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Ruling represents second historic victory for Prometheus Radio Project this year
PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its long-awaited verdict in Prometheus Radio Project v. the Federal Communications Commission, rejecting the FCC’s attempt to further deregulate media ownership. The Court threw out FCC rules that would have allowed one company to own a newspaper and broadcast stations in the same market. The Court also upheld the FCC’s other limits on local broadcast ownership, and agreed with Prometheus and other public interest groups that the FCC failed to consider the impact of its rules on women and people of color.
By Megan Iacobini de Fazio
I found this on inter press Service -R Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyvM0K1z-BI
The Crossroads to Change campaign posted a video documenting the continuing detention of a young woman for so-called mental illness, almost one year now. Her mother and some support people are shown in the video approaching Western State Hospital to obtain the documents of her continuance, signed the very day her mother sat awaiting a hearing in vain (they lied and told her mother that she had signed a voluntary commitment on herself, but that is not what the documents showed!).
QUITO, Ecuador - President Raphael Correa
now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador's largest oil reserves,
amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National
Park in exchange for more than $3 billion.
Thirteen Bari Indians of the Sierra de Perijá mountains in
western Venezuela attended an historic hearing at the Supreme Court in
Caracas last week, to defend their right to own their ancestral land.
Venezuelan
law guarantees indigenous peoples the right to own their land and the
Constitution stipulates that all indigenous land must be demarcated by
2001. However, the Bari are still waiting for their land title to be
granted.
It was the first time that the Bari have been allowed
to speak at such a hearing, despite having pushed the courts to listen
to them for the past ten years.
At last week’s hearing, a Bari
leader said, "Sabaseba, our god, ordered us to look after our
From Tracy Rector
Longhouse Media
http://www.longhousemedia.org/
SEATTLE
-- Longhouse Media Executive Director Tracy Rector today condemned the
I left the headline as KING 5 had it. I always disliked the mainstream press labelling Rachel "protester". USA Today had a photo of Rachel burning a mock flag at an earlier demonstration which they ran with their single column inch story at the time. Reduce it so people can feel they understand it and go on to the next story. -Rick
Posted on March 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM
The link to the video:
By William Fisher
NEW
YORK, Feb 28, 2010 (IPS) - Legal headaches are growing exponentially
for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater – once the darling
of the military-industrial community.
In separate
developments, two former employees of the company charged that the
security firm committed "systematic fraud" under its contracts with the
U.S. State Department in Iraq and Afghanistan; the Iraqi government
announced it would seize heavy weapons from foreign security firms and
expel ex-Blackwater contractors still in the country; and a U.S. Senate
hearing learned that Blackwater employees stole more than 500 assault
Leana Stormont became (as noted here earlier) the third person subpoenaed by that grand jury in Davenport, Iowa which is out to get animal rights activists however they can. One man, Scott DeMuth has been indicted and is free on bond. One woman, Carrie Feldman, has been locked up since before thanksgiving for heroically refusing to cooperate with the grand jury.
Leana was a graduate student at the University of Iowa at the time of the ALF raid on a lab on campus. That action saw the rescue of 401 animals from the Spence psychology labs in an overnight raid by the ALF. She was a visible animal rights activist at the time and has been on the Feds radar screen ever since.
Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/
Well now. How will the British respond to the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Britain's stop and search policies in the six counties of northern Ireland are illegal and a violation of human rights. I'll tell you how. They'll ignore it. AFP reports reacting to the ruling, London's Metropolitan Police said that, as the British government is seeking to appeal the ruling, Section 44 "remains in force in specified locations across London". I'd guess that would apply to the occupied north of Ireland as well.
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (”OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions
between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve
itinerary had broken down and were not expected to be resumed before
Santa’s scheduled departure on December 24 at 10 pm EST.
I thought that headline would get your attention. And it's true.
The
Americans were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to
extradite them. But the verdict, the first of its kind, was welcomed by
rights campaigners who have long complained the renditions policy
violated basic human rights.
I just recently started reading about the Luzurne County Judges charged with the inappropiate incarceration of the young people who come before them and their favoring the juvinile prisons, known as PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care.
While these types of Juvilile Facilities, as they like to call themslves are necessary in some instances, they are very unessary for a first time offender and can do more harm then good.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_13494514?source=most_emailed
Local woman beats Wal-Mart
By Conor Berry
The Berkshire Eagle
Oct. 06 2009
PITTSFIELD -- It's not every day that someone takes on a corporate giant and wins. But Cynthia Haddad, of Pittsfield, took on Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, in a gender discrimination lawsuit and won.
The Mountain Road resident and former Pittsfield Walmart pharmacist will be awarded at least $2 million in damages after the state's high court on Monday upheld an earlier jury award that was partially rescinded by a judge. The overall $2 million award is expected to rise once interest and other costs are calculated, according to Haddad's attorneys.
