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April 2008
Monthly Archive
Mon 28 Apr 2008
Mainstream Media - Antidote for Critical Thinking
Posted by kevin under it's the stupid media1 Comment
Mon 28 Apr 2008
Martial Law Imposed for Tyrant’s Visit
Posted by steve fournier under Hartford , anti-war , government[3] Comments
Bush was in Hartford on Friday, and, on very short notice, local antiwar groups organized a demonstration. Bush was due at the Northwest Boys and Girls Club sometime after ten a.m. to talk about controlling malaria. The club is on Granby Street, a few hundred feet north of Weaver High School and just down the hill from Mark Twain School.
Granby Street was blocked at Manchester Street, about a quarter mile from the club, and I had to take Lyme Street to Durham Street. All the adjacent streets were barricaded. I arrived at about 10:30 to find, about a half-block away from the closest unbarricaded street, a crowd of about 200 people loosely assembled on the school playing field. Some were pressed against a makeshift snow fence that had been erected for the occasion. The area where the crowd was assembled and the club where Bush was to be speaking are separated by a city-block-sized soccer field and Granby Street. The armed men on the roof of the club could hardly be made out from where we were, and a man with binoculars pointed them out to me. I had to pass a phalanx of plainclothes and uniformed officers to get to this designated free-speech area. (more…)
Sun 27 Apr 2008
Wright Wronged. Wrong Righted?
Posted by steve fournier under it's the stupid media , religion , politics , race[7] Comments
The gang rape committed by the embedded mass media on Jeremiah Wright will never be acknowledged, but history will record it as a sample of 21st Century racism. Wright is the hapless victim of neobigots, paid promoters of a popular racism that proceeds not from the presumed superiority of the white race but from its presumed inferiority. (more…)
Sat 26 Apr 2008
This is horrifying. How deep (read: cruel) is our societal hysteria about marijuana? This shows pretty clearly how our idiotic assumptions about the plant - and that’s all it is, a plant - trump decisions of life and death.
Click here for the Yahoo News story about a dying man’s struggle to live, and how his medical marijuana use may be his death sentence.
Fri 25 Apr 2008
Greg Butterfield sent a message to the members of Workers World Party. --------------------Subject: Killer cops acquitted -- Justice for Sean Bell protest TONIGHT New York Times Breaking News 9:14 a.m.3 Detectives in Bell Shooting Found Not Guilty of All Charges NYPD has gotten away with murder AGAIN! JUSTICE FOR SEAN BELL AND ALL VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE!!COME OUT APRIL 25th THE DAY OF THE VERDICT!! In Nov. 2006, Sean Bell was murdered by the NYPD in a hail of 50 bullets. His friends - Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman - were seriously injured. 3 of the officers involved now await the verdict of their trial. The judge has stated that he will announce the verdict on FRIDAY, APRIL 25th. PEOPLES JUSTICE for Community Control and Police Accountability is calling for a rally and community speak-out in front of the Queens DA's office ON THIS DAY*. COME OUT: APRIL 25th at 5:30 pm @ the Queens DA's Office 125-01 Queens Blvd. (between Hoover Ave & 82nd Ave.) E or F train to Union Turnpike The NYPD's murder of Bell and attempted murders of Benefield and Guzman are NOT isolated or random events. They represent the continued targeting of communities of color by the police and the lack of accountability for police misconduct and abuse. Endorsers (list in formation): Audre Lorde Project Black Radical Congress-NY CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities Center for Constitutional Rights Congress for Korean Reunification Critical Resistance Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) DJ Chela Domestic Workers United (DWU) FIERCE Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC) Hasan Salaam Hip Hop Caucus Immigrant Justice Solidarity Project International Action Center Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) Justice Committee Lynne Stewart Organization Make The Road By Walking Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Mano a ManoMay 1st Coalition National Hip Hop Political Convention New Abolitionists Nodutdol for Korean Community Development October 22nd Coalition Parents Against Police Brutality Rebel Diaz Revolting in Pink (R.I.P)Rights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD) Sylvia Rivera Law Project Sylvia Rivera Law Project VAMOS Unidos War Resisters League Where We Live Radio Program/WBAI-FM NY--------------------
Thu 24 Apr 2008
In the early hours of this morning, the Connecticut legislature passed a watered-down but still dangerous change to the existing “three strikes” criminal sentencing statute. The change requires that judges double or triple the mandatory minimum sentence for a person classified as a persistent dangerous felony offender. The amendment also requires that if a prosecutor does not choose to seek harsher sentencing in a case involving someone who qualifies as a persistent violent felony offender, the prosecutor must state on the record his or her reason for not doing so. The bill as passed also provides sums that can only be described as pocket change for the Public Defender’s office and for re-entry services for previously incarcerated people.
Thanks to the battle waged by the Clean Slate Committee and its allies, as well as the stalwart opposition of a few principled legislators, this new law is a far cry from the kind of three strikes that Governor Rell demanded. The fact remains, however, that the process that permitted this morning’s amendments to pass speaks volumes about the version of “democracy” that the existing political system provides. (more…)
Sun 20 Apr 2008
As a candidate for Congress, I’m in the process of collecting signatures on a nominating petition, and the signers have to be registered voters to be counted. I used to register people to vote using a sheaf of registration forms supplied by the Hartford Registrar of Voters, and so I thought I’d better get some forms for people who want to sign my petition but aren’t registered here.
Thu 17 Apr 2008
Thursday’s Rally Against Three Strikes
Posted by Meghan under crime , justice , education , Criminal Justice[8] Comments
Today at the Capitol a coalition of social justice and criminal justice reform groups, including the Clean Slate Committee, Black Lowe, The Alliance Connecticut, People Against Injustice, American Friends Service Committee, and Youth Rights Media from New Haven, held a rally and press conference against the “three strikes” legislation proposed by Governor Rell.
Thu 17 Apr 2008
Between Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the designated inquisitors, not a single intelligent question was put to either candidate during ABC News’ so-called “debate” in Pennsylvania last night. (more…)
Tue 15 Apr 2008
Angela Davis at CCSU, April 24
Posted by Steve under gender , economics , justice , race , Criminal JusticeNo Comments
Angela Davis will be speaking at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain on Thursday, April 24th. She will be taking part in two panel discussions, the first at 2:00 titled “Are Prisons Obsolete?” and the second at 5:30 titled “Race, Class and Gender Issues in American Society.” The talks are in Torp Theatre in Davidson Hall.