55 years of - you decide

http://cyntoiabrown-irishgreeneyes.blogspot.ru/2011/11/cyntoia-brown-got-adults-life-sentence.html   Cyntoia Brown got an adult’s life sentence. Was justice served? Ellenette Brown, who is black, had no clue 16-year-old Georgina Mitchell, who is white, was pregnant. How could you tell? In 1987, all the kids were wearing baggy football jerseys. Georgina's was certainly roomy enough to hide a swelling belly. But there were a lot of things Ellenette probably didn't know about the young woman who befriended her son, John Harleston. Georgina had come to Clarksville to live with her sister. Her mother warned her she could come back home to Georgia on one condition: without the black baby growing in her belly. Georgina never went home. Instead, she began hanging around Ellenette's house, a gathering spot for neighborhood teens. Ellenette, a trim woman with finely boned hands, was a substitute teacher at a nearby elementary school. Kids like Georgina wer...

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http://innocentmanonncdeathrow.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/terrance-bowman-taylor-innocent-man-on.html Sunday, 11 December 2011 Terrance Bowman-Taylor "Innocent man on N.C. Death Row" Hi, my name is Terrance  I am a college student from Brooklyn, N.Y. with an associate’s degree in Business Administration from Russell Sage College of Albany. I was pursuing a Bachelorette Degree in Computer Programming at B.M.C.C. at the time of my unlawful arrest. I came to North Carolina for a weekend to visit relatives & friends and never made it back home. I was unlawfully arrested, illegally prosecuted & wrongfully convicted by a corrupt court and sentenced to die for crimes “I DID NOT COMMIT”. This was done to me based solely on the false testimony of a male who is a habitual felon, known drug dealer, drug user who was a bitter drug rival of the deceased men in my case. This individual was the initial suspect in the case & was a fugitive from the...

Save the Children UK PLEASE HELP:  For refugee children like Najah, who've fled the violence in Syria, the arrival of snow means that the freezing wet ground they sleep on will feel unbearable. And the flimsy summer clothes they fled in will be even more inadequate.  These innocent children have been forced to leave their homes in terror. They have survived terrible conflict. Now as temperatures plummet, their lives are in danger again. We are already providing warm clothes, waterproof boots and sleeping bags. But hundreds more children arrive every day.  We urgently need your support so we can keep these children warm and help them survive the winter.  Please donate today and help keep a Syrian child safe and warm > http://bit.ly/V8gPpw Photo: © STR/AFP/Getty Images http://bit.ly/V8gPpw Photo: © STR/AFP/Getty Images" width="398" style="border-color: initial; display: block; margin: 0px;" />

Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the win against SOPA, and instead this week has been crushingly sad.  Aaron Swartz was a friend, and we went to his funeral Tuesday. Aaron was behind so much of the amazing activism you see on the web.  He helped Lessig start Creative Commons and helped get Reddit off the ground.  With David Segal he founded Demand Progress.  He gave us tons of advice and encouragement on Fight for the Future and even swooped in to fix our website at a crucial moment in the first SOPA protest (it was amazing to watch him work). The tool that delivers your letters to Congress when you take action on our sites?  He built that.  Probably in a day or two. It's fun and comforting to be in awe of him.  But all that "boy genius" stuff is not the important part.  The thing that distinguished Aaron more than his intelligence was that he was  political  and  effective .  He didn't use his ability to make apps-- he u...

http://www.world-war-d.com/2013/01/11/breaking-the-taboo-2/   Breaking the taboo Posted on   January 11, 2013   by   admin Let us break the taboo on debate and reform. The time for action is now. Sign the petition http://www.breakingthetaboo.info/ Breaking the Taboo is a global grass-roots campaign website against the War on Drugs, run by the Beckley Foundation in association with The Global Commission on Drug Policy, Virgin Unite, Avaaz and Sundog Pictures. The Mission Statement of the campaign is the Beckley Foundation Public Letter calling for a new approach to the War on Drugs, signed by nine Presidents, twelve Nobel prize winners, and many other world figures. The site hosts a coalition of international NGOs, united in their belief that the War on Drugs has failed and that global drug policy can and must be reformed. An Avaaz petition is hosted on the site, which will be presented to the UN. We hope that by collecting together so many voices callin...