Police State: Our country stands at a fork in the road

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Our country stands at a fork in the road. The police attacks on the people, especially Black Americans, are moving the country toward a police state that will be imposed on everyone. Although it did not begin with the Trump administration and won’t end with Trump’s ouster, Trump represents a special danger. He has become the symbol of a militarized fascist movement, one backed by right-wing ideologues, and a section of extremely wealthy capitalists. Trump’s ominous effort to call up the military during the George Floyd protests, his use of federal police in unmarked cars who snatched protesters off the street, and his effort to unleash police forces nationally, are more examples of the destruction of democracy and the danger of a police state. Voting Trump out is a matter of stopping the shredding of democracy from going any farther, and setting the stage for reversing it by the growing movement for democracy and rights. Our ancestors spilled their blood to stop slaveholders and Nazis. That part of the American character — that fought for democracy – is showing itself again. Below are the stories published in the People’s Tribune October, 2020 edition about the fight against the rising police state. Please send your stories to info@peoplestribune.org— The Editors
 

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Nurse condemns forced sterilizations of inmates


 

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