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EEOC Accepting Public Input on the Issue of Criminal Background Checks
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will publicly consider developing a policy on Arrest and Conviction Records as a barrier to employment. They will take testimony via Commissionmeetingcomments@eeoc.gov DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 9:30 A.M. Eastern Time PLACE: … Continue reading
Posted in Actions, Legislation
Tagged background check, Ban the Box, BCI, Business, Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination, Eastern Time Zone, Employment, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hearing, hiring, Housing, NCIC, New Orleans, regulations, Title VII, United States, United States Department of Labor
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Dying for Human Rights: Prisoners Begin Hunger Strike Tomorrow
What exactly is a hunger strike? It is when someone, or a group of people, will choose death over their current living conditions. But not an unknown pointless death; instead, they will commit a long, grueling, public death designed to … Continue reading
Posted in Actions, Commentary, Prison Conditions
Tagged action, California, Crime and Justice, Georgia, Health, Human rights, Hunger strike, Klamath National Forest, Pelican Bay State Prison, Prison, Prison-Industrial Complex, SHU, solidarity, Special Handling Unit, United States, United States Supreme Court, Uprising
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What’s Going On In Detroit?
If for no other reason than the passionate remarks by Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-MI) at a House hearing on June 15th, an outsider can see that there is a strong will in Detroit that is rebuilding a city. Clarke was infuriated … Continue reading
War on the Drug War
The War on the Drug War must escalate, and it must be Total War. June 17th marks the 40th Anniversary since Nixon declared the War on American people known as the War on Drugs. It is the 39th anniversary since … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Drug Policy
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Governor Chaffee Signs Two Laws Supporting Civil and Human Rights in RI
Governor Lincoln Chaffee recently signed two important prison reform bills: the Healthy Pregnancies Act, (to unshackle pregnant prisoners), and another which would create a task force to develop procedures for recording interrogations in serious cases. Neither are radical changes to existing … Continue reading
An Easy Analysis for Prison Profiteering
Posted in prison economics
Tagged cost of prisons, Human rights, immigration, Incarceration, Prison-Industrial Complex, private prisons, profit, SB1070
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Registration Now Open for FICPM National Conference- Nov. 2nd
The Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM) will host its inaugural national conference on November 2nd, 2011 in Los Angeles, with the primary task of ratifying a national agenda that illustrates the Full Restoration of Civil and Human Rights … Continue reading
Young Man with Asperger’s Syndrome Faces 10 Years for Police Brutality
Reposted by request of the family: Young man with Asperger’s syndrome responds appropriately to police by George Sand Posted on April 29, 2011. Reginald “Neli” Latson, a 19 year-old, sat in the grass outside the library and waited for it … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Mental Health
Tagged Abuse, Arrest, Asperger syndrome, Autism spectrum, Calverley, Health, Mental Health, neli, police brutality, reginald latson, Virginia
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Prison Town Economics 101: Pelican Bay (Crescent City, CA)
With prisoners in Pelican Bay willing to die rather than endure what is being done to them in the name of “the People of California”, we should pause to consider some basic math. The following example is a broad illustration … Continue reading →