Law and Disorder
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Law and Disorder May 20, 2013
Updates: Lynne Stewart Compassionate Release Petition Please Also Write to: Charles E Samuels Jr. / Federal Bureau of Prisons / 320 1st Street Northwest / Washington DC 20534 —— Court Upholds Broad Injunction to Remedy FDNY Discrimination We talk today about recent developments in the New York City Fire Department discrimination case known as [...]
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Law and Disorder May 13, 2013
Updates: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Update: Lynne Stewart Petition For Compassionate Release Michael Ratner Visits Julian Assange: Kissinger Documents Chris Hedges: The Death of Truth ——- MOVE Bombing: 28th Anniversary This week marks the 28th anniversary of an armed police mission in Philadelphia that ended in a helicopter bombing of the headquarters of the group [...]
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Law and Disorder May 6, 2013
IRS Allows Private Prison Corporation Tax Exemption Status Billboard companies, casinos and private prisons are among many American corporations declaring the status of special trusts in order to avoid paying federal taxes. The Corrections Corporation of America which owns and operates 44 prisons and detention centers in the United States has quietly received permission [...]
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Law and Disorder April 29, 2013
Updates: Public Safety Exception to Miranda Sign Lynne Stewart Petition For Her Compassionate Release — The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals Has the Department of Justice been taken over by a conservative organization little known to the average citizen? In the recently published book titled The Federalist Society: How Conservatives [...]
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Law and Disorder April 22, 2013
Please Sign Petition To Help Lynne Stewart Long time literary agent Francis Golden has for years visited inmates on death row. She’s recently returned from visiting Lynne Stewart in the Carswell Medical Facility in Texas. She joins hosts to talk about her visit. Francis Golden: We were there for 4 days and most of the [...]
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Law and Disorder April 15, 2013
Political Prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz Update We welcome back Bret Grote, a member of Russell Maroon Shoatz’s legal team. Political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz who has spent 39 years in the US prison system. As many listeners may know, Russell Shoatz has been held under intense lock down spending no more than one hour [...]
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Law and Disorder April 8, 2013
Updates: Please Sign the Lynne Stewart Compassionate Release Petition Please Also Write to: Charles E Samuels Jr. / Federal Bureau of Prisons / 320 1st Street Northwest / Washington DC 20534 Anniversary of Collateral Damage Video Release University Stadium Victory – GeoCorp Prisons — Guantanamo Hunger Strike Update Attorney Omar Farah speaks with Michael Ratner [...]
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Law and Disorder April 1, 2013
Updates: MOMA Suggested Donation Lawsuit —- Michael Smith and Dennis James Discuss Cuba Trip Co-host Michael Smith and attorney Dennis James recently returned from Cuba on a trip led by the Center for Cuban Studies. Dennis is a civil rights lawyer formerly of Detroit and former Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild. The trip [...]
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Law and Disorder March 25, 2013
Updates: New York Times Continues To Deceive About Iraq War – New York City Stop and Frisk Trial Begins Here on Law and Disorder, we’ve been covering the stop and frisk case known as Floyd v City of New York and the New York Police Department. This is a federal class action lawsuit challenging New [...]
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Law and Disorder March 18, 2013
Updates: Bradley Manning Plea Update: Freedom of the Press Foundation Bradley Manning Audio Michael Ratner On The Bill Keller’s Bradley Manning/Wikileaks NYT Op Ed Ten Years Later: Iraq US-led Invasion Remembering Hugo Chavez Free Lynn Stewart: Compassionate Release Petition — The Search for Colonel James Steele: US Special Forces Veterans Links General Petraeus With Torture [...]
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Law and Disorder March 11, 2013
Updates: Police Dog Recovers Buried Weapon, Then Fires Weapon. Michael Ratner: Bradley Manning Case Update Read Transcript of Bradley Manning Statement —- Sequester As A Form Of Austerity In The United States We welcome Economics Professor and radio host Rick Wolff back on the show to discuss the current billion dollar cuts known as the [...]
