Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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More Surveillance Cameras For New York City
After the bombings in London, the pressure is on for cities in the United States cities to build up the semi-police state with more surveillance cameras. Surveillance technology has advanced from grainy black and white images to digital high res cameras with zoom. A baseball can be recognized from orbiting satellites. We talk with privacy activist and Manhattan’s surveillance camera tour guide Bill Brown.
Guest – Bill Brown, privacy activist and surveillance camera tour guide.
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NYPD Randomly Check Bags On Subway
About 4.5 million people use New York’s subway system every working day. With more than 450 subway stations on the network, it is unclear whether the searches of passengers with bags or backpacks can be any more than a token deterrent. Civil liberties groups have warned that random searches may be unconstitutional. If you submit to a search and police find contraband, you could be charged!
Guest – Bill Goodman, Legal Director with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Non-Citizen Detentions Upheld
We talk with attorney Jon Hafetz with the Ali-Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri legal team. Al-Marri is the other non-citizen rarely reported on who is being held incommunicado, indefinitely in a military prison without charges. He’s been in solitary confinement for more than 2 years, no access to reading material, except the Qur’an. He’s constantly harassed, abused and any medical treatment received is very poor.
Guest – Jon Hafetz with the Al-Marri Legal Team
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Shield Laws For Journalists
In light of the Karl Rove scandal, we take a look at how shield laws designed to protect reporters are contradictory and vary from state to state. As more and more newsgatherers work on the national stage — through television, books and the internet — the lack of a national newsgatherers privilege is more and more problematic. Without a national privilege, these newsgatherers are subject to different and contradictory standards, with little guidance as to which standard might apply in a particular case. Listen as our guest, Gene Policinski is divided about whether national shield laws should exist for journalists amid the current lapdog media climate.
Guest – Gene Policinski, Executive Director with the First Amendment Center
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Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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Feds Destroy Life And Career of Valued Physician-Scientists Who Protected Populations From The Plague.
Guest – Robert Jensen is a professor of media law, ethics and politics at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream, among other books. He also writes for popular media, and his opinion and analytic pieces on foreign policy, politics and race have appeared in papers and magazines throughout the United States.
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Silencing and Criminalizing Dissent – Animal-Environmental Activists Become Targets of Government Spying and Terrorist Watch.
Guest – Jerry Vlasak, MD, a board-certified surgeon specializing in trauma and critical care. He is a former vivisector who has seen the agony of animals in laboratories. He debates the scientific invalidity of animal experimentation around the world, speaks out about the benefits of a vegan diet and offers lectures on the right of all sentient beings to live free of pain and suffering.
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Amnesty International 2005 Report
Guest: Jumana Musa – a lawyer and a staff member of Amnesty International’s US section.
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Michael Ratner on Fox Network’s Hannity & Colmes
We play the Hannity/Ratner interview then read some hate mail from the Fox viewers.
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Book Review – David S. Reynolds
David Reynolds – Author of “John Brown, Abolitionist : The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.”
Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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NYPD Edit Arrest Video?
The New York Times reported earlier this week that in some 400 cases[90%] of charges against RNC protesters were dropped because video recordings emerged showing that the arrested had not committed a crime during RNC protests in NYC. Hosts, Dalia Hashad and Heidi Boghosian interview
Guest – Eileen Clancy from Eyewitness Video. Clancy describes how she discovered that two versions of the same police tape, one used as evidence in the case of Alexander Dunlop was edited. Edited out were sequences of events removed that portrayed Dunlop behaving peacefully.
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Academic Freedom
Guest – Brenda Coughlin, PhD Candidate at Columbia School of Sociology.
Guest- Gil Anidjar – Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy.
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Flag Burning Amendment
Hosts discuss issues surrounding the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would outlawed burning the Flag of the United States.
Civil Liberties, Torture
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Torture Memos/Rockefeller Drug Laws/Inauguration Lockdown
Law and Disorder hosts examine the torture memos made public by the Center for Constitutional Rights and an ACLU lawsuit.
Attorney Bill Goodman an attorney with Goodman and Moore, gives an update in the cases representing RNC protesters who were detained in horrible conditions.
Randy Credico, director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund For Racial Justice explains recent minor adjustments New York state has made to the harsh Rockefeller drug laws.
Attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard with the Partnership for Civil Justice and gives a sense of the military presence expected during the Bush/Cheney presidential inauguration.
Civil Liberties, Guantanamo, Truth to Power
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Law & Disorder looks at voter oppression in Florida, specifically Broward County as hosts interview attorney Marsha Johnson, who volunteered as an “election protection” poll watcher during the November 2nd election. Her stories are harrowing. Also, hosts Michael Ratner and Dalia interview David Rose on his new book Guant?namo: America’s War on Human Rights, revealing information very few have heard.
Civil Liberties, Surveillance
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Last month, nearly half a million protestors took to the streets to march against the Republican National Convention , the Iraq War and various other causes, in one of the most peaceful gatherings New York City has seen. Demonstrators marched in the hot sun for nearly four hours from 14th and Seventh Avenue to Herald Square and back down to Union Square. But as the carnival-like atmosphere continued inside the RNC, an atmosphere of unpredictability gripped the streets as police used dragnet tactics to round up protestors.
Among the Guests: National Lawyers Guild Attorneys – Elizabeth Fink, Margaret Ratner Kunstler. Also, Ellen Yaroshevsky, on the Lynne Stewart defense team and a Professor of Law at the Cardozo Law School
