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  • Defending Rights & Dissent Stands With Those Fighting for Justice for George Floyd, Condemns Trump’s Outrageous Calls For Shooting Americans

    May 29, 2020 –

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  • Karen Knew What Was Going to Happen to George Floyd. We All Knew.

    May 29, 2020 –

    As we watch the streets of Minneapolis,

  • Criminal Justice Reformers Seek to Use the Power of District Attorney’s Office to Tackle Mass Incarceration

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    June 26, 2019 –

    In an upset, public defender Tiffany Cab

  • FBI Caught Spying on Anti-Racist Groups…Again

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    February 4, 2019 –

    The FBI opened a counterterrorism investigation into racial justice group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). The precipitating incident was a counter protest against the white supramcists. At the protest, individuals brought knives and violently stabbed anti-racist counter protesters. This led the FBI to investigate…the counter protesters

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     Direct link: https://drive.google.com/

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  • Local Police and Surveillance: why impose legislative limits on local law enforcement agencies?

    June 30, 2017 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Model Ordinance to Protect Against Discriminatory Profiling and Limit Surveillance, Intelligence Collection, and Immigration Enforcement Activities

    May 3, 2017 –

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  • A Model Resolution for Defending for Rights and Dissent

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  • Sign-on letter to AG Sessions re Civil Rights Division AAG

    February 28, 2017 –

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  • Sign-on re Post-Hearing Sessions Concerns

    January 30, 2017 –

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