#john bowden

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A 1970 FBI raid on radical journalists in Washington, DC, looking for a Weather Underground member, who was not present, nor was anything illegal found.

[cultureofresistance]

A United Nations panel on Wednesday said that President Trump's pardons for several former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing more than a dozen civilians in Baghdad violated international law.

UN says Trump Blackwater pardons violate international law | TheHill

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Green Goddess -  John Bowden Art In 2019 Tara

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Long-term radical prisoner John Bowden denied parole because of his anti-authoritarian views and contact with Anarchist Black Cross groups (UK)

admin | 325 | July 21st 2017

There is currently a massive population of “post-tariff” life sentence prisoners over-crowding British Prisons. Lifers who remain detained long beyond the time originally recommended by the judiciary or secretary of state, which includes prisoners sentenced under the IPP (‘Imprisonment for Public Protection’) Law. Although this law has been scrapped, it has left a legacy of thousands of prisoners still languishing in jail. Britain has more life sentenced prisoners than the whole of Europe combined, a consequence of a “lock em up and throw away the key” culture and mentality that pervades the bourgeois judiciary and justice apparatus, as well as a Parole Board that exists just to legitimise what is in reality the unlawful detention of thousands of prisoners. “Preventative Detention” was created by the Nazi Party in Germany in 1939 to “cleanse” society of anti-social elements and Britain is a zealous inheritor of that instrument of repression, while British prisons are now little m...

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Michigan Senate candidates tell Washington Democrats: Show some spine

Three Senate candidates in Michigan are unified around demand for Democrats to stand their ground on shutdown fight

"El-Sayed, the Sanders-backed candidate in the race, told reporters after the UAW forum that he supports abolishing ICE altogether. Calling it a paramilitary force, he argued that Trump’s deployment of a surge of immigration enforcement resources to Minneapolis was not in fact solely about enforcing immigration laws. Instead, El-Sayed argued that the administration’s true aim was to test the use of armed forces on U.S. streets to enforce control ahead of a possible attempt to subvert the midterm elections this year."

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Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter

An internal memo sent to Starbucks employees last week specifically warned staffers against wearing accessories or clothes bearing messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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ETs dancing on the moon Europa that orbits Jupiter. ETs Dancing Europa by John Bowden

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Long-term political prisoner John Bowden’s Recent Parole Hearing (UK)