As Narcos: Mexico begins taking over your Netflix homepage, Luna spoke with The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz about criminalization and representation.
To understand the significance of Ozark it must be considered in the context of a proliferation of series about the cartels, which are indelibly tied to current US-Mexican border policy and attitudes to race in the US.
The Philippine National Police, implicated in the suppression of labor movements and President Duterte’s war on drugs, receive a significant amount of funding through U.S. foreign military financing.
In September 2017, Sheerah Escudero’s world came crashing down. Her beloved younger brother Ephraim had been missing for five days and the Escudero family was growing increasingly desperate.
Duterte’s plummeting approval rate will only get worse as he continues to violently suppress any opposition whether through the drug war, martial law, extrajudicial killings, and illegal arrests.
We won't stop the killings until we address all of the causes.
Unless Congress stops him, Sessions is about to turn thousands of Americans into federal criminals.
A Harvard professor and political theorist tells the story of how the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex have impacted her family.
Reading her life story will change the way you view the world. This is not simply a story about a formerly incarcerated woman dedicated to working for justice and freedom in the era of mass incarceration. It is a story of a black woman who, as she often tells me, is “nothing special” and yet has somehow managed to transform her own life as well as hundreds of lives around her. She has emerged as a leading figure in the movement to end mass incarceration.
Under federal law, even legal marijuana is illegal. John Oliver explains why conflicting drug laws pose serious problems.
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