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Roger Waters Criticizes Senate Bill Criminalizing BDS & Radiohead's Recent Concert in Tel Aviv

2017-09-14T20:09:55.822Z

Last week, Roger Waters wrote a piece in The New York Times titled "Congress Shouldn’t Silence Human Rights Advocates." In the op-ed, Waters criticized a bill being considered in the Senate to silence supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel. The bill seeks to criminalize individuals who participate in the BDS effort. We speak to Waters and Sut Jhally of the Media Education Foundation. We also discuss criticism of the BDS movement and ask Waters about his public spat with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, whose band has rejected calls to join BDS.

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Criminalizing the Classroom: Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline

2015-10-30T17:12:32.985Z

New York City has more than 5,000 police officers patrolling the city’s schools—that’s more than the combined number of school guidance counselors and social workers. Nationwide, more than 17,000 officers work in the school. What happens when students are arrested in the classroom? We look at what many experts call the "school-to-prison pipeline."

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The Problem With Criminalizing Homelessness

2013-09-19T20:28:38.010Z

via Think Progress
“I’m probably gonna wind up in jail,” Franklin said one June afternoon off a highway in south Florida, a statement made only more chilling by the fact that it was clear he’s had to say those same words in the past.

The 53-year-old doesn’t exactly fit the notion of someone who “deserves” to be homeless. He served in the nation’s armed forces when he was younger. He wants to work, spending every morning putting in applications at local businesses. “I put in an application right there, Home Depot right here, they said don’t even bother, man,” he told filmmaker Andres Lopez.

Despite attempts by some to argue that poor people actually live pampered lives on the dole, Franklin’s is anything but glamorous. He lives in the woods off the highway. He spends his mornings fruitlessly applying for jobs, his afternoons asking people for spare change. On a good day, he gets $10 from drivers off I-95.

Which is where he found himself facing possible jailtime earlier this summer after being ticketed by the Florida Highway Patrol for violating a state law that prohibits pedestrians from walking on highway exit ramps. Franklin was going car to car to ask for money, a violation that earned him a $64.50 citation.

“This is the fourth one I’ve gotten,” he explained. He’d managed to pay off the others, successfully begging for enough money to cover them then catching a bus downtown to physically hand over the cash. But he wasn’t optimistic this time. “It’s either that or go to jail.”

He didn’t regret violating Florida statute 316.130 §18 — “I got no choice. I’ve gotta survive somehow.” — but with an expensive ticket hanging over his head, his life was made even harder. “Every time I try to do anything, I get kicked in my ass,” he told Lopez. “I guess I’m just stupid, I don’t know.”
By Scott Keyes on September 19, 2013

Please read his story on the criminalization of homelessness trend.
http://columbianewsservice.com/2013/03/activists-accuse-cities-of-criminalizing-the-homeless/