Protests in Ferguson (Missouri) congregate during the day to a few thousand people in a segment less than a mile on a street in a small town in the Midwest United States. At night police incidents recur. With hundreds of journalists and activists -journalists and activists observing filming, write and tweet the-minute effects are global. […]
Aug 21 2014 | Posted in
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When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, columnist Thomas Friedman proclaimed in an article that finally the American Civil War had ended. Almost 150 years after the defeat of the slave South to the Union led by Abraham Lincoln, a man of African descent came to the White House. Obama, the son of a […]
Aug 20 2014 | Posted in
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“I do not feel represented,” he repeated like a mantra Thursday Etoya Dickerson, a black twenties protesting against the police station of Ferguson’s death on Saturday of a young African American by shooting of a policeman. Dickerson’s words and those of other residents of this poor town outside St. Louis (Missouri), in the Midwestern United […]
Aug 17 2014 | Posted in
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The soothing effect that generated from the afternoon of Thursday the transfer of supervision of protests Ferguson local to the more conciliatory Missouri State Police Officer, evaporated Friday the streets of this humble town of San Luis. Emotions escalate again dramatically and the riots and looting were repeated from previous nights. The trigger for the […]
Aug 17 2014 | Posted in
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