POORER AMERICANS NEED WORLD'S COURT HELP !

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by Douglas Field | 06.16.2008

WHEN THE WORLD'S INTERNATIUONAL COMMUNITY LEARNED THE TRUTH !

I hate to say it, but I do believe that this injustice that our US judicial system has been inflicting on the tens of thousands of our Middle Class and Working Poor Amercans (who are the least educated US prison inmates) with prolonged incarceration, is a very realistic human rights violation if not a crime against humanity issue.

The International World Court and United Nations should be investigating why only wealthy Americans are able to receive federal retrials using proper legal representation and US poorer prison inmates are forced to be their own best lawyers from prison and failing in mass at their opportunities for federal retrial reviews.

Our judicial system just recently released 360 men who spent 25 to 40 years being incarcerated for rapes they never committed! Had these judicial victims been given appeal attorneys for their federal appeal reviews, just maybe they might have been given retrials and not have had to wait until DNA evidence exonerated them decades later.

Until our judicial system becomes so perfected to always accurately charge and convict the right individuals with crimes,we all have to stay focused on preserving every legal opportunity for the truly innocent to be able to rise up and out of our cold hearted prison system that treats everyone in their grasp as guilty equals.

The first step Georgia utilities are taking to try to get federal approval to build new nuclear reactors along the Savannah River is to apply for an “early site permit.” If the permit is issued, concerns such as water, land, public health, and safety cannot be brought up again even if we learn new information. For example, the new reactors will require tens of millions of gallons of water above and beyond the tens of millions Vogtle is already pulling from the Savannah River—this issue cannot be revisited again if the “early site permit” is granted. If approved, this permit essentially allows the Southern Company and its utility partners in Georgia to use the permit at any time for up to 20 years in any future applications with the NRC. Together, Atlanta WAND, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Center for a Sustainable Coast, Savannah Riverkeeper, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy legally challenged the permit.

The Savannah River basin and nearby communities are already suffering; building more nuclear reactors will only make this situation worse. Since the Early Site Permit (ESP) process allows a company to potentially ‘bank’ a site for up to 20 years, the NRC should have to look not only at Georgia ‘today,’ but the Georgia we are likely to live in several decades from now.

Water Use & Supply:

Atlanta Women’s Action for New Directions

Community Action is Needed

This is a Request for Your Support

!A Call-Out to the Community!

Tell the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board that you have concerns about the proposed expansion of Plant Vogtle from two nuclear reactors to four. Tell the Board that you are concerned about water use, accident risks, security, nuclear waste, and health impacts.

The Action: Email, fax, or postal mail the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board by noon, April 25^th to register* to speak at the public hearing being held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Augusta on Sunday, April 27^th or Monday, April 28^th.

Atlanta Women’s Action for New Direction (WAND) Presents Mother’s Day for Peace 2008

On Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 6 pm, Atlanta WAND will be holding its annual Mother’s Day for Peace event at Sisters Chapel on the campus of historic Spelman College.

Our Keynote Speaker and 2008 Honoree will be Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Alice Walker.

We will also be honoring local activists for peace; Alice Lovelace and Jackie Adams.

The reception will take place from 6 pm to 7 pm in the Cosby Center Lobby.

The program will begin at 7:15 in Sisters Chapel.

Event tickets are available for purchase online at www.atlantawand.org, or you may contact Atlanta WAND at 404.524.5999.

Contact for this event: Darci Rodenhi

Contact Phone: 404.524.5999

Atlanta Women’s Action for New Direction (WAND) Presents Mother’s Day for Peace 2008 

On Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 6 pm, Atlanta WAND will be holding its annual Mother’s Day for Peace event at Sisters Chapel on the campus of historic Spelman College.

Our Keynote Speaker and 2008 Honoree will be Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Alice Walker.

We will also be honoring local activists for peace; Alice Lovelace and Jackie Adams. 

The reception will take place from 6 pm to 7 pm in the Cosby Center Lobby. 

The program will begin at 7:15 in Sisters Chapel. 

Event tickets are available for purchase online at www.atlantawand.org, or you may contact Atlanta WAND at 404.524.5999.

