Glen Beaty, the homeless man seen in a video being beaten by a Fresno Police officer, had a hearing in court yesterday (Thursday, July 2). Beaty, who has been in jail for almost 5 months, has not been charged with a crime in that incident. The court ordered him to be sent to the Atascadero State Mental Hospital. 1:30 minute audio (below) explains what happened

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 27th to July 3ed, 2009.

Venezuela News Summary #85 (Audio: 7mins, 35secs) Venezuelan Opposition Deny Honduran Coup - Venezuela Proposes United Nations Military Action if Diplomacy Fails in Honduras Coup - Gay Pride March in Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuelan Media Workers March, New National Paper Announced - Governor and Land Reform Activists Create Farmer Rights Council in Portuguesa, Venezuela - Venezuelan and the United States Re-Establish Relations and Ambassadors all news from Venezuelanalysis.com

En mayo de 2009, Radio Zapatista entrevistó a compañer@s de organizaciones y colectivos que están luchando por los derechos de los migrantes en el Estado Español. Este documental pretende conocer el trabajo de algunos de estos grupos y, a través de sus comentarios, reflexionar la migración en España desde la perspectiva de California (mp3, 31 min).

Audio from the meeting of the The London Campaign to support the North West 10, foreign students who were arrested under Terror Laws and most of whom are now in prison, despite there being no evidence against them, met at the Khalili Lecture theatre at SOAS on Thursday 2nd July.

Speakers included Tariq Mehmood, one of the 'Bradford 12', Gareth Peirce - Human Rights Solicitor, Dorothy Wright of UCU, Asim Qureshi of Cage Prisoners and Rizwan Sabir, arrested with Hicham Yezza at Nottingham University.

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No attorney allowed to passengers in detention
At a Press Conference today Free Gaza say that passengers on the boat kidnapped by Israel are held in a detention centre and are not allowed to see an Attorney.

The plight of Palestinians who are also incarcerated in Israel is mentioned and a request is made for world-wide help and action for them also

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday July 1st 2009.

in a bold occupation at 2.30 this morning, a woman from peacestrike.org has converted the parliament square churchill statue into a mock-up of a sri lankan death camp. she intends to stay there as long as possible to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of tamil civilians facing threat of starvation, rape, torture or murder.

Honduras, Huelga!!!

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"voces de la protesta": el audio recoge las voces de la protesta del 29 de junio frente al consulado de honduras, en contra del golpe de estado militar que sucedió el día anterior (mp3, 12 min.).

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The Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant on June 27th focused on the many continued failings of BART and the upcoming Day of Action to End the Death Penalty on June 30th. Speakers included Minister Keith Muhammad, several community members, former Oakland City Councilmember Wilson Riles, and Delane Sims and Natasha Minsker from the ALCU's campaign against the death penalty. Minister Keith Muhammad discusses the "American Experiment" and how it has not lived up to its promise historically. He describes how the earliest version of American police were slave patrols created in order to suppress any potential slave rebellions. He goes on to talk about the continued pervasiveness of racially-focused police abuse in California and across America, including the racial injustice of people of color being disproportionately sentenced to the death penalty. As a recent case example, he mentions the case of the man laying face down who was kicked in the head by police in Los Angeles last month. Minister Keith Muhammad also addresses how this has been playing out at BART with NOBLE (the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives) being used as cover for BART's racial injustices and in the trial of Johannes Mehserle with Michael Rains trying to move the trial to a less diverse county. Speakers from the community, moderated by Dr. Ramona Tascoe, took turns addressing various related issues. Jack Bryson, father of Oscar Grant's friends, Krystof from No Justice No BART, D'Andre from the Revolution Club, Reverend Henry Williams and others spoke. A strong consensus emerged that BART has not done a single thing the community has asked for and still has not held anyone accountable for their actions on the night Oscar Grant was murdered, nor have their supervisors, Chief Gee or General Manager Dorothy Dugger, who have actively worked to cover up for the crimes of their police. As BART has not lived up to any common sense community demands, the consensus was that it is time to initiate more protests against BART. Wilson Riles listed three strategies he sees as useful to fight BART and hold them accountable. He also discusses the perverse situation of corporate personhood and how many of the injustices in our society are linked to that legal falsehood. A day-long public hearing will be held in Sacramento to receive comments about proposed regulations concerning use of lethal injection in California on June 30th. Anti-death penalty activists intend to appear in force at the hearing to object to the death penalty itself. After the hearing, activists will proceed to the Capital building to express their views to elected officials. Any person may submit comments in writing (by mail, fax, or email) but all comments must be submitted by 5pm June 30th. Contact info is listed below. Delane Sims and Natasha Minsker point out that Alameda County is the third in California for sending people to death row. They also address the historical inequality in how the death penalty has been applied in the U.S. -- people of color convicted of killing a white person are far more likely to get the death penalty than white people killing people of color. They add that one often-forgetten route to decreasing the numbers sent to death row is to pressure local DAs such as Alameda County District Attorney Tom Orloff to use the discretion in his power to sentence convicted people to a life term rather than a death sentence. Minister Keith Muhammad speaks first here, after a prayer from Reverend Henry Williams:

The teachers spoke with Kristin Bricker from Narco News, getting the most up to date information possible about the coup in Honduras [Bilingual.ish/54.11/MP3/Mono]. L@s Maestr@s hablaron con Kristin Bricker, del sitio web NarcoNews, para pasar la informacion mas reciente posible sobre el golpe de estado en Honduras[Bilingual.ish/54.11/MP3/Mono].

46:46 minute interview with Lloyd Carter and Steve Haze on the Street Heat radio show (recorded Friday, June 26) on KFCF 88.1 FM in Fresno. Carter and Haze are talking about the "water issue" in the Central Valley, demystifying some of the misinformation out there, like the "Fish vs. People" rhetoric being used by right wing politicians and their allies. Jean Hays is the host.