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- 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’
- STOP THE GENOCIDE! FREE PALESTINE! REMEMBER AARON BUSHNELL! MASS MARCH IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT MAR. 2
- ALEXANDRE ANSARI’S $10M FALSE CONVICTION VERDICT: NO CHARGES V. DPD’S JIMENEZ, COPS IN OTHER CASES
- JUDGE KIEFER COX DENIES DARRELL EWING’S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY FOR ACTUAL BIAS; APPEAL HEARING FEB. 23
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Tag Archives: #StandUpNow
GENOCIDAL SNYDER/RHODES PLAN HARMS DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN, WORKERS, RESIDENTS
Teachers shut DPS May 2, 3 not only over pay threats, but dismantling of nation’s largest majority-Black school district Race a central issue—DFT President Ivy Bailey “Rise up to defend jobs, schools, children, strike to win”—Former DFT pres. Steve Conn … Continue reading
WHY IS JUVENILE LIFER CHARLES LEWIS STILL IN PRISON, 16 YRS. AFTER HIS CASE WAS DISMISSED?
Judge Qiana Lillard acknowledges court order dismissing case at hearing April 21, 2016, takes no action Lewis’ state court files, filling three cartons, have mysteriously “disappeared,” next hearing to feature last known official in possession Lewis is one of state’s … Continue reading
STATE WAR ON DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTINUES, “SELLING BLACK CHILDREN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER”
Michigan Legislature still debating provisions of bills that would end DPS Current Detroit Board of Education, parents file class action lawsuit citing irreparable harm to Detroit’s children under state control Retaliation continues against teachers who closed 80 percent of Detroit … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #BlackEducationMatters, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #DefendPublicEducation, #MoneyforEducationnotforBanks, #MoneyforEducationnotforwar, #SaveDPS, #saveourchildren, #SaveOurKids, #StandUpNow, #StopSchoolClosings, #StoptheWaronBlackAmerica
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DYING IN PRISON: MICHIGAN JUVENILE LIFERS GET NEW HOPE UNDER MONTGOMERY, STILL FACE OBSTACLES
U.S. Supreme Court ruled Jan. 25 in Montgomery v. Louisiana that Miller v. Alabama decision declaring JLWOP unconstitutional is retroactive But MICHISSIPPI’s juvenile lifers still have “many rivers to cross” in state with 2nd highest number of JLWOPer’s in U.S., under … Continue reading
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Tagged #Beatbackthebullies, #Blackkidslivesmatter, #blacklivesmatter, #blacklivesmatterDetroit, #Breakdownthewalls, #MassIncarceration, #Michissippigoddam, #PrisonNation, #saveourchildren, #SchooltoPrisonPipeline, #StandUpNow, #StopJWLOP, #StopWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWaronourYouth
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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
SHAME ON WAYNE! FEATURES DAN GILBERT, SUED BY USDOJ; MARY STAFFORD IN PRISON RE: 1 MORTGAGE
USDOJ says Gilbert’s Quicken Loans guilty of “hundreds of millions of dollars” in HUD mortgage insurance fraud, 40% of company’s loans Detroit grandmother, community advocate Stafford unjustly convicted of charges in single mortgage she was not party to By Diane … Continue reading
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Tagged #Banksnottoobigtojail, #Beatbackthebullies, #biasonthebench, #DetroitFightBack, #ExonerateCliffordStafford, #FreeMaryStafford, #JailDanGilbert, #RecuseMichaelHathaway, #ShameonWayne, #StandUpNow, #StoptheWaronBlackAmerica, #StopWallStreetmortgagefraud, #unjustconviction
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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