January 2012
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An Extrajudicial Execution
Fourteen Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested yesterday in a series of scuffles following police harassment at Occupy’s sustained vigil in Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant plaza. Most of those people remain in jail as of this writing on a variety of heavy charges, including in at least one case: 405a. “lynching.”
California’s 1933 anti-lynching law was largely aimed at preventing...
December 2011
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“Western feminism doesn’t solely concern itself with regionally relevant...”
– Heck yes, this. From Political Notebook’s smackdown on several post-feminist arguments I hear so often.
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Occupy Oakland: Six Days of Zion
In the piece I wrote for the Atlantic last week about Occupy Oakland, one of my favorite quotes unfortunately didn’t survive the final round of edits. In the final piece, this part appeared:
“Our overconfidence and impatience will be our downfall,” says Leo Ritz-Barr, 21, an Occupy Oakland events committee organizer. “And we’ve seen that happen before.”
In my...