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Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

A Medical Marijuana Patient And Single Mother Battles The State For Custody Of Her Daughter

“The most important part of my life is my daughter. All I have ever wanted is to make sure she has a good life, good lessons, access to the world as she needs and wants and to be there for her as long as possible”.

July 14th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

A Medical Marijuana Patient And Single Mother Battles The State For Custody Of Her Daughter

Amber Ostrom is like most single mothers.  She balances family, home and work as best she can and as hard as she can and, approaches every day with the care of her daughter, Georgia, first on her mind.  After all that is what single parents do right?  During my multiple interviews of her I learned that she just wants what we all want: a secure,

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Tomato Gardeners: The Latest Victim in the Government’s War on Drugs

Marijuana ballot measures

Despite Big Pharma’s Heavy Lobbying, Cannabis Legalization Efforts in US Make New Gains

Border Patrol

Despite Legalization, Border Patrol Will Go After Marijuana at California Checkpoints

A Call to Action: Wonder Woman Sarah Swain Draws Her Sword In Kansas

“this is one of those rare opportunities for “the people” to really make a change.”

July 07th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

Attorney Sarah Swain, defending Shona Banda against multiple felony charges in Garden City, Kansas, says it time for all marijuana activists, organizations and, even users, medical or otherwise, to mobilize and stop this injustice. I agree. Some weeks ago I became aware of the case of Shona Banda. Her son, reacting to comments being made by one

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backyard marijuana garden Feature photo

Tomato Gardeners: The Latest Victim in the Government’s War on Drugs

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Despite Legalization, Border Patrol Will Go After Marijuana at California Checkpoints

Lawsuits Show Gov. Contractors Intentionally Jailing The Poor For Profit

New lawsuits show that government hired contractors are squeezing the poor for every dollar they can, and seemingly squeezing any semblance of justice out of the U.S. legal system.

April 24th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

Southwest Georgia (TFC) – Twice in the past fifteen days, two separate class action lawsuits, one in U.S. District Court, one in Grady County Superior Court, were filed naming Red Hills Community Probation (RHCP) LLC, its CEO Margaret B.

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New Report Details the Shocking Growth of the Prison Exploitation Across the US

Bolivia Feature

Bolivia: New Gov’t Sets to Work Undoing Damage Left by US-Backed Añez Regime

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World Bank: Up to 150 Million More People Will Live in Extreme Poverty by 2021

FBI Admits Elite FBI Forensic Unit Lied In Court For Decades

Of the 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far.

April 20th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

Washington, D.C. (TFC) – The Justice Department and FBI have released a statement formally acknowledging that for over two decades, every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit offered false testimony in almost every trial in

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Gretchen Whitmer Feature photo

Kidnapping Dissent: The Whitmer Plot and the End of Freedom

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Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings

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FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign

The Attack On Net Neutrality Begins

Telecom giants “know there’s one place in the world where no one is watching YouTube, there’s only one group where ideology prevails and the actual Internet experience is irrelevant,” Reed Hundt, a former Democratic FCC chairman during the Clinton administration told Politico this past February.. “And that’s the [federal] judges on the D.C. circuit.”

April 14th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013.  (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP) Washington , D.C. (TFC) –  The United States Telecom

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FCC Head and Internet’s Most Hated Man Ajit Pai Just Vowed to Kill First Amendment Rights Online

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Technofascism: The Censorship of David Icke is Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

Internet Surveillance & Spying

ACTA 2.0 – The EU’s New Intellectual Property Law Threatens Fundamental Internet Freedom

Chapel Hill Killer Craig Stephen Hicks Is ‘Death Penalty Qualified’

The victims’ families are adamant that the three students were targeted because they were Muslims and have pushed for hate crime charges

April 07th, 2015

By Bobby Rodrigo for The Fifth Column

Chapel Hill Killer Craig Stephen Hicks Is ‘Death Penalty Qualified’

Craig Stephen Hicks in court in Durham, N.C., on Wednesday. Durham County, NC (TFC) - Defendant Craig Stephens Hicks will face the death penalty for

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This photo depicting two people, appearing to be bound, was released the by Department of Defense as part of a long-running ACLU lawsuit relating to prisoner abuse on February 5, 2015.

David Price Takes on the CIA Over Its Secret Torture Program, But Is He Asking the Right Questions?

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“We Thought You Were Muslim”: Police in India Apologize for Beating Hindu lawyer

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Millions Protest India’s Anti-Muslim Citizenship Laws As Gov’t Crackdown Intensifies

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