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https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/09/federal-judge-limits-crowd-control-devices-portland-ice-building/

Judge limits crowd control devices at #Portland #ICE building; federal officers must identify themselves

A federal judge in #Oregon ruled that he would continue to strictly limit federal use of #teargas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the building in Portland.

DHS officers had an unwritten policy to use excessive force on #nonviolent protesters, in part to chill their #FirstAmendment rights, District Court Judge Michael Simon found.

#ORpol #pdx

Judge limits crowd control devices at Portland ICE building, says federal officers must identify themselves

A federal judge in Oregon ruled Monday that he would continue to strictly limit federal law enforcement’s use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons on protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.

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As a kind of #ThisDayInHistory for most of the month of March 2008 (10th-25th), about 150 separate #nonviolent protests in #Tibet were ruthlessly crushed by #China. Foreign journalists were expelled; then 400 Tibetans were killed, 1300 wounded, & 1000 remain missing. #FreeTibet
#EmmelinePankhurst & 148 other #suffragettes were arrested in London on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912 for throwing rocks into storefronts across the city, including into 10 Downing Street. Read her own words calling for such militant #NonViolent #DirectAction:
https://zurl.co/kurGL

4 years today since Putin launched full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. Are we still sure there was no better way to respond to it? #pacifist #critique #war 🇺🇦☮️⚖️

👉 https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275.

Article summary: 1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass #nonviolent civil disobedience 2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence, & violence in 'human nature') 3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism