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Solitary Confinement In NJ Immigration Detention Centers Overused

July 23, 2015 American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org , , ,
An investigation of the use of solitary confinement in New Jersey’s immigration detention centers finds an unnecessarily harsh and unfair system that violates state and international standards. The report “23 Hours in the Box, Solitary Confinement in New Jersey Immigration Detention” is released by New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees*, a coalition of community-based groups that support immigration and detention reform, and NYU School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic. The investigation examined hundreds of documents from public record requests and found that solitary confinement is applied far too often and far too long to immigrant detainees in New Jersey. Investigators also found an unnecessarily harsh system severely limiting due process and fraught with violations of state regulations and international standards.

Cops Attack Unity Rally — Against Police Brutality

March 4, 2015 Betsy Piette, www.workers.org , , ,
A peaceful protest against police brutality outside the Cumberland County courthouse here on Feb. 28 was disrupted by an orchestrated police provocation that resulted in two people being arrested. The rally was cut short after police converged on the gathering, confronting demonstrators and pushing them out of the street, even though organizers had a permit. Demonstrators reported seeing police armed with M16s. The demonstration, initiated by the Salem County-based civil rights group National Awareness Alliance, was held to unite families from New Jersey and Philadelphia who have been demanding justice for loved ones killed or injured by police. Starting at the intersection where police killed Jerame Reid, 36, of Bridgeton on Dec. 30, 2014, it was the fifth event demanding justice for Reid since his death.

Newark Student Sit-in Heads Into Its Second Night

February 19, 2015 Naomi Nix, www.nj.com , ,
The impasse between the Newark youth staging a sit-in at Newark Public Schools' headquarters and the school system will reach its second straight night, activists and officials said. While the district continues to urge students to go home and attend class, the Newark Student Union reiterated their call for superintendent Cami Anderson's resignation "At this point it's non-negotiable," Thais Marques, one of the union's co-founders and a Rutgers student, said in a phone interview this evening. "She is incapable of engaging with students. She is incapable of engaging with the community." The student demonstration, which includes about six Newark Public School students, received a groundswell of support from Newark community groups who have been vocal critics of Anderson's leadership and the school district's controversial reforms.

Opposition Greets Proposed Marcellus Shale-Trenton Pipeline

February 4, 2015 Andrew Maykuth www.philly.com , ,
A blanket of snow overlay the idyllic landscape of farms, stone walls, and New Jersey's oldest surviving covered bridge last week. Alix Bacon, a regional manager for the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, swept her arm across the postcard vista. "All of this is preserved," said Bacon, whose organization played a key role in securing the development rights to maintain the region's rural character. Last year, a consortium of utilities announced plans to build the 110-mile PennEast Pipeline to deliver natural gas from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region to an interconnection near Trenton.

Video: Cops Gunned Down Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up

January 22, 2015 Scott Kaufman, www.rawstory.com ,
Dashboard footage from a fatal police shooting in Bridgeton, New Jersey confirm eyewitness accounts that the victim was stepping out of the car with his arms raised when officers shot and killed him, the Press of Atlantic City reports. Police in Bridgeton pulled over the car in which Jerame Reid was a passenger on December 30th. Prosecutors said that “during the course of the stop a handgun was revealed and later recovered,” but witnesses said that Officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley opened fire and killed Reid as he was peacefully exiting the vehicle. Tahli Dawkins told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched the officers approaching the car yelling, “Don’t effing move!” and that they opened fire without provocation.

Hundreds Protest Gas Export Off NJ/NY Coast

January 10, 2015 MaryAnn Spoto, www.nj.com , , ,
Hundreds of people turned up the heat Thursday night on a proposed liquefied natural gas facility off the coast of New Jersey as they voiced their objections to a project they said would jeopardize security to the area while benefiting an industry that doesn’t need to import gas to the U.S. The effects of the project on the state’s security, environment, fishing industry and the country’s continued reliance on fossil fuels dominated the reasons the majority of speakers said don’t want a pipeline pumping liquefied natural gas from boats in the New York/New Jersey Harbor 18 miles from Long Island and 28 miles from Long Branch. Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande (R-Monmouth) said the project, known as the Port Ambrose Deep Water Port, brings no benefit to New Jersey because it won’t deliver gas to the Garden State and it won’t bring jobs to the unemployed.

Police Get Mike Brown Mural Removed In Trenton

October 21, 2014 Jenna Pizzi, www.nj.com , , ,
TRENTON – A mural was painted over Monday afternoon after Trenton police expressed concern that the painting, depicting Michael Brown, a Ferguson, Mo., teen who was fatally shot by police in August, sent the wrong message about community and police relations. The painting depicted Brown’s face with the caption “Sagging pants … is not probable cause.” Will "Kasso" Condry, the artist behind the mural, said he wanted to start a conversation about racial profiling. The Trenton Downtown Association elected to remove the image after hearing concern from police officers that the mural sends a negative message about the relationship between police and the community. The mural was painted by artists from the Sage Coalition about two weeks ago on a gate covering the entrance to a vacant storefront on the corner of North Broad and Hanover streets to cover an illegal advertisement for a nearby liquor store.

New Jersey Get Ready To Protest, New Pipeline Proposed

April 7, 2014 Scott Fallon, www.northjersey.com ,
A recently formed company is proposing a new pipeline through North Jersey’s Highlands — potentially along Route 287 — to move oil back and forth between a transportation hub in Albany, N.Y., and the Phillips 66 Bayway refinery in Linden. Map of the proposed pipeline by Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings. The company, Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, has received only preliminary financing and has yet to file any documents or permit applications with regulatory agencies, a company spokesman said. But it has begun surveying land and contacting local officials in North Jersey to arrange presentations. The estimated 150-mile pipeline would most likely run along the New York State Thruway and I-287 as it proceeds through North Jersey’s environmentally sensitive Highlands before looping toward Linden.

Occupy Christie #OccupySandygate

January 19, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org ,
DAY ONE, SandyGate #SandyGate #OccupyChristie is a 4 day occupation, in 20 degree weather, Jan 18 thru Gov Christy getting sworn in, on Jan 21, 2014. If people think the Bridge thing is a scandal, wait til our Hurricane Sandy Survivors get to telling their stories about Christy funneling the Relief $$$ to the wealthy, and BURNING the Working Class, & poor folks. The photo gallery below of Day One of Occupy Sandygate was taken by Bill Perry.
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