HANCOCK, N.Y. — On April 10, Robert Doggart, 63, a former Tennessee congressional hopeful, was arrested by federal marshals after a two month FBI investigation discovered he was plotting to attack a Muslim community in New York. He was arrested a day before the attack was planned to take place, court documents showed.

Now Doggart faces new charges and a lawsuit brought by the very people he targeted, the Muslims of America.

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The Star Tribune has a whole lot more readers than the humble North Star Post at this juncture. They also have a much larger staff and readership that feels compelled to emotionally react to their articles. The May 14th edition of their ‘Readers Write’ column features a distasteful combination of all of these factors.

“Nekima Levy-Pounds’ activism is unconstructive, intrusive” reads the sub-header underneath the title. People familiar with the reaction Levy-Pounds receives seemingly every time she speaks publicly will not be surprised about the “substance” of that reader’s commentary. Teresa Maki of Minnetonka (which is

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I run into Bailey as she is stepping out of her car in downtown Baltimore. It has been almost a year since waves of protests shook the city following the death of Freddie Gray, but she remembers those days well. “I live off Fulton Street, right where everything was happening – the rioting, the looting around there.

“Now everything’s pretty much the same around there.”

The words have barely left her mouth when we are interrupted by the sirens of a BPD patrol car as it pulls

A report by Physicians for Human Rights and the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations detailed the health risks associated with crowd control weapons (CCWs) used by police around the world and issued recommendations for their proper use.

The report, titled “Lethal in Disguise,” discusses the use of kinetic projectiles, chemical irritants, water cannons, disorientation devices, acoustic weapons and directed energy weapons with information obtained from medical reports and news reports on injuries sustained by these weapons at protests

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Donald Trump was forced to call off a rally on the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) campus on Friday after thousands turned up to protest the event.

An Estimated 5,000 protesters chanted and held signs criticizing Donald Trump’ for his racism, particularly against Muslims and Latinos. Many of the protesters were also criticizing Trump for his support from White supremacists and terrorist organizations like the KKK.

The protesters were separated from those attending the Trump event by steel railings, police on horseback, and an all around heavy police presence.

The UIC community had

Jerod interviews Marco Calamari, of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights in Milan, Italy, which developed GlobaLeaks. GlobaLeaks enables and protects whistle blowing activities for those concerned with retaliation and anonymity.

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In this – the inaugural edition of the Spotlight series – we speak with Niko Georgiades of the independent media collective Unicorn Riot. Niko and his media collective have been instrumental in the documentation of on-going protests not only in the Twin Cities but also around the country. Unicorn Riot broadcasts a live news show every week covering a wide variety of topics from activism to climate change.

In our interview with Niko we speak about the First Amendment, independent versus mainstream media, Black Lives Matter, law enforcement surveillance and interference with livestream broadcasts,