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Their Crimes and Our Punishments - Page 2 Police Terror: the Legacy of Slavery - Page 4 World Embraces Cuba Model—Slaps the Empire - Page 25 $4 at Newsstands and Bookstores SocialistViewpoint H The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. —Karl Marx H NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 VOL. 14 NO. 6 Zim ship entering the Port of Oakland. Read ILWU International’s Statements on Zim Protests are Untrue on page 18. On the Front Cover: Cuba’s 461 doctors and medical professionals who were sent s to Liberia to provide direct treatment to sick people outnumbers that of the Afri- can Union and all individual countries and private organizations, including the Red Cross. Read World Embraces Cuban Model—Slaps the Empire on page 25. Pernicious racism and the broken healthcare system in this country, which puts profits ahead of patients, cost Thomas Eric Duncan his life.. Read Criminal Neglect: The Death of Thomas Eric Duncan on page 16. A pro-Russian villager argued with Ukrainian soldiers after troops were blocked by residents at a checkpoint in Andreyevka. Read Ukraine Cease Fire on page 29. Their Crimes and Our Punishments - Page 2 Police Terror: The Legacy of Slavery - Page 4 World Embraces Cuba Model—Slaps the Empire - Page 25 Why do courts change their precedents to oppose Mumia Abu- Jamal? Read Another ‘Mumia Rule' on page 47. Vol. 14, No. 6 SOCIALIST VIEWPOINT Medical Care Needed for Chelsea Manning! ACLU files lawsuit against Army demanding medical care for Manning By the Chelsea Manning Support Network Yesterday, the ACLU and Chelsea demanding that Ms. Manning be pro- Gender dysphoria is a serious medi- Manning filed a lawsuit against the vided hormone therapy, permission to cal condition that requires hormone Army demanding the necessary medi- follow female grooming standards, and therapy and changes to gender expres- cal treatment for Manning’s previously access to treatment by a medical pro- sion, like growing hair, to live consis- diagnosed gender dysphoria. vider qualified to treat her condition. tently with one’s gender identity as By continuing to deny Manning Ms. Manning is currently serving a part of accepted standards of care. treatment, the Army is directly violat- thirty-five year prison sentence at the Without necessary treatment, gen- ing Chelsea’s constitutional rights United States Disciplinary Barracks at der dysphoria can cause severe psycho- under the 8th amendment. Chase Ft. Leavenworth Kansas, and though logical distress, anxiety, and suicidali- Strangio, attorney in the ACLU Gay the military recognizes that she has ty. For this reason, the National Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender gender dysphoria requiring treatment, Commission on Correctional Health project and co-counsel on Ms. critical care has been withheld without Care and the American Psychological Manning’s case, notes “such clear dis- any medical basis. Association have issued policy state- regard of well-established medical pro- “The government continues to deny ments that support providing treat- tocols constitutes cruel and unusual Ms. Manning’s access to necessary med- ment to prisoners diagnosed with the punishment.” ical treatment for gender dysphoria, condition in accordance with estab- Due to a full year of neglecting without which she will continue to suf- lished standards of care, as the Federal Manning’s medical care, the ACLU fer severe psychological harms,” said Bureau of Prisons and many state cor- had previously announced a Sept 4th Chase Strangio, attorney in the ACLU rections agencies are already doing. deadline for the Army to provide treat- Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender A copy of the complaint is available at: ment. After continued failure to pro- project and co-counsel on Ms. aclu.org/lgbt-rights-prisoners-rights/man- vide treatment, the ACLU filed a law- Manning’s case. “Such clear disregard of ning-v-hagel-et-al-complaint-declaratory-and- injunctive-relief suit yesterday and released the follow- well-established medical protocols con- stitutes cruel and unusual punishment.” The motion for preliminary injunction is ing statement: available at: Ms. Manning is represented by the ACLU Demands Government aclu.org/lgbt-rights-prisoners-rights/man- American Civil Liberties Union ning-v-hagel-et-al-plaintiffs-motion-prelimi- Provide Chelsea Manning (ACLU), the ACLU of the Nation’s nary-injunction Necessary Medical Care Capital, the ACLU of Kansas and civil- This press release is available at: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ian defense counsel David E. Coombs. aclu.org/lgbt-rights-prisoners-rights/aclu- demands-government-provide-chelsea-man- September 23, 2014 Last month, Ms. Manning’s legal team sent a letter to the DOD and Army ning-necessary-medical-care CONTACT: Crystal Cooper, ACLU officials demanding that she receive —Free Chelsea Manning, September National, 