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- GAYELON SPENCER, JR. FIGHTS MURDER 2 CONVICTION: COPS DESTROYED EVIDENCE, BIASED MEDIA COVERAGE
- WILLIE MERRIWEATHER MEMORIAL SAT. DECEMBER 14, 4PM: HERO WHO GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS FROM PRISON
- DIRTY DETROIT COPS BEAT, MADE UP CONFESSIONS FROM ALTON HUBBARD, BROTHER IDOLTHUS, IN 2004 MURDERS
- ROGER CARLOS RAY WINS EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON 3RD TRY; EXONEREE LAVONE HILL CALLS FOR RAY’S RELEASE
- ‘MIKE D’ NOT THE SHOOTER, VICTIM OF 1999 INKSTER DRIVE-BY SAYS; OIC DARIAN WILLIAMS CONVICTED OF EXTORTION
- CRIMINAL DEEDS BY COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES, NOT ‘DOCUMENT PURGE’ CAUSED WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
- PROTEST FRI. SEPT. 20 VS. INHUMANE TREATMENT OF PEOPLE INCARCERATED AT THE NEW WAYNE CO. JAIL
- JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER, VICTIMS OF DPD COP, WCPO CRIMES: TUES. SEPT. 10, NEW CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER.
- JAMARIO MITCHELL FIGHTS 2001 MURDER CONVICTION SET UP BY DETROIT’S ‘DRAGNET’ COP ISAIAH (IKE) SMITH
- JACKSON-BOLANOS ACQUITTED OF WOLL MURDER; ATTYS. FILE TO DISMISS OTHER COUNTS AS DOUBLE JEOPARDY
- UK EXPECTED TO SUSPEND ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL AS ‘UNCOMMITTED’ IN TALKS WITH US VP KAMALA HARRIS
- FREE AT LAST AFTER 37 YRS: JUDGE DISMISSES MURDER CHARGES VS. PAUL CLARK ON INNOCENCE, BRADY CLAIMS
- JUDGE BLOUNT: FAIR HEARING, JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER NOW!! STOP CORRUPT COPS! RALLY TUES. SEPT. 10 @1 PM
- MICH. LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING “PRODUCTIVITY CREDITS” BILL #SB 861 BARRING PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN PRISON
- MICHAEL JACKSON-BOLANOS TESTIFIES AT WOLL MURDER TRIAL, DEFENSE GIVES STUNNING CLOSING ARGUMENTS
- SUPPORT WILLIE MERRIWEATHER AT PUBLIC PAROLE HEARING JULY 11, 1PM ON ZOOM; REGISTER BY JULY 9
- SUCCESSFUL RETURNING CITIZEN DAY IN DETROIT BUILDS SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE WALLS
- RIMMER CASE: JUDGE’S DAD, DPD SGT. MICHAEL BLOUNT, & SGT. JAMES HARRIS BOTH ON S.T.R.E.S.S., MAYOR’S SQUAD
- JUDGE BLOUNT DENIES RICKY RIMMER’ S MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIAL, HEARING ON RACIST COPS, NEW WITNESSES
- U.S. REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: ON GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS, INVASION OF RAFAH; SUPPORT SJP AT WSU MAY 28 @6PM
- SUPPORTERS OF PRISONERS AT WOMEN’S HURON VALLEY CONTINUE THE BATTLE AGAINST ‘THE VALLEY OF DEATH’
- VIVIAN KINCAID: ACTIVIST, POET, ACTOR/MOTHER, SISTER, NIECE, FRIEND–CELEBRATION OF LIFE APRIL 20 @2:30 PM
- INKSTER COP DARIAN WMS. EXTORTED DRUG DEALERS DURING CASE V. MICH. LIFER MICHAEL DEGRAFFENRIED
- VICTORY! JUDGE KIEFER COX DISMISSES CHARGES V. EWING, SEARCY, CITING DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS
- DARRELL EWING INVOKES RIGHT TO ATTY. FOR RE-TRIAL MARCH 25, CITES COX’S CRIPPLING ‘RULES OF THE ROAD’
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Tag Archives: #blacklivesmatter
ACTIVISTS SAY WAYNE CO. TAX FORECLOSURES ILLEGAL, VIOLATION OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, DOMESTIC TERRORISM
March 31st was deadline day for 30,000 County families currently occupying their homes to pay property taxes or face foreclosure and auction Speakers tell Wayne County Commission March 17 that tax foreclosures illegal due to no value re-assessments; violate Indigenous Peoples rights Protest held … Continue reading
ILLINOIS SC RULES CHICAGO PENSION ATTACK ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL,’ AS IT DID ON STATE PENSIONS
Illinois high court cites constitutional language virtually identical to that in the Michigan Constitution, which Detroit bankruptcy judge ignored Wall Street calls the shots again, citing pension debt but ignoring bond debt to its own banks Court Ruling Leaves Chicago Empty-Handed on … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Canceldebttothebanks, #DAREA, #Detroitbankruptcyunconstitutional, #ExecuteWallStreet, #Handsoffmypension, #IllinoisSupremeCourt, #JailSnyder, #MaketheBanksPay, #RecallSnyder, #RepealPA436, #saveourchildren, #Saveourstateconstitutions, #StandUpNow, #StopSnyder, #StopWaronBlackAmerica
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DETROIT KIDS IN DANGER: BILLS END DPS, PAY-OFF BANKS WITH STATE CONTROL, TAX LEVIES, CLOSINGS, CHARTERS
State Senate bills would eliminate Detroit Public Schools, largest Black district in U.S. July 1; create “Community District” including charters Current DPS bond debt of $2.9 billion to be paid off by new property tax levies ‘Elected’ board of ‘Community District’ will … Continue reading
