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Women's March on Washington Speech for Carmen Perez
Women’s March on Washington Speech For Carmen Perez Good afternoon family. My name is Carmen Perez, and I'm the executive director of the gathering for justice and the founder of Justice league NYC and California. I am truly humbled to join and serve you as one of the national co-chairs of the women's March alongside my sistren Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Bob Bland. As well as so many who have worked so hard to make today happen. Thank you! I stand here as a Chicana Mexican-American Woman. As the daughter and granddaughter of farm workers. As the family member of incarcerated and undocumented people. As a survivor of domestic violence. As a woman who knows pain. And who has transformed her pain into gifts. Gifts that have allowed me to see light in the darkest places. For twenty years, I have worked in America’s prisons. I have seen families being torn apart. Locked up in cages. Forgotten and silenced. Many stripped of their rights, their freedoms, And ultimately, their lives. And the majority are black and brown people – including women. Women who I call my sisters . This HAS TO END. This WILL end. Because of you. Because of us. Today I join you all and raise my voice loud and clear to say WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH. We know what the problems are. We know who our enemy is. We know what the injustices have done to us and those we love. But to overcome them we have to stand in solidarity. We have to listen to each other and know that we always have more to learn. -
Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts
Washington University Law Review Volume 98 Issue 4 2021 Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts Kate Levine Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview Part of the Criminal Law Commons, Law and Race Commons, and the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons Recommended Citation Kate Levine, Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts, 98 WASH. U. L. REV. 0997 (2021). Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol98/iss4/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Washington University Law Review VOLUME 98 NUMBER 4 2021 POLICE PROSECUTIONS AND PUNITIVE INSTINCTS KATE LEVINE* ABSTRACT This Article makes two contributions to the fields of policing and criminal legal scholarship. First, it sounds a cautionary note about the use of individual prosecutions to remedy police brutality. It argues that the calls for ways to ease the path to more police prosecutions from legal scholars, reformers, and advocates who, at the same time, advocate for a dramatic reduction of the criminal legal system’s footprint, are deeply problematic. It shows that police prosecutions legitimize the criminal legal system while at the same time displaying the same racism and ineffectiveness that have been shown to pervade our prison-backed criminal machinery. The Article looks at three recent trials and convictions of police officers of color, Peter Liang, Mohammed Noor, and Nouman Raja, in order to underscore the argument that the criminal legal system’s race problems are * Associate Professor of Law, Benjamin N. -
Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds an End to Antisemitism!
Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds An End to Antisemitism! Edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman Volume 5 Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds Edited by Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffman ISBN 978-3-11-058243-7 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-067196-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-067203-9 DOI https://10.1515/9783110671964 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For details go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Library of Congress Control Number: 2021931477 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2021 Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston The book is published with open access at www.degruyter.com Cover image: Illustration by Tayler Culligan (https://dribbble.com/taylerculligan). With friendly permission of Chicago Booth Review. Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com TableofContents Preface and Acknowledgements IX LisaJacobs, Armin Lange, and Kerstin Mayerhofer Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds: Introduction 1 Confronting Antisemitism through Critical Reflection/Approaches -
March Madness
DEAN’S LIST EDITION Volume 40, Issue 15 The Voice of the Students of Sinclair Community College January 31 - February 6, 2017 A&E In Life and Liberty Your Voice My Voice Tartan Spotlight Gaga Super Bowl Alternative facts Trump opinions Millenials Cynthia Cully Page 10 Page 4 Page 16 Page 3 Page 20 MARCH MADNESS Contributed by Jess Moore Barton Kleen participation was just shy of 5 rights” could be read on many Bland told the Washington Post Executive Editor million. signs; whereas other demon- that, “Inclusivity isn’t just part The organizers of the protest, strators took a more colorful of the march, it is the founda- The now prolific, Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, approach to express their tion of this march.” pink-hatted demonstrators Vanessa Wruble and Bob Bland, voices. filled Washington D.C. the partnered with Planned Par- Many day after the inauguration enthood and featured speeches mirrored the of the forty-fifth President ranging from celebrities to infamous of the United States, Don- elected officials. language ald Trump’s, in peaceful Madonna, Alicia Keys, used by the protest. feminist icon Gloria Steinem, President No arrests related to Senator Elizabeth Warren and in the Billy the Women’s March were many other activists addressed Bush record- conducted, according to crowds on a wide array of so- ing. District of Columbia’s cial causes. The Homeland Security Direc- “Our liberation is bound march’s tor, Christopher Geldart. in each other’s...We welcome theme of The “Sister March,” vibrant collaboration and honor intersection- as one of the names the the legacy of the movements be- ality and movement became known fore us,” reads a portion of the solidarity by, had sister-demonstra- four-page purpose document for was not with- tions around the globe. -
Modern Antisemitism in Progressive Circles?
