Unabomber Brother Speaks Out on Death Penalty

clipped from www.missoulian.com Unabomber's brother, others say death penalty unfair By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Missoulian “If there was one thing that could have deterred me from turning in my brother, it would have been the death penalty,” says David Kaczynski, who tipped law enforcement off that he suspected the Unabomber was his brother Ted and now is executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian David Kaczynski says his efforts to abolish the death penalty were born of the same moral sense he had 12 years ago, when he first suspected his brother might be the person law enforcement called the Unabomber. “My objective today is the same objective I had the day I turned my brother in,” Kaczynski said. “I don’t want there to be any more victims.”

Enemies List Deja Vu!

The spirit of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon must both be laughing up a storm

clipped from blog.wired.com Maryland State police placed the names of 53 left-leaning political activists into federal and state databases, labeling them as terrorists, the state's police chief admitted Tuesday. Evidence that the state police had been infiltrating anti-war and anti-death penalty groups first came to light in July following a government sunshine lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of a prominent peace activist named Max Obuszewski.

Hear no evil, see no evil, but keep them imprisoned anyway!

Sometimes, the only explanation for inane and seemingly insane actions by the Bush League is that they want to outdo Michael Moore in preparing their own script on world class stupidity and cruelty all rolled into one - read this story!

clipped from www.ccrjustice.org Court Orders Release of 17 Innocent Guantanamo Detainees into U.S. October 7, 2008, New York – Today, for the first time, a federal court ordered the release into the United States of 17 innocent Uighur men who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay for nearly seven years.

I.C.E Supporting McCain Election bid with Increase in raids.

I'll check this tomorrow but I am betting that the most recent raids are in states that Senator McCain hopes will turn to him if arresting undocumented migrants is in the news.

clipped from www.startribune.com GREENVILLE, S.C. - Federal agents swept through a chicken processing plant Tuesday, detaining more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, sending panicked workers running and screaming through the hallways. Worried relatives collected outside, fearful their loved ones would be deported.

Legislation on migrants better shake at state level

clipped from www.cqpolitics.com CQ HOMELAND SECURITY Oct. 6, 2008 – 6:52 p.m. Analysis Shows Immigrant-Friendly Legislation Fares Better at State Level By Caitlin Webber, CQ Staff State legislation aimed at expanding immigrant rights have a higher passage rate than those intended to crack down on illegal immigration, according to a new Migration Policy Institute analysis of state legislative data.

Greed and Inhumanity Shame Us All

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Forestry Company Held in Contempt for Misconduct in SPLC Lawsuit
	COLUMBIA, Tenn. — An Arkansas forestry company accused of cheating its foreign guestworkers out of their wages has been held in contempt of court for allowing supervisors to threaten workers and spread misinformation about a class action lawsuit filed on the workers' behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. ordered Superior Forestry Service Inc. to pay for television and radio announcements informing workers of their right to join the case without suffering any retaliation from their employer.

Whoa! Wait a Minute; People are Mammals Too!

If a fifth to a third of "wild" mammals are threatened, then what does that say for the future of we "tame" mammals?

clipped from www.sciencenews.org Biggest review of the decade finds substantial portion of mammal species under threat BIG ANIMAL, SMALL ENCOURAGMENTA speck of encouraging news: African elephants have moved from the vulnerable category to the less worrisome nearly threatened category in the latest IUCN review of mammals.A. Wirz Between a fifth and a generous third of the world’s mammal species now face the threat of extinction, according to the first comprehensive review since 1996. Now 1,139 species rank in the most imperiled categories, the conservation monitoring organization IUCN reported October 6 at its World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Confusing - This Economic Crises - Isn't It?

I f documented and undocumented migrant workers in US send less money back to their families and relatives at home, then their relatives can't buy exported US goods and the American economic crisis gets worse.

So, we need a bailout plan or economic stimulus plan to get more money into migrant workers' hands so they can send more money home, so they can buy US exports?

And all this time, fright mongers were telling us that migrant workers were costing us?

See it's confusing and not as simple as the simple minded have been telling us - eh?

clipped from www.radionetherlands.nl Sharp drop in migrants’ money transfers from the US by Martijn van Tol* 06-10-2008 The US credit crisis is also claiming victims far away from home. Latin American migrants in the US are sending far less money home than expected. The migrants and their families in their countries of origin are the victims of a faltering US economy. The double threat of job insecurity and inflation means that poverty is now a serious risk.

El Paso Mayor Sings Opposition to Death Penalty

clipped from www.elpasotimes.com Mayor Cook on guitar against Texas' death penalty By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau Article Launched: 10/06/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT Mayor John Cook performed during the Music for Life Tour on Wednesday at Scholz Garten in Austin. (Brandi Grissom / El Paso Times) AUSTIN -- In a dark blue pin-striped suit, crisp white dress shirt, snug red tie and shiny brown dress shoes, El Paso Mayor John Cook sure didn't look like any folk singer. But he slung one knee over the other, braced his guitar and belted out a couple songs Wednesday night in Austin just as he has in five other cities across the state, playing with a variety of musicians promoting abolition of the death penalty in Texas.

Viva La Causa! The Grape Strike Story

Get it: show it to your students!

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	New SPLC Documentary Premieres in Los Angeles
	Nearly 1,500 people filled the historic Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills yesterday to attend the premiere of the SPLC's new documentary, Viva la Causa, which depicts one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Like all of the SPLC's Teaching Tolerance products, it will be distributed free to classrooms across the nation. An estimated 50,000 teaching kits, which include the film and lesson plans, will be distributed to educators over the next two years.

"Wolf" Named to head $700 billion oversite buy out!

With apologies to four-legged wolves - why Wolf? If it looks like a wolf, walks like a wolf, then the sheep - us - better look out.
Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Kashkari was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, where he led Goldman's IT Security Investment Banking practice, advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions.

If being in charge of advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions is a qualification, then maybe he needs someone who specialized in selling bad mortgages as his aide!!

clipped from www.reuters.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury on Monday named Assistant Secretary for International Economics and Development, Neel Kashkari, as head of the $700 billion government program that will buy soured investments to help restore the financial markets to health.

Death of Detained Immigrant Inspires Online Game With Goal of Educating Players

clipped from www.nytimes.com The death last year of Boubacar Bah, a Guinean tailor held in a New Jersey jail for overstaying his visa, showed immigration detention to be one of the most secretive corners of American life. But now Mr. Bah’s story is being retold in an unusually public way: in an online video game.

Ever Been Shipped, Strip Searched and Abused from "Jail" to jail

That's what's being done in "for profit" contractor "Detaninee Centers" - aka Jails for people "accused" of being undocumented migrants. Just who is committing the crime here?

clipped from homelandgitmo.com Detainee Stories

No action on Georgia capital case - Troy Anthony Davis’

clipped from www.scotusblog.com No action on Georgia capital case Monday, October 6th, 2008 10:11 am | Lyle Denniston | Print This Post Email this • Share on Facebook • Share on LinkedIn • Digg This! The Supreme Court, opening a new Term Monday, took no action on an appeal testing whether it is unconstitutional to execute a death-row inmate who has a significant claim of innocence.  The Court’s 82-page list of orders on pending cases contained no word on Troy Anthony Davis’ appeal, Davis v. Georgia (08-66).