Law

Understanding Our Many Fergusons

October 1, 2014 Noel A. Cazenave, www.truth-out.org Educate! Ferguson, Law, police brutality, Racism, Violence

One way of looking at this conflict from the perspective of European-American police officers and vigilante-type individuals who kill African-American youth is as a very highly racialized and macho game of lines drawn in the sand. Here the lines in the sand are drawn in blood and the game is over when they get to shoot to kill with impunity. Indeed it is useful to think in terms of there actually being three lines: The will to kill line - based on highly racialized and genderized emotions of anger and hatred; the right to kill line - what that person can reasonably expect to get away with based on existing norms, laws, policies and practices, and their enforcement, and the need to kill line - rooted in a threat to that person's life or the lives of others.

Why Protesters Code Pink Stay Out Of Jail

October 1, 2014 Daniel Nasaw, www.bbc.com Strategize! Government, Law, Protest, Wars and Militarism

Benjamin says that the activists launch their actions knowing full well they face arrest - and that knowledge frees her psychologically, for example, to berate the president of the United States for authorising drone strikes in Yemen before an international television audience. "We don't like getting arrested - it takes time and it's expensive and takes lawyers," she said. "But we've been arrested dozens of times." Benjamin has also been denied entry into Canada and Egypt, where she says an Egyptian policeman fractured her shoulder attempting to force her onto a plane out of the country. But in Washington, the Capitol complex and committee hearings are by law and democratic tradition open to the public unless secret intelligence matters are being discussed.

My Night In Jail With Flood Wall Street

September 30, 2014 John Tarleton, www.indypendent.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Climate Change, Environment, Flood Wall Street, Law

“What is overwhelming about the climate challenge is that it requires breaking so many rules at once.” – Naomi Klein Early Monday evening I sat down in the street at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street with a polar bear, two women dressed as Captain Planet, and almost 100 other people. Following a vibrant day of unpermitted Flood Wall Street protests that drew as many as 3,000 demonstrators to Lower Manhattan, we locked arms and insisted that this symbolic piece of real estate should remain occupied through the following day when world leaders were scheduled to gather at the United Nations to continue discussions about how to address climate change.

Judge Refuses To Stop Detroit Water Shutoffs

September 30, 2014 Matt Helms, www.freep.com Resist! Detroit, Human Rights, Law, Water

Detroit's bankruptcy judge today said he lacked the authority to issue a restraining order to stop water shutoffs over delinquent bills, saying that there is no constitutional right to water and a moratorium would be a financial hit to the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. "Chapter 9 strictly limits the courts' power in a bankruptcy case," U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes said as he read a ruling from the bench this morning. While Rhodes' ruling made it clear he understood the scope of the problem of water shutoffs in a city with deep poverty, he said the plaintiffs in the case — advocates including Moratorium Now, the Peoples Water Board and the National Action Network — did not make the case that a six-month moratorium was necessary or within his powers.

Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization And Genocide In Progress

September 29, 2014 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Law, Mass Incarceration, militarism, Racism

How does one explain the totality of: mass incarceration of healthy young black males in their most productive years; their falling to state-sponsored murder coast-to-coast; the impoverishment of black wealth through wholesale thievery by corporate and banking foreclosures, and the militarization of police forces arrayed nationwide against black communities? Were these crimes against African-Americans committed in a theater of war they would rise to the level of genocide as defined by the United Nations. The systematic and brutal execution of black men is illegal under domestic and international law. Under UN conventions this crime alone rises to the level of genocide as defined in international law under Article II.

Holder: Better Friend To Wall Street Than To People

September 26, 2014 David Dayen, www.theguardian.com Educate! Corruption, Eric Holder, Law

“Friends and former colleagues say Holder has made no decisions about his next professional perch,” NPR writes, “but they say it would be no surprise if he returned to the law firm Covington & Burling, where he spent years representing corporate clients.” A large chunk of Covington & Burling’s corporate clients are mega-banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America. Lanny Breuer, who ran the criminal division for Holder’s Justice Department, already returned to work there. In March, Covington highlighted in marketing materials their award from the trade publication American Lawyer as “Litigation Department of the Year,” touting the law firm’s work in getting clients accused of financial fraud off with slap-on-the-wrist fines.

US Justice Department To Review Fatal Police Shooting In Walmart

September 25, 2014 John Swaine, www.theguardian.com Organize! Law, police brutality

The US government is to review the fatal police shooting of a man carrying a BB rifle in a Walmart store in Ohio, after a grand jury in the state declined to indict the officers involved. The Justice Department’s civil rights division and the FBI will carry out a “thorough and independent review of the evidence” relating to the death of John Crawford III in Beavercreek last month, it was announced on Wednesday. Carter Stewart, the US attorney for the southern district of Ohio, said in a statement that authorities would “take appropriate action if the evidence indicates a prosecutable violation of federal criminal civil rights statutes”. The announcement came soon after a request from Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, and attorney general, Mike DeWine, for the federal authorities to review the case. An attorney for Crawford’s family described the decision not to bring charges in the case as “absolutely incomprehensible”.

Demonstrators Arrested In Sit-In To Save Dyett High School

September 25, 2014 Chicagoist, www.chicagoist.com Resist! Direct Action, Education, Law

Nearly a dozen demonstrators were arrested late last night in City Hall after chaining themselves to the statue on the 5th floor in front of Rahm Emanuel’s office. The protesters staged their sit in— beginning in the late afternoon— to request Emanuel take their demands surrounding the looming closure of Dyett High school seriously. According to DNAInfo, Dyett students and their supporters state that CPS and the Mayor have slowly starved the school to death after it was slated to be phased out in 2012. Presently, only 13 students are enrolled in the school, which is one of the only open-enrollment schools in the area. CBS2 reports other nearby schools— King College Prep High School and Kenwood Academy High School— are selective enrollment.

