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Meet Middlesex DA Candidate DONNA PATALANO

May 1, 2018 By jordan3weinstein Leave a Comment

Donna Patalano is a progressive criminal justice reformer who is mounting a primary challenge to Democratic incumbent Marian Ryan in the 2018 race for District Attorney in Massachusetts' Middlesex County.  This event is designed to give … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: #massincarceration, 2018 state primary, criminal justice reform, elections, police, politics, progressive-politics-and-policy

The Strange Death of Burrell Ramsey-White

April 22, 2015 By jamaicaplainiac 3 Comments

Given everything we've seen in recent months about police killing black men and then lying about it, I thought I would revisit an event in Boston that caught my eye a few years ago: the killing of Burrell Ramsey-White. At the time, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, boston-police, Burrell Ramsey-White, deval-patrick, massachusetts, police

Intertribal Problems Stuck on Stupid

January 10, 2015 By gmoke 5 Comments

We are going into our fifth month of demonstrations and actions all over the USA about police violence and sanctioned summary judgment. Hearing, reading, seeing the news, it seems as if brutality, terror, and torture are breaking out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: chicago, civil-rights, Constance Rice, Gandhian economics, gangs, Gary Slutkin, la, media, non-violence, peace, police, Tio Hardiman, violence

Boston Police Have a Racially Biased Policing Problem, and a Golden Opportunity to Reform

October 9, 2014 By ACLUm blog 6 Comments

During the summer of 2011, then-19-year-old Ivan Richiez was robbed at gunpoint and pistol-whipped by two men in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. Bruised and bloodied, Ivan walked home passed the local Boston Police Department … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-police, boston-police-department, police, police-brutality, racial-justice, racial-profiling, racism, stop-and-frisk

Fixes Following Ferguson?

August 26, 2014 By massmarrier 1 Comment

I confess I'm a typical pinko/progressive/UU type. I look for the underlying causes of societal problems and the related solutions. Hence. the events and aftermath of Ferguson gets me. Today on Left Ahead, Ryan Adams and I kicked around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accountability., body cameras, civilian-review boards, Ferguson, michael-brown, militarization, police

Thank you, Judge Plitt.

September 28, 2010 By howland-lew-natick Leave a Comment

A small crack in the cold, gray cement wall of tyranny has developed.  Within government that more and more shields itself from the light of freedom and truth, a Maryland judge has ruled for the defense in the case of a man prosecuted … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corruption, massachusetts, police, tyranny

Deval and the Unions: Part 2

March 13, 2010 By fredtsmurch 19 Comments

For whatever reason the Mass AFL-CIO seems to be dominated by the hysterical police and fire unions. This story in the Globe today: Some patrolmen object to paper's Obama depictions  is illustrative. If one ever gets a chance to read … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: afl-cio, deval, police, unions

Road Villains 1, 2, and 3

August 13, 2009 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

Cross-posting: I'm passionate about cycling and cross-posted this at Marry in Massachusetts and Harrumph!There's little point to the moot and pissant arguments about whether car/truck/bus operators or cyclists are more likely per … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bicycle, boston-drivers, ed-davis, globe, massachusetts, police, traffic-laws

Gatesgate, part two (now starring Globe reporter Yvonne Abraham)

July 29, 2009 By Tristan 19 Comments

The email itself, courtesy of Fox25 Boston: What no one has reported (yet) is precisely what got Barrett so exercised.  A small amount of digging reveals this column by the Boston Globe's Yvonne … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abraham, barrett, gates, police, race-relations, racism

Some thought-provoking analyses of the Gates arrest

July 26, 2009 By cannoneo 41 Comments

Stanley Fish, a longtime friend and colleague of Gates's, in his New York Times blog summarizes the racist treatment Gates has suffered since his earliest days as a professor. It's important for those of us who have followed his career to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cambridge, crowley, gates, police

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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

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Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

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These process-oriented votes do indeed have a profound effect on the substance.

If your rep isn’t progressive on transparency and process, then they’re not that progressive.

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36 reps voted in favor of transparency today, with 122 reps opposed. Roll call below:

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