A young woman who was shot during a Wednesday night gun battle in Renton, Wash., has died of her injuries. Officers called to the scene found a 20-year-old woman with a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. They later learned that a fistfight had started between two women and their respective groups of friends began shooting at each other. The victim was a bystander.
The Day in Gun Violence – NYTimes.com
Police are investigating a triple shooting in the Over-the-Rhine section of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said the three victims were walking when two individuals opened fire from a car. After hitting all three, they drove off. The victims, who are in their 20s, are expected to survive.
via The Day in Gun Violence – NYTimes.com.
My home town – sigh.
The Day in Gun Violence – NYTimes.com
A 5-year-old boy was shot in the ankle by his 6-year-old sister in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday afternoon. Police say the gun belonged to the children’s father, who has a concealed carry permit. The man had left his two children in a vehicle when one came across the gun in the console. The investigation is continuing.
Tohono O’odham Nation
Rebecca Cohen, ’12, reflects on her first year as a FoodCorps service member on the Tohono O’odham Nation, the second largest Indian reservation in the country.
A few months after graduating back in May of 2012—and I look back, hardly believing it has been a year since then—I packed up most of my worldly possessions into boxes, shipped them across the country, and left the Northeast to resettle in Tucson, Arizona. My senior spring, I applied for and accepted a position as a FoodCorps service member on the Tohono O’odham Nation, the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States. The reservation straddles the US-Mexico border and is approximately the size of the state of Connecticut, with a saguaro cactus to human ratio of 1:1 (or so the vast expanses of desert make it seem).
I spent my senior year researching and writing an environmental and cultural history of traditional agriculture…
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Over 75,000 Indians to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia – The Times of India
As Saudi Arabia implements its controversial naturalization law or Nitaqat, which seeks to replace foreigners in companies with its own citizens, India is in the midst of a gigantic effort to bring back over 75,000 people in the next few months. After having failed to regularize their work status, these people have applied for emergency exit certificates to leave the country by July 3 — the deadline set by Saudi Arabia for deportation of illegal workers.
via Over 75,000 Indians to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia – The Times of India.
Amazon CARES
Everyone here at Amazon CARES is very excited to have both of these wonderful doctors join our team. Please join us in wishing them both a warm welcome!
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Nature’s child
Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Senator Vitter Offers — and Senate Democrats Accept — Stunning Amendment With Racially Tinged Impacts
In today’s Senate debate on the farm bill, Senator David Vitter offered — and Senate Democrats accepted — an amendment that would increase hardship and will likely have strongly racially discriminatory effects.
The amendment would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent crimes at any time — even if they committed the crime decades ago in their youth and have served their sentence, paid their debt to society, and been a good citizen ever since. In addition, the amendment would mean lower SNAP benefits for their children and other family members.
So, a young man who was convicted of a single crime at age 19 who then reforms and is now elderly, poor, and raising grandchildren would be thrown off SNAP, and his grandchildren’s benefits would be cut.
Given incarceration patterns in the United States, the amendment would have a skewed racial impact. Poor elderly African Americans convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries would be among those hit.
The amendment essentially says that rehabilitation doesn’t matter and violates basic norms of criminal justice.
It’s also possible that the amendment could contribute to recidivism. Ex-offenders often have difficulty finding jobs that pay decent wages. The amendment could pose dilemmas for ex-offenders who are trying to go straight but can neither find jobs nor, as a result of the amendment, obtain enough food to feed their children and families.
Senator Vitter hawked his amendment as one to prevent murderers and rapists from getting food stamps. Democrats accepted it without trying to modify it to address its most ill-considered aspects.
The farm bill is still on the floor, and the amendment can still be modified. Senators should gather the courage to step up to the plate and address this matter forthwith.
‘Twas the whip that spoke
Police Chief – police expected to clear homeless, not catch criminals
sigh – so swells can feel swell and not touched by those who are not so swell…
(not satire – it’s UK policing today!)
Police swooped on a group of homeless men on Thursday night in London, confiscating their sleeping bags and even food parcels donated to them by the Salvation Army.
As if the police wasting time on attacking homeless people instead of catching real criminals is not bad enough – the explanation for the action from the Chief Inspector of Ilford, John Fish, is even more amazing.
He said the public rely on police “to reduce the negative impact of rough sleepers” – including confiscating their belongings.
Now maybe there is zero percent crime in Ilford. Maybe there are no murders, rapes, burglaries, muggings and violence there or in the surrounding areas – in which case I offer my sincerest apologies to C.I Fish for this article and congratulate him on his good fortune for being able to allocate so much of his officers’ time on matters…
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