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12 hours agoI Will Choose Death Over Treatment Unless New York Changes Its Parole Laws
Parole reforms are urgently needed for incarcerated individuals facing life sentences without hope of release.
Neidi Dominguez stated that the number of May Day events this year had more than doubled compared to last year, with expectations of over 3,000 actions across the country. She emphasized that Minneapolis provided significant motivation for this year's actions, highlighting the growing awareness of workers' collective power.
In many ways, ultra-dom provides precisely what contemporary society lacks: collectivism in a period of atomisation; danger and adrenaline in a society that seems strangely bloodless; old-fashioned masculinity and muscle in a period of soft skills, and belonging in an era of rootlessness.
Valentina expressed her emotional struggle, stating, 'I cried a lot. I dreaded going to school.' This highlights the profound impact of her mother's incarceration on her daily life.
When I delivered my victim impact statement after Maxwell's sentencing, I nearly shouted. I talked about my emotional health, my physical health, how this derailed my life. I wanted to project my voice so that no one in that courtroom could ignore what I was saying.
The judicial system would find that Emory failed to protect its students, to protect its staff, to protect the educational mission of the university, said philosophy professor Noelle McAfee, one of the plaintiffs.
A group of organizations calling themselves the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is demanding that the bank end its relationship with ICE, specifically by halting its financial ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, prison corporations that work on behalf of the federal agency.
The United Nations voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations as a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.
"This case represents addressing a broader harm caused by organized doxxing and harassment campaigns," said Laila Ali, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, emphasizing the need for accountability.
On his first day in office, Trump issued an executive order abolishing 'birthright citizenship' for people born in the U.S. whose parents were not 'legal residents' at the time of their birth. This directly violates the 14th Amendment of U.S. Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all people born in the United States.
Racial discrimination is illegal, and government contractors cannot evade the law by repackaging it as DEI. The Department launched the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative to root out this misconduct, hold offenders accountable, and end this practice for good.
This is really about trying to put power in the hands of people. There's 70% of workers who want a union, and 10% have them. If it were a company, they would figure out how to get the product into the hands of the 70% who wanted it.