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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Don’t Shoot makes demands in response to Grand Jury announcement
Diverse local coalition redoubles efforts for justice and accountability
For Immediate Release – November 24, 2014
Contact: Deborah Jacobs, 973-432-6868
St. Louis, MO – Don’t Shoot, a coalition of approximately 50 local organizations formed in the wake of the police shooting of Michael … Read More
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Close the SOA! Resist Empire and Militarization
Friday, November 21 to Sunday, November 23
Fort Benning, Georgia
Join thousands of teachers, farmers, students, unionists, queer folk, and environmentalists for a rally at Fort Benning, Georgia for music and street theater, an immigrant prison protest, nonviolent … Read More
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Veterans’ appeal to National Guard: “Stand with Ferguson protesters, not the police!”
click here for original letter
To our brothers and sisters in the Missouri National Guard:
We are writing to you as active-duty U.S. service members and veterans, most of us having served in the Iraq war.
You have a choice you can make … Read More
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Week ahead: Budget questions swirl in lame duck
by Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
click here for original article
All eyes return to Capitol Hill this week, as the financial services industry watches to see which loose ends lawmakers will tie up in the lame duck.
Congress must pass a budget bill … Read More
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Civilian Review Board Proposal
Friday, November 14
10:00 am
St. Louis City Hall, 1200 Market
Alderman Kennedy is going to propose the Civilian Review Bill to the Board of Aldermen. We want to get a bunch of people out to show … Read More
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Ferguson Jail Support Training
Thursday, November 13
7:00 pm
438 N Skinker Blvd.
Interested in working in solidarity with protesters on the ground in Ferguson and throughout St. Louis?
Jail Support is a great way to do it. By volunteering, you will … Read More
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Budget Priorities 101
Thursday, November 13
4:00 pm
McGannon Hall room 144, St. Louis University
The talk will focus on what our country has spent on war in the past decade, how that has impacted our people (and … Read More
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Race and (In)Justice in Policing
by Tila Neguse, Friends Committee on National Legislation
Do you think the police department’s access to military equipment through the government’s 1033 program influenced their response to the protests?Military equipment didn’t kill Michael Brown. A police officer with a standard-issue weapon … Read More
National Call In Action to #EndEndlessWar
Thursday, November 13
877-429-0678
President Obama announced that he will be asking Congress to formally authorize our latest war in Iraq and Syria. He also announced that the US will double the number of troops on … Read More
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Legal Observer Training
Tuesday, November 11
noon to 1:00 pm
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Bryan Cave Courtroom (room 310)
*Lunch will be offered*
To learn more about the NLG please visit us at www.nlg.org. Any questions about the … Read More
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