Thursday, May 15, 2014

BAUAW NEWSLETTER: THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014


 

 

Nat Weinstein ¡Presente!

October 3, 1924—May 9, 2014

Nathan Weinstein was born in Brooklyn in 1924. His mother was a Russian-Jewish immigrant, his father an American-born son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He married Sylvia Mae Profitt in 1944 and joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1945. He served as a Merchant Marine from 1943-1945. He first learned about socialism in 1945 aboard a Merchant ship. For the rest of his life he devoted himself to his family and to the socialist cause. He participated in the civil rights movement, especially defending Robert Williams and Malcolm X, and was a supporter in the U.S. of the Cuban Revolution. He was active in the Painters Union both in New York and in San Francisco and participated in many labor struggles throughout his life. Nat was an editor of Socialist Viewpoint magazine, where many of his writings were published, including analyses of the Cuban Revolution, the fall of the Soviet Union, the nature of the Chinese state and the power of the united front of workers. Nat was also a decorative painter and an artist. Besides baseball, pool and pinochle, he loved a good political debate. Nat is survived by his daughters Bonnie and Debbie Weinstein, Bonnie’s husband, Jack Biancalana, her son Kevin Sheppard and his wife Maria Sheppard, her son John A. Gould, and Debbie’s son, Reshad Karboa. To his whole family and his many friends and comrades Nat Weinstein represented the best tradition of the militant, class-conscious socialist worker. A celebration of Nat’s life is being organized and will be announced shortly. Messages and comments can be sent to Bonnie Weinstein at giobon@comcast.net, Carole Seligman at caroleseligman@sbcglobal.net, or call Socialist Viewpoint at (415) 824-8730 for more information.



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FAST FOOD WORKERS ANNOUNCE
BIGGEST EVER STRIKE  5-15-14
IN 150 U.S. CITIES JOINED BY
PROTESTS IN 30 COUNTRIES


Statement in Support of Gloibal Fast Food Workers Strike
by Eugene E Ruye, Peace and Freedom Candidate
for California Assembly, 15th District

Every worker deserves fair wages and the right to organize, so please join me in supporting striking fast food workers and allies from 36 countries and 150 U.S. cities, calling out some of the world’s worst corporate behavior and exposing widespread wage theft. In the wake of new reports showing an industry with the largest pay gaps between CEOs and workers, the fast food workers are demanding change: $15 an hour for workers and a union.

Here’s their schedule in Oakland for this Thursday, May 15, 2-014:

5:30 AM Meet at ACCE Oakland Offices 2501 International Blvd

10:30 AM Meet at the Library in Downtown Oakland, 135 14th St.
(check for latest updates at:   occupyoakland.org)

As a working class, socialist, and feminist party, Peace and Freedom has always supported the rights of working folks to organize and strike for better pay and working conditions. Here's what our PLatform has to say:

FROM THE PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY PLATFORM

Double the minimum wage, and index it to the cost of living
Guarantee the right of all workers to organize and to strike
Forbid striker replacement
Socially useful jobs for all at union pay levels
Equal pay for equal work, and for work of comparable worth
A 30-hour workweek with no cut in weekly pay - Longer paid vacations
 A Universal Basic Income with full social benefits as a basic human right
Tax the income and assets of the rich to meet human needs.

As a retired union member (my dues are still taken out of my pension check), I am proud to see my brothers and sisters uniting in dozens of countries across six continuents. For me, it brings to mind the words of the Wobblies:
 
From the Preamble to the Consitution of the
Industrial Workers of the World (1905)

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people while the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the Earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

Abolition of the wage system, of course, means abolition of capitalism. Under capitalism, workers are wage slaves, lucky if they can find work to support themselves and their families. With socialism, workers are guaranteed jobs and decent incomes, with affordable housing, pensions, free health care, and free education.

So, let's join with the fast food workers of the world, and in Oakland, our slogan should be,

HELLA YES ON 15 BUCKS!

May 12, 2014
For more info, go to
ru4peace.wordpress.com
www.peaceandfreedom.org
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Chelsea Manning SF Pride Contingent 2014
http://www.facebook.com/events/298467196976692/

 June 28/29 Celebration Civic Center
June 29 Parade Market Street

This year we have more reason to celebrate the SF Pride 2014 parade in San
Francisco: Heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning is being honored
as an official Grand Marshal! March with us to show your pride in Chelsea!

Organized by the Chelsea Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist.
Endorsing organizations include War Resisters League-West, CODEPINK Women
for Peace, CivSol, and the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

Please contact us to include your organization as an endorser!

A motorized cable car will be available for participants with mobility
limitations.

For further details, please contact farah@couragetoresist.org

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Click on the youtube link to watch the presentation by Mphumzi Maqungo, Treasurer of NUMSA (NATIONAL UNION OF METAL WORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA)
The Struggle Of Labor In South Africa And NUMSA's Call For A Workers Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGSYvnYVOo&feature=

South African National Union of Metal Workers treasurer Mphumzi Maqungo
spoke on May 3, 2014 in Berkeley, California about the political and social
developments in the South African labor movement. His union has called for
the resignation of the ANC Zuma government after the massacre in Marikana
and is organizing to launch a mass workers party in South Africa that is
committed to carrying out the Freedom Charter previously passed by the ANC
but abandoned by the present ANC government. The meeting was sponsored by
the Transportation Workers Solidarity Committee TWSC and the May Day
Committee In Solidarity With South African Workers.


For more information on NUMSA go to:
www.numsa.za.org
For information on the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
www.tranportworkers.org Production of Labor Video Project www.laborvideo.org
 

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No Copyright for Marx Engels Collected Works 

Petition by Ammar Aziz, Lahore, Pakistan 

http://www.change.org/petitions/lawrence-wishart-no-copyright-for-marx-engels-collected-works?recruiter=91032950&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

It is immensely ironic that a private publishIng company is claiming the copyright of the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the philosophers who wrote against the monopoly of capitalism and its origin, private property, all their lives.

Marxists Internet Archieve is an internatioanl, public archieve which gives free access to a wide range of academic and historical writings about Marxism in multiple langauges. Lawrence & Wishart is a private publishing house in Britain which claims to hold the copyright of Marx Engels Collected Works. During the last several years, the Marx Engels Collected Works have been read by the millions of people on the Marxists Internet Archeive (MIA). However, now the private publishing company, Lawrence & Wishart - which loves to position itself as a 'radical company', claiming historical links with the Britain's Communist Party - has directed MIA to delete all texts originating from Marx Engels Collected Works (MECW).

If this happens, MECW would not be accessible on the internet for free, from 30th April, 2014, and that would be a huge loss for the students and political activists who continue to utilize this free academic source.

You cannot privatize their writings -- they are the collective property of the people they wrote for. Privatization of Marx and Engels' writings is like getting a trademark for the words 'socialism' or 'communism'.

Say NO to the copyright law for the founders of scientific socialism. Let's protest against Lawrence & Wishart for this ironic monopoly.

The petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/lawrence-wishart-no-copyright-for-marx-engels-collected-works?recruiter=91032950&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition


To: Lawrence & Wishart, 99a Wallis Road London E9 5LN
Sally Davison, Managing Editor
Lawrence & Wishar

It is a matter of a serious concern for us that you have directed the Marxists Internet Archive to delete all the writings from Marx Engels Collected Works. As an organization which has been affiliated with the Britain's Communist Party in the past and which is known for publishing progressive literature, that's low!

We urgently demand you to take back this nasty, capitalistic decision and let the collected works remain a collective source of knowledge.

No Copyright for Marx Engels Collected Works!

Sincerely,
[Your name] 

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Bay Area United Against War Newsletter

Table of Contents:
A. ARTICLES IN FULL
B. EVENTS AND ACTIONS
C. SPECIAL APPEALS AND ONGOING CAMPAIGNS
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1) Book Reveals Wider Net of U.S. Spying on Envoys
By




2) Rocky Road for Canadian Oil
By and





3) Pentagon Weighs Transfer of Chelsea Manning to Civilian Facility
By




4) Hundreds Arrested in Riots Targeting Foreign Factories in Vietnam
By CHAU DOAN and




5) Tunisian Discontent Reflected in Protests That Have Idled Mines
By




6) Appeals Court Grants Stay of Execution in Texas Based on Mental Disability Claim
By and




7) Two Killed in West Virginia Mine Where Safety Lapses Were Cited
By DANIEL HEYMAN and




8) Videos Said to Show Force-Feeding of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
By




9) The Politics of Income Inequality
"The income of a typical American family has barely risen since the 1970s. The share of national income captured by the richest 1 percent of Americans is even higher than it was at the dawn of the 20th century."
By





10) Never Forget: May 13, 2014 Is the 29th Anniversary of the MOVE Bombing
by Dr. Samori Swygert
May 13, 2014
http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/05/news/never-forget-may-13-2014-is-the-29th-anniversary-of-the-move-bombing/




11) Black Women: New Targets For Mass Incarceration
By Yolanda Spivey
Naturally Moi, May 14, 2014
http://naturallymoi.com/2014/05/news/warning-black-women-are-the-new-targets-for-mass-incarceration/




12) Death Toll Mounts in Turkish Mine Disaster, and So Does Political Fallout
"Five labor unions called for a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday, demanding better health and safety standards for miners. They also said that mine inspectors should be drawn from labor unions and that they should include independent experts not employed by the mining corporations. ...Mr. Karatepe said the privatization of mines had led to a sharp increase in accidents 'because profit is always more valuable than miners’ lives in the private sector.' "
By SEBNEM ARSU and




13) Fast Food Protests Spread Overseas
By




14) Doubling Down on C.E.O. Pay
"Investor anxiety over the pay of Chipotle’s bosses comes in a growing debate about the degree to which corporate excess is exacerbating societal inequality. Chipotle’s founder, Mr. Ells, earned 778 times the median salary at the company in 2012, the 11th highest such ratio of the top 250 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, according to Bloomberg. ...And though general managers at Chipotle can earn upward of $100,000 a year, the average starting salary at one of the company’s 1,600 restaurants is about $21,000 annually. Earning that wage, a Chipotle employee would have to work for more than a thousand years to equal one year of the co-C.E.O.s’ pay."

By DAVID GELLES 
May 14, 2014, 9:46 pm
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/doubling-down-on-c-e-o-pay/?hp















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1) Book Reveals Wider Net of U.S. Spying on Envoys
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WASHINGTON — In May 2010, when the United Nations Security Council was weighing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, several members were undecided about how they would vote. The American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, asked the National Security Agency for help “so that she could develop a strategy,” a leaked agency document shows.

The N.S.A. swiftly went to work, developing the paperwork to obtain legal approval for spying on diplomats from four Security Council members — Bosnia, Gabon, Nigeria and Uganda — whose embassies and missions were not already under surveillance. The following month, 12 members of the 15-seat Security Council voted to approve new sanctions, with Lebanon abstaining and only Brazil and Turkey voting against.Later that summer, Ms. Rice thanked the agency, saying its intelligence had helped her to know when diplomats from the other permanent representatives — China, England, France and Russia — “were telling the truth ... revealed their real position on sanctions ... gave us an upper hand in negotiations ... and provided information on various countries ‘red lines.’ ”

The two documents laying out that episode, both leaked by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, are reproduced in a new book by Glenn Greenwald, “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the N.S.A., and the U.S. Surveillance State.” The book is being published Tuesday.

Elements of the N.S.A.’s role in helping aid American diplomatic negotiations leading up to the Iran sanctions vote had been previously reported, including in an October 2013 article in the French newspaper Le Monde that focused on the agency’s spying on French diplomats.

Mr. Greenwald’s book also reproduces a document listing embassies and missions that had been penetrated by the N.S.A., including those of Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, the European Union, France, Georgia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela and Vietnam. Aspects of that document were reported in June by The Guardian.

Revelations about N.S.A. spying abroad, including on officials of American allies, has fueled anger at the United States. But Caitlin Hayden, an N.S.A. spokeswoman, noted that President Obama sought to address those issues in January when he promised greater limits on spying aimed at allies and partners.

“While our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments — as opposed to ordinary citizens — around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation do, we will not apologize because our services may be more effective,” she said.

Ms. Rice’s request for help in May 2010 was recounted in an internal report by the security agency’s Special Source Operations division, which works with telecommunications companies on the American network.

A legal team was called in on May 22 to begin drawing up the paperwork for the four court orders, one for each of the four countries on the Security Council whose embassies and missions were apparently not yet under surveillance. A judge signed them on May 26.

The internal report showing that the N.S.A. obtains country-specific orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to eavesdrop on their diplomatic facilities may shed light on a murky document published in March by Der Spiegel. It showed that the court had issued an order authorizing spying on “Germany” on March 7, 2013, and listed several other countries whose orders were about to expire.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not authorize the court to issue orders for broad monitoring of specific countries. It does authorize orders for specific “foreign powers” operating on American soil, which expire after a year.

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2) Rocky Road for Canadian Oil
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CALGARY, Alberta — With TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline snarled in a regulatory and legal struggle south of the border, Canadian oil companies are proposing many new and expanded pipelines that would connect the oil sands fields with new markets in China and across the world.

The planned projects that would snake east and west as well as south, could break the virtual United States monopoly market for Canadian oil exports, and enable oil sands production to climb by more than 25 percent in the next decade even if the Keystone pipeline is ultimately blocked.

“The regulatory uncertainty and political decisions in the United States have absolutely increased Canadian resolve to get to global markets for our oil,” said Brian Ferguson, chief executive of Cenovus Energy, one of Canada’s leading oil companies.

But there are many hurdles to clear.

The resistance is strongest in British Columbia, which oil companies envision as the gateway to fast-growing Asian markets.

The critical Northern Gateway pipeline, in particular, has faced strong opposition from Native Canadian groups, which have induced the pipeline company Enbridge to make important safety concessions and even to give an ownership stake to Native Canadians. The company also faces opposition from Kitimat, a town that is the port terminal for the Northern Gateway, which recently voted against the project in a nonbinding referendum.

Another proposed TransCanada project, called Energy East, which would revamp a gas pipeline to take 1.1 million barrels of oil a day to refineries in Quebec and on the east coast, has drawn opposition from environmentalists. Seismic work and other construction of a marine terminal, scientists say, will imperil the already declining beluga whale population in the St. Lawrence River.

More broadly, environmental groups have initiated legal challenges of the government’s streamlined pipeline approval process, which they contend is overly friendly to the oil industry.

“We’ll challenge them at every opportunity we can get,” said Hannah McKinnon, the national program manager of Toronto-based Environmental Defence.

Ms. McKinnon said the debate in the United States over Keystone XL and the battle in British Columbia over Northern Gateway have stoked a broader debate about the oil sands across Canada. “A lot of people are surprised to hear that we’re not all tar-sands zealots,” she added.

Still, the prospects for most of the proposed Canadian pipelines appear bright.

Enbridge hopes its Alberta Clipper, which already takes 450,000 barrels a day to the United States and has a 2010 United States presidential permit, can secure an amendment to its permit without much trouble to expand capacity to 800,000 barrels a day. Kinder Morgan plans to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver to more than 800,000 barrels a day, from 300,000 barrels, and despite local protests, many energy specialists predict the provincial and federal governments will reach an accord that will satisfy most people.

The half-dozen or so projects total three million barrels a day of extra pipeline capacity — much more than the 700,000 barrels a day of capacity Canadian producers would acquire from the Keystone XL project.“You would have to go back to the 1950s to see this many major pipeline proposals on the table,” said Monica Gattinger, a professor of public policy at the University of Ottawa. “Previous junctures have always been about where energy is going to flow in North America. This is the sole juncture about freeing Canadian energy reserves to the world.”

