#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Shocking: Rape Is Rampant in Juvenile Justice System and Most Often Perpetrated by Staff http://www.alternet.org/rape-rampant-juvenile-justice-system?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Hundreds of teens are victimized repeatedly, according to study. Hundreds of teen-agers are raped or sexually assaulted during their stays in the country’s juvenile detention facilities, and many of them are victimized repeatedly, according to a U.S. Department of Justice survey. The teens are most often assaulted by staff members working at the facilities, and fully 20 percent of those victimized by the men and women charged with protecting and counseling them said they had been violated on more than 10 occasions. “Today’s report illustrates the fundamental failure of many…http://www.twitpic.com/cvp80g
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty “Operation Tripwire” — the FBI, the Private Sector, and the Monitoring of Occupy Wall Street http://www.prwatch.org/node/11924 Records obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request indicate that the FBI employed tactics under a “counter terrorism” initiative called “Operation Tripwire” in the monitoring of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists. [Note: records referenced in this article were obtained by DBA/CMD on November 8, 2012, as a partial response to a FOIA request submitted by DBA/CMD to the FBI on June 7, 2012. DBA/CMD have been analyzing these incomplete materials along withttp://www.twitpic.com/cvojiu
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Idle No More: Sovereignty Summer http://grittv.org/?video=idle-no-more-sovereignty-summer After years of attempting to fight for their rights through the Canadian legal system, First Nations across Canada led by the women-led mass movement Idle No More are launching a Summer of Sovereignty, a campaign designed to educate and inspire action on behalf of indigenous rights and environmental protection. Begun by Nina Wilson, Sheelah Mclean, Sylvia McAdam and Jessica Gordon, Idle No More has been called “one of the most exciting new political movements on Earth.” It's certainly the largest mass movement of indigenous people north of the US border. The group came together last fall to protest Canadian bill C-45, a larg…http://www.twitpic.com/cvi82d
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Cambodia advised to mend its textile industry http://www.dw.de/cambodia-advised-to-mend-its-textile-industry/a-16849485 Cambodian garment factories have been advised to check the structural soundness of all of their buildings after sections of buildings at separate factories collapsed this month killing two workers and injuring dozens. The advice came in a letter from the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO), whose Better Factories Cambodia program monitors more than 400 exporting factories, and the Garment Manufacturers' Association in Cambodia (GMAC), a trade group that represents factory owners. The letter said this month's “devastating and unprecedented” accidents had put the integrity of Cambodia's garment industry at stake…http://www.twitpic.com/cvihur
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries. The document shows for the firs…http://www.twitpic.com/cvhu2x
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Taksim talks start before Erdoğan returns http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/occupy-taksim-talks-start-before-erdogan-returns.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48300&NewsCatID=341 Deputy PM Arınç welcomes the representatives of NGOs for talks on the future of Taksim Gezi Park with the absence of those protesting in Istanbul. As Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returns from a series of official visits abroad it remains to be seen whether he will tend to assume a milder tone concerning the ongoing unrest all over the country, while Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç had been in charge in a bid to reduce the tension. As had been announced on June 4, when he held a meeting with President Abdullah Gül, Arınç hosted June 5 members of the Taksim Platform, who had objected to the Taksim Square Ped…http://www.twitpic.com/cvhepv
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty California to Wal-Mart: Pay Better and Stop Forcing Taxpayers to Subsidize Your Profits http://occupydemocrats.com/california-to-wal-mart-pay-better-and-stop-forcing-taxpayers-to-subsidize-your-profits/ For several decades, “welfare queens” like Walmart and other large retail operators have been cheating the American taxpayer on the way to amassing record corporate profits by forcing us to foot the bill for the health and nutrition of their indefensibly underpaid employees. Surely making Sam Walton turn in his grave, his heirs pay Walmart employees such measly wages that they are forced to turn to government subsidized benefits like Medicaid, food stamp programs, and subsidized housing in order to keep themselves and their families from starving or dying due to lack of health…http://www.twitpic.com/cvaf4p
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty From “Reckless Eyeballing” to “Dehumanizing Stares” Who’s Afraid of Black Men’s Eyes? http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/03/whos-afraid-of-black-mens-eyes/ On Memorial Day, in Miami, a 14-year-old black kid named Tremaine McMillan was walking down the beach with his mother–and bottle-feeding his puppy–when cops blocked his path in ATVs. A few minutes before, the kid had been rough-housing in the surf with a friend, and the cops wanted to question him about it. Moments later, the cops body-slammed the boy—still holding his puppy—onto the beach, got him in a chokehold, and arrested him for resisting arrest. So far, so sickeningly normal. But in this case, the police’s cover-story for the body-slam, the chokehold, and the kid’s subs…http://www.twitpic.com/cvauyb
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Monsanto Mystery Wheat Appears in Oregon, No One Knows Why http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/genetically-modified-wheat-crop-found-oregon?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter How did genetically modified wheat wind up in Oregon? How did genetically modified wheat produced by the agricultural corporation Monsanto end up in Oregon? That’s the question many people want answered after the discovery of the wheat by a farmer in Oregon, according to a report in the New Scientist. Genetically modified wheat has not been cleared for commercial use anywhere in the world, though the Federal Drug Administration approved it as safe for human consumption in 2004. It was never put on the market in the U.S., though, since Monsanto dropped it after citing a lack of demand. The Associated Press …http://www.twitpic.com/cvaxd6
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Hezbollah's Role in the Bloody Syrian War Comes at a Price http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june13/lebanon_06-03.html Hezbollah troops, among the best trained and equipped in the Middle East, have been helping the Assad regime in the fight. Margaret Warner reports from Lebanon on the various sectarian and regional conflicts motivating Hezbollah's participation in its neighbor's conflict and the increasing attacks in Lebanon by Syrian rebels…http://www.twitpic.com/cvaydy