SOLUTIONARYS: Courage is Contagious

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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!

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Group sues Tacoma police over Stingray agreement
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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

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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

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Shaking the Foundations: The West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering 2015

Starting Date: 10-17-2015
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Stanford Law School
Stanford, California 94305
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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.
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2015 Annual Conference
“Cultivating the Just and Peaceable Self: Understanding Transformation and Transforming Understanding in Research and Practice”
October 15-17, 2015, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
James Madison University

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Organizing to stop FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists
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All out for Cincinnati to support Rasmea at her appeal Wednesday, October 14, 2015!
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Rasmea Odeh is a 67 year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured by the Israelis in 1969.

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Pittsburgh's FBI Keeping the Nation Safe from Hackers
October 19 2015
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Today’s news about possible hacking of the CIA director reinforces the increasing concern for the United States. Guest host, and Tribune Review investigative reporter Andrew Conte, sat down with Pittsburgh FBI agents Chris Geary and Mike Christman to talk about what the agency has been doing to help keep American information safe.

Agent Geary heads one of two cyber security teams stationed in Pittsburgh whose main focus is on hacks coming from China. Geary’s team was successful in indicting five Chinese military officers, who are accused of stealing information from companies in Pittsburgh.

“The spy war isn’t over because the Cold War has ended,” Geary said on the threat of hacking from China. “The spies are even more prolific now than ever.”

Geary described working on hacking cases as long and grueling, calling them “a marathon.” He occasionally finds himself working late into the night due to his targets operating in different time zones and says a lot of information is needed to accuse someone of a cybercrime.

Despite this, Geary finds it very rewarding to finally give over the evidence his team has discovered to the US Attorney’s office. Geary expressed a desire to see those five Chinese officers brought to Pittsburgh in order to stand trial.

Agent Christman, is in charge of cybercrimes in Pittsburgh. He describes Pittsburgh as a “technology center in the United States,” with many companies focused on technological advances. As such, the city


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Hacker releases new purported personal data for top CIA, DHS officials [Updated]
Alleged hacker tells Ars that the authorities have not contacted him.

Oct 19, 2015 6:58pm EDT


Further Reading
Bush family privacy shattered after e-mails, photos exposed online

"Why would someone do this?" asks GWB's sister.
The person who claims to have hacked an AOL e-mail account belonging to John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has now released a small spreadsheet with alleged personal information for a number of former and current government officials. The sample includes phone numbers, social security numbers, e-mail addresses, and level of security clearance and employment status in some cases.

Ars has contacted several of the people on the list by phone, text, and e-mail, including Brennan and the former deputy director of intelligence at the CIA, Jami Miscik. A male voice responded to the number listed for Miscik, and when Ars asked for her, the voice said it was the wrong number and hung up. No others immediately responded.

Update (10/19, 5:45p CT): Twitter has suspended the @_CWA_ account through which the information was released.

Earlier on Monday, the hacker told the New York Post that he took sensitive documents contained within the AOL account, including Brennan's 47-page application for top-secret security clearance. CNN has since reported that the FBI and the Secret Service are investigating. CWA, the hacker who told the Post he was a high school student, claimed that he social engineered a customer service agent into giving up access to Brennan's AOL account. (Ars could not independently verify the claims.)

On Twitter through the handle @_CWA_, the hacker spoke to Ars through an encrypted chat. He said his

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Science Thomas Valone, Integrity Research Institute, Press Release: Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE7, is collaborating with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference and TeslaTech to present a three-day conference event with peer-reviewed published proceedings on July 30, 31, and Aug. 1, 2015 with an extra introductory talk on July 29th at 5 PM by Dr. Tom Valone. COFE traditionally fulfills the mission statement of Integrity Research Institute to "research scientific integrity in the areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics" so original papers on those vital topics are presented.