PRAYER BRUNCH TO FREE DAVONTAE SANFORD SAT. MARCH 12; FALSELY CONVICTED AS CHILD OF 14, NOW 23
By Diane Bukowski March 9, 2016 Davontae Sanford’s case is one of the worst miscarriages of justice Voice of Detroit has seen. At the age of 14, Davontae was lured by Detroit police into confessing to the gruesome murders … Continue reading
RHODES’ RULE OVER DETROIT SCHOOLS OMINOUS; AS BANKRUPTCY JUDGE, HE DISMANTLED CITY OF DETROIT
Video above: DPS students from East English Village Academy, formerly the historic Finney High School, walked out Feb. 29 to protest school conditions, along with their teachers. Police maced and brutalized them, and arrested the teachers, just as they did in 2007 … Continue reading
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Tagged #BaxtersBeatBacktheBulliesBrigade, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #BlackStudentsMatter, #DetroitPublicSchools, #JailSnyderRhodesOrr, #MoneyforSchoolsnotforBanks, #SaveDetroit, #SaveOurDetroitChildren, #SaveOurSchools, #StandUpNow, #StoptheWaronBlackAmerica
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CANCEL DPS DEBT TO THE BANKS! QUALITY EDUCATION FOR DETROIT CHILDREN; TUNE IN WHPR SAT. 2/27@10:30 AM
“I’ve been reading news reports as well viewing them on national TV, about the deplorable conditions in DPS. Please know that the 1.5 Billion [bond] I campaigned for was never intended to knock down old schools but rather to renovate … Continue reading
‘ROBOCOP’ MELENDEZ GETS 13 MOS. – 10 YRS. FOR NEAR-FATAL BEATING OF BLACK AUTOWORKER FLOYD DENT
Judge Evans lectures Robocop for 20 minutes: “Today is payback for resorting to an act of cowardly brutality. . . .It ain’t no fun when the rabbit’s got the gun.” Dent: “I may be able someday to forgive what he … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #FloydDent, #JailKillerCops, #PoliceState, #policeviolence, #PrisonNation, #Robocop, #saveourchildren, #StandUpNow, #StopPoliceBrutality, #StopPoliceMurders, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WilliamMelendez
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MADDOW: SNYDER’S NEW MDEQ CHIEF OPPOSES FEDS’ FLINT WATER ORDER; FLINT TOWN HALL JAN. 27, 9 PM
Posted on Theresa Ellis Youtube channel January 24, 2015 Video: Rachel Maddow interviews Michigan Radio reporter on Gov. Snyder’s refusal to comply fully with order from Environmental Protection Agency on Flint water crisis. Keith Creagh, the new Director of Michigan’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #BoycottMichigan, #Detroit2Flint, #DirectActionNow, #Flintlivesmatter, #FlintWaterCrisis, #GeneralStrike, #JailSnyder, #OurWaterOurVote, #PoliceState, #PrisonNation, #SaveBentonHarbor, #SaveDetroit, #SaveFlint, #SaveHighlandPark, #saveourchildren, #SavePontiac, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WATERISLIFE
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BOYCOTT MICHIGAN! JAIL SNYDER, CRONIES FOR FLINT LEAD POISONING, DOMESTIC TERRORISM, RACISM
Highest lead level in Flint: 13,000 parts per billion; most water nothing but “toxic waste”—Virginia Tech Snyder: “I take full responsibility to fix the problem so it will never happen again.” Snyder’s Public Act 436 coup d’etat led to Flint catastrophe; … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #BoycottMichigan, #Detroit2Flint, #DirectActionNow, #Flintlivesmatter, #GeneralStrike, #JailSnyder, #OurWaterOurVote, #PoliceState, #PrisonNation, #SaveBentonHarbor, #SaveDetroit, #SaveFlint, #SaveHighlandPark, #saveourchildren, #SavePontiac, #StandUpNow, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #WATERISLIFE
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MARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR KEVIN MATTHEWS, KILLED BY WHITE DEARBORN COP: MON. JAN. 4, 2016, 6:30 PM
Funeral Sat. Jan. 2, 2016 Morningview Baptist Church, 5646 Lawton, Detroit (map at left) Video below by Voice of Detroit’s reporter Cornell Squires, of family press conference called by NAN Dec. 24, 2015. Related stories: http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/12/25/family-mourns-detroits-kevin-matthews-killed-by-white-dearborn-cop-natl-march-jan-4-2016/ http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/12/29/tamir-rice-grand-jury-no-charges-whole-u-s-criminal-justice-system-must-be-abolished/ http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2016/01/01/dearborn-detroit-matthews-johnson-police-shooting-death-burial/78195812/ http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/01/02/funeral-man-killed-dearborn-police-officer/78199732/ #JUSTICE4KEVINMATTHEWS, … Continue reading