The prison reform activist community presses on, despite a depressing showing during last year’s session. (We actually took a step back, as 17 year-olds were all tried as adults for a period of several months last summer and fall.) While criminal justice decisions shouldn’t be predicated on financial considerations, the state budget predicament makes any […]
Obama’s speech yesterday addressing race and the manufactured Jeremiah Wright controversy was brilliant and moving. Whether you agree with that assessment or see him as a crafty politician giving another pretty speech, it is notable for the fact that he actually dared to speak to the voters about a difficult issue as if they were
It’s extraordinary to realize that it’s been four years since Miguel Luna and I spoke at Beneficent Church, upon the first anniversary of the Iraq war. Tomorrow at noon, we’ll be gathering at there once more to demonstrate our continued opposition to the war: In order to raise local awareness of these issues and their
One scraggly hippie grad student at a time. (Guns drawn, and without a warrant.) The video’s here, in the ‘featured videos’ section.
Justice League: New Frontier, the cartoon adaption of Darwyn Cooke’s instant classic about the dawn of the Silver Age of DC Comics, came out on DVD last week. When I was watching it, I was somewhat disappointed. My friends who hadn’t read the miniseries thought it was sweet, but I guess the actual comics ruined
RIFuture has coverage of the legislative package that we unveiled at the Assembly today: Rep. Grace Diaz, Sen. Juan Pichardo, Sen. Charles Levesque, Rep. David Segal, and Rep. Joe Almeida will join Immigrants United at a news conference to unveil the Campaign for Fairness, Respect and Civil Rights – a legislative platform that promotes racial
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Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison: More than one in 100 adults Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government, according to a report released today. With more than 2.3 million people