[Seattle-editorial] seattle imc features rock!

[Sheri Herndon]

hi,
for those of you who don't follow closely the global site or are not 
on www-features list, just letting you all know that the quality is 
so high that our features often get chosen to be put up on the global 
features :)))))
a small group of thoughtful committed people changing the world, yes indeed.
xo
ps - wish i was more helpful on this list, truly.

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>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:48:55 -0400
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>Based on the work of UK, Seattle, and Rocky Mountain IMCs. "U.S. Law 
>Enforcement
>Acting With Impunity" is not exactly a newsflash, but hey.
>
>Josh
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>UNITED STATES: POLITICAL REPRESSION
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>U.S. Law Enforcement Acting With Impunity
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>image: http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/ujaama.jpg
>alt: James Ujaama
>
>The U.S. government's investigation of the September 11 attacks has 
>been marred
>by arbitrary detentions, due process violations, and secret arrests, Human
>Rights Watch says in a <a
>href="http://www.humanrightswatch.org/reports/2002/us911/">new 
>report</a>. Some
>1200 non-citizens have been secretly arrested and incarcerated in connection
>with the September 11 investigation, although the government has not disclosed
>the exact number. The vast majority are from Middle Eastern, South Asian, and
>North African countries. [<a
>href="http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=38802&group=webcast">Read
>more</a>.]
><p>
>Having suffered no repurcussions from these abuses against Arabs in 
>America and
>having seen that it can disappear American citizens like Jose Padilla without
>interference by the courts, U.S. law enforcement is beginning to target Black
>political activists. In Denver, the FBI is detaining <a
>href="http://rockymountain.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/08/2002-08.html#4679">James
>Ujaama</a>,  as "a potential witness in an ongoing grand jury probe of
>terrorism." Ujaama operates <a
>href="http://stopamerica.org">StopAmerica.org</a>, which contains dissenting
>views about U.S. foreign policy. In Seattle earlier this month, 
>police arrested
><a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/08/2002-08.html#4569">Kwame
>Garrett and Merciful Allah</a>, both well-known critics of the Seattle Police.
>In a phone call from jail, Garrett said that police officers rushed up to them
>with weapons drawn, shouting, 'jaywalking!' and beat the two with batons and
>sprayed them with pepper spray.
>
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