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March 6, 2012 · No comments

#5 – COUPLING

Picturing 60,000 prisoners on the West Coast engaging in hunger strike, I meet with an Eastern, magical, mystical rabbi who’s working to bring Jewish people into the struggle against mass incarceration and human warehousing. I want most to ask the rabbi’s counsel on the watchtower on our corner.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Wins “2011 Bull Connor Award”

December 2, 2011 · No comments

Watch Us Punk The World's Top Cop

As Kelly left the hall with his guard, members of Stop Stop & Frisk, #OWS, and Columbia students and an alum presented

4. Persona Non Wealthy

November 29, 2011 · No comments

By Matthew Ira Swaye “As a conservative, I’m against illegal detainment of any kind,” a blind graying man says to me, “and so I’m sure

3. A Probable Cause

November 15, 2011 · No comments

By Matthew Ira Swaye We'll need to organize a free and democratic election to select a new Commissioner of Police. States use third grade test scores to project the needed

2. Our Demeanor

November 8, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Matthew Ira Swaye 28 of us faced the cops and were cuffed and carted off. For our civil resistance, we were arrested and taken from the

1. Fairly Activated, I Disobey

November 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Matthew Ira Swaye I was arrested Friday outside the 28th precinct. In my police wagon were Americans ages 20-66, brothers from Seattle, from L.A., from Virginia Beach and all