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GRITtv » Blog Archive » Michelle Alexander: End The Drug War: Face the New Ji... - 0 views

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    The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems
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The U.S. searches for war criminals - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    The U.S. increases its efforts to apprehend war criminals. . . . provided they're not American
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Obama bans war criminals, except our own - The Star Democrat: Opinion - 0 views

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    By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney administration along with grim proof that the Obama administration also violates our anti-torture laws and the U.N. Convention Against Torture we signed. Take, for example, right now under Obama, "The CIA Secret Sites in Somalia" (the nation.com, July 12).
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The Exile Nation Project | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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    The Land of the Free punishes or imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation. This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America's criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of out of sight, out of mind. The United States has only 5% of the world's population, yet a full 25% of the world's prisoners. At 2.5 million, the US has more prisoners than even China does with five times the population of the United States. 8 million Americans (1 in every 31) languish under some form of state monitoring known as correctional supervision. On top of that, the security and livelihood of over 13 million more has been forever altered by a felony conviction. The American use of punishment is so pervasive, and so disproportionate, that even the conservative magazine The Economist declared in 2010, never in the civilized world have so many been locked up for so little. The project will unfold over a two year period, beginning with the release of this feature-length documentary and then continuing on with the release of short films and complete interviews from each of the 100 participants in the project, meant to represent the 1 in 100 Americans that are currently sitting behind bars.
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On the Dark Side in Al Doura - A Soldier in the Shadows on Vimeo - 0 views

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    WARNING: Graphic and disturbing photos between 38:40 and 40:45. U.S. Army Ranger John Needham, who was awarded two purple hearts and three medals for heroism, wrote to military authorities in 2007 reporting war crimes that he witnessed being committed by his own command and fellow soldiers in Al Doura, Iraq. His charges were supported by atrocity photos which, in the public interest, are now released in this video. John paid a terrible price for his opposition to these acts. His story is tragic.  CBS reported obtaining an Army document from the Criminal Investigation Command suggestive of an investigation into these war crimes allegations. The Army's conclusion was that the "offense of War Crimes did not occur." However, CBS also stated that the report was "redacted and incomplete; 111 pages were withheld."  This video is placed with the context of Vice President, Dick Cheney, insistence that this nation's efforts "must go to the dark side;" which included ignoring the Geneva Conventions.  John's story is told, here, by his father, Michael Needham. It is produced in the spirit of the public interest and towards promoting justice and the rule of law.
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Criminal Justice Petition: Police Pepper-Spray Peaceful UC Davis Students: Ask Chancell... - 1 views

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    Join University of California at Davis Assistant Professor Nathan Brown in calling for the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi for her failure to protect UC Davis student's First Amendment right to assemble, or even their physical safety. Nathan Brown's Open Letter To The Chancellor is below:
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What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for its destruction intensified.  To understand why I've done so, and to see what motivates the increasing devotion of the U.S. Government and those influenced by it to destroying that organization, it's well worth reviewing exactly what WikiLeaks exposed to the world just in the last year:  the breadth of the corruption, deceit, brutality and criminality on the part of the world's most powerful factions.
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The People vs. Goldman Sachs - 0 views

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    A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges
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Nearly 300 Legal Scholars Sign Letter Protesting Torture of Bradley Manning | AlterNet - 0 views

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    A coalition of 295 legal scholars from universities around the world have signed a letter protesting the torture of Bradley Manning, and published this week in the New York Review of Books. Composed and drafted by Bruce Ackerman, of Yale Law School, and Yochai Benkler, of Harvard, the letter details his treatment, and points out that it is a violation of both the Eighth and Fifth Amendments. "If continued," the letter states, "it may well amount to a violation of the criminal statute against torture, defined as, among other things, 'the administration or application…of… procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality.'"
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed military trial: Obama's cowardly, stupid, and wrong decision to ... - 0 views

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    Today, by ordering a military trial at Guantanamo for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants, Attorney General Eric Holder finally put the Obama administration's stamp on the proposition that some criminals are "too dangerous to have fair trials."
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Another Slap on the Wrist for Wall Street - 0 views

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    This is one of the best examples we've had yet of the profound difference in the style of criminal justice enforcement for the very rich and connected, versus the style of justice for everyone else. This scam that Chase, Bank of America and UBS were involved with was no different in any way, really, from old-school mafia-style bid-rigging scams.
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The criminal folly of criminalising bath salts | Colin Kalmbacher | Comment is free | g... - 0 views

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    The 'legal high' of bath salts, or mephedrone, is the new target of drug prohibitionists. Because that worked so well before
Luis Mier

Top 5 Reasons Why Bail Is Allowed in California - 0 views

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    Bail has been part of the justice system for centuries. Some people believe bail is too lenient for criminals, but there are practical reasons that bail exists.
Sarah Usher

The Key To My Success - 1 views

I have always been dreaming of becoming a police officer someday. I dreamt of doing police jobs myself, bust all criminals and save my society. I love protecting people, and I like to protect my fa...

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    Know My Rights is a 501(c)(3) community-based educational nonprofit organization. Since 2007, we have worked to combat injustices and disparities in our nation's institutions of criminal and civil law by educating the public about their basic legal rights and responsibilities. To achieve our goals, we have developed and implemented the most comprehensive yet simple to understand legal education program anywhere.
Felix Gryffeth

Cheney should face charges on use of torture - 0 views

  • dismiss the torture and murder of a human being is an unrepentant sociopath.
  • discussion of his fears, as if they somehow justify torture and murder.
  • inventing nightmare scenarios to come up with an excuse for torturing defenseless prisoners.
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  • The law anticipates this defense and rejects it in its entirety. It states that there are no “exceptional circumstances whatsoever ... that may be invoked as justification” for torture.
  • dismiss the torture and murder of a human being is an unrepentant sociopath.
  • to a discussion of his fears, as if they somehow justify torture and murder.
  • better display of our professed devotion to justice and human rights than anything afforded those who were condemned to torture without a trial.
  • What makes this argument so pathetic is that the people making it are often enthusiastic supporters of drone strikes.
  • excuse offered up by the conservative media is that the methods and tactics used didn’t meet the legal definition of torture. Unfortunately for them, that argument has already been tried and rejected in trials for war criminals.
  • law anticipates this defense and rejects it in its entirety. It states that there are no “exceptional circumstances whatsoever ... that may be invoked as justification” for torture. Cheney’s cowardice is simply not a legal defense for interrogation methods that included waterboarding, rectal rehydration and hypothermia
  • inventing nightmare scenarios to come up with an excuse for torturing defenseless prisoners.
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