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		<title>Too Many People Locked Up Say Americans In New Survey, Antonio Goes to D.C. for Gangs, Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Starting today, the very smart and talented Taylor Walker is helping me gather stories.  Eventually Taylor will be doing a story-gathering and commentary section of her own.  But right now, she&#8217;s helping me curate and write these multi-story posts.  More about&#8212;and from&#8212;Taylor Walker soon.

NEARLY 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY THAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads &amp; Short Takes for Cesar Chavez Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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it slipped my mind that today was Cesar Chavez Day.  So since many are taking the day off (and, yes, many of us aren&#8217;t), the promised Part 2 of Aero Bureau will appear Monday, not today.
In the meantime, watch the hour-long PBS video on the Farm Worker&#8217;s Movement at the end of the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxconn, Apple, This American Life&#8230;.and Reactions to the Great News Retraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On January 6, of this year Ira Glass&#8217;s This American Life aired a show about the FoxConn factory in China, where so many of our nice, shiny, perfect Apple products are made (including, I assume,  my brand new iPad), and which has become infamous for its brutal working conditions.
The TAL broadcast, which was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About That Whole Decrypting/5th Amendment Thingy&#8230;.Nevermind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, if you&#8217;ll remember, last week there was the whole legal showdown about whether or not someone could be force to decrypt their laptop&#8217;s hard drive if the stuff on said hard drive was incrimination.  Could decrypting be shielded by the 5th Amendment?
Different appeals courts, it seems, had differing views of that pesky little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing the Prop 8 Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 On Tuesday morning, there was mostly ebullience.  However, by afternoon  the significance of Tuesday&#8217;s Proposition 8 decision by the 9th Circuit was being examined from every angle.
 The majority opinion for the 2 to 1 ruling was, after all,  written by the most liberal justice on the most liberal appellate court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Challenge: Waiting for the 9th Circuit &#8211; UPDATED:  8 is UNconstitutional!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:  Today is a very good day for human beings.
No reporting can speak quite as eloquently to the point as the opening of the ruling itself, the majority opinion, written by Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt.
You can find it here.
But here&#8217;s one line that sums up all:
Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jails Commission Anonymity, Warrentless Tracking &amp; Juvenile LWOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SHERIFF&#8217;S DEPUTIES CAN&#8217;T BE GUARANTEED CONFIDENTIALITY IN JAILS COMMISSION TESTIMONY

The controversy over whether or not those testifying before the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence can be offered anonymity may have just been settled. 
LA Times reporters Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard spoke to the Commission&#8217;s lead attorney, Richard E. Drooyan, who explained that legally, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Throws a Book Party for Connie Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It wasn&#8217;t your usual book party.
For one thing, Monday night&#8217;s book launching event for civil rights lawyer  Connie Rice&#8217;s new memoir, Power Concedes Nothing, was held at the LAPD&#8217;s headquarters, in the over-lit Compstat room, no less&#8212;i.e. the room where the cops go to hear a rundown on the latest crime statistics and &#8216;crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Federal Consent Decree Coming for LA&#8217;s Juvie Probation Camps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE LATEST DOJ REPORT FUELS RENEWED SPECULATION THAT A FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE MIGHT BE IN THE FUTURE FOR LA COUNTY&#8217;S TROUBLED PROBATION CAMPS

This past Friday the Federal monitors representing US Department of Justice delivered their 145 page response to LA County Probation&#8217;s claims that its juvenile camps were mostly &#8220;In compliance&#8221; with the Feds&#8217; 41 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy LA:  Tuesday Night: LAPD Removes the Occupiers (Mostly) Peacefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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3:25:  THE MAYOR AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE COME OUT AND SAY A FEW WORDS
Villaraigosa said of Chief Charlie Beck:  &#8220;He&#8217;s someone who understands that Constitutional policing is the only way to go for Los Angeles.&#8221;
Charlie Beck said that 1400 officers took part, and there were around 200  arrests. (There were 292 [...]]]></description>
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