The streets of Ferguson remain alert and tense. Activist leaders from across the U.S. have come to stand in solidarity with the people of this sad and angry community. A majority black community, Ferguson had an unemployment rate of 5 per cent in 2000, which has now risen to 13 per cent. Poverty stalks places like Ferguson —its poverty rate doubled over the past decade. One in four people in this town of 21,000 lives in poverty. The response to the poverty has not been social services or jobs programmes. It has been a muscular police force that does not feel like it is a part of the community. It is a true reflection of reality for the police to behave like an occupying army. That is precisely its relationship to the growth of poverty and hopelessness in places like Ferguson.
-Vijay Prashad from Frontline
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