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  • Political Invisibles
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sasha Abramsky
    What does it mean when a democracy removes the vote from several million adults? How is the political process affected when certain groups — racial minorities and low-income whites, in particular — bear the brunt of this disenfranchisement?
    These are not abstract questions intended to tax the minds of students in a poli-sci class. Rather, they are questions about a massive contraction of the franchise that is occurring, today, largely in the shadows, in the United (…)

  • PAIN MANAGEMENT: A DOUBLE STANDARD?
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher Two weeks from now, a South Carolina pain management physician will surrender at the Talladega, Alabama, prison to begin serving a 2.5-year sentence for drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. Dr. Michael Jackson is one of hundreds of pain management specialists arrested, charged and jailed by federal and state authorities for violating the Controlled Substances Act, designed to limit the dispensing of illegal prescription drugs by doctors and their use (…)

  • Confrontation between guards and prisoners with Guantanamo
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For the first time of the prisoners a trap with their guards on the American basis in Cuba • They had tightened simulated a suicide • Bilan: six wounded.
    It is the first time that that arrives since the opening of the camp of Guantanamo in January 2002: the commander of the center of detention revealed Friday that a confrontation had burst Thursday between guards and prisoners who had tended to them out of trap while making believe in a suicide attempt per hanging. “Six prisoners were (…)

  • Films on Guantánamo and Iraq face war of cuts
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
    Two new films which expose unpleasant truths about Guantanamo and the battle for Iraq are coming under pressure from censors in the United States.
    The Motion Pictures Association of America has censored a poster advertising a film about the Tipton three, called The Road to Guantanamo, that showed a hooded and blindfolded man hanging by his shackled wrists. Also, the makers of Baghdad ER, a documentary about a US military combat hospital, told the (…)

  • ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home (4/27/2006)
    ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture > Complete Report (PDF) > Executive Summary (French, Spanish PDFs) > Contents (with Audio Commentary) > Audio Commentary > F.A.Q. - Committee Against Torture > Statement - Anthony D. Romero > Press Statement
    LEARN MORE > Government Torture and Abuse
    TAKE ACTION > Sign Our Petition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org ACLU Submits Report to U.N. (…)

  • New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal 05/02/2006 @ 1:20 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    BREAKING HARD — FROM AN ACLU RELEASE TO RAW
    New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu (…)

  • HOMAGE TO BOBBY SANDS May 2d radio France Culture
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Radio France Culture on Tuesday, May 2nd from 3 pm till 4:30 pm More 4:30 pm to 5 pm a following debate
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    An homage to Bobby Sands and to his companions dead in Ulster
    Mostly French spoken more Anglophone interviews
    A documentary more live interviews by Rinaldo Depagne and Simon Guibert Sound director Jean-Philippe Navarre
    In "Le vif du sujet" Producer-coordinator: Alexandre Héraud, Special (…)

  • U.S.: More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two years ago, revelations about the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked people across the world. In response, U.S. government officials condemned the conduct as illegal and assured the world that perpetrators would be held accountable.
    Two years later, it has become clear that the problem of torture and other abuse by U.S. personnel abroad was far more pervasive than the Abu Ghraib photos revealed-extending to numerous U.S. detention facilities in (…)

  • More Rendition Flights
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I wonder if there will ever be an end to these flights.
    April 30, 2006 — As the CIA seeks to cover up further details about its secret rendition flights and prisons, more information has been revealed about another rendition aircraft. It is a Gulfstream V (tail number N1HC), registered to United States Aviation Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, an air charter company. The firm is owned by Roger Hardesty, named in 1998 as one of the 400 wealthiest Americans. The aircraft has been spotted as recently (…)

  • USA : Starve the Racist Prison Beast: Review of America’s System of Mass Incarceration
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Starve the Racist Prison Beast: Review of America’s System of Mass Incarceration
    By Paul Street
    April 19, 2006 Black Commentator
    Let me start by quoting my favorite historical personality from Indiana - the great democratic Socialist Eugene Debs, from Terre Haute. "While there is a lower class," Debs once said, "I am of it. While there is a criminal element," he added, "I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
    Prison Nation: "Not Unless This Country Plunges Into (…)