Articles Posted by FCJ Editor
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Understanding Shared Experiences of Blacks and Asians
Can Reduce Racial TensionsThe belief that President Obama’s election would transcend the racial divide between whites and blacks may be premature. However, even if this chasm was overcome, it would not address conflicts between minority groups in this country. The reality is that the same prejudices that divide blacks and whites threaten the relationships of African-Americans, Asians and Latinos.
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What Real Financial Reform Looks Like
Still a work in progress, the Senate bill will be as bogus as the House one, so whatever reconciliation produces will be another promise made, another broken. Business as usual will persist so don’t be fooled – on this measure or any other, including the appalling health care bill that made a dysfunctional system worse, and took a giant step toward ending Medicare, one of the main reasons it was enacted, besides enriching corporate providers.
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Herrera Calls for Boycott of Arizona
Over Draconian Immigration LawCiting San Francisco’s moral leadership against such past injustices as South African apartheid, the exploitation of migrant farm workers, the economic oppression of Catholics in Northern Ireland, and discrimination against the LGBT community, Herrera offered the services of his office’s contracts, government litigation and investigations teams to work closely with City departments and commissions to identify applicable contracts and to aggressively pursue termination wherever legally tenable. Herrera also offered the assistance of his office’s attorneys in any legal challenges to the Arizona law.
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Arizona Passes Law to Legally Terrorize Immigrants
America’s homeland is repressively militarized and unsafe. Habeas rights, judicial fairness and other constitutional protections are ignored. Lawlessness prevails. Everyone is vulnerable. Freedom is at risk. Police state repression is deepening. Knowing the dangers is a wake-up call for action. Latino immigrants, people of color, Muslims, and anyone called a threat to national security are most vulnerable.
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Washington Family Granted Green Cards
The family is elated to learn that they will be able to stay together. At the same time, the Washingtons recognize that this joyous news is a singular exception to a harsh rule. “Our family’s luck in this case was unique, but Mr. Newsom, the pain we felt when our family was facing deportation as a result of your policy is not unique at all,” Washington said in the letter. “We share the pain felt by the many other families whose children were taken into ICE custody and ordered deported as a result of your policy.”
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Richard Fine’s Judicial Lynching
For his many years of crime fighting, Fine was charged with “contempt of court” and “moral turpitude,” disbarred by California’s Supreme Court and jailed by Superior Court Judge David Yaffe “in retaliation for bringing the cases and exposing the unconstitutional payments,” ones later held to be unconstitutional.
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The Super-Rich Want You to Hate Taxes
So They Can Keep Your MoneyThe lie is that if the maximum freedom and, thus, maximum benefits are given to the super-rich elites, ultimately everyone will win because the super-rich will create companies and create jobs and buy things and that will benefit the rest of us. It’s been called various things over various times — Reaganomics, trickle down economics, free market capitalism. But mostly it’s just been called bullshit.
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