The Justice Network
Justice Projects
Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system. Read more here
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and
Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 271 people in the United States have
been exonerated by DNA testing, including 17 who served time on death row. These people served an average of 13 years in prison before exoneration and release.
The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students provide direct representation or critical assistance in most of these cases. The Innocence
Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic
defects. Now an independent nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the staggering
numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. Read more here
Innocence Project Florida
The Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) began in January of 2003 in response to an October 1, 2003, filing deadline for post-conviction DNA motions. Beginning with two advocates (Jennifer Greenberg and Sheila Meehan) working out of a hallway at the FSU College of Law, IPF has been screening, investigating, placing and litigating innocence cases ever since. We have to date received thousands of inquiries and/or requests for assistance. Read more here
First Amendment Foundation
The First Amendment Foundation is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the public's constitutional right to oversee its government through Florida's Sunshine and Public Records Law. Acting as the public's advocate, the Foundation provides a variety of services to citizens, government officials, and the media. Read more here
NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ACTION
NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ACTION
810 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60642
National People's Action (NPA) is a Network of community power organizations from across the country that work to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda. NPA has over 200 organizers working to unite everyday people in cities, towns, and rural communities throughout the United States.
Credit Segregation Report, February 2011
Credit Segregation Report, February 2011
NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ACTION
Three years into the massive financial crisis, the economic fallout has clearly not impacted all areas of the nation equally. As this report documents, sharp racial
divides exist in terms of the prevalence of mainstream, wealthbuilding credit and the availability of high-priced, subprime loan products such as "payday" loans. This report examines the recent
availability of consumer credit in African-American and Latino communities in five major Midwestern metropolitan areas: Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI, Kansas City, MO-KS, Peoria, IL, and St. Louis MO-IL.
This report focuses on two consumer loan products at the opposite ends of the credit spectrum: home mortgage refinance loans and cash advance or payday loans.
Together the disparate availability of these products paints a disturbing picture of consumer credit conditions in the areas where most African-Americans and Latinos live during this third year of
financial crisis. Read more here
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
Human Rights Watch on Wikipedia
Mission Statement: Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all. Read more here
Report: Debtor Prisons on the Rise
Amy Goodman and Democracy Now
Report: Debtor Prisons on the Rise
New reports by the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice have found a
sharp rise in debtor prisons across the country. Poor defendants are being jailed for failing to pay legal debts. In Ohio, a man named Howard Webb, who earns $7 an hour as a dishwasher, has served
two stints in jail totaling over 300 days for being unable to pay nearly $3,000 in fines and costs from various criminal and traffic cases. In Michigan, a twenty-five-year-old single mother named
Kawana Young has been jailed five times for being unable to afford to pay a few minor traffic tickets. Eric Balaban of the ACLU said, "Incarcerating people simply because they cannot afford to pay
their legal debts is not only unconstitutional but also has a devastating impact upon men and women, whose only crime is that they are poor."
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than
150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights.
Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights
standards.
We are independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion and are funded mainly by our membership and public donations. Read more here
Amnesty International on Wikipedia
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER
Is an archive of articles and book excerpts that seek to tell the truth about American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the
United States government, transnational corporations, global trade and financial institutions, and the corporate media, on democracy, social and economic justice, human rights, and war and peace, in
the Third World, and in the developed world.
THIRD WORLD TRAVELER also provides information and links to aid international
travelers.
Amy BachAmy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine, among other publications. For her work in progress on Ordinary Injustice, Bach received a Soros Media Fellowship, a special J. Anthony Lukas citation, and a Radcliffe Fellowship. She was a Knight Foundation Journalism Fellow at Yale Law School. And she is a graduate of Stanford Law School. She lives in Rochester, New York, where she has taught legal studies at the University of Rochester. Read more
"The very people who have helped perpetrate ordinary injustice met with me repeatedly, for countless hours to talk about their roles and answer questions they might well have preferred to ignore. In their transparency, we can see the outline for change." - Amy Bach
Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court
Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. In the process, she
discovered how the professionals who work in the system, however well intentioned, cannot see the harm they are doing to the people they serve. In a sweeping inquiry that moves from small-town
Georgia to upstate New York, from Mississippi to Chicago, Ordinary Injustice shows us the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the rules lawyers play by for the rule of law.
Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who
habitually declines to pursue significant cases; the court that works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Amy Bach goes beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding to reveal
a clubby legal culture of compromise. She exposes an assembly-line approach to justice that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the
court calendar moving. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible—the first and necessary step to reform.
Full of gripping human stories, sharp analysis, and a sense of urgency, Ordinary Injustice is a major reassessment of the health of the nation’s courtrooms. Read more on Amazon.com
Does America Need a ‘Justice Index’ to
Evaluate Criminal Courts?
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Debra Cassens Weiss
August 11, 2010
Statistics are used to evaluate schools, hospitals and other public services. So why not use numbers to evaluate the court system? Writing in the New York Times, lawyer and author Amy Bach says
America needs a "justice index" to evaluate how criminal courts are working.
