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General US protests discussion
There's a lot of unrest in the US lately, with protests going on in several cities. How do you feel about the state of things in the US, regarding racism, police brutality, etc...? What's your...
There's a lot of unrest in the US lately, with protests going on in several cities.
How do you feel about the state of things in the US, regarding racism, police brutality, etc...? What's your viewpoint on the protests? How do you see the situation evolving? Some fear deadly confrontation between military police and civilians.
Have you had the misfortune of having a negative encounter with police officers? Care to tell your story? Have you participated yourself in one of these protests? What was your experience like? If you haven't, do you keep yourself informed? Where do you primarily find news? What's the general mood in your neighborhood, in your community, in your city?
We've seen protests pop up a lot more in recent years in various parts of the world - eg. Hong Kong, Lebanon, France, etc... Do you feel that this is symptomatic of a larger, global unease? Or can the US protests be considered wholly specific?
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Flint, MI police join protestors marching for George Floyd
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Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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Should we consolidate all the George Floyd protest threads into a daily megapost/thread like we did when COVID began spreading?
The main advantage of this is that updates can be organized and followed daily like on the COVID threads (which is especially useful if you don't live in the US and can't keep track of what's...
The main advantage of this is that updates can be organized and followed daily like on the COVID threads (which is especially useful if you don't live in the US and can't keep track of what's going on) and the main disadvantage is that unlike COVID, we have no idea if this will go on long enough or be dynamic enough to truly merit that. (Although in @dubteedub's COVID post he doesn't discount doing updates every 3 days, which we could do although that conflicts with 7-day weeks)
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Police across the USA respond to protests with violence
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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Police chiefs in Dallas and Atlanta walked their cities' streets and talked directly with protesters, as demonstrations broke out over the death of George Floyd
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A Black CNN reporter and his crew were arrested live on air at the Minneapolis protests
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Here are the Minneapolis police's tools to identify protesters
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Maybe that police station shouldn’t have broken the law
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How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
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Protestors criticized for looting businesses without forming private equity firm first
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The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy
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The success of nonviolent civil resistance | Erica Chenoweth
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Taiwan will provide the people of Hong Kong with “necessary assistance”, after a resurgence in protests against newly proposed national security legislation from Beijing
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US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
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During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement
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Truckers see escalation, results during thirteenth day of Washington protest
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California police used military surveillance tech at grad student strike
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The roots of the October Revolution in Iraq: From October 2019 until the lockdown in March, Iraqi revolutionaries from working-class backgrounds defied state repression to fill the squares of Iraq
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Anatomy of an internet shutdown
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Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
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Protesters, some armed, enter Michigan Capitol in rally against COVID-19 limits
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The anti-quarantine protests seem spontaneous. But behind the scenes, a powerful network is helping
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Redditors tracked down who's behind the American protests to release lockdown. It's a couple of professional astroturfing companies
/u/derilect, working from information provided by /u/icesir, tracks down the organisers of the American protests against lockdown. It's two professional astroturfing companies: One Click Politics...
/u/derilect, working from information provided by /u/icesir, tracks down the organisers of the American protests against lockdown. It's two professional astroturfing companies:
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One Click Politics
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UJOIN
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Coronavirus outbreaks at Mexico’s hospitals raise alarm, protests
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COVID-19 and circuits of capital
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Brazilians protest against Bolsonaro's muddled coronavirus response
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Mexican president passes coronavirus buck to allies, rivals, business
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Publisher drops Woody Allen's book after Ronan Farrow objects and employees walk out
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Thousands march on the fifth anniversary of Boris Nemtsov's death, to protest Putin's "constitutional coup"
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Police are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has 'grown so large' it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate
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Haiti cancels carnival after gun battle between police and soldiers
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Hmong leaders rally against Trump administration deportation push
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Revolt, populism, and reaction
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RCMP are raiding Wet’suwet’en land defender camps
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Holding a city hostage is ‘peaceful’ now? I’ve been to peaceful protests before. The gun rally in Richmond was not that
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"Storm Campbell Lake, they can't stop all of us" - Anchorage’s Campbell Lake, long closed to the public, begins to open up
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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology
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Death threats will force Virginia lawmaker to a safe house during pro-gun rally
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Unknown vandals scrawled 'Free Hong Kong' in red paint on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
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Hong Kong protesters are using apps to avoid restaurants they suspect are pro-China
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India suspends internet and phone services in some parts of the country to quell protests over new citizenship law that excludes Muslims
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Protests grow as Peter Handke receives Nobel medal in Sweden – Turkey joined Albania and Kosovo in boycotting Tuesday's Nobel prize ceremony
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Twenty-five dead and 130 wounded in Baghdad after a night of attacks by unknown gunmen targeting anti-government demonstrators
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The siege of Carrie Lam
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Hong Kong democracy slogans heard at mainland Chinese protest
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Hong Kong protests: Trump signs Human Rights and Democracy Act into law
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