A few ticks north of 25 years old I underwent training in community
organizing based on the tenets of Saul Alinsky.
I was trained by Andrew Vachss who was a graduate of the
Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for community organizers
set up by Saul Alinsky.
see
https://www.google.com/#q=andrew+vachss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals
see
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Here is the complete list from Alinsky.
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
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msfreeh
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I interviewed Frances Crowe in 2012. see
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... nces-crowe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A fellow filmmaker has made a documentary about the 30 year struggle to
shut down Vermont Maine Yankee
http://www.turningtide.com/leppzer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
see link for full story
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/29/v ... to-unplug/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
December 29 2014
Vermont Yankee preparing to unplug
The nuclear power plant most likely will disconnect from the grid Monday and began cooling down.
VERNON, Vt. — Ellen Merkel says she gets “a little teary-eyed” when she thinks about the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant sending its last electrons to the regional power grid. She knows it will likely mean moving from Vernon, where her husband works at the plant, to the South for a new job.
Frances Crowe of Northampton, Massachusetts, says she’ll take some satisfaction that her anti-nuclear activism, which began before Vermont Yankee was built in the late 1960s, has had an impact. But she promised to continue to push for the highly radioactive spent fuel from the plant to be moved as soon as possible.
The plant is preparing to disconnect from the grid, most likely Monday.
“Economically it’s going to really hurt,” said Bob O’Donnell, co-owner of Trend Business Solutions, a small Vernon business that sells clothing and other items adorned with business logos, including that of Vermont Yankee. “It’s going to kill the tax base.”
Vermont Yankee, the state’s only nuclear reactor, employed more than 600 people when it announced it would close. The workforce will be cut in half after a round of layoffs and retirements Jan. 19. In 2016, the plant will see another big reduction as it prepares for a 30-year period during which time its radiation will cool. The plant likely won’t be dismantled until the 2040s.
New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. bought Vermont Yankee in 2002 from a group of New England utilities that had owned the plant since it opened in 1972. In August 2013, Entergy announced it would close the plant because it was no longer economical to operate.
“This has been a bad investment for us,” said Barrett Green, an Entergy finance executive who recommended both that Entergy buy the plant and later that it be closed.
The company was betting on a carbon tax, or some other hit on fossil-fuel-fired power plants, that would make nuclear power a clear winner. Instead, Green said, nuclear plants have been hit with increasing “regulatory costs” like beefed-up security post-9/11 and new safeguards against extreme events like the earthquake and tsunami that struck a nuclear station in Japan in 2011.
A boom in construction of natural-gas-fired power plants around New England has helped make Vermont Yankee less competitive, but the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, said the real problem is a regulatory system not working to keep nuclear plants open.
“Other nuclear energy facilities – producing affordable electricity safely and reliably – are at risk of premature closure due to competitive electricity markets that are not working for the benefit of consumers or the long-term reliability of the electric grid,” said Marv Fertel, NEI president and CEO.
At ISO New England, the regional power dispatch agency, spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said, “We determined a couple of years ago that the power grid could be operated reliably without Vermont Yankee.”
The announcement that the plant was closing came weeks after it won a round in a legal battle to keep it open. A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling overturning state laws that appeared aimed at closing the plant. One required a vote of support from both legislative chambers before the state Public Service Board permitted the plant to operate 20 years beyond its initial 40-year license.
The state Senate defeated the measure in 2010 and the House never acted, prompting Entergy to sue. The legislative action came amid political turmoil for the plant: Officials there were caught making false statements to lawmakers and regulators that the plant did not have the sort of underground piping that carried radioactive substances. There was also widespread suspicion among lawmakers about an Entergy plan to sell off Vermont Yankee and other northern reactors to a new, heavily leveraged spinoff company.
On top of that, a vocal cadre of well-organized and well-funded anti-nuclear activists in southeastern Vermont and neighboring Massachusetts took to the streets and to regulators’ hearing rooms in a bid to shut the plant down. They also had the ear of Gov. Peter Shumlin, who had orchestrated the vote in the Senate against the plant’s continued operation.
Entergy officials have said the shutdown decision was purely a matter of economics. For its part, the New England Coalition, perhaps the most vocal and litigious of the anti-nuclear groups, vowed to stay on the plant’s case as it prepares to move highly radioactive spent fuel to concrete and steel casks for its cooling-off period.
“If our mission was to eliminate the threat of nuclear pollution and environmental damage from Vermont Yankee, then contrary to wishful and popular perceptions, advocacy operations are far from over,” the group said on its website.
It’s expected to cost nearly $1.25 billion to dismantle the plant. The fund now has about half that.
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... nces-crowe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A fellow filmmaker has made a documentary about the 30 year struggle to
shut down Vermont Maine Yankee
http://www.turningtide.com/leppzer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
see link for full story
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/12/29/v ... to-unplug/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
December 29 2014
Vermont Yankee preparing to unplug
The nuclear power plant most likely will disconnect from the grid Monday and began cooling down.
VERNON, Vt. — Ellen Merkel says she gets “a little teary-eyed” when she thinks about the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant sending its last electrons to the regional power grid. She knows it will likely mean moving from Vernon, where her husband works at the plant, to the South for a new job.
Frances Crowe of Northampton, Massachusetts, says she’ll take some satisfaction that her anti-nuclear activism, which began before Vermont Yankee was built in the late 1960s, has had an impact. But she promised to continue to push for the highly radioactive spent fuel from the plant to be moved as soon as possible.
The plant is preparing to disconnect from the grid, most likely Monday.
“Economically it’s going to really hurt,” said Bob O’Donnell, co-owner of Trend Business Solutions, a small Vernon business that sells clothing and other items adorned with business logos, including that of Vermont Yankee. “It’s going to kill the tax base.”
Vermont Yankee, the state’s only nuclear reactor, employed more than 600 people when it announced it would close. The workforce will be cut in half after a round of layoffs and retirements Jan. 19. In 2016, the plant will see another big reduction as it prepares for a 30-year period during which time its radiation will cool. The plant likely won’t be dismantled until the 2040s.
New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. bought Vermont Yankee in 2002 from a group of New England utilities that had owned the plant since it opened in 1972. In August 2013, Entergy announced it would close the plant because it was no longer economical to operate.
“This has been a bad investment for us,” said Barrett Green, an Entergy finance executive who recommended both that Entergy buy the plant and later that it be closed.
The company was betting on a carbon tax, or some other hit on fossil-fuel-fired power plants, that would make nuclear power a clear winner. Instead, Green said, nuclear plants have been hit with increasing “regulatory costs” like beefed-up security post-9/11 and new safeguards against extreme events like the earthquake and tsunami that struck a nuclear station in Japan in 2011.
A boom in construction of natural-gas-fired power plants around New England has helped make Vermont Yankee less competitive, but the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, said the real problem is a regulatory system not working to keep nuclear plants open.
“Other nuclear energy facilities – producing affordable electricity safely and reliably – are at risk of premature closure due to competitive electricity markets that are not working for the benefit of consumers or the long-term reliability of the electric grid,” said Marv Fertel, NEI president and CEO.
At ISO New England, the regional power dispatch agency, spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said, “We determined a couple of years ago that the power grid could be operated reliably without Vermont Yankee.”
The announcement that the plant was closing came weeks after it won a round in a legal battle to keep it open. A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling overturning state laws that appeared aimed at closing the plant. One required a vote of support from both legislative chambers before the state Public Service Board permitted the plant to operate 20 years beyond its initial 40-year license.
The state Senate defeated the measure in 2010 and the House never acted, prompting Entergy to sue. The legislative action came amid political turmoil for the plant: Officials there were caught making false statements to lawmakers and regulators that the plant did not have the sort of underground piping that carried radioactive substances. There was also widespread suspicion among lawmakers about an Entergy plan to sell off Vermont Yankee and other northern reactors to a new, heavily leveraged spinoff company.
On top of that, a vocal cadre of well-organized and well-funded anti-nuclear activists in southeastern Vermont and neighboring Massachusetts took to the streets and to regulators’ hearing rooms in a bid to shut the plant down. They also had the ear of Gov. Peter Shumlin, who had orchestrated the vote in the Senate against the plant’s continued operation.
Entergy officials have said the shutdown decision was purely a matter of economics. For its part, the New England Coalition, perhaps the most vocal and litigious of the anti-nuclear groups, vowed to stay on the plant’s case as it prepares to move highly radioactive spent fuel to concrete and steel casks for its cooling-off period.
“If our mission was to eliminate the threat of nuclear pollution and environmental damage from Vermont Yankee, then contrary to wishful and popular perceptions, advocacy operations are far from over,” the group said on its website.
It’s expected to cost nearly $1.25 billion to dismantle the plant. The fund now has about half that.
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msfreeh
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two stories
you do know what to do?
1.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ezell Ford's family reacts strongly to autopsy in killing by LAPD
Demonstrators light candles around the corner from Ezell Ford's memorial.
Family of Ezell Ford reacts strongly to autopsy report
Attorney for Ezell Ford's family says police were almost 'animalistic' in deadly confrontation
Attorney for the family of Ezell Ford said the autopsy of the 25-year old shot dead by police in South L.A. shows that officers were almost “animalistic” during the confrontation.
LAPD officials say Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at close range
2.
December 30, 2014
BPD top cop: First Night is wrong time, wrong place for ‘die-in’
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinio ... for_die_in" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This Dec. 31, 2013, file photo shows marchers making their way down Boylston Street during a parade as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Boston.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Police: Protesters Welcome, But Won't Disrupt First Night Boston
CBS Boston
00:00 / 01:57
Boston’s top cop said protesters planning a “die-in” at tomorrow’s First Night New Year’s Eve festivities have chosen an inappropriate venue for the demonstration.
Boston Police Department Commissioner William B. Evans said police will accommodate protesters, but he added they shouldn’t expose “innocent” children to their beliefs.
“I just hope they respect that this isn’t the event to hold this,” Evans said at a morning press conference to address the city’s security plans for the citywide, all-day extravaganza. “I’ve brought my own kids into this event, my wife has. ... There are always 2-, 3-, 4-year-olds there. And I don’t think they should have to see behavior that they have nothing to do with. They don’t understand what’s going on, they are still very innocent. And to disrupt the event on Boylston Street tomorrow night is a disservice not only to the city, but also to their character.”
The group First Night Against Police Violence plans to hold a “die-in” — in which protesters dramatically collapse to the ground as a symbolic act against police brutality — in front of the Boston Public Library at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said protesters should be “respectful” and keep streets and sidewalks clear as 1 million people are expected to pour into the city with festivities stretching from the North End to the Back Bay.
