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Above Their Law

December 15, 2014 West Coast Native News, www.westcoastnativenews.com Strategize! Canada, Indigenous Rights, Law

I went to their courtroom as an American Indian, not a citizen of kkkanada and/or a subject or the “Crown”, giving them authority over me. I am not be a ‘full blood’ Indian, but I am in part Migmaq and Penobscot. I don’t need an “Indian Status” from the status quo, determining who I am by quantum blood levels. This is their justification of the decision process of who is and who isn’t an First Nation, Native, etc.. And this is, according to the Crown, the enemy. I’m an American Indian, none of the preceeding descriptions. This right to choose where my or your allegiance is, is up to me or you. I don’t need anyone else’s given permission but from the Ancestors. They have given me the right to be a channel to what happened in that court room as an Indian living by Tribal Law and respecting International Law.

Congress Just Quickly And Quietly Expanded NSA Spying Powers

December 15, 2014 Rare Staff, www.rare.us Educate! Law, NSA, Surveillance

Congress just significantly increased the spying power of the National Security Agency without anyone really noticing. That is, with the exception of civil liberties and privacy hawk Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.). Reported National Journal: Congress this week quietly passed a bill that may give unprecedented legal authority to the government’s warrantless surveillance powers, despite a last-minute effort by Rep. Justin Amash to kill the bill. Amash staged an aggressive eleventh-hour rally Wednesday night to block passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act, which will fund intelligence agencies for the next fiscal year.

Protests Build And Intensify People’s Views On Issues

December 15, 2014 Jennifer Hadden, www.washingtonpost.com Strategize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Law, Policy

Bill McKibben suggested that the massive People’s Climate March in September had helped cause theUS-China climate announcement of a few weeks ago. He tweeted, “First reaction to US China climate news: We should do more of these big protest-type things, they seem useful.” But did the People’s Climate March actually cause these policy outcomes? Maybe. The truth is that it’s really difficult to assess the causal impact of protests. Many of the same things that drive people out to the streets also influence politicians to take actions in support of the movement’s cause. When the tide of public opinion shifts to support a movement, for example, we can expect to see both more protest and more favorable policy outcomes.

How Big Oil Got Expedited Permits To Frack Public Lands

December 15, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law

The 1,616-page piece of pork barrel legislation contains a provision — among other controversial measures — to streamline permitting for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) on U.S. public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a unit of the U.S. Department of Interior. Buried on page 1,156 of the bill as Section 3021 and subtitled “Bureau of Land Management Permit Processing,” the bill's passage has won praise from both the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) and comes on the heels of countries from around the world coming to a preliminary deal at the United Nations climate summit in Lima, Peru, to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

Convicted By An All-White Jury, Black Leader Faces Life

December 13, 2014 Victoria Collier and Ben-Zion Ptashnik, www.truth-out.org Educate! Law, Racial Justice

As reports escalate of police assaults and murder of unarmed black men for "suspected" crimes, a jury trial certainly sounds like welcome justice. Not so for many in Michigan, where a 66-year-old black activist, Rev. Edward Pinkney, convicted of felony election fraud by an all-white jury, faces a life sentence, amid accusations of trumped-up charges and no direct evidence of wrongdoing. When an all-white jury is chosen to try a prominent black community leader of an impoverished city with a 90 percent black population, when the powers that be have numerous reasons to want him discredited, when the evidence is entirely lacking and the punishment is draconian, there is ample cause to suspect another egregious breach of justice - one as blatant as refusing to indict the police who killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, and choked a father of six to death in Staten Island.

The Threat Of Incarceration To Silence Protest

December 13, 2014 Kathy Kelly, www.vcnv.org Resist! CriminalJustice, Law, Mass Incarceration, Prison, Wars and Militarism

On December 10, International Human Rights Day, federal Magistrate Matt Whitworth sentenced me to three months in prison for having crossed the line at a military base that wages drone warfare. The punishment for our attempt to speak on behalf of trapped and desperate people, abroad, will be an opportunity to speak with people trapped by prisons and impoverishment here in the U.S. Our trial was based on a trespass charge incurred on June 1, 2014. Georgia Walker and I were immediately arrested when we stepped onto Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force where pilots fly weaponized drones over Afghanistan and other countries. We carried a loaf of bread and a letter for Brig Gen. Glen D. Van Herck. In court, we testified that we hadn’t acted with criminal intent but had, rather, exercised our First Amendment right (and responsibility) to assemble peaceably for redress of grievance.

DOJ To Allow Native Americans To Grow, Sell Marijuana

December 13, 2014 Timothy Phelps, www.thestar.com Educate! indigenous, Land Rights, Law, Marijuana

Opening the door for what could be a lucrative and controversial new industry on some native American reservations, the Justice Department on Thursday will tell U.S. attorneys to not prevent tribes from growing or selling marijuana on the sovereign lands, even in states that ban the practice. The new guidance, released in a memorandum, will be implemented on a case-by-case basis and tribes must still follow federal guidelines, said Timothy Purdon, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Subcommittee on native American Issues. It remains to be seen how many reservations will take advantage of the policy. Many tribes are opposed to legalizing pot on their lands, and federal officials will continue to enforce the law in those areas, if requested.