From IRI - Future Energy e-News/April 2015: With the mission of researching scientific integrity in the emerging areas of clean energy, fuelless propulsion and bioenergetics, Integrity Research Institute presents a stellar lineup of world experts on the investigations of these emerging scientific fields vital to human sustainability.


IRI has presented a half dozen International Conferences on Future Energy (COFE) in the past 16 years, including the first one (COFE1) . Every COFE event has been a cutting edge experience, often a media frenzy, and more revolutionary and practical than TED conferences. This year COFE7 will be held at the Albuquerque Embassy Suites Hotel from with very reasonable hotel rates for registered conference attendees!

COFE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

IRI is proud to bring the amazing adjunct professor of engineering, Dr. Nick Simos from Brookhaven National Labs to give a convincing critical assessment of Nikola Tesla's "Worldwide Wireless Energy System" that has often baffled and confused all of the world's electrical engineering experts, as compared to the comfortable, familiar, umbilical cord we call the "electrical utility grid" which normally loses 2/3 of its generated energy* upon delivery and ALL of it during any major storm. (See all COFE7 speakers abstracts and biographies online).

Another spectacular first is Mike Gambles' dual presentations on various perspectives of inertial propulsion which to the uninitiated is the future of satellite and space travel propulsion, as compared to "solar sails" and other wimpy alternatives. Mike will explain the basic fundamentals of the gyroscopic origins of the science of producing unidirectional force electrically and then astound the audience with a separate talk just for the COFE7 audience on the inside scoop of Boeing's actual research into the "control moment gyro propulsionengineering" or how to use gyros to keep satellites in orbit for years!

Complimenting that presentation is the "anti-gravity" inertial propulsion technology of the Nazi Bell (die Glocke) experiment by William Alek which, from the extensive original articles of the WWII period which he has posted online, proves that the Nazis were also actively pursuing "gyroscopic propulsion."**

Much anticipated is the well-researched and investigative report on the mysterious Papp Noble Gas Engine by Ryan Wood, just before he competes in the IronMan 2015 Boulder Triathlon

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This Is About As Mad As The Dalai Lama Gets

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*DDATTers,*
*Deb Burdin of Bwarts in Dexter is trying to find some local solutions to
the economic and social problems we are all facing. Here's her invitation
to come brainstorm:*

Bwarts Sustainable Community and shelter Every Sunday from 2:00 - at the
Abbot Memorial Library, Dexter.

If you could make your own vision of humanity, what would it look like?
What type of economic system, social structure, and government, as well as
their roles would you propose?
What will humanity be like?
What will our neighborhoods look like?
Could we build a 100% sustainable community, sustainable homes, energy,
food, income
could we include a homeless shelter, a women shelter, sustainable
educational and training programs .
Education, infrastructure, anything really.
Here's the hard part, how do you (we) achieve this vision?


Looking for a group of people who want to be part of a team to do it.
Let's get it done.
Open Meetings every Sunday at the library at 2:00

This is a good thing something we need to get done.
Thank you

Debra Burdin {Bwarts}. 207 924-6538
[email protected]

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Harvard Law School Launches “Free the Law” Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access
October 29, 2015
Teaching & Learning

Harvard Law School has announced that, with the support of Ravel Law, a legal research and analytics platform, it is digitizing its entire collection of U.S. case law, one of the largest collections of legal materials in the world, and that it will make the collection available online, for free, to anyone with an Internet connection.

The “Free the Law” initiative will provide open, wide-ranging access to American case law for the first time in United States history. “Driving this effort is a shared belief that the law should be free and open to all,” said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. “Using technology to create broad access to legal information will help create a more transparent and more just legal system.”
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Harvard Law School’s collection comprises 40,000 books containing approximately forty million pages of court decisions, including original materials from cases that predate the U.S. Constitution. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American law and cases available anywhere except for the Library of Congress, containing binding judicial decisions from the federal government and each of the fifty states, from the founding of each respective jurisdiction. The Harvard Law School Library—the largest academic law library in the world—has been collecting these decisions over the past two hundred years.

