OCALA, Fla. (AP)- Three years after banning paddling, the Marion County school board agreed Tuesday to let elementary school principals resume the practice to punish misbehaving students. Officials approved the measure, which has been banned since 2010. According to the Ocala Star-Banner, paddling can only be used in elementary schools, and only if a parent […]
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Leonard Peltier, a former American Indian Movement member, is a political prisoner here in the United States. He continues to rot in prison without any hope for a re-trial or clemency despite the fact that much of the evidence held against him has been proven to be false, fabricated and coerced. Peltier and the two […]
TWO POWERFUL SISTAH’S TO SPEAK @ THIS WEDNESDAY’S UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION MEETING IN HARLEM FOR “WOMYNS HERITAGE MONTH” DEQUI KIONI SADIKI IS CO-HOST OF WBAI FM‘S “WHERE WE LIVE” RADIO SHOW; CO-CHAIRPERSON FOR THE MALCOLM X COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE, BLACK PANTHER COLLECTIVE ALUMNI; H.S.TEACHER; MOTHER; GRANDMOTHER; COMMUNITY ACTIVIST & THE WIFE OF 30+ YEAR BLACK PANTHER/BLA POLITICAL PRISONER SEKOU ODINGA. SISTAH DEQUI WILL BE SPEAKING […]
by CHRIS GEOVANIS Advocates of open access argue that information should be free, especially when public dollars and public consent, however torturously that consent is extracted, lie at the root of the creation of that information. Yet we live in an age of mounting government secrecy and a relentless push to privatization: of not just […]
Download the Leaflet here. “Civil disobedience is not our problem; our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity… Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while […]
By Tom McNamara “Democracies die behind closed doors” – Judge Damon J. Keith January 21, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – For 15 years (1956-1971) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran a broad and highly coordinated domestic intelligence / counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgrams). What was originally deemed as a justifiable effort […]
Revision From CounterPunch today, a piece on the broad corporatist/government agenda to suppress both the free flow of information by targeting people like Aaron Swartz — and the dissent that inevitably arises from that free exchange of public knowledge. Piece goes into some length on the current cases against the NATO 5, the 23 anti-war/solidarity […]
Russell Maroon Shoatz is a political prisoner who has been held unjustly for over thirty years, including two decades in solitary confinement. He was active as a leader in the Black Liberation Movement in Philadelphia, both above and underground. His successful escapes from maximum-security prisons earned him the title “Maroon.” This is the first published […]
Peoples’ Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability Police Violence Weekly Digest, Volume 15 December 20, 2012 Happy hollerdays PJ fam! Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we wanted to send out our final police violence weekly digest of 2012! In all seriousness, let’s hope the Mayan calendar is correct & that 2013 brings […]
