Police – DR. Rosa Alicia Clemente

Why We Riot: Institutionalized Inequality, Racism & Oppression

Rosa Clemente — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:22:51 +0000

View the episode & speakers here Indeed, nowadays, a riot is often the language of the continually oppressed, unheard citizens who are still not afforded the same general rights as their white counterparts, and when protesting these injustices—all too often with the backdrop of a member of their community unjustifiably slain by a police officer—they are met with over-militarized force as an ever...

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Hard Knock Radio with Rosa Clemente on Puerto Rico, Anti-Blackness and Philando Castile

Rosa Clemente — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:11:55 +0000

Listen to Rosa Clemente and Davey D of Hard Knock Radio discuss Puerto Rico, Anti-Blackness, and Philando Castile.

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Rosa Clemente’s Keynote Address – Bellevue College’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Clemente — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:26:18 +0000

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Charlotte Joins Growing List Of Rebellions Over Police Killings

Rosa Clemente — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 06:19:00 +0000

Produced for Rising Up with Sonali. Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina, have just released portions of video from dashcam and bodycam footage of the fatal police killing of Keith Lamont Scott. Critics are demanding the police release all available footage. The video shows Scott stepping backwards with his arms by his side when he is fired upon by police. Police yelled “Drop the gun...

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NYU Portraits – Rosa Clemente Interviews Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin

Rosa Clemente — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:43:04 +0000

Watch the Interview at nyu.

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The Real News Network – Organizing Local Communities Is the Only Way to End Police Killings

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:56:40 +0000

Former Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Rosa Clemente says reform measures like civilian review boards have failed to hold police accountable. EDDIE CONWAY, TRNN: Hi. I’m Eddie Conway. Welcome to the Real News. In light of the recent spate of police killings of African-Americans, I thought I would take this opportunity to look and see what has been occurring. And so today I have with me as...

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The Myth of American Democracy: the Reality of Symbolic but Hollow Empowerment

Rosa Clemente — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:34:47 +0000

Elections and electoral politics have been touted time and time again as THE solution to the nightmares of super-exploitation, structural unemployment, mass incarceration and white political reaction that have plagued the Black working class since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet, after more than 50 years of electing numerous Black mayors, congresspersons, governors...

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Black Lives Matter Rally, Springfield, MA

Rosa Clemente — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:25:59 +0000

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Police-community Tensions at an All-time High

Rosa Clemente — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:09:57 +0000

Just as protests and rallies against the police killings of two black men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, were ramping up in cities around the US, a horrific mass shooting incident in Dallas, Texas, has shocked the nation. Five police officers were killed by a sniper at a protest. Police say that during negotiations with police, the shooter, who was later killed, was...

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Social Media Reacts to Albany Police Youth Workshop Report

Rosa Clemente — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 11:05:43 +0000

Black Lives Matter Upstate New York spokesperson Rosa Clemente is also upset with what the two officers said. She is concerned about what she calls “the trauma inflicted on those young people.” Clemente would like to see Officer Brice suspended. “In the city of Albany we are gonna have to organize at levels against systemic violence like we’ve never seen, and if the leadership is not willing to be...

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