Walsh asked all participants to “respect our police officers. Respect their roles as keepers of peace in our city.”
Evans said there have been no credible threats against police in the wake of the unarmed police killings
you do know what to do?
1.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ezell Ford's family reacts strongly to autopsy in killing by LAPD
Demonstrators light candles around the corner from Ezell Ford's memorial.
Family of Ezell Ford reacts strongly to autopsy report
Attorney for Ezell Ford's family says police were almost 'animalistic' in deadly confrontation
Attorney for the family of Ezell Ford said the autopsy of the 25-year old shot dead by police in South L.A. shows that officers were almost “animalistic” during the confrontation.
LAPD officials say Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at close range
2.
December 30, 2014
BPD top cop: First Night is wrong time, wrong place for ‘die-in’
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinio ... for_die_in" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This Dec. 31, 2013, file photo shows marchers making their way down Boylston Street during a parade as part of New Year's Eve celebrations in Boston.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Police: Protesters Welcome, But Won't Disrupt First Night Boston
CBS Boston
00:00 / 01:57
Boston’s top cop said protesters planning a “die-in” at tomorrow’s First Night New Year’s Eve festivities have chosen an inappropriate venue for the demonstration.
Boston Police Department Commissioner William B. Evans said police will accommodate protesters, but he added they shouldn’t expose “innocent” children to their beliefs.
“I just hope they respect that this isn’t the event to hold this,” Evans said at a morning press conference to address the city’s security plans for the citywide, all-day extravaganza. “I’ve brought my own kids into this event, my wife has. ... There are always 2-, 3-, 4-year-olds there. And I don’t think they should have to see behavior that they have nothing to do with. They don’t understand what’s going on, they are still very innocent. And to disrupt the event on Boylston Street tomorrow night is a disservice not only to the city, but also to their character.”
The group First Night Against Police Violence plans to hold a “die-in” — in which protesters dramatically collapse to the ground as a symbolic act against police brutality — in front of the Boston Public Library at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh said protesters should be “respectful” and keep streets and sidewalks clear as 1 million people are expected to pour into the city with festivities stretching from the North End to the Back Bay.
Walsh asked all participants to “respect our police officers. Respect their roles as keepers of peace in our city.”
Evans said there have been no credible threats against police in the wake of the unarmed police killings
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msfreeh
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Re: SOLUTIONARYS: Courage is Contagious
couple of reads. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... milo-mejia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.ivaw.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://m.fightbacknews.org/2014/12/30/n ... nned-miami" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
National protest against U.S. torture prison at Guantanamo planned for Miami
By Cassia Laham | December 30, 2014
Painting banner for protest to shut down the U.S. prison at the Guantanamo Bay. (Fight Back! News/Staff)
Miami, FL - Following the recent CIA torture report, determined activists in Florida are gearing up for the annual march and protest to shut down the U.S. torture prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Anti-war leaders expect hundreds will protest outside the gates of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Jan. 11 in Doral, Florida, which is located near Miami. Notable speakers from across the country include Nancy Mancias of CodePink!, Camilo Mejia of Veterans for Peace and Holly Kent-Payne of Chicago with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.
“We need to continue to oppose U.S. torture of citizens and non-citizens alike. The detention centers at Guantanamo Bay are symbols of oppression and violence and must be shut down,” said Pamela Maldonado, an organizer with People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism (POWIR). “Our pressure has already forced the U.S. to begin repatriating prisoners to other countries and safer locations. We won’t stop until the prisons are closed for good.”
The six demands of those organizing the protest are: 1) Shut down Guantanamo Bay now, 2) End the torture of prisoners, 3) Stop force-feeding hunger-strikers, 4) Release detainees who have not been charged with crimes, 5) Transfer cases to federal court if legitimate evidence exists, 6) Repatriate freed detainees or provide asylum for those who need it and 7) Repatriate the families of those who were wrongfully detained.
The U.S. military base at Guantanamo serves as a place to torture and to dispose of Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. ‘War on Terror.’ It also violates Cuba’s sovereignty, as it projects U.S. empire into the Caribbean and South America. SOUTHCOM is a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense and controls Guantanamo Bay. The purpose of SOUTHCOM is to coordinate military, intelligence and naval missions throughout Latin America in order for the U.S. and Wall Street to dominate and exploit other countries.
SOUTHCOM orchestrates low-intensity wars, terror attacks and destabilization campaigns in Latin America, as currently witnessed in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela. SOUTHCOM’s General John F. Kelly sits on the Board of Visitors that oversees the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC after a torture scandal) in Fort Benning, Georgia. U.S. military personnel train Colombian military officers to run violent paramilitary groups that kill and disappear people, referred to as “false positives”. These U.S.-trained death squads kill thousands of Colombians each year, especially targeting progressives and labor leaders.
Groups organizing the Jan. 11 march include POWIR, Occupy Miami, Al-Awda, National Lawyers Guild and Students for a Democratic Society. The rally begins at 2:00 p.m. with a march through downtown Doral to the gates of SOUTHCOM. Some protesters will wear orange prison jumpsuits like the prisoners of war. Water will be provided.
More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1497404 ... ?ref=br_tf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.ivaw.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://m.fightbacknews.org/2014/12/30/n ... nned-miami" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
National protest against U.S. torture prison at Guantanamo planned for Miami
By Cassia Laham | December 30, 2014
Painting banner for protest to shut down the U.S. prison at the Guantanamo Bay. (Fight Back! News/Staff)
Miami, FL - Following the recent CIA torture report, determined activists in Florida are gearing up for the annual march and protest to shut down the U.S. torture prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Anti-war leaders expect hundreds will protest outside the gates of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Jan. 11 in Doral, Florida, which is located near Miami. Notable speakers from across the country include Nancy Mancias of CodePink!, Camilo Mejia of Veterans for Peace and Holly Kent-Payne of Chicago with the Committee to Stop FBI Repression.
“We need to continue to oppose U.S. torture of citizens and non-citizens alike. The detention centers at Guantanamo Bay are symbols of oppression and violence and must be shut down,” said Pamela Maldonado, an organizer with People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism (POWIR). “Our pressure has already forced the U.S. to begin repatriating prisoners to other countries and safer locations. We won’t stop until the prisons are closed for good.”
The six demands of those organizing the protest are: 1) Shut down Guantanamo Bay now, 2) End the torture of prisoners, 3) Stop force-feeding hunger-strikers, 4) Release detainees who have not been charged with crimes, 5) Transfer cases to federal court if legitimate evidence exists, 6) Repatriate freed detainees or provide asylum for those who need it and 7) Repatriate the families of those who were wrongfully detained.
The U.S. military base at Guantanamo serves as a place to torture and to dispose of Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. ‘War on Terror.’ It also violates Cuba’s sovereignty, as it projects U.S. empire into the Caribbean and South America. SOUTHCOM is a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense and controls Guantanamo Bay. The purpose of SOUTHCOM is to coordinate military, intelligence and naval missions throughout Latin America in order for the U.S. and Wall Street to dominate and exploit other countries.
SOUTHCOM orchestrates low-intensity wars, terror attacks and destabilization campaigns in Latin America, as currently witnessed in Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela. SOUTHCOM’s General John F. Kelly sits on the Board of Visitors that oversees the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC after a torture scandal) in Fort Benning, Georgia. U.S. military personnel train Colombian military officers to run violent paramilitary groups that kill and disappear people, referred to as “false positives”. These U.S.-trained death squads kill thousands of Colombians each year, especially targeting progressives and labor leaders.
Groups organizing the Jan. 11 march include POWIR, Occupy Miami, Al-Awda, National Lawyers Guild and Students for a Democratic Society. The rally begins at 2:00 p.m. with a march through downtown Doral to the gates of SOUTHCOM. Some protesters will wear orange prison jumpsuits like the prisoners of war. Water will be provided.
More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1497404 ... ?ref=br_tf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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msfreeh
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Re: SOLUTIONARYS: Courage is Contagious
just got a email from Ray McGovern see
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... y-mcgovern" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dear Supporter
The CIA's officially sanctioned torture and – equally important – President Obama's decision not to hold the torturers accountable, leave an incalculably large -- and, I fear, indelible -- stain on America's reputation. *This has been particularly painful for me to watch in light of my three-decade service as an Army intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst.*
One needs "gutsy", *imaginative* companions in actions to raise consciousness, hold the torturers to account, and support whistleblowers -- especially in the desert called "mainstream media." *That's why I'm so grateful to have been working with CODEPINK over the last dozen years*; it's also why I really hope you will support CODEPINK with *a generous year-end donation* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ].
Now that abhorrent "techniques" like waterboarding and "rectal rehydration" have been exposed in a redacted Senate Intelligence Committee report, will the top torture criminals and their obedient lackeys – from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney down to those CIA personnel and contractors "just following orders"– continue to escape accountability? *That depends on us.* And I have to tell you,"* it would be a far lonelier struggle without the leadership and solidarity of CODEPINK.*"
It's our job to rise up against torture and other abuses – drone killings, for example. Stern enforcement of both U.S. and international law is the only deterrent against this kind of unconscionable abuse continuing to happen.
*CODEPINK has been a key partner in this struggle.** *They have *lobbied* hard to close Guantanamo. They have *raised money* to save the home of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou while he is in prison. They have *pushed* Senator Feinstein hard to release the Torture Study and *urged* Senator Mark Udall to introduce the entire report into the official records. They have *protested* against CIA Director John Brennan (even at his house!) and called for his firing.
We all need CODEPINK to be stronger than ever in 2015, *so please make a generous donation.* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ] Together, we can do our job, as citizens, to hold the torturers accountable, close Guantanamo prison and support whistleblowers.
"*In Justice, then Peace,*"
Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... y-mcgovern" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Dear Supporter
The CIA's officially sanctioned torture and – equally important – President Obama's decision not to hold the torturers accountable, leave an incalculably large -- and, I fear, indelible -- stain on America's reputation. *This has been particularly painful for me to watch in light of my three-decade service as an Army intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst.*
One needs "gutsy", *imaginative* companions in actions to raise consciousness, hold the torturers to account, and support whistleblowers -- especially in the desert called "mainstream media." *That's why I'm so grateful to have been working with CODEPINK over the last dozen years*; it's also why I really hope you will support CODEPINK with *a generous year-end donation* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ].
Now that abhorrent "techniques" like waterboarding and "rectal rehydration" have been exposed in a redacted Senate Intelligence Committee report, will the top torture criminals and their obedient lackeys – from George W. Bush and Dick Cheney down to those CIA personnel and contractors "just following orders"– continue to escape accountability? *That depends on us.* And I have to tell you,"* it would be a far lonelier struggle without the leadership and solidarity of CODEPINK.*"
It's our job to rise up against torture and other abuses – drone killings, for example. Stern enforcement of both U.S. and international law is the only deterrent against this kind of unconscionable abuse continuing to happen.