Canadian oil executives say they need most, if not all, of the proposed pipelines, including Keystone, to meet their oil production targets for 2025, which calls for an increase from a current 3.5 million barrels to six million barrels a day, including a doubling of oil sands production. Otherwise, they will have to slow development. And, just to be sure, the industry is planning to move as much as an additional million barrels of oil by train, although pipelines remain the more economical and reliable alternative.

“For us, for future investment, it’s pipeline,” said John Rhind, vice president for oil sands at Shell Canada. “We want more capacity. Long term, we need to see access to global markets.”

Some Canadian oil executives, who are losing patience with the Obama administration over its delayed decision on Keystone after almost six years of review, even see a silver lining because the delay might quicken the pace for the building of alternatives in Canada.

Among the most significant of the proposed pipelines is Enbridge’s giant Northern Gateway project, which would send more than a half-million barrels of bitumen a day to the west coast for export by tanker to Asian markets, principally China.

But it has been a lightning rod for opposition because British Columbians from across the political spectrum fear that regular trips by tankers along the province’s scenic and rugged coastline will inevitably lead to a huge oil spill.

As the final destination of Northern Gateway and the home of its planned ship terminal, Kitimat stands to gain the most in long-term jobs from the pipeline. But the remote community, which is dominated by an aluminum smelter, rejected Northern Gateway in a plebiscite, 58.4 percent to 41.6 percent in April. The town’s district council then passed a symbolic motion against the pipeline.

Mayor Joanne Monaghan said that she still wanted the pipeline, and its jobs, to come to Kitimat although she voted against the Northern Gateway to fulfill a promise to honor the result of the plebiscite. Enbridge has promised to continue its efforts to win local support.

More problematic for Enbridge is opposition from Native Canadian groups. The pipeline would run through the territories of 43 Native Canadian nations, and 17 have withheld support so far. Twenty-six of the First Nations, as the aboriginal groups are called, have signed so-called equity support agreements which give them part ownership of the pipeline. The company agreed to increase the thickness of the pipe, add more automated valve stations for safety, and committed to step up regular inspections. It also changed pipeline routes in 26 locations based on suggestions from local communities.

“We are going to continue to engage as best we can,” said Al Monaco, Enbridge’s chief executive. But in an interview he conceded, “With some of the First Nations, we haven’t had a great dialogue.”

The opposition of those mostly coastal aboriginal groups will probably set the stage for a historic constitutional battle. A decade ago, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that native groups must be consulted and accommodated on resource development. But the native groups were not given explicit veto powers, and ambiguity surrounds the definitions of consultation and accommodation.

Gordon Christie, the director of the Indigenous Legal Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, said that while dissidents do not hold veto power, the government risks provoking possibly violent confrontations if it declares the consultation and accommodations complete and pushes ahead with Northern Gateway.

“We don’t really know what’s going to happen,” Professor Christie said. “But I think the people of the world are going to learn a lot about central B.C.”


Clifford Krauss reported from Calgary, Alberta, and Ian Austen from Ottawa.


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3) Pentagon Weighs Transfer of Chelsea Manning to Civilian Facility
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — The United States Defense Department is considering a request from the Army to transfer Private Chelsea Manning, convicted of leaking national security data to WikiLeaks, to a civilian prison so that she can get treatment for her gender disorder, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.

Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had approved a request from the Army to “evaluate potential treatment options for inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria.”

Private Manning, formerly known as Bradley, was convicted of sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. She has asked for hormone therapy and to be able to live as a woman.

Admiral Kirby said that no decision on the Army request, first reported by The Associated Press, had been made, and that any decision to transfer Private Manning to a civilian facility would “properly balance the soldier’s medical needs with our obligation to ensure Private Manning remains behind bars.”

Admiral Kirby was speaking to reporters traveling with Mr. Hagel in Jidda, Saudi Arabia.

Private Manning has been denied clemency; a judge recently upheld her 35-year prison sentence for providing secret files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified materials in American history. Aboard his flight to Jidda on Monday night, Mr. Hagel repeated recent public remarks that the military should “continually” review its prohibition on transgender people in the armed forces, raising the prospect that the ban might eventually be lifted, as was the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military.

While any such reversal appears to be far in the future — the Pentagon’s standard talking point on the issue has been that it is under continuous review — Mr. Hagel said again that: “Every qualified American who wants to serve our country should have an opportunity if they fit the qualifications and can do it.”

However, he did not order a review of the policy himself.

In the American military, transgender service members can be summarily dismissed, as Defense Department guidelines describe transgender people as sexual deviants and their condition as “paraphilia,” with its connotations of the atypical and extreme.


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4) Hundreds Arrested in Riots Targeting Foreign Factories in Vietnam
By CHAU DOAN and

HANOI, Vietnam — More than 400 people were arrested after riots in which scores of foreign-owned factories were damaged or destroyed in an industrial area in southern Vietnam, Vietnamese authorities said Wednesday.

The upheaval on Tuesday was the worst public unrest in recent Vietnamese history, involving thousands of workers. It reportedly began as demonstrations against China’s stationing of an oil drilling rig in disputed waters off Vietnam’s coast. But the protests boiled over into widespread violence, as workers rampaged through a dense industrial area in a northern suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, once known as Saigon. The area has rows of cavernous buildings where thousands of mostly young workers stitch together sneakers and clothing for sale around the world.“No one knows what really caused the riots — only initially did it seem to be about the Chinese,” Truong Huy San, an author and well-known blogger, said by telephone after touring the industrial zone. “These were totally uncontrolled crowds.”


The great majority of the affected factories and workshops were owned by Taiwanese or South Korean companies.

“There was quite a lot of damage,” said Chen Bor-show, the director-general for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, which functions as Taiwan’s de facto consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Chen said that around 200 Taiwanese companies were affected.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said 50 Korean-owned factories were damaged in the riots, and one South Korean citizen was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Mr. San, the blogger, who uses the pen name Huy Duc, said that some of the workshops were very severely damaged. “It’s kind of a disaster zone,” he said. “Everyone is scared. There are hundred of factories that will have to close for weeks or months.”

Mr. San said the riots were a signal to Vietnam’s authoritarian government that workers needed avenues to express their grievances. Independent unions are banned in Vietnam.

“I don’t know whether the government recognizes the very important message that was sent from this province,” he said. “The government needs to do something to change their thinking and policy.”

Tran Van Nam, the vice chairman of Binh Duong Province, where the violence occurred, was quoted by a Vietnamese online news site, VNExpress, saying that around 19,000 workers were involved in the protests on Tuesday.

Another provincial official, Tran Xuan Nam, said in a telephone interview late Wednesday that the situation there was “stable” and that 447 suspects had been detained. “We will restore order as soon as possible,” he said.

Mr. Nam said that 20 factories had been “seriously destroyed.” He attributed the riots to “extremism,” but did not elaborate.

The Chinese Embassy in Hanoi issued a warning on Wednesday to Chinese citizens in Vietnam, urging them to “minimize unnecessary outings.” The Hong Kong government posted a travel alert, warning residents to “avoid protests and large gatherings of people.”

The business effects of the riots were not immediately clear.Yue Yuen, a Taiwan-based company that manufactures shoes for Nike, Adidas and other brands, said that it had given its workers in Vietnam the day off on Wednesday, and had not yet decided whether to reopen on Thursday, even though its factories were not damaged and none of its workers were injured. Jerry Shum, the company’s head of investor relations, said that Yue Yuen expected calm to return quickly to industrial districts in the country, and believed that it could still meet its monthly production targets.Even so, the company’s shares, listed on the Hong Kong stock market, fell 4.95 percent in heavy trading on Wednesday.

As a measure of the scale of production in Vietnam and its importance to global trade, Yue Yuen made 313 million pairs of shoes last year, a third of them in Vietnam.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the rioting and called on the demonstrators to “exercise self-control, don’t behave irrationally, damage Taiwanese factory equipment or threaten the safety of Taiwanese business people.” Further damage, the statement said, “could harm Taiwan’s willingness to invest, and harm the longstanding friendly relations between the people of Taiwan and Vietnam.”

Protests against China began on Monday along roads in the industrial suburb, according to a statement by the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park, one of the affected areas. It said that the protesters then singled out companies that were owned or managed by Chinese companies or Chinese expatriates.

A Vietnamese official said that some of the rioters had circulated through the industrial area on motorcycles.

The maritime dispute between China and Vietnam, the ostensible spark for the protests, began in early May when China towed a huge drilling rig to a spot in the South China Sea 140 miles off the coast of Vietnam and about 17 miles from a small coral atoll that is claimed by both countries. Each side sent ships and boats to the area, and there were several confrontations and collisions last week, with each side blaming the other.

The war of words over the drilling rig continued on Wednesday. The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, criticized Vietnam for “dispatching a large number of ships to forcibly intervene and brutally ram” Chinese ships, and insisted that the drilling project was nothing new. “This operation was started 10 years ago,” Mr. Wang was quoted as saying in a statement posted online by the foreign ministry.

Chau Doan reported from Hanoi, Vietnam, and Thomas Fuller from Bangkok. Keith Bradsher contributed reporting from Hong Kong; Choe Sang-hun from Seoul, South Korea; Austin Ramzy from Taipei, Taiwan; and Mike Ives from Hanoi. Bree Feng contributed research from Beijing.

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5) Tunisian Discontent Reflected in Protests That Have Idled Mines
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GAFSA, Tunisia — Tunisians often say the first uprising of the Arab Spring began not in 2010 after the self-immolation of a fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, but in 2008, when protests over corrupt hiring practices at the mines of Gafsa ran on for six months. It is a measure of the lingering challenges of Tunisia’s revolution that people here are still in revolt.

In the towns of Moulares and Redeyef, protests have idled the phosphate mines — a cornerstone of the economy — for much of the last three years. Citizens regularly block roads and burn tires. Police and government officials are barely tolerated.

“We will never stop this strike until we get a job,” said Bashir Mabrouki, 28, in a group of young people who huddled around a brazier while guarding a barricade of rocks and scrap metal that blocked shipments last month. “We are being played by the government and their fake promises.”

The complaints are an enduring refrain even since the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. They point to what many here see as the unfinished business of their revolution, and a problem endemic across North Africa: the failure to meet the aspirations of a youthful population.

The joblessness and aimlessness of young people remain a deep well of volatility, whether or not countries took part in the Arab Spring. Youth unemployment in neighboring Algeria is at 21 percent, according to World Bank data. In Egypt it is 25 percent, and in Morocco, 18 percent.

Here in Tunisia, where more than 30 percent of young people cannot find work, the Gafsa mines are in many ways emblematic of the challenges that governments face.

Jobs here have been declining since a shift to open-pit mining in the 1970s. Wary of unrest, successive governments have put the state’s shoulder behind creating 15,000 jobs in the phosphate mines and attached environment, forestry and transport enterprises.

While International Monetary Fund economists criticized the efforts for expanding the public sector, the state is still failing to create nearly enough opportunities for the unemployed. Some 30,000 people applied in the last round of job openings at Gafsa for just 2,700 jobs, said Kamel Ben Naceur, minister of industry, energy and mines.

Each round of hiring incites a bout of new unrest from those not selected. “This is a conservative society, and youngsters do not listen to their elders anymore, and they react because they have reached complete despair,” said Najib Mabrouki, 51, a representative of the local labor union.

The same complaints that compelled the revolt against the dictatorship — of poverty and pollution, a lack of basic services like electricity and clean water, and corruption in parceling out coveted jobs — continue to animate the protests against Tunisia’s new technocratic government, which took over in January.

In Moulares, wagons filled with mounds of gray silt stand abandoned amid weeds on train tracks, and the factory siren blares over an empty washing plant. Workers and their families have forsaken their bonuses to join the protests of the unemployed.

“There is no social justice,” said Mohammad Nasir Saidi, who lives near the blockaded train tracks. He lost his job when the foreign mining company he worked for closed because of the unrest, yet he directs his anger at the government. “They are stealing our natural resources, and they are not helping us. They do not care about the people.”

A small crowd of men in their 20s and 30s gathered around him. All said they were jobless.“The revolution started here in 2008 in Moulares and Redeyef, and we are still living the revolution, protesting and chanting slogans,” said one of the men, Hatem Behmida.

Tunisia has already seen firsthand the dangers of such disaffection. During the protest here in 2008, the government under Mr. Ben Ali reacted with harsh repression, detentions and torture: Three people died in the clashes, dozens more were injured, and the protest leaders were given heavy prison sentences.

Mohamed Néjib Mrabet, a mining engineer, said, “2008 was revelatory as to the social discontent of the whole population.” Mr. Mrabet last year became chairman of the mostly state-owned Gafsa Phosphate Company, which — together with a sister chemical company — directly or indirectly employs about 27,000 people.

“It was very violent, the revolution,” he recalled. “They had practically been slaves since the French colonial period. It was revenge for everything.”

Two years later, during the Arab Spring revolt, the people here again took to the streets and chased the police and officials from their towns. But the overthrow of Mr. Ben Ali, they say, has changed little, including the strikes and blockades that threaten to cripple the phosphate mines — and Tunisia’s struggling economy along with it.

Once a market leader, Tunisia has seen phosphate production slump to a third of pre-revolution volumes, and business has shifted to regional competitors. The loss of revenue has amounted to three billion Tunisian dinars, or nearly $2 billion, said Mr. Naceur, the mining minister.

Even as the protests undercut the company’s performance, leaders of the revolt complain that the government has been too immersed in politics and has ignored the people’s needs.

“The revolution lost its way,” said Tarek Halimi, 49, one of the leaders of the 2008 protest movement in Redeyef. “And it is not yet on the right path because the demands were mainly social and economic.”

He criticized the government job programs as meaningless tinkering in the face of deteriorating health and living standards. “With billions of dollars you get 10 or 20 trees and an amateur soccer team starting? It is not serious,” he said.

Families live in homes made of concrete breeze blocks beneath yellow slag heaps. A sulfurous drain from the washing plant overflows down the main street, the liquid pooling in front of the primary school gates. Residents said that they had been complaining about the overflow since 2008, but that nothing had been done about it.

In the fall of 2012, frustrations turned violent, and a mob burned the phosphate company’s administration building in Moulares.

“It is people who spent four years waiting, and all they have is hope,” Hassen Mabrouki, 38, explained as he walked through the gutted building. He won a job in one of the hiring rounds, but joins the peaceful protests in solidarity. “They got promises that have never been fulfilled, and they cannot understand what is happening,” he said.

In a cafe across the road, Anwar Leki, 24, wipes tables with pent-up anger. The son of an invalided miner, he has 12 brothers, some of them graduates, but none of them secured a job in three rounds of hiring.

“We have this phosphate powder everywhere. It comes into the house,” he said. “I earn six dinars ($3.75) a day. I finished high school but could not afford to go to university. You see all this and you have pain in your heart and you cannot even express yourself.”


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6) Appeals Court Grants Stay of Execution in Texas Based on Mental Disability Claim
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HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — A little more than two hours before he was scheduled to be put to death here, a convicted murderer was granted a stay of execution by a federal appeals court on Tuesday so the courts could review his claim that he is mentally disabled — a disability, his lawyers argued, that state agencies had long known and concealed.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans granted the request from lawyers for Robert James Campbell, 41, who had been set to be the first inmate put to death in America since a botched execution in Oklahoma last month drew attention to the methods, drugs and secrecy surrounding lethal injections.

The court had refused to intervene in the execution based on Mr. Campbell’s lawyers’ contention that the state was withholding crucial evidence on the drug to be used. But it issued the stay on a second argument made by Mr. Campbell’s lawyers on what the law refers to as mental retardation.“We have been presented with evidence that Campbell, who will soon be executed unless we intervene, may not constitutionally be executed,” wrote Judge James L. Dennis for the unanimous three-judge panel.


The Supreme Court has long banned the execution of those whom the law refers to as mentally retarded, and has said that an I.Q. of under “approximately 70” indicates retardation.

