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Working to end drug war injustice, the November Coalition,
a non-profit grassroots organization, was founded in 1997.
Members educate the public about destructive, unnecessary
incarceration due to the U.S. drug war, and advocate for drug
war prisoners.
We rely on support from people like you - please join and
donate today.
The drug war does not reduce drug use. Choosing to wage
a 'war' on drugs stimulates a violent, underground economy, an
economy which would collapse if drug prohibition ended. Our country
and our world should be safer, not simply less free.
Prisoners of the drug war share stories of injustice:
Read about it at
www.appalshop.org/h2h/projects.htm
Listen online and participate at
www.appalshop.org/wmmt
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Friday, May 09, 2008 - 02:03 PM PDT
Video Update: Prisons Scrapping Ion Detection Machines
- from CW-TV 33, Dallas, TX, May 7, 2008 |
Video: Family turned away from federal prison after
death of prisoner's mother - from CW-TV 33, Dallas, TX,
November 3, 2007 |
Video: Nora's mom, 85-year old Bea Callahan, denied
prison visit with her son after "positive drug test"
- from CW-TV 33, Dallas, TX, May 3, 2007 |
BOP Suspends Use of Ion
Machines; 4/11/08 -- Scan of BOP Memo
Learn More about Drug Testing
and Prison Visits
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Video Update: [BOP]
Officials Suspend Use Of Prison Testing System; from WEEK-TV
(IL), 4/22/08 |
Video: False Positives Cause Problems For Prison Visitors;
from WEEK-TV (IL), 2/25/08 |
Torture
As Therapy And Therapy As Punishment; from Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition (MA),
April 2008
A Painful Choice
For Moms In Prison; from San Jose Mercury News
(CA), 4/18/08 -- More Abuse News
Sample Motions, Briefs And Orders Relating
To Retroactive Application Of Crack Cocaine Guideline Amendment;
from US Office of Defender Services (DC), 2008. (You can
print and send these documents to your imprisoned loved ones.)
Retroactive "Crack" Amendment Blog -- "A
new law makes 19,500 inmates eligible for a sentence reduction.
Your loved one may be one of them." An informative forum
by TX attorney Chad P. Van Cleave, who specializes in federal
drug cases. -- More on Crack/Powder
Cocaine
President
Signs HR 1593 (2nd Chance Act) Into Law; 4/10/08
(Full Bill text, as passed,
available here -- pdf)
Guilty Before
Proven Innocent; from Reason Magazine (US), May 2008
Anti-Snitch
Web Site Spurs Questions About Access To Federal Plea Agreements;
from Quad-City Times (IA), 4/26/08
The Informants
Are Watching Us ... But Who's Watching the Informants?
from ACLU Drug Policy Reform Project (US),
11/1/07 -- More Snitch News
Reports Find
Racial Gap In Drug Arrests; from New York Times
(NY), 5/6/08
Study: The
NYPD 'Weeds' Out Blacks And Latinos; from Village
Voice (NY), 4/29/08 -- More
Studies and Reports
Editorial:
Crystal Deception; from Free Libertarian Blog
(US), 5/3/08
OpEd: Arizona's
War On Meth: What About All The Other Drugs? from East
Valley Tribune (AZ), 4/18/08 -- More
Meth News
OpEd: Give
Them Homes; from USA Today (US), 4/29/08
Man Refused
Liver For Using Medical Marijuana; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 4/27/08
The
Marijuana Project Of Washington State - A joint effort
of the November Coalition and the Law Offices of Douglas Hiatt; an organization
that fights for the rights of medical marijuana patients in Washington
State and beyond. -- More WA
State News &Activism
Video: Critical Resistance
10 Year Anniversary |
"We all should give to Critical Resistance's
10th Year Gathering. How critical are the problems we've endured
as a prison industrial complex grows? I was at the first, I'll
be at the tenth. Will you?" -- Nora Callahan, Co-founder
of the November Coalition |
What If 5.3
Million More Americans Could Vote? from AlterNet (US), 4/20/08
Column: A Second
Chance Is Their First Priority; from Baltimore Sun
(MD), 3/2/08 -- More ReEntry News
Judges See Failure
In Fate Of Drug Cases; from Baltimore Sun (MD),
3/5/08
Judge Argues For
Softer Drug Laws; from Central Florida Future
(FL Edu), 12/3/07 -- More
Dissenting Opinions
Column: Whittling
Away, But Leaving A Gap; from New York Times (NY),
12/17/07
US Supreme Court Rulings
Give Judges More Discretion In Sentencing; from World Socialist Web
Site (US), 12/15/07
Column:
The Harm of 'Get Tough' Policies; from Newsweek
(US), 12/14/07 - More Sentencing
News
Thousand
Kites -- The Reality Of Prison; from Blue Banner
(NC Edu), 11/16/07
YouTube Video: About The Thousand Kites Project; from
Holler
to the Hood (VA), 9/26/07
Song: Please Believe,
by Garland Hogan, federal prisoner # 53629-004, FCI Coleman
(mP3, 8.5 mB)
Drug War News - Don't Miss:
Meet Fr.
Tom Hereford, New Haven, MO; Chrystal
Weaver, Pembroke Pines, FL, and Other
November Coalition Staff and Volunteers.
Incarcerated Veterans Information and Resources
Page; from FedCURE,
Jul 06 -- More Resources
The US Sentencing Commission's Assessment of How Well the
Federal Criminal Justice System is Achieving the Goals of Sentencing
Reform warrants study. View
the Executive Summary and Download the Report -- Read
a Layperson's Assessment of the Assessment, by Nora Callahan
Meet the People Behind
The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines -- Read
More About Guideline Sentencing
Recent Drug War News Stories:
Incarceration:
Mandatory Sentencing:
Racial Issues:
Drug Raids:
Chronic Pain:
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