Digitizing these materials will make them broadly accessible to nonprofits, academics, practitioners, researchers, and law students—anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. The material will be added to—and will be searchable through—Ravel’s platform, which uses data science, machine learning, and visualization to help people sift quickly through millions of court opinions.
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In the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (a unit within the Harvard Law School Library), bound volumes are being scanned by high-speed imaging equipment capable of scanning 500,000 pages per week, and the text of each decision is then extracted into machine-readable files made available to Ravel Law and to Harvard – and ultimately the public at large.

Case law for California jurisdictions will be online in November. The full collection of nationwide case law is expected to be digitized and searchable for free by mid-2017, and will be available through http://www.ravellaw.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Harvard and Ravel have agreed to release the entire database for bulk use by anyone within eight years.

“Libraries were founded as an engine for the democratization of knowledge, and the digitization of Harvard Law School’s collection of U.S. case law is a tremendous step forward in making legal information open and easily accessible to the public,” said Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources. “The materials in the library’s collection tell a story that goes back to the founding of America, and we’re proud to preserve and share that story,” said Zittrain, who also holds appointments as Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Daniel Lewis, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ravel Law, said: “We share with Harvard Law School a common belief that increasing access to our country’s legal records through technology will help make our legal system more transparent and just. By collaborating together on this digitization effort, we hope to provide the public with unique and powerful ways to find and understand the law.”

Nik Reed, co-founder and chief of everything else of Ravel Law, added: “As a company founded by lawyers, we understand firsthand the importance of access to legal information. The immense volume and complexity of the law creates challenges for anyone appearing in court, and through this collaboration, we seek to empower lawyers with an extensive database of American case law along with Ravel’s innovative analytics to help develop winning legal strategies.”
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Said Jim Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans: “This is a great development. Making legal materials and analytical tools available for free will be of great value to non-profit legal aid lawyers in providing essential legal services to low-income people.”

Ralph Baxter, an advisor to Ravel and also to the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession said: “Technology is changing the legal landscape, and the law firm of the future will need to be more efficient, more agile, and more opportunistic in finding new ways to deliver legal services. The collaboration between Harvard Law School and Ravel Law offers a new and exciting resource that lawyers can deploy to improve how they practice law.”

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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Dailt Recap 10-29-15

October 30, 2015




Here are the ten reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 29, 2015:

Live Oak, Florida: An officer was arrested for possession of child pornography. ow.ly/TZwaM
Maurice, Louisiana: An officer was found not guilty of negligent homicide for his role in the automobile crash that killed Paul Suire in 2012. ow.ly/TZwOh
Honolulu, Hawaii: The City is being sued by a same-sex couple who claim they were beat up and arrested by officer for kissing in a grocery store. ow.ly/TZy7R
Cambria County, Pennsylvania: A now-former detective was arrested for tipping-off a drug dealer to a law enforcement investigation.ow.ly/TZXhW
Update: Tate County, Mississippi: A now-former deputy pled guilty to illegally tasing an inmate. The inmate consequently suffered skull fracture during the incident. ow.ly/U0oC9
San Antonio, Texas: An officer was fired for participating in an unauthorized high-speed chase of a car with a baby inside. ow.ly/TZZxa
St. Paul, Minnesota: A transit officer was fired after a violent takedown of an autistic teenager. ow.ly/U0bIu
Update: Galloway Township, New Jersey: An officer pled guilty to aggravated assault for domestic violence. He was sentenced to 220 days in jail. ow.ly/U0dOr
DeKalb County, Georgia: A now-former deputy was arrested and fired from the Covington PD for stealing a seized motorcycle DeKalb County while he was employed there. The Covington authorities received an anonymous tip that he was in possession of the stolen vehicle. ow.ly/U0ewC
Canby, Oregon: A civil jury found that a lieutenant retaliated against a now-former officer. The jury awarded the former officer with a $120,000 judgment. The City and the police chief were not found liable for their roles in the incident. ow.ly/U0iCY

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CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach


Hackers who broke into the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have struck again.

