WASHINGTON — On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of holding centers nationwide overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to new federal data…. Read More ›
KFC manager’s version changes Written by Emily Le Coz A Tupelo woman hired earlier this month by a KFC was fired Monday after the franchise owner discovered she’s homeless. Eunice Jasica has been staying at the Salvation Army lodge since early… Read More ›
An outrageous (but perhaps unsurprising) audio recording was played for jurors in the big federal lawsuit against the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy yesterday. The recording, made secretly last month by Officer Pedro Serrano in the 40th Precinct station house in the South Bronx,… Read More ›
The protests against Golden Dawn around the world gained much media attention, including the one in Chicago where you were the key note speaker. What happened at this Jan. 19th event? Well, I was the “MC” for want of a… Read More ›
She claims that when she went to the principal to complain about the harassment, the principal allegedly replied, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.” Within the first three days of enrolling in Magnolia Junior High School in Mississippi, … Read More ›
North Dakota legislatures have passed toughest anti-abortion resolution, asking the public to decide whether the state constitution should define life as beginning at conception. If approved, state-wide abortions will be outlawed. The resolution was passed on Friday and will appear… Read More ›
Following a leaked recording seeming to prove the existence of an NYPD arrest quota system, a second police officer has come forward to explain to a federal judge why he decided to record his superiors as they directed him to… Read More ›
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›
Arrest and summons quotas for New York police were outlawed in 2010, and although solid evidence of such requirements has been difficult to come by, an audio recording obtained by a New York magazine indicates that the practice continues today…. Read More ›
Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›
Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›
Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›
Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) Hey, Seth MacFarlane, did you know many of those “boob” scenes you sang about were depictions of sexual assault? BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Seth MacFarlane has made… Read More ›
By HOLBROOK MOHR JACKSON, Miss. — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department… Read More ›
So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department. Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and… Read More ›
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