means Tyranny; Reader's Respond on Tara Reade; Open Churches?; Vietnam; Indonesia; Chile; Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Cold War - Again; announcements; resources

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Reader Comments: I Can't Breathe - Again; Trump Second Term Means Tyranny; Reader's Respond on Tara Reade; Open Churches?; Vietnam; Indonesia; Chile; Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Cold War - Again; Resources; Events:COVID and mass incarceration; June 20th

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