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News: Human Rights |
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There is still a colour line in American law |
Submitted by: @ / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: The Guardian
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A remarkable case has been before the law courts of Louisiana. The plaintiff, Augustus Johnson, a negro, was in the employment of the Cromwell line of steamers, and earning over 500 dollars yearly. While some carboys of sulphuric acid were being landed there was an explosion, by which one man was killed and several were injured.
Johnson's eyesight was entirely destroyed by this lamentable accident; he brought an action against the steamship company for damages, and a jury awarded him 10,000 dollars. The defendants regarded this sum as excessive, and applied for a new trial before the United States Circuit Court.
When the matter came on for argument, Judge Billings asked how much would have been allowed before the war to the master of a slave who had been thus injured. Mr Forman, the counsel for the negro, very properly protested against such a view of the matter.
The slaveholder, he said, would have received "whatever the slave would sell for on the block", added to a "sum sufficient to enable the master to support" the slave during his life. But the master could "recover nothing for the pain and agony of body and mind of the slave".
That was not a test of "amount of damages proper to be allowed now". The negro was no longer a chattel or to be valued as a chattel, but was on the plane of a freeman and a citizen, and all distinctions on account of race or colour were abolished. There is still, it would appear, a colour line even in the American law courts, for the Judge has decided to grant a new trial unless the plaintiff will accept 5,000 dollars - half of what the jury awarded. Does anyone suppose that Judge Billings would have taken similar action if the plaintiff's skin had been white? |
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News: Environment |
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Scientists forecast metre rise in sea levels this century |
Submitted by: @ / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: Guardian
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Half of Greenland and vast areas of Antarctica are destined to melt if global warming continues at the same pace until the end of the century, scientists warned yesterday. Their research shows that the loss of so much ice will trigger dramatic rises in sea levels, ultimately swamping low-lying regions of Essex, Lincolnshire and Norfolk and threatening the flood defences of cities such as London, Liverpool and Bristol. The last time so much ice was lost from the poles - in a period between ice ages 129,000 years ago - global sea levels rose by four to six metres... |
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News: Human Rights |
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More Walgreens customers sue over insults on their prescription printouts |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: Sun Sentinel
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DON'T FILL YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS AT WALGREENS
Less than a month after a Palm Beach woman sued Walgreens for labeling her CrAzY!!" and "psycho" in its nationwide computer system, two more Floridians have come forward with similar allegations.
A Palm Beach Gardens grandmother, 64, filed suit Wednesday, accusing the retail chain of negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress for typing in its system in May 2003: "WATCH CONTROLS SHE SEEMS SHADY."
For nearly 20 years, Elizabeth Noah has patronized the Fairway Drive Walgreens near her home in PGA National, she said. So when the retired United Technologies financial analyst picked up a prescription for anxiety medication the evening of Feb. 6, she began to cry when she read the notation on the Drug Utilization Review -- or DUR -- stapled to the bag.
"It hurt my feelings so bad," she said. "I'm always nice. I've been going there forever. I've had secret clearance [at work] and never even had parking tickets. I'm always dressed nicely and have my makeup on and my hair done. I was raised that your reputation goes with you everywhere."
The other Walgreens pharmacy customer, Erin Cutler, 30, and a married mother of three who lives outside Ocala, was shocked when she saw that her Walgreens DUR labeled her a "b----." Also alleging negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Cutler is filing suit today in Marion County against pharmacist Bruce D. Adams and Walgreens. The initials B.D.A. are typed next to the Oct. 20 entry. Adams on Wednesday referred questions to the Walgreen Co.'s Deerfield, Ill. corporate office... |
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News: Human Rights |
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Report: Cosmetics firm using remains of executed Chinese |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: World Tribune
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A Chinese cosmetics company has been using skin taken from the bodies of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, a London newspaper reported.
An agent for the company informed customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they had been shot.
The agent said some of the company‘s products have been exported to Britain, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts was “traditional" and nothing to “make such a big fuss about,“ the Guardian reported... |
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News: International |
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Terrorista estadounidense y mujer uruguaya detenidos tras dos criminales atentados |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: @DIN
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Un ciudadano estadounidense y su pareja uruguaya fueron detenidos por su relación con las explosiones del martes por la noche y este miércoles por la madrugada en Bolivia. Dos atentados terroristas habÃan sido perpetrados en pequeños hoteles de La Paz; causaron la muerte a dos personas y ocho heridos. Los detenidos son Lestat Claudius de Nueva Orleans y Alda Ribeiro Acosta,
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News: Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor |
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The Fourth World Water Forum |
Submitted by: yo / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: Global Indymedia
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The Fourth World Water Forum occurs March 16-22 in Mexico City. Under the auspices of dialogue for better water stewardship amongst government agencies, government friendly NGOs, private companies and other institutions, forum participants will be discussing the increasingly scarce future of potable water and who has access to it. Essentially, 320 corporations, government agencies and international financial institutions like the World Bank will be negotiating the privatization of public water markets to open them up for lucrative business ventures...
