Winter Soldier
Testimonies
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Charges Against Occupy Defendants Dropped |
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by Mass NLG, |
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 11, 2013. On Friday, February 8, 2013, Suffolk County
prosecutors decided to drop all pending criminal charges against all remaining
Occupy Boston activists awaiting trial as a result of the mass police arrests in
October and December 2011. This action amounts to an implicit acknowledgement of
the unconstitutionality of the arrests and criminal charges brought against almost
200 Occupy Boston participants. By declining to pursue charges further, the state
has finally admitted that the demonstrations by Occupy activists were legal and
constitutionally protected activities. |
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12 Feb 2013
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Filed under: News / Occupy Boston |
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Freedom for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3, After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement? |
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by Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by Angola 3 News), |
 After four decades of solitary confinement in the nation's most populated maximum-security prison -- and one of its most historically brutal -- a member of the internationally known "Angola 3" has reasonable cause to expect that he will soon be released, his attorneys and supporters say. The request to set free Albert Woodfox, 65, is being heard by the same federal judge who in 2008 ordered that Woodfox be released, a ruling that Louisiana prosecutors successfully appealed and blocked. |
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05 Feb 2013
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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Fiscal Cliff deal leaves HUD's housing programs at risk |
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by Lynda Carson, |
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In a call to action, activists urge all low-income families in the federally subsidized housing programs in the Boston Area and all across the nation to immediately contact their representatives, and to urge the Obama administration and Congress to stop the automatic spending cuts scheduled to go into effect on March 1, 2013, that could result in the eviction of 250,000 voucher holders in HUD housing programs! |
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11 Jan 2013
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Filed under: News / Social Welfare |
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