*CODEPINK has been a key partner in this struggle.** *They have *lobbied* hard to close Guantanamo. They have *raised money* to save the home of CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou while he is in prison. They have *pushed* Senator Feinstein hard to release the Torture Study and *urged* Senator Mark Udall to introduce the entire report into the official records. They have *protested* against CIA Director John Brennan (even at his house!) and called for his firing.
We all need CODEPINK to be stronger than ever in 2015, *so please make a generous donation.* [ http://codepink.org/donate" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ] Together, we can do our job, as citizens, to hold the torturers accountable, close Guantanamo prison and support whistleblowers.
"*In Justice, then Peace,*"
Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern
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msfreeh
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Re: SOLUTIONARYS: Courage is Contagious
see
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... hristopher" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
also see
FBI agents the Real Ecoterrorists
http://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/01/ ... errorists/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
JANUARY 4, 2015 ·
In 2008 at a Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction Tim DeChristopher bid on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million that he had no intention of buying. The FBI arrested him and charged him with a two-count felony indictment. DeChristopher was branded an “eco-terroist.” Even though the very leases he bid upon were later canceled because of their inadequate environmental review of impacts, DeChristopher nevertheless served 21 months in prison for his act of “terrorism”.
Of course DeChristopher’s motivation was to protect the land from violation by oil companies not his own financial gain. He should have been hailed as a hero. But in America people acting on principle to protect wildlands are often seen as a greater threat than those whose motivation is their personal financial gain.
A good example of the opposite federal government reaction is how the BLM and FBI responded to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. Bundy has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the federal government by refusing to pay minimal grazing fees for more than 20 years (he now owes more than a million dollars), and his failure to remove his cattle from federal property (our property). Instead of being arrested and taken off to jail as DeChristopher was, Bundy is still living free in Nevada, enjoying life as a celebrity.
As a reminder Bundy’s ranch was surrounded by gun toting anti-government militants who threatened to kill federal agents if they attempted to remove Bundy’s cattle from our property. I guess that sends a message that if you want to continue to thwart government action just surround yourself with militia.
One doesn’t have to instigate an armed insurrection to do damage to our patrimony and many acts of eco terrorism are not illegal, yet that doesn’t make them acceptable. Rancher Bill Hoppe, who lives outside of Gardiner Montana, began to run sheep on his ranch in retaliation for wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone which he has vocally opposed. Hoppe is President of the “Friends of the Northern Elk Herd” an anti-wolf organization that has resisted wolf recovery.
Hoppe openly admitted that his domestic animals might jeopardize nearby wild bighorns. As Hoppe is well aware domestic sheep can transmit pneumonia-like disease to their wild cousins causing many to die. Bighorn die-offs linked to domestic sheep have been documented across the West, including in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Idaho. Studies of sheep in captivity have proved transmission. Yet in a blatant disregard for the potential transfer of disease, Hoppe pastured his sheep immediately adjacent to a wild bighorn herd. Bighorns in the area subsequently contracted pneumonia which most observers believe is a result of the presences of Hoppe’s sheep.
Is this an act of “eco terrorism?” It is my book.
Hoppe is not alone in acting with malice towards public wildlife. Rancher Frank Robbins of Wyoming who had his federal grazing leases canceled a number of years ago after more than a dozen violations including overgrazing the public’s grazing lands as well as trespass grazing of other people’s federal leases. Robbins is threating one of Wyoming’s largest wild bighorn sheep herds by purposely running domestic sheep on his property adjacent to occupied wild sheep herds.
Thus Robbin’s threat to mix his domestic sheep in proximity to wild bighorns is analogous to giving small pox infected blankets to Native Americans as a way to reduce their resistance to American settlement and occupation.
Some forms of “eco terrorism” are more subtle and more wide-spread—and unfortunately quite legal. When a rancher’s livestock overgrazes the range, it harms many other creatures dependent on that grass. The grass going into the belly of someone’s cow, means there is that much less grass available for elk, bighorn or even desert tortoises which may depend on the same forage. With less grass, sage grouse may not be able to hide from predators. Yet no one will suffer FBI investigations, much less jail time for starving public wildlife.
Trampling of biocrust by the hooves of livestock damages soil, and permits the establishment of cheatgrass, an exotic alien weed. The spread of cheatgrass has serious consequences for entire ecosystems in part because the plant is highly flammable and increases the likelihood and occurrence of fire, burning out perennial plants like sagebrush. Again destroying biocrusts and spreading cheatgrass while clearly an act of eco-terrorism is not against the law.
How about the draining of our rivers and streams for irrigated hay and alfalfa production? Countless streams around the West are regularly dewatered to grow water loving plants like alfalfa for livestock forage. The removal of water from streams harms fisheries, but also shrinks the stream-side riparian zones that are important habitat for everything from songbirds to bald eagles. You can kill more songbirds and eagles by destroying the volume and acreage of riparian habitat than anyone with a gun may do, but while killing eagles and songbirds is illegal, destroying their habitat to grow cattle feed is not.
We kill thousands of predators from grizzly bears to wolves to coyotes to “protect” private livestock that are grazed on public lands. Even when these animals are not killed, they are harried and displaced by domestic livestock. Even so-called “predator friendly” livestock operations chase wolves and coyotes, harassing our wildlife to make it safe for their livestock. Is this not “terrorism”?
But do we hold ranchers accountable for these acts of eco terriorism? Hardly. Indeed, many politicians, media representatives, and others laud ranchers as the “true conservationists”.
These acts of “eco terriorism do far more damage to our collective heritage than bidding on oil and gas leases that are canceled. Yet while environmental activists like DeChristopher are arrested by Federal Agents and jailed, ranchers and other “eco terrorists” are pampered, and even allowed to continue destroying public property for their private gain. These different approaches to violations of the law demonstrates the blatant inequities in justice in our government’s willingness to fairl
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JANUARY 4, 2015 ·
In 2008 at a Bureau of Land Management Oil and Gas lease auction Tim DeChristopher bid on 14 parcels of land (totaling 22,500 acres) for $1.8 million that he had no intention of buying. The FBI arrested him and charged him with a two-count felony indictment. DeChristopher was branded an “eco-terroist.” Even though the very leases he bid upon were later canceled because of their inadequate environmental review of impacts, DeChristopher nevertheless served 21 months in prison for his act of “terrorism”.
Of course DeChristopher’s motivation was to protect the land from violation by oil companies not his own financial gain. He should have been hailed as a hero. But in America people acting on principle to protect wildlands are often seen as a greater threat than those whose motivation is their personal financial gain.
A good example of the opposite federal government reaction is how the BLM and FBI responded to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. Bundy has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the federal government by refusing to pay minimal grazing fees for more than 20 years (he now owes more than a million dollars), and his failure to remove his cattle from federal property (our property). Instead of being arrested and taken off to jail as DeChristopher was, Bundy is still living free in Nevada, enjoying life as a celebrity.
As a reminder Bundy’s ranch was surrounded by gun toting anti-government militants who threatened to kill federal agents if they attempted to remove Bundy’s cattle from our property. I guess that sends a message that if you want to continue to thwart government action just surround yourself with militia.
One doesn’t have to instigate an armed insurrection to do damage to our patrimony and many acts of eco terrorism are not illegal, yet that doesn’t make them acceptable. Rancher Bill Hoppe, who lives outside of Gardiner Montana, began to run sheep on his ranch in retaliation for wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone which he has vocally opposed. Hoppe is President of the “Friends of the Northern Elk Herd” an anti-wolf organization that has resisted wolf recovery.
Hoppe openly admitted that his domestic animals might jeopardize nearby wild bighorns. As Hoppe is well aware domestic sheep can transmit pneumonia-like disease to their wild cousins causing many to die. Bighorn die-offs linked to domestic sheep have been documented across the West, including in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington and Idaho. Studies of sheep in captivity have proved transmission. Yet in a blatant disregard for the potential transfer of disease, Hoppe pastured his sheep immediately adjacent to a wild bighorn herd. Bighorns in the area subsequently contracted pneumonia which most observers believe is a result of the presences of Hoppe’s sheep.
Is this an act of “eco terrorism?” It is my book.
Hoppe is not alone in acting with malice towards public wildlife. Rancher Frank Robbins of Wyoming who had his federal grazing leases canceled a number of years ago after more than a dozen violations including overgrazing the public’s grazing lands as well as trespass grazing of other people’s federal leases. Robbins is threating one of Wyoming’s largest wild bighorn sheep herds by purposely running domestic sheep on his property adjacent to occupied wild sheep herds.
Thus Robbin’s threat to mix his domestic sheep in proximity to wild bighorns is analogous to giving small pox infected blankets to Native Americans as a way to reduce their resistance to American settlement and occupation.
Some forms of “eco terrorism” are more subtle and more wide-spread—and unfortunately quite legal. When a rancher’s livestock overgrazes the range, it harms many other creatures dependent on that grass. The grass going into the belly of someone’s cow, means there is that much less grass available for elk, bighorn or even desert tortoises which may depend on the same forage. With less grass, sage grouse may not be able to hide from predators. Yet no one will suffer FBI investigations, much less jail time for starving public wildlife.
Trampling of biocrust by the hooves of livestock damages soil, and permits the establishment of cheatgrass, an exotic alien weed. The spread of cheatgrass has serious consequences for entire ecosystems in part because the plant is highly flammable and increases the likelihood and occurrence of fire, burning out perennial plants like sagebrush. Again destroying biocrusts and spreading cheatgrass while clearly an act of eco-terrorism is not against the law.
How about the draining of our rivers and streams for irrigated hay and alfalfa production? Countless streams around the West are regularly dewatered to grow water loving plants like alfalfa for livestock forage. The removal of water from streams harms fisheries, but also shrinks the stream-side riparian zones that are important habitat for everything from songbirds to bald eagles. You can kill more songbirds and eagles by destroying the volume and acreage of riparian habitat than anyone with a gun may do, but while killing eagles and songbirds is illegal, destroying their habitat to grow cattle feed is not.
We kill thousands of predators from grizzly bears to wolves to coyotes to “protect” private livestock that are grazed on public lands. Even when these animals are not killed, they are harried and displaced by domestic livestock. Even so-called “predator friendly” livestock operations chase wolves and coyotes, harassing our wildlife to make it safe for their livestock. Is this not “terrorism”?
