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A federal court on November 20 issued a decision that would severely curtail enforcement of the Voting Rights Act,(VRA) that could affect voters of color nationwide and will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The decision opens the door wider to a return to Jim Crow laws that once (...)
What is Atlanta’s “Cop City”? Why are people protesting?
Protests began in 2021 when the city announced plans to open Cop City – officially called the Public Safety Training Center (PSTC).
The large police training center, to be constructed on forest land owned by the city, has garnered (...)
ANOTHER BLACK MAN was murdered by police in a modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief.
What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the police officers were all African Americans. Some asked how (...)
Unites States: Tyre Nichols’ death prompts calls for federal legislation to promote police reform – but Congress can’t do much about fixing local police
The severe beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Memphis police officers – leading to his death three days later – has (...)
The Tempest editorial board and the Tempest Collective stand in solidarity with the family and communities of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by police on January 7, 2023.
The horrifying video released Friday showing five Memphis police officers severely beating a defenseless and compliant (...)
Police in Memphis, Tennessee beat a 29-year-old Black man named Tyre Nichols on January 7 and three days later he died. The family had an autopsy done that found he died from extensive bleeding caused by a severe beating. The department fired the five officers involved in the shooting on (...)
Black people make up 13% of the population in the United States but represent 24% of those murdered by police.
More than 1176 people were killed by police in 2022, up from the previous year, making it “the deadliest year on record for police violence since experts first started tracking the (...)
The FBI raid on former United States President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida resulted in the seizure of 11 sets of “classified” documents.
Media coverage of this raid has superseded coverage of Trump’s crime of attempting a coup to overturn the 2020 election of President Joe (...)
All people should have the right to effective legal representation when they’re facing criminal charges. But the Supreme Court has just issued a ruling that severely curtails that basic right.
Just weeks after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion signaled the end of a constitutional right to (...)
Dave Kellaway reviews the powerful film on the case of Julian Assange, ’Hacking Justice’ which also included a Q&A with Stella Assange, Apsana Begum and the film’s director Clara Lopez Rubio.
Yesterday I attended a film showing in central London of Hacking Justice that tells the decade (...)
The US government has won its appeal against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, with the UK’s High Court overturning an earlier decision to block Assange’s extradition to the US. The case will now be sent back to the Magistrates Court with instructions to allow the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel (...)
WikiLeaks co-founder’s lawyers say they will seek to appeal, as Amnesty International says decision is a ‘travesty of justice’
Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, according to the high court, as it overturned a judgment earlier this year and sparked condemnation from press freedom (...)
Karl Posner examines the motivations behind the ongoing attempted extradition of Julian Assange to the U.S. and clarifies what’s at stake for everyone, and particularly for those who want to see a socialist world.
Thursday 28 October saw the second and final day of the U.S. appeal hearing (...)
By penetrating the realities of war and pulling it out of its carefully orchestrated public context, by publicizing its raw horrors, he became a danger to the country’s political status quo.
The Pentagon’s offer of “condolence money” to the relatives of the ten people (seven of them (...)
The bottom-line is that cops are outlaws. They have the power to legally kill Black people.
Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd does not change that fact. The Chauvin verdict does not change the reality of racial profiling, racism and national oppression.
Chauvin was (...)
On the brink of the Kill the Bill day of action in Britain this Saturday, Alan Cooper reports on the growing attacks on democracy across the US. Is this the direction of travel here too?
US states Oklahoma and Iowa have passed laws that grant immunity to drivers who cause injuries by (...)
In a decision that led to celebration in Minneapolis and throughout America, a jury of twelve black and white men and women on April 20 convicted white police officer Derek Chauvin of two counts of murder in the case of George Floyd, a black man. Seldom are police officers charged and tried (...)
Former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty by a jury on all charges on April 20.
“I called the police on the police,” one eyewitness told the jury.
The prosecution opened the trial of George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin with a 9 minute and 29 second (“929”) video showing the (...)
Judge says it would be ‘oppressive’ to extradite WikiLeaks founder to US, citing concerns for his mental health.
Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face charges of espionage and of hacking government computers, a British judge has decided.
Lawyers for US authorities are to (...)
BELOW ARE THE comments Clifford D. Conner made at a September 8th press conference in front of the British consulate in New York City. Conner is an historian and author of Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution and The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. The court in (...)
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