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Like the COVID-19 pandemic we’re facing, racism is present in every nook and corner of this planet.
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, set up by Black Lives Matter protesters, has some strong similarities with the 1871 Paris Commune.
Why are so many people who have never protested before now joined in the fight against systemic anti-black racism?
The use of body cameras by police forces raises questions about surveillance, privacy and regulation.
Surviving COVID-19 means reconsidering what type of world we want to build and live in, together. We can no longer feign being a democracy that is not democratic.
Across the United States, police are shielded from both public and departmental accountability by multiple layers of contractual and legislative protections.
Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.
Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.
As protests over George Floyd’s death consume the country, students are forcing a reappraisal of a controversial editor and orator who helped build modern Atlanta.
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ to be painted on a street near the White House. The act would have been considered vandalism had it not been done by city workers.
Higher education can help empower students to take an active role in public safety. Here are several ways to do it.
Many Australians would like to engage with Indigenous people and history but say they don’t know how. Taking an Indigenous tour is one way to do this and take responsibility for reconciliation.
Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher about the week in politics.
Pepper spray uses a chemical called capsaicin. It’s the same compound that makes chillies hot, but in a more intense, weaponised form.
Monuments are testaments to how a society wants to remember. Now is the time to ask which monuments can withstand introspection. Artists are opening those conversations – sometimes hilariously.
Competition in the marketplace for ideas is different to competition in the market for ordinary goods and services. Bad ideas don’t necessarily get trashed.
Another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it. A review of police budgets could mean more money towards community initiatives.
The Black Lives Matter protests last weekend marked a new stage in the unpredictable journey coronavirus has taken us on.
Aboriginal people have been calling for non-Indigenous Australians to listen to what they are saying. One great way to do that is via Twitter
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