This time the group, which goes by the name Crackas With Attitude, says it gained access to an even more important target—a portal for law enforcement that grants access to arrest records and other sensitive data, including what appears to be a tool for sharing information about active shooters and terrorist events, and a system for real-time chats between law enforcement agents.

The CWA hackers said they found a vulnerability that allowed them to gain access to the private portal, which is supposed to be available only to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the country. That portal in turn, they say, gave them access to more than a dozen law enforcement tools that are used for information sharing.

The hackers wouldn’t identify the vulnerability that gave them access, but one of the hackers, who calls himself Cracka, provided WIRED with a screenshot of one of the systems they accessed called JABS. JABS stands for Joint Automated Booking System, and is a database of arrest records for the US.

Cracka is the same handle of a hacker who spoke with WIRED last month to describe how the same group hacked into the private email account of the CIA director.

This latest breach, if legitimate, is significant because it gives the hackers access to arrest records directly after they have been entered into the system. This would be valuable information for gossip sites and other media outlets interested in breaking stories about the arrest of celebrities and politicians.

More importantly, the system can also include information about arrests that are under court seal and may not be made public for months or years—such as the arrest of suspected terrorists, gang members and drug suspects. Knowledge about these arrests can tip off other members of a terrorist cell or gang to help them avoid capture.

“Just to clear this up,” Cracka tweeted on Thursday about the breach of the JABS database. “CWA did, indeed, have access to everybody in USA’s private information, now imagine if we was Russia or China.”

Sealed arrest records are also quite common in hacker investigations when law enforcement officials quietly arrest an individual, then flip him to work as a confidential informant with agents to capture others.

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Why Does Facebook Censor the Word “Tsu”?
Posted by Iván Ulchur-Rota - October 28, 2015 at 6:21 pm

A Social Network that Returns 90 Percent of Advertising Dollars to the People: Send Me an Invitation, Please!

By Ivan Ulchur-Rota

Translated from GKillCity Magazine

At this point, it’s hard to imagine. Mark Zuckerberg’s giant has rapidly established itself as the social network bigwig. Facebook has bought its competitors like Instagram and by incorporating chat and video messaging has distinguished itself from platforms like Twitter or Linkedin. The network has constructed an empire through advertisements that accompany the content generated by its users. That’s why it’s censorship of every link to the fast-growing social network Tsu.co—that returns 90 percent of all ad revenue to its users—reveals what could become the giant’s Achiilles’ Heel: the redistribution of profit based on content.

Ivan Ulchur-Rota met Sebastian Sobczak, CEO of Tsu, at the Narco News 15th Anniversary Celebration earlier this month in New York City. Photo DR 2015 by Al Giordano.

When Al Giordano—founder and publisher of Narco News and the School of Authentic Journalism in Mexico—moved to Tsu, he had already been frustrated with Facebook since December 2012. Giordano and the authentic journalism team had utilized the network as an outreach platform and built a community of more than 25,000 members to promote their journalism and school. Then, three years ago, Facebook imposed an “algorithm” to put 95 percent of that community out of reach unless the nonprofit media bought ads to promote the links to its stories there. “The Facebook user quickly got tired of all the ads, so they stopped clicking.” Another social network, Ello, launched as an alternative that did not sell users’ information, but was unable to prosper now that the whole world, it seemed, was addicted to Facebook.

For Giordano the critical point was the realization that on Tsu nine out of ten dollars generated by advertisements would return to its users. “Facebook had pulled a ‘bait and switch’ on us, using our texts, voices and images to sell ads and kept all the value for itself. If someone had told us in 2007 that we could publish our work their website, recruit our friends and readers to use it, that they’d get money from ads and profit from it, and then we’d have to pay to reach the people we organized to come there, I would have told them to go to hell. But that’s how Facebook tricked everybody.”

