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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Black brokers settle racist claim with Merrill Lynch — MSNBC
Merrill Lynch, the behemoth brokerage firm, has agreed to fork over $160 million to settle a racial bias lawsuit brought by a longtime broker who accused the company of providing better opportunities, as well as more compensation, for white employees.
The settlement was confirmed to MSNBC.com by Suzanne Bish, a lawyer with Stowell & Friedman, for the plaintiffs
Black brokers settle racist claim with Merrill Lynch — MSNBC
The settlement was confirmed to MSNBC.com by Suzanne Bish, a lawyer with Stowell & Friedman, for the plaintiffs
Black brokers settle racist claim with Merrill Lynch — MSNBC
FULL: President Obama Speech at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington,...
On Wednesday the President gave an eloquent speech meant to touch all Americans but he failed to go beyond lip service to the twin themes of the original March, freedom and jobs. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the freedom issue last week in his promise to use the Courts to attack the illegal voting laws enacted by the renegade states of Texas and North Carolina but the jobs issue requires a programmatic approach to attack America's structural inequality which has not appreciably changed since 1963. Inspite of an obstructionist, Republican controlled House of Representatives the President could have called on the American people to put pressure on those representatives to enact a public works bill to repair our crumbling infrastructure and create jobs. We need policies that address inequalities. As Karl Marx said better than anyone else "the philosophers have analyzed the world in various ways, the problem however is to change it.
Friday, August 30, 2013
The Witnesses - By David Kenner | Foreign Policy
Syrian activists took the YouTube videos that dragged America to the brink of war -- and then paid with their lives.
No, Martin Luther King Jr. Was Not A Republican -- But Here's What He Had To Say About Them | ThinkProgress
The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.
If your text causes a driver to crash, you can be held responsible: New Jersey judge
If your text causes a driver to crash, you can be held responsible: New Jersey judge: If your text causes a driver to crash, you can be held responsible: New Jersey judge
All In : The largest fast-food strike to date
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Reforming America's Criminal Justice System: Refocusing on Delivering Results, Aligning with Our Values, and Reducing the Burden on Taxpayers
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
African-American teen says stop-and-frisk has made him fear police — This is why so many Black and Hispanic men fear and even hate the police. I grew up with this feeling and it remains with me to this day.
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African-American teen says stop-and-frisk has made him fear police — MSNBCRachel Maddow: GOP struggles internally with marriage equality - Britains has conservatives who actually thing. Why are American conservatives so far behind their British compatriots on marriage equality.
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Rachel Maddow: GOP struggles internally with marriage equalityTuesday, August 27, 2013
Cory Booker Opens Stop-And-Frisk Data To The Public. Here’s Why It Might Help. | TechCrunch
Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing an innovative solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk: hold officers accountable by making details of every stop accessible to the public. The controversial practice of “stop-and-frisk” allows police officers to pat down any citizens for looking mildly suspicious; law enforcement claims it’s a vital tool against crime in overcrowded cities, while civil liberties groups claim that it unfairly targets minorities (In New York, minorities make up 90 percent of all stop-and-frisk incidents).
Daily Kos: Facebook received 38,000 requests from governments for user data
In only a six month period, Facebook has received 38,000 requests from governments around the world, with half of those coming from U.S. agencies:
Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said Tuesday.
50 Days Without Food: The California Prison Hunger Strike Explained | Mother Jones
The state's reliance on long-term solitary confinement is at the heart of a fast that could leave prisoners dead.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
MHP: Students take up the banner for voting rights
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
50 Years Later Charles Blow New York Times
I’m absolutely convinced that enormous steps have been made in race relations. That’s not debatable. Most laws that explicitly codified discrimination have been stricken from the books. Overt, articulated racial animus has become more socially unacceptable. And diversity has become a cause to be championed in many quarters, even if efforts to achieve it have taken some hits of late.
But my worry is that we have hit a ceiling of sorts. As we get closer to a society where explicit bias is virtually eradicated, we no longer have the stomach to deal with the more sinister issues of implicit biases and of structural and systematic racial inequality.
I worry that centuries of majority privilege and minority disenfranchisement are being overlooked in puddle-deep discussions about race and inequality, personal responsibility and societal inhibitors.
I wonder if we, as a society of increasing diversity but also drastic inequality, even agree on what constitutes equality. When we hear that word, do we think of equal opportunity, or equal treatment under the law, or equal outcomes, or some combination of those factors?
And I worry that there is a distinct and ever-more-vocal weariness — and in some cases, outright hostility — about the continued focus on racial equality.
50 Years Later
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Rusbridger: destroying hard drives allowed us to continue NSA coverage | Media | theguardian.com
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor-in-chief, has said that the destruction of computer hard drives containing information provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden allowed the paper to continue reporting on the revelations instead of surrendering the material to UK courts.
