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Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing

July 26, 2020 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Today is the 60th day of protests since the murder of George Floyd. This weekend, people marched in cities across the country in solidarity with Portland and in opposition to the US becoming a police state. President Trump sending troops to cities added fuel to the nationwide uprising against racist police violence. Protests have grown not only in Portland but in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Omaha, Austin, Oakland, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, DC, among other cities. Trump is not a 'law and order' president, he is a chaos and disorder president.

New Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Federal Law Enforcement

July 23, 2020 By Jonathan Levinson, Oregon Public Broadcasting. , , ,
The Western States Center, the First Unitarian Church of Portland, two state representatives and an ACLU legal observer are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which alleges the federal government has violated protesters’ 10th Amendment rights. It was filed Tuesday in federal court. The 10th Amendment delineates the separation of powers between federal and state governments. “The power to engage in ordinary law enforcement is one of the long-recognized powers that belong to the states and to their municipalities,” said Cliff Davidson, an attorney with Snell & Wilmer, the firm filing the lawsuit. The Western States Center, an Oregon-based activism group, alleges that the arrival of federal law enforcement reversed progress the organization had made in de-escalating conflict between the Portland Police Bureau and protesters.

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