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Police Stings: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

(Grady Judd mentioned at 6:09 & 26:38 in the video.)

John Oliver’s recent Last Week Tonight segment on police stings brought national attention to something many of us in Florida already know too well: these operations are often more about spectacle than safety. In the March 23 episode, Oliver specifically called out Sheriff Grady Judd’s highly publicized sting operations, arguing that police departments have become “addicted to stings” that manufacture crime while doing little to address the actual conditions that make people vulnerable in the first place.

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Palm Beach NOW and the Case That Changed Workplace Harassment Law

In the late 1980s, Palm Beach County NOW was actively organizing around sexual violence and workplace harassment. After a reported rape at a public beach in Boca Raton in 1989, the chapter organized a “Take Back the Beach” protest to call attention to violence against women and unsafe conditions in public spaces. During that action, a male lifeguard approached NOW members to share concerns about the sexual harassment of female lifeguards within the City of Boca Raton’s lifeguard department.

 

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Rev. Jesse Jackson Is Now An Ancestor, Leaving A Legacy of Civil Rights Leadership And Advocacy

Rev. Jesse Jackson with NOW members at the March on Washington for Affirmative Action, 2000.

Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. For more than five decades, Jackson stood at the forefront of movements for racial justice, voting rights, economic equity, and affirmative action, shaping national conversations about democracy and inclusion.

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