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• Using Controversial Law, Danish Police Preemptively Arrest Over 1,000 Protesters and more on Democracy Now! from Copenhagen

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion SaladDemocracy Now!Dec. 14, 2009Indigenous Leaders at the Front Line of Climate Change, at the Front of the Historic Climate March in CopenhagenOn Saturday, over 100,000 people marched in Copenhagen calling on world leaders to agree to a just climate policy. Leading the march was a delegation of indigenous ...
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• stimulator: Never Trust A Cop: Special Report from Copenhagen

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion SaladstimulatorDecember 13, 2009This Week a quick round up from the COP15 Protests in Denmar.subMedia1. Denier’s Dilemma2. Crashing Prosperity3. 100,000 march4. Cop15 Hundred5. Hit the productionBig ups to John Hamilton and Elizabeth Press for lending me their footage. more about “stimulator: Never Trust ...
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• New Probe: New Orleans Cops Shot 10 Civilians During Katrina, Killed 4

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 628
  From ProPublica: During the turbulent days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, New Orleans police shot 10 civilians, at least four of whom died, according to interviews and internal police documents. RELATED: Grand Jury Investigating New Orleans Cops’ Conduct Post-Katrina Some incidents involving police ...
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• Hundreds arrested at climate change demo

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion SaladnocommenttvDecember 13, 2009Danish police say they’ve arrested nearly a thousand people during mass protests on the fringes of the climate change summit in Copenhagen. Many of them are said to be members of the Black Blocs group, an organisation which advocates violent direct action and which ...
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• Dr. Peter Watts, Canadian SF writer, beaten and arrested at Canadian border

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 637
  The story has shown up in a number of places, including Boing Boing , Whatever , and Making Light . Hugo-nominated Canadian author Dr. Peter Watts was beaten, pepper-sprayed, and arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol while crossing the Michigan border back into Canada. In Dr. Watts’s post on his own blog , he ...
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• Because Canadians are dangerous

  
  Rants From The Rookery — Authority: 134
  We must beat them up at the border . Thatll teachem!
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• Truant Officer Hassles Private School Kids

  
  BelchSpeak — Authority: 138
  This is your tax dollars at work in Washington DC. A truant officer arrests children on the street only to later determine that the kids have the day off because their private school doesn’t share the same holiday schedule. And it is too difficult for truant officers to keep track of all of those different schools. ...
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• Caught On Tape: Police Brutality In Rhode Island (Cops Beating A Handcuffed 20yr Old Spanish Guy With A Flashlight)

  
  Shabooty.com — Authority: 606
  Caught On Tape: Police Brutality In Providence RI (Cops Beating A Handcuffed 20yr Old Spanish Guy With A Flashlight) I guess Rhode Island just isn’t the place to be for a Mexican guy. related: However, I think NIN’s song was about fat chicks instead of cops. :/ $ Related Posts: Miss Rhode ...
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• Police brutality in Ozone Park?

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 571
  From NY1 : It was six oclock Tuesday evening when the Martin family says two plainclothes New York City police officers kicked down their door. "We all came running downstairs and said What are you doing? They said We kicked in the door. We said What was the reason for kicking down the door? They said Because we ...
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• BREAKING: Police Shoot Panhandler To Death In Times Square

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 628
  NEW YORK — A panhandler opened fire on police in busy Times Square on Thursday afternoon and was shot and killed by an officer near the famed Marriott Marquis hotel, police said. No one else was injured. The 25-year-old suspect was recognized by a plainclothes sergeant on a task force that monitors aggressive ...
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• Hot Off the Press: Community Connection #34

  
  LA CAN — Authority: 106
  Hot off the press with a new look and format. If you are looking for real news, told from a grassroots vantage, you have found just what you have been searching for. Our readership continues to grow and we hope that you join the family. Happy Holidays. community connect 34 final layout
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• The BBC Story on Nigerian Police

  
  Thy Glory O Nigeria..! — Authority: 123
  Adeola Aderounmu The BBC yet again found another weak spot in Nigeria. The Police. It is up to the Nigerian Police to defend its integrity. How it goes about that is left to the authorities affected. I have done one or two pieces before on the Nigerian Police and I must confess that there was nothing new in that BBC ...
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• Brazil: Curb Police Violence in Rio, São Paulo

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 679
  (Rio de Janeiro) - Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial executions and exacerbating violence in both states, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. read more
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• Inquiry Raises More Questions in Case of Arrests After ’02 Protest in Capital

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Repercussions continue after police arrested, hogtied and confined for hours hundreds of peaceful protesters and bystanders at an I.M.F./World Bank demonstration.
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• Wildcats take advantage of Sun Devils Muff

  
  Mark J. Rebilas Blog — Authority: 111
  My schedule this year had prevented me from covering Arizona State football games all season, thankfully I had a free day which enabled by to cover their last game of the season against home state rival University of Arizona. It is always their biggest game of the year so that plus the fact the stadium is only 10 ...
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• Nepal continues to reel under Maoist strikes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kathmandu, Dec 7 (IANS) A day after a general strike enforced nationwide by the Maoists, Nepal Monday continued to reel under more strikes called by the former guerrillas, which left hundreds of people in the west stranded.A union of teachers affiliated to the Maoists shut down all educational institutions in ...
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• Day of Blogging For Justice: Stop Taser Torture (2009)

  
  THE INTERSECTION OF MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 496
  Today, just like last year , there are bloggers all over the world dedicated to posting today to raise awareness to an issue that is overlooked: taser torture . In this virtual medium its great that we can come together to raise awareness to what I consider to be government sanctioned murder. There are blogs out ...
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• Remembering a Prince and the Ones Who Took Him From Us

  
  Why Am I Not Surprised? — Authority: 406
  When Lawrence Hill Books sent me a copy of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas, I was excited to receive it, but wondered how in the world I was going to find the time to read it in a timely manner. The book came out, after all, the first of ...
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• Day of Blogging for Justice: Ban Taser Torture

  
  UltravioletUnderground, the digital realm of Purple Magazine and Conscious Ink — Authority: 414
  Over 50 taser murders have been documented this year. 21 of them were African-American men (despite being only 6% of the population, as Villager points out). Some may not see the power that a blog entry, or even a number of blog entries dedicated to raising awareness on behalf of public safety, may have in the ...
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• Putin: “Here, Thank God, There Aren’t Any Elections”

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 423
  In his annual live question-and-answer session on Russian television Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fielded questions from citizens across the country on a variety of topics over the span of four hours and one minute. “Conversation with Vladimir Putin: the Sequel” featured questions that came over by ...
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