But do we hold ranchers accountable for these acts of eco terriorism? Hardly. Indeed, many politicians, media representatives, and others laud ranchers as the “true conservationists”.
These acts of “eco terriorism do far more damage to our collective heritage than bidding on oil and gas leases that are canceled. Yet while environmental activists like DeChristopher are arrested by Federal Agents and jailed, ranchers and other “eco terrorists” are pampered, and even allowed to continue destroying public property for their private gain. These different approaches to violations of the law demonstrates the blatant inequities in justice in our government’s willingness to fairl
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Lateefah Simon: Youth advocate nominated as Visionary of the Year
Monday, January 5, 2015
Juvenile Hall on Friday Jan. 02, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Simon is being recognized as a visionary of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Fierce debates over race, class, police and inequality may be raging across the U.S., but for Lateefah Simon, the discussion is all rather simple.
“Everyone’s talking about social justice. What is it? What does it look like? Well, it looks like less crime, less poverty, good schools, jobs we love. ... It looks like peace,” the civil rights advocate said last week at her office in San Francisco. “I think everyone wants the same things. It’s really pretty basic.”
Simon, 37, has been championing those principles since she was a teenager in San Francisco’s Western Addition housing projects. She’s fought for job training and child care for young women caught up in the criminal justice system, education and housing for parolees, and second chances for those least likely to get them.
And, colleagues say, she’s done it all with a smile that could melt even the harshest probation officer.
“People sometimes associate social justice with angry protests, but she does it with warmth, with depth, with love,” said Olis Simmons, director of Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland. “She’s consistently down-to-earth and humble. She’s truly a peaceful warrior.”
Simon’s work, which has led her to the top of numerous Bay Area civil rights organizations, has earned her a slew of accolades, including a MacArthur Foundation grant when she was just 26, a Levi Strauss Pioneer Award and a spot on O magazine’s first Power List.
But for her, the awards and fancy job titles are secondary to the rewards she reaps by helping the Bay Area’s young men and women who are trapped in a seemingly endless labyrinth of unemployment, jail, drug use and despair, she said.
Simon knows a bit about that cycle herself. A high-school dropout, she was working full time at Taco Bell as a teenager, had a baby at age 19 and was on probation for shoplifting before things started to turn around.
“I was the worst student at George Washington High. I was every teacher’s nightmare,” she said with a laugh at her office on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, with views of Alcatraz, the Bay Bridge and passing ferries. “I really had no idea what I was doing.”
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While on probation, she was referred to a nonprofit called the Center for Young Women’s Development, which provided jobs, training, classes, books and other services to girls and young women on the streets and in the criminal justice system.
Troubled young women
There, Simon met girls who were involved in sex trafficking, drug sales and myriad other problems, and, as part of the program, learned how to help them. As a teen not far from the streets herself, she would walk around the Western Addition and Tenderloin and hand out condoms, needles, bleach, candy bars, sandwiches and information about getting help.
“I saw a resilience in these young women,” she said. “These were people who had absolutely nothing, but were somehow able to make it through the day. And the next day. And the next. We developed real friendships and wonderful camaraderie.”
Simon became so involved and motivated by the plight of San Francisco’s struggling young women that she started going to Board of Supervisors meetings every Tuesday to ask what the city was doing to help young women on the fringes. Her passion and intelligence caught the attention of city leaders, including then-Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Kamala Harris, who at the time was a young attorney for the city.
The center’s board was so impressed by Simon’s efforts they named her executive director when Simon was just 19 years old. She was suddenly in charge of a staff of 10 and a $750,000 annual budget.
Harris helped guide her through those years, Simon said.
“She just changed my life. She was tough as nails. She said to me, 'You need to be excellent. ... So first off, you need to go to college,’ “ Simon recalled.
Getting education
Simon enrolled at Mills College in Oakland, taking classes nights and weekends while working full time at the center and raising her daughter. She eventually graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public policy.
Meanwhile, Harris — who by then had become San Francisco’s district attorney — asked Simon to help start a program to help nonviolent, first-time, low-level drug offenders get jobs, enroll in school, attend parenting classes and otherwise improve their lives before they became embroiled in the revolving door of the criminal justice system.
“Our goal was to get people off the street. How do you do that? Turned out it was easy — you just ask them what they need,” Simon said. “Housing? A bank account? A job? Therapy? A gym membership, so you can take better care of yourself? We could help them get those things.”
Simon and her colleagues would go to court hearings and try to intercept young men and women as they met with a judge. In the one-year program, offered as an alternative to jail, offenders would take mandatory parenting classes, regular drug tests, job training workshops and other steps designed to help them “transition to a crime-free life,” Harris wrote in the Huffington Post.
If they completed the program, their felony charges would be dropped.
The program, called Back on Track, was immediately successful. Those who graduated from Back on Track had only a 10 percent recidivism rate, compared with 70 percent for those not enrolled in the program. It was also a bargain for taxpayers: The public pays about $5,000 for each participant, compared with the $50,000 or so it costs to keep a person incarcerated for a year.
The program has since been adopted in cities across the U.S., and was hailed as a model by outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Harris credited the program’s success to Simon’s energy and imagination.
“Lateefah Simon has devoted her life’s work to helping the poor, the disadvantaged, and those trapped in the cycle of our criminal justice system,” Harris said in an e-mail. “While working with me during my tenure as district attorney of San Francisco, she led my office’s work to create 'Back on Track,’ nationally recognized program that helped divert low-level offenders away from lives of crime and toward productive futures. She is a tremendous asset to the state of California and a champion for justice, equality and dignity.”
Civil rights causes
After several years with the city, Simon left to head the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the group formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy to push forward civil rights issues through the legal system. Simon was among the youngest heads of the group, and one of the only non-attorneys.
There, she worked on “ban the box” legislation to remove employment barriers for ex-prisoners, and helped formed a legal clinic to help ex-convicts find housing and jobs.
Since 2011, Simon has served as director of the Rosenberg Foundation’s California Future Initiative, which, among other things, gives grants to organizations helping formerly incarcerated women and children who’ve been exposed to violence and trauma.
But she still finds time to visit young women in jail, to help them find the services they need and serve as a personal role model when she can.
“I want people to know that a better life is possible,” she said. “This city is my soil. I know these people. I love these people. I want them to know that no matter who you are or what you’ve done, you are due a process of transformation. You deserve another chance.”
Simon’s personal life has seen some transformations, as well. Her older daughter is now in college, and Simon has a 3-year-old daughter. She has also moved from San Francisco to North Oakland, where she hopes to be involved with the incoming Libby Schaaf mayoral administration and other East Bay undertakings.
But the biggest change was the death in June of her husband, Kevin Weston, 45, a journalist who headed New American Media, Yo! Youth Outlook and other news outlets focusing on young people, people of color and others sometimes overlooked by the mainstream media.
Weston, who was also a Knight Fellow at Stanford, died of leukemia at their home after the couple launched a nationwide campaign to increase the number of African American bone marrow donors.
“Do I get sad? Yes. We all get sad,” Simon said. “I have friends still dying of AIDS. My dad lives in the Tenderloin. Trust me, it’s not all peachy. ... But what can I do? I keep going. There’s a lot to do, still.”
Colleagues say that Simon’s biggest contribution has been as a role model. Her warmth, optimism and resolve lift up everyone around her, from teenage girls selling drugs in the projects to the leaders in Sacramento, said Zachary Norris, director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland.
“She’s helped make policies at the very top, and been a role model for those at the very bottom,” he said. “And for me, personally, she’s been an amazing mentor. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel she was a friend.”
Daniel Lee, executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation, called Simon “one of the truly prophetic people in the Bay Area.”
“You look at what’s happening now in the youth justice system — she was doing that in her teens,” he said. “She’s accomplished so much, it’s like she’s lived six lifetimes. ... She’s so respected and loved and admired, she’s like a grandmother, and she’s not even 40.”
Wide-ranging impact
Simon’s approach has impacted almost every civil rights and social justice group in the region, colleagues said. Not only has she helped change policies, but she’s been personally involved with leaders as well as clients.
“She’s been a pioneer in flipping the youth justice system on its head,” Norris said. “She tells people, 'The people with fancy titles and degrees are not the experts on what your needs are. You are the expert on what you need.’ That approach has really changed everything, for the better.”
For all her accolades, Simon remains approachable and unpretentious. During an interview, she’s as interested in listening and having a conversation as she is in answering questions. Her stories are filled with smiles and laughter, and her enthusiasm never flags.
“My goal is to create a Bay Area that’s good to its people,” she said. “I figure I have 70 more years to pound the pavement and get that done. I know we can do it.”
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected]
Visionary of the Year award
This is one of 13 profiles of nominees for The Chronicle’s inaugural Visionary of the Year award, which is presented in collaboration with St. Mary’s College’s School of Economics and Business Administration. The honor salutes leaders who strive to make the world a better place and drive social and economic change by employing new, innovative business models and practices. Twelve of the finalists were selected by Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of Emerson Collective and widow of Steve Jobs; Daniel Lurie, founder of the poverty-fighting organization Tipping Point; Ronnie Lott, the 49ers Hall of Fame cornerback; Anne Wilson, the chief executive officer of United Way Bay Area; and Zhan Li, the dean of the business school at St. Mary’s. The Chronicle will ask readers to nominate a 13th finalist.
Chronicle Publisher Jeff Johnson, President Kristine Shine, Managing Editor Audrey Cooper and Editorial Page Editor John Diaz will select the winner, who will receive a $10,000 grant. Additionally, a $10,000 scholarship will be established in his or her honor at St. Mary’s College for a graduate business student. The award will be presented during a ceremony in March.
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with the artist Robert Shetterly to conduct interviews with people he has painted for his Americans Who Tell the Truth series
Ms Simon was one of the people interviewed
see
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... efah-simon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
also see
http://www.sfgate.com/visionaryoftheyea ... 993578.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lateefah Simon: Youth advocate nominated as Visionary of the Year
Monday, January 5, 2015
Juvenile Hall on Friday Jan. 02, 2015 in San Francisco, Calif. Simon is being recognized as a visionary of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Fierce debates over race, class, police and inequality may be raging across the U.S., but for Lateefah Simon, the discussion is all rather simple.
“Everyone’s talking about social justice. What is it? What does it look like? Well, it looks like less crime, less poverty, good schools, jobs we love. ... It looks like peace,” the civil rights advocate said last week at her office in San Francisco. “I think everyone wants the same things. It’s really pretty basic.”
Simon, 37, has been championing those principles since she was a teenager in San Francisco’s Western Addition housing projects. She’s fought for job training and child care for young women caught up in the criminal justice system, education and housing for parolees, and second chances for those least likely to get them.
