Summer 2012

Summer 2012 Issue Contents: [PDF]

• MCLI Human Rights Posters pg 1
• Web Page Editor Wanted pg 1
• Mobilization of Shame by Melody Ng pg 1
• Report Brings Victory! Officers Receive Lengthy Sentences in Post-Katrina Shooting Case pg 1
• Hedges, Ellsberg & Chomsky Win Suit Against Obama re: NDAA by Ann Fagan Ginger pg 1
• A message from the outgoing Office Manager pg 2
• Book Review- Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks, by Book Review Editor Jim Syfers pg 2
• From the Last Issue pg 2
• Contraband Watch Proliferates pg 3
• Table-Incarcerated Americans pg 3
• Preparation Continues on ICCPR Shadow Report by Stephanie Pande pg 4
• War Crimes Tribunal Finds President Bush Guilty pg 4
• Pennsylvania Bar Association Supports Ratification of CEDAW pg 4
• New Law Makes it Illegal to Protest in Presence of Secret Service pg 4
• UN Special Report on Native American Lands pg 4
• US Dept. of Justice New Report on Criminalization of Homelessness pg 4
• Human Rights and Private Prisons by Shitel Chanana pg 5
• Get Involved with ICCPR Shadow Reporting pg 5
• News Brief- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Calls for Investigation into Trayvon Martin Shootingpg 6
• News  Brief- SF Mayor Signs Civil Rights Ordinance on Racial & Religious Profiling pg 6
• News Brief- 6^th Highest Number Petitions Filed Against US for Human Rights Violations pg 6
• Meet the Interns! Pg 6
• MCLI on Ending Racial Profiling pg 6
• Visitors from Belarus pg 6
• Book Review- Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord’s Resistance Army by Wojciech Jagielski, by Book Editor Jim Syfers pg 6
• Recent Contributors pg 7
• Events- Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline  pg 8
• Events- 3 Birthdays Party pg 8