The groups seek records related to domestic intelligence practices including the use of informants and infiltrators (such as those reportedly used in gyms, community centers and mosques), the FBI Junior Agent Program’s recruitment of Muslim and Arab American children, and investigations of Muslim leaders and imams in northern California.
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Charles Washington’s wife and his Australian-born 13-year-old stepson (not pictured)
won a 60-day reprieve yesterday from deportation proceedings following a reexamination
by federal immigration authorities of the family’s legal status.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Hope Johnson and Luke Thomas
March 4, 2010
By now, most of us are aware of the plight of the Washington family. Until yesterday, native […]
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For me, the most powerful moment in over four hours of testimony was one that probably passed almost unnoticed for most people. Representatives from the police and the district attorney’s office had just finished over 100 minutes of testimony during which time they got all the time they wanted to tell the supervisors how they all thought this would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. SFPD Chief George Gascón was a no-show, but Assistant Chief Kevin Cashman was ready with a slick PowerPoint presentation (more on that later), followed by a parade of captains in full regalia whose sole purpose seemed to be to show solidarity across the SFPD, as if this was ever in doubt.
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The Court went on at great length about the risks of preventing corporations from speaking in political campaigns and how their inability to speak purported to damage our political process. Because it believes that any regulation would be too complicated to enforce, the Court threw out all regulations on speech by corporations.
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn, guest editorial
January 27, 2010
Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate spending in presidential and congressional elections. Those of us who wail against the corpocracy, with its corruption of government, could hardly […]
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New Yorker cartoon
By Ralph E. Stone
January 26, 2010
As we all have no doubt read or heard, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission invalidated the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2 U.S.C. §441b), ruling, among other things, that the “government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker’s corporate identity.” According […]
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In all the noise over healthcare reform and the election in Massachusetts, you might not have noticed that democracy took a gut punch last Thursday, as the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns, candidates, and parties. They can do this directly from their own general fund, without the permission of their shareholders.
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By Ralph E. Stone
January 6, 2009
According to the California Office of Privacy Protection, over 8 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2006. One million of those victims lived in California. Since 2005, CitiFinancial, TimeWarner, Choicepoint, Bank of America, Ameritrade, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Cardsystems, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other companies and agencies, […]
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By Ralph E. Stone
December 24, 2009
What happened to the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009? Did it fall through the cracks along with the public option? Because there is unlikely to be a public option in the forthcoming healthcare legislation, Congress must repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the health […]
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