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Law and Disorder March 4, 2013
Updates: FISA Court Surveillance: Supreme Court Allows, You Have No Standing Hosts Discuss CIA Sponsored Cinema ——– Zero Tolerance Policy: School to Prison Pipeline? As many listeners may know, zero-tolerance school policies will punish any infraction of a rule regardless of whether it was an accident, a violation out of ignorance or extenuating circumstances. Schools [...]
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Law and Disorder February 25, 2013
Updates: Private Prison Corporation To Have Its Name on Florida Atlantic Football Stadium — Priests of Our Democracy, The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge Priests of Our Democracy, The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge is the title of the recently published book by attorney Marjorie Heins. The book examines [...]
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Law and Disorder February 18, 2013
Updates: Pope’s Resignation May Make International Prosecution Easier All Charges Dropped For Occupy Protesters A Call for Drastic Changes in Educating New Lawyers —- Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking In the past 2 years, we’ve discussed in many interviews and updates, the attacks on whistle-blowers and hackers. The emerging movement of programmers, [...]
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Law and Disorder February 11, 2013
Updates: NLG-NYC Attorneys Challenge NYPD Surveillance of Muslim Communities Center for Constitutional Rights Responds to Newly Released Targeted Killing White Paper — Boycott Divestment Sanction Controversy At Brooklyn College Last month, a backlash of controversy erupted after the announcement of a student group at CUNY’s Brooklyn College, Students for Justice in Palestine will host [...]
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Law and Disorder February 4, 2013
Updates: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia-Abu-Jamal Freedom 7 Case Challenging NDAA of 2013 – Pack the Courtroom: Wednesday February 6th, 2013, 10:00 AM – Room 1505, 40 Foley Square CCR and NLG Team Up To Provide Legal Support For Palestinian Activism: Palestinelegalsupport.org Obama Administration GTMO Office Vanishes Michael Ratner’s Sundance Film Festival Report: [...]
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Law and Disorder January 28, 2013
Mass Incarceration Epidemic On January 19, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee 1199 SEIU activists presented the 17th Annual Dinner Tribute to the Families of our Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War. It was called Transforming Solidarity: Working Together to End Political Imprisonment and Mass Imprisonment and was held at the Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
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Law and Disorder January 21, 2013
—- Remembering the Life and Influence of Aaron Swartz Last week, computer activist and programmer Aaron Swartz allegedly took his own life. Swartz as many listeners may know helped develop RSS, essentially revolutionizing how people use the internet and was the key architect of Creative Commons. He believed information should be free and used his [...]
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Law and Disorder January 14, 2013
Updates: Guantanamo Bay Prison 11th Anniversary Abu Ghraib Settlement: Defense Contractor Engility Holdings Pays $5M To Iraqi Torture Detainees Stop and Frisk Lawyers Praise Decision Finding NYPD Stops Unconstitutional Bradley Manning Case: Judge Gives 112 Days of Sentence If Convicted Law and Disorder Tip of the Hat: New Yorkers Respond to Hateful Subway Ads & [...]
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Law and Disorder January 7, 2013
Updates: Chile: 40 Years Later Eight Former Army Lieutenants Charged in the Killing of Communist Performer/Songwriter Victor Jara. Heidi Boghosian and Johanna Fernandez Visit Mumia Abu-Jamal During Holidays Death Penalty States In The United States Update Jeremy Hammond’s Judge Refuses To Recuse Herself ——- FBI Considers The Occupy Movement A Terrorist Threat: The State of [...]
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Law and Disorder December 31, 2012
Updates: CIA “Interrogations” in Iraq: Torture and Rape of Detained Women European Court of Human Rights Labels CIA Interrogation Procedures as “Torture” —– Tariq Ali: Turning Points in the History of Imperialism Today we’re joined by internationally renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali. Tariq is visiting from London where he is editor of the New [...]