Contact for this event: Darci Rodenhi

Contact Phone: 404.524.5999

Contact E-mail: wandatlanta@wand.org

Capital Terminus Collective presents

Andrew Flood on Anarchism in Ireland

April 10th, 7pm at 11:11 Teahouse (753 Edgewood Ave
NE, Atlanta)

Free to the public

A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland
consisted of little more than a dozen people in two
small organizations. Today hundreds of people are
active and one banned libertarian demonstration in
2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are
increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the
bogeyman of the mainstream media. This talk explains
how this breakthrough happened and details the various
struggles anarchists have been involved in.

Andrew is an active anarchist organizer and writer,
with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that
time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement.
More recently, he has been working as a founder member
of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record
includes well over one hundred articles, translated
into over nine languages, chapters published in three
books, and articles in seven English language
anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well
as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker
at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech
Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the
Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.

He has been editor of the anarchist publications
Workers Solidarity, Red & Black Revolution, Against
War and Terror and Linchpin. He was on the editorial
group of the first anarchist site to use the internet,
Spunk Press, which predated the invention of the web
(it used gopher). He has or is also on the editorial
groups of A-Infos, Anarkismo.net, WSM.ie and
Struggle.ws.

Where were you on February 15, 2003? New film looks at modern day Peace Movement.

The Pumpkinhead Production Company in association with DreamHouse Cinema are pleased to announce the release of their documentary DVD, Think Peace: Portrait of a 21st Century Movement. Filmed at the World Peace Forum held in Vancouver, British Columbia from June 23 - 28, 2006 the film examines the make up and direction of the peace movement in the 21st century.

On February 15th, 2003 the largest protest in human history occurred. Millions of people from all seven continents marched down the street of more than 800 cities to show that they did not support the invasion of Iraq. Yet even at the height of its power the movement was not able to stop the war. What went wrong?

This and other questions are explored in the film as we talk to such diverse people as Hans Blix, Rex Weyler, and Holly Near, among others. With over 40 citizen journalists participating in the project, over 120 hours of footage were captured and distilled into a 55 minute film by director Corey Ogilvie of DreamHouse Cinema.

In order to promote the film and celebrate "the other super power" that arose on February 15, 2003 we ask that you join us in celebrating the 5th Anniversary of this amazing event by declaring that February 15th be know internationally as "Think Peace" Day

A portion of the profits from this project will go to assist the War Resisters Support Campaign in Canada and the Iraq Veterans Against War in the U.S.

For more information go to our website at:

http://thinkpeacemovie.com/.

On Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008, there will be global actions against injustice
in response to a call by the World Social Forum for the peoples of the world
to act in unison against war, poverty, exploitation, and environmental degradation.

Atlanta, host city of the first US Social Forum, will be the venue for a statewide People's Movement Assembly, beginning with a caravan and rally at the state capitol. 

Initiated by the organizers of the annual Poor People's Day events at the
Capitol and inspired by 2008 being the 40th anniversary of the historic Poor
People's Campaign for Economic Justice launched by Dr. King, this multi-pronged
effort seeks to bring the voice, aspirations, needs and demands of millions
of working and poor people to the Georgia Capitol. 

Following the caravan and rally, participants will meet to exchange views,
plan ongoing actions and cement relationships and networks.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed throughout the state to mobilize their
communities.

I want to ask you for your participation in this year's Leonard Peltier Annual Holiday Gift Drive for the children of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. This project has gone on for years and I'm happy to be part of it this year in a supporting capacity.

My support crew will be creating a registry of gifts that will make it simple for you to buy a gift or two for the Native children on the Pine Ridge reservation. I'm honored to be working on a project initiated by Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier and run by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - true allies in the struggle for political prisoners and environmental protection. Please participate as much as you can to make a real difference in the lives of these children who live on one of the poorest reservations in the nation and also by lending your support to the struggle to free Leonard Peltier. Check http://www.supportdaniel.org and http://www.leonardpeltier.net

Sunday, Dec. 2, 4-7pm,  WRFG's 15th Annual Silent Auction, Inman Park Trolley Barn, 963 Edgewood Ave. (near Elizabeth St), $15 donation.