UK: LabourList readers want MPs to oppose Syria air strikes

Published on Labour List.org, August 29, 2013 (see also our new blog: politics for the 99%).

Yesterday we asked you to have your say on how Labour MPs – and the Labour leadership – should act on Syria. 2676 of you have voted in the last 18 hours (our biggest ever response to a LabourList survey). Here are the results:   Continuer la lecture de « UK: LabourList readers want MPs to oppose Syria air strikes »

The Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later

Published on ZNet, by Bill Quigley, August 27, 2013.

Eight years after Katrina, nearly a hundred thousand people never got back to New Orleans, the city remains incredibly poor, jobs and income vary dramatically by race, rents are up, public transportation is down, traditional public housing is gone, life expectancy differs dramatically by race and place, and most public education has been converted into charter schools.  Continuer la lecture de « The Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later »

what everyone ought to know about Angola 3 and solitary confinement

Published on Amnesty International / Human Rights Now Blog, by Sarah Shourd, August 26, 2013.

Until recently, both Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox had been held in solitary confinement for 4 decades in Louisiana – longer than almost any other known prisoner in recent U.S. history. It’s long enough for one’s body to forget it ever knew anything else but four white walls and for the mind to be reshaped by extreme isolation. Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, says that after 15 days, further isolation can cause permanent psychological damage and constitute torture.   Continuer la lecture de « what everyone ought to know about Angola 3 and solitary confinement »