Charles Shaw is a writer and activist living in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He is the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics and Spirituality, and the Director of The Exile Nation Project. Charles serves as editor for the Dictionary of Ethical Politics and the oD Drug Policy Forum.
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Published in: TransformationExile Nation: The Plastic PeopleThe need for a despised underclass of darker-skinned cheap labor has underpinned American prosperity since slavery....
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Published in: HomeRELEASE US: a short film on police brutalityThis militarization of the American (and European) police force has created what is being called an "epidemic of...
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Published in: HomeThe Phoenix Project seeks trauma victims for doc series
A new documentary series that explores the pervasive effect of trauma in our culture has begun development and is...
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Published in: Home'Secure Communities' still destroying immigrant families
A young activist gets his father released from detention but many more will be deported breaking up families with...
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Published in: Home"The Plastic People" explores mass-deportation
The recently released trailer for an upcoming documentary set in Tijuana, Mexico by openDemocracy editor Charles...
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Published in: HomeDrug Policy Alliance's Top Stories of 2012
Some of top stories of 2012 that capture the momentum gained in this extraordinary year of change, which promise to...