And, colleagues say, she’s done it all with a smile that could melt even the harshest probation officer.
“People sometimes associate social justice with angry protests, but she does it with warmth, with depth, with love,” said Olis Simmons, director of Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland. “She’s consistently down-to-earth and humble. She’s truly a peaceful warrior.”
Simon’s work, which has led her to the top of numerous Bay Area civil rights organizations, has earned her a slew of accolades, including a MacArthur Foundation grant when she was just 26, a Levi Strauss Pioneer Award and a spot on O magazine’s first Power List.
But for her, the awards and fancy job titles are secondary to the rewards she reaps by helping the Bay Area’s young men and women who are trapped in a seemingly endless labyrinth of unemployment, jail, drug use and despair, she said.
Simon knows a bit about that cycle herself. A high-school dropout, she was working full time at Taco Bell as a teenager, had a baby at age 19 and was on probation for shoplifting before things started to turn around.
“I was the worst student at George Washington High. I was every teacher’s nightmare,” she said with a laugh at her office on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, with views of Alcatraz, the Bay Bridge and passing ferries. “I really had no idea what I was doing.”
RELATED STORIES
What is Visionary of the Year?
New Chronicle award will honor top Bay Area visionary
James Kass: Visionary of the Year nominee takes poetry to schools
While on probation, she was referred to a nonprofit called the Center for Young Women’s Development, which provided jobs, training, classes, books and other services to girls and young women on the streets and in the criminal justice system.
Troubled young women
There, Simon met girls who were involved in sex trafficking, drug sales and myriad other problems, and, as part of the program, learned how to help them. As a teen not far from the streets herself, she would walk around the Western Addition and Tenderloin and hand out condoms, needles, bleach, candy bars, sandwiches and information about getting help.
“I saw a resilience in these young women,” she said. “These were people who had absolutely nothing, but were somehow able to make it through the day. And the next day. And the next. We developed real friendships and wonderful camaraderie.”
Simon became so involved and motivated by the plight of San Francisco’s struggling young women that she started going to Board of Supervisors meetings every Tuesday to ask what the city was doing to help young women on the fringes. Her passion and intelligence caught the attention of city leaders, including then-Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Kamala Harris, who at the time was a young attorney for the city.
The center’s board was so impressed by Simon’s efforts they named her executive director when Simon was just 19 years old. She was suddenly in charge of a staff of 10 and a $750,000 annual budget.
Harris helped guide her through those years, Simon said.
“She just changed my life. She was tough as nails. She said to me, 'You need to be excellent. ... So first off, you need to go to college,’ “ Simon recalled.
Getting education
Simon enrolled at Mills College in Oakland, taking classes nights and weekends while working full time at the center and raising her daughter. She eventually graduated with a bachelor’s degree in public policy.
Meanwhile, Harris — who by then had become San Francisco’s district attorney — asked Simon to help start a program to help nonviolent, first-time, low-level drug offenders get jobs, enroll in school, attend parenting classes and otherwise improve their lives before they became embroiled in the revolving door of the criminal justice system.
“Our goal was to get people off the street. How do you do that? Turned out it was easy — you just ask them what they need,” Simon said. “Housing? A bank account? A job? Therapy? A gym membership, so you can take better care of yourself? We could help them get those things.”
Simon and her colleagues would go to court hearings and try to intercept young men and women as they met with a judge. In the one-year program, offered as an alternative to jail, offenders would take mandatory parenting classes, regular drug tests, job training workshops and other steps designed to help them “transition to a crime-free life,” Harris wrote in the Huffington Post.
If they completed the program, their felony charges would be dropped.
The program, called Back on Track, was immediately successful. Those who graduated from Back on Track had only a 10 percent recidivism rate, compared with 70 percent for those not enrolled in the program. It was also a bargain for taxpayers: The public pays about $5,000 for each participant, compared with the $50,000 or so it costs to keep a person incarcerated for a year.
The program has since been adopted in cities across the U.S., and was hailed as a model by outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Harris credited the program’s success to Simon’s energy and imagination.
“Lateefah Simon has devoted her life’s work to helping the poor, the disadvantaged, and those trapped in the cycle of our criminal justice system,” Harris said in an e-mail. “While working with me during my tenure as district attorney of San Francisco, she led my office’s work to create 'Back on Track,’ nationally recognized program that helped divert low-level offenders away from lives of crime and toward productive futures. She is a tremendous asset to the state of California and a champion for justice, equality and dignity.”
Civil rights causes
After several years with the city, Simon left to head the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the group formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy to push forward civil rights issues through the legal system. Simon was among the youngest heads of the group, and one of the only non-attorneys.
There, she worked on “ban the box” legislation to remove employment barriers for ex-prisoners, and helped formed a legal clinic to help ex-convicts find housing and jobs.
Since 2011, Simon has served as director of the Rosenberg Foundation’s California Future Initiative, which, among other things, gives grants to organizations helping formerly incarcerated women and children who’ve been exposed to violence and trauma.
But she still finds time to visit young women in jail, to help them find the services they need and serve as a personal role model when she can.
“I want people to know that a better life is possible,” she said. “This city is my soil. I know these people. I love these people. I want them to know that no matter who you are or what you’ve done, you are due a process of transformation. You deserve another chance.”
Simon’s personal life has seen some transformations, as well. Her older daughter is now in college, and Simon has a 3-year-old daughter. She has also moved from San Francisco to North Oakland, where she hopes to be involved with the incoming Libby Schaaf mayoral administration and other East Bay undertakings.
But the biggest change was the death in June of her husband, Kevin Weston, 45, a journalist who headed New American Media, Yo! Youth Outlook and other news outlets focusing on young people, people of color and others sometimes overlooked by the mainstream media.
Weston, who was also a Knight Fellow at Stanford, died of leukemia at their home after the couple launched a nationwide campaign to increase the number of African American bone marrow donors.
“Do I get sad? Yes. We all get sad,” Simon said. “I have friends still dying of AIDS. My dad lives in the Tenderloin. Trust me, it’s not all peachy. ... But what can I do? I keep going. There’s a lot to do, still.”
Colleagues say that Simon’s biggest contribution has been as a role model. Her warmth, optimism and resolve lift up everyone around her, from teenage girls selling drugs in the projects to the leaders in Sacramento, said Zachary Norris, director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland.
“She’s helped make policies at the very top, and been a role model for those at the very bottom,” he said. “And for me, personally, she’s been an amazing mentor. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel she was a friend.”
Daniel Lee, executive director of the Levi Strauss Foundation, called Simon “one of the truly prophetic people in the Bay Area.”
“You look at what’s happening now in the youth justice system — she was doing that in her teens,” he said. “She’s accomplished so much, it’s like she’s lived six lifetimes. ... She’s so respected and loved and admired, she’s like a grandmother, and she’s not even 40.”
Wide-ranging impact
Simon’s approach has impacted almost every civil rights and social justice group in the region, colleagues said. Not only has she helped change policies, but she’s been personally involved with leaders as well as clients.
“She’s been a pioneer in flipping the youth justice system on its head,” Norris said. “She tells people, 'The people with fancy titles and degrees are not the experts on what your needs are. You are the expert on what you need.’ That approach has really changed everything, for the better.”
For all her accolades, Simon remains approachable and unpretentious. During an interview, she’s as interested in listening and having a conversation as she is in answering questions. Her stories are filled with smiles and laughter, and her enthusiasm never flags.
“My goal is to create a Bay Area that’s good to its people,” she said. “I figure I have 70 more years to pound the pavement and get that done. I know we can do it.”
Carolyn Jones is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected]
Visionary of the Year award
This is one of 13 profiles of nominees for The Chronicle’s inaugural Visionary of the Year award, which is presented in collaboration with St. Mary’s College’s School of Economics and Business Administration. The honor salutes leaders who strive to make the world a better place and drive social and economic change by employing new, innovative business models and practices. Twelve of the finalists were selected by Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of Emerson Collective and widow of Steve Jobs; Daniel Lurie, founder of the poverty-fighting organization Tipping Point; Ronnie Lott, the 49ers Hall of Fame cornerback; Anne Wilson, the chief executive officer of United Way Bay Area; and Zhan Li, the dean of the business school at St. Mary’s. The Chronicle will ask readers to nominate a 13th finalist.
Chronicle Publisher Jeff Johnson, President Kristine Shine, Managing Editor Audrey Cooper and Editorial Page Editor John Diaz will select the winner, who will receive a $10,000 grant. Additionally, a $10,000 scholarship will be established in his or her honor at St. Mary’s College for a graduate business student. The award will be presented during a ceremony in March.
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We brought Frank Wilkinson to speak at our conference
dealing with crimes committed by FBI agents.
see. below
Wilkinson was Director of NCARL which created Bill HR 50
sponsored by former FBI agent Don Edwards
http://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-are ... -turns-100" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Herhold: Ex-U.S. Rep. Don Edwards turns 100
POSTED: 01/06/2015 12:43:10 PM PST0 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT
In a long parade of birthdays, Tuesday was the blue-ribbon float for Don Edwards.
The former Democratic congressman from San Jose turned 100, nearly deaf and blind but still strong in spirit and mind. And yes, he celebrated with chocolate cake and ice cream.
"He's so excited about this birthday," said his former aide, Terry Poche, who served him for 20 years. "He's still as sharp as can be."
Santa Clara County has changed so much in the 20 years that Edwards has been gone from Congress, let alone the century since he was born, that many voters have only a fuzzy idea of one of the nation's great liberals.
That's a cruel trick of memory: Edwards, a former FBI agent, left a mark as a politician of conscience, a man who crusaded for civil rights, equal treatment of women, and saving San Francisco Bay (The Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge is named in his honor).
Edwards is not the oldest living ex-congressman. My online check shows that ex-West Virginia congressman Ken Hechler, four months older than Edwards, is still alive.
First Amendment Felon: The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1560257792" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Robert Sherrill - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography
The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for ... Their bill, the FBI First Amendment Protection Act, H.R. 50, was introduced in ...
Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c...;view...
Frank Wilkinson v. FBI ... H.R. 50: FBI 1st Amendment Protection Act. Box 6. Folder 29. H.R. 5369: FBI 1st Amendment Standards and Procedures Act of 1988 .
Victim Of Mccarthy Era Still Fighting For Free Speech - Nwsource
community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920105&slug...
Jan 5, 1992 - His proposal, House Resolution 50, has 42 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of ... The FBI's interest in Wilkinson seems to have waned. "To tell ...
