Friday, August 21, 2015

RSN: New Trial for NOPD Officers Convicted in Danziger Bridge Shootings, Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government, Hillary Clinton's 'Crazy' Email Blunder




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Eve Ensler | Trans People Have Been Caricatures for Too Long 
Eve Ensler. (photo: Martin Argles/Guardian) 
Eve Ensler, Guardian UK 
Ensler writes: "Eleven years ago, I went up into the California mountains with a group of women who were producing and acting in the first all-transgender production of my play The Vagina Monologues. Many of the women were coming out as trans. Many had suffered terrible violence and trauma." 
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Charles Pierce | New Trial for NOPD Officers Convicted in Danziger Bridge Shootings 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "There should be a special circle of derision reserved exclusively for prosecutors who botch important cases in very stupid ways." 
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Jimmy Carter Announces Cancer Has Spread to His Brain 
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK 
McCarthy writes: "Carter told a news conference he would be undergoing radiation treatments and injections to fight the cancer, which was discovered after he underwent surgery to remove a growth on his liver, where melanoma also had been discovered, he said." 
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Laura Poitras Discusses Suing the US Government, Hillary Clinton's 'Crazy' Email Blunder 
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "Every time I came home, there were agents at the airplane to meet me. There was a long time where I thought, 'This is never going to change,' because we've entered this new era where the rule of law doesn't apply at borders." 
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After Fatal St. Louis Shooting, Activists Slam 'Aggressive' Police Tactics 
Renee Lewis, Al Jazeera America 
Lewis writes: "After a night of protests Wednesday sparked by the killing of an 18-year-old black man by a white officer the same day, activists criticized the St. Louis police for 'aggressive' tactics that they said recalled the last year's protests after Ferguson." 
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Banksy's Dismaland: 'Amusements and Anarchism' in Artist's Biggest Project Yet 
Mark Brown, Guardian UK 
Brown writes: "Banksy's new show, Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-opening and occasionally breathtakingly shocking." 
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Costco and CP Foods Face Lawsuit Over Alleged Slavery in Prawn Supply Chain 
Felicity Lawrence, Guardian UK 
Lawrence writes: "Three California law firms are seeking an injunction to stop the US retail chain Costco selling prawns unless they are labelled as the produce of slavery." 
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