212-549-2666; [email protected] treatment for gender dysphoria in 24, 2014 WASHINGTON—Today, Chelsea accordance with medical standards of http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/ Manning filed a lawsuit in federal court care, including hormone therapy and aclu-files-lawsuit-against-army-demands- in the District of Columbia against permission to follow female grooming medical-care-for-manning Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and standards. Her treatment needs have other Department of Defense (DOD) continued to be unmet and her distress Write to Chelsea Manning: and Department of the Army officials has escalated. Mail must be addressed exactly as follows: for their failure to provide necessary “I am proud to be standing with the CHELSEA E. MANNING 89289 medical treatment for her gender dys- ACLU behind Chelsea on this very 1300 NORTH WAREHOUSE ROAD phoria, a condition with which she was important issue.” said David E. FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS 66027- originally diagnosed by Army doctors Coombs, “It is my hope that through 2304 more than four years ago. this action, Chelsea will receive the The complaint is accompanied by a medical care that she needs without motion for preliminary injunction having to suffer any further anguish.” SOCIALIST VIEWPOINT Vol. 14, No. 6 SocialistViewpoint November/December 2014 Vol. 14, No. 6 SOCIALIST VIEWPOINT www.socialistviewpoint.org CONTENTS email: [email protected] (415) 824-8730 U.S. Politics and the Economy Incarceration Nation Their Crimes and Our Punishments......................2 Police Censorship Defied! . 43 By Bonnie Weinstein By The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Police Terror: The Legacy of Slavery......................4 Goddard College Commencement Speech ...............45 By Chris Kinder By Mumia Abu-Jamal Order-Givers and Order-Takers ........................10 Another ‘Mumia Rule’ .................................47 By Michael D. Yates By Mumia Abu-Jamal More Money, More Money, More Money!................12 Ebola and the Real Health Crisis in America .............47 By Paul Buchheit By Mumia Abu-Jamal Water is Life ..........................................13 Who is Christopher Abruzzo? ..........................48 By Lauren McCauley A Statement by Lorenzo Johnson Germany Just Made College Tuition Free! ...............14 Conviction to Convict .................................49 By Bruce A. Dixon By Linn Washington, Jr. Foreclosure Scam......................................15 Failed ................................................53 By Ted Newcomen By Kevin Cooper Criminal Neglect: The Death of Thomas Eric Duncan.....16 Defend Rasmea Odeh! .................................54 By Labor Fightback Network By Ali Abunimah ILWU International’s Statements on ZIM Protests Medical Care Needed for Chelsea Manning!.....Inside Front are Untrue .........................................18 By the Chelsea Manning Support Network By the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee Mississippi Incarceration Rate................. Inside Back Immigration Reform: Fact or Fiction? ...................19 By Jonathan Turley By Miguel Angel Defend Marissa Alexander!.............................56 By Leslie Salzillo Prison Assisted Suicide—the Texas Way.................57 International By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson U.S. Love for Egyptian Tyranny ........................22 By Glenn Greenwald Alabama’s Thrifty Jailers ...............................60 By Tom Boggioni Thousands in Mexico Demand Action over Missing Students. 24 By Alfonso Serrano Starve the Beast .......................................61 By Tim Young World Embraces Cuba Model—Slaps the Empire.........25 By Glen Ford Book Reviews Gaza: Call to Action! ...................................27 1960s and ’70s: Memoirs by Two Revolutionaries.........62 Statement by the International Secretariat of the Fourth International Book Reviews by Barry Sheppard Ukraine Cease Fire ....................................29 The Troy Davis Tragedy................................67 Feyzi Ismail interviews Russian Marxist and Dissident Boris Kagarlitsky Book Review by Mumia Abu-Jamal Nestora Salgado .......................................36 The Barking Dog ......................................68 Book review by Gregg Shotwell The Assassination of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. 69 Environment Book Review by Roger Hollander Pollution Inequality in America ........................38 By Lynn Stuart Parramore Letters to the Editors ............................71 The Attack on El Salvador’s Water ......................40 Nat Weinstein—An Oral History By Pete Dolack Parts IV, V and VI .....................................73 Socialist Viewpoint (ISSN 1535-5438) is published bi-monthly by the Socialist Viewpoint Publishing Association, 60 29th Street, #429, San Francisco, CA 94110. 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