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Today’s blip in Time

• Georgia board denies clemency for Troy Davis
  Georgia’s pardons board rejected Tuesday a last-ditch plea for clemency from death row inmate Troy Davis despite high-profile support for his claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is set to die on Wednesday at 7pm EDT.
  

  Message from Amnesty International: The actions of the Board are astounding in the face of so much doubt in the case against Troy Davis. However, we are not prepared to accept the decision and let anyone with the power to stop the execution off the hook. Join us in calling on the Board to reconsider its decision, and on the Chatham County (Savannah) District Attorney Larry Chisolm to do the right thing. They have until the final moments before Troy’s scheduled execution to put the brakes on this runaway justice system.

• Lynching Remixed: The Execution of Troy Davis
  

  Crunk Feminist Collective: “We cannot understand the killing Davis outside of a long history of lynching Black men (and women and children) for crimes that they didn’t commit and often, when no crimes were even alleged. Lynchings were frequently committed just for sport, while white families brought their children along and hosted picnics as happy spectators. These days conservative (white) Americans fancy themselves more civilized than their bloodthirsty ancestors, but I submit that the state sanctioned murder of Black men based on dubious, trumped up, and coerced evidence is just lynching remixed for a new generation.”

• Obama On DADT Repeal: Service Members No Longer Have To ‘Lie About Who They Are’
• What DADT cost us
• Obama Draws New Hard Line on Debt Reduction
  President Obama insisted that any long-term debt-reduction plan must not shave future Medicare benefits without also raising taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers and corporations.
• President’s Plan Would Improve the Tax Code
• Obama: No more meeting Repugs halfway
• How to restore blacks’ upward mobility
• GOPer Perry cut funds for women’s health
• Obama to save US postal service; Saturday mail no more
• Improving the Naturalization Process: Better Immigrant Integration Leads to Economic Growth
• Two Self-loathing Jackasses with Narcissistic Personality Disorder Want to Primary Obama

Foreclosure Defense

Update from Take Back the Land: Catherine Lennon vs. Countrywide/Bank of America hearing scheduled for today has been adjourned until October 21st because of a last minute request for a continuance by Countrywide/Bank of America. On August 16th, NYS Supreme Court Judge Anne Marie Taddeo called off the controversial eviction of Catherine Lennon which was scheduled for August 17th. Judge Taddeo has reopened the original foreclosure case and requested that Countrywide/Bank of America defend their original foreclosure which was riddled with irregularities, including failure to notify Ms. Lennon about the original foreclosure proceedings. Countrywide/Bank of America and Catherine Lennon are now scheduled to appear in NYS Supreme Court on October 21, 2011 (the hearing was originally schedule for August 30, 2011, then adjourned to September 20, 2011). (See also: Lennon’s Hearing Adjourned; Eviction of Cathy Lennon Stayed; Eviction Defense Watch)

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