Mr. Campbell’s lawyers said that information uncovered in state files in recent weeks showed that he was ineligible for execution because of a low I.Q. They said state officials withheld the results of two I.Q. tests given to Mr. Campbell — a 68 when he was a child and a 71 shortly after he arrived on death row at the age of 19. Testing done last month on behalf of the defense produced a score of 69.

Mr. Campbell was convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of Alexandra Rendon in 1991. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals last week refused Mr. Campbell’s challenge based on the disability claim; over the weekend his lawyers filed a request with the Fifth Circuit to allow a federal case to go forward.

The state, in a filing on Monday, argued that Mr. Campbell’s time to file an appeal — known as an Atkins claim because of the Supreme Court’s 2002 decision in the case Atkins v. Virginia — had long passed, and that “Campbell has provided no legitimate excuse, let alone compelling reason, to justify his waiting over twelve years since Atkins was announced long before seeking testing or presenting the evidence he now asserts.” Within the prison, the state argued, “Campbell was not seen as mentally retarded or as having subaverage intellectual functioning.”

The Fifth Circuit panel, in a tone that suggested unhappiness with the state’s actions, wrote: “It is regrettable that we are now reviewing evidence of intellectual disability at the eleventh hour before Campbell’s scheduled execution. However, from the record before us, it appears that we cannot fault Campbell or his attorneys, present or past, for the delay.”

Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney general, Greg Abbott, said, “We are reviewing the court’s order.”

Mr. Campbell’s argument on lethal injection was pending before the Supreme Court when the Fifth Circuit issued the stay on the Atkins claim.

Robert C. Owen, a lawyer for Mr. Campbell, said, “We recognize the gravity of the crimes that Mr. Campbell has committed, and the grief and anger that the family, survivors of the victim and other people in the community feel.” However, he added, “It’s very clear now that the evidence strongly supports the diagnosis of mental retardation for Mr. Campbell, and it might be best for everyone for the state to give up its pursuit of executing him and resolve this case by reducing his death sentence to life imprisonment rather than face the prospect of months or years of further litigation.”

Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, spoke to Mr. Campbell shortly after the judges issued their stay. Mr. Campbell had been inside his cell at the Walls Unit prison, where the execution chamber is, when he heard the news.

“He was talking with the chaplains who were there at the front of the cell,” Mr. Clark said. “He was smiling. He says, ‘I’m happy. The Lord prevailed.’ ”

Minutes later, Mr. Campbell boarded a van and was driven back to death row, at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Tex.


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7) Two Killed in West Virginia Mine Where Safety Lapses Were Cited
By DANIEL HEYMAN and

WHARTON, W.Va. — Two miners died late Monday in an accident inside a West Virginia coal mine whose long history of safety violations had already brought it under special scrutiny by federal officials.

The accident at the Brody No. 1 mine in Wharton, about 30 miles south of Charleston, occurred as the miners were carving away at one of the many pillars of coal that kept the roof from collapsing, the mine owner, the Patriot Coal Corporation of St. Louis, said in an emailed statement.

The company said the miners died in a “severe coal burst,” a violent ejection of coal that can occur as the removal of a pillar shifts the roof’s weight to surrounding ones too weak to handle the added stress. The pillars, often 60 to 80 feet square, are the last remaining coal in a section of a mine that is being abandoned. Retreat operations are among the most dangerous in underground mining.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration said in an email that federal investigators had arrived at the mine but that the cause of the accident had not been determined.

The Brody mine has a history of federal citations for serious safety violations, according to inspection reports on the mine safety administration’s website dating to January 2011.

Federal mine safety officials had already taken two actions that are reserved for mines with the most egregious safety problems, said Tony Oppegard, a lawyer in Lexington, Ky., who is a former adviser to the head of the federal mine safety administration.

The first was a so-called blitz inspection, an unannounced check by a large team of federal safety officials. The second, called a pattern-of-violations letter, was sent to the mine in October. The mine safety administration said the letters “focus on those mine operators who demonstrate a disregard for the health and safety of miners through a recurring pattern of significant and substantial violations.”

In the months since the Brody mine received its pattern-of-violations notice, the mine safety administration said, regulators have evacuated parts of the mine 69 times for substantial violations of safety rules, among other closing orders.

Mr. Oppegard said that “companies refer to it as the death-penalty letter,” because it gives the agency the authority to close parts of mines if violations continue, and because the letter’s strictures cannot be lifted until mine operators meet safety standards that some claim are too rigorous.

Patriot officials contested the letter at the time, saying that many of the violations occurred before the company bought the mine in December 2012. Since then, they said, Patriot had submitted a new safety plan that “made considerable and measurable progress toward improved safety and compliance.”

Safety records show, however, that the mine had been cited 46 times since 2011, including 16 times in 2013 and this year, for unwarrantable failure to comply with safety rules, which the agency defines as “aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence.” The agency levied more than $4.2 million in fines for the 2013 and 2014 violations.

The Charleston Gazette reported on Tuesday that federal audits in 2012 and 2013 uncovered 37 injuries to miners that the company did not report to federal officials.

Federal records show that the mine, which employs about 300, produced almost a million tons of coal last year, a substantial amount in a region that has been mined intensively.

The victims were identified as Eric D. Legg, 48, of Twilight, W.Va., and Gary P. Hensley, 46, of Chapmanville, W.Va. Mr. Legg was on his last week at the mine and was soon to start at another, said Robert Rash, 45, a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician.


Daniel Heyman reported from Wharton, and Michael Wines from New York.


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8) Videos Said to Show Force-Feeding of Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
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9) The Politics of Income Inequality
"The income of a typical American family has barely risen since the 1970s. The share of national income captured by the richest 1 percent of Americans is even higher than it was at the dawn of the 20th century."
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The years from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not the most egalitarian in American history. Robber barons roamed the economy, living off lavish rents generated by powerful cartels and industrial monopolies.

The richest 1 percent of Americans reaped nearly one in five dollars generated by the economy and amassed almost half its wealth; at the other end of the scale, wage earners lost ground to inflation. It was the era of the Haymarket riots and Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle.” Workers staged 1,500 strikes in 1886 alone.

Ultimately, though, the disparities in wealth and income led to an age of ferment that came to be known as the Progressive Era.

Women got the right to vote. Congress passed the Sherman Act. Chicago’s Beef Trust and John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil were taken down. In 1914, Henry Ford decided to raise wages to $5 a day, doubling at a stroke most of his workers’ pay.

And crucially, a progressive federal income tax was enacted by Constitutional amendment, overcoming the opposition of not only the steel lobby and the establishment press, but a Supreme Court that had struck down the income tax law of 1894 as unconstitutional.

“The present assault on capital is but the beginning,” wrote Justice Stephen J. Field in a concurring opinion against the 1894 law. “It will be but the steppingstone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.”

But Edwin Seligman of Columbia University, one of the leading proponents of a progressive income tax, ultimately had the winning argument: “Amid the clashing of divergent interests and the endeavor of each social class to roll off the burden of taxation on some other class, we discern the slow and laborious growth of standards of justice in taxation and the attempt on the part of the community as a whole to realize this justice.”

The United States has come a long way over the last century. Still, it remains a strikingly similar place in a couple of important respects.

The income of a typical American family has barely risen since the 1970s. The share of national income captured by the richest 1 percent of Americans is even higher than it was at the dawn of the 20th century.

The parallel offers valuable insight into one of the most important questions posed by the nation’s lopsided development: Can democracy stop inequality from rising? Despite the gains of the Progressive Era, the answer echoing down the halls of history is not encouraging.

Basic models of political economy hold that inequality self-corrects. As income concentrates among a smaller group of voters, majorities will vote for more redistribution.

But that isn’t quite how the world works. For starters, the poor vote less than the rich. And they don’t vote exclusively based on their economic self-interest. Many Americans, rich or poor, mistrust government. They support free-market capitalism and view the distribution of the nation’s economic fruits as roughly fair.

The growing concentration of income can, in fact, make inequality more difficult to correct, as the wealthy bring their wealth to bear on the political process to maintain their privilege.

What’s more, disparities in income seem to produce political polarization and gridlock, which tend to favor those who receive a better deal from the prevailing rules, says Francesco Trebbi, an expert on political economy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.The American political system may eventually act against the interests of the fortunate few at the very top of the pyramid of success. But that may be only because many affluent, powerful people just below the top notch see themselves as losers from the nation’s economic dynamics.

“The really upset people are those that are well in the top of the distribution,” said Nolan McCarty, a political scientist at Princeton. “There could be a populist uprising, but that is less likely than a battle within the top 1 percent.”

This is, indeed, reminiscent of the Progressive movement, which was led not by pitchfork-wielding populists, but by lawyers, college professors and others in the upper middle class who saw their future prosperity and social standing at risk.

“There hasn’t been the immiseration you would associate with a revolution,” Professor McCarty said. “But people are concerned about fairness and the way the game has been rigged.”

Is this alignment of forces enough to stop America’s income chasm from growing?

Some scholars draw hope from the nation’s history. In his best-selling “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the French economist Thomas Piketty proposes that inequality could be tempered by returning to the tax rates of the past. Confiscatory taxes of excess incomes are, he says, “an American invention.” If we could raise top tax rates to nearly 80 percent once, why couldn’t we do it again?

Historical precedent, however, doesn’t justify unbridled optimism. For all the egalitarian initiatives of the Progressive Era, it did little to curb the concentration of income at the top.

“The Progressive era established the basic grammar and vocabulary and syntax of the American policy discussion for a century,” said David Kennedy, the prominent Stanford historian. “All the main themes of equity and access to democratic institutions and workplace regulations came up then.”

But in terms of real redistribution, Professor Kennedy added, “relatively little was accomplished.”

The bold new income tax affected only a tiny share of Americans. And while the top rate for a married couple was 7 percent, to reach it they had to make more than $500,000, nearly $12 million in 2014 dollars. In 1913, it raised a grand total of $28 million, a mere $668 million in today’s dollars.

Justifying hefty taxation of the wealthy required a more compelling argument than inequality. The immiseration caused by the Great Depression helped. But winning the argument required war. Only the prospect of many thousands of poor young men contributing their lives to the national project could justify taking more of the elite’s money in the service of the national good.

“The idea was conscription of wealth and income,” said Kenneth Scheve, a political scientist at Stanford. “The term was used in party manifestos, in speeches to Congress. It came up everywhere.”

By 1917, the top federal income tax rate had been raised to 67 percent. Though it fell in the 1920s, it would rise again during the Great Depression and, especially, World War II. In 1940, before the United States entered the conflagration, the federal income tax raised $1.5 billion ($25 billion in today’s money). By 1945, it collected $17 billion ($223 billion). The top income tax rate would not fall below 70 percent again until 1980.

But what does this historical precedent say about our ability to deal with inequality today?

The Great Recession helped make a case for redistribution. Jason Furman, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, says that the administration’s initiatives — like higher income tax rates, subsidies to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and expanded tax breaks for poor families with children — have produced “the most significant policy-induced reduction in inequality in at least 40 years.” Just the tax measures, Mr. Furman estimated, take off about half a decade’s worth of increasing inequality, as measured by the so-called Gini coefficient.

Is this as good as it gets? For all the struggle on the part of the White House, the income gap keeps growing. Maybe this means that, in the absence of war, democracy can’t do much more.


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10) Never Forget: May 13, 2014 Is the 29th Anniversary of the MOVE Bombing
by Dr. Samori Swygert
May 13, 2014
http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/05/news/never-forget-may-13-2014-is-the-29th-anniversary-of-the-move-bombing/

Today marks the 29th anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. On May 13th 1985, Philadelphia Police engaged a house in West Philadelphia that was occupied by both adults and kids. The occupants of this house were members of a group called MOVE.

The group was labeled and targeted by the authorities and informants. According to various sources, the group was founded by John Africa, and the objectives were based on a retreat to natural living, communal growth, holistic medicine, animal rights, and was associated with the Black Liberation movement.

Some neighbors within the community complained to police and city officials about the group’s sanitary conditions. Complaints detailed how an increase in rats, roaches, and other vermin started to plague the community because MOVE had constructed a compost of rotten food and waste. Police and city officials also claim that some neighbors had grown irritated from loud bullhorn/speaker messages from the group during varying hours of the day.

City officials and police compiled a dossier of violations that would help justify engaging the group. Police records of the group and its affiliated members composed of: illegal possession of firearms, parole violation, contempt of court, and terrorist threats. MOVE members were socially labeled as radicals, and scrutinized emphasis was placed on their style of life and dreaded hair.

The confrontation and bombing stems from a historical feud between MOVE members, the police, and the late 1970s Mayor of Philadelphia Frank Rizzo. In 1978, an altercation ensued between MOVE members and police that resulted in a police officer (Officer Jim Ramp) being shot and killed, and nine members of MOVE (known as The MOVE 9) being incarcerated with prison sentences of 30 years to life. Frank Rizzo had given the “okay” to bulldoze and fire hose the original MOVE house in a demolition.

The Aftermath of Carnage

Seven years later, police officers had shot tear gas canisters into the new home, fired multiple shots, and reloaded their weapons and kept firing into the house while babies were crying. A helicopter was manned and the police dropped two one-pound gel explosives onto the house with the adult and children occupants inside. This maneuver accelerated an inferno that destroyed 61 homes — approximately four city blocks — and left nearly 240 people homeless. The final tally revealed the death of six MOVE adults, and five children. There were only two survivors: a child (Birdie Africa) and a young female (Ramona Africa). You ask “How did a bombing of one house result in the destruction of 61 house?”… The historical phrase “ LET THE FIRE BURN” was broadcasted over the communication between police and city officials.

Ramona Africa is still diligently and relentlessly pursuing the release and vindication of the nine members currently incarcerated. Ramona still lives in Philadelphia, but travels all over the nation discussing the event and sociopolitical issues in America. She still embraces the group’s original philosophy. Sadly, Birdie Africa died in 2013, in a tub aboard a cruise at the age of 41.

The houses and surrounding vicinity of Osage Avenue were restored by developers and were poorly rebuilt — requiring renovation/rehabilitation. Some of the developers embezzled up to $200,000 from the construction budget. During the time of the bombing, Philadelphia was ran by an African American Mayor, Wilson Goode.

This story is very deep and should never be forgotten. This should remain within the annals of African American History, and the experience of being Black in America.

Here are some links for you to do your own research.

