Via Democracy Now: “Kenneth Chamberlain, an African-American former marine, was killed after police responded to a false alert from his medical pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead…”. Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur and Jayar Jackson discuss the case in the context of the Trayvon Martin shooting and other issues on The Young Turks.
Democracy Now!: White Plains Mayor Apologizes for Police Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
The mayor of White Plains, New York, has finally apologized to the family of a 68-year-old veteran fatally shot by police in his own home. Kenneth Chamberlain, an African-American former marine, was killed after police responded to a false alert from his medical pendant. The officers broke down Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, and then shot him dead. That was on November 19th. On Friday, more than four months later, White Plains Mayor Tom Roach issued a statement offering “condolences” to Chamberlain’s family. The move came one day after Chamberlain’s son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., publicly criticized Roach and other city officials for staying silent about the case for so long. Chamberlain’s killing is expected to go before a grand jury in the coming weeks.
I highly advise you to watch either the Young Turks video or the Democracy Now! video provided at the above link. The details of this story are gruesome.
I wrote about this a few days ago. There is audio and video proof that could be used against the officers, but as usual, the police department brushes off the murder of a black person to save their own.
This story needs to go viral. Kenneth needs justice and the officers responsible for his death need to be prosecuted.
The root of all poverty is wealth.
Democracy Fail: Governments paying hackers to find ways to spy on you... for "national security"
“Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Marcia Hoffman writes about security research companies that work to discover “zero day” vulnerabilities in software and operating systems, then sell them to governments and corporations that want to use them as a vector for installing spyware. France’s VUPEN is…
From Union Square in NYC to Union Square in SF, on April 1st community groups in 13 cities throughout the US plus one in Canada will participate in simultaneous demonstrations, street theatre, music and dance performances, direct action, and public education in defense of… poor people’s Right To Exist in public spaces.
1982 marked the beginning of homelessness as a “crime wave” that would consume the efforts of US police forces over the next three decades. Crime statistics show that across the country, millions were sitting, lying down, hanging out, and—perhaps worst of all—sleeping. Reviewing just one city‘s example, at the end of 2011 these new crimes comprised roughly one third of all prosecuted offenses in San Francisco.
We all suffer from governments that waste resources and refuse to develop real solutions to social problems, but the people whose survival is criminalized suffer the most.
Property and business owners are creating private “Business Improvement Districts” (BIDs) to police downtown areas across the country. The stated goal is to “improve” these neighborhoods for “visitors and businesses.” The effect is to remove “undesirable elements” from downtown business and tourist centers. BIDs hire security teams (sometimes ironically called Ambassadors) that patrol public spaces, often augmented by off-duty, uniformed officers with full police authority.
Over the past year we have compiled and documented 706 homeless people’s interactions with local police, private security guards, and the criminal justice system in 13 cities. All respondents participated in the surveys for the opportunity to speak “unfiltered” to the broader community about what is really happening on our nation’s streets to poor, disabled, and homeless community members.
More than three-quarters of survey respondents (78%) reported being harassed, cited or arrested by police officers for sleeping outside, and 76% for loitering or simply “hanging out.” 75% reported the same for sitting or lying down. These were far and away the top crimes for which homeless people were charged. A sad corresponding fact is that only one quarter of respondents (25%) believed that they knew of safe, legal places to sleep.
CIVIL RIGHTS DEMANDS:
• End policies that allow for the creation of local business improvement
zones to enforce “nuisance” or “quality of life” laws in public space.
End policy’s that allow the enforcement of “nuisance” or “quality of
life” laws by local police departments in public space. Both entities criminalize and remove homeless, poor, people of color, and disabled members of our communities.• Ensure that all homeless children in Public School, estimated at close to 1 million students are able to stay in their home schools and have all the supports needed to do so with dignity.
• Stop any and all questions regarding a person’s immigration status when they are requesting housing, healthcare, education, emergency services or shelter.
posted on: March 23, 2012 5:37 pm SF Commune
Q: What Gets Occupiers Excited? A: #RIOTPORN
Very Interesting data & graphs about #OWS
Occupy Wall Street
Up hella late so I made this. Kept the original fist from thehttp://occupywallst.org/ website. Redid the rest. Let me know what you think.
-Eric
A Speaker talking about ” The New Jim Crow” and how the current system as a whole needs to be changed.
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#Occupy Wall Street in #NYC low on cash
“A finance report shows the group that galvanized the nationwide movement against economic inequality six months ago had about $45,000 left in its main account. That’s for the week of March 2. Weekly donations plummeted to about $1,600.
The report on the group’s General Assembly website says at “the current rate of expenditure” the occupiers will be “out of money in THREE WEEKS.”
