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[alwaysbewoke]

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[alwaysbewoke]

[morganwolfe]

Families, Rights Groups Demand U.N. Investigate U.S. Police Brutality, Protest Suppression

GENEVA — In an unprecedented move, the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile, together with over 600 rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Human Rights Network, are demanding the United Nations Human Rights Council swiftly convene a special session to investigate the escalating situation of police violence and repression of protests in the United States. Additional signatories include Black Lives Matter and the NAACP.

The groups warn of an “unfolding grave human rights crisis” in the United States and write that the recent police killings of unarmed Black people as well as police use of excessive force and repression of protests violate United States obligations under international law. They call on the U.N. to mandate an independent inquiry into the killings and violent law enforcement responses to protests, including the attacks against protesters and journalists. The letter also calls for a U.N. investigation into the firing of tear gas by President Trump in violation of international standards on the use of force.

[owsposters]

Using a Tent Does Not Equal Camping

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Author's note: I made this poster because the legal point it makes seemed to be so unrecognized in press articles I had been reading at the time. So I made this to push the point. Occupy protesters quickly and widely took it up. This poster was later featured in the U.K Guardian's coverage of OWS and prodded the central legal argument made in a New York State free speech case involving the rights of Occupy protesters. It now appears in print in: Marguerite Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young (eds), Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. It is in the essay chapter, "’Bring Tent’: The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature” by Phoebe Young.

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