As The Reverend Al Sharpton said in Jena, there are Jenas all over the
United States. Toledo Ohio is another of our nation's Jenas and
deserves the utmost attention. Like Jena, the catalyst for the
trouble in Toledo begins at a high school with overt racist
provocations. Like Jena the authorities handled the situation through
the lens of racial preference, waging a campaign of repression and
defamation against the community.
Whereas white students hung 3 nooses in a tree to intimidate and
insult black students, the city of Toledo allowed a full detachment of
uniformed Neo-Nazis to protest "black crime" at a largely black high
school in a largely black working class community.
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Three students are walking and biking accross the United States in the name of Peace. They are calling for : Nonviolent resistance to war efforts, end of genocide in Darfur and all crimes against humanity, civil disobedience to social injustices and orders of war, an end of nuclear weapon holding and proliferation, and principles of sustainability and global citizenship.
The marchers left San Fransisco on May 21 and are planning to reach Washington DC in the end of September. People all along the way have been joining and supporting them. They are expected to arrive in Omaha Nebraska on July 14 for a huge, midpoint rally.
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ARAWAK CITY (Columbus, OH)--Saturday June 23rd, 2007 Comfest regained some its political clout when the festival ended in a radical street march against the War in Iraq. At around 10pm a crowd assembled by the pond at the northeast corner of the Goodale park. Demonstrators brandished bullhorns, bucket drums, banners, signs, and torches. The festival had been going on all day and much of the crowd had grown rowdy and boisterous after a day of Comfest beverages and music.
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On May 24, Ohio set a new record—for the length of time taken to execute a prisoner. The medical technicians worked for 90 minutes to put shunts into the veins of Christopher Newton, so long he had to be allowed to get off the execution table to have a bathroom break. During this time activists barraged the office of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland with phone calls, threatening to alert the media.
Once the injection of lethal chemicals began, it took an additional 16 minutes for Newton to die, compared to an average of 7.5 minutes. According to the Associated Press report, his stomach contorted, his chin shook and his body had two mild convulsions. This indicates that the deadly “cocktail” was not performing as expected.
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Children as young as seven years old were 'forcibly disappeared' by the CIA, according to report published today jointly by six human rights groups naming 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown.
The list-drafted by Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve-draws together information from government and media sources, as well as from interviews with former prisoners and other witnesses.
The 21-page briefing paper, Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances in the "War on Terror," includes detailed information about four people named as "disappeared" prisoners for the first time. The full list of people includes nationals from countries including Egypt, Kenya, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, and Spain. They are believed to have been arrested in countries including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan, and transferred to secret US detention centers.
....It reveals how suspects' relatives, including wives and children as young as seven, have been held in secret detention. In September 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's two young sons, aged seven and nine, were arrested. According to eyewitnesses, the two were held in an adult detention center for at least four months while U.S. agents questioned the children about their father's whereabouts.
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Racism in the Law Everywhere: New Statement on the Situation in Toledo
Students Walk Across America For Peace
Comfest Ends in Radical Street Demo
Botched Execution Angers Ohio Abolitionists
