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From Rodney King to the London tube, people have the means to record and share the record of tragic events.  What do we give up by turning these tools and these records to the cause of justice?  What do we gain?

Gary Turner and Euan Semple discuss the potential of grass roots digital vigilance.  Euan says, "…what if we spent less time on setting up social networking tools
targeted at getting inside each other’s knickers or selling drugs and

"…thousand webcams in the street"

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59%.  Fifty-nine percent.  Almost three out of five working-age, non-institutionalized, African American men in Milwaukee are unemployed.  The "non-institutionalized part is critical too.  Milwaukee does a real number on black men with prison records.

Incarceration aggravates the racial discrimination that African Americans already experience in the job market. A recent study that sent matched pairs of young black and white men to apply for entry-level job openings in Milwaukee found that having a criminal record had a greater adverse impact on black applicants than white applicants. Even more disturbing, white applicants with criminal records were more likely to receive callbacks from employers than blacks with no criminal history. See Devah Pager, The Mark of a Criminal Record, 108 AM. J. SOC. 937 (2003).

from: The social and moral cost of mass incarceration in African American communities. by Roberts, Dorothy E.
source: Stanford Law Review, April 1, 2024.
via: HighBeam™ Research
COPYRIGHT 2024 Stanford Law School

Another note cited in the above article suggests that unemployment rates would increase dramatically if the number of black male residents who are locked up were added to the official unemployment numbers.  And America thinks it has problems in Iraq?  Hell, we’ve doomed ourselves by our own bigotry and injustice.

A Portside report from David Swanson details concerns regarding Comcast censorship of email from the After Downing Street coalition.  The censorship disrupted organizing for the group’s July 23 events by blocking emails that contained links to the coalition’s web site.  No spam was involved.   Workers’ communications with each other were blocked.   I haven’t heard before of political censorship of email based on content by a service provider.

More information can be found on Brad Blog, and at People Link.

Norm Jenson documents a little of the history and current mass media thinkage on the vicious Rove/Wilson/Plame fiasco with a number of wonderful video clips at One Good Move.

There is growing concern in Colorado and across the country that the US Secret Service is fast becoming a "political arm of the President."  Thanks to Poor Richard’s Anorak for the link.

I received this as part of an email…  it reminded me of a conversation this weekend when I mentioned Copintelpro in exactly this context and the person with whom I was speaking had no idea what I was talking about.  Here then, is one person’s transcription of another person’s reflection, as cut and pasted by a blogger who is amazed daily by the lack of continuity in transmission of truth…

In light of the recent "Deep Throat" revelation, a word from Noam Chomsky
on Watergate.  I think you’ll find it very interesting, even though its not
directly about deepthroat.

 

(Took me almost an hour to type this in…)

 

From Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky pages
117-120

[In response to Chomsky’s claim that the corporate news media
serves the interests of state-corporate power rather than as a check on its’
power.]

Man: But how do you explain Watergate, then? Those reporters
weren’t very sympathetic to power–they toppled a President.

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