1) To order the documentary Let the fire burn, on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Let-Fire-Burn-Michael-Ward/dp/B00HXT6O4C

2) A timeline of events surrounding the bombing:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hot_topics/93010634.html?c=r

3) PBS discussion of the bombing and an interview with Ramona Africa: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/let-fire-burn-fallout-29-years
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11) Black Women: New Targets For Mass Incarceration
By Yolanda Spivey
Naturally Moi, May 14, 2014
http://naturallymoi.com/2014/05/news/warning-black-women-are-the-new-targets-for-mass-incarceration/

On June 21, 2014, Families for Justice as Healing is holding the FREE HER Rally in Washington DC.  The rally hopes to bring women, families, and supporters together to raise their voices against mass incarceration and the war on drugs.
According to Corrections.com, “the female population in prisons has risen an astonishing 757 percent from 1977 to 2005.  Most experts believe the massive increase is the result of tougher sentencing laws and a record number of drug offenders.”
The majority of these women are imprisoned for non-violent crimes, and 70 percent of incarcerated women are usually caregivers prior to their incarceration.
Andrea James, founder of Families for Justice as Healing and author of the book titled Upper Bunkies Unite, discussed the FREE HER Rally with Your Black World. Here’s what she said: “We are hoping to raise the level of awareness in this country on the increase of incarcerated women and the destruction it has on our children and our community.”
She further states, “Ninety percent of the women are there for non-violent offenses related to drugs and they are serving unconsciously long sentences.”
James is a former criminal defense lawyer and is no stranger to prison.  In 2009 she was sentenced to two years in federal prison after turning herself in for mail and wire fraud.  In the early 2000’s, James took advantage of the real estate boom and worked doing real estate closings in addition to her thriving law practice.  It led to her illegally misusing funds in her dealings to help clients pay off their mortgages early.
She told Your Black World that when she first entered the inside of prison, she was stunned by what she encountered as she walked through the “cramped” environment “full of Black women.” There she witnessed firsthand the devastation the war on drugs had on women and their families.  She was also shocked at the unimaginably long sentences given to these women who, as she says, “were never arrested before, never so much as for a parking ticket.”
Upon her release, she created Families for Justice as Healing.  She stated, “Prisons are dehumanizing environments and will never serve a role in society as places of healing. A shift is necessary from policies that criminalize poverty to ones that provide resources for healing from laws and practices that continue to perpetuate a permanent underclass.”
Her organization is a criminal justice reform legislative advocacy group that advocates for community wellness alternatives to incarceration.  The organization is comprised of both incarcerated and formally incarcerated women.
James states, “We hope to shed light on the dangerous and rapid increase in the incarceration rates of women, and disproportionately Black women, in the United States. And, we will ask President Obama to commute the sentences of women locked up in the federal system who are serving drug sentences and send them home to their children and their families. The time for healing has arrived.”
Please join the movement on Saturday, June 21st, 2014, from 10am-2pm at the Washington Mall in Washington DC.
For more information on Andrea James’s organization, please visit her website at: www.justiceashealing.org.
Yolanda Spivey writes on a variety of topics and is the founder of Black Insurance News.

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12) Death Toll Mounts in Turkish Mine Disaster, and So Does Political Fallout
"Five labor unions called for a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday, demanding better health and safety standards for miners. They also said that mine inspectors should be drawn from labor unions and that they should include independent experts not employed by the mining corporations. ...Mr. Karatepe said the privatization of mines had led to a sharp increase in accidents 'because profit is always more valuable than miners’ lives in the private sector.' "
By SEBNEM ARSU and

SOMA, Turkey — As the death toll from Turkey’s worst mining accident mounted, labor leaders on Thursday called for a one-day strike, and a potentially embarrassing images said to show an aide to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicking a protester, adding to the political fallout from the disaster.

Demonstrations had already broken out on Wednesday in Ankara, the capital, and in Istanbul, as public displeasure surfaced over poor safety standards at the mine and a lack of official information about events since Tuesday, when an explosion ignited underground fires. On Thursday, the police fired water cannons to disperse crowds of demonstrators in the Aegean port city of Izmir, some 75 miles southwest of here.Rescue workers, meanwhile, struggled to locate scores of coal miners still unaccounted for but officials said hopes for finding those still trapped were fading. The official death toll increased overnight to 282 as eight more bodies were recovered, surpassing the grim tally from a mine accident on the Black Sea in 1992 that killed 263 workers.

Such was the blend of outrage and grief among survivors and relatives that Mr. Erdogan, who is expected to soon announce his candidacy for presidential elections in August, was forced to take refuge at a supermarket during a visit to this town near the stricken mine on Wednesday. Angry crowds called him a murderer and a thief and clashed with the police, The Associated Press reported.

Compounding the political repercussions, the Turkish newspapers Cumhuriyet, Milliyet and others on Thursday printed photographs that they said were of an Erdogan aide kicking a protester who was on the ground and being held by special police forces during the scuffles. The papers identified the aide as Yusuf Yerkel.

While the images could not immediately be independently verified, they soon reached a wide audience on Twitter and elsewhere, recalling earlier disputes when the authorities have taken issue with social media sites.

Mr. Erdogan has called Twitter “the worst menace to society,” a tool of foreign conspirators and a tax evader. In March, he ordered the site blocked in Turkey, but a court ordered that it be switched back on. The controversy arose from a graft inquiry targeting Mr. Erdogan and his inner circle. Mr. Erdogan has purged thousands of police officers and prosecutors, but that has not stopped a series of leaks of wiretapped recordings relating to the case from appearing on social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube.

Striking a more conciliatory tone at the mine on Thursday, President Abdullah Gul told mourners and relatives, “The pain is everybody’s.” But one person called out to him that the presence of his security detail was itself obstructing rescue efforts, news reports said.

Public discontent has deepened as victims’ families demand answers about what happened at the coal mine.

Five labor unions called for a one-day nationwide strike on Thursday, demanding better health and safety standards for miners. They also said that mine inspectors should be drawn from labor unions and that they should include independent experts not employed by the mining corporations. The mine at Soma was formerly state-owned but had been leased to a private company, news reports said.

“Miners suffer long working hours, have no occupational safety or social security, and when most of them are unregistered, they are part of an unregistered economy,” said Umar Karatepe, a spokesman for the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey.

Mr. Karatepe said the privatization of mines had led to a sharp increase in accidents “because profit is always more valuable than miners’ lives in the private sector.” He said protests would continue until the energy minister, Taner Yildiz, resigned and the government attended to the miners’ immediate concerns.Many relatives of the miners have complained about a lack of information from the government and from local emergency agencies. “No official came here to talk to us, explain what’s going on,” the aunt of a 25-year-old miner said on Wednesday.

The government’s emergency center said on Thursday that 217 of the 282 bodies recovered so far had been handed over to families for burial. The funerals are likely to intensify the anger provoked by the disaster.

The number of people still trapped in the mine is unclear and rescue efforts have been slowed because of the risk of gas explosions and continuing fires underground, according to an official in the prime minister’s office, who spoke on the condition anonymity under departmental rules.

On three occasions, the dangers forced the authorities to suspend attempts to bring more bodies to the surface, the official said. “Imagine the mine as a huge nest of coal, which is burning quietly and can be put out only if pressurized water is pumped into all galleries,” the official said.

The prime minister’s office estimated on Thursday that around 120 bodies remained to be recovered, but some miners said that the figure could be more than 200.

Sebnem Arsu reported from Soma, and Alan Cowell from London.

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13) Fast Food Protests Spread Overseas
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Even though fast food workers have staged several one-day strikes in the last 18 months, the protests have not swayed McDonald’s or other major restaurant chains to significantly raise their employees’ pay.

So on Thursday, the fast food workers’ movement wants to broaden its reach as it pushes for a $15-an-hour wage that restaurant companies say is unrealistic. In addition to one-day strikes in 150 cities across the country, the movement’s leaders hope to take their cause global. They say support protests will take place in 80 cities in more than 30 countries, from Dublin to Venice to Casablanca to Seoul to Panama City.

Over the last decade as American labor unions have declined in membership and power, they have increasingly turned to unions in Europe and Asia to help pressure companies overseas to stop battling organizing drives at their United States units. And now the fast food movement, underwritten by the Service Employees International Union, is embracing a similar strategy as it struggles to gain influence with the fast food giants.

“It’s a global economy, so they’re saying, ‘Why not go overseas to make it into a global fight?’ ” said Lowell Turner, a professor of international labor relations at Cornell University. “They’re trying to create a global protest movement.”

The movement’s organizers say there will be protests in 30 cities in Japan, 20 in Britain, five in Brazil and three in India. The effort’s strategists point to some fast-growing overseas markets as vulnerable targets for corporations like McDonald’s that have begun relying more heavily on foreign revenue now that domestic fast food sales have languished.

To help propel the effort, a labor federation with 12 million workers in 126 countries — the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations — met in New York last week. It brought together union officials from more than two dozen countries, many of them with thriving, powerful labor organizations, to throw their weight behind Thursday’s protests.

Massimo Frattini, international coordinator of the federation’s restaurant division, said restaurant workers in Europe, Asia and Latin America were eager to join in — both to help their own cause and that of their United States allies.

“Fast food workers in many other parts of the world face the same corporate policies — low pay, no guaranteed hours and no benefits,” said Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union.

Her union has previously teamed up with overseas unions. For instance, it worked with Swedish unions to persuade Securitas, a Swedish security services company, not to oppose many efforts to unionize security guards at its American subsidiaries.

But such overseas cooperation does not always guarantee success. The United Automobile Workers have asked unions in Japan and other nations to pressure Nissan to adopt a less hostile stance toward its unionization campaign at Nissan’s plant in Mississippi. So far, those efforts have not changed Nissan’s position.

Scott DeFife, an executive vice president for the National Restaurant Association, a trade group, dismissed Thursday’s protests — however broadened — as more of the same. “These are made-for-TV media moments — that’s pretty much it,” he said.

Eddie Foreman, 40, a McDonald’s worker in Opelika, Ala., who makes $7.75 an hour and takes home about $200 a week, said he had persuaded several other workers in his town to walk out Thursday.“The reason I’m going on strike is I don’t make enough money to take care of my kids,” he said. “We need to go on strike and protest — that’s the only way we’ll get them to improve things.”

Businesses have generally opposed the $15-an-hour proposal, saying it would cut into their profits, reduce hiring and force them to raise prices. Mr. DeFife warned of harmful repercussions if wages climbed to $15 an hour. “It would have consequences on hiring patterns for Main Street businesses across the country,” he said.

For its part, McDonald’s — which has been one of the biggest targets — said its restaurants offered competitive pay and benefits, with opportunities for advancement. In a statement, McDonald’s said: “This is an important discussion that needs to take into account the highly competitive nature of the industries that employ minimum-wage workers, as well as consumers and the thousands of small businesses which own and operate the vast majority of McDonald’s restaurants.”

The one-day strikes have drawn attention to low-wage workers across many industries, including retailing, and have provided fuel for congressional lawmakers backing President Obama’s call for a minimum-wage increase to $10.10.

Even with the new overseas protests, Jake Rosenfeld, a labor relations expert at the University of Washington, doubted the movement would achieve its $15 goal unless the employees were unionized. “I don’t think they’re any way close to getting there,” he said of the effort.

At the moment, the movement seems far from unionizing many restaurants, even though one of its main demands is getting the chains and their franchisees’ to promise not to fight such efforts.

Organizers said a total of 200 workers walked out at 60 restaurants in New York City during the first one-day strike in November 2012, adding that thousands went on strike when the walkouts expanded to more than 60 cities last December.

But Mr. DeFife disputed those accounts, saying few restaurant workers actually went on strike during the five previous one-day walkouts and that only a handful of restaurants were forced to close, even for a few hours.

“The vast majority of these protesters are not actually restaurant workers, and if they are, they’ve taken the day off in advance,” he said, adding that the efforts did not fit the description of a strike.

Ms. Henry said that if workers went on strike in 150 cities on Thursday, with accompanying protests overseas, that would be one of the biggest labor protests in years.

She said these mushrooming protests showed “why a settlement with the big fast food companies is possible.”

The movement, known as Fast Food Forward, has also sought to pressure McDonald’s by filing several lawsuits accusing the company and its franchisees of illegally underpaying workers through, among other things, off-the-clock work. In addition, organizers are planning a protest at McDonald’s annual shareholders’ meeting on May 22 in Oak Brook, Ill.

Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University, said Thursday’s protests were an example of “the labor movement reinventing itself. It’s the most experimental thing labor has done in a long time.”

But he characterized the goal of a $15 hourly minimum as overly ambitious.

“They seem to forget you have to take little steps at a time,” he said. “When you don’t have very much, getting a little can mean a lot. You can’t get it all at once.”

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14) Doubling Down on C.E.O. Pay
"Investor anxiety over the pay of Chipotle’s bosses comes in a growing debate about the degree to which corporate excess is exacerbating societal inequality. Chipotle’s founder, Mr. Ells, earned 778 times the median salary at the company in 2012, the 11th highest such ratio of the top 250 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, according to Bloomberg. ...And though general managers at Chipotle can earn upward of $100,000 a year, the average starting salary at one of the company’s 1,600 restaurants is about $21,000 annually. Earning that wage, a Chipotle employee would have to work for more than a thousand years to equal one year of the co-C.E.O.s’ pay."

By DAVID GELLES 
May 14, 2014, 9:46 pm
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/doubling-down-on-c-e-o-pay/?hp

In an era of what many perceive as outsize executive compensation, it’s not unusual for a successful public company to lavish its chief executive with a multimillion-dollar pay package. But what happens when there are two chiefs?

In the case of Chipotle Mexican Grill, the paydays for both were supersized. Chipotle paid its founder and co-chief executive, Steve Ells, $25.1 million in cash and stock last year. It paid Montgomery F. Moran, the company’s other co-chief executive, $24.4 million. Those figures put the men, college buddies who are now running the country’s hottest fast-food chain, near the top of the charts for executive paydays.

Each man individually made more than the chief executives of larger companies like Ford, Boeing and AT&T. Together, they made more than all but the highest-paid chief executive among the country’s biggest 100 companies, Lawrence J. Ellison of Oracle.

But that is not the whole picture. Since 2011, Mr. Ells and Mr. Moran have each made more than $100 million on top of their salaries through a complex mix of stock awards. Now the pay packages and unusual co-chief executive arrangement are drawing scrutiny from investors. At Chipotle’s annual meeting in Denver on Thursday, shareholders will vote on two measures related to the company’s executive compensation.

One proposal would ratify the current compensation plan, while the other would increase the number of shares available for future grants to executives.

None of Chipotle’s top five shareholders — which include T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, Vanguard and BlackRock — would disclose how they planned to vote on the measures. Only Sands Capital Management, a private investment firm that owns 7.5 percent of the company, commented on the matter, saying, “We are aware of the debate.”

However, with rising inequality continuing to influence the country’s political conversation, some Chipotle shareholders are growing uneasy with the sums bestowed on its top bosses.

Last year, 27 percent of shareholders, including State Street, which holds a 4 percent stake, voted against the company’s compensation packages. But on Thursday, the company could face stiffer resistance.

Several small Chipotle shareholders have waged a campaign to rein in the company’s executive pay, urging other investors to stand up to Mr. Ells and Mr. Moran.

“C.E.O.s of far bigger and more complex, more profitable companies are paid less,” said Scott M. Stringer, the New York City comptroller, who oversees $150 billion in city pension plans. “They’re paid more than Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs and Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan.”

The CtW Investment Group, which advises union funds, is a vocal critic and is leading the charge.

“It’s a reckless pay structure that does nothing to appropriately incentivize management to create long-term value,” said Michael Pryce-Jones of CtW. “Their pay is out of whack however you measure it.”

And several shareholder advisory groups, including Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, are campaigning against the pay packages, setting up the meeting on Thursday as a public test of investors’ willingness to challenge ballooning executive pay.

And though general managers at Chipotle can earn upward of $100,000 a year, the average starting salary at one of the company’s 1,600 restaurants is about $21,000 annually. Earning that wage, a Chipotle employee would have to work for more than a thousand years to equal one year of the co-C.E.O.s’ pay.

“Chipotle’s pay practices are especially problematic given the disparity with front-line workers,” Mr. Stringer said.

Chipotle points to strong stock returns as justification for the pay packages. Chipotle has doubled both revenue and profits since 2009, and its stock has more than doubled over the last three years.

“It’s still the best growth story in the restaurant industry of any size,” said Jason West, an analyst at Deutsche Bank.

But by any standard, Chipotle’s co-chiefs have been among the best-paid executives in corporate America. Mr. Ells personally has received more than $145 million in Chipotle stock since 2011. Mr. Moran has received at least $104.5 million.

Much of this wealth is transferred to the two men through so-called stock appreciation rights, an unusual mechanism that has fallen out of favor with most public companies. Stock appreciation rights are similar to stock options, which give executives the right to buy shares in a company at a discount. But with stock appreciation rights, executives are granted blocks of shares when the company’s stock price increases without ever having to exercise options.

Chipotle has stipulated that the co-chiefs each receive stock appreciation rights equivalent to 0.48 percent of the company’s total equity, ensuring both men large blocks of shares each year, accounting for the huge paydays.

In its defense, Chipotle argues that because the co-chiefs are receiving stock awards, their incentives are in line with other shareholders.

