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Mapping the FBI: Uncovering Abusive Surveillance and Racial Profiling
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[The following statement was issued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).] The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government ...
Keep Reading »Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution
[The following statement was issued by the No Military Trials for Civilians Movement on 4 November 2011.] A letter from Cairo to the Occupy/Decolonize movements & other solidarity movements. After three decades of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and social justice. After a nearly utopian occupation of Tahrir Square lasting eighteen days, we rid ourselves of Mubarak and began the second, harder, task of ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Youth Join Boats Set to Challenge Israel’s Siege of Gaza, Act Now to Defend Today's Boats to Gaza
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[The following statements were issued by the International Solidarity Movement on 2 November 2011.] Palestinian Youth Join Boats Set to Challenge Israel’s Siege of Gaza Irish and Canadian boats in international waters on their way to challenge illegal siege policy Palestinian activists call for end to international complicity in Israel’s crimes Support actions taking place throughout the West Bank and inside Israel [Ramallah] Two civilian boats, the ...
Keep Reading »Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad
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[The following is the latest from International Crisis Group (ICG) on the impact of Qaddafi's death on neighboring countries.] Africa without Qaddafi: The Case of Chad Executive Summary The end of the long reign of Muammar Qaddafi, killed on 20 October in his hometown of Syrte, opens the way to democracy in Libya. His fall has also left the country and its neighbors facing a multitude of potential new problems that could threaten stability in the region. Chad is a case ...
Keep Reading »Conflict Risk Alert: Syria's Tipping Point
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[The following is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Syria.] Conflict Risk Alert: Syria's Tipping Point Brussels, 3 November 2011 Syria's acceptance of the Arab League proposal to defuse the crisis presents an eleventh-hour opportunity to seek a negotiated transition before the conflict takes an even uglier turn. Despite understandable scepticism, both the protest movement and the international community ought to give this initiative a fair chance; ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal
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[The following statement was issued by the Palistinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) on 31 October 2011.] Israel’s Exceptionalism: Normalizing the Abnormal In the Palestinian and Arab struggle against Israeli colonization, occupation and apartheid, the “normalization” of Israel is a concept that has generated controversy because it is often misunderstood or because there are disagreements on its parameters. This is despite ...
Keep Reading »Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System
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[The following is the latest from the Applied Research Center (ARC) on the intersections of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system in the United States.] Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System Executive Summary “Shattered Familie,” A Report by The Applied Research Center (ARC), is the first national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system ...
Keep Reading »Turkey: Arrests Expose Flawed Justice System
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[The following statement is the latest from Human Rights Watch (HRW) on domestic developments in Turkey. It was released in both English and Turkish.] Turkey: Arrests Expose Flawed Justice System Academic, Publisher Held in Crackdown on Pro-Kurdish Party (Istanbul) – An Istanbul court’s decision on 1 November 2011 to imprison a publisher and a political science professor pending their trial on terrorism charges exposes the huge deficiencies of Turkey’s criminal justice ...
Keep Reading »Democracy Now! Interview with Phyllis Bennis on UNESCO Vote and US Withdrawal of Funding
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This is an interview conducted with Phyllis Bennis on Tuesday, 1 November, in regards to the recent vote by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to admit Palestine as a full member, and the subsequent decision by the US government to withdraw its $60 million of annual funding (22% of UNESCO's budget). The interview addresses both the signficance of the vote and the logic behind the US response. It also highlights an important exchange during the ...
Keep Reading »LA Event -- Glenn Greenwald on How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
The UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) invite you to attend With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Glenn Greenwald Wednesday, 2 November 2011 10:00am to 11:30am UCLA School of Law Room 2326, Faculty Library In countless instances over recent ...
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