Prisoners of the Empire, MLK Day & Shaping Freedom to fit the Future...

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Thu, 01/12/2012 - 12:00am
Live in the Studio: Adam Carpinelli, the Jericho Project & Francisco Holdman BSU @ PCC Cascade

Haiti: "We've got volley ball and ping pong and a lot of dandy games..." What ain't we got? Well for the record, none of that glorious money promised to the Haituian people ever materialized.  Oh, a lot of it went to keep employees of NGOs clean, well-fed and cholera-free - for the most part.  And there's a spanking-new embasy, lots of textile factories and security apparatus that would make Ceausescu smile...And the soon-to-be realized luxury hotel where the factotums of the above will be displayed in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Other than these...there hasn't been much progress. Instead of spending money to send a grief counselor to counsel a grief-stricken family whos's house has fallen down, why the hell not just give that family the money so they can build a new house?  Haitians do not need and do not want all this not-so-free advise; they want the means to rebuild their country by  themselves, for themselves. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/12/haitis-hard-road-recovery

Prisoners of the Empire - When death just isn't the right message, we send our fellow citizens to a place where they are in danger 24/7. Violence, AIDS, lack of medical care, psychological torture, regular torture...the list goes on. Corruption is a tough act to ffollow.

www.oregon-jericho.org/

Out of Town; Out of Control: It's the Law...

We all know how it is when we are beyond the scrutiny of our hometown community of peers...It's easy to imagine you're invisible.  And if you are an out of town cop on a brutality bender, once the name tag comes off so go the gloves.

How it works is

Cops called in from agencies outside the city are technically exempt from Portland's limits on when and how its own officers can use force. They're also exempt from civilian oversight mechanisms in Portland that, while still imperfect, are among the most stringent in the state, according to cityEssentially, according to a Mercury review of the "mutual aid" agreements that govern the Portland Police Bureau's relationship with outside agencies, an out-of-town cop can commit an act of misconduct that would get a Portland cop fired—and conceivably keep right on working.The agreements are starkly clear on that point. If an out-of-town cop working in Portland roughs someone up, or worse, that officer will be investigated and punished only so far as her employer's union contracts and policies allow.And if an out-of-town officer sees a Portland cop doing something wrong? The same contract provisions mean Portland investigators can't compel that outside cop to testify.That concern—which has long troubled watchdogs—emerged publicly amid complaints about missing nametags and forceful baton swinging by some of the dozens of outside cops who'd been called in first for Occupy Portland's November 13 park eviction and then again for Occupy's bank shutdown protests in November.   Portland cops are required to wear nametags at all times—many officers from outside agencies aren't.

 

 

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