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Collective | 08.05.2008
We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent spate of killings of farmers and farmer-leaders in Masbate, perpetrated by individuals identified as belonging to the local command of the New People’s Army.  On July 20, 2008, around 15-20 armed men shot and killed Alberto "Bito" Yusi, president of Samahan ng mga Anak ng Magsasaka ng Famosa, Incorporated (SAMFAI), an organization of landless p
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Eleanor White | 06.20.2008
Organized stalking and electronic harassment is the common name of the current-day COINTELPRO crimes. One OS/EH target has compiled "operations manuals" describing the perpetrator organization. For people who are curious about the crime syndrome called "organized stalking and electronic harassment" (which is current-day COINTELPRO, actually), I have posted two spoofed "oper
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STOPMAX Conference | 05.30.2008
Friday and Saturday 8 AM to 11 PM, Sunday 8 AM – 1 PM, Temple University Student Activity Center, 13th and Montgomery Streets. The conference will raise public awareness on the use of extended solitary confinement, racism and other human rights abuses in U.S. prisons. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, human rights activist, former boxer and exoneree from a triple life sentence, is a featured speaker along with poet, teacher, and former Supermax prisoner Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Terry Kupers M.D, psychiatrist, author, and expert witness in several class action law suits on the quality of mental health services inside control unit prisons and jails. Laura Whitehorn former prisoner of isolation and editor of POZ magazine. (MORE INFORMATION)  The American Friends Service Committee's National STOPMAX 2008 Conference
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Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee | 05.20.2008
American Indian activist Leonard Peltier has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the fifth consecutive year. The fact that Peltier has earned the distinction of a Nobel nomination every year since 2004 is especially remarkable - Peltier has been an inmate in the United States federal prison system (recently moved to Lewisburg, PA) since 1976.
Amnesty International's Guantánamo Cell Tour comes to Philadelphia, May 30-June 1
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Robert Saleem Holbrook | 04.04.2008
The “Stop Snitching” slogan that has spread through urban America like a wildfire... emerged out of the county and state prisons of America and was a legitimate backlash against unscrupulous law enforcement agencies striking deals with unscrupulous criminals to testify, truthfully or falsely, against their co-defendants or any other individual charged with a crime with whom the D.A. lacked the evidence to prosecute. read more | freesalim.net  I decided to write this article in response to the endless criticism that is being directed against the “Stop Snitching” movement by critics claiming that Hip Hop is responsible for the
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Cathy Garger | 03.29.2008
A raging human rights battle is brewing between the Department of Energy and the people of the greater San Francisco/San Jose area. Citizen activists and environmental rights groups are up in arms over the right of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to explode Depleted Uranium and other toxic and radioactive materials into California’s air.  Depleted Uranium Explosion In US UN Humanitarian Lawyer, Karen Parker, On the Violation of Human Rights in the USCathy Garger
Colombia Free Trade Agreement – Bad for Colombian and U.S. workers! Globalize Workers Solidarity!
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