#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Scrooge lives! http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8016#.UX3_aaL7JaY Ebenezer Scrooge, the Dickens character, perfectly personified the nasty rich. For example, when asked to make a charitable donation for people trapped in poverty, Scrooge curled his lip in contempt and snarled: “Are there no prisons?” Blessedly, our American society has progressed well-past such heartless disdain. Unless, of course, you happen to be poor in Ohio. Or Georgia. Or in the nationwide utopia envisioned by Newt Gingrich. Ohio's Civil Liberties Union recently issued a report documenting the Scroogian return of debtor's prisons, finding that municipal courts there are jailing poor people unable to pay court fines. Last summer, a suburban Cl…http://www.twitpic.com/cmriub
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Cities Weigh Taking Over From Private Utilities http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/business/energy-environment/cities-weigh-taking-electricity-business-from-private-utilities.html?_r=0 Across the country, cities are showing a renewed interest in taking over the electricity business from private utilities, reflecting intensifying concerns about climate change, responses to power disruptions and a desire to pump more renewable energy into the grid. Boulder, Colo., for instance, could take an important step toward creating its own municipal utility, among the nation’s first in years, as soon as next month. A scheduled vote by the City Council comes after a multiyear, multimillion-dollar study process that residents, impatient with the private electric company’s pace in reaching the town’s environmental…http://www.twitpic.com/cbdoi2
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Acquittals for 12 Occupy Bank Protesters http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Occupy-Wells-Fargo-Acquittal-195434381.html Group arrested in 2011 not guilty of conspiracy & defiant trespass A jury has acquitted a dozen demonstrators arrested during a November 2011 sit-in at a Philadelphia bank. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Common Pleas Court jury deliberated for about 13 hours over three days before finding the defendants not guilty of conspiracy and defiant trespass. The demonstrators appealed after they were convicted last summer by a municipal court judge and ordered to pay 0 fines. They accused Wells Fargo of what they called “racist predatory lending” policies resulting in a disproportionately large number of home foreclosur…http://www.twitpic.com/c98c6s
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot All charges dropped for Occupy Boston protesters http://dailyfreepress.com/2013/02/13/all-charges-dropped-for-occupy-boston-protesters/ The remaining 24 cases stemming from the Occupy Boston protests in Dewey Square in 2011 were resolved Friday, with prosecutors dropping all charges. Prosecutors considered the other cases stemming from the Greenway encampment, as well as the individual cases relative to those involving firearm violations, violent crime and other offenses also pending in the Boston Municipal Court, according to a press release from the Suffolk County district attorney’s office on Friday. http://interoccupy.net/blog/nlg-massachusetts-statement-on-occupy-boston-defendants-sudden-dropped-charges/http://www.twitpic.com/c3hano
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot Five Occupy defendants seek dismissal of charges http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/04/occupy-boston-members-fight-arrests-judge-decision-set-for-monday/1EAQGv163ejXZmGkmJlPPJ/story.html A judge will determine next week whether to dismiss criminal charges against five people who were arrested during the Occupy Boston encampment in 2011. The five argue that their arrests were an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights. The outcome could set an important precedent for similar cases, including nearly two dozen others who are fighting charges. At Boston Municipal Court Monday afternoon, Associate Justice Mark Hart Summerville heard brief arguments on the motion to dismiss. But he said he wanted to wait to make a decision on the motion until the case’s scheduled trial date on Feb…http://www.twitpic.com/c1hkk8
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Five Occupy defendants seek dismissal of charges http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/04/occupy-boston-members-fight-arrests-judge-decision-set-for-monday/1EAQGv163ejXZmGkmJlPPJ/story.html A judge will determine next week whether to dismiss criminal charges against five people who were arrested during the Occupy Boston encampment in 2011. The five argue that their arrests were an unconstitutional infringement of their First Amendment rights. The outcome could set an important precedent for similar cases, including nearly two dozen others who are fighting charges. At Boston Municipal Court Monday afternoon, Associate Justice Mark Hart Summerville heard brief arguments on the motion to dismiss. But he said he wanted to wait to make a decision on the motion until the case’s scheduled trial date on Feb…http://www.twitpic.com/c199jc
#occupynola Protest in #solidarity w/ Captain Black #F8 Municipal Court #owshttp://www.twitpic.com/8heq3i
Protesters marching in #solidarity w/ Captain Black at municipal court #F8 #occupynola #owshttp://www.twitpic.com/8hes2y