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SOA protesters get the max —again
For the second year in a row, a federal court in Columbus, Georgia, has sentenced activists to six-month prison terms for trespassing on the US Army’s Fort Benning base.
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North America
“Conservatives” deny “personal responsibility” in Tucson massacre
The right-wing chattering and blogging classes are squealing with unanimous denial that Jared Loughner was influenced by their recent effluence of militaristic thunder.
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Arizona gunman linked to organized radical right?
A Homeland Security memo states that Jared Loughner—primary suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords—is “possibly linked” to the white supremacist American Renaissance.
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Sholom Rubashkin sentence: just deserts, anti-Semitism or both?
Jewish organizations are protesting the 27-year sentence handed down to Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher slaughterhouse CEO whose plant was raided for undocumented workers.
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Oklahoma Islamic law ban challenged
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit challenging the constitutionality of State Question 755, which bans the use of Islamic law in state court decisions.
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Ninth Circuit strikes down Arizona voter registration law
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down a portion of an Arizona law, Proposition 200, requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration.
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Albuquerque: protesters demand answers in West Mesa femicide case
A protest was held in Albuquerque, NM, demanding police intensify their search for a culprit in the mass grave discovered at West Mesa on the outskirts of the city last year.
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FBI raids homes of anti-war activists
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis in an investigation of possible links with the FARC and PFLP “terrorist organizations.”
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Red scare follows Los Angeles intifada
The Los Angeles Times sees communist agitators behind the uprising by Central American immigrants in Los Angeles’ Westlake district following the police shooting of a Guatemalan day-laborer.
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Arizona gov asks State Department to drop immigration law from UN rights report
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove any mention of his state’s controversial immigration law from a human rights report issued by the State Department.
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Human Rights Watch condemned US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for force-feeding detained migrants. Detained men at the agency's El Paso Processing Center have been participating in a hunger strike since early January. ICE officials said that 11 men are striking, but AP reports the number may be closer to 30. In mid-January a federal judge authorized ICE to force-feed six of the protesters. The detained men have been protesting "rampant verbal abuse and threats of deportation from guards" and long detentions while awaiting a hearing. Most of the hunger strikers are from India or Cuba. (Photo: Hetsumani/Pixabay)
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UN Special Rapporteur of the human rights of migrants Felipe González Morales called for an independent investigation into the death of Jakelin Ameí Caal, a Guatemalan migrant child who died while in US Customs and Border Protection. Jakelin was in custody, along with her family and other migrants, after crossing the Mexico border. The factual causes leading up to her death are currently disputed. In the report, Morales stresses the importance of finding out what happened to Jakelin, stating that "if any officials are found responsible they should be held accountable." (Photo via Jurist)