Police Brutality Activists #ShutdownA14 Nationwide To Oppose Extrajudicial Murder

Protesters against police brutality took to the streets in 30 cities around the country on Tuesday to oppose an epidemic of violence, oppression and extrajudicial murder perpetrated by those meant to protect the public.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
"After a winter of murder after murder, video upon video, passivity has been cracked," declared protest organizer Carl Dix in New York City on April 14, 2015. (Photo: Stop Mass Incarceration Network/ Twitter)

"After a winter of murder after murder, video upon video, passivity has been cracked," declared protest organizer Carl Dix in New York City on April 14, 2015. (Photo: Stop Mass Incarceration Network/ Twitter) As highly publicized killings of unarmed Americans continue to make headlines, activists once again took to the streets nationwide to

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US Police Arrest Five Anti-Israel Activists

“We came here to let the world know that, although this organization presents itself as representative of American Jewry and of course, the state of Israel, the so-called Jewish state,” he said. “It doesn’t represent Judaism in any manner, shape and form.”

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
AIPAA group of activists protest outside the Washington Convention Center where American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is holding its annual meeting on March 01, 2015C

A group of activists protest outside the Washington Convention Center where American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is holding its annual meeting on March 01, 2015 Five activists were arrested Sunday in the American capital for demonstrating outside the Washington Convention Center where the American Israeli Public Affairs

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With Call To ‘End The Drone Wars,’ Activists Cut Their Way Into UK Air Force Base

Four people arrested for aggravated trespass after entering RAF Waddington armed with banners and reports of civilian deaths.With Call to ‘End the Drone Wars,’ Activists Cut Their Way into UK Air Force Base

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

The four who participated in the action were (from left): Chris Cole (51) from Oxford, and Penny Walker (64) from Leicester, Gary Eagling (52) from Nottingham, and Katharina Karcher (30) from. Coventry were arrested inside RAF Waddington and are currently being held by police at Lincoln police station.  Photo: End the Drones/Facebook Four

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VIDEO: Grandmother Facing 1 Year In Jail For Protesting Drones

Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home. While she waits on appeal, Grady Flores and her fellow protestors speak on the dangers of drone warfare, the right to dissent, and what she’ll do next.

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By MintPress News Desk
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Clergy Arrested For Protesting Outside US Air Force Base

Four of the eleven arrested on Good Friday were members of clergy.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Though mainstream America continues to largely ignore the fact that the Obama administration is routinely killing innocent civilians abroad, a number of individuals and organized groups in the U.S. continue to protest the use of remotely-piloted drones and the carnage they deliver on foreign populations. "It's encouraging to see a network of

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Commuter Buses For Tech Workers Inflame San Francisco Housing Rights Activists

San Francisco activists rally against buses carrying tech workers from the Bay Area to Silicon Valley, accusing them of pushing longtime residents out of quickly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Matthew Heller
By Matthew Heller
SF Tech Shuttle Buses

LOS ANGELES --- San Francisco has long been a venue for colorful protests but a demonstration earlier this month in the city's Mission District may have set a new standard for creativity. At the intersection of 24th and Valencia streets, protesters dressed in one-piece clown suits and bouncing exercise balls joined arms and danced a conga line

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