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  1. Albert Johnson Committee Against Police Brutatlity
    Organization profile published 1980
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1980
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  2. Citizens Independent Review of Police Activities
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  3. Criminalizing First-Graders
    Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian ‘zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
  4. Deaths in Custody and Detention
    Volume 33, No. 4 (2006) of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders' institutions). The volume sets out to consider how advanced democratic states inquire into and investigate deaths in controversial circumstances. Also considered are the deadly force and exceptional incarceration policies associated with the "war on terror" waged by the U.S. and U.K. Articles and essays cover the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. (including, Guantanamo), and Australia and mix academic pieces with accounts from prisoners and campaigners.
  5. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
  6. Handbook to Survive Bad Policing
    Resource Type: Book
  7. Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
  8. Israeli Police Impunity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
  9. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  10. The police vs. the law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police have to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
  11. Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
    We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
    During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
  12. RCMP - The Real Subversives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  13. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
  14. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  15. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  16. SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
  17. Spying 101
    The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
  18. Terror Takeover
    The monstrous march of the security state
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2009
    Has our panic over terrorism given permission for unchecked abuse? The fear of terrorism has been used to curtail our liberties and violate human rights.
  19. Toronto's Finest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
  20. Torture by Taser
    When police abuse their newest “nonlethal” toy, people die.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005


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