Right now, Bach says, the lack of data is harmful. "Without public awareness of a court system’s strengths and weaknesses, inefficiencies and civil liberties violations are never remedied," she
writes. Bach is a legal journalist and the author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court. Read more here
Justice by the Numbers
The New York Times
By AMY BACH
August 10, 2010
IN communities across the country, people use statistics on hospitals, schools and other public services to decide where to live or how to vote. But while millions of
Americans deal with their local criminal courts as defendants and victims each year, there is no comparable way to assess a judicial system and determine how well it provides basic legal
services.
This lack of data has a corrosive effect: without public awareness of a court system’s strengths and weaknesses, inefficiencies and civil liberties violations are never remedied. Read more here
WITNESS, Inc. International Human Rights Group
WITNESS, Inc.
International Human Rights Group
Witness (human rights group)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WITNESS is a human rights non-profit organization based out of Brooklyn, NY. Their mission statement is "WITNESS uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. WITNESS empowers
people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change." The organization was founded in 1992 by Peter Gabriel, along with the
help of Human Rights First (then known as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) and its founding executive director Michael Posner (lawyer), and has since worked with over 300 organizations in over
70 countries.
Attorney Richard I Fine, incarcerated for exposing judicial misconduct in California
Was Sunny Sheu Murdered? Judicial Corruption Activist Dead
Sunny SheuWas Sunny Sheu Murdered?
Judicial Corruption Activist Dead
From 4closureFraud
Sunny Sheu has been fighting judicial corruption since his home was stolen by mortgage fraud allegedly aided and abetted by Judge Joseph Golia of Queens.
Sunny was kidnapped, intimidated and threatened by two NYPD detectives at the Queens DA bureau. He was told by the detectives that if he took his case to the media or
filed a complaint against Golia he would be killed.
Sunny was told by the Captain of the 109th pct that the cops detained him because he had put a letter in Golia’s mailbox, proving it was Golia that ordered the illegal
detention.
Later, Sunny uncovered evidence of misrepresentations on Golia’s financial disclosure statements and on Thursday, June 24, 2010 he announced that he had evidence
sufficient to have Golia arrested. Read more here. Also posted on Zero Hedge, Being Middle Class, and Parent Advocates
The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project
Injustice Everywhere
The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project
Did you know that the last time the US government bothered to gather any information about the problem of police misconduct in the United States was in
2002?
Even then, the study they did only covered 5% of the police departments in the US and, on top of that, participation was only voluntary and relied on what police
departments were willing to report about misconduct within their own ranks.
One of the biggest obstacles in the way towards solving the problem of police brutality and misconduct is a fundamental lack of information about police
misconduct.
The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP), established in April of 2009, is a non-partisan, non-governmental project devoted to help
resolve that problem. The NPMSRP gathers data on police misconduct through reports of misconduct made available through the media and generates statistical and trending information based on those
reports.
The project analyzes media reports several times a day to locate reports of police misconduct, records those reports in a database, and then transmits details about each
report in a publicly available social media news feed on Twitter. Read more here
Francisco Olguin Federal Lawsuit, case 11-cv-01578
Francisco Olguin Seeks Counsel In Federal Lawsuit 11-cv-01578
Francisco Olguin in his own words:
I want to sue the city and the Chicago Police for false arrest (1 beer DUI), conspiracy to frame (many people) slander , defamation of character, race discrimination,
police harassment, divulged false health information (destroyed name), emotional distress for over 4 years, street harassment caused by their slander, work sexual harassment caused by their slander
and wrongful termination (made over $70K at AT&T for 9 years), obstructing justice for over 2 years and others counts, I filed a pro se lawsuit in February you can see it 11-cv-01578 it explains
all the crimes and damages in detail. I never had any trouble at work or any where else with my friends or anybody else until racist cops destroyed my name. I got along with everybody at work and
every where else for many years, proving everything they slandered my name for is false. They destroyed my name so badly now I cant even find job or anything else.
I sent you the pro se lawsuit me and brother in law put together, it needs some work but it explains all the damages in detail.
I was the head mechanic for 2 different garages for AT&t for 9 years, I was in charge of the maintenance and repair of over 80 vans, trucks and other equipment worth
millions of dollars.
Thank you
Francisco Olguin
3755 w. 55th St.
Chicago IL 60632
(773) 585-2711
Complaint, March 7, 2011
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Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA)
Federal Indian Policy is unaccountable, destructive, racist and unconstitutional. It is therefore CERA’s mission to ensure the equal protection of the law as guaranteed
to all citizens by the Constitution of the United States of America. Read more here
Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA)
By Julie Shortridge
Many citizens assume that our federal and state governments support the basic American goals of freedom, fairness, and "equal justice for all." After all, these are founding principles on which our
nation and constitution were established.
But many state and federal court judges, the state attorney general, the governor, and Minnesota's members of Congress tolerate a policy that specifically denies American citizens their most basic
constitutional rights.
