David Ragland

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“2015 was a year of exceptionally overt police violence against black folk and tragic mass shootings. A common response to these events has been that they are the result of “sick” individuals. Many conservatives have suggested that the shooters were mentally ill: that the problem was a proliferation of bad people, not a proliferation of guns. When, however, the murderers happen to be people “of color,” the narrative often changes to one of terrorism and extremism (though the NRA position remains consistently pro-gun, even defending the rights of the San Bernadino terrorists to acquire their weaponry).”

Author: Dave Ragland with Matt Meyer and Natalie Jeffers
Published in: Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/25/if-mental-illness-is-the-problem-america-is-mentally-ill/
Battle Creek Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/12/26/real-hope/77918718/
Date: December 25,26,2015

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“Recent grassroots mobilization against police killings of African Americans has thrust a long-standing pattern of racial violence into the consciousness of the world. There is nothing new about state violence against African Americans: from slave patrols, fugitive slave laws, and the Klan/state violence of Jim Crow, right up to today’s racial profiling, stop and frisk, mass incarceration, and shoot-first practices, the segregation and racial oppression of the US has always been maintained by violence.”

Author: David Ragland and Mark Lance
Published in: Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/16/ferguson-america-and-moving-forward-toward-truth/
Quad City Times http://qctimes.com/news/opinion/ferguson-america-and-moving-forward-toward-truth/article_d3b782cb-5f13-5f6a-a279-81b5634e2b90.html
Date: October 16,22,2015

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“In the lead-up to the grand jury outcome in the Michael Brown murder the St. Louis and Ferguson-area police have ramped up their preparation- with stockpiles of more weapons and rhetoric that contributes to the public frenzy.”

Author: David J. Ragland
Published in: The Portland Alliance http://www.theportlandalliance.org/peacevoice/, Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2014/11/20/wrong-priorities-shifting-spending-violence/, Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/21/shifting-spending-on-violence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shifting-spending-on-violence, Battle Creek Enquirer http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2014/11/21/david-ragland-fueling-fire-ferguson/19335555/, Common Dreams http://commondreams.org/views/2014/11/21/wrong-priorities-ferguson-and-beyond-we-must-invest-communities-not-violence, Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2014/11/19/ferguson-reliving-reversing-violent-self-fulfilling-prophesy/, Press Tv http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/11/22/387077/wrong-priorities-in-ferguson-and-beyond/
Date: November 19,20,21,22,2014

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“I flew into St. Louis on Saturday, August 9, to celebrate the birthdays of my mother and nephew and immediately learned about Mike Brown, a soon-to-be college student who was fatally shot by Ferguson police. As my community and I struggle to make sense of this recent murder, I cannot help but think of the structures of racism and violence in America and how they perpetuate police brutality against Black Americans. Police brutality is a national crisis, but the underlying structural violence – racism, economic injustice and militarism – is a national epidemic.”

Author: David Ragland
Published in: Sierra County Prospect http://www.sierracountyprospect.org/category/guest-columnists/david-ragland/, The Brown Watch http://www.brown-watch.com/other-headlines-brown-watch/2014/8/17/davd-ragland-michael-brown-and-the-americas-structural-viole.html, Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/14/michael-brown-and-americas-structural-violence-epidemic, Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/15/michael-brown-and-the-americas-structural-violence-epidemic/, Evergreene Digest http://www.evergreenedigest.org/michael-brown-and-america%E2%80%99s-structural-violence-epidemic, Huntington News http://www.huntingtonnews.net/93013, Las Vegas Informer http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2014/08/15/michael-brown-americas-structural-violence-epidemic/, Valley Voice Newspaper http://issuu.com/ourvalleyvoice/docs/vv_issue_27_combi (pag 14), The Cap Times http://lasvegas.informermg.com/2014/08/15/michael-brown-americas-structural-violence-epidemic/, The Portland Observer http://portlandobserver.com/news/2014/aug/14/struggling-make-sense-michael-browns-death/, The Times of Earth http://www.timesofearth.com/features-views-analysis/michael-brown-and-the-americas-structural-violence-epidemic.html, Truth Out http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/25611-michael-brown-and-the-americas-structural-violence-epidemic, Vox Populi http://voxpopulisphere.com/2014/08/18/david-ragland-michael-brown-and-americas-structural-violence-epidemic/, The Detroit News http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140819/OPINION01/308190002/0/OPINION01/Ferguson-America-s-structural-violence-epidemic
Date: August 14,15,19,21,25,2014

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