May 2012 Archives
President Obama has appointed John Brennan as the sole person in charge of designating people to be assassinated, calling his drone program "moral, ethical and just"...
see First ever Assassination Czar
It's time to get
people everywhere to recognize the NATO summit in Chicago for what it is: not a
meeting of US-led peacemakers, but a shameless planning session for high-tech,
state-sponsored murder. On May 20
and 21 the biggest war criminals in the world will be convening HERE, and the
eyes of the world will be on Chicago.
Can we seize this opportunity to turn the tables on NATO and the smug US leadership that thinks it can get away with anything? YES! - but only with YOUR participation and support. The World Can't Wait will be mobilizing to bring people from around the country to Chicago to join us in these protests.
International media must see thousands of us demanding that our governments stop committing war of aggression. Help us make that happen. With you involved, we CAN change the fate of our world.
Calendar of events here
c/o the Center for Constitutional Rights:
Today, a federal judge granted class certification in a
lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department's (NYPD) stop-and-frisk
practices as unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. The ruling will allow all persons unlawfully
stopped and frisked since January 2005 to be plaintiffs in the lawsuit. In 2011, the NYPD reported a record
685,724 stops--a 600 percent increase since Raymond Kelly took over as NYPD
commissioner in 2002. Eighty-four percent of those stopped were Black or
Latino, and 88 percent of persons stopped were not arrested, nor did they
receive summonses. The numbers for the first quarter of 2012 show yet another
record rate of stops--over 203,500 between January and March, an average of
2,200 per day. At the current rate, the NYPD is on track to stop over 730,000
New Yorkers this year--more than 40,000 stops over the record-setting annual
stops in 2011.
Critical conversation about the NYPD's stop, question and frisk policy, presented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Culture Project, and Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), panelists will discuss the history of the policy, its impact on communities of color and implications for policing practices nationwide. Featuring CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren and special guest Rha Goddess!
Watch event here
"The 'War on Terror' is a hoax, one that has been successfully used to destroy the US Constitution and to complete the transformation of law from a shield of the people into a weapon in the hands of the state. By destroying habeas corpus, due process, and the presumption of innocence, the "War on Terror" has destroyed our security. -- Paul Craig Roberts
see The Case of the Missing Terrorists
assassination, indefinite detention, rendition, surveillance -- in the dark, with no oversight, constraints or transparency.
