2013 will go down in history as the beginning of the end of our disastrous war on drugs. Fifty-eight percent of Americans nationally support marijuana legalization. World leaders like former U.N. head Kofi Annan are calling for an end to the drug war.
One year ago, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed an executive order ratifying the overwhelming victory Amendment 64, the nation’s first statewide vote to end marijuana prohibition.
by Dr. Boyce Watkins
Sir Richard Branson has spoken up and out against the War on Drugs in the United States. Branson recently noted that the policies are racist and represent a “war on black people.”
The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489.
By Chris Hedges
I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September.
Unsurprisingly, Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio appointed Bill Bratton as his Police Commissioner of New York City.
By Mark Gevisser
Nelson Mandela’s body was laid to rest in a solemn and moving funeral ceremony today, as the world commemorated a man who embodied the human will to do good.
Pope Francis says trickle-down economics do not help the poor, in a wide-ranging interview with Italian daily La Stampa
Gary Younge and Daniel Howden in Qunu
A week of mourning ends with military and moving tributes as the father of South African democracy is finally laid to rest
By Emily DePrang
Sebastian Prevot watched helplessly as three police officers advanced on his wife. Prevot was handcuffed and bleeding in the back of a cop car.
Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Truthout.
At the dawn of the Nelson Mandela administration, I had the extraordinary privilege to sit at the table with the new African National Congress leadership as the Environmental Protection Agency-White House liaison to the South African government.
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