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Kentucky Police Department Takes On Angel Program To Stop Overdoses Among Drug Addicts

December 30, 2016December 30, 2016 Isiah Holmes 822 Views 2017, Accountability, alexandria kentucky, america, America 2016, Angel Program, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, cannabis, Civil rights, cocain, copblock, coverage, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug addict, drug addiction, drug addiction is health concern, drug arrest reform, drug decriminalization, drug reform, Drug war, drugs, excessive force, fentanyl, freedom, glouchester pd, Harassment, heroin, Illegal search/entry, jay anderson wauwatosa, journalism, Justice System, Kentucky, kentucky cops, milwaukee, new year, New Years Eve, news, no victim no crime, opioid crisis, overdose, police, police accountability, police reform, politics, prison industrial complex, rehab, rehab process, social work and policing, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Update, US, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police cover up, writing

The holidays rewarded residents of a Kentucky town with good news for its addicts. Months ago, the Alexandria Police Department

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Patriots Should Support the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement

November 26, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 543 Views Accountability, assault, Bastille, Berlin Wall, Black Lives Matter movement, BLM, Boston Tea Party, Brutality, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, freedom, guillotine, Harassment, Homicide, Illegal search/entry, Justice System, kelly patterson, Patrick Picarsic, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, prison industrial complex, private prisons, rights, strike the root, the war on some drugs

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Patrick Picarsic, via the CopBlock,org Submissions Page. It consists of

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Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Alternative Policing Within an Anarchist Justice System

October 19, 2016March 11, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 718 Views 3%ers, ABC, Accountability, ACLU, agorist defense services, american civil liberties union, Anarchist Black Cross, anarchists, anti-statist, assault, Black and Pink, black guerrilla family, Black Panther style community patrols, black panthers, Books for Prisoners, Brutality, C4SS, Cell 411, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, cop watch, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, crowdfunding, de-arrest, directly democratic community watch groups, Dishonesty, DoJ, Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Creating an Anarchist Justice System, Double Standard, entertainment and education, Eric Garner, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, FAMM, FIJA, Food Not Bombs, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, fully informed jury association, General Defense Committee, government agencies, high environmental costs of prisons, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, Institute for Justice, IWOC, IWW, jury duty, Jury nullification, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kurdish People’s Protection Units, legal fees, Libertarians, Logan Glitterbomb, media promotion, mike brown, mutual aid, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, national lawyers guild, Nationalism, NCADP, networking, nonviolent communication techniques, Patriotism, peacekeeper, people of color, Pink Pistols, police, police departments, Police State, Prison Ecology Project, prison industrial complex, prisons, public freedom campaign, Public Relations, punishment, radical public defender, Rest In Power, restorative and/or transformative justice process, RIP, Rojava, Shield Mutual, sounds good in theory, soveriegn citizen crap, soveriegn citizens, supplies reading materials, Sylvia Rivera Gun Club for Self Defense, TSA, unarrest, unfair living conditions, voluntary militias, Zapatistas

This post was written by Logan Glitterbomb and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title

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Seattle Proposes Supervised, Arrest Exempt ‘Safe Spaces’ For Heroin Addicts To Use

October 4, 2016 Isiah Holmes 625 Views Accountability, addicts, alternitive media, America 2016, Angel Program, ARTICLE, blog, Civil rights, copblock, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug abuse, drug conflict, drug over dose, drug use, Drug war, drugs and health, freedom, heroin, heroin reform, heroin safe spaces, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, Justin King, law enforcement, legal cannabis, medical facility, medical field, Medicine, news, no victim no crime, opioid crisis, police, police and drugs, police reform, politics, prison industrial complex, prison nation, safe spaces seattle, The Fifth Column, vice news, weed reform, writing

In 2014, a Pew Research Center study revealed something perhaps viewed as impossible 10 years ago. Two-thirds of Americans felt

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What is Expected to be the Biggest Prison Strike in History Began Sept. 9th, Here’s Why You Should Join Them

September 10, 2016September 10, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 821 Views 13th Amendment, abolish prisons, American Prisons, assault, Attica, Attica Prison Riots, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, federal bureau of prisons, federal prison, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, Harassment, incarcerated Worker organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, Justice System, kelly patterson, life in prison, no victim no crime, non-violent drug offense, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, Prison, prison abolition, prison for-profit, prison industrial complex, prison is the new slavery, prison labor, prison overcrowding, prison plantation, prison riots, prison slavery, prison strike, prison system, prisoner abuse, prisoner solidarity, prisoners, private prisons, rights, school to prison pipeline, slave labor, strike the root, The New Jim Crow, The War on Drugs, the war on some drugs, Thirteenth Amendment, Update, victimless crimes, victimless drug crimes, video

Note: Previously, CopBlock Network Contributor Josh Hotchkins also published a post previewing and discussing the prison strike. The growth of

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Even the “Tyrannical, Communist Dictatorship” of China Agrees Citizens Should Film the Police

September 1, 2016September 2, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 535 Views Accountability, assault, Brutality, CCTV, Changping, China, citizens right to videotape police making arrests, Civil rights, communism, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, excessive force, film the police, freedom, Harassment, Henan Police Academy, Homicide, human rights abuses, Justice System, kelly patterson, Lei Yang, Louisiana, Ministry of Public Security, plainclothes officer, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police reforms, Police State, President Xi Jinping, prison industrial complex, prisoner abuse, rights, Second World War, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency

Over the years, the government of China has received much criticism for its treatment of citizens and rightfully so. Although,

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Uncompensated Forced Labor Within Prisons Leads to a Modern Day Slave Uprising in Texas

June 10, 2016June 29, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1022 Views 13th Amendment, able bodied, access to educational or recreational resources, Accountability, Alabama, armed guards, assault, bed sheets, brooms, Brutality, C4SS, cattle, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, clothes, compensation, completely legal, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, corporate slavery scheme, Corruption, daily expenses, demands, detergents, Dishonesty, Double Standard, duly convicted, for-profit prisons, freedom, furniture, garments, good time, government agencies, grievance, growing crops, hand soap, hospitals, incarcerated workers, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, involuntary servitude, IWOC, IWW, janitorial supplies, janitorial work, Justice System, kelly patterson, license plates, lockdown, Logan Glitterbomb, mattresses, May Day, modern day slavery, Modern Slave Uprisings, olden days, overpriced phone calls, people of color, picking cotton, police, police departments, Police State, printed materials, prison industrial complex, prison labor, prison slavery, prison strike, prisons, public schools, punishment, raising livestock, required under threat of punishment, rights, shoes, slaughterhouse, Slavery, soaps, steel products, Strike, Texas, Texas Correctional Industries, textiles, TOCJ Oversight Committee, TX, vegetable cannery

This post was written by Logan Glitterbomb and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title

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Los Angeles Teen Activists Push To Disarm School Police Of Military Weapons, And Win!

June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 Isiah Holmes 643 Views Accountability, Activism, ARTICLE, black lives matter, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, DOD, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, freedom, grassroots movement, Harassment, high school, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, lapd, LASPD, Los Angeles, militarized police, military equippment, military weapons and police, no victim no crime, police accountability, police are not soldiers, police shooting, Police State, prison industrial complex, school and the cops, school board, School Officer, school to prison pipeline, successful activism, teenagers, teens and the cops, Transparency, writing

If you’re one of those citizens who feels as though activism and protest is irrelevantly ineffective, check this out. Recently,

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Researchers Boast DEA Approval Of Smoked Cannabis Study For PTSD As A Breakthrough

May 1, 2016 Isiah Holmes 498 Views arrest reform, ARTICLE, cannabis, conflict, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, DEA, DEA head, decriminalization, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug black market, drug policy, drug reform, Drug war, drugs, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, journalist, Justice System, LSD, marijuana legalization, media, medial use, mushrooms, police, police abuse, police accountability, police and drugs, Police State, political motivaitons, political usefulnes, prison industrial complex, psychadelic study, ptsd, share, smoking marjuana, study marijuana, teenager, US, veteran's, war, weed, writing

The passing of 2016’s unofficial cannabis holiday, 4/20, brought with it encouraging news from the DEA. America’s prohibition dragon head

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Drug War Don Don: US To Push For Drug Decriminalization At Upcoming UN Assembly

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 Isiah Holmes 846 Views Accountability, addiction, america, America 2016, american police, ARTICLE, blog, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, cultur, culture, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug abuse, drug cartels, drug enforcement, drug policy, drug reform, drug reseach, drug treaties, Drug war, drugs and police, freedom, Harassment, health, health care issues, Illegal search/entry, jourmalist, journalism, Justice System, legalization, marijuana, marijuana legalization, militarized police, news, no victim no crime, police accountability, police reform, Police State, prison industrial complex, rights, share, state department, surveillance state, UN, UN assembly, United Nations, War on (Some) Drugs, war on drugs, white house, writing

Relatively few people truly grasp the global ramifications wrought by US drug prohibition. Whether it’s how foreign police forces handle

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Spotlighting A Black Site: Chicago-Local Officials Pass Resolution Calling For DOJ Probe Of Homan Square

February 24, 2016 Isiah Holmes 543 Views 2016, Accountability, america, assault, black site, blog, Brutality, chicago, chicago police, Civil rights, Cook County, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crimes, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, federal probe, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, homan square, illegal, Illegal search/entry, interrogation, Investigation, journalism, justice, Laquan McDonald, military cops, news, police, police abuse, police accountability, police killing, Police State, politics, prison industrial complex, rights, share, strike the root, Surveillance, surveillance state, tourture, Transparency, undercover officers, Update, warrior cops, Washington, writing

County officials near Chicago recently upped the ante amidst a federal probe of the cities police. Their grievances, however, don’t revolve

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Prison Industrial Cancer: Former NYPD Crime Lab Researchers Sue State Police, Claim Intimidation And Supression

February 22, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1716 Views Accountability, blog, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court, crim, crime lab, Dishonesty, DNA, double-standards, Drug war, falsifying data, freedom, Harassment, information, Intimidation, journalism, justice, Justice System, lab, lawsuit, New York, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, prison industrial complex, punishment, research, researcher, rights, science, scientist, share, strike the root, sue, Surveillance, Transparency, TrueAllele, writing

“It’s a sad day” doesn’t adequately describe when scientific fact is devoured and vomited back up by the prison industrial

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