Rusbridger told BBC Radio 4's The World at One on Tuesday that he agreed to the "slightly pointless" task of destroying the devices – which was overseen by two GCHQ officials at the Guardian's headquarters in London – because the newspaper is in possession of digital copies outside Britain.
The move followed weeks of private discussions with Whitehall officials who eventually threatened legal action over the material "unless we handed it back or destroyed it", he said.
Rusbridger: destroying hard drives allowed us to continue NSA coverage | Media | theguardian.com
Rusbridger told BBC Radio 4's The World at One on Tuesday that he agreed to the "slightly pointless" task of destroying the devices – which was overseen by two GCHQ officials at the Guardian's headquarters in London – because the newspaper is in possession of digital copies outside Britain.
The move followed weeks of private discussions with Whitehall officials who eventually threatened legal action over the material "unless we handed it back or destroyed it", he said.
Rusbridger: destroying hard drives allowed us to continue NSA coverage | Media | theguardian.com
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
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Meet the Press: How racial profiling informs policing in America - This idiot police chief misstated the Terry v. Ohio Supreme Court reasonable suspicion standard. He represents everything that is wrong in American policing. He does not understand the law and he is full of racial animus. He is the problem in NYC along with it's elists mayor.
Meet the Press: How racial profiling informs policing in America
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com - Once again Japan's leadership fails to atone for it's crimes against humanity and perpetuates the resentment of East Asians and all people of good will.
TOKYO — Emperor Akihito attended a ceremony at a martial arts arena on Thursday to mark the anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, while cabinet ministers paid private visits to a Tokyo war shrine that has angered China, a former victim of Japanese wartime aggression.
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com - Once again Japan's leadership fails to atone for it's crimes against humanity and perpetuates the resentment of East Asians and all people of good will.
TOKYO — Emperor Akihito attended a ceremony at a martial arts arena on Thursday to mark the anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, while cabinet ministers paid private visits to a Tokyo war shrine that has angered China, a former victim of Japanese wartime aggression.
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com - Once again Japan's leadership fails to atone for it's crimes against humanity and perpetuates the resentment of East Asians and all people of good will.
TOKYO — Emperor Akihito attended a ceremony at a martial arts arena on Thursday to mark the anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, while cabinet ministers paid private visits to a Tokyo war shrine that has angered China, a former victim of Japanese wartime aggression.
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Japan’s hawkish new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, did not visit the shrine, called Yasukuni, after refusing for days to say clearly whether he would go or not. Instead, Mr. Abe dispatched an aide to make a ritual offering in his name, an apparent effort to appeal to his supporters on the nationalistic right without provoking China and other Asian nations.
Japan’s Premier Stays Away From War Shrine, but Sends Offering - NYTimes.com
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk
Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in New York upheld the bedrock principle of individual liberty on Monday when she ruled that the tactics underlying New York City’s stop-and-frisk program violated the constitutional rights of minority citizens. She found that the city had been “deliberately indifferent” to police officers illegally detaining and frisking minority residents on the streets over many years.
Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk
Monday, August 12, 2013
A Judge Finally Rules Against 'Stop and Frisk'
The NYPD's "stop and frisk" program would more accurately be called the "minority guy harassment program"—the police indiscriminately search black and Latino males, and a tiny percentage are found to be doing something illegal. As far as white people are concerned, the system works! But a judge disagrees.
A Judge Finally Rules Against 'Stop and Frisk'
Holder: 'New approach' to reduce mandatory drug sentences
WASHINGTON D.C. - Attorney General Eric Holder directed federal prosecutors on Monday to change the way they file charges for some drug crimes, to reduce the number of convictions for offenses that carry inflexible, mandatory minimum sentences.
The nation’s top law enforcement official called for a “fundamentally new approach” to enforcing drug laws in order to help alleviate prison overcrowding and reduce race-based disparities in drug prosecutions.
“It's clear - as we come together today - that too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. It's clear, at a basic level, that 20th-century criminal justice solutions are not adequate to overcome our 21st-century challenges,” Holder told the annual meeting of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates in San Francisco. “And it is well past time to implement common sense changes that will foster safer communities from coast to coast.”
Holder: 'New approach' to reduce mandatory drug sentences
North Carolina's Sweeping Voter Suppression Law Is Challenged in Court | The Nation
Today, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed the nation’s worst voter suppression law. The sweeping law requires strict government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot, cuts the number of early voting days by a week, eliminates same-day voter registration during the early voting period, makes it easier for vigilante poll watchers to challenge the validity of eligible voters and expands the influence of unregulated corporate money in state elections.
Two lawsuits were filed today challenging the voting restrictions as racially discriminatory in federal court under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. A third challenge, to the voter ID provision, will be filed in state court tomorrow morning.
North Carolina's Sweeping Voter Suppression Law Is Challenged in Court | The Nation