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Law and Disorder December 24, 2012
Updates: Hosts Discuss War Culture and the Newtown Connecticut School Massacre Letter to University of California President Advising Him of Need to Protect Protect Pro-Palestinian Speech on Campus Michael Ratner Remembers Former Federal Judge and Conservative Legal Scholar Robert Bork Six Month Anniversary Julian Assange at Ecuadoran Embassy: Free Press Foundation —— Political Prisoner Lynne [...]
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Law and Disorder December 10, 2012
Updates: Michael Ratner: Attends Bradley Manning Hearing Psychiatrist Testimony: Manning Not A Suicide Threat Rumsfeld Techniques: Stripping, Lights 24 Hours, Sleep Disruption, Solitary Manning Testifies About Torture; Was it Aimed at Turning Him on Assange with Michael Ratner First Presentation by David Coombs –Manning Attorney with Michael Ratner Michael Ratner Discusses Jeremy Hammond Case On [...]
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Law and Disorder December 3, 2012
Updates: Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan To Rule In Stop and Frisk Case NYPD Subpoena Phone Records of Stolen Phones – Amassing Database Julian Assange Book – Cypherpunks Bradley Manning Hearing Update Husband of Jeremy Hammond’s Judge Victim Of Stratfor Email Hack ——– Who Bombed Judi Bari? Who Bombed Judi Bari? [...]
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Law and Disorder November 26, 2012
Updates: Michael Ratner and Michael Smith discuss Jeremy Hammond Court Case Freehammond.com Israel and Gaza Bombing Update Israel The Third Largest Arms Seller Globally Weapons Experimenting In Gaza —- Iyad Burnat, Head of the Popular Committee in Bil’in, Palestine We hear excerpts of the presentation by Iyad Burnat, head of the Bil’in Popular Committee and [...]
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Law and Disorder November 19, 2012
Updates: Jeremy Hammond Case Update: Currently In MCA Julian Assange Update: Ecuador Embassy, London Bradley Manning Hearing at Fort Meade – November 27-December 22 National Security State Eats Its Own? General Petraeus Scandal Analysis Israel Bombing Gaza: Operation Pillar of Cloud. Timeline CCR Files Complaint Against the UN Committee Against Torture: Canada Directly Violates Convention [...]
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Law and Disorder November 12, 2012
Updates: Hosts Update On Hurricane Sandy Obama Re-election: What Does It Mean For Basic Civil Rights? Drones, Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Warrantless Wiretapping. PLO and CCR Victory – Muhammad Salah Holy Land Case Update – Supreme Court Refuses To Review Sixth Amendment Right —- Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Attorney Diana Butto The final session of the [...]
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Law and Disorder November 5, 2012
Crisis In Syria Update: Black Agenda Report Thousands of Syrians have died in the escalating conflict between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those that oppose his leadership. The viscous internal power struggles have forced tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into other countries including Turkey. This conflict could represent a threat to [...]
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Law and Disorder October 29, 2012
Updates: Supreme Court Decision on Qualified Immunity: Dick Cheney NYPD Turned Young Man Into Informant: Mosque Crawler —– Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation It’s an undisputed fact: both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations actively engaged in various methods of torture, and have done so with impunity. Despite initial public [...]
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Law and Disorder October 22, 2012
Updates: Michael Ratner: Military Commissions – The 911 Five Hamden Case Goes To The Court of Appeals In DC Former Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks Could Get Proceeds From His Book CCR: Julian Assange Jeopardy – NDAA — Russell Tribunal on Palestine Findings We follow up on the findings of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. As [...]
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Law and Disorder October 15, 2012
Updates: Chipotle Signs Fair Food Agreement With Coalition of Immokalee Workers Michael Ratner: Supreme Court Rules On Telecom Immunity Bush Politicians Accepted Donations From Terrorist Group M.E.K. Veterans and Allies Arrested in New York as Afghanistan War Enters Year 12 —- Anti-Drone Action: Code Pink Delegation to Pakistan Two weeks ago a delegation of 40 [...]
