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Hungarian police violence against foreign journalists covering refugee crisis2015-09-19
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that the Hungarian police have obstructed foreign media coverage of the refugee crisis on the border between Hungary and Serbia and, in particular, that ...
IFJ Demands Full Investigation Following Israeli Police Attack on Photographers2014-10-31
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an attack by Israeli police on photographers near Silwad in the West Bank on Sunday, 26 October. According to reports, Israeli police fi...
IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law2015-07-06
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizal...
Niger police attack media instead of protecting them2015-01-21
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured th...
No Tasers For Toronto Police, Communities Urge2017-10-18
Urban Alliance on Race Relations
The Urban Alliance on Race Relations, working on civilian oversight of police since 1975, is joined by lawyers and academics to oppose the buying of more tasers at the Toronto Police Services Board (T...
Press Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto2010-06-28
Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network, Movement
The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been takin...
RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson police2015-04-02
Reporters Without Borders
Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrations2010-12-10
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear i...
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American BlowbackCop-on-Cop Crime in LA
Ciccarielle-Maher, George; King, Mike
Article
2013
CounterPunch
As Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in Dallas, While Awful, Are Also Sadly PredictableLindorff, Dave
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news of a sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest march and rally against police brutality and killings of black people in that city...
The Bizarre Compulsion of Black Men to "Reach for their Waistbands"Waistband-Reaching Syndrome Could Get You Killed
Eskow, John
Article
2014
CounterPunch
If police accounts are to be believed, there is a bizarre urge among young, unarmed black men to provoke their own murder by "reaching for their waistbands" when cops are aiming service revolvers at t...
The City That BleedsFreddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising
Jackson, Lawrence
Article
2016
Harper's
The killing of black teenager Freddie Gray by six police officers resulted in a civic uprising, and spotlights a history of brutality and bloodshed by police in the city of Baltimore.
Concern regarding the brutality of Montréal police against journalistsCAJ
Article
2015
CAJ The Canadian Association of Journalists
CJFE and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) are deeply concerned by the brutal actions taken by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) to impede the work of journalists in the...
Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In IraqShooting Mirian Carey
Carp, Jonathan
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and see...
First of Its Kind Study Shows 55,400 People Hospitalized or Killed by US Cops in a Single YearGardner, Justin
Article
2017
The Free Thought Project
The authors of a study which examined police interactions with the public conclude that alarmingly high numbers reflect an "excess exposure" of people to police violence.
For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crimeShaun, King
Article
2015
Daily Kos
Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
"Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to WashingtonAckerman, Spencer; Stafford, Zach; Guarino, Mark;Laughland, Oliver
Article
2015
The Guardian
Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
IFJ Demands Full Investigation Following Israeli Police Attack on PhotographersSources News Release
Article
2014
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned an attack by Israeli police on photographers near Silwad in the West Bank on Sunday, 26 October. According to reports, Israeli police fi...
IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security LawSources News Release
Article
2015
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizal...
An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by PoliceJacob, Ron
Article
2016
CounterPunch
The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an ...
India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commonsAchanta, Pushpa
Article
2015
Ecologist
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations. But tribal...
International press freedom organizations call on Burundi authorities to investigate attacks on journalists and human rights defenders Pen International
Article
2015
Pen International
Press freedom, media development and human rights organizations denounce the continued attacks on and threats to journalists, media workers and human rights defenders in Burundi, most recently the ser...
'Israel is a terrorist state'Cook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Jonathan Cook's Blog
The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in ...
Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With MurderTillotson, Louise
Article
2016
Inter Press Service (IPS)
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized c...
Kill a Black Kid and Get RichAn American Disgrace
Caccioppoli, Mike
Article
2014
CounterPunch
This is America folks. Where you can kill a black kid and justified or not (NOT!) you will then become a millionaire through interviews and book deals and film rights. This is your capitalist system a...
Land of ImpunityMonbiot, George
Article
2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
LAPD Chickens Come Home to RoostWhy I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
Fowler, Ruth
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'Pithouse, Richard
Article
2014
AllAfrica
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to ex...
Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagersTownsend, Mark
Article
2010
The Guardian
Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assist...
Missouri's Legacy of Violent RacismQuantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Jacobs, Ron
Article
2014
CounterPunch
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in thi...
More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in SchoolsHenerson, Mary Anne; Platt, Brian
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. V...
Most Canadians killed in police encounters since 2000 had mental health or substance abuse issuesMore than 460 people have died in encounters with police in Canada since 2000
Nicholson, Katie; Marcoux, Jacques
Article
2018
CBC
More than 460 people have died in encounters with police across Canada since the year 2000, and a substantial majority suffered from mental health problems or symptoms of drug abuse, a CBC News invest...
