Monthly Archives: December 2013

Unnecessary Force movie trailer …

Know that unnecessary force can ruin or end a loved one’s life. In a heartbeat. Without exception, this is everyone’s problem.

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How Do Your Police Measure Up?

Originally posted on Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation:
I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY of people in America are not concerned about their police. After all, if they are white and middle to upper-class  the only contact they will ever have with police is if they get a speeding ticket…

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Try Waging War on Poverty Instead of the Poor

Originally posted on Rcooley123's Blog:
As Congress stumbles into yet another budget/debt limit conference committee round of discussions, it appears that the losers along the way remain those at the bottom of the economic heap. On November 1st, all…

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Stop Privatizing Prisons

Originally posted on Rcooley123's Blog:
The United States currently incarcerates a higher percentage of its population than any other nation on earth. In an attempt to contain costs involved in operating prisons, some states have resorted to contracting out…

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38,000 sign Petition Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

For Immediate Release – December 24, 2013 Contact: Tim Wagner, 801-502-5450, twagner@xmission.com38,000 sign Petition Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Petition will stay active during holidays Salt Lake City (UT) – An online petition that urges Utah Governor Gary Herbert to let stand a ruling … Continue reading

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Yes, we really got shot at. No, you didn’t imagine it.

How a Texas Cop Who Killed a Double Amputee Holding a Ballpoint Pen Got Away With It | Alternet On October 24, the Houston Police Department  announced the results of its yearlong investigation into the shooting death of  Brian Claunch, a … Continue reading

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Whistleblower Fears UBS Banker Will Get Sweetheart Deal

National Whistleblowers CenterP.O. Box 25074Washington, D.C. 20027http://www.whistleblowers.org FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:Mary Jane Wilmoth(202) 342-1902mjw@whistleblowers.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Whistleblower Fears UBS Banker Raoul Weil  Will Get Sweetheart Deal   UBS Tax Fraud Kingpin Extradited to United States Faces Hearing Today … Continue reading

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ACLU on Confronting California’s Abuse of Solitary

Originally posted on Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a report on the crisis in the SHU: Check it out at: Confronting California’s Abuse of Solitary {November 19, 2013}

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Kelly Michael Brady’s 30-60 year sentence rips off MI taxpayers

Man pleads guilty for 1991 homicide in Dearborn | The Detroit News A 45-year-old Florida man who confessed to a 1991 Dearborn homicide last year pleaded guilty of the crime in court this week … Brady pleaded guilty under a … Continue reading

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What’s in a name? It depends.

In memory of Michael Hastings, and to honor Sidney Blumenthal’s This Town, I’ve decided to refer to Mark Leibovich’s same name/same subject book as Vanity Unfair: A Non-Troublemaker’s Tedious Tome of Vicious D. C. Vagaries … which is self-explanatory to … Continue reading

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