Indian people living on reservations are not granted the same civil rights the rest of Americans take for granted, such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, open elections, a trial by a jury of
one's peers, legal representation of one's choice, and the right to due process in a court of law. Non-Indian people who enter onto a reservation or "tribal trust status lands" also give up these
basic civil rights and constitutional protections. Read more here
Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency,
accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation's public life and
seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people. Judicial Watch fulfills its educational mission through litigation,
investigations, and public outreach.
The motto of Judicial Watch is "Because no one is above the law". To this end, Judicial Watch uses the open records or freedom of information laws and other tools to
investigate and uncover misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities. Read more here
Judicial Watch on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Law review: Florida Civil Gideon
The 1963 Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) established that
state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys.
The concept of Civil Gideon follows this line of reasoning. Talbot "Sandy" D’Alemberte wrote about the right to legal representation in civil cases in his law review Tributaries of Justice: The Search For Full Access, 25 Fla. St. U. L. Rev 631
Sandy D’AlemberteV. Tributary Four: A Civil Gideon Fund From A Service Tax On For-Profit Legal Services.
"Some court opinions hint that access to legal representation in civil cases might be a constitutional entitlement. footnote 58, See In re Amendments to Rules
Regulating The Florida Bar—1-3.1(a) and Rules of Judicial Administration—2.065 (Legal Aid), 598 So. 2d 41, 43 (Fla. 1992) (noting that "the right to counsel is no longer limited to criminal
cases")."
"Such a proposal has already been offered which estimates that a one percent sales tax would raise $20 million each year for a proposed state Civil Gideon Fund. footnote 59, See Keith Beyler &
Ronald Spears, Funding Access to Civil Justice 34 (May 14, 1992) (unpublished manuscript presented at the Illinois State Bar Association’s Allerton House Conference) (on file with author). A Civil
Gideon Fund is a fund designed to help meet the legal needs of the poor."
Talbot "Sandy" D’Alemberte, Spring, 1998
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A Justice Report, Secret Evidence
JUSTICE
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London EC4V 5AQ
tel: 020 7329 5100
fax: 020 7329 5055
email: admin@justice.org.uk
JUSTICE is an all-party law reform and human rights organisation. We promote improvements to the British legal
system – through research, education, lobbying and interventions in the courts. We are the UK section of the International Commission of Jurists. JUSTICE is a registered charity (no 1058580). We rely
on the generosity of our members and supporters for the funds to carry out our work. Read more here
JUSTICE, London
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Injustice
from Wikipedia
Injustice is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo. The term generally refers to misuse,
abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system. Misuse and abuse with regard to a particular case or context may represents a systemic failure to serve the
cause of justice (cf. legal vacuum). Injustice means "gross unfairness." Injustice may be classified as a different system in comparison to different countries concept of justice and
injustice.
According to Plato, he doesn't know what justice is but he knows what justice is not. Read more
here
Police Taser Man On Crooked License Plate Traffic Stop
SALT LAKE CITY ABC 4 News
Reported by Chris Vanocur
June 13, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - ABC 4 News has learned that Bountiful City has now settled its part of a controversial lawsuit.
ABC 4 News first brought you the story of Bruce Harper who was tasered an estimated six to ten times in the spring of 2009. Harper was pulled over in May of that year
for reportedly having a crooked license plate.Things quickly escalated and Harper was repeatedly tasered. More than sixty times, Harper was told by police to turn around. Read more here
Dept. of Education breaks down Stockton man's door
The American Dream, USA Inc. George Carlin
Justice or Just Us
Woman's 50-Cent Parking Ticket Error Could Have Led To Jail Time
Joe Dowling's exposé detailing the criminal routines of the Law Society in which runs a protection racket in England and Wales for fraudulent law firms.
George Carlin The Best 3 Minutes of His Career "The American Dream"
Network - "I'm as mad as hell" [english subtitles]
Network (film) on Wikipedia
The AT&T/Verizon Duopoly (Infographic)
The Simple Dollar
Written by Nicole
April 17, 2012 @ 8:12 am
My name is Nicole and I’m a new guest contributor to The Simple Dollar. I’m excited to begin providing an additional resource for the blog’s readers with a fun and
informative weekly consumer-related infographic. I’m eager for feedback on this and future posts, so please let me know what you think in the comments.
Our first infographic provides an overview of the AT&T and Verizon’s 64% control the U.S. cellular market. The graphic provides one of many ways to consider the
possible effects of concentrated market share on consumers.
There are several perspectives on the question of the utility and efficiency of concentrating the ownership of the U.S. cellular spectrum between just a few companies.
One perspective that’s interesting to note is the point of view from Washington. Just last year, the Dept. of Justice blocked AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile noting the deal would result in
diminished competition. And now, the D.O.J. is reviewing Verizon’s proposal to acquire $3.6 billion in additional spectrum from cable companies that would increase their control of and capacity for
U.S. smartphone data traffic.
Ultimately, U.S. data traffic in the foreseeable future is set to multiply several times over each year. Only time will tell what spectrum ownership structure will best
suit the standards, interests and aims of providers, subscribers and regulatory agencies. Read more here
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