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The death penalty – on request?
For years, I’ve been a staunch opponent of the death penalty. To me it seems both barbaric and unjust. In a fallible and inequitable criminal justice system, one can never be sure that the death penalty is applied evenly and without bias. And with the spate of false convictions that have been uncovered in the…
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dugout lovin’?
Manny Ramirez and Julian Tavarez of the Boston Red Sox act with surprising affection towards each other in this video, during which the sportscasters grow increasingly uncomfortable with the display and eventually respond with predictable ridicule and horror. Kenyon Farrow responds to the video, saying that, while Manny and Julian may well have something more…
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ACTION ALERT: Tues. 5/22 NYC Emergency Press Conference and Rally on Immigrant Justice
I won’t get a chance to write about the b.s. immigration legislation that’s being pushed through Congress right now, so instead I suggest you attend the press conference and rally in NYC tomorrow, if you’re local, and read the press release below. Immigration “Grand Bargain” = Grand Sellout With this weeks upcoming vote on the…
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NYPD activist surveillance documents surrounding the RNC released
After a long legal battle, I-Witness Video has obtained and posted more than 600 pages of NYPD RNC-related activist surveillance documents, spanning from October 2003 to September 2004. On the I-Witness site, you can read more about the preceding legal fight, download a large PDF of the documents, or perform single-word searches on the documents.…
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celebrating May Day, LAPD style
I’d heard about the police brutality at the immigration protests in LA, but I didn’t see this footage until today. It looks like a warzone. It is a warzone – the police vs the people. It’s horrifying. Something striking about this particular footage – even Fox News (albeit a local affiliate) showed the truth in…
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in case you ever doubted that prison is an industry
From the New York Times, via futurebird on the debunkingwhite Livejournal community: California inmates who meet certain requirements and can fork over a significant amount of dough get to have a cushier stay in prison than their less wealthy fellow inmates: For roughly $75 to $127 a day, these convicts — who are known in…