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"Racism is like a Cadillac, they bring out a new model every year."
-Malcolm X (a former auto worker)
Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were formerly incarcerated, Cars and Jails examines how the costs of car ownership and use are deeply enmeshed with the U.S. prison system.
American consumer lore has long held the automobile to be a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free...
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In three taut essays, Kristian Williams examines our society's understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between "gangs" of all sorts-cops and criminals, Proud Boys and antifa, Panthers and skinheads-arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and the conviction that things...
3) On Property
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From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.
That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we've organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd's death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How...
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A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (S.A.N.E) had many conversations with this young child and was very familiar with all that she had been put through. The S.A.N.E. was set to testify in the early 2000's as to these disgusting events. The day before the trial her son and her husband went out to their farm South of Hobart, Oklahoma for a short get away. A fun and relaxing day came crushing down as was found, a bad message had been sent to her. The third...
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Anarchists were among the earliest modern thinkers to offer a systemic critique of criminal justice and among the first to directly criticize academic criminology while formulating critical criminology. They identified the sources of social problems in social structures and relations of inequality and recognized that the institutions preferred by mainstream criminologists as would-be solutions to social problems were actually the causes or enablers...
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The must-read summary of Mark R. Levin's book: "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America".
This complete summary of "Men in Black" by Mark R. Levin, a prominent conservative lawyer and writer, explains the author's criticism towards the Supreme Court. According to Levin, the court corrupts the original ideas of America's founding fathers and the Constitution, and has too much authority within the government. He includes several pertinent...
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Extrait: "Après la Révolution de juillet, la Chambre des députés s'empressa de voter l'abrogation de la loi du 19 janvier 1816, qui attachait à l'anniversaire du 21 janvier 1793 une commémoration solennelle, prescrivait l'érection d'un monument expiatoire, instituait des services funèbres dans toutes les églises, suspendait l'action de toutes les autorités administratives, et jusqu'à celle des tribunaux..."
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The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college...
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