Protests
With 1000 US Soldiers Dead in Afghanistan, Time to Revive the Anti-War Agenda
Submitted by anonymous on February 23, 2010 - 2:23pmDownhill From Greensboro: the Left, 1960-2010
Submitted by anonymous on February 8, 2010 - 10:06pm- Afghanistan
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by Alexander Cockburn
The death penalty -- it's unworkable
Submitted by anonymous on February 5, 2010 - 12:13amTROY DAVIS AND MUMIA ABU~JAMAL ~ LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS HAS GREAT FAITH THAT AMERICA WILL COME TO IT'S SENSES AND OFFER YOU BOTH NEW AND FAIR TRIALS WITH PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION BEFORE ANY POSSIBLE WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS WILL EVER TAKE PLACE IN GEORGIA OR PENNSYLVANIA ....
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The death penalty -- it's unworkable The American Law Institute, instrumental in structuring the model statutes on which most death sentences are based, has withdrawn its support of such laws.
By Michael Traynor February 4, 2010
Nearly 50 years ago, as concern grew in the country about the fairness of death penalty laws, the American Law Institute published a "model statute" aimed at helping state lawmakers draft laws to ensure that death sentences were meted out fairly and consistently.
Roots of a Protest That Altered History
Submitted by anonymous on February 1, 2010 - 10:43amThe sit-ins were less sudden than they seeemed.
Fifty years ago today, four black freshmen at Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, N.C., helped change American history.
They walked into the Woolworth's department store, purchased school supplies and toothpaste, and then sat down at the lunch counter and asked for a cup of coffee. "We don't serve Negroes," they were told.
Refusing to leave, they opened their school books and started to study. Four hours later, the store closed and the students returned to campus, where word of their protest spread quickly.
The next day, the four returned to Woolworth's, this time accompanied by 19 of their classmates. The day after that, there were 66; the next day, 100. On the fifth day, 1,000 Greensboro blacks, of all ages, descended on the central business district until the entire city closed down. Within eight weeks, similar sit-ins occurred in 54 cities in nine states of the old Confederacy.
WILL U.S. LET DOWN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN ALLOWING THESE 2 POOR BLACK AMERICANS TO BE POSSIBLY FALSELY EXECUTED AFTER THIS DOCUMENTED U.S.CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON OUR UNJUST AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM ???
Submitted by anonymous on January 29, 2010 - 12:57pmTROY DAVIS & MUMIA ABU ~JAMAL ~ ARE HAVING PRAYERS FOR JUSTICE SAID FOR THEM WORLD~WIDE ..WE CAN ALL ONLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT EVERYONE IN OUR U.S.CONGRESS THAT KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS HOW UNJUST OUR U.S JUDICIAL SYSTEM CAN BE WITH OUR POORER AMERICANS,BECOMES ACTIVE IN MAKING SURE THAT TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA AND MUMIA ABU~JAMAL OF PENNSYLVANIA RECEIVE FAIR AND JUST TRIALS BEFORE ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE EXECUTIONS TAKE PLACE.
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The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 that I introduced in the Senate on March 26, 2009 will create a blue-ribbon commission to look at every aspect of our criminal justice system with an eye toward reshaping the process from top to bottom.
I believe that it is time to bring together the best minds in America to confer, report, and make concrete recommendations about how we can reform the process. This legislation has already garnered wide bipartisan support in Congress and from interest groups representing a range of backgrounds and political viewpoints.
Protest The Use Of Full Body Scanners! (and other hyper "security" measures)
Submitted by anonymous on January 16, 2010 - 7:44am
We've all heard alot of talk lately about "heightening security" at
the airports. Well just want to say Movement for a Democratic Society
(MDS-SI-NYC) in coalition with other outraged activists, both locally
and nationally, aren't having it.
WE ARE PLANNING PROTESTS AT LOCAL AIRPORTS.
AND WITH YOUR HELP, ON A NATIONAL BASIS.
The use of full body scanners is as invasive to our privacy as it is
degrading to our dignity.
Targeting "terrorist prone counties" is nothing more than
racial profiling.
We aren't moved by pleas for increased security from "terrorists".
We can't be convinced that even more abuses to our privacy rights are
needed for anyones safety.
We won't be bullied by government or media hysteria -- No matter how
ratcheted up the fearmongering gets or how overheated the propaganda
becomes.
We plan to make our voices heard, and we'd like you to join in this campaign if you agree.
CEOs Who Steered Economy Off a Cliff Received $28.9 Million Average Annual Salary, New Public Citizen Report Shows
Submitted by anonymous on December 14, 2009 - 6:05pm
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CEOs Who Steered Economy Off a Cliff Received $28.9 Million Average Annual Salary, New Public Citizen Report Shows
Public Citizen Calls for Reforms; More Than 20 Protests to Be Held Around Country
WASHINGTON - December 14 - The CEOs of 10 Wall Street firms that either failed or received taxpayer bailouts were paid an average of $28.9 million per year in the years leading up to the Wall Street meltdown, according to a Public Citizen report released today. Their average pay this decade, calculated through 2007, equaled 575 times the median American family's 2007 income.
They May Kill Some of Us, But...: Kiwane Carrington and the Hierarchy of Violence
Submitted by anonymous on December 9, 2009 - 10:53pm
by haloka
Minneapolis-St. Paul IMC volunteer
In nearly every city across the continent, the victims of police executions disappear from headlines after a day. But some names live on to haunt their killers, and their killers' bosses. In Oakland, Oscar Grant. In Minneapolis, Fong Lee. And now in Champaign, Illinois, Kiwane Carrington.
What the Current Student Movement has to do with the Seattle Protests Ten Years Ago
Submitted by anonymous on December 1, 2009 - 4:38pmby Lee Vuzalone
What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle... by Pete Tridish
Submitted by Brian Dolinar on November 29, 2009 - 1:11pmWhat I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
by Pete Tridish
A Ruckus I Couldn't Miss
I first heard about the Seattle Protests at a Ruckus Society training camp about 6 months before the WTO was scheduled to come to town. Ruckus is a group famous for the dramatic and daring banners they hang from cranes and buildings and towers; they focus on human rights and environmental issues. The speaker there representing the anti-WTO organizers, after making an eloquent case for the connections between all the globalization issues and for a coalition of activists of all stripes, said "We will lie down on the airstrips and stop the delegates planes from landing. If they get past that, we will block the highways leading from the airport to the city. If they get past that, we will block the hotels they are staying in, we will block the streets, and we will block the doors of the convention center and we will not let them make another another free trade deal that week in Seattle." How could I not help with such a plan? In that moment I committed to go.
The Prelude