[PDF]Abbie Hoffman Part 07 of 50 - The Vault - FBI
vault.fbi.gov/abbie-hoffman/abbie-hoffman-part-07-of-50
'FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when ... national civil liberties organization in all 50 states as rapidly as possible .... n “wй Hr a s „at U vw . __ . \. 1_.
NCARL HISTORY - Defending Dissent Foundation
http://www.defendingdissent.org/archive ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wilkinson went to hundreds of communities over the decades, speaking to every kind ... At the same time, Frank was tailed throughout the country by the FBI, which ... The bill, H.R. 50, got significant support in the House of Representatives, but ...
dealing with crimes committed by FBI agents.
see. below
Wilkinson was Director of NCARL which created Bill HR 50
sponsored by former FBI agent Don Edwards
http://www.contracostatimes.com/bay-are ... -turns-100" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Herhold: Ex-U.S. Rep. Don Edwards turns 100
POSTED: 01/06/2015 12:43:10 PM PST0 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT
In a long parade of birthdays, Tuesday was the blue-ribbon float for Don Edwards.
The former Democratic congressman from San Jose turned 100, nearly deaf and blind but still strong in spirit and mind. And yes, he celebrated with chocolate cake and ice cream.
"He's so excited about this birthday," said his former aide, Terry Poche, who served him for 20 years. "He's still as sharp as can be."
Santa Clara County has changed so much in the 20 years that Edwards has been gone from Congress, let alone the century since he was born, that many voters have only a fuzzy idea of one of the nation's great liberals.
That's a cruel trick of memory: Edwards, a former FBI agent, left a mark as a politician of conscience, a man who crusaded for civil rights, equal treatment of women, and saving San Francisco Bay (The Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge is named in his honor).
Edwards is not the oldest living ex-congressman. My online check shows that ex-West Virginia congressman Ken Hechler, four months older than Edwards, is still alive.
First Amendment Felon: The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1560257792" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Robert Sherrill - 2005 - Biography & Autobiography
The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for ... Their bill, the FBI First Amendment Protection Act, H.R. 50, was introduced in ...
Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c...;view...
Frank Wilkinson v. FBI ... H.R. 50: FBI 1st Amendment Protection Act. Box 6. Folder 29. H.R. 5369: FBI 1st Amendment Standards and Procedures Act of 1988 .
Victim Of Mccarthy Era Still Fighting For Free Speech - Nwsource
community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920105&slug...
Jan 5, 1992 - His proposal, House Resolution 50, has 42 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of ... The FBI's interest in Wilkinson seems to have waned. "To tell ...
[PDF]Abbie Hoffman Part 07 of 50 - The Vault - FBI
vault.fbi.gov/abbie-hoffman/abbie-hoffman-part-07-of-50
'FRANK WILKINSON was called as a witness when ... national civil liberties organization in all 50 states as rapidly as possible .... n “wй Hr a s „at U vw . __ . \. 1_.
NCARL HISTORY - Defending Dissent Foundation
http://www.defendingdissent.org/archive ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wilkinson went to hundreds of communities over the decades, speaking to every kind ... At the same time, Frank was tailed throughout the country by the FBI, which ... The bill, H.R. 50, got significant support in the House of Representatives, but ...
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Rowley – McGovern Iowa Speaking Tour
July 30, 2015 | Author Ed Flaherty
Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
FBI whistle blower Coleen Rowley and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to speak at organized events in nine Iowa cities beginning Sept. 24
IOWA CITY — The three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace announce a nine-city tour of Iowa by former FBI agent and whistle blower Coleen Rowley and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern beginning Thursday, Sept. 24.
McGovern and Rowley seek to raise the level of Iowans understanding of current national security issues. They will focus on specific issues that Iowa caucus-goers may raise at the Feb. 1 caucuses, and on specific questions that Iowans may ask of presidential candidates visiting the state.
The speaking tour includes stops in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Davenport, Parnell, Iowa City, Ames and Des Moines.
Between them, Rowley and McGovern have 51 years of service in the highest levels of the FBI and CIA. Since leaving the agencies, they worked relentlessly for peace and justice. Their nine-city tour begins Sept. 24 in Dubuque and ends in Sept. 30 in Des Moines. The tour is sponsored by the three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace.
“It is refreshing to me and I hope to many others that there is a chance to hear intelligence professionals who are trained and practiced in getting and relaying the truth,” said Paul Appell, member of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 161.
“The foreign policy and war national issues will not be ‘burning’ ones in Iowa unless caucus goers take the initiative to ask,” Rowley said. “Therein lies our real and only mission, our real challenge, to somehow activate them to ask.”
“I think we could surely be attentive to the budget, defense and security issues and how they impinge on efforts toward a fairer country, repair of infrastructure, etc.,” McGovern said.
The public is invited to attend without admission fees.
Rowley McGovern Schedule
All events are free and open to the public, sponsored by Iowa Veterans for Peace
Thursday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. University of Dubuque. Contact Christine Darr, [email protected].
Friday, Sept 25, 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Building, 50 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Contact Joe Aossey, [email protected].
Saturday, Sept 26, Cedar Falls/Waterloo
10:30 a.m.
News Talk sponsored by University of Northern Iowa Democracy Project. University Book Store, 1009 W. 23rd St., Cedar Falls.
3 p.m.
Law Court Theater, Waterloo Center for the Arts. “Addressing/Redressing Global & Local Violence.” Waterloo/Cedar Falls events, contact Tom Kessler [email protected].
Sunday, Sept, 27,
2-4 p.m.
Rogalski Center, St. Ambrose University, Davenport. Co-sponsored by the Quad City Times. New Ideas Forum. Contact Paul Foley. 563-333-6025, [email protected].
6 p.m.
JPOG (Just Peace Outreach Group) West Union Mennonite Church, 3253 305 St, Parnell. Finger food potluck, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. program. Bring finger food to share and your own table service. Contact Roger Farmer, 319-653-2547 or Jane Yoder-Short, [email protected].
Monday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. Iowa City, University of Iowa Lecture Series “Is Peace Possible?” Englert Theatre.
Tuesday, Sept 29,
Noon
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Both Iowa City events, contact Ed Flaherty, 319-621-6766. [email protected].
7 p.m.
Ames Public Library, Farwell T. Brown Auditorium. Contact Mary Logsdon. 515-239-5633. [email protected].
Wednesday, Sept 30, 7 p.m., Des Moines, Drake University. Contact Gil Landolt, [email protected] , 515-333-2180.
For more information contact John Jadryev 319-430-2019 or [email protected].
Rowley – McGovern Iowa Speaking Tour
July 30, 2015 | Author Ed Flaherty
Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
FBI whistle blower Coleen Rowley and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern to speak at organized events in nine Iowa cities beginning Sept. 24
IOWA CITY — The three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace announce a nine-city tour of Iowa by former FBI agent and whistle blower Coleen Rowley and retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern beginning Thursday, Sept. 24.
McGovern and Rowley seek to raise the level of Iowans understanding of current national security issues. They will focus on specific issues that Iowa caucus-goers may raise at the Feb. 1 caucuses, and on specific questions that Iowans may ask of presidential candidates visiting the state.
The speaking tour includes stops in Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Davenport, Parnell, Iowa City, Ames and Des Moines.
Between them, Rowley and McGovern have 51 years of service in the highest levels of the FBI and CIA. Since leaving the agencies, they worked relentlessly for peace and justice. Their nine-city tour begins Sept. 24 in Dubuque and ends in Sept. 30 in Des Moines. The tour is sponsored by the three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace.
“It is refreshing to me and I hope to many others that there is a chance to hear intelligence professionals who are trained and practiced in getting and relaying the truth,” said Paul Appell, member of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 161.
“The foreign policy and war national issues will not be ‘burning’ ones in Iowa unless caucus goers take the initiative to ask,” Rowley said. “Therein lies our real and only mission, our real challenge, to somehow activate them to ask.”
“I think we could surely be attentive to the budget, defense and security issues and how they impinge on efforts toward a fairer country, repair of infrastructure, etc.,” McGovern said.
The public is invited to attend without admission fees.
Rowley McGovern Schedule
All events are free and open to the public, sponsored by Iowa Veterans for Peace
Thursday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m. University of Dubuque. Contact Christine Darr, [email protected].
Friday, Sept 25, 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Building, 50 Second Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, Contact Joe Aossey, [email protected].
Saturday, Sept 26, Cedar Falls/Waterloo
10:30 a.m.
News Talk sponsored by University of Northern Iowa Democracy Project. University Book Store, 1009 W. 23rd St., Cedar Falls.
3 p.m.
Law Court Theater, Waterloo Center for the Arts. “Addressing/Redressing Global & Local Violence.” Waterloo/Cedar Falls events, contact Tom Kessler [email protected].
Sunday, Sept, 27,
2-4 p.m.
Rogalski Center, St. Ambrose University, Davenport. Co-sponsored by the Quad City Times. New Ideas Forum. Contact Paul Foley. 563-333-6025, [email protected].
6 p.m.
JPOG (Just Peace Outreach Group) West Union Mennonite Church, 3253 305 St, Parnell. Finger food potluck, 6 p.m., 7 p.m. program. Bring finger food to share and your own table service. Contact Roger Farmer, 319-653-2547 or Jane Yoder-Short, [email protected].
Monday, Sept. 28, 7:30 p.m. Iowa City, University of Iowa Lecture Series “Is Peace Possible?” Englert Theatre.
Tuesday, Sept 29,
Noon
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Both Iowa City events, contact Ed Flaherty, 319-621-6766. [email protected].
7 p.m.
Ames Public Library, Farwell T. Brown Auditorium. Contact Mary Logsdon. 515-239-5633. [email protected].
Wednesday, Sept 30, 7 p.m., Des Moines, Drake University. Contact Gil Landolt, [email protected] , 515-333-2180.
For more information contact John Jadryev 319-430-2019 or [email protected].
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Activists working to live broadcast police actions
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinio ... ce_actions" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
A national cop-watching website with New England roots says it’s working on a new app that would broadcast citizen cellphone videos of police encounters as they happen — a new platform experts say could expand, and complicate, how the public records officers at crime scenes.
“There have been too many times a cop (sees a phone recording video and) says, ‘That’s evidence, I’m going to take it.’ And then they hold it while you jump through legal hoops. ... That isn’t possible with live streaming,” said Ademo Freeman, 33, a New Hampshire resident and founder of CopBlock.org.
“You can see these things evolving in the private sector. You can see new media producing that content, adapting it and utilizing it,” Freeman said. “That’s the benefit of live streaming. You can get the information out really quickly.”
