“What we are currently in the process of trying to settle with [the NYPD], is what we saw as a systematic violation of the old Handschu guidelines,” he added. “They were reading [the guidelines] in a way that was too loose. The criminal predicate became, somebody’s a Muslim, Muslims are potential terrorists, therefore we investigate Muslims.”Soon after the story was posted, Todd Fine, a first-year history PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, started a petition demanding that the CUNY Chancellor, James Milliken, “formally state [his] opposition to these [NYPD] operations and work actively to stop them.” The petition has since been handed into the Chancellor’s Office with over five hundred signatures.Michael Arena, the director for communication and marketing at CUNY, told Gothamist, “The petition is currently under review by the University office of legal affairs.”Toward the end of the WNYC interview, Miller said that the need to prevent terrorist attacks sometimes came into conflict with the need to respect constitutional rights. “We have two sets of tensions that pull against each other every day, and the hardest thing to have to do is find a balance.”We asked Rumaysa, one of the three former Brooklyn College students we interviewed who knew Mel the undercover, what she thought of Miller’s explanation (Rumaysa is a pseudonym—all the women requested anonymity).”To be honest it hurts to think that the surveillance-induced trauma I’ve had to deal with is simply dismissed as collateral damage, if even that,” she said.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Brazilian President Rousseff blames mining companies for dam rupture | News | DW.COM | 12.11.2015

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said the conglomerates behind the Samarco mine would be held responsible for the deadly dam ruptures at an iron ore mine that killed at least eight people on November 5.Rousseff flew over the two burst dams at a waste collection pond at the mine that had unleashed a deadly wave of mud, as 19 people remained missing after the incident. Most of the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues was also flattened in the event.”We are committed in the first place to blame those who are responsible. Who is responsible? A private business, Samarco, a big business that has Vale and BHP Billiton as partners,” Rousseff said. The president added that several laws “were actually not followed. That is why we have imposed a preliminary fine.”
Source: Brazilian President Rousseff blames mining companies for dam rupture | News | DW.COM | 12.11.2015
News from The Associated Press – EXPERT: POLICE SHOOTING OF BOY WITH PELLET GUN WAS JUSTIFIED {What!}
“Regrettably, with the release of yet another utterly biased and shamelessly misguided ‘expert report’ the County Prosecutor is making clear his intention to protect the police from accountability under the criminal laws, rather than diligently prosecute them,” attorney Jonathan Abady of New York said in a statement Thursday.
Source: News from The Associated Press
Dozens killed, more than 180 injured in Beirut suicide blasts
Islamic State claims responsibility for twin suicide bombings which killed more than 40 people and injured nearly 200 in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut.
Dengue Fever – Egypt
On 27 October 2015, the National IHR Focal Point of Egypt notified WHO of an outbreak of Dengue fever in a village in the Dayrout District of Assiut Governorate.
Between 1 and 31 October 2015, a total of 253 cases were admitted to the Dayrout Fever Hospital due to acute febrile illness. Patients developed fever, headache, general body aches and abdominal pain with occasional vomiting and/or diarrhea but experienced no further complications or fatalities. They have been responding to the given medical care. Some of the cases come from the same household.
Children on Nauru break rules to launch Facebook page: ‘We want everyone to hear our voices’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Refugee and asylum seeker children on Nauru have started a campaign to get off the island, launching a Facebook page they hope will connect them with everyday Australians and give them a face.The page, Free the Children NAURU, is curated by a group of children living both in the community and in the detention centre.The administrators of the group want to remain anonymous for fear the page might be shut down, as children inside the camp are not allowed smartphones, while no one in the country is meant to use Facebook.
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New! Exposed: FBI Surveillance of School of the Americas Watch
Exposed: FBI Surveillance of School of the Americas Watch
FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years
By Mara Verheyden-Hilliard,Executive Director of the
Peabody Coal admits divestment campaigns worked
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
What do Peabody Coal, Barrick Gold in Nevada, and Shell Oil in the Arctic, all have in common?
All three are cutting back on operations due to plummeting profits and worth. None of these ever cared about the earth, Indigenous Peoples or the protests.
Still, the protests have succeeded in creating a new global awareness of climate change and the damage
Recent Court Rulings Block Deferred Action Programs and Raise Questions for Accessing Birthright Citizenship
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to maintain an injunction on President Obama’s signature deferred action programs and the timing of the administration’s Supreme Court appeal will prove critical amid the 2016 election campaign. This Policy Beat also explores a federal judge’s decision not to block a Texas policy refusing to issue birth certificates to the U.S.-born children of unauthorized parents. Should the policy be upheld, it could open the door for further limitations on birthright citizenship.
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