The Nature of Police, the Role of the LeftLearning From Ferguson
Gelderloos, Peter
Article
2014
CounterPunch
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the instit...
Niger police attack media instead of protecting themSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured th...
One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFLBianco, Marcie
Article
2014
mic.com
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title...
Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining dealCanadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Helmore, Edward
Article
2012
The Guardian
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
Philippines secret death squads: officer claims police teams behind wave of killingsLamb, Kate
Article
2016
The Guardian
Thousands of people have been killed since Rodrigo Duterte became president and, according to one officer, secret police teams are partly responsible.
Police Say Tasering 8-Year-Old Native American Girl Was JustifiedArticle
2014
Counter Current News
The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud...
Police Shootings, Helicopter Crashes and Bystanders With Cameras: Weighing the Rights of Accidental Journalists'Jansen, Nani
Article
2015
Global Voices
Accidental Journalist are everyday people who stumble across something news-worthy. Most commonly, these accidental journalists report on those who abuse their power.
Police Taser and Beat Innocent Disabled Vet, Hold Quadriplegic Wife at Gunpoint, Demand She StandAgorist, Matt
Article
2015
Alternet
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes filed a lawsuit against the Delaware state police for raiding their home. Officers were looking for their nephews, who faced a charge for possession of the drug paraphernalia.
Police Torture and the Real Militarization of SocietyMartinot, Steve
Article
2015
Counter Punch
What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if app...
Police Unions Sustain Police Violence EpidemicSince when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
Boardman, William
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police vi...
Police Violence Against Native PeopleCorreia, David
Article
2015
Counter Punch
In April 1974, three white high school students from Farmington, New Mexico murdered three Navajo men, Benjamin Benally, John Harvey, and David Ignacio. The brutal murders were nothing new in Farmingt...
Police Violence and Media CoverupAgainst The Current vol. 156
Carlisle, Vanessa
Article
2012
Against The Current
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious wa...
Pungesti, Romania: people versus Chevron and riot policeSummerchild, Alex
Article
2013
The Ecologist
Pungesti is at the terrifying front line of Romania's resource war - where villagers are fighting off rapacious corporations and their private army of violent riot police, backed by corrupt politician...
Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatterThompson, Juan
Article
2015
The Intercept
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious...
RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson policeSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
Seven Reasons Police Brutality is SystemicKristian, Bonnie
Article
2014
The American Conservative
Darrin Manning's unprovoked "stop and frisk" encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressivel...
Shedding light on the use of SWAT teamsBlako, Radley
Article
2014
Washington Post
A new bill in Utah that would require the state's police agencies to report statistics about how and how often they use their SWAT and tactical teams has just unanimously passed a committee in the sta...
The Shoot First Mentality of American PoliceFerguson, Reconsidered
Roberts, Paul Craig
Article
2014
CounterPunch
The US justice system is no longer concerned with justice, but with the careers of prosecutors, punishing the powerless, and protecting the powerful. As justice has largely departed the justice syste...
State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in AmericaSainato, Michael J.
Article
2017
CounterPunch
On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'Tasers in the Line of Fire
Barkham, Patrick
Article
2011
The Guardian
Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
10 Shocking Incidents of Police Brutality Caught on Tape Finally, a Reason to Like CCTV
Henderson, Clint
Article
2012
Counter Punch
The internet is full of videos exposing police officers’ use of excessive physical force when trying to apprehend or detain “potential criminals”. Every year in fact there seems to be an increase in Y...
Tompkins Square Riot (1874)Connexipedia Article
Article
On January 13, 1874 police crushed a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
UK police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests Article
2016
RT
Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects’ heads during arrests and in police stations. The mesh bags are used to restrain s...
Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrationsSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear i...
The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by policeMcCarthy, Tom
Article
2015
The Guardian
After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government o...
Violence and the Newspaper StrikeBernick, Thomas
Article
1997
Against the Current
To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its suppor...
Why Police Kill So OftenFinamore, Carl
Article
2015
CounterPunch
The FBI reports 404 civilians were killed by police in 2011. All were listed as "justifiable homicides." Under more intense questioning, it was then revealed that figures are not actually kept for "un...
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Creating an Ecological SocietyToward a Revolutionary Transformation
Magdoff, Fred; Williams, Chris
Book
2017
Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams...
Journalism of OutrageInvestigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
Protess, David L.; Cook, Fay Lomax; Doppelt, Jack C.; Ettema, James S.; Gordon, Margaret T.
Book
1991
Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
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