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Sunday, August 18th, 2024
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Workplace heat exposure
Workers in many US cities have organized "Heat Week" to demand
measures to
help
them avoid death from dangerously hot weather.
Such regulations will help for a time, but if we keep burning too much fossil fuel and making
Earth's average surface temperature
ever
hotter, they will eventually overcome our resistance. The only method that will continue to
work is to curb global heating.
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Urgent: Justice in Policing Act
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the
George
Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Side issue: I've been convinced that it is a bad practice in general to name laws, either officially
or unofficially, after prominent victims of a harmful practice to be prevented in the future. A law
is meant to be a better rule for society, not a memorial to a person.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Cop who shot her charged, OH
An Ohio thug has been charged with murder for
shooting
a woman dead.
Shoplifting is not a violent or dangerous act, so the suspicion of shoplifting was no grounds for
shooting Ms Young. I do wonder how fast her car was moving and whether he could get out of the way.
If it was no real danger to him, that too was not grounds for shooting her; he should have got out
of the way and followed her.
I wonder why there are four charges of murder when only one person was killed. I hope it does not
reflect the fanatical claim
that
a fetus is a person. Please do not give any sympathy to that scheme to eliminate abortion
rights.
In
Iran, the fanatics shoot women in their cars for "crimes" of disobedience to religion.
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Judged innocent, denied prison-exit, FL
Krishna Maharaj convinced a judge to rule he was innocent of murder, but Florida officials would not
let him out of prison.
He has died there.
A person can become sentimentally attached to anything, but this miscarriage of justice was real,
not merely sentiment in other people's minds. It called for redress in reality, not merely in
sentiment. And it calls for changing the system so it won't do that again to someone else.
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Innocent, spent 25 years in prison, MI
*A
Simple Safety Net Could Keep People Like Me out of Prison.*
It used to be that if you got out of prison, most ways to make a new start were still open to you.
Nowadays, in the US, most avenues to having a decent life are explicitly forever barred to you.
Thanks to "tough on crime" politicians, more interested in showing they are tough than on avoiding
future crime, we have a system designed, in effect, to ensure that former criminals never go
straight.
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Violence, homicides down in US cities
Violent crime in the US in
Jan-June
2024 is around 5% less than the previous year. Homicides dropped around 15%. (These estimates
do not have accuracy within 1%, so I have rounded each to the nearest multiple of 5%.)
[begin irony] Eventually right-wingers and bigots will have no one to
help them out. [end irony]
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Suspended student protesters suing UCI
*Student Protesters Were Suspended With
No
Chance to Defend Themselves. Will Courts Return Them to Campus?*
To identify oneself "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine" presupposes that
one cannot be in favor of the well being of both — as I am. I am not
anti-Israel or anti-Palestine, I am anti-war-crime.
I am pro-peace and pro-coexistence.
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