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Law and Disorder October 8, 2012
Updates: Mass Probable Cause – 2004 RNC Case Update Senate Report: 77 Fusion Centers “Pools of Ineptitude” Michael Ratner: Three Important Confinement Cases In Memory of Ernesto Che Guevara: 45 Years Lynne Stewart Update —— Universal Jurisdiction: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell / Bush 6 Case In Spain This week the US Supreme Court will [...]
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Law and Disorder October 1, 2012
Updates: PFCJ Challenge Sidewalk Arrests During Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Insane Clown Posse To Sue The FBI Texas Policeman Shoots Wheelchair Bound Man In The Head ———– ACLU Issues Statement In Response to Father-Daughter Dance Controversy In Rhode Island, the Cranston School Department recently announced that it is banning traditional “father-daughter” and “mother-son” activities. citing [...]
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Law and Disorder September 24, 2012
Updates: Michael Ratner: Judge Basically Says NDAA is Lawless War Crimes and Truth Tellers:Baltasar Garzn and Julian Assange – by Michael Ratner —– The Russell Tribunal on Palestine The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is holding its fourth and last session in New York City, October 6 through the 7th. This public session focuses on the [...]
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Law and Disorder September 17, 2012
Updates: US Refuses To Extradite Former Bolivian President Jose Padilla Re-Sentencing Ward Churchill Case Update – Are University Board of Regents Immune? Armenia Protests Extradition of Axe Murderer —— Department of Defense Declassifies Report on Alleged Drugging of Detainees Hosts discuss a recently declassified report on alleged drugging of Guantanamo [...]
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Law and Disorder September 10, 2012
Updates: Bradley Manning Public Access Case: Amicus Brief Filed by Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press Southern Poverty Law Center Lawsuit Against Chemically Spraying Students ——— Attorney Heidi Boghosian Speech: National Special Security Events – RNC / DNC We hear a presentation by our own Heidi Boghosian. Heidi spoke at an event sponsored by [...]
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Law and Disorder September 3, 2012
Updates Michael Ratner: Update on Verdict – Corrie v State of Israel Cardinal Dolan Who Approved Payoffs For Priests Accused of Sex Abuse To Leave Priesthood Gives Speech At RNC and Closing Speech for DNC —– Islamophobia: Anatomy of an American Panic In the last few weeks, 8 places of worship connected with South [...]
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Law and Disorder August 27, 2012
Updates: Michael Ratner: Update on Julian Assange —- Attorney Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five Earlier this summer we talked with renowned First Amendment and civil rights attorney Martin Garbus about joining the Cuban Five’s legal defense team. He recently filed an affidavit in the Miami Federal District Court based on US government misconduct of [...]
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Law and Disorder August 20, 2012
Updates: Guatemala Medical Experimentation Victims to Appeal Dismissal of Suit International Agent Orange Day 2012: 51 years of US Spraying Agent Orange In Vietnam —– A Challenge to a Brutal Anti-Latino Law Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently went on trial in Arizona for discriminating against Latinos and for usurping federal authority with roundups of undocumented immigrants. [...]
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Law and Disorder August 13, 2012
Updates: Heidi Boghosian Updates on RNC/DNC Demonstrations Michael Ratner: Julian Assange and Bradley Manning Update You Have The Right To Remain Silent Booklet —- The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History. We continue to look into the the Bradley Manning story, the biggest [...]
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Law and Disorder August 6, 2012
Updates: Maryland Law Allows Police To Collect DNA During Arrests Heidi Boghosian: National Lawyers Guild Monitoring RNC / DNC Demonstrations In Memory: Michael Nash In Memory: Alexander Cockburn In Memory: Professor John (Tito) Gerassi You Have The Right To Remain Silent Booklet ———– Unrepentant Radical Educator: The Writings of John Gerassi Professor John (Tito) Gerassi, [...]
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