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Private Prisons

Numerous private prisons are springing up across the nation, eager to make money from imprisonment of large numbers of individuals, including illegal migrants. For background, see:

Criminal Justice Reform

Piecemeal reforms not accompanied by public discussion of the larger policy are ineffective outside the context of a broad social movement. Only a broad and multifaceted grassroots social movement can accomplish the goal of meaningful reform.

With less than five percent of the world’s population, the United States locks up nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners. At 2.3 million, we have the largest prison population in the world.

Indigenous Peoples

As the fourth-generation descendant of a Blackfoot/Irish couple, Kent Mesplay has great respect for Native American cultures, especially their deference for community and the Earth.

We must recognize both the sovereignty of Native American tribal governments and the Federal Government's trust obligation to Native American people. Native American nations are just that -- nations -- and should be treated in like fashion, with the special circumstance that they are located within the United States.

Hunger Strike Solidarity

Tue, 07/19/2011 - 18:49 — vdf

For his birthday Dr. Kent P. Mesplay, candidate for President of the U.S., requests all people stand in solidarity with the activist prisoners working for humane treatment in California prisons! Although the hunger strike has ended we must continue to support them so that their needs are met by the Brown administration and his CDCR. Together we can remake America into a truly humane nation of people who put our people before the profits of the Prison Industrial Complex.

Tar Sands Action: Washington, DC, Aug. 20 - Sept. 3, 2011

Mon, 07/18/2011 - 20:42 — vdf

TransCanada, one of the largest companies involved in tar sands exploration, has proposed a 1,661 mile, 36-inch extension of the newly built Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada to oil refineries of the United States. This "Keystone XL Pipeline" would expand the capacity for refining oil produced from Alberta tar sands by approximately one million barrels per day.

The Tar Sands are the most environmentally devastating project on earth, involving extracting oil from a mix of clay and other materials, from underneath Canada’s Boreal forest. The refining process is complex and very energy intensive.

President Barack Obama will decide as early as September whether to approve the pipeline.

From August 20th to September 3rd, thousands of Americans -- including Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, and NASA’s Dr. James Hansen -- will be at the White House, day after day, demanding that Obama reject this tar sands nightmare.

See www.tarsandsaction.org for full information.
Go to www.tarsandsaction.org/sign-up/ to sign up.

The Dene First Nation is fighting another proposed tar sands pipeline that would threaten their territory within the boundaries of Canada.

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