Please circulate widely . . . On February 27th, 2010, and then again on April 17th, a group of over 50 people came together to create a coalition that is committed to creating community justice. The group consists of people from different backgrounds and disparate areas of expertise, but we are all united to find … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2010
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander on Democracy Now Part 3
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander on Democracy Now Part II
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander on Democracy Now Part I
Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colour-blindness”, talks about the disturbing reality that the U.S. “War on Drugs” has actually been a war on poor communities of colour. Continue reading
VANCOUVER HIV CASE HIGHLIGHTS AGAIN THE NEED FOR CLEAR GUIDELINES ON CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
Statement from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network TORONTO, May 11, 2010 — In a ruling released last Friday, May 7th, a trial judge in British Columbia found that a gay man living with HIV had had unprotected anal sex with his then-partner without disclosing his HIV status on three occasions, but acquitted him on the … Continue reading
Statement by Roman Polanski
Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making any public statements and have requested my lawyers to confine … Continue reading