Freeman, whose legal name is Adam Mueller, said he’s working on an app that could take so-called live-streamed video, plug it into a server at CopBlock.org and blast it out on blogs and elsewhere throughout his site, which draws more than 3 million page views a month.
Freeman said he believes it adds a new dimension to the growing debate on private citizens filming police actions. For one thing, he said, the specter of live streaming changes the dynamic on the scene. There have been times, for instance, when officers question whether he’s recording, he said.
“ ‘No, I’m live streaming, and 358 people are watching you right now.’ I found that has changed their demeanor,” Freeman said, adding that the options for live streaming have exploded to include apps such as LiveStream, UStream and Bambuser.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinio ... ce_actions" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
A national cop-watching website with New England roots says it’s working on a new app that would broadcast citizen cellphone videos of police encounters as they happen — a new platform experts say could expand, and complicate, how the public records officers at crime scenes.
“There have been too many times a cop (sees a phone recording video and) says, ‘That’s evidence, I’m going to take it.’ And then they hold it while you jump through legal hoops. ... That isn’t possible with live streaming,” said Ademo Freeman, 33, a New Hampshire resident and founder of CopBlock.org.
“You can see these things evolving in the private sector. You can see new media producing that content, adapting it and utilizing it,” Freeman said. “That’s the benefit of live streaming. You can get the information out really quickly.”
Freeman, whose legal name is Adam Mueller, said he’s working on an app that could take so-called live-streamed video, plug it into a server at CopBlock.org and blast it out on blogs and elsewhere throughout his site, which draws more than 3 million page views a month.
Freeman said he believes it adds a new dimension to the growing debate on private citizens filming police actions. For one thing, he said, the specter of live streaming changes the dynamic on the scene. There have been times, for instance, when officers question whether he’s recording, he said.
“ ‘No, I’m live streaming, and 358 people are watching you right now.’ I found that has changed their demeanor,” Freeman said, adding that the options for live streaming have exploded to include apps such as LiveStream, UStream and Bambuser.
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X a bajillion!gclayjr wrote:msfreeh,
A lot of informaton here, and I'm not sure I complety understand what you are driveing at. I will respond to the first article.
It seems to me that the author is one of many in our government who thinks that the purpose of prison is to rehabilitate criminals. I don't agree with this idea. The purpose of prisons is to punish offenders and to provide a consequence for their criminal activity and to remove them from society.
These people are always complaining about how much it costs to incarcerate people, but they never complain about how much it costs to try various usless rehabilative therapy techniques to change our prisoners.
More importantly, they never complain about the cost to society that rescitivist criminals do to good people when released back into society based upon some "good idea" of some rehabilative judge's creative sentencing.
That being said, I certainly am willing to consider whether there is injustice in sentencing guidlines, but that would only be if we as people can be convinced that the sentance in not appropriate to the crime, not because of some belief that the sentence is not condusive to a rehabilative approach to punishing criminals..
Regards,
George Clay
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Oswald Conference Oct. 16-18, 2015 - Time to get your tickets.
Sep 16, 2015, 3:46 PM
Subject: Oswald Conference Oct. 16-18, 2015 - Time to get your tickets.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:34:12 -0400
To the Friends of Dr. Mary’s Monkey
from Ed Haslam
Oswald Conference Oct. 2015 is less than one month away!
It’s time to get your tickets!
Oswald’s Summer of Secrets will be a live conference
held in New Orleans from Oct. 16th to 18th, 2015.
It will be a gathering of some of the world’s leading JFK researchers and Oswald specialists,
including Jim Marrs, Judyth Vary Baker, Robert Groden, Roger Stone, Ed Tatro, Joan Mellen and others.
Detailed information about the conference can be found at: http://www.OswaldConference.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
I will be making two presentations at the conference:
Oct. 17... Chauncey and Lee: The story of Chauncey Marvin Holt and his connections to Lee Harvey Oswald throughout 1963 and his role in the events in Dallas on Nov. 22. Chauncey was an artist, forger, accountant, embezzler, pilot, body guard, and assassin who worked for both organized crime and the CIA. He spilled the beans before he died.
Oct. 18... Mary, Ferrie, Vary, and Lee: A look at the roles that these four people (and others) played in an underground medical laboratory which developed a cancerous biological weapon in New Orleans in the Summer of 1963, an injectible weapon to be used for murder and assassination.
Tickets and registrations are required. There are only 200 seats, and when they’re gone,
they are gone. So, if you (or someone you know) is interested in attending,
you will want to get your tickets now: http://www.OswaldConference.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I hope to see you there.
Ed Haslam
Sep 16, 2015, 3:46 PM
Subject: Oswald Conference Oct. 16-18, 2015 - Time to get your tickets.
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:34:12 -0400
To the Friends of Dr. Mary’s Monkey
from Ed Haslam
Oswald Conference Oct. 2015 is less than one month away!
It’s time to get your tickets!
Oswald’s Summer of Secrets will be a live conference
held in New Orleans from Oct. 16th to 18th, 2015.
It will be a gathering of some of the world’s leading JFK researchers and Oswald specialists,
including Jim Marrs, Judyth Vary Baker, Robert Groden, Roger Stone, Ed Tatro, Joan Mellen and others.
Detailed information about the conference can be found at: http://www.OswaldConference.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
I will be making two presentations at the conference:
Oct. 17... Chauncey and Lee: The story of Chauncey Marvin Holt and his connections to Lee Harvey Oswald throughout 1963 and his role in the events in Dallas on Nov. 22. Chauncey was an artist, forger, accountant, embezzler, pilot, body guard, and assassin who worked for both organized crime and the CIA. He spilled the beans before he died.
Oct. 18... Mary, Ferrie, Vary, and Lee: A look at the roles that these four people (and others) played in an underground medical laboratory which developed a cancerous biological weapon in New Orleans in the Summer of 1963, an injectible weapon to be used for murder and assassination.
Tickets and registrations are required. There are only 200 seats, and when they’re gone,
they are gone. So, if you (or someone you know) is interested in attending,
you will want to get your tickets now: http://www.OswaldConference.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I hope to see you there.
Ed Haslam
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Security issues for Iowa caucus
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The New Ideas Forum to raise the level of Iowans’ understanding of current national security issues will be from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, at the St. Ambrose University Rogalski Center, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport.
The event is co-sponsored by the Quad-City Times, St. Ambrose University, and the Quad-City Chamber of Commerce.
Iowa has a unique status as the first presidential caucus state, and speakers will focus on questions Iowans should ask presidential candidates sweeping through the state.
Speakers include Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst turned political activist, who was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s, chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the president's daily brief. Coleen Rowley, an Iowa native, is the retired FBI agent whistleblower after 9/11 on the FBI’s failures. Between them, they have over 51 years of service in different levels of the two best-known U.S. intelligence agencies. Since leaving the agencies, they have worked for new ideas for peace and justice.
The McGovern/Rowley Iowa speaking tour, dubbed "The Truth Shall Make You Free," is sponsored by the three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace and 31 other organizations. The itinerary includes nine cities and seven institutions of higher learning, starting Thursday, Sept. 24, in Dubuque and ending Wednesday, Sept. 30 in Des Moines.
For more information, contact Paul Foley at 563 333-6025 or at [email protected] or John Ivens 563-503-0564 or at [email protected].
Security issues for Iowa caucus
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The New Ideas Forum to raise the level of Iowans’ understanding of current national security issues will be from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, at the St. Ambrose University Rogalski Center, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport.
The event is co-sponsored by the Quad-City Times, St. Ambrose University, and the Quad-City Chamber of Commerce.
Iowa has a unique status as the first presidential caucus state, and speakers will focus on questions Iowans should ask presidential candidates sweeping through the state.
Speakers include Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst turned political activist, who was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s, chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the president's daily brief. Coleen Rowley, an Iowa native, is the retired FBI agent whistleblower after 9/11 on the FBI’s failures. Between them, they have over 51 years of service in different levels of the two best-known U.S. intelligence agencies. Since leaving the agencies, they have worked for new ideas for peace and justice.
The McGovern/Rowley Iowa speaking tour, dubbed "The Truth Shall Make You Free," is sponsored by the three Iowa chapters of Veterans for Peace and 31 other organizations. The itinerary includes nine cities and seven institutions of higher learning, starting Thursday, Sept. 24, in Dubuque and ending Wednesday, Sept. 30 in Des Moines.
For more information, contact Paul Foley at 563 333-6025 or at [email protected] or John Ivens 563-503-0564 or at [email protected].
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Haven and Hope for Iraqi Girls Fleeing ISIS
The extremist group ISIS is going door to door, abducting, enslaving and repeatedly raping girls and young women in Iraq. Those who manage to escape are often the sole survivors of their families, alone in unfamiliar towns. But CODEPINK joined MADRE and our local partners and we are there for them. We’re opening a brand new shelter and rape crisis center for young girls who have escaped sexual slavery. Here, they will find safe haven, urgent care, and lasting support to rebuild their lives. Please give generously to support this shelter!
Haven and Hope for Iraqi Girls Fleeing ISIS
The extremist group ISIS is going door to door, abducting, enslaving and repeatedly raping girls and young women in Iraq. Those who manage to escape are often the sole survivors of their families, alone in unfamiliar towns. But CODEPINK joined MADRE and our local partners and we are there for them. We’re opening a brand new shelter and rape crisis center for young girls who have escaped sexual slavery. Here, they will find safe haven, urgent care, and lasting support to rebuild their lives. Please give generously to support this shelter!
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Couple of stories
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Group sues Tacoma police over Stingray agreement
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Tacoma's nondisclosure agreement with the FBI isn't linked to a current investigation. The latest version, signed in 2013, includes an unredacted opening ...
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DC police sign non-disclosure with FBI to keep StingRay use private
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Oct 2 2015
Under a non-disclosure agreement with the FBI, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., will keep its StingRay surveillance
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Group sues Tacoma police over Stingray agreement
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Oct 2 2015
Tacoma's nondisclosure agreement with the FBI isn't linked to a current investigation. The latest version, signed in 2013, includes an unredacted opening ...
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DC police sign non-disclosure with FBI to keep StingRay use private
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Under a non-disclosure agreement with the FBI, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., will keep its StingRay surveillance
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October 2, 2015
Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Remarks at the launch in London of The WikiLeaks Files, with an introduction by Julian Assange.
George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised
October 2, 2015
Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Remarks at the launch in London of The WikiLeaks Files, with an introduction by Julian Assange.