Sneak Attack? Congress Slips Controversial Measures Into Spending Bill

December 11, 2014 Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann, www.nbcnews.com Educate! Campaign Finance, Law, Marijuana

As the political world was busy flipping through the pages of the graphic and headline-grabbing Senate Intelligence Committee report on Bush Era torture practices, Congress snuck in two measures to its must-pass spending bill -- all without formal debate. The first was a rider that essentially overturns the District of Columbia's ballot initiative legalizing marijuana, which passed by a more than 2-to-1 margin last month. (Remember, D.C. doesn't even have elected House or Senate members.) The second measure Congress snuck into the spending the bill will be more galling to some, because it amounts to a pay raise for the two unpopular political parties.

We Are Seneca Lake Blockade Going Strong

December 11, 2014 Zoe Loftus-Farren, www.earthisland.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Seneca Lake

For six weeks, We Are Seneca Lake campaigners have braved freezing weather in western New York to block expansion of a methane storage project adjacent to Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes. Campaigners believe the storage project threatens to contaminate Seneca Lake, which provides drinking water to 100,000 people in upstate New York. With 92 arrests for trespassing while blocking the gates to the storage facility, the campaign seems to be picking up steam. The We Are Seneca Lake movement took shape on October 23 when protesters blocked the gates to Texas-based energy company Crestwood Midstream’s storage facility north of Watkins Glen, NY. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized Crestwood to begin expansion of its methane storage facility beginning on October 24.

Congress Gives Native American Lands To Foreign Mining Company

December 11, 2014 RT, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law

This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China. The “Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015” - named after the retiring chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services panels – includes the giveaway of Apache burial, medicinal, and ceremonial grounds currently within the bounds of Tonto. News of the land provision was kept under wraps until late Tuesday, when the bill was finally posted online.

Energy Firms In Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General

December 11, 2014 Eric Lipton, www.nytimes.com Educate! Environment, EPA, Law, Lobbying

Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year. They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices. The Times reported previously how individual attorneys general have shut down investigations, changed policies or agreed to more corporate-friendly settlement terms after intervention by lobbyists and lawyers, many of whom are also campaign benefactors.

First Nation Files Land Claim To Stanley Park And Gulf Islands

December 11, 2014 Amy Judd, www.globalnews.ca Resist! First Nations, Land Rights, Law

A B.C. First Nation is taking the federal and provincial governments to court for two billion dollars and a massive land claim. They say more than 100 years ago they lost their land when it was shelled by a Royal Navy gunboat. “When you look at our history and genealogy you will see that we’ve always been here and did not, as Canada would suggest, simply fall out of the sky one day in the last 10 or 15 years,” said Hwlitsum chief Raymond (Rocky) Wilson. “Our serious dispute is not with private land owners or other First Nations, but with the Crown, Canada and the province, in this case British Columbia, who have consistently hidden their heads in the sand and ignored what we have to say.”

An End To Solitary Is Long Overdue

December 11, 2014 Marie Levin, www.counterpunch.org Organize! California, Human Rights, Law, Solitary Confinement

While the U.S. uses long-term solitary more than any other country in the world, California uses it more than any other state. It’s one of the few places in the world where someone can be held indefinitely in solitary. This practice is designed to break the human spirit and is condemned as a form of torture under international law. Despite these repeated condemnations by the U.N., the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is harshening rather than easing its policies, currently with three new sets of regulations. The administration’s iron-fisted strategy is emerging: project the appearance of a reforming system while extending its reach, and restrict the ability of prisoners and their loved ones to organize for their rights.

Groups Rally Against Legislation To Keep GMOs Off Labels

December 11, 2014 Organic Consumers Association, www.organicconsumers.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Law, Monsanto, Organic

Consumers, farmers, states’ rights and consumer rights activists traveled to Washington D.C. today to attend a scheduled hearing and protest on a bill that would preempt states’ rights to pass laws requiring the mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).” H.R. 4432, dubbed by pro-labeling groups as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, was introduced in April by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.). It was written with help from the biotech and processed food industries to protect corporate profits. Sixty-four countries require corporations to disclose whether or not their products contain GMOs. More than 90 percent of Americans surveyed say they want this right, also.

Obama Urges No Further Investigations Or Prosecutions Over Torture

December 11, 2014 John Queally, www.commondreams.org Educate! Human Rights, Law, Torture

In his first official remarks following Tuesday's release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the torture program conducted by the CIA during the presidency of George W. Bush, President Barack Obama on Tuesday night indicated that the abuses detailed in the report conducted in the name of the American people—described as "horrific," "ruthless" and "much more brutal than previously thought"—should not be followed by further inquiries or prosecutions as many have long urged. In his remarks, Obama acknowledged that "no nation is perfect," but argued that "one of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our past, face our imperfections, make changes and do better."

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