Derrick J Double Feature!
FR33MANTV is back from hiatus with a smashing new video. Robert Fernandes was inspired by Shire peace activist Ian Freeman to pay his property tax bill in $1 bills. What do you think? More from FR33MANTV
Heroic peace activist Rich Paul is featured in this episode’s video as well as Keeniac David Crawford: More from Peace News Now
Having been on “R” block in the CCHOC for a couple months, I have had a front row seat to observe the failure of the jail to address or even make a serious effort to address the plight of the mentally ill within its walls. The HOC is rife with mental illness. Many of its prisoners are here because they are mentally ill. Those who are mildly mentally ill on the outside frequently become dangerously so on the inside. The jail seems to be designed to take people who are a little crazy and drive them completely out of their minds.
There is no apparent therapy provided for mentally ill people here, except for a couple of meetings a week for the chemically dependent. There is, as far as I can tell, no psychiatrist. A psychologist, Barnes Peterson, who lacks the training to prescribe, makes the decisions about medication and passes them on to a Physician’s Assistant, who prescribes. These two frequently change people’s medication, then have the medication ground and dissolved in apple sauce. . . even though some of them are time release medications. This is completely irresponsible, as grinding many medications destroys the time release mechanism. (more…)
Want to help Rich Paul with his legal defense fundraiser? Thanks to Shiny Badges, you can now bid on Cop Block badge number 420! These beautiful badges are selling like hotcakes and are individually numbered, so there will only be one badge #420.
Current top bidder is Derrick J with a $420 bid – can you do better? Place your bid by leaving a comment at the bottom of ShinyBadges.com – don’t delay, the auction ends on August 15th!
Earlier today, the defense team headed by David Coombs to represent Bradley Manning rested after a presentation of nine witnesses from forty-six originally nominated. Some of the trial proceedings were held in secret during the government’s interrogatories. Bradley Manning will not be taking the stand in his defense. Al-Jazeera English has the story on the latest from the trial scheduled to conclude August 23, in addition to more detailed reports from the Bradley Manning Support Network.
Thanks to Chris Cantwell and the rest of the Philly crew for this shout-out to Rich. Should you wish to donate to Rich’s appeal (2nd) fundraiser, you can do that here. You can (and should!) also write to Rich via Mail-to-Jail\!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTwkm1cjHmY
If you are in a big city and are tired of not making an impact with your liberty activism – please come up to NH and get active here. The Free State Project is working!
Dear Dean:
I am happy to bear witness to your pledge to “get involved” in the Liberty Movement. I am even happier to inform you that you have already done so, in at least three ways: your letter to Adam, your letter to me, and your donation to my defense fund!
Being a jailed civilly disobedient activist can be compared to being the star of a movie. A movie should have a star, it would be boring without one, but no movie can be made with only one actor. Not only must other actors be found to play supporting roles, but a director, cameraman, and a producer are also required to make almost any movie. Voluntarists are frequently equipped with oversized egos, so it is often hard to find people to fill the vital supporting roles in our movement.
I was not trying to get put in jail this time, I was just doing my thing, which happened to be illegal. My focus these days and going forward will be more on making things change through mass protest, agorism, and through playing important supporting roles in civil disobedience than on actively trying to get myself arrested. I hope that you will continue to work for liberty in every way which makes sense to you…and that you will give yourself a break on the issue of civil dis. Not all activism gets you arrested, and actively promoting causes on Facebook is activism, in a way that lackadaisically pressing “like” is not.
If you cannot think of any other activism to do, I would challenge you to spend four hours a week actively promoting my case, spreading word of it to new audiences, and hopefully getting word of it to spread virally.
Alternatively, you might want to work a few extra hours each week and donate the extra money to a deserving liberty organization, whether it is my defense fund, the Free State Project, the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund, or some other organization.
In Liberty,
Rich Paul
(Editor’s note: You can write to Rich for free at MailtoJail.com!)
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