Posts Tagged ‘accountable’

#ICEOnTrial: Advocates Rally To Hold Federal Agency Accountable For Systemic Abuses

#ICEOnTrial: Advocates Rally To Hold Federal Agency Accountable For Systemic Abuses Above Photo: Immigrant rights organizations will hold ten people’s tribunals nationwide focused on a wide range of issues. Spencer Platt/Getty Images As the #AbolishICE movement gains steam, immigrant rights organizations are coordinating a series of “people’s tribunals” to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accountable for, advocates say, its “culture of […]

Going Underground – Will Killer Robots make us more vulnerable & less accountable? Bonnie Docherty

Going Underground – Will Killer Robots make us more vulnerable & less accountable? Bonnie Docherty Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com We investigate Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Human Rights Watchs Bonnie Docherty. LIKE Going Underground http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRTFOLLOW Going Underground http://twitter.com/Underground_RTFOLLOW Afshin Rattansi http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansiFOLLOW on Instagram http://instagram.com/officialgoingund… View the original video for Going Underground – Will Killer Robots […]

Slain Palestinian journalist’s media org vows to hold Israel accountable ‘for this heinous crime’

The deadly force used by the Israeli military against the people of Gaza is a gross violation of their protection under humanitarian and human rights law and those responsible must be held accountable for their actions. Among the people killed in the demonstrations was 30-year-old Yasser Murtaja, a journalist who was filming on site last […]

Electing Progressive Prosecutors Isn’t Enough. Now, Activists Are Holding Them Accountable.

Electing Progressive Prosecutors Isn’t Enough. Now, Activists Are Holding Them Accountable. Above Photo: The election of Kim Foxx in Cook County presented a rare opportunity to inject progressive reforms into a broken criminal justice system. (Dominican University/Flickr) From Kim Foxx in Chicago to Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, reform-minded prosecutors are facing pressure from organizers working […]

Intelligence agencies: The land where no one is ever held accountable

Recent revelations of “inadvertent” deletions of electronic data at the FBI and NSA relating to alleged felonies are being described as a “foul-up,” but the intelligence agencies’ track record suggests a possibly more nefarious explanation, explains Ray McGovern in this op-ed.      We learned in recent days that the FBI and the National Security Agency […]

Holding Top Cops Accountable: When the Brass Lead by Bad Example

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – Todd Shaw, the former assistant police chief of the city of Prospect, Kentucky, resigned November 20, 2017, after more than 20 years on the job. Shaw quit after Prospect’s Chief of Police Jeff Sherrard confronted him with copies of Facebook messages sent to a Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) recruit. Those messages, […]

Coalition Seeks To Hold Police Accountable For Use Of Force

Coalition Seeks To Hold Police Accountable For Use Of Force Above Photo: By De-Escalate Washington Olympia, WA – On December 28th, 2017 a broad coalition of police accountability activists turned in over 355,000 signatures for ballot measure I-940, known as De-escalate Washington that if passed would allow police to be prosecuted for unjustified use of deadly force, to […]

Ancient Origins archeologists warned to stop further investigations into missing Father Crespi artifacts

     Earlier this month we reported on an investigation into the story of Father Crespi and his missing artifacts. The story of Father Crespi is a mysterious and controversial account of a priest in Ecuador involving claims of unknown civilizations, strange golden artifacts, a subterranean cave system containing a metallic library, depictions of figures connecting […]

Thousands Threatened As Bulldozers Poised To Raze Calais Camp

Print Friendly Above Photo: A large portion of the sprawling refugee camp known as “the Jungle” is set to be destroyed. (Photo: Pascal Rossignol / Reuters) Humanitarian groups vow to fight order of French judge who upheld the decision to begin demolitions In a decision that promises to displace thousands of refugees, including hundreds of unaccompanied […]

Amazon Unveils New Drone Prototype for 30-Minute Deliveries; Google Seeks Drone Deliveries by 2017

Amazon has unveiled a new hybrid delivery drone that can fly both vertically, as a helicopter capable of landing in customers’ backyards, and horizontally like a conventional plane. The drone can travel up to 15 miles at high speed. The hybrid is conceived as the prototype workhorse for Amazon Prime, the futuristic delivery service that […]

Amazon Unveils New Drone Prototype for 30-Minute Deliveries; Google Seeks Drone Deliveries by 2017

Amazon has unveiled a new hybrid delivery drone that can fly both vertically, as a helicopter capable of landing in customers’ backyards, and horizontally like a conventional plane. The drone can travel up to 15 miles at high speed. The hybrid is conceived as the prototype workhorse for Amazon Prime, the futuristic delivery service that […]

Practical Putin: Socially-oriented non-profit organizations should be given access to budget funds

     Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed to spin-off socially-oriented non-profit organizations in a special group and to grant them an access to financial budgetary resources, which are allocated for social purposes. He came up with this initiative at the forum of socially active citizens held by the Public Chamber. “I think that it would […]

Jim W. Dean interview: Saudi hush money avoids criticism on Yemen war – Veterans Today

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Accountable trade unionism: lesson of the Thomson affair

Find More Stories 29 August 2011 Accountable trade unionism: lesson of the Thomson affair 73 Comments Judith Sloan The real lesson of the Craig Thomson affair is that the laws governing the registration and behaviour of trade unions in Australia are completely inadequate. They fail to ensure that members are properly informed and that the […]

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