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IBW Sends Strong Protest Letter to President of The Dominican Republic Expresses “Utter Indignation” at Country’s Ant-Haitian Ruling

By Press Releases / Statements

New York, Oct. 31–Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) today sent a strong letter to President Danilo Medina Sanchez of the Dominican Republic condemning the recent ruling of the country’s constitutional court revoking citizenship to some 250,000 persons of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic.

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Looking at Baltimore’s Surveillance Cameras

By Editors' Choice, War on the “War on Drugs” Posts

By John Duda
ZSpace

There are very legitimate reasons to be scared that the proliferation of video surveillance is rapidly encroaching on our rights to everyday privacy and anonymity on the streets of Baltimore. Spurred on by counter-terrorism paranoia, recent advances in camera technology and computerized image processing are bringing George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare of inescapable social control within reach of today’s bureaucrats.

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