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Chicago’s Message In Motion: Reparations For Police Brutality!

February 24, 2015 By Kelly Hayes 4 Comments

Saturday night, a group of activists and allies took to the subway in Chicago to make some noise about this week’s election and the much discussed reparations ordinance. The ordinance, which would provide care and compensation to individuals tortured by Chicago police under Jon Burge, will not be on the ballot but the man who has prevented it from getting a hearing before the City Council will be: Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The majority of the City Council supports the ordinance but, in Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, such details aren’t really relevant. Emanuel has never seen police torture victims, or other victims of police violence, as a political priority. Given this mayor’s overall treatment of communities of color — shuttering dozens of schools and clinics in black communities — his failure to prioritize the safety and dignity of those most affected by police violence is unsurprising.

The horrors of the Burge years aren’t the kind of thing Rahm Emanuel factors into his day to day, high-powered cronyism. Addressing the harm done to people of color who were coerced into confessions, after being held at gunpoint, suffocated, terrorized, and subjected to genital electrocution, doesn’t put money in any millionaire’s pocket. It doesn’t feed any ongoing scheme to pick our pockets as we travel through the city and it doesn’t privatize any public services. It’s also a fairly disturbing and complicated subject, and therefore not the kind of feel-good sound byte opportunity that a mayor up for re-election might hope for.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: activism, Chicago, police brutality, Rahm Emanuel, torture

Fracked Earth News: Boston’s Hot Ocean Blizzard

February 17, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news, including:

New England: Off the coast of New England, sea surface temperatures “are flashing red, showing an extreme warm anomaly.” That’s a direct, immediate link to the recent record snowfall in Boston. Expect more.

California: Stunning state-wide fracking waste water test results: “concentrations of the human carcinogen benzene … [at] levels thousands of times greater than state and federal agencies consider safe.” ‘Significant’ benzene levels were in 98% of the water samples. Not only that, but CA “inadvertently” allowed frackers to inject their “flowback water into protected aquifers containing drinking water.” LA Times says “halt new operations.”

Peru: Oil contamination by Argentina’s Pluspetrol in the Peruvian Amazon so upset indigenous people that they “stormed a military base being used by Pluspetrol as a storage area.” Pluspetrol is packing up and leaving Peru—and the government “is investigating the illegal use of firearms by police during the demonstrations.”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Alberta, Amazon, Antarctica, biomass energy, Boston, BP, BP Oil, Brazil, Burlington, California, Canada, cap and trade, Charles Pierce, Chicago, Climate change, Congress, ConocoPhillips Alaska, eminent domain, energy, England, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, FBI, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels, fracking, France, gas, geoengineering, global warming, gold, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Houston, hydraulic fracturing, hydroelectric, IEA, Illinois, India, intelligence, International Energy Agency, Kanawha River, Keystone XL North, KeystoneXL North, Koch Brothers, labor, labor rights, Libya, LyondellBasell, Massachusetts, National Petroleum Reserve, Nebraska, Nepal, New England, nuclear, nuclear energy, oceans, Ohio, oil, oil prices, oil trains, Ontario, Panama, Pasadena, Pebble Mine, Pennsylvania, Peru, petcoke, poaching, Rahm Emanuel, refineriess, renewable energy, Rutgers University, solar, solar power, strike, Tom Wolf, TransCanada, union, unions, United Kingdom, United Steelworkers, United Steelworkers Union, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Bureau of Land Management, USW, Vermont, West Virginia, wind power, Wisconsin

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