From Southern Studies: Arnesen explains that continuous use of dispersants to sink BP’s continually resurfacing oil, as well as reliance on it in response to other smaller spills, hasn’t helped. Only a few days ago, they’d come across nothing but sheen from Southwest Pass to Grand Isle. As is often…
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From NYLJ: New York City’s Law Department on Friday filed notices of appeal in the stop-and-frisk cases before Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin. Leonard Koerner, chief of appeals for Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo, filed the brief notices in two cases, the main one being Floyd v. City of New York,…
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On-going Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Greenpeace Updates Shadowlands, Interactive Exhibit (10)
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Torture Chamber USA ~ The Prison Industrial Complex by Emory Douglas (16)
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† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
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From Washington Post: Justice Department lawyers have worked for months on the proposals, which Holder wants to make the cornerstone of the rest of his tenure. “We must face the reality that, as it stands, our system is, in too many ways, broken,” Holder said. “And with an outsized, unnecessarily…
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Stop-and-Frisk Practice Violated Rights, Judge Rules, New York Times In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in New York, and called for a…
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The warhol: Figment in collaboration with EarthCam I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, and everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no…
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