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Terror, Tennis Balls and Tamir Rice

Jul 21, 2016
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a large contingent of Indiana State Police, riot cops and police on horseback was deployed to contain 15 women and one man from Code Pink and their 500 tennis balls.

VIDEO: Chris Hedges Looks at Violence Against Blacks With Revolutionaries Eddie Conway, Ojore Lutalo

Aug 26, 2015
In this week's episode of his TeleSUR show “Days of Revolt,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges speaks with former Black Panther Eddie Conway and former Black Liberation Army member Ojore Lutalo about the state's response to the uprisings in the black community during the 1960s and ’70s and how that applies to the Black Lives Matter protests today.