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Watch John Oliver Argue Against 'Bad Apples' Police Defense
Rolling Stone
Excerpt: "On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver proved why dangerous cops in America aren't just 'bad apples' misrepresenting the profession. The host argued that metaphor was too simplistic for the complex issue. Instead, he held America's police and judicial systems responsible for disallowing positive change."
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Rolling Stone
Excerpt: "On Sunday's Last Week Tonight, John Oliver proved why dangerous cops in America aren't just 'bad apples' misrepresenting the profession. The host argued that metaphor was too simplistic for the complex issue. Instead, he held America's police and judicial systems responsible for disallowing positive change."
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Feds Say They Won't Evict Sprawling North Dakota Pipeline Protest Camp
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Federal officials say they won't evict the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp, due to free speech reasons, even though it's on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers that many Native Americans believe is still rightfully owned by the Standing Rock Sioux under a nearly 150-year-old treaty."
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Associated Press
Excerpt: "Federal officials say they won't evict the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp, due to free speech reasons, even though it's on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers that many Native Americans believe is still rightfully owned by the Standing Rock Sioux under a nearly 150-year-old treaty."
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45 Years After Attica Uprising, Prisoners Are Rebelling Again
Alice Speri, The Intercept
Speri writes: "Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions. The strike kicked off on September 9, in tribute to one of the bleakest moments in the country's history of incarceration."
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Alice Speri, The Intercept
Speri writes: "Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions. The strike kicked off on September 9, in tribute to one of the bleakest moments in the country's history of incarceration."
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Federal Court Blocks Governor Pence's Attempt to Bar Syrian Refugees From Indiana
Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "A federal appeals court panel Monday upheld a lower court judge in barring Pence from interfering with the distribution of federal funds to resettle Syrian refugees in his state."
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Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "A federal appeals court panel Monday upheld a lower court judge in barring Pence from interfering with the distribution of federal funds to resettle Syrian refugees in his state."
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The US Government Has Used a Section of the Patriot Act After 9/11 to Criminalize People of Color
Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud, In These Times
Excerpt: "FBI agents can use Section 505A of the [USA Patriot] Act to obtain personal information such as phone records, computer records, credit history and banking information on the basis of National Security Letters (NSLs), which are similar to subpoenas. The NSLs do not require judicial approval; therefore no check is in place on how the FBI gathers and uses personal information."
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Azadeh Shahshahani and Stephanie Guilloud, In These Times
Excerpt: "FBI agents can use Section 505A of the [USA Patriot] Act to obtain personal information such as phone records, computer records, credit history and banking information on the basis of National Security Letters (NSLs), which are similar to subpoenas. The NSLs do not require judicial approval; therefore no check is in place on how the FBI gathers and uses personal information."
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Honduran Police Repress Protests Against Highway Privatization
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Honduran police have fired tear gas at 200 people protesting a newly erected highway toll outside of Honduras' second-largest city, San Pedro Sula."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Honduran police have fired tear gas at 200 people protesting a newly erected highway toll outside of Honduras' second-largest city, San Pedro Sula."
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Spiral of Silence: Most Americans Care About Climate Change but Don't Talk About It. Why?
Kate Yoder, Grist
Excerpt: "A new report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication suggests we shy away from talking about the climate simply because we don't hear others discussing it."
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Kate Yoder, Grist
Excerpt: "A new report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication suggests we shy away from talking about the climate simply because we don't hear others discussing it."
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