Toward a World that Works for Everyone
“A generation later, enemies are friends and friends are enemies. and the whole stupid cycle starts [all] over again.” (Marlon Brando in Morituri (1965). Residue from the War of 1870 led to the Great War. Residue from the Great War led to the Second World War. That led to the Korean War, onetime friends and […]
By Colin Dwyer, NPR, June 30th, 2020 https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/30/885178095/belgian-king-conveys-deepest-regrets-for-brutal-colonial-past-in-congo The policies of Belgian King Leopold II left millions of people dead more than a century ago in the region that is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now, in a first for the Belgian monarchy, King Philippe has expressed his “deepest regrets” for a colonization […]
Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same Jason Lemon, Newsweek, 5/9/19 (https://www.newsweek. com/mexico-decriminalize- drugs-negotiate-us-1421395) Mexico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical reform to the nation’s drug laws and negotiating with the United States to take similar steps. The plan put forward by […]
We’ve posted this video before, but the fact that it’s drawing attention brings it back into the news again. Police Officer Makes Viral Video Urging Law Enforcement Not To Enforce ‘Tyrannical Orders Against The People’ Hank Berrien, DailyWire.com, May 13th, 2020 (https://tinyurl.com/y7j2ofp4) A Port of Seattle police officer made a video urging his fellow officers […]
Pretty interesting! From Suzi on Patreon EO on the Establishment of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force Under Section 741 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act Issued on: May 15, 2020 Section 1. Establishment of Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force. The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (Task Force) is hereby established to monitor United […]
I support the closure of the prison industrial complex and the elimination of corruption in the judicial system and police, which supports it. Harvard Students Connect the Dots Between Slavery and Prison Jonita Davis, Yes! Magazine, Mar 4, 2020 https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/03/04/harvard-students-divest-prisons/ “Today we take an important step in the effort to explore the complexities of our […]
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
Algorithm Targets Marijuana Convictions Eligible To Be Cleared National Public Radio, February 23, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/23/808575012/algorithm-targets-marijuana-convictions-eligible-to-be-cleared When California voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016, they made it legal to use marijuana recreationally and gave residents an opportunity to clear their records of certain marijuana-related convictions. But the proposition came with a caveat: In order to get […]
By McKinley Corbley, GoodNewsNetwork, February 12, 2020 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inmates-earn-college-degrees-through-hudson-link/ In a win-win for the public, these New York prisoners proudly earned their college degrees—while they were still behind bars. They were part of the latest graduating class consisting of inmates who’ve gotten their diplomas for free through Hudson Link: a nonprofit degree-granting program dedicated to providing […]
Trailer…. Meanwhile at 12:00, someone poses THE question to President Trump. Thanks to Suzi.
Archangel Michael: Be very discerning in your judgments and in your condemnations of others. … If the pattern of imprisonment continues, of shackling, rather than re-education or redirection, then that is the paradigm that will continue upon this planet. (1) First Maine inmate to enroll in graduate school conducts groundbreaking research in prison Jordan Bailey, […]
