Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Dallas 1963 and the Culture of Fear

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Today Americans in many large cities are experiencing levels of homicide last experienced in the mid-1950s. This is the result of a crime de...
Friday, October 4, 2013

To the Fruitvale Station

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Thanks to the persistence of my wife who has insisted for some time that as residents of the East Bay we must see it in the theater alon...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Beard Must Go: California Needs a Fresh start in Corrections, not a Cover-up for Business as Usual

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When Governor Brown appointed Jeffrey Beard to be the new Secretary of Corrections in California last year, it was supposed to signal a new...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Civil Disobedience and Uncivilized Punishment: Run Edward and Keep Running

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Edward Snowden's father recently gave an interview in which he rejected the idea that his son should come home to face US punishment (re...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Race and Reasonable Doubt: Notes from the Sanford Florida Verdict

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The official media narrative is in.  The acquittal of wanna-bee neighborhood guardian George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Mar...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Hunger

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Today, July 8, 2013, prisoners in California's supermax "SHU" units (for Secured Housing Units), are commencing a hunger strik...
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Prosecution Complex: Persecuting Aaron Swartz and Degrading the Constitution

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There should be a difference between prosecution and persecution The long “War on Crime,” America’s longest, has...