Denison University Denison Digital Commons Denison Student Scholarship 2021 Modern Antisemitism in Progressive Circles? Jacob Dennen Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/studentscholarship Modern Antisemitism in Progressive Circles? Jacob Dennen Dr. Paul A. Djupe, Advisor Senior Honors Research Abstract In recent years, anti-Zionism and anti-Israel rhetoric have become hallmarks of the American Left. Moreover, many on the Left have downplayed or denied the severity of antisemitism. This paper seeks to determine how widespread overt and latent antisemitism are among the Left. More specically, it seeks to determine if there is a double standard applied to antisemitism that could be indicative of latent antisemitism as well as if the anti-Zionist rhetoric is the result of latent antisemitism. To do so, respondents in a nationally-representative survey were given questions designed to determine overt antisemitism, as well as two dierent experiments designed to elicit latent antisemitism. The results showed that latent antisemitism does not appear for any of the ideological groups on the Left in the context of ghting discrimination. However, it does appear among Liberals as it relates to self-determination and Progressives when Israel is mentioned. These ndings help illuminate how the Left views antisemitism, the relationship between anti-Zionism and the Left, as well as how widespread latent and overt antisemitism are among the Left. 1 Introduction Where the Right ghts for freedom and liberty, the Left ghts for equality and egalitarianism. The Left has been actively involved in feminism, anti-racism, and the ght for LGBTQ rights and equality. Although each movement comes and goes in intensity and scope with the current focus on anti-racism, the Left readily calls out sexism, homophobia/transphobia, racism, and other forms of prejudice when they appear. -
Patrol Guide § 212-72
EXHIBIT K AOR307 An Investigation of NYPD’s Compliance with Rules Governing Investigations of Political Activity New York City Department of Investigation Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD (OIG-NYPD) Mark G. Peters Commissioner Philip K. Eure Inspector General for the NYPD August 23, 2016 AOR308 AN INVESTIGATION OF NYPD’S COMPLIANCE WITH RULES GOVERNING AUGUST 2016 INVESTIGATIONS OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY Table of Contents Overview ............................................................................................................................... 1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 11 I. NYPD Investigations of Political Activity: Handschu and Patrol Guide § 212-72 ....... 11 II. OIG-NYPD Investigation .............................................................................................. 12 Methodology and Access ..................................................................................................... 13 I. Treatment of Sensitive Information ............................................................................ 13 II. Compliance Criteria ..................................................................................................... 13 III. Scope and Sampling .................................................................................................... 14 -
December 2017
The Enlightenment A Mini-Journal of the Humanist Association of London and Area Visit Our Web Site at www.humanists-london.org Volume 13 Number 12 December 2017 DEFIANT EARTH: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene by Clive Hamilton Reviewed by Rosslyn Ives Hamilton’s aim in Defiant Earth is to set out a compelling case for how humans have become major agents affecting the functioning of the Earth System. In this book he argues that humans have become so powerful we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. As he reminds readers, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution humans have been responsible for huge changes on Earth, including the consequences of burning fossil fuels. Since the rapid growth in the post-Second World War period of land clearing, manufacturing and resource use these changes have accelerated. The carbon dioxide from fossil fuels has caused global warming, climate change, ice melts and acidification of the oceans, among other significant system changes. In other words, humans have become a major agent for change, augmenting the blind forces of nature This is a challenging book to read, because Hamilton is setting out the evidence and arguments for a paradigm shift in how the Earth System ought to be understood. Instead of perceiving ourselves as simply products of evolution living on a planet that sustains our livelihood, we need to see ourselves as active agents affecting how the Earth System functions. This has led scientists to apply the concept of the Anthropocene epoch, a time when humans are significant agents. -
Women's March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity
Women’s March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity - Not Even Past BOOKS FILMS & MEDIA THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN BLOG TEXAS OUR/STORIES STUDENTS ABOUT 15 MINUTE HISTORY "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner NOT EVEN PAST Tweet 0 Like THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN Women’s March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity Making History: Houston’s “Spirit of the Originally posted on the blog of The American Prospect, January 6, 2017. Confederacy” By Laurie Green For those who believe Donald Trump’s election has further legitimized hatred and even violence, a “Women’s March on Washington” scheduled for January 21 offers an outlet to demonstrate mass solidarity across lines of race, religion, age, gender, national identity, and sexual orientation. May 06, 2020 More from The Public Historian BOOKS America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019) April 20, 2020 More Books The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (The Center for Jewish History via Flickr) The idea of such a march first ricocheted across social media just hours after the TV networks called the DIGITAL HISTORY election for Trump, when a grandmother in Hawaii suggested it to fellow Facebook friends on the private, pro-Hillary Clinton group page known as Pantsuit Nation. Millions of postings later, the D.C. march has mushroomed to include parallel events in 41 states and 21 cities outside the United States. An Más de 72: Digital Archive Review independent national organizing committee has stepped in to articulate a clear mission and take over https://notevenpast.org/womens-march-like-many-before-it-struggles-for-unity/[6/19/2020 8:58:41 AM] Women’s March, Like Many Before It, Struggles for Unity - Not Even Past logistics. -