But because stock appreciation rights do not require that the executives hold the stock for very long, the men can cash out quickly. Mr. Ells, for example, has received more than 600,000 Chipotle shares over the last four years and has sold more than 548,000 during that same time.

“The result is a deeply flawed pay philosophy in which the board believes perpetually sizable equity grants are necessary to refresh the ‘share of value creation’ each year as executives dispose of their stock and realize immediate gains,” CtW wrote in a letter.

Robert Jackson, a professor at Columbia University, said that stock appreciation rights were flawed because they let executives ride the soaring stock market without putting any of their own money on the line.

“We can’t call it pay for performance if it rewards rising tides and lets the execs cash out as soon as they’re ready,” he said, adding that few companies used the rights structure anymore. “They’re really using an outdated, antiquated structure. It’s not a common or preferred corporate governance practice.”

Mr. Ells turned a former ice cream stand near the University of Denver into the first Chipotle, in 1993. He quickly distinguished it from other fast-food joints by selling burritos, not burgers, and by using fresh ingredients and humanely raised animals.

Mr. Ells eventually brought on Mr. Moran, whom he had met at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mr. Moran was elevated to co-C.E.O. in 2009.

While many investors seem unfazed by the enormous sums being awarded to management, others say the time has come for Chipotle to start treating its co-chiefs not like visionary founders but like employees overseeing a mature company.

“They’re rewarding them as if they’re still the entrepreneurs that founded this company,” Mr. Pryce-Jones of CtW said. “They’ve made a lot of money. Now they should be paid like managers.”



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B. EVENTS AND ACTIONS

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FAST FOOD WORKERS ANNOUNCE

BIGGEST EVER STRIKE  5-15-14

IN 150 U.S. CITIES JOINED BY

PROTESTS IN 30 COUNTRIES


Statement in Support of Gloibal Fast Food Workers Strike
by Eugene E Ruye, Peace and Freedom Candidate
for California Assembly, 15th District

Every worker deserves fair wages and the right to organize, so please join me in supporting striking fast food workers and allies from 36 countries and 150 U.S. cities, calling out some of the world’s worst corporate behavior and exposing widespread wage theft. In the wake of new reports showing an industry with the largest pay gaps between CEOs and workers, the fast food workers are demanding change: $15 an hour for workers and a union.

Here’s their schedule in Oakland for this Thursday, May 15, 2-014:

5:30 AM Meet at ACCE Oakland Offices 2501 International Blvd

10:30 AM Meet at the Library in Downtown Oakland, 135 14th St.
(check for latest updates at:   occupyoakland.org)

As a working class, socialist, and feminist party, Peace and Freedom has always supported the rights of working folks to organize and strike for better pay and working conditions. Here's what our PLatform has to say:

FROM THE PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY PLATFORM

Double the minimum wage, and index it to the cost of living
Guarantee the right of all workers to organize and to strike
Forbid striker replacement
Socially useful jobs for all at union pay levels
Equal pay for equal work, and for work of comparable worth
A 30-hour workweek with no cut in weekly pay - Longer paid vacations
 A Universal Basic Income with full social benefits as a basic human right
Tax the income and assets of the rich to meet human needs.

As a retired union member (my dues are still taken out of my pension check), I am proud to see my brothers and sisters uniting in dozens of countries across six continuents. For me, it brings to mind the words of the Wobblies:
 
From the Preamble to the Consitution of the
Industrial Workers of the World (1905)

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people while the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the Earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

Abolition of the wage system, of course, means abolition of capitalism. Under capitalism, workers are wage slaves, lucky if they can find work to support themselves and their families. With socialism, workers are guaranteed jobs and decent incomes, with affordable housing, pensions, free health care, and free education.

So, let's join with the fast food workers of the world, and in Oakland, our slogan should be,

HELLA YES ON 15 BUCKS!

May 12, 2014
For more info, go to
ru4peace.wordpress.com
www.peaceandfreedom.org
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Chelsea Manning SF Pride Contingent 2014
 
http://www.facebook.com/events/298467196976692/

June 28/29 Celebration Civic Center

June 29 Parade Market Street

This year we have more reason to celebrate the SF Pride 2014 parade in San
Francisco: Heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower Chelsea Manning is being honored
as an official Grand Marshal! March with us to show your pride in Chelsea!

Organized by the Chelsea Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist.
Endorsing organizations include War Resisters League-West, CODEPINK Women
for Peace, CivSol, and the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

Please contact us to include your organization as an endorser!

A motorized cable car will be available for participants with mobility
limitations.

For further details, please contact farah@couragetoresist.org

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C. SPECIAL APPEALS AND
ONGOING CAMPAIGNS


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 AN URGENT FUNDRAISER FOR LYNNE STEWART'S MEDICAL NEEDS CONTINUES
http://lynnestewart.org/

LYNNE STEWART HAS JUST BEEN DENIED MEDICAL BENEFITS. SHE CAN'T RE-APPLY UNTIL JULY! SHE IS IN URGENT NEED OF OUR HELP NOW!

Because of a determined people’s movement, Lynne is finally home with her family. But she has urgent medical needs and costs. Lynne’s Stage 4 breast cancer spread a year ago to both lungs, back, bones and lymph nodes. Now 74, she has lost weight and has trouble breathing; doctors estimate her lifespan at 12 months. Lynne will soon begin treatment requiring her to pay deductibles and co-payments. To boost the odds, she’ll use a special diet, vitamins, and other healing methods – some costly and none covered by insurance.
Lynne’s spirit is indomitable – help her fight to survive!

“I fought lions, I fought tigers, and I’m not going to let cancer get me,” Stewart said.

Lynne has always come to the aid of those who needed her. Now it’s our turn to stand by Lynne.

SEND LYNNE A DONATION TO:

On line at:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lynne-stewart-s-medical-fund

Or by USPS to:

Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
  1070 Dean Street?
  Brooklyn, New York 11216



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Tell Maj. Gen. Buchanan why Chelsea
deserves to be free!


PVT Chelsea Manning has served nearly four years in prison, yet she’s showing a remarkable spirit of persistence. She is unjustly imprisoned, but not defeated. With plans to enroll in a prelaw/political science university program, and a legal name change underway, she continues planning for her future and working to fulfill her dreams. She is determined to make the best of her situation. However, we know she could contribute more to the world if she was free.
Please write a letter to Convening Authority Major General Buchanan today urging him to reduce Chelsea’s sentence!
We began collecting letters to include in PVT Manning’s clemency packet last fall. We expected that the military would finalize her record of trial last December, and that she could then submit her application to Maj. Gen. Buchanan by the end of 2013. Just like so many times before, however, the military’s process has slowed Chelsea’s ability to defend her rights. Defense attorney David Coombs now estimates that it will be at least another month before the clemency application can be submitted.
Want to make sure decision-makers know why you believe Chelsea deserves to go free? If you haven’t done so yet, please write a short letter to Maj. Gen. Buchanan. Hundreds of people have already submitted letters for us to use, including Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and award-winning author Alice Walker.
As Alice Walker wrote:
Private Manning was the one soldier willing to speak out against what he thought was wrong. When others silently followed orders, Manning could not. Pvt. Manning is a humanist, meaning he sees humanity before nationality, and values human life above all else. When he released documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, he wanted the American people, and the world, to judge for themselves if the U.S. military was properly valuing human life in Iraq and Afghanistan. As taxpayers who fund that military, we deserve that opportunity.
Learn now how you can write a letter to be included in Chelsea Manning’s official application for clemency!
Please share this information to friends and community leaders, urging them to add their voice to this important effort before it's too late.
http://www.privatemanning.org/pardonpetition



Help us continue to cover 100%
of Pvt. Manning's legal fees! Donate today.
https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=38591


COURAGE TO RESIST
http://couragetoresist.org
484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610
510-488-3559

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Only an Innocent Man Would Voluntarily Return
to Prison to Fight Against his Life Sentence
and For Exoneration —
That Courageous Man is Lorenzo Johnson.

The PA Attorney General’s Office Agrees to Investigate New Facts and Witnesses —
  Send Your Message Now to PA AG
Kathleen Kane: Dismiss the Charges!
Free Lorenzo Johnson!

On January 29, 2014 Lorenzo Johnson’s attorney, Michael Wiseman, met with representatives of PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane to discuss the new evidence of Lorenzo Johnson’s innocence contained in legal filings now pending in the Pennsylvania courts. This includes affidavits confirming Johnson’s presence in New York City at the time of the Harrisburg murder and the identity of the actual killers, as well as police and prosecutorial misconduct.

Attorney Wiseman said Kane’s office promised to investigate these new facts in order to assess whether they merit the relief that Lorenzo Johnson seeks in his PCRA petition.

Speaking to AP reporter Mary Claire Dale on February 11, 2014 Wiseman said, “We believe the witnesses we presented to them are credible, and give a coherent version of the events. I take them at their word, that they’re going to do a straightforward, honest review.”  Kane spokesman Joe Peters confirmed the meeting to AP “but said the office won’t comment on the new evidence until the court filing,” (referring to the March 31, 2014 date for the AG’s response to Johnson’s October 2013 court filing).

It is the Office of the PA Attorney General that is responsible for the false prosecution of Lorenzo Johnson from trial through appeals. And just a few months ago, the Attorney General’s office opposed a federal petition based on this new evidence saying there was no prima facie claim for relief. This resulted in the denial of Lorenzo Johnson’s Motion to File a Second Writ of Habeas Corpus in the federal court.

On December 18, 2013 a press conference called by the Campaign to Free Lorenzo Johnson protested these actions of the PA Attorney General and delivered petitions demanding dismissal of the charges and immediate freedom for Lorenzo. Tazza, Lorenzo’s wife, declared, “1,000 signatures means we are not in this alone…I won't stop until he’s home. There is nothing and no one that can stop me from fighting for what’s right.”

This is Lorenzo Johnson’s second fight for his innocence and freedom. In January 2012, after 16 years of court battles to prove his innocence, a federal appeals court held his sentence was based on insufficient evidence – a judicial acquittal. Lorenzo was freed from prison. But after a petition filed by the PA Attorney General the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated Lorenzo Johnson’s conviction and he was re-incarcerated to continue serving a life sentence without parole for a murder he did not commit.

This innocent man drove himself back to prison in June 2012—after less than five months of freedom—leaving his new wife and family, construction job and advocacy on behalf of others wrongfully convicted. The reason Lorenzo Johnson voluntarily returned to prison? Because he is innocent and fighting for full vindication.

In the words of Lorenzo Johnson, “A second is too long to be in prison when you are Innocent, so eighteen years … is Intolerable.”

Add your voices and demand again: Dismiss the charges against Lorenzo Johnson. Free Lorenzo NOW!

 SIGN LORENZO JOHNSON'S FREEDOM PETITION

CONTRIBUTE TO HELP TAZZA AND THE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS VISIT LORENZO AND STAY IN CONTACT!


Write: Lorenzo Johnson
            DF 1036
            SCI Mahanoy
            301 Morea Rd.
            Frackville, PA 17932

 Email: Lorenzo Johnson through JPAY.com code:
              Lorenzo Johnson DF 1036 PA DOC


 www.FreeLorenzoJohnson.org

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End Drone Killing, Drone Surveillance and Global 
Militarization 
United National Antiwar Coalition Call for Spring Days of
 Action 2014

Today we issue an international call for Spring Days of Action—2014, a coordinated campaign in April and May to end drone killings, drone surveillance and global militarization.

The campaign will focus on drone bases, drone research facilities and test sites and drone manufacturers.

The campaign will provide information on:

1. The suffering of tens-of-thousands of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza who are under drone attack, documenting the killing, the wounding and the devastating impact of constant drone surveillance on community life.

2. How attack and surveillance drones have become a key element in a massive wave of surveillance, clandestine military attacks and militarization generated by the United States to protect a global system of manufacture and oil and mineral exploitation that is creating unemployment and poverty, accelerating the waste of nonrenewable resources and contributing to environmental destruction and global warming.

In addition to cases in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, we will examine President Obama’s “pivot” into the Asia-Pacific, where the United States has already sold and deployed drones in the vanguard of a shift of 60 percent of its military forces to try to control China and to enforce the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership. We will show, among other things, how this surge of “pivot” forces, greatly enabled by drones, and supported by the U.S. military-industrial complex, will hit every American community with even deeper cuts in the already fragile social programs on which people rely for survival. In short, we will connect drones and militarization with “austerity” in America.

3. How drone attacks have effectively destroyed international and domestic legal protection of the rights to life, privacy, freedom of assembly and free speech and have opened the way for new levels of surveillance and repression around the world, and how, in the United States, increasing drone surveillance, added to surveillance by the National Security Agency and police, provides a new weapon to repress black, Hispanic, immigrant and low-income communities and to intimidate Americans who are increasingly unsettled by lack of jobs, economic inequality, corporate control of politics and the prospect of endless war.

We will discuss how the United States government and corporations conspire secretly to monitor U.S. citizens and particularly how the Administration is accelerating drone surveillance operations and surveillance inside the United States with the same disregard for transparency and law that it applies to other countries, all with the cooperation of the Congress.

The campaign will encourage activists around the world to win passage of local laws that prohibit weaponized drones and drone surveillance from being used in their communities as well as seeking national laws to bar the use of weaponized drones and drone surveillance.

The campaign will draw attention to the call for a ban on weaponized drones by RootsAction.org that has generated a petition with over 80,000 signers:

http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6180

And to efforts by the Granny Peace Brigade (New York City), KnowDrones.org and others to achieve an international ban on both weaponized drones and drone surveillance.

The campaign will also urge participation in the World Beyond War movement.
The following individuals and organizations endorse this Call: 
Lyn Adamson, Co-chair, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace; Dennis Apel, Guadalupe Catholic Worker, California; Judy Bello, Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars; Medea Benjamin, Code Pink; Leah Bolger, Former National President, Veterans for Peace; Canadian Voice of Women for Peace; Sung-Hee Choi, Gangjeong Village International Team, Jeju, Korea; Chelsea C. Faria, Graduate student, Yale Divinity School; Promoting Enduring Peace; Sandy Fessler, Rochester (NY) Against War; Joy First; Bruce K. Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; Holly Gwinn Graham, Singer/songwriter, Olympia, WA; Regina Hagen, Darmstaedter Friedensforum, Germany; Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence; Malachy Kilbride; Marilyn Levin and Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinators, United National Antiwar Coalition; Tamara Lorincz, Halifax Peace Coalition, Canada; Nick Mottern, KnowDrones.org; Agneta Norberg, Swedish Peace Council; Pepperwolf, Director, Women Against Military Madness; Lindis Percy, Coordinator, Campaign for the Accountability of American; Bases CAAB UK; Mathias Quackenbush, San Francisco, CA; Lisa Savage, Code Pink, State of Maine; Janice Sevre-Duszynska; Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck, Friedenswerkstatt Mutlangen, Germany; Cindy Sheehan; Lucia Wilkes Smith, Convener, Women Against Military Madness (WAMM),  Ground; Military Drones Committee; David Soumis, Veterans for Peace; No Drones Wisconsin; Debra Sweet, World Can’t Wait; David Swanson, WarisACrime.org; Brian Terrell, Voices for Creative Nonviolence; United National Antiwar Coalition; Veterans for Peace; Dave Webb, Chair, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (UK); Curt Wechsler, Fire John Paki Wieland, Northampton (MA) Committee to Stop War(s); Loring Wirbel, Citizens for Peace in Space (Colorado Springs, CO); Women Against Military Madness; Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat; Leila Zand, Fellowship of Reconciliation.
United National Antiwar Coalition
UNACpeace@gmail.com
UNAC
P.O. Box 123
Delmar, NY 12054
518-227-6947
www.unacpeace.org

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Sireen Khudairy Appeal Update.

