Jail the STAR Tax Thieves

This would explain why the school officials and District Attorneys are silent on fraudulent STAR tax exemptions being theft from school taxes. It not about the money.

Drum roll, please…Winner of The Strip Search Limerick Contest

Strip-Search For Poetry: A Limerick Contest For The Supreme Court The results are in for the contest we held to create limericks about the Supreme Court’s horrible decision on strip searches, which has decimated the 4th Amendment of the Constitution.  With this recent decision, any person who will be held in the “general population” in […]

Barricades being taken down at Zucotti Park/Liberty Square!

Zucotti Park is liberated! It is 7:12pm on Tuesday, January 10th. Reports on FaceBook and Twitter that the police are having to take down the barricades from Zucotti Park/Liberty Square in NYC. Story at DNA Info: here. Links to some videos: http://bambuser.com/channel/owslivestream/broadcast/2276758 http://www.twitvid.com/BWQCP There will be an NYC General Assembly tonight in an open, liberated […]

NYCLU Criticizes Taser Use by Suffolk, NYC, Albany, Nassau, Monroe, Rochester & Syracuse Police

IW: The Green Party of Suffolk has called for a moratorium on Taser use by Suffolk Police after Taser deaths in 2009 and 2011 Police officers throughout New York State are consistently misusing and overusing Tasers, according to a report released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU’s analysis covers the following law enforcement agencies: Albany Police Department, the Glens […]

In AT&T v. Concepcion, U.S. Supreme Court Deals Crushing Blow to Consumers

Statement of Deepak Gupta, Attorney, Public Citizen who represented the Concepcions before the U.S. Supreme Court. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to American consumers and employees, ruling that companies can ban class actions in the fine print of contracts. Now, whenever you sign a contract to get a cell phone, open […]

NAACP urges action for Troy Davis

From an NAACP e-mail action alert: There isn’t much time. This is truly a matter of life and death. Troy Davis could be executed as early as next month, even though seven of the nine witnesses recanted their statements and the alleged murder weapon still has not been found. Last week, I sent the email […]

1/14/2011 – Five Towns Forum: DNA and the criminal justice system

Five Towns Forum P.O. Box 273, Hewlett, New York 11557 Telephone – (516) 623-5689 an independent organization dedicated to free discussion of pertinent national and international issues The Innocence Project and the Impact of DNA Exonerations on the Criminal Justice System A Talk by Maddy deLone Friday evening, January 14th Innocence Project Executive Director Maddy […]

CA Green Party: Prop. 8 ruling freezing marriages equality until Winter is a Mistake

The Green Party of California called an appeal court’s decision to hold up same-sex marriages until at least December so the 9th Circuit can rule on the constitutionality of Prop. 8, a mistake, and another attack on the rights of a discriminated class of citizens. The decision Monday froze same-sex marriages, which were due to […]