The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans.
Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well:
My friend Alycia drove me through the lower 9th […]
Also filed in children, economic policy, education, katrina, louisiana, nola, race and racism
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Tagged bill quigley, charter schools, discrimination, eboo patel, inequality, new orleans, privatization
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Great clip from yesterday’s State of the Black Union footage in NOLA (via Baratunde):
If you know some of my other work, you’ll know why I love Gregory’s quote from way back:
“If these Mississippi white Klansmen, who do not know how to plan crimes, who are ignorant, illiterate bastards, can completely baffle our FBI, what are […]
[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).]
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all.
I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International released their […]
Also filed in breaking news, civil liberties, disarmament, human rights, immigrants, politics, race and racism, tech
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Tagged aclu, chris messina, church commission, data portability, david cole, department of homeland security, domestic surveillance, eff, facebook, fbi, fusion centers, google, japanese internment, loren feldman, marshall kirkpatrick, nsa, privacy, sane, shane harris, tangram, total information awareness
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While we’re on the subject of civil rights and Dr. King’s vision of an inclusive society, I thought I’d share this sweet video (via The Bilerico Project)
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Also filed in Weblogs, breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, louisiana, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Prison Policy Initiative—with Demos as a partner—has submitted analysis to the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva of the discriminatory US Census approach to counting prisoners. PPI and Demos conclude that US Census practices violate international law.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 — The United States Census practice of counting […]
Also filed in breaking news, hungry blues, prisons, race and racism, voting rights
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Tagged census, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, demos, geneva, international law, prison policy initiative, prisons, racism
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Friday, November 16, 2007
By Mario Marcel Salas
On October 31, 2007 the San Antonio Coalition on Human and Civil Rights (the Coalition) put into the hands of Police Chief William McManus, City Manager Sheryl Sculley, and Mayor Phil Hardberger a copy of a request, under the Texas Open Records Act, of some eleven elements that relate to data that […]
Elle, PhD is has ventured to answer Langston’s still prescient question, “What happens to a dream deferred?”
If you know about small communities in the South, you know that Jena is not an aberration of racial progress but rather a manifestation of festering tensions that have never gone away. What’s amazing about Elle’s blog post is […]
Thursday, October 25, 2007
I have not had a chance to blog about the important AP interview with Megan Williams. Go read it, but also check out the video excerpts from it, below. Megan Williams is articulate and composed. She does not seem at all like she is mentally challenged or “slow,” as has been reported.
No time for further […]
The Prison Policy Initiative and State Senator Eric Schneiderman have brought together an in impressive coalition of organizations and legislators to call on the US Census Bureau to change its policy on counting prisoners—and to kick off a national advocacy campaign on the issue.
“Counting prisoners as residents of the prison districts where they do […]
Final Call: There were some news reports that you had a relationship with one of the defendants, Bobby Brewster. Is this accurate?
Megan Williams: We were just friends. It was nothing like that.
FC: No dating relationship between you and defendant Bobby Brewster?
MW: No. They kicked me in the head with steel toed boots, they hit me […]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
By Mario Marcel Salas
Editor’s note: A couple of weeks ago I published
information concerning the public body cavity
search of Paschal Evans, a 27 year old Black man,
by San Antonio police. Professor Salas provides
some background to this and other human rights
abuses by San Antonio police. —BG
The San Antonio Police Officers Association is the real problem in the […]
Sunday, September 30, 2007
There is a lot of understandable outrage over the decisions of the both the US Attorney and the state prosecutor to not bring hate crime charges against the 6 whites accused of kidnapping, torturing and raping Megan Williams in Logan County, West Virginia.
There seems to be a prevailing assumption that if there is racial […]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Paschal Evans, a 27 year old Black man, was guilty only of riding in a car with three other Black men inside it. For this “crime” he was physically and sexually abused and humiliated by police in a public parking lot.
On or about March 9, 2007, around 12:30 AM, Plaintiff, with two other black males, […]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
In a surprising turn of events, Texas Governor Rick Perry granted clemency to death row inmate Kenneth Foster. Foster’s death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment. Until the reprieve came, things were not looking good. As the San Francisco Bay View put it in an email message a few days ago:
Five of the seven […]
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