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Law and Disorder is a weekly independent civil liberties radio program airing on more than 150 stations and on Apple podcast. Law and Disorder provides timely legal perspectives on issues concerning civil liberties, privacy, right to dissent and practices of torture exercised by the US government and private corporations.
Law and Disorder May 2, 2005
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Targeting Muslims
The Council on American_Islamic Relations (CAIR), the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hold simultaneous news conferences in New York City and Buffalo, N.Y., to announce action against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the practice of targeting American citizens participating in religious conferences outside the United States.
Guest – Udi Ofer
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Luis Posada
National Lawyers Guild Calls for Immediate Extradition of Luis Posada to Venezuela
Guests – Jane Franklin and Ian Thompson
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New York City Law Suit Settlement?
More than 100 people arrested during the Republican National Convention have agreed to settle a lawsuit over improper detention.
Guests- Liz Fink, Eileen Clancy and Gideon Oliver
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Supermax Prisons
Across the country, more and more super maximum security prisons are being built to, in theory, house the worst of the worst criminals, yet the conditions in these facilities amount to cruel and unusual punishment, and the procedures for determining who is sent to a supermax facility are, according to rights advocates, haphazard and arbitrary and deprive prisoners of their rights to due process.
Guest – Jules Lobel
Law and Disorder April 18, 2005
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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.
Law and Disorder April, 2005
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Church & State – Encroaching Theocracy
Faith Based Initiatives – Little to no money directly given to those organizations that are not Christian.
Guest : Reverend Paul Chapman talks with hosts about how Christian faith-based organizations are receiving most of the allocated federal funds.
Law and Disorder hosts talk with Lenny Brenner about a book he recently edited, Jefferson and Madison On Separation of Church and State: Writings On Religion and Secularism published by Barricade Books and Susan Jacoby also joins us. Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Freethinkers illuminates the neglected accomplishments of secularists who have stood at the forefront of the battle for every kind of reform from the framing of a Constitution based on human rights rather than divine authority to the feminist and civil liberties movements of the 20th century.
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Intelligent Design Lawsuit
Biology teachers required to teach Intel Design as a scientific theory in Pennsylvannia.
Guest : Vic Walczak, Legal Director of the ACLU in Pennsylvania
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Protesting Military Recruiters
Guest: Carol Lang, a City College secretary who protested with students against military recruiters at a campus job fair. She attended the protest, was taken from her office, arrested and held for thirty hours. She was charged with assault.