Peace / Security - OtherWords

Keep Your Eye on What’s Important: Ending Police Brutality

We don’t know who’s carried out violence and vandalism or why. We do know police keep killing unarmed black Americans.

African Americans were already reeling from COVID-19 when a new wave of police violence hit us.

As a Catholic sister, I think Trump should read his Bible, not pose with it.

My civil rights movement colleagues were murdered in the 1960s, when lynching was common. Sadly, it remains so today.

Gun-toting quarantine protesters are called “very good people,” while unarmed people protesting police violence are “thugs.”

Call it political brutality.

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life.

Wall construction threatens to put our rural hospital systems in the borderlands at a much higher risk.

Warehousing people in unsanitary conditions and then deporting them to poor countries is a recipe for contagion.

We’re all socialists in a pandemic.