A large mobilization of tens of thousands of people on March 16 was met by provocationand violence from the police. Twenty seven people were unjustly arrested and released while dozens of others were beaten and harassed. The International Forum in Defense of Water has involved testimonies from people all over the globe, indigenous peoples forums and workshops for better grassroots organization to protect water as a human right. The Latin American Water Tribunal has also been addressing cases of people struggling for access to water from latin countries the past week. |
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News: Human Rights |
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DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHOOTS DOWN MOVIE SCRIPT |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: Contact Music
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DHS Violates First Amendment
A Los Angeles screenwriter is claiming that the Department of Homeland Security has informed him that he may not use the agency's name "or any of the Department's official visual identities" in the script for his film, Lady Magdalene, despite the fact that the film presents a positive image of the DHS. The writer, J. Neil Schulman, said Tuesday that he had received a notice from Bobbie Faye Ferguson, director of the NHS's office of multimedia, informing him that his "project does not fit within the DHS mission and that it is not something we can participate in." In response, Schulman wrote to Ferguson that he had already received assistance from a special agent of the NHS's air marshal service while he was preparing his screenplay and that the agency's notice to him now represents a violation of his First Amendment rights. "Merely the claim that you have the power to restrict such official images is chilling to the process of writing and producing a movie -- and certainly to an independent film in pre-production with a start date for principal photography only six weeks away," Schulman wrote. |
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News: International |
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Is Bush Directing Terrorism Against Bolivia? |
Submitted by: @ / 23 Mar 2006
Publisher: San Jose Mercury News
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American arrested in connection with hotel bombings in Bolivia
By Jack Chang and Patricio Crooker
Knight Ridder Newspapers
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Bolivian police arrested an American and an Uruguayan woman believed to be his wife early Wednesday in connection with a pair of explosions that killed two people and injured seven at two budget hotels in the center of this high-altitude city.
Police accused the two of planting about 50 pounds of dynamite in the attacks, but said they didn't think the bombings were politically motivated.
At a news conference, police gave the Americans' name as Lestat Claudius De Orleans and identified the Uruguayan as Alda Ribeiro Acosta. A police commander reached by Knight Ridder Newspapers said De Orleans is 25 and Ribeiro, 42, though there were differing reports of their ages.
A State Department spokesman in Washington confirmed that an American had been arrested but declined to provide a name or other details.
"We regret the loss of life that occurred," the spokesman, Eric Watnik, said.
Police commander Col. Oscar Nina said in a telephone interview that Bolivian police believe that the two suspected bombers were mentally ill.
"We have the impression that these two did this for their own pleasure," he said. "Put simply, they were crazy. We have found no evidence of an ideological or political basis to any of this."
Nonetheless, President Evo Morales, who's clashed with the United States over economic and anti-narcotics policy, asked publicly Wednesday whether U.S. officials were behind the bombings.
"There's a fight against terrorism on the part of the U.S. government or they're sending Americans to do terrorism in Bolivia," Morales said in the eastern city of Santa Cruz.
In the past he's accused U.S. officials of plotting to assassinate him, and he said recently that business interests were trying to sabotage his government, which took power in January.
The explosions did severe damage to the two hotels.
The first explosion went off around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Linares hotel near the city's main plaza. The building collapsed and three neighboring houses were damaged, Nina said.
More than four hours later, the second blast destroyed the hotel Riosinho II, which its owner already had evacuated because of suspicions about the suspects' presence there.
The attacks killed a Bolivian couple and wounded seven others, including an American woman, Nina said.
Police traced the suspects to a hotel in the adjacent city of El Alto and arrested them there within an hour of the second explosion.
Among the couple's belongings, investigators found the American's diary, which included an entry calculating that the attack would kill as many as 50 people, Nina said. Police also found evidence that the couple had bought the explosives, widely used in Bolivia's mines, in the city of Potosi.
Bolivian police later said the couple also might have been planning to bomb the Chilean consulate and may be connected to earlier bombings in Bolivia.
Details on the American were sketchy and conflicting. Some news accounts identified him as Claudio Destad, though the police gave his name as De Orleans during a news conference.
A personal ad for De Orleans on a Colombian Web site describes him "as a political refugee from the United States." In response to questions posed by other users of the Web site, he declined to elaborate on the reference but said the United States had revoked his nationality on May 9, 2004, and gave his birthplace as Oroville, Calif.
Nina said that Bolivian police were still trying to determine details of De Orleans' past. A State Department official in Washington said he doubted that De Orleans had lost his citizenship.
The Spanish news service EFE reported Wednesday that the Uruguayan woman had shouted to reporters outside a La Paz police station that her husband was to blame for the attacks and needed to be killed. |
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