A federal court jury in San Francisco yesterday found that Humboldt County and city of Eureka law-enforcement officers used excessive force on nonviolent protesters in 1997 when they swabbed them in the eye areas with pepper spray.
It took the jury approximately 11 hours of deliberation to come back with the verdict. The jury awarded each plaintiff only $1.
Switch off and get a life say protesters armed with remote control device that can blank out sets from 45 feet.
TS Eliot once said that “television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome”. He is not the only one who thinks so.
From today, a group of anti-TV guerrillas, as scathing as the poet about the influence of the small screen on society, plans to liberate people from its irresistible grip. They will be using a recently launched gizmo called TV-B-Gone to take direct action against television sets in public places.
The administration of George W. Bush has raised secrecy and information control to a level never before seen in Washington. The press has been grappling with how to cope with this extreme control and distortion of news, some reporters and editors more than others. One possibility they might consider is civil resistance, as in quiet, nonviolent, respectful rebellion.
GNN republished from Village Voice.
