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A total of 14 drivers in Aurora, Colorado have received a settlement of $325,000 for a 2012 incident, in which local police decided to detain everyone within an intersection at gunpoint in order to search for a bank robbery suspect. Those motorists had filed a lawsuit in 2014 based on violations of their Fourth Amendment […]
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Colorado Citizens Forced to Pay $325,000 for Mass Detention of Motorists by Aurora Police
December 31st, 2016 
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Arrested in South Elgin, Illinois for Knowing the Law
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Richard S. Blum, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. In the post, Richard describes being unlawfully arrested by an Illinois police officer and how even after the bogus charge was thrown out it ended up costing him. Date of Incident: Fall of 2015Officer Involved: Officer NelsonDepartment […]
TX Police Illegally Detain Man, Demand ID, And Threaten Arrest For Filming in Public
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Patrick Roth of CopBlock Oklahoma, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. (See “related posts” section below for previous submissions from Patrick.) In this video, Patrick was filming in public when he was accosted by, Sergeant Graham, a very rude and unprofessional officer from the Seagoville Police […]
2016 And Beyond: Justice Jumping Genres
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy Above Photo: From environmentalhealthnews.org A historic year for environmental justice saw government failures in Flint, a resurgent Native voice, and a merging of movements. We’re watching where it’s headed in the new year. There I was in a mid-March snowstorm riding shotgun in a truck heading south through the Crow reservation in Montana. I made a […]
On World Day Of Peace, Recognizing Those Who Work For Nuclear Disarmament
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy In observance of the World Day of Peace January 1, we at Global Sisters Report join in prayer for peace in all regions, for all victims of war and for women religious around the world who dedicate their lives to helping them and to build peace. • Sr. Megan Rice, a member of the Holy Child Jesus sisters, was […]
11 Million Could Lose Health Coverage If Expansion Of Medicaid Repealed
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy [1] Michael Karpman, Sharon K. Long, and Stephen Zuckerman, “Health Insurance Coverage Under the ACA as of March 2016,” Health Reform Monitoring Survey, Urban Institute, May 25, 2016, http://hrms.urban.org/briefs/health-insurance-coverage-ACA-March-2016.html. [2] Approximately 11 million people had enrolled through the expansion as of the end of 2015, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis based on administrative enrollment data. Since […]
Why I Answered The Call For Veterans To Go To Standing Rock
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy Above Photo: From otherwords.org At Standing Rock, for the first time, I felt like I was finally serving the people. I lay among friends, huddled and cold in our sleeping bags. We listened to the lashing wind and the drums and prayer chants coming from the sacred fire, and we reflected on why we, four […]
Get Ready For All-Out Assault On Social Security By Washington In 2017
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy Above Photo: Fabricator of Useless Articles/ Flickr But Social Security is not like a 401(k) fund. It is a government program funded by taxes and with benefits set by Congress. It is a wholly political construct, in other words, and it will be whatever the public demands it to be. Sadly, because most of the corporate media have […]
For the Love of the Land
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy One day we children had to collect signatures for the retention of West Prussia and Danzig. We did it gladly. For the First time I realized that we children still thought just the same as our fathers did in 1914. We preserved faith. One day it was rumoured that East Prussia would be lost. […]
Has Obama Abandoned Israel? What You’re Not Being Told
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy By Darius Shahtahmasebi of Anti Media In 2011, linguist and foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky was asked whether he thought Obama was as bad as George W. Bush, to which Chomsky responded: “he’s worse.” Asked why, Chomsky cited Obama’s use of the U.N. veto at the Security Council level, which killed a resolution condemning settlement expansions that Israel […]
The History of Class Struggle in Vermont: From Socialism to the American Plan
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Turkey Plane Transfers ISIS-Daesh Terrorists from Aleppo to Yemen: Report
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“Color Revolution” in Uganda? China’s Strategic Advance in Central Africa
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Iranian man cycles around world in his 60s
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy IFP- In the seventh decade of his life, Hamidreza Mir-Saeed Qazi, a retired military member, has decided to change his lifestyle: he tried to become a vegetarian, did more exercise, improved his language skills, and started to collect what is necessary for a globetrotter cyclist! 10 years ago, he started to overcome all barriers to […]
Iran’s coverage: Syrian, Iranian foreign ministers discuss ceasefire, humanitarian aid to Syria
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: Top Iranian, Syrian diplomats hold talks in Tehran Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem in a meeting in Tehran discussed the latest developments in Syria. Iran, ATR plane maker to finalize deal in days: Official Iran is going […]
Putin approves MoU with Iran on economic cooperation
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy ISNA – Russian President, Vladimir Putin has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran to support the bilateral investment. This MoU, which considered as a structure for further improving of economic relation between Tehran and Moscow, includes offering the mutual services for Iranian and Russian investors, Ria novosti reported. The MoU also paves the way […]
Photos: APFF underway in Tehran
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on December 31 Iran Front Page- Newspapers today covered the recent diplomatic row between the US and Russia, which started with the White House’s decision… Source Article from http://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/12/31/photos-apff-underway-tehran/ Views: 0
Top Iranian, Syrian diplomats hold talks in Tehran
December 31st, 2016 Awake Goy Tasnim – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem in a meeting in Tehran discussed the latest developments in Syria. Muallem arrived in Tehran on Saturday as diplomatic efforts to end fighting in Syria have gained momentum in recent days with the announcement of a ceasefire in the Arab country. […]
