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Raw Video: Police Drag Occupy DC Activists to Break Home Eviction Blockade
An effort to prevent a home eviction in Washington, DC, today turned ugly when US Marshals and local police officers armed with guns and riot shields forcefully removed members …
Prisoners’ Families Are Paying for State Prison Kickbacks in Order to Phone Their Loved Ones
The average state commission was 42 percent, but some reached as high as 60 percent of the money from the phone calls.
Latest Batch of DHS Occupy Documents Contains New Details About Monitoring of Protest Movement
(Photo: Alex Wellerstein / Flickr)The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released another batch of documents Thursday morning in response to Truthout's wide-ranging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request pertaining …
Prison Industries: “Don’t Let Society Improve or We Lose Business”
Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.
Nurses Condemn Chicago Mayor Emanuel for Arrest Of Nurses, Medical Volunteers at Occupy Chicago
Registered nurses from across the U.S. today condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown …
Grotesque, Immoral and Profoundly Anti-Democratic: The Death Penalty Should Be Repealed
Murder without due process is the government act that fundamentally separates free societies from authoritarian regimes.
Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier, a great-grandfather, artist, writer, and indigenous rights activist, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and has been imprisoned since 1976. (Photo: Leonard Peltier Defense …
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to “Pharmacologic Waterboarding“
The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug.