Is this freedom?

the-enhampment:

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This week has proved one thing to me:

That the police are not there to protect the people, they are there to protect the state.

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Tuesday, March 20th 2012 marked the first official attempt by the NYPD to evict Occupiers from Union Square (a sacred place with a long history of…

imbodybeautiful:

#TrayvonMartin 

“‎The combined jail time after seven incidents? Seven dead = 23 months. In every incident, the absence of involvement by the pursuer would have meant seven people would be alive today. What do all the cases have in common? The victims: All Black males. All unarmed. As the City of New York continues to pay out millions in wrongful death suits one wonders: Does our society care when innocent people who also happen to be Black are killed for doing nothing? Diallo, Bell, Dorismond, Stansbury, Zongo were not engaged in unlawful activity.

Add another the list: Trayvon Martin. This time by a pretend-cop with too much time on his hands.”

occupyallstreets:

The government of Zimbabwe should drop all charges against six civil society activists convicted for watching a video of Arab Spring protests in 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. The six, who alleged they were tortured to confess to planning violence, were sentenced to two-year suspended…