George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised
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Fossil fuel divestment
Keep it in the ground
A story of hope: the Guardian launches phase II of its climate change campaign
James Randerson
With crucial climate talks on the horizon, Keep it in the ground turns its focus to hope for the future – the power to change and the solar revolution. Join us and help make that change happen
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Fossil fuel divestment
Keep it in the ground
A story of hope: the Guardian launches phase II of its climate change campaign
James Randerson
With crucial climate talks on the horizon, Keep it in the ground turns its focus to hope for the future – the power to change and the solar revolution. Join us and help make that change happen
Get all Keep it in the ground stories by selecting ‘Follow series’ in the Guardian app and sign up via email to get involved
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October 7, 2015
Unarmed Cops and a Can-do Culture of Nonviolence
Cops without guns? Snort. Impossible. Who is going to stop the next mass shooting slaughter?
Well, not so fast. There are a few folks who remain quite cross about police who kill unarmed people. Those unarmed people tend to fall into two categories—people of color or people suffering a mental health crisis.
Here in my town, Portland, Oregon, police have killed several unarmed people in the past decade or so, including young mother of two who weighed about 98 pounds. The young African American mother, Kendra James, was not only unarmed and shot by a cop, she was then yanked out of the car she was in and left to bleed out on the pavement before the cops bothered to call for an ambulance—so she could be pronounced dead. Another unarmed fellow was both African American and suffering an emotional crisis, as his brother had just died. And another was a Mexican migrant worker who hurt no one, was unarmed, and spoke very little English, shot dead in a lockdown mental health unit where he was mistakenly placed because he suffered from epilepsy.
The crisis in our country of police killing unarmed people, coupled with the crisis of a hyperarmed civil society engaging in approximately one mass shooting per day, is absolutely begging and crying and screaming for a new direction, a cultural sea change toward nonviolence, toward a massive educational and training not just of police, but of all schoolchildren, parents, and teachers.
The NRA and gun lovers are trying to convince us to arm up so we have a sense of agency in all this. That is precisely the wrong advice. We do have agency, but if we learn the theory and practice of unarmed security, de-escalation, and face-to-face negotiation and mediation we will draw down the damage and begin to turn this giant problem-set around. There are resources. Check out the nonviolence training hub and other resources located in various towns in the US, for what might be happening near you, or what you can help bring to your community.
This will not work by waiting for a government mandate; it can only succeed by a bottom-up generalized acceptance of responsibility to put our shoulders to the wheel of culture and society where we live, where our children go to school, and where our police patrol. The harder we work on developing nonviolence as
October 7, 2015
Unarmed Cops and a Can-do Culture of Nonviolence
Cops without guns? Snort. Impossible. Who is going to stop the next mass shooting slaughter?
Well, not so fast. There are a few folks who remain quite cross about police who kill unarmed people. Those unarmed people tend to fall into two categories—people of color or people suffering a mental health crisis.
Here in my town, Portland, Oregon, police have killed several unarmed people in the past decade or so, including young mother of two who weighed about 98 pounds. The young African American mother, Kendra James, was not only unarmed and shot by a cop, she was then yanked out of the car she was in and left to bleed out on the pavement before the cops bothered to call for an ambulance—so she could be pronounced dead. Another unarmed fellow was both African American and suffering an emotional crisis, as his brother had just died. And another was a Mexican migrant worker who hurt no one, was unarmed, and spoke very little English, shot dead in a lockdown mental health unit where he was mistakenly placed because he suffered from epilepsy.
The crisis in our country of police killing unarmed people, coupled with the crisis of a hyperarmed civil society engaging in approximately one mass shooting per day, is absolutely begging and crying and screaming for a new direction, a cultural sea change toward nonviolence, toward a massive educational and training not just of police, but of all schoolchildren, parents, and teachers.
The NRA and gun lovers are trying to convince us to arm up so we have a sense of agency in all this. That is precisely the wrong advice. We do have agency, but if we learn the theory and practice of unarmed security, de-escalation, and face-to-face negotiation and mediation we will draw down the damage and begin to turn this giant problem-set around. There are resources. Check out the nonviolence training hub and other resources located in various towns in the US, for what might be happening near you, or what you can help bring to your community.
This will not work by waiting for a government mandate; it can only succeed by a bottom-up generalized acceptance of responsibility to put our shoulders to the wheel of culture and society where we live, where our children go to school, and where our police patrol. The harder we work on developing nonviolence as
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Citizens Alert's Mary Powers on advocacy and the power of ...
windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Citizens-Alerts-Mary-Powers...
Mary Powers has been butting heads with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for more than 40 years. In her work with Citizens Alert, a police-accountability activist ...
Citizens Alert honors Mary Powers - Windy City Times
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Windy City Times News Archive - Citizens Alert honors Mary Powers Mary Powers, a social-justice activist who is also a staunch ally of the LGBT community, received ...
Cop Watch | Feature | Chicago Reader
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Cop Watch For more than 20 years Mary Powers and the civilian watchdog group Citizens Alert have been monitoring the force that's meant to serve and protect.
Citizens Alert & 45 Years of Police Accountability ...
afsc.org/event/citizens-alert-45-years-police...
You Are Invited! 7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Award Honoring: Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability.
Mary Powers | Illinois Academy of Criminology | ZoomInfo.com
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View Mary Powers's business profile as Board Member at Illinois Academy of Criminology and see work history, affiliations and more.
Nation: Faith and the power of persistence
http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archi ... 803/071803.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
But not Citizens Alert. ... Mary Powers was in her mid-40s, living with her husband, Bill, and four children in the affluent Chicago suburb of Winnetka.
Celebration | AFSC @afsc_org
afsc.org/category/topic/celebration
You Are Invited! 7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Award Honoring: Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability.
7th Annual Elizabeth I. BensAwards :: Illinois Coalition for ...
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7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Awards :: This year's award honors Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability. Citizens...
Police Urged To Reopen Alleged Torture Cases - tribunedigital ...
articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-08-03/news/9908030137_1...
Aug 03, 1999 · "Burge is retired now, living on a houseboat in Florida, but many of his colleagues are still on duty," Mary D. Powers, coordinator of Citizens Alert, ...
windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Citizens-Alerts-Mary-Powers...
Mary Powers has been butting heads with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) for more than 40 years. In her work with Citizens Alert, a police-accountability activist ...
Citizens Alert honors Mary Powers - Windy City Times
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt ... ert-honors.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Windy City Times News Archive - Citizens Alert honors Mary Powers Mary Powers, a social-justice activist who is also a staunch ally of the LGBT community, received ...
Cop Watch | Feature | Chicago Reader
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/co ... oid=880075" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cop Watch For more than 20 years Mary Powers and the civilian watchdog group Citizens Alert have been monitoring the force that's meant to serve and protect.
Citizens Alert & 45 Years of Police Accountability ...
afsc.org/event/citizens-alert-45-years-police...
You Are Invited! 7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Award Honoring: Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability.
Mary Powers | Illinois Academy of Criminology | ZoomInfo.com
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Mary-Powers/1169507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
View Mary Powers's business profile as Board Member at Illinois Academy of Criminology and see work history, affiliations and more.
Nation: Faith and the power of persistence
http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archi ... 803/071803.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
But not Citizens Alert. ... Mary Powers was in her mid-40s, living with her husband, Bill, and four children in the affluent Chicago suburb of Winnetka.
Celebration | AFSC @afsc_org
afsc.org/category/topic/celebration
You Are Invited! 7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Award Honoring: Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability.
7th Annual Elizabeth I. BensAwards :: Illinois Coalition for ...
icjpe.org/actions/7th-Annual-Elizabeth-I-Benson-Awards
7th Annual Elizabeth I. Benson Awards :: This year's award honors Citizens Alert and Mary Powers for forty-five years of dedication to police accountability. Citizens...
Police Urged To Reopen Alleged Torture Cases - tribunedigital ...
articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-08-03/news/9908030137_1...
Aug 03, 1999 · "Burge is retired now, living on a houseboat in Florida, but many of his colleagues are still on duty," Mary D. Powers, coordinator of Citizens Alert, ...
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Shaking the Foundations: The West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering 2015
Starting Date: 10-17-2015
Address
Stanford Law School
Stanford, California 94305
United States
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Description
Shaking the Foundations is a conference that brings together progressive legal minds from the West Coast and across the country to discuss present and future issues within the movement, explore the role of young lawyers, and encourage attendees to work toward social and environmental justice. The goal of Shaking the Foundations is to connect, inspire, and educate those who want to pursue public interest goals and careers.
California CLE credit will be available for attending the conference.
Bay Area Students
Shakings is a forum for connecting and building the social justice movement across schools. We hope you'll join us in making this a successful and inspiring event!
2015 Keynote Speaker: Saru Jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC, which now has 14,000 worker members, 150 employer partners, and several thousand consumer members in 32 cities nationwide. The story of Saru and her co-founder’s work founding ROC has been chronicled in the book The Accidental American.
Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was profiled in the New York Times “Public Lives” section (2005), named New York Magazine’s “Influentials” of New York City (2006), and one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” (2008). In 2014, Saru made CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women,” received the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award, and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House.
She authored Behind the Kitchen Door, Cornell University Press, 2013, a national bestseller, and has appeared on CNN with Soledad O’Brien, Bill Moyers Journal and Tavis Smlley on PBS, Melissa Harris Perry and UP with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, the Today Show, and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
Geographical Scope: Regional
Conference
Shaking the Foundations: The West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering 2015
Starting Date: 10-17-2015
Address
Stanford Law School
Stanford, California 94305
United States
http://shaking.stanford.edu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Description
Shaking the Foundations is a conference that brings together progressive legal minds from the West Coast and across the country to discuss present and future issues within the movement, explore the role of young lawyers, and encourage attendees to work toward social and environmental justice. The goal of Shaking the Foundations is to connect, inspire, and educate those who want to pursue public interest goals and careers.
California CLE credit will be available for attending the conference.
Bay Area Students
Shakings is a forum for connecting and building the social justice movement across schools. We hope you'll join us in making this a successful and inspiring event!
2015 Keynote Speaker: Saru Jayaraman
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC, which now has 14,000 worker members, 150 employer partners, and several thousand consumer members in 32 cities nationwide. The story of Saru and her co-founder’s work founding ROC has been chronicled in the book The Accidental American.
Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was profiled in the New York Times “Public Lives” section (2005), named New York Magazine’s “Influentials” of New York City (2006), and one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” (2008). In 2014, Saru made CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women,” received the Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award, and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House.
She authored Behind the Kitchen Door, Cornell University Press, 2013, a national bestseller, and has appeared on CNN with Soledad O’Brien, Bill Moyers Journal and Tavis Smlley on PBS, Melissa Harris Perry and UP with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, the Today Show, and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
Geographical Scope: Regional
Conference
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