Tsu is not playing Zuckerberg’s game. Instead, it has turned the rules upside down. By elevating the user as the main generator of profit, Tsu reinvents both social networking practices and our overall understanding of this type of technology. “When people realize that their content can generate money they generally behave better and the quality of their work improves,” he explains not without recognizing that this can also mean more work to purge the experience from money-seeking parasites and trolls whom the idea might attract as well. But the project is a radical departure from an established and accepted paradigm. This explains Facebook’s pre-emptive censorship of Tsu imposed this past month. Not

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Stetson Kennedy first released this book in 1954, the 1990 edition includes some practical ideas to fight Klan and other neo-fascist organizations in an afterword.
This book is a very easy read, conversational in tone, and compelling in content. Mr. Kennedy outlines his infiltration into the headquarters chapter of the KKK in Atlanta and the Columbia Brownshirt organization there, and his undercover hob-knobbing with violent racists and hatemongers, and the colorful illiterates and semi-literates that made up the membership of the Klan and their fellow travellers. He put his life in danger many times confronting the evil, brutal and stupid nature of southern racists.
Another compelling part of the story is the complicity of the police, FBI, the Democratic machine of the Talmadge family, (who rode the upsurge in Klan violence to national political prominence), and the Republican businessmen of the south who paid Klansmen to help bust union drives by busting heads and nightriding.
He also spends alot of time detailing Klan rituals and meetings, and the seemingly neverending lists of Kleagles, Kludds, etc. that made up the hoodoo hierarchy of the Klan organization. It seems like never had so much empty ritual been used in attempt to 'sanctify' such mindless violence.
A good book that gives a good cross-section of what Klan terror and rightist violence was all about in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Ten UK universities divest from fossil fuels

Institutions with endowments worth £115m are withdrawing their investments from fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Paris
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands.
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands. Photograph: Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS


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Ten UK universities with endowments worth £115m are in the process of moving their money out of fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate change talks in Paris later this month.

The University of Surrey, the University of Arts in London and Oxford Brookes University have divested their respective £42m, £3.9m and £1.6m endowments from all fossil fuel companies.

Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands, often considered the dirtiest fossil fuels because of the high level of carbon they emit. It follows a similar move by the university in May after a two-year campaign by students and alumni.

A further six universities – Birmingham City University, Cranfield University, Heriot-Watt Uni

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Smith student activists barred reporters from entering their sit-in


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Activists at Smith College banned journalists from an on-campus sit-in held to show solidarity with University of Missouri protestors.

Reporters were prohibited from covering the 12-hour Student Center sit-in Wednesday unless they agreed to express their support for the students’ cause in their re

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25 Disturbing Demands from ‘Black Lives Matter’-Inspired Student Groups



20 Nov 2015

Professional protesters Johnetta Elzie and Deray McKesson have put together a website, demands.org, showing demands made by various student protest groups at 37 campuses across the country and in Canada.

Each list is written by students at a given university, so there is no consistent style or message. But many lists show similar demands — increased funding for student groups, increased hiring of black professors, and higher recruitment goals for black students. These seem to be coherent or reasonable things for black and minority students to be concerned about.

But there are also some demands that seem to go beyond ordinary bounds, i.e. telling university presidents to apologize in writing for things they did not do, or demanding everyone “acknowledge their racism,” or that all students attend mandatory semester-long classes in “cultural competency.”

Then there are some demands which just seem random or especially difficult to justify, like a staff civil-rights lawyer or naming a building after a woman on the FBI’s 10-Most-Wanted list.

What follows are 25 unusual demands made by these student groups as posted at demands.org.

1. University of Missouri protesters demanded (ex-) President Tim Wolfe acknowledge his white privilege in a press conference:

We demand that University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a hand-written apology to Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white privilege, recognize tha