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R2K+10
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2010-07-12 16:44
This July 2010 marks 10 years since Philadelphia was the site of the 2000 Republican National Convention. The week of August 1, 2000, thousands of activists took to the streets of Center City Philadelphia for direct action against police brutality and the prison industrial complex.
The Invisible Analysts and Evidence Not Seen
Submitted by rosa on Mon, 2010-03-22 19:09
The show ended with a plot twist that revealed an old enemy of Olivia Benson hired a corrupt biologist who lifted her fingerprints from a drinking glass, amplified the DNA, and planted it. Since art often imitates life, the writers probably borrowed the story idea directly from a recent CNN investigative report on a new technology that allows unscrupulous scientists to fabricate the science of DNA.
Supreme Court opens door to Mumia’s execution
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2010-03-22 18:37
Six months earlier, on April 6, the Supreme Court all but shut the door on Mumia’s 28-year fight for justice and freedom when it refused to grant a hearing (writ of certiorari) despite its own decision in the 1986 case of Batson v. Kentucky that the systematic and racist exclusion of Blacks from juries voids all guilty verdicts and mandates a new trial.
Letter from Lynn Stewart
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2010-03-22 17:27
From the Justice for Lynne Stewart website: “Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been falsely accused of helping terrorists. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent, curtail vigorous defense lawyers, and install fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government’s racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech and defend the rights of all oppressed people.” She is currently serving a 28-month sentence and is in need of medical attention.
December 4, 2009
Ojore Lutalo Arrested-- Needs Bail Money
Submitted by clarissa on Thu, 2010-01-28 02:11
Recently released BLA PW & New Afrikan Anarchist Ojore Lutalo was arrested and needs money for bail
Mumia Legal Update re US Supreme Court from Robert Bryan
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2010-01-19 19:52
Dear All:
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued the long-awaited ruling in the case of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, which we have been litigating for 15 months. The decision was as we expected. Mumia's case has been sent back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, for further proceedings consistent with the decision last weak in another case:
Mumia Rally/Supreme Court Decision
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2010-01-19 17:21
Monitor http://www.freemumia.com/ and http://abu-jamal-news.com/ for news, analysis and emergency response plans
The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court ruling that nullified the death sentence for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. The appeals court now has the option of re-imposing the death sentence or ordering a new federal trial to hear other claims of injustice raised by Abu-Jamal.
Reportback from the Latest LOVE Park 4 Court Date
Submitted by onion on Sat, 2009-05-16 14:59
On Tuesday May 12, the remaining LOVE Park 4 defendants - Jason Robbins, Tom Keenan and Jared Schultz - appeared in court yet again. This hearing thankfully moved in a forward direction, instead of resulting in another continuance in a long line of delays dating back almost two years.
Update from the Love Park 4: Court Solidarity and Financial Assistance Needed
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2009-05-11 20:46
The Love Park 4 case is still slowly winding its way through the court
system after almost 2 years. Since the defendants' successful court
date in December (see http://tinyurl.com/cyb9ux), the State has
decided to appeal the judge's order to reveal the identity of the
undercover narcotics officers posing as neo-Nazis in Love Park on July
23, 2007.
On Tuesday May 12th, Judge Frank Palumbo will hear the State's appeal.
It has taken four court appearances since December to get to this
The Spectrial: corporate parasites take on pirates in swedish court
Submitted by onion on Wed, 2009-04-15 23:40
by dave onion
The Swedish government recently had 3 web technicians in their courts to answer for the high crimes of sharing. In what is being dubbed the Spectrial (between spectacle and trial), the defendants are being accused by some of the most wealthy corporate parasites of the music industry of copyright infringement. The Swedish pirates however, unlike those pirates of yesteryear - the visionaries of brute force capital accumulation - were being challenged not for violently dispossessing anyone of goods, but for helping to make informational commodities like music, movies and software as widely available as possible for free. The defendants run the website thepiratebay.org, a search engine for BitTorrent filesharing.
