It doesn’t look like the Trump Adminstration has a handle on the coronavirus…better wear your mask, wash your hands, and practice social distancing! It’s up to us…
Source: The Lincoln Project
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CNN’s Sara Sidner retched as she watched the video of George Floyd’s last minutes. It was far from the first time she’d covered the death of an unarmed black man by police. And the vicious cycle made her wonder, when will it be enough? Will this be the time that the people, the Earth, and this country is moved?
Advocates suggest ways that white people can become allies for African Americans long after the street demonstrations end.
From Ella Baker to Septima Clark, history is rife with examples of Black women whose tremendous legacies in the world of political organizing are accompanied by a relative absence in the dominant narratives we tell ourselves about the times in which they lived. They say that fortune favors the bold
Produced by Chicago Public Schools, this is “a toolkit to help foster productive conversations about race and civil disobedience.”
Twitter post from Chicago Public Schools announcing toolkit
The motley assortment of police currently occupying Washington, D.C., is a window into the vast, complicated, obscure world of federal law enforcement.
Powerful statement on racism in his life…
Just hear me out.
Via Dave Winer, I am going to start following Patrick Skinner, it sounds like he understands both the problems and how to solve them…
Patrick Skinner spent a decade running counterterrorism operations overseas for the CIA. He worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Jordan; met with kings and presidents; rose through the ranks. But he came to believe he was part of the problem, that the very premise of the work was flawed. So he came home, and joined the police force in Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up.
I first learned about Skinner in a New Yorker profile. Then a friend mentioned his Twitter feed to me: There, Skinner reflects, in a thoughtful, continual stream, on the work of policing, the importance of treating your neighbors like neighbors, the daily work of deescalation, and the behavior of his menagerie of pets.