Posts Tagged ‘justice’

Coverage of Oklahoma City’s “Join the Impact” rally

We’re going to have a special report later today about the Join the Impact! rally on the steps of city hall in Oklahoma City. but here are links to photos
DarlaJane’s Flickr set
Trey (one of the organizers) has some photos of OKC event at Towle Road (use the menu to check out the albums from Tulsa … read more »

Activist-singer Miriam Makeba passes away

In 1963 (a year after Nelson Mandela was imprisoned), she testified before the UN and asked them to intervene, give black South Africans rights in their own country, release political prisoners. The UN did nothing and for her trouble, the white minority government stripped her of her South African citizenship.
She finally went back to … read more »

Judge denies motions for new trial for WM3

Bad news on Wednesday for the West Memphis Three and their supporters. Motions for a new trial, based on recent DNA evidence, were denied by a circuit court judge.
In Echols’ Order, the Judge claimed “the Petitioner’s DNA testing results are not compelling evidence that he would be acquitted.”  Judge Burnett also refused to consider the jury issues: … read more »

There’s new star in the lone star state

Open Letter to Anyone Who Gives a Shit About Justice by Ajai Raj.
Ajai Raj — great name by the way — is the kid who had the balls (and the bad taste) to ask Ann Coulter about ass-fucking at her recent intentionally incidiary stage show at UT Austin. As Steve Guillard said in the the … read more »