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Warrior Cops, Government Spying and Foreclosed Dreams
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Thu Sep 12 10:42:24 2013
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t r u t h o u t | Why has American policing grown more aggressive and confrontational over the last generation?
Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?
Why have so many Americans - especially black Americans - had their homes seized by unscrupulous banks? Will we ever see a real war on poverty, instead of just a war on the poor?
These are the kinds of key questions about the United States in 2013 that are explored in this month's Progressive Picks, which range from Radley Balko's investigation of the militarization of police, to Laura Gottesdiener's stories of foreclosure and resistance. All come highly recommended!
Sincerely,
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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Aggressive policing is no longer just something done by rogue cops - it's now official policy. From the SWAT team boom to the "Robocop" response to protest, Balko argues that decades of war rhetoric and drug war policies have encouraged America's cops to treat their beats like battlefields, and to see the people they serve not as citizens with rights, but as potential threats.
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place Called Home
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Predatory lending practices have resulted in millions of house foreclosures in the past few years, and black Americans are bearing the brunt of this crisis. In "A Dream Foreclosed", Gottesdiener describes the decimating impact of the loss of property and community caused by the foreclosure crisis, and provides historical context of how African Americans have been thwarted from owning real property since the Reconstruction era.
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
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The executive director of the National Lawyers Guild knows, from history, that a government allowed to spy with few limits will inevitably use them to control resistance to the elite status quo. In "Spying on Democracy", Boghosian shows how public and private-sector surveillance programs have turned innocent people's lives upside down and subverted press freedom - and how we can resist.
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As a small percentage of the nation lives at the pinnacle of wealth, more and more Americans are sinking into third world economic and living conditions - and being blamed for their plight. Abramsky details the gloomy reality and offers options for returning to strategies that can finally mean a real decrease in the number of people living in poverty in the United States.
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">Why has American policing grown more aggressive and confrontational over the last generation?<br />
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Once a massive spying apparatus is in place that functions with minimum oversight, who is to keep it from being used for domestic and political and economic agendas in the name of combating terrorism?<br />
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Why have so many Americans - especially black Americans - had their homes seized by unscrupulous banks? Will we ever see a real war on poverty, instead of just a war on the poor?<br />
<br />
These are the kinds of key questions about the United States in 2013 that are explored in this month's Progressive Picks, which range from Radley Balko's investigation of the militarization of police, to Laura Gottesdiener's stories of foreclosure and resistance. All come highly recommended!<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>By Radley Balko</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">Aggressive policing is no longer just something done by rogue cops - it's now official policy. From the SWAT team boom to the "Robocop" response to protest, Balko argues that decades of war rhetoric and drug war policies have encouraged America's cops to treat their beats like battlefields, and to see the people they serve not as citizens with rights, but as potential threats.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>By Laura Gottesdiener</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">Predatory lending practices have resulted in millions of house foreclosures in the past few years, and black Americans are bearing the brunt of this crisis. In <i>A Dream Foreclosed</i>, Gottesdiener describes the decimating impact of the loss of property and community caused by the foreclosure crisis, and provides historical context of how African Americans have been thwarted from owning real property since the Reconstruction era.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>By Heidi Boghosian</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">The executive director of the National Lawyers Guild knows, from history, that a government allowed to spy with few limits will inevitably use them to control resistance to the elite status quo. In <i>Spying on Democracy</i>, Boghosian shows how public and private-sector surveillance programs have turned innocent people's lives upside down and subverted press freedom - and how we can resist.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>By Sasha Abramsky</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1">As a small percentage of the nation lives at the pinnacle of wealth, more and more Americans are sinking into third world economic and living conditions - and being blamed for their plight. Abramsky details the gloomy reality and offers options for returning to strategies that can finally mean a real decrease in the number of people living in poverty in the United States.</p>
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