Seattle To Fine Residents For Not Composting

September 25, 2014 Kim Malcolm, www.ijpr.org Create! Environment, Law, Seattle

The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a new rule Monday governing what residents put in your garbage bin. The idea is to increase the amount of food scraps going to compost. Council member Sally Bagshaw said promoting this practice could reduce up to a third of Seattle's waste ending up in landfills. "So if we just get ourselves into the mindset of, Ok, we're going to recycle our bottles, our papers, our cans, just as we've been doing for the past 25 years, and now we're going to compost the stuff in your kitchen, really easy to reduce the amount of stuff that's going to a landfill," she said. Under the new rule, garbage haulers can ticket bins that contain 10 percent or more of food waste.

Chelsea Manning Sues Pentagon For Hormone Therapy

September 24, 2014 Matt Sledge, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Chelsea Manning, Law, Prison

Chelsea Manning on Tuesday sued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the Pentagon in federal court for access to hormone therapy, warning that her mental condition is rapidly deteriorating in the face of more than a year of military officials' delays. In August 2013, the WikiLeaks source formerly known as Bradley Manning began serving a 35-year sentence at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for leaking government documents. But despite the Army's acknowledgment that Manning suffers from gender dysphoria, the prison has so far denied her access to hormones or the opportunity to dress as a woman. "It has now been more than four years since I was first diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a condition that I have struggled with my entire life," Manning wrote in a legal filing.

Drone Resister Found Guilty

September 24, 2014 Upstate Drone Action, www.truth-out.org Resist! Arrest, Drone, Law

Syracuse, NY - Carrying flowers and three documents to Hancock Field Air National Guard Base can result in severe consequences. Drone resister Mark Colville of the Amistad Catholic Worker, New Haven, Connecticut, was found guilty after a two-day trial and fifty minutes of deliberation by a DeWitt Town Court jury. On December 9th, 2013, Colville and two Yale Divinity students brought a People's Order of Protection to the front gate of the base to demand an end to drone attacks which are carried out from Hancock. This action was in response to a recent request by Raz Mohammad, an Afghan national, whose brother-in law was killed by a U.S. military drone strike. Gate personnel rejected the petition.

USDA’s Greenlighting Of ‘Agent Orange’ Crops Sparks Condemnation

September 23, 2014 Andrea Germanos, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Law, Monsanto

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision this week to approve two new genetically engineered crops is being denounced by watchdog groups as a false solution to herbicide-resistant weeds and a move that threatens human and environment safety alike. The crops are Dow AgroSciences’ Enlist corn and soybeans, engineered to be resistant to its Duo herbicide, which contains 2,4-D, a component of the notorious Agent Orange. 2,4-D has been linked to Parkinson’s, birth defects, reproductive problems, and endocrine disruption. Dow states that the new system will address the problem of weeds that have become resistant to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup. Food and environmental safety groups, however, say that it speaks to the failure of the genetically engineered crops strategy that fosters herbicide expansion—profitable for the chemical companies—and ignores the paradigm shifted needed in the industrial agriculture system.

Officer Darren Wilson Testified Before Grand Jury

September 18, 2014 Kim Bell, www.stltoday.com Educate! Ferguson, Law, police brutality

CLAYTON • Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testified here for almost four hours Tuesday in front of the St. Louis County grand jury investigating his shooting Aug. 9 of Michael Brown, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday. Wilson was not obligated to appear, and also has spoken with St. Louis County investigators twice and federal investigators once, the source said. The source said Wilson was “cooperative.” A spokesman for Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office, Ed Magee, refused to comment Wednesday on who had testified. The shooting of Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed, by Wilson, who is white, gave rise to racially charged protests and looting. Some activists have threatened more of the same if the grand jury does not indict Wilson.

Chevron Sounds Alarm Against East Bay “Anarchism”

September 17, 2014 Steve Early, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Energy, Law

Eduardo, the dangerous Martinez, is a retired public school teacher and registered Democrat. He’s silver-haired, soft spoken, neatly dressed, and rather distinguished looking. For years, he has devoted himself to good causes in Richmond, including serving on the city planning commission. On that body, he has been an influential voice for Richmond’s Environmental Justice Coalition. Earlier this summer, for example, he voted to impose additional air quality and safety requirements on Chevron, in return for city approval of its long-delayed $1 billion refinery modernization plan. This project was finally OKed by the city council majority in July after some improvements were obtained, plus $90 million in Chevron-funded “community benefits.” Chevron did not forget that Martinez—Eduardo, not Al—helped to challenge and change its original blueprint for “modernization,” a project that will employ 1,000 building trades workers. And that’s why Richmond voters have just discovered, via expensive mass mailers and phone calls, that Eduardo Martinez is really a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Shadowy Tribunal Decides Mining Companies’ Power

September 16, 2014 Alice Ollstein, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Capitalism, El Salvador, Law, Mining

Does a corporation’s right to profit trump a country’s right to protect its land and water? That was the question today before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an obscure tribunal housed within the World Bank in Washington, DC. At a hearing closed to the press and the public, the gold mining company OceanaGold claimed the government of El Salvador owes them hundreds of millions of dollars for denying them a permit to excavate in an ecologically sensitive region. At a rally outside the World Bank Monday, Manuel Pérez-Rocha with the Institute for Policy Studies explained the situation to ThinkProgress: “The $301 million dollars they are demanding is related to the profit-not-made. It’s not that they invested $301 million. They are saying, ‘Well, if you don’t let me operate in your country the way I want, you must pay me for the profits that you prevented me from making.’”

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