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...Josh Healey Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Oscar Grant or Lebron James? The Systemic Devaluation of Black Life in America by Josh Healey ack in J uly, a L os A n g e l e s ju r y announced its verdict...

...It wasn’t so much a cop as a system that killed Oscar Grant. Above, police in riot gear defend that system during July 8, 2010, protests in Oakland, California, about the “involuntary manslaughter” verdict received by Johannes Mehserle, the police officer who shot Grant. ...

... and Piano Teacher, his Oscar-nominated officers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark television production indus­ mystery The White Ribbon is practically Ruffalo) assigned to investigate the inex­ tries. Before the nomination of genteel, unfolding its story in nostalgic plicable disappearance...

... be singing, we would do well to celebrate victories when they do take place. We have a lot to learn from the people of Puerto Rico, who have been exuberant about the long-term successful campaign to release political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. The jubilation at the granting of his clemency was for the man...

... s o s m a l l , with shockers like Funny Games and The new light. It centers on two 1950s police Israel has remarkable film and Piano Teacher, his Oscar-nominated officers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark television production indus­ mystery The White Ribbon is practically Ruffalo...

...; Creative Commons/OTFW Berlin What makes a person strong enough to risk his or her life for the sake of social justice, peace, and an end to racism? We have much to learn from Fannie Lou Hamer, Oscar Romero, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the many others who chose this path. Left...

...—a sure sign of someone in so were you. After all, each of us is totally Dear Bill: trouble—and I will give it. Sell or give unique, just like everybody else. As far as I can understand how stressed you away anything you don’t want, don’t I’m concerned, Oscar Wilde...

... more. The acquittal of the man who killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, the release of the film Fruitvale Station dramatizing the murder of Oscar Grant (another young black man) by police, and a federal judge’s August 2013 ruling that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy has...

... by assholes and idiots. overtones, like Woody Allen’s Vicky audience of the other). On the asshole roster is Osbourne Cox Christina Barcelona, released earlier this Filmed around the same time as Oscar (John Malkovich), spitting out the best of year, and the two films reviewed here...

... their treasure and payoff’s inside of each passing kingdom. If you look at some who have served the prophetic role in m odern times, like M artin Luther King, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, John XXIII, Simone Weil, and Oscar...

...“Which God Shall Rule?” Mammon (top) or the God spoken of by Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (below) when he said “placing ourselves on the side of the poor and attempting to give them life, we will know what the eternal truth of the Gospel consists of.” ...

... are they doing it? Because we are putting them in this same position by pointing nuclear weapons at them. In September 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Aria, then-president of Costa Rica, said at the Security Council Summit that 22,000 eyes of death face humanity every night in the form of nuclear weapons. I...

...,” says Renderos. “Because without it we don’t have a place where the names Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, Denzel Ford, [and] Eric Garner mean anything to the general public. We don’t have a place to tell their stories.” A dramatic illustration of what that kind of access can mean came...

....” On both sides of the plaster figure, the artist has written an unnerving list of eighty- two names of people of color who have died in police custody from 1999 through 2014. Handwritten in chalk, the list contains familiar names: Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Ezell Ford...

... and liberation. Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias Sanchez won the Nobel Peace Prize in this same period, in part because of his skills at mediating a negotiated settlement to the conflicts in Central America — but also in part due to his own government’s many-decade adherence to survival without a standing army...

..., apparently, that Hanna’s personal travails, culminating in place and time gave birth to robust and the emotion-drenched finale would come the suicide scene that helped Kate Winslet sustained Jewish resistance. across as a disgraceful exercise in mis­ triumph on Oscar night. Morally, it’s The placed...