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UPDATE: Mychal Bell was released on $45,000 bail this afternoon.
The Jena Six controversy continued today when a Louisiana prosecutor confirmed he would no longer seek an adult trial for Mychal Bell, a black teenager who once faced an attempted murder charge in the beating of a white classmate.
Bell has been in jail since December 2006, [...]
It was August 27, 2004, the Friday night before the Republican National Convention was coming to New York City. I was dating Danny and he liked bikes, so I joined him on the monthly Critical Mass bike ride around Manhattan.
Later, as the officer put on the plastic-flexi cuffs, I shouted, “What are you doing? This [...]
Pushing Off
Dissent is at the heart of democracy. But I never want to be cuffed, starved, intimidated by the cops again.
It was so crazy-interesting, the debate you missed last night. War! Underage drinking! A rose dominatrix suit!
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