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U.S. Secret Drug War in Honduras: Botched DEA Raid Leaves 2 Pregnant Women, 2 Men Dead
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has confirmed its agents were on board a U.S.-owned helicopter with Honduran police officers when four people were shot and killed on a boat earlier this week. Two of the victims were said to be pregnant women. The deadly incident has highlighted the centrality of Honduras in the U.S.-backed drug war. Honduras is the hub for the U.S. military operations in Latin America, hosting at least three U.S. bases. We speak to Dana Frank, a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [Includes rush transcript]
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All-White Jury Acquits Houston Ex-Police Officer in Videotaped Beating of Black Teen Chad Holley
Hundreds of people rallied in Houston on Thursday to protest the acquittal of a former police officer in the videotaped beating of an African-American teenager. On Wednesday, the officer, Andrew Bloomberg, was found not guilty by an all-white jury in the beating and stomping of 15-year-old burglary suspect Chad Holley. Video taken of the March 2010 incident shows Holley being stopped by a police vehicle. After Holley falls to the ground, he is clearly seen surrendering and putting his hands behind his head. But instead of placing him in handcuffs, Bloomberg and six fellow officers proceed to attack Holley with stomps and kicks. "It seems we have become jaded, willing to accept in too many instances, young black people being grossly mistreated," says NAACP President Ben Jealous. [Includes rush transcript]
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"The Worst Racial Profiling Program in the Country": NAACP President on NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Program
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit opposing the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk program, opening the door to legal recourse for hundreds of thousands of people targeted by police. The judge’s ruling cited the city’s "deeply troubling apathy" toward the constitutional rights of New Yorkers. A recent study by the New York Civil Liberties Union found the NYPD program is racially skewed and largely ineffective, with blacks and Latinos making up 87 percent of people stopped last year. We speak to Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP. [Includes rush transcript]
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Ben Jealous: "Heartbreaking" Trayvon Tapes Capture Experience of Millions Racially Profiled in U.S.
Benjamin Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP, joins us to react to the new audio recordings and documents released in the investigation of Trayvon Martin's killing. The evidence indicates a fight occurred between Martin and his alleged killed George Zimmerman, but police determined the deadly encounter was "ultimately avoidable" if Zimmerman had not pursued Martin. An autopsy also shows Martin died from a single gunshot wound to the chest fired from "intermediate range." Reacting to a recording of Martin's girlfriend recounting her phone call with Martin moments before his death, Jealous says: "It's heartbreaking to listen to his childhood girlfriend talk about the experience of listening to him be hunted on the street just before he was killed. It dramatizes for people the experience of millions of young people across this country every year when they are racially profiled, whether it's by community watch volunteers or by cops." [Includes rush transcript]
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(01/29/2012) The Diary Of 'Helena Morley': A Girlhood Journal Of Life In A Mountain Town Of Brazil At The Turn Of The Century (edited by Elizabeth Bishop). New York. 1957. Farrar Straus Cudahy. Translated from the Portuguese & Edited by Elizabeth Bishop. keywords: Autobiography Women Brazil Translated Literature. 281 pages. Jacket design by Harry Ford. .
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FROM THE PUBLISHER - When Elizabeth Bishop first went to Brazil in 1952 and asked friends which Brazilian books she should begin reading, this diary was most frequently mentioned. It had first been published privately in a small edition in 1942. Georges Bernanos, who was living in Brazil in exile, discovered it and gave away many copies. It reputation began to spread in literary circle, new editions followed, and now it is a classic. This is a true story, kept by a girl between the ages of twelve and fifteen, in a provincial diamond-mining town called Diamantina, the highest town in brazil, during the years 1893 to 1895. Everything in THE DIARY OF 'HELENA MORLEY' really did happen. There really was a Dona Teadora, the grandmother who managed her family with an iron will; there really was a Sia Ritnha who stole her neighbors' but not the Morley chickens; there really were a father Neves, and a spinster English Aunt Madge, bravely keeping up her standards in a financially ruined town. As the translator states. 'Much of it could have happened in any small provincial town or village, and at almost any period of history - at least before the arrival of the automobile and the moving-picture theatre. Certain pages reminded me of more famous and 'literary' ones: Nausicca doing her laundry on the beach, possibly with the help of her freed slaves; bits from Chaucer; Wordsworth's poetical children and country people. ' Though scenes and event of THE DIARY OF 'HELENA MORLEY' happened long ago, what it says is fresh, sad, funny, and eternally true.
Check zenosbooks.com for a copy of this book
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