Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

Tag / Protest

On Wednesday, March 27, hundreds of inmates at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico, engaged in a peaceful demonstration against poor treatment. Somewhere between 250 to 500 prisoners refused to leave the recreation yard in a demonstration that lasted for over 12 hours. The Center, which houses over 1,100 minimum-security federal prisoners (all […]

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Activists are reporting over social media that at least a hundred people (I heard one activist being interviewed over the livestream explain there were 250 people) gathered for a vigil turned protest against the weekend police killing of 16-year-old Kimani Gray in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight. Gray was shot 11 times by […]

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Back when occupy encampments around the country were violently evicted one after another by police armed in riot gear, activists speculated that it was a coordinated crackdown. Leading the charge was Naomi Wolf, who was immediately attacked for making accusations without any evidence to back them. To be fair, there was little to no proof […]

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