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From Ferguson to Staten Island Building Resistance to Police Terror
http://buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2014/08/from-ferguson-to-staten-island-building.html
written by building bridges radio at Wednesday, August 27, 2014
From Ferguson to Staten Island
Building Resistance to Police Terror
withMichael McPhearson, Ex. Dir. of Veterans for Peace,
Carl Dix, co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West of the Stop Mass
Incarceration Network,
Shahid Buttar, Exec. Dir., The Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Arguably the most significant uprising in many years in this country, in response to the national phenomena of police terrorizing communities of color has been taking place in Ferguson Missouri. Ferguson residents, despite a virtual military style occupation, by local, state and federal law enforcement, in the aftermath of the police shooting death of Michael Brown simply won’t back down even in the face of military tactics and weapons which are being used to suppress dissent in violation of constitutional rights.
Play stream or download at link: http://buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2014/08/from-ferguson-to-staten-island-building.html
