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Professor Gates
“Professor Henry Gates is right; racial profiling and police
brutality are wrong” was the topic of a Workers World Party forum in New
York City on Aug. 8....
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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If the arrest, humiliation and resultant brouhaha over the case of Harvard
scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates has taught us anything, it is that we still dwell
in separate worlds; ones which rarely meet....
Posted Aug 14, 2009
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A community/labor picket line and news conference were held in front of
Cambridge City Hall on July 29 to launch a campaign against racial profiling.
Organized by the Bail Out the People Movement, Boston chapter, the actions
expressed solidarity with Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose
arrest in his Cambridge house on July 16 has reopened a national debate on
police brutality....
Posted Aug 5, 2009
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The New York branch of Workers World Party will be holding a public forum
on “Professor Henry Gates was right—Racial profiling and police
brutality are wrong”, Sat., Aug. 8, 3 p.m. at the Solidarity Center....
Posted Aug 5, 2009
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The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.—a prominent African-American Harvard
University professor—in his own home by Cambridge police on July 16 has
shone a brilliant national and international spotlight on racial profiling in
the U.S....
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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The July 16 arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home in
Cambridge, Mass., is but the latest glaring incident in the long history of
racism permeating Boston, going back to the 1970s desegregation battles and
before....
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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Racial profiling is another expression of institutionalized racism rooted in a
white supremacist ideology under capitalism. In the U.S., racial profiling has
tragically become a way of life, like eating, sleeping and breathing. Being
targeted based on the color of your skin or your nationality is a terrible
burden to bear for any person of color, whether you live in the inner city,
barrio, a reservation or in an upper-middle-class suburb....
Posted Jul 29, 2009
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In April 2005, five Black
Somerville High School athletes were racially profiled, attacked and beaten by
white Medford, Mass. police. The cops, courts, media and school officials
carried out a campaign to frame and vilify them. The youth, however, were seen
as heroes by many in the working class and oppressed communities for defending
themselves against a brutal, unprovoked attack. ...
Posted Sep 21, 2006
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When local
police assaulted five Black youth last April in this Boston suburb, they struck
a rock of resistance. The five young men, all high school students, have
endured, along with their families, unjust expulsion from school even before
their cases are heard and have had to spend thousands of dollars for lawyers to
rebut a racist frame-up by the police....
Posted Oct 14, 2005
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