Interim Report of the President's Task Force on 21St Century Policing (CCJJ: March 13, 2015)
INTERIM REPOR T OF MARCH 2015 Recommended citation: President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. 2015. Interim Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Washington, DC: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. First published March 1, 2015 Revised March 4, 2015 Contents From the Co-Chairs ..................................................................................................................................... v Members of the Task Force ...................................................................................................................... vii Task Force Staff ......................................................................................................................................... ix Acknowledgments ..................................................................................................................................... xi Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Pillar One: Building Trust & Legitimacy ...................................................................................................... 7 Pillar Two: Policy & Oversight .................................................................................................................. 19 Pillar Three: Technology & Social Media .................................................................................................. 31 Pillar Four: Community Policing & Crime Reduction -
Correspondence-With-Government
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON Time to Dismantle the Parallel Legal System: Call from 395 Signatories 10th December 2015 Prime Minister David Cameron 10 Downing St London SW1A 2AA Dear Prime Minister Women’s rights and secular organisations urge the new government to take concerted measures to stop the development of parallel legal systems and to facilitate full and proper access to justice for all citizens and to one secular law for all. For decades, successive governments have appeased undemocratic religious power brokers in minority communities who have sought to gain power through multicultural and now multi- faith social policies. These policies have led to the homogenisation of minority communities including the ‘Muslim community’ and have recognised and legitimated ‘non-violent’ Islamists as ‘community representatives’, outsourcing legal justice to what are in effect kangaroo courts that deliver highly discriminatory and second-rate forms of ‘justice.’ Over the years, we have witnessed with increasing alarm the influence of ‘Sharia courts’ over the lives of citizens of Muslim heritage. Any government inquiry into ‘Sharia courts’ must also examine the impact of the draconian cuts in legal aid that have adversely affected access to justice for the most vulnerable. Many abused women from minority backgrounds, for instance, are increasingly forced to either represent themselves in court in what are often complex family legal proceedings or go to ‘Sharia courts’ that operate entirely outside the rule of law. The loss of legal aid contributes to a context that is conducive to the consolidation of privatised and unaccountable forms of justice and ‘Sharia courts’ are amongst the main beneficiaries. -
The Trump Resistance's
THE TRUMP RESISTANCE’S REPERTOIRE OF CONTENTION The Trump Resistance’s Rep- ertoire of Contention and its Practice of Civil Disobedience (2016-2018) Charlotte Thomas-Hébert Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne European Center for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP) France Abstract: The Resistance, formed in opposition to Donald Trump, has seen progressive groups ally in marches and ral- lies all over the United States. Yet one of its most striking fea- tures is that there have been few acts of civil disobedience. Using the tools of social movement studies and political soci- ology as well as ethnographic data, this paper investigates why breaking the law has not been a more popular form of nonvio- lent direct action, and why activists seemed to favor permitted marches at a time when civil disobedience had become if not le- gitimate, at least increasingly accepted as a democratic practice. 1 SOCIETY OF AMERICANISTS REVIEW he election of Barack Obama as well as the Great Reces- sion of 2008 marked a subsequent revival of protest poli- Ttics in the United States, with movements ranging from campaigns for better living wages such as Fight for $15, Black Lives Matter actions against police brutality and institutional racism and strikes in the public sector (Wisconsin in 2011, the Chicago teach- ers’ strike of 2012). Additional protest politics movements include the “Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Actions” of the Moral Mon- days in the South in 2013 and Occupy in 2011, that held public space in opposition to “corporate greed” and the financialization of the economy. If these movements have adopted different strategies and repertoires of contention, they have stayed clear of electoral politics and have criticized the legitimacy of the American political system. -
FFRF, AHA Ask High Court to Let Cross Win Stand
Wonders of the Best way For minorities, universe written to honor is to reason can lead in Stardust become an ally to equality PAGE 13 PAGES 14-15 PAGE 24 Vol. 35 No. 10 Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. December 2018 Convention attention FFRF sues over Wisconsin’s DOJ chaplaincy program The Freedom From Religon 4, but had been in the works Foundation is legally contesting for at least a year. a Wisconsin religion-centered Schimel claims that the counseling state program. chaplaincy program is a “crit- In a lawsuit filed Nov. 13 in ical component” of the DOJ, a Dane County court, FFRF is and has urged other state challenging agencies to contact the DOJ the constitu- staff to start their own chap- tionality of a laincy programs. Six all-white faith-based men from Christian faiths, employee many conservative, have been chaplaincy formally appointed DOJ chap- that Wis- lains. Although unpaid, the six consin At- agency chaplains are under the torney Gen- direction of a paid DOJ chap- eral Brad laincy program coordinator Schimel cre- Brad Schimel and have received training and Photo by Ingrid Laas ated at the reimbursement at taxpayer Comedian Julia Sweeney (right) takes a selfie with former Planned Parenthood president state Department of Justice. expense. They’re issued DOJ Cecile Richards during FFRF’s national convention in San Francisco the weekend of Nov. Schimel, who was defeated identification and building ac- 2-4. A record 986 people attended this year’s convention, from 42 states, Puerto Rico and in his bid for re-election on cess cards and are not prohib- Washington, D.C., and from Canada and the U.K.