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Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘cruel and unusual’ prisons
June 14, 2011
On May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons on the grounds that their living conditions – including lethally inadequate healthcare – were so intolerable as to be “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Reject police and anti-gang funding in stimulus package
February 11, 2009
Tell Congress to reject the $5 billion in the stimulus package that would hire 13,000 more cops and fund the war on drugs and gangs.
‘Obsession,’ a $140 million campaign contribution to defeat Obama
November 2, 2008
A dangerous little DVD inserted into newspapers in 70 cities last month titled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” is a deliberately frightening view of “radical Islam.” Imagine those who received it going to a Palin rally and hearing Barack Obama’s middle name spat out. These cannot be coincidences.