Sireen Khudairy was arrested again at 4am on Tuesday 7th January 2014. According to reports she has been taken to Huwwara military point. When the Israeli army took her from her home they didn't show any papers to her or the person she was with.

This follows eight months of harassment of this 24-year-old Palestinian woman who is a teacher, activist and supporter of the non-violent action against the Israeli occupation. She was previously imprisoned from May to July 2013, and has been subjected to frequent harassment ever since. See further details at:

http://freesireen.wordpress.com

Please help by contacting your Embassies urgently to demand her release and spread her appeal widely. Follow updates on:

https://www.facebook.com/FreeSireenKhudiri?ref=hl

Please contact us to let us know any action you take. We will pass this information on to her family. Thanks for your solidarity and support.  

Steven Katsineris, January 2014
 
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U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Against Lorenzo Johnson’s
New Legal Challenge to His Frame-up Conviction!
Demand the PA Attorney General Dismiss the Charges!
Free Lorenzo Johnson, Now!

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied Lorenzo Johnson’s motion to file a Second Habeas Corpus Petition. The order contained the outrageous declaration that Johnson hadn’t made a “prima facie case” that he had new evidence of his innocence. This not only puts a legal obstacle in Johnson’s path as his fight for freedom makes its way (again) through the state and federal courts—but it undermines the newly filed Pennsylvania state appeal that is pending in the Court of Common Pleas.

Stripped of  “legalese,” the court’s October 15, 2013 order says Johnson’s new evidence was not brought into court soon enough—although it was the prosecution and police who withheld evidence and coerced witnesses into lying or not coming forward with the truth! This, despite over fifteen years and rounds of legal battles to uncover the evidence of government misconduct. This is a set-back for Lorenzo Johnson’s renewed fight for his freedom, but Johnson is even more determined as his PA state court appeal continues.

Increased public support and protest is needed. The fight for Lorenzo Johnson’s freedom is not only a fight for this courageous man and family. The fight for Lorenzo Johnson is also a fight for all the innocent others who have been framed and are sitting in the slow death of prison. The PA Attorney General is directly pursuing the charges against Lorenzo, despite the evidence of his innocence and the corruption of the police. Free Lorenzo Johnson, Now!

—Rachel Wolkenstein, Esq.
   October 25, 2013

For more on the federal court and PA state court legal filings.
Hear Mumia’s latest commentary, “Cat Cries”
Go to: www.FreeLorenzoJohnson.org for more information, to sign the petition, and how to help.
 
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PUSH CHELSEA'S JAILERS TO RESPECT HER IDENTITY
Call and write Ft Leavenworth today and tell them to honor Manning's wishes around her name and gender:
Call: (913) 758-3600


Write to:
Col. Sioban Ledwith, Commander
U.S. Detention Barracks
1301 N Warehouse Rd
Ft. Leavenworth KS 66027

Private Manning has been an icon both for the government transparency movement and LGBTQ activists because of her fearlessness and acts of conscience. Now, as she begins serving her sentence, Chelsea has asked for help with legal appeals, family visits, education, and support for undergoing gender transition. The latter is a decision she’s made following years of experiencing gender dysphoria and examining her options. At a difficult time in her life, she joined the military out of hope–the hope that she could use her service to save lives, and also the hope that it would help to suppress her feelings of gender dysphoria. But after serving time in Iraq, Private Manning realized what mattered to her most was the truth, personal as well as political, even when it proved challenging.

Now she wants the Fort Leavenworth military prison to allow her access to hormone replacement therapy which she has offered to pay for herself, as she pursues the process to have her name legally changed to ‘Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.’

To encourage the prison to honor her transgender identity, we’re calling on progressive supporters and allies to contact Fort Leavenworth officials demanding they acknowledge her requested name change immediately. Currently, prison officials are not required to respect Chelsea’s identity, and can even refuse to deliver mail addressed to the name ‘Chelsea Manning.’ However, it’s within prison administrators’ power to begin using the name ‘Chelsea Manning’ now, in advance of the legal name change which will most likely be approved sometime next year. It’s also up to these officials to approve Private Manning’s request for hormone therapy.
Call: (913) 758-3600


Write to:
Col. Sioban Ledwith, Commander
U.S. Detention Barracks
1301 N Warehouse Rd
Ft. Leavenworth KS 66027

Tell them: “Transgender rights are human rights! Respect Private Manning’s identity by acknowledging the name ‘Chelsea Manning’ whenever possible, including in mail addressed to her, and by allowing her access to appropriate medical treatment for gender dysphoria, including hormone replacement therapy (HRT).”

While openly transgender individuals are allowed to serve in many other militaries around the world, the US military continues to deny their existence. Now, by speaking up for Chelsea’s right to treatment, you can support one brave whistleblower in her personal struggle, and help set an important benchmark for the rights of transgender individuals everywhere. (Remember that letters written with focus and a respectful tone are more likely to be effective.) Feel free to copy this sample letter.

Earlier this year, the Private Manning Support Network won the title of most “absolutely fabulous overall contingent” at the San Francisco Pride Parade, the largest celebration of its kind for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning) people nationwide. Over one thousand people marched for Private Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning in that parade, to show LGBTQ community pride for the Iraq War’s most well-known whistleblower.

Help us continue to cover 100%
of Pvt. Manning's legal fees! Donate today.
https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=38591

COURAGE TO RESIST
http://couragetoresist.org
484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610
510-488-3559
 

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 SAVE CCSF!


Two campaigns that need funds – Please donate!
Posted on August 25, 2013

Cartoon by Anthonty Mata for CCSF Guardsman

DOE CAMPAIGN
We are working to ensure that the ACCJC’s authority is not renewed by the Department of Education this December when they are up for their 5-year renewal. Our campaign made it possible for over 50 Third Party Comments to be sent to the DOE re: the ACCJC. Our next step in this campaign is to send a delegation from CCSF to Washington, D.C. to give oral comments at the hearing on December 12th. We expect to have an array of forces aligned on the other side who have much more money and resources than we do.
So please support this effort to get ACCJC authority revoked!

LEGAL CAMPAIGN
Save CCSF members have been meeting with Attorney Dan Siegel since last May to explore legal avenues to fight the ACCJC. After much consideration, and consultation with AFT 2121’s attorney as well as the SF City Attorney’s office, Dan has come up with a legal strategy that is complimentary to what is already being pursued. In fact, AFT 2121’s attorney is encouraging us to go forward.
The total costs of pursuing this (depositions, etc.) will be substantially more than $15,000. However, Dan is willing to do it for a fixed fee of $15,000. He will not expect a retainer, i.e. payment in advance, but we should start payments ASAP. If we win the ACCJC will have to pay our costs.

PLEASE HELP BOTH OF THESE IMPORTANT EFFORTS!
Checks can be made out to Save CCSF Coalition with “legal” in the memo line and sent to:
Save CCSF Coalition
2132 Prince St.
Berkeley, CA 94705
Or you may donate online:  http://www.gofundme.com/4841ns

http://www.saveccsf.org/
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16 Years in Solitary Confinement Is Like a "Living Tomb"

American Civil Liberties Union petition to end long-term solitary confinement:
California Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard: We stand with the prisoners on hunger strike. We urge you to comply with the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons 2006 recommendations regarding an end to long-term solitary confinement.

In California, hundreds of prisoners have been held in solitary for more than a decade – some for infractions as trivial as reading Machiavelli's "The Prince."

Gabriel Reyes describes the pain of being isolated for at least 22 hours a day for the last 16 years:

“Unless you have lived it, you cannot imagine what it feels like to be by yourself, between four cold walls, with little concept of time…. It is a living tomb …’ I have not been allowed physical contact with any of my loved ones since 1995…I feel helpless and hopeless. In short, I am being psychologically tortured.”

That’s why over 30,000 prisoners in California began a hunger strike – the biggest the state has ever seen. They’re refusing food to protest prisoners being held for decades in solitary and to push for other changes to improve their basic conditions.

California Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard has tried to dismiss the strikers and refuses to negotiate, but the media pressure is building through the strike. If tens of thousands of us take action, we can help keep this issue in the spotlight so that Secretary Beard can’t ignore the inhumane treatment of prisoners.

Sign the petition urging Corrections Secretary Beard to end the use of long-term solitary confinement.

Solitary is such an extreme form of punishment that a United Nations torture rapporteur called for an international ban on the practice except in rare occasions. Here’s why:

The majority of the 80,000 people held in solitary in this country are severely mentally ill or because of a minor infraction (it’s a myth that it’s only for violent prisoners)
Even for people with stable mental health, solitary causes severe psychological reactions, often leading people to attempt suicide
It jeopardizes public safety because prisoners held in solitary have a harder time reintegrating into society.

And to add insult to injury, the hunger strikers are now facing retaliation – their lawyers are being restricted from visiting and the strikers are being punished. But the media continues to write about the hunger strike and we can help keep the pressure on Secretary Beard by signing this petition.

Sign the petition urging Corrections Secretary Beard to end the use of long-term solitary confinement.

Our criminal justice system should keep communities safe and treat people fairly. The use of solitary confinement undermines both of these goals – but little by little, we can help put a stop to such cruelty.

Thank you,
Anthony for the ACLU Action team
P.S. The hunger strikers have developed five core demands to address their basic conditions, the main one being an end to long-term solitary confinement. They are:

-End group punishment – prisoners say that officials often punish groups to address individual rule violations

-Abolish the debriefing policy, which is often demanded in return for better food or release from solitary

-End long-term solitary confinement

-Provide adequate and nutritious food

-Expand or provide constructive programming and privileges for indefinite SHU inmates

Sources
“Solitary - and anger - in California's prisons.” Los Angeles Times July 13, 2013
“Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers' Stories: Gabriel Reyes.” TruthOut July 9, 2013
“Solitary confinement should be banned in most cases, UN expert says.” UN News October 18, 2011
"Stop Solitary - Two Pager" ACLU.org
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What you Didn't know about NYPD's Stop and Frisk program !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rfJHx0Gj6ys#at=990

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Egypt: The Next President -- a little Egyptian boy speaks his remarkable mind!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeDm2PrNV1I

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Wealth Inequality in America

[This is a must see to believe video...bw]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QPKKQnijnsM

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Read the transcription of hero Bradley Manning's 35-page statement explaining why he leaked "state secrets" to WikiLeaks.

March 1, 2013

Alternet

The statement was read by Pfc. Bradley Manning at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This rush transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O'Brien at Thursday's pretrial hearing and first appeared on Salon.com.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/bradley-mannings-surprising-statement-court-details-why-he-made-his-historic?akid=10129.229473.UZvQfK&rd=1&src=newsletter802922&t=7

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You Have the Right to Remain Silent: NLG Guide to Law Enforcement Encounters

Posted 1 day ago on July 27, 2012, 10:28 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt

Occupy Wall Street is a nonviolent movement for social and economic justice, but in recent days disturbing reports have emerged of Occupy-affiliated activists being targeted by US law enforcement, including agents from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. To help ensure Occupiers and allied activists know their rights when encountering law enforcement, we are publishing in full the National Lawyers Guild's booklet: You Have the Right to Remain Silent. The NLG provides invaluable support to the Occupy movement and other activists – please click here to support the NLG.

We strongly encourage all Occupiers to read and share the information provided below. We also recommend you enter the NLG's national hotline number (888-654-3265) into your cellphone (if you have one) and keep a copy handy. This information is not a substitute for legal advice. You should contact the NLG or a criminal defense attorney immediately if you have been visited by the FBI or other law enforcement officials. You should also alert your relatives, friends, co-workers and others so that they will be prepared if they are contacted as well.

You Have the Right to Remain Silent: A Know Your Rights Guide for Law Enforcement Encounters

What Rights Do I Have?

Whether or not you're a citizen, you have rights under the United States Constitution. The Fifth Amendment gives every person the right to remain silent: not to answer questions asked by a police officer or government agent. The Fourth Amendment restricts the government's power to enter and search your home or workplace, although there are many exceptions and new laws have expanded the government's power to conduct surveillance. The First Amendment protects your right to speak freely and to advocate for social change. However, if you are a non-citizen, the Department of Homeland Security may target you based on your political activities.

Standing Up For Free Speech

The government's crusade against politically-active individuals is intended to disrupt and suppress the exercise of time-honored free speech activities, such as boycotts, protests, grassroots organizing and solidarity work. Remember that you have the right to stand up to the intimidation tactics of FBI agents and other law enforcement officials who, with political motives, are targeting organizing and free speech activities. Informed resistance to these tactics and steadfast defense of your and others' rights can bring positive results. Each person who takes a courageous stand makes future resistance to government oppression easier for all. The National Lawyers Guild has a long tradition of standing up to government repression. The organization itself was labeled a "subversive" group during the McCarthy Era and was subject to FBI surveillance and infiltration for many years. Guild attorneys have defended FBI-targeted members of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the Puerto Rican independence movement. The NLG exposed FBI surveillance, infiltration and disruption tactics that were detailed during the 1975-76 COINTELPRO hearings. In 1989 the NLG prevailed in a lawsuit on behalf of several activist organizations, including the Guild, that forced the FBI to expose the extent to which it had been spying on activist movements. Under the settlement, the FBI turned over roughly 400,000 pages of its files on the Guild, which are now available at the Tamiment Library at New York University.

What if FBI Agents or Police Contact Me?

What if an agent or police officer comes to the door?

Do not invite the agents or police into your home. Do not answer any questions. Tell the agent that you do not wish to talk with him or her. You can state that your lawyer will contact them on your behalf. You can do this by stepping outside and pulling the door behind you so that the interior of your home or office is not visible, getting their contact information or business cards and then returning inside. They should cease questioning after this. If the agent or officer gives a reason for contacting you, take notes and give the information to your attorney. Anything you say, no matter how seemingly harmless or insignificant, may be used against you or others in the future. Lying to or misleading a federal agent is a crime. The more you speak, the more opportunity for federal law enforcement to find something you said (even if not intentionally) false and assert that you lied to a federal officer.

Do I have to answer questions?

You have the constitutional right to remain silent. It is not a crime to refuse to answer questions. You do not have to talk to anyone, even if you have been arrested or are in jail. You should affirmatively and unambiguously state that you wish to remain silent and that you wish to consult an attorney. Once you make the request to speak to a lawyer, do not say anything else. The Supreme Court recently ruled that answering law enforcement questions may be taken as a waiver of your right to remain silent, so it is important that you assert your rights and maintain them. Only a judge can order you to answer questions. There is one exception: some states have "stop and identify" statutes which require you to provide identity information or your name if you have been detained on reasonable suspicion that you may have committed a crime. A lawyer in your state can advise you of the status of these requirements where you reside.

Do I have to give my name?

As above, in some states you can be detained or arrested for merely refusing to give your name. And in any state, police do not always follow the law, and refusing to give your name may make them suspicious or more hostile and lead to your arrest, even without just cause, so use your judgment. Giving a false name could in some circumstances be a crime.

Do I need a lawyer?

You have the right to talk to a lawyer before you decide whether to answer questions from law enforcement. It is a good idea to talk to a lawyer if you are considering answering any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer present during any interview. The lawyer's job is to protect your rights. Once you tell the agent that you want to talk to a lawyer, he or she should stop trying to question you and should make any further contact through your lawyer. If you do not have a lawyer, you can still tell the officer you want to speak to one before answering questions. Remember to get the name, agency and telephone number of any investigator who visits you, and give that information to your lawyer. The government does not have to provide you with a free lawyer unless you are charged with a crime, but the NLG or another organization may be able to help you find a lawyer for free or at a reduced rate.

If I refuse to answer questions or say I want a lawyer, won't it seem like I have something to hide?

