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Photographers arrested under UK “anti-terror” laws
Photographers criminalised as police ‘abuse’ anti-terror laws
Fury as stop-and-search powers are used to block and confiscate legal pictures
By Jonathan Brown
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Reuben Powell is an unlikely terrorist. A white, middle-aged, middle-class artist, he has been photographing and drawing life around the capital’s Elephant & Castle for 25 years.
With a studio near the 1960s shopping [...]
Israel is using white phosphorus shells in Gaza
December 5, 2008
Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells
Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Michael Evans, Defence Editor
Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not [...]
Obama does the right thing
Obama’s Justice nominees signal end of Bush terror tactics
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll back Bush administration counter-terrorism policies authorizing harsh interrogation techniques, warrantless spying and indefinite detentions of terrorism suspects.
The most startling shift was Obama’s pick [...]
AP: MN officials declare Franken the winner
January 5, 2009
Minnesota Officials Declare Franken the Winner
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 3:44 p.m. ET
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota board has certified results showing Democrat Al Franken winning the state’s U.S. Senate recount over Republican Norm Coleman, but a legal challenge probably will keep the race in limbo.
The Canvassing Board’s declaration Monday starts [...]
MCM twitters
Those who have a taste for haiku-length communications can keep in touch with me at http://twitter.com/mcrispinmiller.
Damn, I’m cutting edge (thanks to my webmaster, Danielle)! Maybe I should run for president….
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MCM hosts Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog, Tues. night in NYC!
First Tuesdays at McNally Robinson Booksellers: Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog, hosted by Mark Crispin Miller
Win McCormack, author of You Don’t Know Me: A Citizen’s Guide to Republican Family Values (Tin House) Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics Basic Books)
This monthly series hosted by [...]
US has a “vested interest in perpetual mayhem” in the US
The following comes from Barry Sussman. (To it I replied that, aside from the “big
money” to be made from endless war, there’s also the Christianist/Zionist zeal to see
Israel expanded to its Biblical proportions, and the neocons’ desire for a strong proxy
in the region, to enforce the Pax Americana there.
(Barry agreed: “You are most correct. [...]
Take action to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza
If you’re Jewish, you can sign on to An Open Letter from American Jews to Our Government, http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules38416.php
Also, there’s this (which is now dated, but the links are good):
Take Action to Protest Israeli Attack on Gaza
Mid-morning Saturday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) launched a series of deadly air strikes on the occupied Gaza Strip. As [...]
Photog threatened with arrest in NYC (3 years ago)
Mark,
Three years ago, I was almost arrested also–for taking photos from the deck of an Amtrak station on the way to Kennedy Airport. When he saw me shooting a photograph, a cop yelled for me not to move and rushed to my side of the platform.
He demanded to see the photos I had taken, told [...]
Amtrak cops bust photographer in Amtrak photo contest
Amtrak police arrest photographer participating in Amtrak photo contest
27 December 2008
Armed with his Canon 5D and his new Lensbaby lens, photographer Duane Kerzic was out to win Amtrak’s annual photo contest this week, hoping to win $1,000 in travel vouchers and have his photo published in Amtrak’s annual calendar.
He ended up getting arrested by Amtrak [...]
