Bill Maloney asks Pope’s Priest ‘Can you tell me Father?’

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Caution: some strong language!

On the 17th September 2010, the Pope visited Lambeth Palace, London, while on his state visit to the UK.

Campaigning filmmakers Bill Maloney and Lilly Starr (makers of documentary ‘4Ward Forever The Heroes’) have interviews, and in some cases, altercations on their route from Parliament Street to Lambeth Palace. View the report below:

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LAPD shooting stirs residents’ anger

originally published by: Socialist Worker.org
published: 15th September 2010

The Los Angeles Police Department struck again the day before Labor Day. A 37-year-old Guatemalan day laborer (who witnesses say was unarmed) was shot in the head and killed by an officer from the notorious Rampart Division, site of one of the worst police scandals in U.S. history.

But this time, the shooting resulted in an eruption of protest, with residents angrily confronting police for several nights and an ongoing vigil to demand justice in yet another case of deadly police violence. The killing took place in the Westlake area of LA, which is sandwiched between the increasingly gentrified downtown and the predominantly immigrant MacArthur Park neighborhood.

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