Anything you say to law enforcement can be used against you and others. You can never tell how a seemingly harmless bit of information might be used or manipulated to hurt you or someone else. That is why the right not to talk is a fundamental right under the Constitution. Keep in mind that although law enforcement agents are allowed to lie to you, lying to a government agent is a crime. Remaining silent is not. The safest things to say are "I am going to remain silent," "I want to speak to my lawyer," and "I do not consent to a search." It is a common practice for law enforcement agents to try to get you to waive your rights by telling you that if you have nothing to hide you would talk or that talking would "just clear things up." The fact is, if they are questioning you, they are looking to incriminate you or someone you may know, or they are engaged in political intelligence gathering. You should feel comfortable standing firm in protection and defense of your rights and refusing to answer questions.

Can agents search my home or office?

You do not have to let police or agents into your home or office unless they have and produce a valid search warrant. A search warrant is a written court order that allows the police to conduct a specified search. Interfering with a warrantless search probably will not stop it and you might get arrested. But you should say "I do not consent to a search," and call a criminal defense lawyer or the NLG. You should be aware that a roommate or guest can legally consent to a search of your house if the police believe that person has the authority to give consent, and your employer can consent to a search of your workspace without your permission.

What if agents have a search warrant?

If you are present when agents come for the search, you can ask to see the warrant. The warrant must specify in detail the places to be searched and the people or things to be taken away. Tell the agents you do not consent to the search so that they cannot go beyond what the warrant authorizes. Ask if you are allowed to watch the search; if you are allowed to, you should. Take notes, including names, badge numbers, what agency each officer is from, where they searched and what they took. If others are present, have them act as witnesses to watch carefully what is happening. If the agents ask you to give them documents, your computer, or anything else, look to see if the item is listed in the warrant. If it is not, do not consent to them taking it without talking to a lawyer. You do not have to answer questions. Talk to a lawyer first. (Note: If agents present an arrest warrant, they may only perform a cursory visual search of the premises to see if the person named in the arrest warrant is present.)

Do I have to answer questions if I have been arrested?

No. If you are arrested, you do not have to answer any questions. You should affirmatively and unambiguously state that you wish to assert your right to remain silent. Ask for a lawyer right away. Do not say anything else. Repeat to every officer who tries to talk to or question you that you wish to remain silent and that you wish to speak to a lawyer. You should always talk to a lawyer before you decide to answer any questions.

What if I speak to government agents anyway?

Even if you have already answered some questions, you can refuse to answer other questions until you have a lawyer. If you find yourself talking, stop. Assert that you wish to remain silent and that you wish to speak to a lawyer.

What if the police stop me on the street?

Ask if you are free to go. If the answer is yes, consider just walking away. If the police say you are not under arrest, but are not free to go, then you are being detained. The police can pat down the outside of your clothing if they have reason to suspect you might be armed and dangerous. If they search any more than this, say clearly, "I do not consent to a search." They may keep searching anyway. If this happens, do not resist because you can be charged with assault or resisting arrest. You do not have to answer any questions. You do not have to open bags or any closed container. Tell the officers you do not consent to a search of your bags or other property.

What if police or agents stop me in my car?

Keep your hands where the police can see them. If you are driving a vehicle, you must show your license, registration and, in some states, proof of insurance. You do not have to consent to a search. But the police may have legal grounds to search your car anyway. Clearly state that you do not consent. Officers may separate passengers and drivers from each other to question them, but no one has to answer any questions.

What if I am treated badly by the police or the FBI?

Write down the officer's badge number, name or other identifying information. You have a right to ask the officer for this information. Try to find witnesses and their names and phone numbers. If you are injured, seek medical attention and take pictures of the injuries as soon as you can. Call a lawyer as soon as possible.

What if the police or FBI threaten me with a grand jury subpoena if I don't answer their questions?

A grand jury subpoena is a written order for you to go to court and testify about information you may have. It is common for the FBI to threaten you with a subpoena to get you to talk to them. If they are going to subpoena you, they will do so anyway. You should not volunteer to speak just because you are threatened with a subpoena. You should consult a lawyer.

What if I receive a grand jury subpoena?

Grand jury proceedings are not the same as testifying at an open court trial. You are not allowed to have a lawyer present (although one may wait in the hallway and you may ask to consult with him or her after each question) and you may be asked to answer questions about your activities and associations. Because of the witness's limited rights in this situation, the government has frequently used grand jury subpoenas to gather information about activists and political organizations. It is common for the FBI to threaten activists with a subpoena in order to elicit information about their political views and activities and those of their associates. There are legal grounds for stopping ("quashing") subpoenas, and receiving one does not necessarily mean that you are suspected of a crime. If you do receive a subpoena, call the NLG National Hotline at 888-NLG-ECOL (888-654-3265) or call a criminal defense attorney immediately.

The government regularly uses grand jury subpoena power to investigate and seek evidence related to politically-active individuals and social movements. This practice is aimed at prosecuting activists and, through intimidation and disruption, discouraging continued activism.

Federal grand jury subpoenas are served in person. If you receive one, it is critically important that you retain the services of an attorney, preferably one who understands your goals and, if applicable, understands the nature of your political work, and has experience with these issues. Most lawyers are trained to provide the best legal defense for their client, often at the expense of others. Beware lawyers who summarily advise you to cooperate with grand juries, testify against friends, or cut off contact with your friends and political activists. Cooperation usually leads to others being subpoenaed and investigated. You also run the risk of being charged with perjury, a felony, should you omit any pertinent information or should there be inconsistencies in your testimony.

Frequently prosecutors will offer "use immunity," meaning that the prosecutor is prohibited from using your testimony or any leads from it to bring charges against you. If a subsequent prosecution is brought, the prosecutor bears the burden of proving that all of its evidence was obtained independent of the immunized testimony. You should be aware, however, that they will use anything you say to manipulate associates into sharing more information about you by suggesting that you have betrayed confidences.

In front of a grand jury you can "take the Fifth" (exercise your right to remain silent). However, the prosecutor may impose immunity on you, which strips you of Fifth Amendment protection and subjects you to the possibility of being cited for contempt and jailed if you refuse to answer further. In front of a grand jury you have no Sixth Amendment right to counsel, although you can consult with a lawyer outside the grand jury room after each question.

What if I don't cooperate with the grand jury?

If you receive a grand jury subpoena and elect to not cooperate, you may be held in civil contempt. There is a chance that you may be jailed or imprisoned for the length of the grand jury in an effort to coerce you to cooperate. Regular grand juries sit for a basic term of 18 months, which can be extended up to a total of 24 months. It is lawful to hold you in order to coerce your cooperation, but unlawful to hold you as a means of punishment. In rare instances you may face criminal contempt charges.

What If I Am Not a Citizen and the DHS Contacts Me?

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is now part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and has been renamed and reorganized into: 1. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS); 2. The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP); and 3. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). All three bureaus will be referred to as DHS for the purposes of this pamphlet.

? Assert your rights. If you do not demand your rights or if you sign papers waiving your rights, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may deport you before you see a lawyer or an immigration judge. Never sign anything without reading, understanding and knowing the consequences of signing it.

? Talk to a lawyer. If possible, carry with you the name and telephone number of an immigration lawyer who will take your calls. The immigration laws are hard to understand and there have been many recent changes. DHS will not explain your options to you. As soon as you encounter a DHS agent, call your attorney. If you can't do it right away, keep trying. Always talk to an immigration lawyer before leaving the U.S. Even some legal permanent residents can be barred from returning.

Based on today's laws, regulations and DHS guidelines, non-citizens usually have the following rights, no matter what their immigration status. This information may change, so it is important to contact a lawyer. The following rights apply to non-citizens who are inside the U.S. Non-citizens at the border who are trying to enter the U.S. do not have all the same rights.

Do I have the right to talk to a lawyer before answering any DHS questions or signing any DHS papers?

Yes. You have the right to call a lawyer or your family if you are detained, and you have the right to be visited by a lawyer in detention. You have the right to have your attorney with you at any hearing before an immigration judge. You do not have the right to a government-appointed attorney for immigration proceedings, but if you have been arrested, immigration officials must show you a list of free or low cost legal service providers.

Should I carry my green card or other immigration papers with me?

If you have documents authorizing you to stay in the U.S., you must carry them with you. Presenting false or expired papers to DHS may lead to deportation or criminal prosecution. An unexpired green card, I-94, Employment Authorization Card, Border Crossing Card or other papers that prove you are in legal status will satisfy this requirement. If you do not carry these papers with you, you could be charged with a crime. Always keep a copy of your immigration papers with a trusted family member or friend who can fax them to you, if need be. Check with your immigration lawyer about your specific case.

Am I required to talk to government officers about my immigration history?

If you are undocumented, out of status, a legal permanent resident (green card holder), or a citizen, you do not have to answer any questions about your immigration history. (You may want to consider giving your name; see above for more information about this.) If you are not in any of these categories, and you are being questioned by a DHS or FBI agent, then you may create problems with your immigration status if you refuse to provide information requested by the agent. If you have a lawyer, you can tell the agent that your lawyer will answer questions on your behalf. If answering questions could lead the agent to information that connects you with criminal activity, you should consider refusing to talk to the agent at all.

If I am arrested for immigration violations, do I have the right to a hearing before an immigration judge to defend myself against deportation charges?

Yes. In most cases only an immigration judge can order you deported. But if you waive your rights or take "voluntary departure," agreeing to leave the country, you could be deported without a hearing. If you have criminal convictions, were arrested at the border, came to the U.S. through the visa waiver program or have been ordered deported in the past, you could be deported without a hearing. Contact a lawyer immediately to see if there is any relief for you.

Can I call my consulate if I am arrested?

Yes. Non-citizens arrested in the U.S. have the right to call their consulate or to have the police tell the consulate of your arrest. The police must let your consulate visit or speak with you if consular officials decide to do so. Your consulate might help you find a lawyer or offer other help. You also have the right to refuse help from your consulate.

What happens if I give up my right to a hearing or leave the U.S. before the hearing is over?

You could lose your eligibility for certain immigration benefits, and you could be barred from returning to the U.S. for a number of years. You should always talk to an immigration lawyer before you decide to give up your right to a hearing.

What should I do if I want to contact DHS?

Always talk to a lawyer before contacting DHS, even on the phone. Many DHS officers view "enforcement" as their primary job and will not explain all of your options to you.

What Are My Rights at Airports?

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is illegal for law enforcement to perform any stops, searches, detentions or removals based solely on your race, national origin, religion, sex or ethnicity.

If I am entering the U.S. with valid travel papers can a U.S. customs agent stop and search me?

Yes. Customs agents have the right to stop, detain and search every person and item.

Can my bags or I be searched after going through metal detectors with no problem or after security sees that my bags do not contain a weapon?

Yes. Even if the initial screen of your bags reveals nothing suspicious, the screeners have the authority to conduct a further search of you or your bags.

If I am on an airplane, can an airline employee interrogate me or ask me to get off the plane?

The pilot of an airplane has the right to refuse to fly a passenger if he or she believes the passenger is a threat to the safety of the flight. The pilot's decision must be reasonable and based on observations of you, not stereotypes.

What If I Am Under 18?

Do I have to answer questions?

No. Minors too have the right to remain silent. You cannot be arrested for refusing to talk to the police, probation officers, or school officials, except in some states you may have to give your name if you have been detained.

What if I am detained?

If you are detained at a community detention facility or Juvenile Hall, you normally must be released to a parent or guardian. If charges are filed against you, in most states you are entitled to counsel (just like an adult) at no cost.

Do I have the right to express political views at school?

Public school students generally have a First Amendment right to politically organize at school by passing out leaflets, holding meetings, etc., as long as those activities are not disruptive and do not violate legitimate school rules. You may not be singled out based on your politics, ethnicity or religion.

Can my backpack or locker be searched?

School officials can search students' backpacks and lockers without a warrant if they reasonably suspect that you are involved in criminal activity or carrying drugs or weapons. Do not consent to the police or school officials searching your property, but do not physically resist or you may face criminal charges.

Disclaimer

This booklet is not a substitute for legal advice. You should contact an attorney if you have been visited by the FBI or other law enforcement officials. You should also alert your relatives, friends, co-workers and others so that they will be prepared if they are contacted as well.

NLG National Hotline for Activists Contacted by the FBI

888-NLG-ECOL

(888-654-3265)

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Free Mumia NOW!

Prisonradio.org

Write to Mumia:

Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335

SCI Mahanoy

301 Morea Road

Frackville, PA 17932

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rachel Wolkenstein

August 21, 2011 (917) 689-4009

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL ILLEGALLY SENTENCED TO

LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT PAROLE!

FREE MUMIA NOW!

www.FreeMumia.com

http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/profiles/blogs/mumia-is-formally-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-w-out-hearing-he-s



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"A Child's View from Gaza: Palestinian Children's Art and the Fight Against

Censorship" book

https://www.mecaforpeace.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=25

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Justice for Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace: Decades of isolation in Louisiana

state prisons must end

Take Action -- Sign Petition Here:

http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/justice-for-albert-woodfox-and-herm\

an-wallace

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WITNESS GAZA

http://www.witnessgaza.com/

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Write to Bradley

http://bradleymanning.org/donate

View the new 90 second "I am Bradley Manning" video:

I am Bradley Manning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-P3OXML00s

Courage to Resist

484 Lake Park Ave. #41

Oakland, CA 94610

510-488-3559

couragetoresist.org

"A Fort Leavenworth mailing address has been released for Bradley Manning:

Bradley Manning 89289

830 Sabalu Road

Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027

The receptionist at the military barracks confirmed that if someone sends

Bradley Manning a letter to that address, it will be delivered to him."

http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/update-42811

This is also a Facebook event

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207100509321891#!/event.php?eid=2071005093\

21891

Courage to Resist needs your support

Please donate today:

https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=38590

"Soldiers sworn oath is to defend and support the Constitution. Bradley Manning

has been defending and supporting our Constitution." --Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon

Papers whistle-blower

Jeff Paterson

Project Director, Courage to Resist

First US military service member to refuse to fight in Iraq

Please donate today.

https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d1/default.aspx?wid=38590

P.S. I'm asking that you consider a contribution of $50 or more, or possibly

becoming a sustainer at $15 a month. Of course, now is also a perfect time to

make a end of year tax-deductible donation. Thanks again for your support!

Please click here to forward this to a friend who might also be interested in

supporting GI resisters.

http://ymlp.com/forward.php?id=lS3tR&e=bonnieweinstein@yahoo.com

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The Battle Is Still On To

FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!

The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

PO Box 16222 • Oakland CA 94610

www.laboractionmumia.org

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KEVIN COOPER IS INNOCENT! FREE KEVIN COOPER!

Reasonable doubts about executing Kevin Cooper

Chronicle Editorial

Monday, December 13, 2010

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/13/EDG81GP0I7.DTL

Death penalty -- Kevin Cooper is Innocent! Help save his life from San Quentin's

death row!

http://www.savekevincooper.org/

http://www.savekevincooper.org/pages/essays_content.html?ID=255

URGENT ACTION APPEAL

- From Amnesty International USA

17 December 2010

Click here to take action online:

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&\

b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=15084

To learn about recent Urgent Action successes and updates, go to

http://www.amnestyusa.org/iar/success

For a print-friendly version of this Urgent Action (PDF):

http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa25910.pdf

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Short Video About Al-Awda's Work

The following link is to a short video which provides an overview of Al-Awda's

work since the founding of our organization in 2000. This video was first shown

on Saturday May 23, 2009 at the fundraising banquet of the 7th Annual Int'l

Al-Awda Convention in Anaheim California. It was produced from footage collected

over the past nine years.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiAkbB5uC0&eurl

Support Al-Awda, a Great Organization and Cause!

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, depends on your financial

support to carry out its work.

To submit your tax-deductible donation to support our work, go to

http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html

and follow the simple instructions.

Thank you for your generosity!

