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Published in: HomeArundhati Roy: Indian Muslims facing ‘genocidal climate’ amid pandemic
The acclaimed Indian writer says that human rights courts should examine the government’s “disastrous” response.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: Trump backer’s spy firm used by Met Police and Cabinet Office
Palantir's software was trialled by the Met Police and the Cabinet Office. The CIA-backed tech firm lobbied Gove,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEdinburgh to add new plaque to prominent Dundas statue after Black Lives Matter protests
As statues of prominent racists topple around the world a huge, controversial monument in Edinburgh is to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France gives a little over George Floyd
“That excruciating eight and a half minute long video of George Floyd's slow, gasping passage from life to oblivion...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersForeign-trained doctors are untapped resource in pandemic fight
Canada has thousands of qualified doctors and nurses who could help our strained health system now and in the future...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow many more murders of black people will be tolerated by democracy?
I can't breathe! The yoke oppresses me, my skin trembles with pain, my body lies as evidence of crime; but still, it...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDundas should be left with his face in the dirt
Scotland likes to blame empire and slavery on the English and keep quiet about what the Scots immortalised in its...
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Published in: HomeDemocracyWatch: African sex workers hit hard by lockdown laws
All around the world, the most marginalised groups have been hit hardest by lockdown laws and their enforcement.
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Published in: HomeHart Island: New York City’s dark shadow
Being Hart Island, the proposed park – given the racist title ‘Negro Coney Island’ – was to be solely for black...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe statue of Colston must be left in the water
The toppling is a work of art, which celebrates a global movement.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKColston has fallen. Who’s next?
The UK has honoured many slavers, plunderers and perpetrators of massacres. Here’s a list of some more candidates...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe should treat slavers like we treated Jimmy Savile
We forgot Saville's charitable works when we found out about his child rape. We should do the same with...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersImmigrants are not to blame for global epidemics: insights from past and present
That immigrants have been singled out as disease-carriers is not surprising given the long, ugly history of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow black people face and use violence in the US and Brazil
Violence has, to some extent, given political agency to blacks in the United States, whereas nonviolence has kept...
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Published in: Home: OpinionGeorge Floyd protesters expose the lie of liberty
To break the endless cycle of anti-black violence, we must go beyond the ballot box.
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Published in: openJustice: Opinion“We’re like sitting ducks”: how the Home Office is placing life and liberty at risk
New research reveals that the Home Office’s approach to immigration detention during the pandemic is unlawful and...
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Published in: ourEconomySolidarity means dismantling the system everywhere
The infrastructure of racist policing must be dismantled brick by brick, dollar by dollar, police department by...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe revolution is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans
The Black Lives Matter protests are distracting me from everything else in my life. And that’s a good thing.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaProtestors defy curfew as Raleigh (NC) values property over life
Protests over the death of George Floyd carry on despite curfews in many cities across the US. In Raleigh, as...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder
The tale concocted about Tommie Lindh’s death has become an excuse to target minorities, particularly Muslims, with violence.