That Which Is Seen -- may I unerringly consider All to be imbued with Divine Presence
Justice for Lynne Stewart Link lynnestewart.org Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attack1 feedback » •"The Lynne Stewart Defense Committee has a speakers bureau made up of attorneys and activists able to speak at an event in your area."
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Iraq Occupation Anniversary Categories: Criminal Injustice, U.S. Foreign PolicySend feedback » •
- Six years since the U.S. invasion
- In six years likely more than 1.3 million Iraqi deaths
- Millions of Iraqis are out of their homes, displaced
- 4,260 acknowledged U.S. Military deaths
- 30,000 Iraqis remain detained, most of them without charges, in US and Iraqi prisons, where torture continues
- The majority of the U.S. people are opposed
- U.S. President Obama has indicated he is with the military Wall Street
1 http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Iraq
2 http://countrystudies.us/iraq/30.htm
29.3 million population estimate for 2007? 0, 0.9 25.4 million estimate for 2004? 1 17.9 million people lived there as of a 1991 estimate, a different estimate says 16.28 million in 1987 and 12 million + in 1975 2
"One Million Dead in Iraq: Our Own Holocaust Denial"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18765.htmthere are various other official "credible" counts, there are efforts to confuse
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/conflicts/iraq_handover/numbers_game_revisited
Zinn: Sacco and Vanzetti Categories: Criminal InjusticeSend feedback » •"[This essay is part of the ZNet Classics series. Three times a week we will re-post an article that we think is of timeless importance. This one was first published April 14, 2007.]"
Their ultimate crime was their anarchism, an idea which today still startles us like a bolt of lightning because of its essential truth: we are all one, national boundaries and national hatreds must disappear, war is intolerable, the fruits of the earth must be shared, and only through organized struggle against authority can such a world come about.
What comes to us today from the case of Sacco and Vanzetti is not just tragedy, but inspiration. Their English was not perfect, but when they spoke it was a kind of poetry. Vanzetti said of his friend Sacco:
Sacco is a heart, a faith, a character, a man; a man lover of nature and mankind. A man who gave all, who sacrifice all to the cause of liberty and to his love for mankind: money, rest, mundane ambition, his own wife, his children, himself and his own life.... Oh yes, I may be more witful, as some have put it, I am a better babbler than he is, but many, many times, in hearing his heartful voice ring a faith sublime, in considering his supreme sacrifice, remembering his heroism I felt small, small at the presence of his greatness, and found myself compelled to fight back from my eyes the tears, quench my heart throbbing to my throat to not weep before him -this man called chief and assassin and doomed.
Worst of all, they were anarchists, meaning they had some crazy notion of a full democracy in which neither foreignness nor poverty would exist, and thought that without these provocations, war among nations would end for all time. But for this to happen the rich would have to be fought and their riches confiscated. That anarchist idea is a crime much worse than robbing a payroll, and so to this day the story of Sacco and Vanzetti cannot be recalled without great anxiety.
Sacco wrote to his son Dante: "So son, instead of crying, be strong, so as to be able to comfort your mother...take her for a long walk in the quiet country, gathering wild flowers here and there, resting under the shade of trees...But remember always, Dante, in this play of happiness, don't you use all for yourself only...help the persecuted and the victim because they are your better friends.... In this struggle of life you will find more love and you will be loved."
Leonard Peltier's safety is in jeapordy Categories: Criminal InjusticeSend feedback » •"We feel that prison authorities at the prompting of the FBI orchestrated this attack and thus, we are greatly concerned about his safety. It may be that the attackers, whom Leonard did not even know, were offered reduced sentences for carrying out this heinous assault. Since Leonard is up for parole soon, this could be a conspiracy to discredit a model prisoner."
Related:
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/pressrelease20090127.htmMEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
27 JANUARY 2009Contact: Kari Ann Cowan
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee
PO Box 7488
Fargo, ND 58106
Phone: 701-235-2206
whoisleonardpeltier.infoNative Americans and supporters outraged at FBI and George W. Bush
Fargo, North Dakota — The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) recently influenced the federal prison system to transfer elder Native American, Leonard Peltier, to a facility for young gang members whereupon his arrival he was immediately attacked and severely beaten. He was thrown into solitary confinement and denied proper medical care and food. The FBI has put out a letter encouraging others to indulge in whatever activities they can to block a possible pardon by President Obama for Leonard Peltier.
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US Supreme Court clears way for execution of likely innocent death row inmate Categories: Criminal InjusticeSend feedback » •By Kate Randall
16 October 2008The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. The case against Davis, convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty Savannah police office, has gained worldwide attention, with demands by human rights activists and high-profile figures for his life to be spared.
The Court’s refusal to hear the case paves the way for the state-sponsored murder of an individual who is very likely innocent of any crime.
Columbus Day: A celebration of the brutality Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •Maybe it's worth thinking about monsters like Columbus and how they brutally hack their way to the ends of the physical earth, and now hide amongst the people waiting for their next profit. What makes a monster?
supreme court supports murdering retarded people Categories: Criminal Injustice1 feedback » •Despite evidence of mental retardation, Mississippi executes inmate by lethal injection
By Kate Randall
22 May 2008Earl Wesley Berry was executed Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. His lethal injection was administered at around 6 p.m. local time after all last-minute appeals for a stay had been exhausted.
Berry’s attorney provided evidence to state courts that he was mentally retarded, which would have rendered his execution unconstitutional, but he was denied an evidentiary hearing on procedural grounds.
"Murdered by Mumia" examined Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •There is a factsheet published by the Partisan Defense Committee that examines the "facts" portrayed in Maureen Faulkner and Michael Smerconish's book Murdered By Mumia.
CA court: "go ahead and discriminate against medical marijuana patients" Categories: Criminal Injustice, ShadySend feedback » •...on January 24, 2008, in a 5-2 opinion, the California Supreme Court narrowly construed the Compassionate Use Act to rule in favor of [an] employer and hold that medical marijuana patients cannot state civil causes of action for employment discrimination.
politics of birth Categories: Criminal Injustice, People under attackSend feedback » •What is it that causes this culturally accepted criminal action that is so widespread in our culture... the abuse of mother and baby?
Free Jarvis Jay Masters Categories: Criminal Injustice, Political PrisonerSend feedback » •Another man on death row who wrote a moving book Finding Freedom--Writings from Death Row. Powerful reflections on prison life and how people end up there too. Check out the site dedicated to getting him out from behind bars. http://freejarvis.org
