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Law and Disorder
Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing on several stations across the United States. Law and Disorder gives listeners access to rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government.
Law and Disorder is a weekly, independent radio program airing on several stations across the United States. Law and Disorder gives listeners access to rare legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and the horrendous practices of torture exercised by the US government.
This program examines the political forces and legislation that are moving the United States into a police state. Four of the top progressive attorneys and activists host the program and bring an amazing, diverse line up of guests from grassroots activists to politically mindful authors. Most importantly, Law and Disorder brings access to attorneys who give insights to some of the most controversial cases. Law and Disorder will sometimes be the generator of news within the radio echo-chamber throughout the country.
Program website – http://www.lawanddisorder.org/
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November 12, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Victory: Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules; and United States Officially Recognizes The Armenian Genocide
In a stunning victory for free speech, the National Park Service was recently forced to withdraw a proposal that would have place burdensome restrictions on protests on the Mall and other federal land in Washington, DC.
In a bipartisan rebuke to Turkey after its offensive into northeastern Syria, the U.S. House of Representatives recently approved a symbolic resolution labeling the deaths of roughly 1.5 to 2 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire, now modern-day Turkey, as a "genocide."
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November 5, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Potential Retrial For Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown); and Kings Bay Plowshare 7 Face Sentencing After Powerful Testimony
Imam Jamil Al-Amin was one of the original four targets of the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO program. Known in the 1960s and 70s as H. Rap Brown he was the chairperson of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and former Minister of Justice for the Black Panther Party.
In a dramatic action to break what they call the crime of silence seven Catholic peace activists entered the Kings Bay Trident Submarine Base in Georgia last April to perform an act of symbolic disarmament. They were arrested, tried two weeks ago and quickly convicted on October 24, 2019 in a Georgia court. They face more than 25 years in prison.
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Jeremy Hammond Refused To Answer Federal Grand Jury Questions; US Abandons Kurds Again; and Fall Out From US Troop Withdrawal From Syria
Imprisoned information activist Jeremy Hammond was recently found in contempt for refusing to answer seven questions in front of a Federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Thousands of the Kurdish-led fighters died while fighting ISIS, and now say they've been betrayed by America. Since 2011 United States has had troops in Syria in violation of both the US Constitution and the United Nations charter.
ListenOctober 22, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Impeachment Inquiry With Constitutional Law Professor Marjorie Cohn; and Trump Impeachment Inquiry With Author Ron Jacobs
Nearly 300 former U.S. national security and foreign policy officials signed an open letter on October 6, calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine. The signatures were gathered by National Security Action, an organization that former Obama administration officials and signed by others who served as career officials in Republican and Democratic administrations.
Like President Richard Nixon before him President Donald Trump made the mistake of using his power as president to go after the wrong target. This transgression, not Trump,s caging of children, violating the separation of powers, or violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, was viewed by the mainstream of the Democratic Party as impeachable.
Read MoreOctober 15, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
U.S. Judge Sides With Chevron, Blocks $9.5 Billion Judgement; and McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks By Raymond Caballero
In 2012 the Ecuadorian Supreme Court ordered the oil giant Chevron to pay $9.5 billion in damages, one of the largest judgments in history, to five indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Chevron sued in federal court in the Southern District of New York, got Judge Louis Kaplan, an extremely pro corporate judge, to block the judgment from being enforced.
Clinton Jencks was a decorated World War II hero, who in 1950 led a local of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in the famed Empire Zinc strike. Jencks was arrested and charged with falsely denying that he was a Communist and sentenced to five years in prison. The Supreme Court in Jencks v. United States (1957), overturned his conviction in a landmark decision
Read MoreOctober 8, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Case Update October 2019 and Flint Water Crisis Case; and Michigan Private Prisons Update
In a dramatic action to break what they call the crime of silence seven Catholic peace activists entered the Kings Bay trident submarine base in Georgia last April to perform an act of symbolic disarmament. The plowshares seven face up to 25 years in federal prison.
The notorious Flint, Michigan poison drinking water case has been in litigation for more than three years. Detroit constitutional attorney Bill Goodman joins us to give an update on the case. We will also speak with him about his lawsuit against a private prison corporation for negligence in allowing a gang execution in one of the private prisons it owns.
ListenOctober 1, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Power of Attorney: Can Progressive Prosecutors Achieve Meaningful Criminal Justice Reform? and The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World
People don't realize how the DAs decisions impact people facing the criminal justice system and the long-term consequences suffered by their families and communities. They are the gatekeepers to the criminal justice system.
The CIA's original mandate was to collect and analyze strategic information for use in war. Though shrouded in secrecy, some CIA activities"such as covert military and cybersecurity operations"have drawn public scrutiny and criticism.
ListenSeptember 24, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
When at Times the Mob is Swayed, A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic; and Environmental Activist Maggy Hurchalla Loses Appeal Of 4.4 Million Dollar Jury Verdict
Constitutional Lawyer, Burt Neuborne is the former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and has argued many cases before the US Supreme Court. His book When at Times the Mob is Swayed has been recently published by the New Press.
78-year-old Maggy Hurchalla, a former Everglades Coalitions Conservationist of the Year and winner of a National Wetlands Award from the Environmental Law Institute. Now she owes a developer $4.4 million for speaking out about a critical local environmental issue.
ListenSeptember 17, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Amazon Ring Of Surveillance and North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five
When it comes to e-commerce, the multinational tech company Amazon.com has laid claim to a huge corner on the market. Now, its venturing into the business of surveillance.
North of Havana: The Untold Story of Dirty Politics, Secret Diplomacy, and the Trial of the Cuban Five is the recent publication by our guest, attorney Martin Garbus.
ListenSeptember 10, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Center for Constitutional Rights Update With Legal Director Baher Azmy; and Update: Venezuela Under Economic Embargo
Attorney Baher Azmy, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights will talk about a number of cases seeking to protect immigrants and about the current status of the offshore prison island in Guantnamo Bay Cuba as well as a case where the US government farmed out torture to a private corporation.
Gloria LaRiva joins us today to discuss the crucial issues facing Venezuelans: the U.S. economic sanctions, the U.S. media blockade, the peoples organizing efforts to overcome the aggression and how Venezuela is holding up under an economic embargo.
ListenSeptember 3, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
SKIN: The Movie; and Reforming Sex Offender Laws
Since 1988 Daryle Lamont Jenkins, founder of One Peoples Project, has been documenting and writing about right wing individuals and organizations even back while he was serving as a police officer in the U.S. Air Force.
St. Francis College professor Emily Horowitz and co-editor and law professor Larry Dubin make the case for reform of Sex Offender Laws in their book Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System: Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses.
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