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We have three unmanned drones that fly 24/7 over the U.S.-Mexico border. There are vehicles, armored vehicles that look like tanks and Humvees, that patrol. We can stop people at checkpoints and violate civil rights. And people do not have freedom to move around that region at the U.S.-Mexico border. So if you have somebody who has a militaristic approach, who has a background as a general, trying to mitigate an influx of people who are poor, and turning it into a war, that seems to be what we have right now. I’ve always made the claim that we are actually at war with Mexico by the way that we manage Border Patrol agents. There hasn’t been one Border Patrol agent in the 100-year history of the U.S. Border Patrol who’s been indicted for murder. Yet Border Patrol agents have killed dozens upon dozens of people, and none of them have ever gone to trial.
Journalist John Carlos Frey looks at militarization on the U.S.-Mexico border. Full interview here. 
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There will never, ever be peace without justice. There will never be calmness without accountability. There will never be order without fairness. So when I hear the authorities call for peace and call for calmness and call for order, I say, yes, but it’s not the absence of tension… I don’t want the police killing on behalf of me. I want the police to be treated with respect and fairly, and I want black youth and brown youth, black men and black women to be treated fairly.
Dr. Cornel West, a professor at Union Theological Seminary. See the rest of the interview: Cornel West: Justice and Accountability are Necessary to End Tension over Killings by Police
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You have a person from Nice killing people from Nice—why would bombing Syria and Iraq give us any more security?
Yasser Louati, French human rights activist, in response to President François Hollande’s plan to reinforce France’s activities in Syria and Iraq after 84 were killed in Nice during Bastille Day celebrations. See the full interview: As Bastille Day Attack in France Kills 84, Is the War on Terror a “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy”?
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Meet Abdullah Muflahi, the convenience store owner who filmed Alton Sterling’s shooting and was then detained by Baton Rouge Police.

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Today, Democracy Now! looks at a side of the Baton Rouge police shooting that has received little attention: What has happened to the individuals who filmed and distributed the shocking videos of Alton Sterling’s death?

Watch the full interview with Abdullah Muflahi.

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When the Second Amendment speaks of militias and speaks also of guns, they’re expressing a fear of slave revolts. The Second Amendment did not apply to enslaved Africans. The Second Amendment did not apply to the indigenous population. In fact, it could be considered a capital offense to sell weapons to the Native American population since the European settlers were seeking to take their land.
Historian and University of Houston professor Gerald Horne on Philando Castile and open carry lawsWatch the interview: Historian: “You Can’t Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment From the History of White Supremacy”
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In a stunning new exposé for Mother Jones, Shane Bauer chronicles the four months he spent undercover last year as a guard at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Facility.
Watch Democracy Now!’s interview with Shane Bauer, journalist and author of "My Four...

In a stunning new exposé for Mother Jones, Shane Bauer chronicles the four months he spent undercover last year as a guard at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Facility.

Watch Democracy Now!’s interview with Shane Bauer, journalist and author of "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard"

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Oakland faces a major police scandal in which multiple police officers are facing allegations of statutory rape and human trafficking after allegedly having sex with an underage girl who was working as a sex worker. Three police chiefs have resigned in nine days. 

Democracy Now! speaks to Cat Brooks, an Oakland-based Black Lives Matter activist and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. Brooks helped organize Friday’s protest against the Oakland Police Department.

Watch and read the entire report: #BlackLivesMatter Activist: Oakland Needs to Name the “Predatory” Cops Who Raped & Trafficked Girl

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For months, actor Rosario Dawson has been campaigning across the country for Bernie Sanders. She spoke in Chicago at The People’s Summit on how to build off the momentum generated by Sanders’ campaign.
Watch: Rosario Dawson at People’s Summit: We...

For months, actor Rosario Dawson has been campaigning across the country for Bernie Sanders. She spoke in Chicago at The People’s Summit on how to build off the momentum generated by Sanders’ campaign.

Watch: Rosario Dawson at People’s Summit: We Need to Stay the Course to Build a New Movement

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JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America Funding Cluster Bomb Manufacturers

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150 financial institutions—including U.S. banking giants JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America—have been accused of investing billions of dollars in companies manufacturing internationally banned cluster bombs. The weapons contain bomblets which fan out over a wide area and often fail to explode until civilians pick them up later.

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Another often-cited statistic that both [Bill Clinton] and Hillary Clinton have used on the campaign trail is that African-American unemployment was at record lows [during Bill Clinton’s presidency]. But as authors such as Michelle Alexander show, that’s because African Americans were being arrested in record high numbers. And if you look at the unemployment rate including the prison population, it actually wasn’t all that low.
Josh Brody, a 24-year-old Bernie Sanders supporter who debated Bill Clinton for 30 minutes in a New Mexico restaurant last week. Watch the interview.
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