Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home
“I feel a mixture of excitement and trepidation,” he said. “It feels so strange right now to be walking outside without handcuffs and shackles.”
Does this look like a crime to you? The Case of Veteran Mike Madden
The lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss Madden’s case, arguing he’d gone to the airport to “publicly express his opinion on an issue... at the center of a national debate.”
Arthur Goodridge: Black Death: The Rashomon Effect and Our Symbols of Justice
He [Kurosawa] found that seeing is not always seeing clearly and that realizing this fact helped his colleagues filter out their misperceptions and gain more accurate data. How does the Rashomon effect help us in our healing process? How does the Rashomon effect affect our ability to adjudicate our justice system? By Arthur Goodridge Truthout.org | More
Sean Nevins: Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It
MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes. By Sean Nevins MintPressNews.com December 10, 2014 Wall Street protesters denouncing the taxpayer bailout of “too-big-to-fail” banks. (Photo: A. Golden/ Creative More
Comments> Dialog & Controversy over Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy”
Comments> Dialog & Controversy over Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy” I have been asked to delete the post on WAMMToday by Chris Hedges called “The Cancer in Occupy.” [I think by whom is not relevant to this dialog, and the different viewpoints are reflected below.] Before I posted it, it did cross my More
Chiapas: Peace Caravan
Chiapas: Caravan to the South Day 3 SIPAZ Drawings for peace (@SIPAZ) The third day of the journey of the Carvan for Peace in Chaipas began with a visit by a commission of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to the Zapatista caracol of Oventic. A member of the Good-Government Council (JBG) gave More
Crisis of Confidence: How Washington Lost Faith in America’s Courts, by Karen J. Greenberg
Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System Posted by Karen J. Greenberg, August 21, 2011. TomDispatch.com Can you even remember the world before 9/11? You know, the one where you weren’t stripped in the airport or body-wanded at the ballpark? It’s as much a lost world as anything Conan Doyle ever imagined. And it seems there’s no turning More