Social Security Not So Secure: Two Ways of Losing

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David Walrath, legislative advocate for the Retired Teachers Association, and Bill Lambert, former government relations officers for Retired Teachers Association, and both former teachers, present details on how the social security payouts for teachers, postal workers, police officers, firemen and women, and other segments of our hard working society, may be reduced under certain conditions. Active in 14 states in the Union, these little known rules are being countered by Senate bill S206 and House bill HR82.

Derrel Myers on the death penalty and the execution of Troy Davis

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Since his son, Jojo, was shot to death - his killer is still unknown - Derrel Myers has worked to bring justice to those on death row and to shine a light on the U.S. justice system. Derrel Myers is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a member of Murder Victims Families and Human Rights, and a long-time civil rights and anti-war activist.

Troy Davis is a black man accused of killing a white police office, Mark MacPhail in 1989. Seven of the nine witnesses have since recanted saying they were threatened and coerced by police. On September 23, Troy is scheduled for execution...six days before his appeal is to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

You can protest this travesty of justice by calling the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to reconsider its clemency decision, telephone board chair Gale Buckner at 404-657-9350, or Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker at 404-656-3300.

Tony Papa: drug laws sent him to prison, his art highlights that life

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Tony Papa spent 12 of 15 years his youth in Sing Sing Prison for a minor drug offense. While there, he learned about art and to paint. Today, he is active against the prison system and draconian drug laws while also working to highlight the nature of prison. He is communications specialist for the Drug Policy Alliance and regularly exhibits his artwork.

Dr. Michael Parenti on Capitalism Apocalypse: why the plutocrats can't save anyone, not even themselves

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Dr. Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer and one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. As author of 20 highly informative and entertaining books - his latest is Contrary Notions- and innumerable talks his ideas have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

This presentation, Capitalism Apocalypse, was in Oakland, California.

Learn more about Michael Parenti at www.michaelparenti.org/

Dr. Erik Camayd describes ICE raids in Iowa

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Dr. Erik Camayd was hired as a federal interpreter for the legal proceedings accompanying the arrest of over 300 undocumented workers in Postville, Iowa. The process gave him grave misgivings and he speaks about why he decided to go public, what he saw, and what you should know about the ICE raids that are continuing around the US.
Also included is a letter by Rockne Cole, a lawyer who withdraw his participation due to his misgivings about that process. And download a copy of the Manual presented Defense Attorneys for the Postville Raid.

Read Dr. Erik Camayd statement to District Court
Read the Manual presented Defense Attorneys for the Postville Raid