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Excited Delirium Is Copaganda Bullshit to Let Killer Cops Off

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:06

The notion of “excited delirium” makes its appearance in medical contexts almost exclusively as justification for police killings of civilians. It is an ideological tool used to excuse lethal police force. It has been used by police forces as a way to simultaneously blame victims for their own killings and give killer cops an out where no other explanation exists.

Canadian Police Begin Another Year in Deadly Fashion

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 00:18
Police violence and killings.

At least 70 people were killed by police or died through some interaction with police (often not fully disclosed publicly), in Canada in 2020. This is roughly in keeping with previous years, as around at least 60 people died in some police encounter in 2017, 2018, and 2019. People are often surprised to hear that Canadian police kill as many people each year as they do.

Centring BIPOC youth in questions of sexual health and rights

Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 14:47
Talking Radical Radio

Sarah Edo works with a publication called Nuance. pihêsiw is part of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN). In the context of this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Week (SRH Week), Scott Neigh interviews them about what it means to centre Black, Indigenous, racialized, and migrant youth in questions of sexual health and rights.

Deadly Pursuit: Cops Killing with Cars

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:52

Car chases are a staple of action flicks (and the copaganda glorification of cops) over generations of movie making. Some movies are remembered and talked about for their car chases. Bullit with Steve McQueen, The French Connection and Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle, Clint Eastwood’s (Dirty Harry) Dead Pool (if ironically).

Organizing workers, and how to do it better

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:10
Talking Radical Radio

Nick Driedger lives in northern Alberta and has been involved in organizing workers for almost 20 years. He has been part of a number of different unions, including the Candian Union of Postal Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World, and he currently works for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He is also a contributor at Organizing Work, a website with a grassroots focus committed to honest, strategic discussions about the nuts and bolts of organizing.

Beaver Lake Cree Nation headed to Supreme Court over Advance Costs

Submitted by admin on Sat, 01/23/2021 - 11:37

Media Advisory
January 22, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Beaver Lake Cree Nation headed to Supreme Court over Advance Costs

YESTERDAY the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal the decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal overturning Beaver Lake Cree Nations’ partial advanced cost award.

Police weaponize women's vulnerability to push more policing

Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 00:07
But cops don't actually protect women

In September 2020, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said defunding the police was “illogical” because “[t]here’s a lot of people out there in vulnerable communities who depend on the police to protect them and make sure they’re safe from the action of

Where Police Are Involved, a “Fall” Is Never Simply a Fall

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 22:30
Aspects of police violence and police killing.

In his famous 1970 play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Italian playwright Dario Fo examines the farce of a prisoner mysteriously “falling” to his death in police custody.

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