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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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July 30, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Law and Disorder • July 30, 2019
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.
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July 23, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Bronx 120 Report 2019 Questions Largest Gang Take Down; and Period Equity Tax
Three years ago, on April 27, 2016, SWAT teams and about 700 NYPD officers, with federal law enforcement present, raided the Eastchester Gardens public housing project and nearby homes in the Bronx. One hundred twenty people, almost all young black and Latino men, who were indicted after the pre-dawn raid.
Thousands of health and personal care items in the United States are exempt from sales tax including items like shampoo, chapstick, and Viagra. To-date only nine states include tampons and sanitary pads from their tax exempt list.
ListenJuly 16, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire; Autonomous Weapons Systems And Laws of War; and Supreme Court On Partisan Gerrymandering And The Census Question
If a modern day Gibbons were to write about the decline and fall of the American empire she would surely feature Trumps bringing road crushing Abrams tanks and F15 fighter planes into Washington DC. The Pentagon is developing for future deployment a variety of autonomous weapons systems. They are known as killer robots. In its unprecedented decision in Rucho v. Common Cause and Camon v. Bemusement Justice Roberts wrote that supreme court would not get involved in election rigging matters, although majority rule is a foundation of American democracy.
ListenJuly 9, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Data Collection Experiment: Google’s SideWalk Labs In Toronto; and Impeachment Analysis Of President Donald Trump
Sidewalk Labs is a firm owned by Google parent company Alphabet. Critics are concerned about residents privacy, how data would be used and a departure from the principles of citizen participation and accountability that has guided city planning in Canada.
Calls to impeach President Donald Trump rest on solid legal ground and there is already more than adequate evidence supporting at least seven articles of impeachment " four more than President Richard M. Nixon would have faced
July 9, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Law and Disorder • July 9, 2019
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.
Read MoreJuly 2, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Lawyers You’ll Like: Attorney Nancy Hollander; and Supreme Court: Cable Companies Can Limit Public Access
Lawyer You'll Like, Nancy Hollander's practice has largely been devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues. Last month United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5 to 4 decision that TV cable companies can, in the words of our guest, losing plaintive DeeDee Halleck, censor whatever, whoever, and whenever they want.
Read MoreJune 25, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW; Two Members Of MOVE 9 Released From Prison After 40 Years
When the United States entered WWI, the government feared the threat of a labor strike by the IWW would hold up war production. Officials in the relatively young Department of Justice determined that a coordinated strategy would be necessary to prevent stoppages. Members of the so-called Move 9, 63-year-old Jane and 68-year-old Janet were arrested and imprisoned for a crime they say they did not commit after a police siege of their home in August 1978.
Read MoreJune 18, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Analyzing Recent Abortion Legislation; and Cuban Revolution 60th Anniversary And The 1996 Helms-Burton Act
Halfway through 2019 nine states have already passed bills to limit abortion in order to challenge the constitutional right established in Roe v.Wade. July 26, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban revolution the date revolutionary troops led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara marched into Havana.
ListenJune 11, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Daniel Ellsberg: Julian Assange’s Case And The Doomsday Machine
The Trump administration announced it had indicted Julian Assange on 17 counts of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Today's guest Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon papers to the New York Times and other media outlets and was charged in 1971.
Read MoreJune 4, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Suicide Increase In The United States
Suicide ranks in top ten leading causes of death in the United States and suicides per 100,000 rose over 30 percent between 1999 and 2015. Those in midlife had the largest uptick in suicide.
Read MoreMay 28, 2019 National, News & Public Affairs
Museum of the City of New York; and Current Analysis Of U.S. Threats Against Iran
The Museum of the City of New York has two terrific exhibits at the Puffin Foundation gallery on social change activism and on city of workers, city of struggle. Recently Iran has been shaken by a wave series of protests. Economic hardships from austerity measures spawned demonstrations
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