Tell the FAA: No Armed Police Drones!
Police are now arming drones! Arming them with weapons like tear gas, Tasers, and rubber bullets. Though they claim these are "non-lethal weapons", 39 people have already been killed this year by Tasers and countless others have been maimed by rubber bullets and flying tear gas canisters. If the FAA does not act immediately, we could all soon be terrorized by these airborne weapons. Call on the FAA and demand they ban armed police drones! Don't let police terrorize us from the sky! More »
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Shame on Arby's
A police association just attacked a Black teenager working at Arby’s. They said he refused to serve a police officer, demanded he be fired. Arby admits he didn't do it but suspended him anyway. Demand that Arby’s apologize and let Kenneth Davenport get back to work. More »
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[KATRINA 10] How Language Shaped Perception of Katrina and New Orleanians
Words matter, and most of the time connotations matter even more than definitions. So when the media started using language dehumanizing New Orleanians, specifically Black people, it helped create a narrative, curiosity and stigma that remain.
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