Thanks to Masha Gessen for this excellent first-person account of the outrageous brutality faced by queer folks attempting a March for Equality on June 6 in Kiev, Ukraine.
More at The New Yorker
The Assault on Kiev Pride
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Category Archives: activism
Education Advocates Call for Accreditation Reform
Another protest on June 6 and promises of legislative action against ACCJC and its ridiculous decision to effectively shut down City College of San Francisco:
“Legislators and education advocates Friday called for curbs on the powers of college accreditors, who they accused of targeting City College of San Francisco while allowing violations by the for-profit Heald College to go unchecked.”
More at Bay City News
Chelsea Manning: The Years Since I Was Jailed for Releasing the ‘War Diaries’ Have Been a Rollercoaster
“Through every struggle that I have been confronted with, and have been subjected to – solitary confinement, long legal battles and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been – I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature and thrive as a better, more confident person.”
More at The Guardian
I’m a Black Ex-Cop, and This Is The Real Truth About Race and Policing
“Institutional racism runs throughout our criminal justice system. Its presence in police culture, though often flatly denied by the many police apologists that appear in the media now, has been central to the breakdown in police-community relationships for decades in spite of good people doing police work.”
More at Vox.com
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
“TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States….”
More at NY Times