We urge you to endorse and support this Call from the Stop Mass Incarceration
Network
WE SAY NO MORE!
A Call For
A Month Of Resistance To Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression And The
Criminalization Of A Generation!
For 2 generations, Black and Latina/Latino youth in the U.S. have been
shipped off to prison in numbers never before seen anywhere in the world at any
time. More than 2 million people, of all nationalities languish in prison -- ten
times the number 50 years ago. The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but
25% of the world’s prison population! More than 60% of those in U.S. prisons are
Black or Latina/o. 32% of Black men between the ages of 20 and 29 are in
prison or on parole or probation on any given day. More than 80,000 people in
prison are held in solitary confinement under conditions that fit the
international definition of torture.
The incarceration of women has
increased by 800% over the last 30 years. They, along with those whose
sexual orientation is not “mainstream” or who are gender non-conforming --
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex prisoners -- face extremely
harsh and abusive treatment in prison, including widespread rape. Alongside
this has risen a massive program of criminally prosecuting undocumented
immigrants, essentially hidden from public view. As a result of the
devastation of their homelands, these immigrants have been driven to this
country to work without papers, and today they are being criminalized. The US
chastises other countries for human rights violations, yet it enmeshes the lives
of tens of millions of people in its criminal “injustice” system. The courts,
cops, prisons and La Migra all play a part in enforcing mass incarceration.
There are genocidal aspects and a genocidal logic to this program, and it has
been gathering momentum. All this is intolerable, and, if it isn’t stopped, it
will get much worse!
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Recent Protests Against Drones,
Guantanamo, and War Criminals:
Chicago May 9
The Chicago Chapter of World Can't
Wait:Drones, Dirty Wars & Guantanamo came to Federal Plaza in
Chicago on Friday, May 9. World Can’t Wait Chicago, Voices for Creative
Non-Violence, and the Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo drew the links,
with a model Predator drone, pictures of drones’ real victims, and people in
orange jumpsuits and hoods. This was part of the national Spring Days of Action
2014. Several WCW activists reported a more receptive response than usual as we
distributed hundreds of “Drones Mean Danger” cards and flyers for our upcoming
May 23 Global Day of Action to Close
Guantanamo. There were a lot of questions about the impact of drones
and why their use is growing. One young woman was glad to get our information
because she was in Europe last year and didn’t understand why people seemed so
anti-American. A middle school teacher took extra “Drones Mean Danger” cards for
students, another woman took extras for her congregation, and one young
Mexican-American couple stayed for more than a half hour to go deeply into
what’s driving these crimes. We collected over $50 in donations, including from
one man who would say only that he was “from the Middle East” and personally
thanked several of us for bringing this message to the people here. Watch
video: Part One Part Two
Berkeley May 10
Photos by Bindu
Desai
Fire John Yoo:
Saturday May 10th a core of 15 anti-torture
activists anchored the seventh annual protest of University of
California accommodation and promotion of Boalt Hall 'Torture Professor' John
Yoo.
Defying the Justice Department's Office of Professional
Responsibility finding that professor Yoo and his boss, now federal district
court judge Jay Bybee, were guilty of 'professional misconduct,' Berkeley Law
administrators continue to harbor an unrepentant advocate for illegal policies
deployed by the Bush regime.
Many graduates and their guests accepted
and wore orange ribbons in support for repudiation of U.S. torture
practice.
World Can't Wait applauds the potential of this new generation
of lawyers and judges to prosecute the crimes of arbitrary detention, torture,
and suppression of civil rights prescribed by John Yoo's 'Unitary Executive'
theory (that "if the President does it, it's legal").
Professor Yoo not
only supports U.S. targeted assassination policy; he complains that President
Obama isn't being hawkish enough in the War on
Terror:
"Yoo's flippant
attitude toward killing civilians is noteworthy in two ways. First - the obvious
-
is that it reveals a truly sick disregard for the killing of innocent
human beings...
The second reason it is noteworthy is that Yoo argues
trying to avoid killing civilians who are in the vicinity of enemy combatants
doesn't apply 'to wartime operations.' Leave aside the legal reasoning for a
moment and consider if Yoo would support the same standard in
reverse."
(John Glaser)
A university that
allows a war criminal to teach constitutional law under prejudice of 'academic
freedom' is protecting war crimes.
KPFA News Coverage
Rutgers University Teach-In May 6
Rudy Bell, François Cornilliat and Uri Eisenzweig - professors who
organized the opposition to Rice:
It was an event that will be
remembered because there has not been one like it for a very long time. The
lecture room of the Student Activities Center was packed by a crowd of more than
two hundred students and faculty members, many sitting on the floor, others
standing anywhere they could, all listening with the utmost attention to the
poignant speech of human rights attorney Jumana Musa, then to the illuminating
exposés of our panelists, to whom Rutgers University – the real Rutgers – is
forever indebted. And we all stood up to applaud the six students who
represented the “No To Rice” movement that organized the demonstrations of the
last ten days: the enthusiastic commitment they expressed to humanistic values
was a reminder that there is real hunger among our students for more knowledge
of history, of foreign cultures, of the very notion of “culture,” of political
science, of economics, as well as a deep interest in questions related to
ethics, public policy and the place of media in our culture. Students like these
give a special meaning – and responsibility – to our teaching and research.
Regardless of any artificial “strategic plan,” with students like these there is
a future for our University.
The event, that began at 5:30 p.m. concluded
at 11:30, with the screening of excerpts from the 2007 film “Taxi to the Dark
Side,” followed by a moving discussion of torture.
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Death of US Citizens by US Government Drones
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