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D. VIDEO, FILM, AUDIO. ART, POETRY, ETC.:

[Some of these videos are embeded on the BAUAW website:

http://bauaw.blogspot.com/ or bauaw.org ...bw]

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Checkpoint - Jasiri X 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6Y6LSjulU



Published on Jan 28, 2014
"Checkpoint" is based on the oppression and discrimination Jasiri X witnessed firsthand during his recent trip to Palestine and Israel "Checkpoint" is produced by Agent of Change, and directed by Haute Muslim. Download "Checkpoint" at https://jasirix.bandcamp.com/track/ch....

Follow Jasiri X at https://twitter.com/jasiri_x

LYRICS
Journal of the hard times tales from the dark side
Evidence of the settlements on my hard drive
Man I swear my heart died at the end of that car ride
When I saw that checkpoint welcome to apartheid
Soldiers wear military green at the checkpoint
Automatic guns that's machine at the checkpoint
Tavors not m16s at the checkpoint
Fingers on the trigger you'll get leaned at the checkpoint
Little children grown adults or teens at the checkpoint
All ya papers better be clean at the checkpoint
You gotta but your finger on the screen at the checkpoint
And pray that red light turns green at the check point

If Martin Luther King had a dream of the checkpoint
He wake with loud screams from the scenes at the checkpoint
It's Malcolm X by any means at the check point
Imagine if you daily routine was the checkpoint

Separation walls that's surrounding the checkpoint
On top is barbwire like a crown on the checkpoint
Better have ya permits if your found at the checkpoint
Gunmen on the tower aiming down at the checkpoint
The idea is to keep you in fear of the checkpoint
You enter through the cage in the rear of the checkpoint
It feels like prison on a tier at the check point
I'd rather be anywhere but here at this checkpoint
Nelson Mandela wasn't blind to the check point
He stood for free Palestine not a check point
Support BDS don't give a dime to the checkpoint
This is international crime at the checkpoint
Arabs get treated like dogs at the checkpoint
Cause discrimination is the law at the checkpoint
Criminalized without a cause at the checkpoint
I'm just telling you what I saw at the checkpoint
Soldiers got bad attitudes at the checkpoint
Condescending and real rude at the checkpoint
Don't look em in they eyes when they move at the checkpoint
They might strip a man or woman nude at the checkpoint
Soldiers might blow you out of ya shoes at the checkpoint
Gas you up and then light the fuse at the checkpoint
Everyday you stand to be accused at the checkpoint
Each time your life you could lose at the checkpoint

If Martin Luther King had a dream of the checkpoint
He wake with loud screams from the scenes at the checkpoint
It's Malcolm X by any means at the check point
Imagine if you daily routine was the checkpoint

At the airport in Tel Aviv is a checkpoint
They pulled over our taxi at the checkpoint
Passport visa ID at the checkpoint
Soldiers going all through my things at the checkpoint
Said I was high risk security at the checkpoint
Because of the oppression I see at the checkpoint
Occupation in the 3rd degree at the checkpoint
All a nigga wanna do is leave fuck a checkpoint

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Exceptional art from the streets of Oakland:

Oakland Street Dancing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH9s5mwTEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyTZ8prhCg

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NYC RESTAURANT WORKERS DANCE & SING FOR A WAGE HIKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_s8e1R6rG8&feature=player_embedded

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On Gun Control, Martin Luther King, the Deacons of Defense and the history of Black Liberation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzYKisvBN1o&feature=player_embedded

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Fukushima Never Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-Z4VLDGxU

"Fukushima, Never Again" tells the story of the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns in north east Japan in March of 2011 and exposes the cover-up by Tepco and the Japanese government.

This is the first film that interviews the Mothers Of Fukushima, nuclear power experts and trade unionists who are fighting for justice and the protection of the children and the people of Japan and the world. The residents and citizens were forced to buy their own geiger counters and radiation dosimeters in order to test their communities to find out if they were in danger.

The government said contaminated soil in children's school grounds was safe and then

when the people found out it was contaminated and removed the top soil, the government and TEPCO refused to remove it from the school grounds.

It also relays how the nuclear energy program for "peaceful atoms" was brought to Japan under the auspices of the US military occupation and also the criminal cover-up of the safety dangers of the plant by TEPCO and GE management which built the plant in Fukushima. It also interviews Kei Sugaoka, the GE nulcear plant inspector from the bay area who exposed cover-ups in the safety at the Fukushima plant and was retaliated against by GE. This documentary allows the voices of the people and workers to speak out about the reality of the disaster and what this means not only for the people of Japan but the people of the world as the US government and nuclear industry continue to push for more new plants and government subsidies. This film breaks

the information blockade story line of the corporate media in Japan, the US and around the world that Fukushima is over.

Production Of Labor Video Project

P.O. Box 720027

San Francisco, CA 94172

www.laborvideo.org

lvpsf@laborvideo.org

For information on obtaining the video go to:

www.fukushimaneveragain.com

(415)282-1908


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1000 year of war through the world

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiG8neU4_bs&feature=share

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Anatomy of a Massacre - Afganistan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BnRc11aug&feature=player_embedded

Afghans accuse multiple soldiers of pre-meditated murder

To see more go to http://www.youtube.com/user/journeymanpictures

Follow us on Facebook (http://goo.gl/YRw42) or Twitter

(http://www.twitter.com/journeymanvod)

The recent massacre of 17 civilians by a rogue US soldier has been shrouded in

mystery. But through unprecedented access to those involved, this report

confronts the accusations that Bales didn't act alone.

"They came into my room and they killed my family". Stories like this are common

amongst the survivors in Aklozai and Najiban. As are the shocking accusations

that Sergeant Bales was not acting alone. Even President Karzai has announced

"one man can not do that". Chief investigator, General Karimi, is suspicious

that despite being fully armed, Bales freely left his base without raising

alarm. "How come he leaves at night and nobody is aware? Every time we have

weapon accountability and personal accountability." These are just a few of the

questions the American army and government are yet to answer. One thing however

is very clear, the massacre has unleashed a wave of grief and outrage which

means relations in Kandahar will be tense for years to come: "If I could lay my

hands on those infidels, I would rip them apart with my bare hands."

A Film By SBS

Distributed By Journeyman Pictures

April 2012

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Photo of George Zimmerman, in 2005 photo, left, and in a more recent photo.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/02/us/the-events-leading-to-the-sooti\

ng-of-trayvon-martin.html?hp

SPD Security Cams.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWDNbQUgm4&feature=player_embedded

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Kids being put on buses and transported from school to "alternate locations" in

Terror Drills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFia_w8adWQ

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Private prisons,

a recession resistant investment opportunity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGLDOxx9Vg

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Attack Dogs used on a High School Walkout in MD, Four Students Charged With

"Thought Crimes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wafMaML17w

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Common forms of misconduct by Law Enforcement Officials and Prosecutors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSpM4K276w&feature=related

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Organizing and Instigating: OCCUPY - Ronnie Goodman

http://arthazelwood.com/instigator/occupy/occupy-birth-video.html

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Rep News 12: Yes We Kony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68GbzIkYdc8

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The New Black by The Mavrix - Official Music Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rLfja8488

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Japan One Year Later

http://www.onlineschools.org/japan-one-year-later/

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The CIA's Heart Attack Gun

http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/assassination-studies/the-cias-heart-attack-g\

un-.html

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The Invisible American Workforce

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/5/new_expos_tracks_alec_private_prison

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Labor Beat: NATO vs The 1st Amendment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbQxnb4so3U

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The Battle of Oakland

by brandon jourdan plus

http://vimeo.com/36256273

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Officers Pulled Off Street After Tape of Beating Surfaces

By ANDY NEWMAN

February 1, 2012, 10:56 am

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/officers-pulled-off-street-after-ta\

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This is excellent! Michelle Alexander pulls no punches!

Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim Crow, speaks about the political

strategy

behind the War on Drugs and its connection to the mass incarceration of Black

and Brown people in the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75cbEdNo2U&feature=player_embedded

If you think Bill Clinton was "the first black President" you need to watch this

video and see how much damage his administration caused for the black community

as a result of his get tough attitude on crime that appealed to white swing

voters.

This speech took place at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on January 12,

2012.

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FREE BRADLEY MANNING

http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/national-call-in-for-bradley

I received the following reply from the White House November 18, 2011 regarding

the Bradley Manning petition I signed:

"Why We Can't Comment on Bradley Manning

"Thank you for signing the petition 'Free PFC Bradley Manning, the accused

WikiLeaks whistleblower.' We appreciate your participation in the We the People

platform on WhiteHouse.gov.

The We the People Terms of Participation explain that 'the White House may

decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or

similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or

agencies, federal courts, or state and local government.' The military justice

system is charged with enforcing the Uniform Code of

Military Justice. Accordingly, the White House declines to comment on the

specific case raised in this petition...

That's funny! I guess Obama didn't get this memo. Here's what Obama said about

Bradley:

BRADLEY MANNING "BROKE THE LAW" SAYS OBAMA!

"He broke the law!" says Obama about Bradley Manning who has yet to even be

charged, let alone, gone to trial and found guilty. How horrendous is it for the

President to declare someone guilty before going to trial or being charged with

a crime! Justice in the U.S.A.!

Obama on FREE BRADLEY MANNING protest... San Francisco, CA. April 21, 2011-

Presidential remarks on interrupt/interaction/performance art happening at

fundraiser. Logan Price queries Barack after org. FRESH JUICE PARTY political

action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfmtUpd4id0&feature=youtu.be

Release Bradley Manning

Almost Gone (The Ballad Of Bradley Manning)

Written by Graham Nash and James Raymond (son of David Crosby)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYG7yJpBbQ&feature=player_embedded

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Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE726OAo&feature=player_embedded

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School police increasingly arresting American students?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-efNBvjUU&feature=player_embedded

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FYI:

Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"

The 2053 nuclear tests and explosions that took place between 1945 and 1998 are

plotted visually and audibly on a world map.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk&feature=share&mid=5408

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We Are the 99 Percent

We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to

choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are

suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay

and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1

percent is getting everything. We are the 99 percent.

Brought to you by the people who occupy wall street. Why will YOU occupy?

OccupyWallSt.org

Occupytogether.org

wearethe99percentuk.tumblr.com

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

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We Are The People Who Will Save Our Schools

YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFAOJsBxAxY

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In honor of the 75th Anniversary of the 44-Day Flint Michigan sit-down strike at

GM that began December 30, 1936:

According to Michael Moore, (Although he has done some good things, this clip

isn't one of them) in this clip from his film, "Capitalism a Love Story," it was

Roosevelt who saved the day!):

"After a bloody battle one evening, the Governor of Michigan, with the support

of the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, sent in the National

Guard. But the guns and the soldiers weren't used on the workers; they were

pointed at the police and the hired goons warning them to leave these workers

alone. For Mr. Roosevelt believed that the men inside had a right to a redress

of their grievances." -Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story'

- Flint Sit-Down Strike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8x1_q9wg58

But those cannons were not aimed at the goons and cops! They were aimed straight

at the factory filled with strikers! Watch what REALLY happened and how the

strike was really won!

'With babies & banners' -- 75 years since the 44-day Flint sit-down strike

http://links.org.au/node/2681

--Inspiring

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HALLELUJAH CORPORATIONS (revised edition).mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0WSNRpy3g

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ONE OF THE GREATEST POSTS ON YOUTUBE SO FAR!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8C-qIgbP9o&feature=share&mid=552

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ILWU Local 10 Longshore Workers Speak-Out At Oakland Port Shutdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JUpBpZYwms

Uploaded by laborvideo on Dec 13, 2011

ILWU Local 10 longshore workers speak out during a blockade of the Port of

Oakland called for by Occupy Oakland. Anthony Levieges and Clarence Thomas rank

and file members of the union. The action took place on December 12, 2011 and

the interview took place at Pier 30 on the Oakland docks.

For more information on the ILWU Local 21 Longview EGT struggle go to

http://www.facebook.com/groups/256313837734192/

For further info on the action and the press conferernce go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3fE-Vhrw8&feature=youtu.be

Production of Labor Video Project www.laborvideo.org

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UC Davis Police Violence Adds Fuel to Fire

By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

19 November 11

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8485-uc-davis-police-violence-add\

s-fuel-to-fire

UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4&feature=player_embedded

Police PEPPER SPRAY UC Davis STUDENT PROTESTERS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWEx6Cfn-I&feature=player_embedded

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJmmnMkuEM&feature=player_embedded

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UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to her car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CZ0t9ez_EGI#!

Occupy Seattle - 84 Year Old Woman Dorli Rainey Pepper Sprayed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTIyE_JlJzw&feature=related

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THE BEST VIDEO ON "OCCUPY THE WORLD"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S880UldxB1o

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Shot by police with rubber bullet at Occupy Oakland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pX9LeE-g8&feature=player_embedded

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Copwatch@Occupy Oakland: Beware of Police Infiltrators and Provocateurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrvMzqopHH0

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Occupy Oakland 11-2 Strike: Police Tear Gas, Black Bloc, War in the Streets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tu_D8SFYck&feature=player_embedded

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Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest

were actually undercover Quebec police officers:

POLICE STATE Criminal Cops EXPOSED As Agent Provocateurs @ SPP Protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoiisMMCFT0&feature=player_embedded

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Quebec police admit going undercover at montebello protests

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg&feature=player_embedded

G20: Epic Undercover Police Fail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrJ7aU-n1L8&feature=player_embedded

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WHAT HAPPENED IN OAKLAND TUESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 25:

Occupy Oakland Protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlPs-REyl-0&feature=player_embedded

Cops make mass arrests at occupy Oakland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R27kD2_7PwU&feature=player_embedded

Raw Video: Protesters Clash With Oakland Police

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpO-lJr2BQY&feature=player_embedded

Occupy Oakland - Flashbangs USED on protesters OPD LIES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqNOPZLw03Q&feature=player_embedded

KTVU TV Video of Police violence

http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html

Marine Vet wounded, tear gas & flash-bang grenades thrown in downtown

Oakland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUgPTCgwcQ&feature=player_embedded

Tear Gas billowing through 14th & Broadway in Downtown Oakland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU4Y0pwJtWE&feature=player_embedded

Arrests at Occupy Atlanta -- This is what a police state looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YStWz6jbeZA&feature=player_embedded

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Labor Beat: Hey You Billionaire, Pay Your Fair Share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8isD33f-I

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Voices of Occupy Boston 2011 - Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle) Part I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA48gmfGB6U&feature=youtu.be

Voices of Occupy Boston 2011 - Kwame Somburu (Paul Boutelle) Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjKZpOk7TyM&feature=related

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#Occupy Wall Street In Washington Square: Mohammed Ezzeldin, former occupier of

Egypt's Tahrir Square Speaks at Washington Square!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziodsFWEb5Y&feature=player_embedded

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#OccupyTheHood, Occupy Wall Street

By adele pham

http://vimeo.com/30146870

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Live arrest at brooklyn bridge #occupywallstreet by We are Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yULSI-31Pto&feature=player_embedded

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FREE THE CUBAN FIVE!

http://www.thecuban5.org/wordpress/index.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmS4kHC_OlY&feature=player_embedded

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One World One Revolution -- MUST SEE VIDEO -- Powerful and beautiful...bw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE3R1BQrYCw&feature=player_embedded

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson

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Japan: angry Fukushima citizens confront government (video)

Posted by Xeni Jardin on Monday, Jul 25th at 11:36am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVuGwc9dlhQ&feature=player_embedded


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Labor Beat: Labor Stands with Subpoenaed Activists Against FBI Raids and Grand

Jury Investigation of antiwar and social justice activists.

"If trouble is not at your door. It's on it's way, or it just left."

"Investigate the Billionaires...Full investigation into Wall Street..." Jesse

Sharkey, Vice

President, Chicago Teachers Union

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSNUSIGZCMQ

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Coal Ash: One Valley's Tale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E7h-DNvwx4&feature=player_embedded

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