#WhiteHistoryMonth: When the #FBI set-up a Chicago street gang to be tried as a terrorist organization
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Living in #Rio_de_Janeiro now, and witnessing the pacification of the favelas by Brazilian federal troops from a close(r) distance, I can’t help but think back to my faded memories of the ’war on drugs’ while growing up in the U.S. So when—in the wake of the occupation by the Army of the Maré Complex in Rio’s North Zone—I went online to read a little about the history of Rio’s gangs, I noticed some mention of populist roots in the beginnings of the #Commando_Vermelho, which is quite similar to the history of the gangs that occupied the Midwest American city I grew up in. I hit Wikipedia to refresh my knowledge of the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation—a gang whose name rings clear in my memory from (...)
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