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pain compliance
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29-Apr-05 12:13
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Pepper Spray torture victims win legal victory
San Francisco, CA. - The jury has just returned a unanimous verdict for the activists/plaintiffs, finding the County of Humboldt and City of Eureka liable for excessive force used by Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies and Eureka Police Officers when they applied pepper spray directly to the eyes of the eight nonviolent forest defense protesters in three incidents in 1997. Former sheriff Dennis Lewis and present sheriff Gary Philp also were found liable for causing the use of excessive force by ordering the unprecedented use of pepper spray on the passive, locked together sit-in demonstrators.
The jury awarded nominal damages of $1 to each of the plaintiffs, who made it clear all along that they weren't suing for the money, but to bring about a change of policy, to stop the use of pepper spray in Humboldt in the way it was used on them. A 2003 settlement offer by the activists, who felt vindicated after their trip to the Court of Appeals, contained similar terms to the outcome of this lawsuit; law enforcement will be deterred from applying pepper spray directly to the eyes of peaceful people, and Humboldt County and City of Eureka will owe for attorneys fees that may reach over a million dollars following two additional jury trials.
Attorneys for the pepper spray Plaintiffs, Dennis Cunningham, J. Tony Serra, Bob Bloom, Ben Rosenfeld and Bill Simpich, made up part of the award winning legal team that beat the FBI in 2002 on behalf of Earth First! Organizer Judi Bari, who was the victim of a car bomb assassination attempt in 1990, which was covered up by the FBI and Oakland Police.
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less-lethal weapons industrial complex
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28-Apr-05 03:31
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Police on weapon company payrolls
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of police officers nationwide also are on payrolls of companies that supply weapons, riot gear and other equipment to the officers' departments, creating possible conflicts of interest.
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Tent State University
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20-Apr-05 01:40
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18 Arrested at Peaceful Student Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz
Protesting school budget cuts in conjunction with a state-wide day of "Action in Defense of Education", Tent State University's peaceful student demonstrators were violently arrested late last night at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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RNC Protests
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15-Apr-05 21:00
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City Of New York To Pay $230,000 To Settle RNC Contempt Proceedings
Today, the City of New York settled the contempt proceedings initiated by New York State Supreme Court Judge John Cataldo on September 2, 2004 when City officials violated multiple release orders Judge Cataldo issued on the afternoon of the 2nd in response to habeas corpus writs filed by attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild and the Legal Aid Society the prior day.
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RNC protests
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11-Apr-05 23:03
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Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
Independent videos shows how police lied and selectively edited video to justify wrongful arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
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Civil Liberties Conference
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05-Apr-05 23:51
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State your Reaction to State Repression
On April 24th, 2005, Syracuse University will be the site of a timely and highly important forum on civil liberties, the Bill of Rights, and freedom of expression, thought, and speech, at the State Your Re-Action to State Repression Conference.
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CRITICAL MASS
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30-Mar-05 13:54
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NYPD Attempts To Criminalize Bike Riders Taking Part in Critical Mass
On Friday, police arrested 37 riders and confiscated dozens of bicylcles. Last week, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the group TIME'S UP! from promoting or advertising events that the city alleges to be illegal. The lawsuit also states that TIME'S UP! and the general public cannot participate in riding or gathering at the Critical Mass bike ride.
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TASERS in schools
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27-Mar-05 20:11
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Records: Cops used Tasers against 24 students since 2003
At least 24 Central Florida students have been zapped by Tasers in the past 18 months as police officers working at public schools turned the controversial stun guns on children as young as 12.
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less-lethel weapons
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04-Mar-05 01:13
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Maximum Pain is Aim of New US Weapon
THE US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture.
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Protesting school budget cuts in conjunction with a state-wide day of "Action in Defense of Education", Tent State University's peaceful student demonstrators were violently arrested late last night at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
On Friday, police arrested 37 riders and confiscated dozens of bicylcles. Last week, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the group TIME'S UP! from promoting or advertising events that the city alleges to be illegal. The lawsuit also states that TIME'S UP! and the general public cannot participate in riding or gathering at the Critical Mass bike ride.