All posts tagged "Militarization"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Organizing Political Rage
By Mina Ezikpe On 20 September 2016, the day after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, I, with a few others, traveled...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: And We Sat: Violence against the Bodies of Diversity and Transparency (DAT) Student Movement at Syracuse University
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner The ultimate connection cannot be the enemy. The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Cops Can’t Come Here: How A Predominantly White Institution Is My Safe Haven
By ray(nise) cange Preface: I started this piece before Mike Brown. Before we were protesting for our rights. I started this one day after running...
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#FergusonFridays: If it wasn’t for the women…[i]
The reality is that the women and girls are the fabric of the community and hold all together. The women usually think and work for...
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Op-Ed: Race, American Ideology, and Militarized Police
By Carolyn Davis Last year, I sat in front of my television in Brookline, a Boston suburb, and watched on live TV as police officers...
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Burying Our Babies: Letter from Los Angeles to Ferguson
In South Los Angeles’s Crenshaw District, there are three funeral homes within a one mile radius of each other. On bright sunny days, young people...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Ferguson’s Protest and Its Occupation
By Vanessa Lynn Lovelace On Saturday, August 9, 2014 at around noon, eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer. Eyewitnesses...
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War and Disability
By Sandra Trappen Problem According to Chris Hables Gray, “wars do make men” (1997:295). And to this I might add, they make women, too. That...
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The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter
By Jimmy Johnson Tel Aviv University Professor Orly Lubin asks about Israeli feminism, “Should feminists struggle for the implementation of equal rights in the army...
