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CIA mililtary and covert operations in Libya from 80s - Secret CIA BASE files by Ralph McGehee

The CIA is not now nor has ever been a central intel agency. It is the covert action... more

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Would you send a letter to save a life?

A great new promo from Amnesty International Each year hundreds of thousands of... more

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Rare Photos of Captured Boxer Prisoners

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CCR says NYC must act Immediately to Protect Prisoners at Rikers Island from Hurricane Irene | Center for Constitutional Rights

While Other Low Lying Areas of City Evacuated, City Admits No Plan for Jail Even Exists

Rights Group Warns Mayor not to Risk Repeat of Orleans Parish Prison and Katrina Horrors

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August 27, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news not only that Mayor Bloomberg announced the City of New York does not plan to evacuate the 12,000 prisoners at Rikers Island in advance of Hurricane Irene, but that according to the Department of Corrections no hypothetical plan for evacuation even exists, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the City to act immediately to protect the prisoners. The following statement can be attributed to CCR Executive Director Vince Warren:

"We’re extremely concerned by Mayor Bloomberg's announcement yesterday that there were no plans to evacuate Rikers Island in preparation for Hurricane Irene. Rikers is located on a small island in an area at extreme risk of flooding. There’s no way of knowing how severe the storm will be, but the Mayor has shut down the entire public transit system and evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from vulnerable neighborhoods in low-lying areas just like Rikers Island yet seems prepared to leave the roughly 12,000 men and women jailed there to their fate.

"It is appalling that the City administration is abandoning the men and women at Rikers even after the lessons of hurricane Katrina when inmates at Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans spent days under horrific conditions of flooding and power outages with prisoners confined in life threatening conditions even as prison staff abandoned them.

"The Mayor must take appropriate action immediately to protect the life and safety of everyone confined at Rikers Island and all vulnerable corrections facilities in New York City. Their lives should not be treated as less valuable than those of other New Yorkers."

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.While Other Low Lying Areas of City Evacuated, City Admits No Plan for Jail Even... more

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California Prison Hunger Strike: Some Inmates Show Early Signs Of Starvation Approaching Death

Inmates in a third of California's prisons are conducting a hunger strike in... more

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Chinese prisoners forced into online 'gold farming'

Who would have thought Internet gaming would turn out to be such serious hard labor,... more

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Activist - True survivor

Long term prisoner and torture victim from Iran does a spectacular Frontside handplant... more

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OBAMA LIED: "LIBYA REBELS COORDINATING WITH U.S. ON AIR ASSAULTS AGAINST KADAFI"

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Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

The war of terror continues. . .yeap, bush oughta be proud of Obama. By Peter Finn... more

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The rebel in all of us + The Psychology of Revolution

Student protests, rioting, Psychology of Revolution, Twitter revolutions. . .... more

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Biggest Prisoner Strike in US History

Please read the original press release contained in the following first link below... more

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Prisons: a suicide is not a news

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Aung San Suu Kyi is free

Aung San Suu Kyi is finally free. After 15 years of jails and house arrest is now a... more

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Stefano Cucchi, an anniversary without truth

On 22th October it's been the first death anniversary of Stefano Cucchi. The... more

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Is that a dead ginger rat on your head sir?

Killer John Hirst and BBC's Andrew Neil fight it out in the Daily Politics show... more

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New Life for Prison Inmates and Slaughterhouse-Bound Race Horses | Photo | Video

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The Plight of Three Journalists Imprisoned in Iran Reveals the Risks That Come With Real Reporting | Investigations | AlterNet

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BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle

In the first few days after BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words "Inmate Labor" printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, many of whom had just seen their livelihoods disappear, expressed outrage at community meetings; why should BP be using cheap or free prison labor when so many people were desperate for work? The outfits disappeared overnight.

Work crews in Grand Isle, Louisiana, still stand out. In a region where nine out of ten residents are white, the cleanup workers are almost exclusively African-American men. The racialized nature of the cleanup is so conspicuous that Ben Jealous, the president of the NAACP, sent a public letter [1] to BP CEO Tony Hayward on July 9, demanding to know why black people were over-represented in "the most physically difficult, lowest paying jobs, with the most significant exposure to toxins."

Hiring prison labor is more than a way for BP to save money while cleaning up the biggest oil spill in history. By tapping into the inmate workforce, the company and its subcontractors get workers who are not only cheap but easily silenced—and they get lucrative tax write-offs in the process.

Known to some as "the inmate state," Louisiana has the highest rate of incarceration of any other state in the country. Seventy percent of its 39,000 inmates are African-American men. The Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) only has beds for half that many prisoners, so 20,000 inmates live in parish jails, privately run contract facilities and for-profit work release centers. Prisons and parish jails provide free daily labor to the state and private companies like BP, while also operating their own factories and farms, where inmates earn between zero and forty cents an hour. Obedient inmates, or "trustees," become eligible for work release in the last three years of their sentences. This means they can be a part of a market-rate, daily labor force that works for private companies outside the prison gates. The advantage for trustees is that they get to keep a portion of their earnings, redeemable upon release. The advantage for private companies is that trustees are covered under Work Opportunity Tax Credit, a holdover from Bush's Welfare to Work legislation that rewards private-sector employers for hiring risky "target groups." Businesses earn a tax credit of $2,400 for every work release inmate they hire. On top of that, they can earn back up to 40 percent of the wages they pay annually to "target group workers."

If BP's use of prison labor remains an open secret on the Gulf Coast, no one in an official capacity is saying so. At the Grand Isle base camp in early June, I called BP's Public Information line, and visited representatives for the Coast Guard Public Relations team, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Louisiana Fisheries and Wildlife Department. They were all stumped. Were inmates doing shore protection or oil cleanup work? They had no idea. In fact, they said, they'd like to know—would I call them if I found out?

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/147620/bp_hires_prison_labor_to_clean_up_spill_while_coastal_residents_struggle/?page=1In the first few days after BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing... more

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"More Than Just A Game: Soccer vs. Apartheid" by Chuck Norris and Marvin Close

"For decades before the apartheid regime in South Africa was finally disassembled... more

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Mexican Prisoner Deportation

video of prisoners being deported from the United States to Mexico after serving their... more

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