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New Orleans Drug Policy Update August 2016 (audio/mpeg 26.4MB) 24 min New Orleans and surrounding area drug war news for 2016. Learn about: law enforcement officers and staffers booked or sentenced on conspiracy, drug distribution, malfeasance, and theft charges in Louisiana; official opiate overdose warnings from health departments, coroners, and law enforcement around the state; mixed bag state legislative actions; effects of prohibition on public health; findings on sentencing and jailing on municipal, state, and federal levels....
Posted: Sun, Aug 14, 2016 7:52am PDT
COINTELPRO action, not "Anonymous" video. Discussion of why the video call for a July 15th "Day of Rage" supposedly from "Anonymous" was almost certainly a COINTELPRO action....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2016 2:36pm PDT
Public Records Sought Over Federal Surveillance of Climate Protesters WASHINGTON, August 11, 2016 — The Center for Biological Diversity today filed nine Freedom of Information Act requests seeking the release of public records relating to surveillance of peaceful protests of federal fossil fuel auctions. Records obtained by the Intercept in July revealed that federal and local police agents went undercover at a May 20 public protest of a Bureau of Land Management fossil fuel auction in Lakewood, Colo....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2016 1:54pm PDT
Despite Small Victory with Writers' Support, Palestinian Poet Still Faces Years in Prison 
After three months in Israeli prisons and more than six months under house arrest in an apartment near Tel Aviv, last week an Israeli judge ruled to allow Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour to continue her house arrest in her family home near Nazareth. Tatour’s appeal to move her house arrest from an apartment that her family was forced to rent outside Tel Aviv was granted shortly after over 250 literary figures, including 10 Pulitzer Prize-winners, called for her freedom in a letter stating that...
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2016 8:20am PDT
This Week in Palestine, July 29th, 2016 (audio/mpeg 6.5MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 23, to the 29, 2016....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2016 9:58pm PDT
The War on the Oppressed & Those Who Effectively Resist 
No matter what your analysis is on the recent shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge (false flag, genuine acts of revolution, or reactionary overreactions), it is a fact that a common tactic of war is to frame your enemies in terms that justify aggression....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 11:12pm PDT
Ferguson police killing of Michael Brown & invations of Afghanistan: variations on a theme The Police killing of Michael Brown by a Furguson policeman and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and subsequent U.S. invasion are dominos, variations upon a theme: the hubris of a powerful nation, class or ruling elite to control a much subservient people or nation, there are tragic lessons to be learned to the demise of the powerful (at the expense of the powerless)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2016 9:54am PDT
On Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, Dallas...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2016 3:40pm PDT
Speaking Up Against Police Terror in Baton Rouge and New Orleans (audio/mpeg 34.7MB) Speaking up against police terror with Redell, creator of #TheResistance, a faith-based activist group, and Melissa, daily protestors at Baton Rouge Police Headquarters. Plus, Malcolm Suber, community activist, speaking at "Moral Panics & Mass Incarceration in the Neoliberal City: Katrina After 10" from Brown University....
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2016 6:27am PDT
This Week in Palestine, July 16th, 2016 (audio/mpeg 3.4MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 09, to the 16, 2016....
Posted: Sat, Jul 16, 2016 11:05pm PDT
Cherri Foytlin reports on Baton Rouge kettling and jail conditions (audio/mpeg 10.4MB) Cherri first describes her arrest on July 10th in detail. A second clip describes possible human rights violations in the Baton Rouge jail....
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2016 1:54am PDT
Teamsters Mourn the Loss of Local 320 Member Philando Castile 
14-Year Member was Nutrition Services Supervisor in St. Paul Public Schools...
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2016 4:10pm PDT
Oaxaca 2016: «Esta lucha no es del magisterio, es del pueblo de México» 
Miles de hombres y mujeres, desde una multitud de pueblos y comunidades están luchando en su día a día para construir un camino distinto, justo y digno....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 2:04pm PDT
Oaxaca 2016: “This is not a teachers struggle, it belongs to the people of Mexico” Thousands of men and women, from a multitude of peoples and communities, are struggling daily to build a different path, just and dignified....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 1:38pm PDT
On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from Harm Reduction Coalition (audio/mpeg 21.7MB) On Drug User Health and Dignity - Interview with Mike Selick from the Training & Capacity-Building Institute at the Harm Reduction Coalition....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 6:22am PDT
The Wave Youth Movement Speeches in Baton Rouge on July 10th (audio/mpeg 12.2MB) From Jason Chartlock's periscope, audio of the wave rally on the Louisiana capitol steps on July 10, 2016....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 6:21am PDT
Angela Kinlaw of Justice for Eric Harris (audio/mpeg 11.2MB) Eric Harris was killed on Friday on Phillip St. near Simon Bolivar by Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office in NOLA after a high speed chase....
Posted: Mon, Jul 11, 2016 5:28am PDT
George Carlin on police sensitivity training (audio/mpeg 545.8KB) George Carlin on police sensitivity training and two new requirements police ought to have (47 seconds)....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 5:56pm PDT
"You Shot Four Bullets Into Him, Sir": Girlfriend Streams Philando Castile's Death by Cops 
In St. Paul, Minnesota, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion to protest the fatal police shooting of African American man Philando Castile during a traffic stop for a broken tail light on July 6. Castile, his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds and her young daughter were stopped by police on Wednesday. Reynolds broadcast the aftermath of the fatal police shooting live on Facebook in an extraordinary video, in which she narrates the events while still inside the car next to h...
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 1:41pm PDT
Alton Sterling, Father of Five, Murdered by Police in Baton Rouge 
Hundreds gathered for a vigil last night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to honor father of five Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police early Tuesday morning, July 5. Sterling was a 37-year-old African-American. The two officers involved are both white. Bystander video shows Sterling was pinned to the ground when he was fatally shot. The Justice Department has announced it will investigate the killing. Sterling’s death has sparked two days of protests in Baton Rouge, as well as protests la...
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 1:08pm PDT
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