Protests Erupt in Oakland After Verdict in Grant Trial

Oscar Grant

Scores of people were arrested in recent days in protests over the verdict in the Oscar Grant shooting. Grant was the unarmed 22-year-old African-American man who was shot dead by a White transit officer on an open train platform on New Year’s Day 2009. Cell phone videos of the shooting show the transit officer Johannes Mehserle, pulling out a gun and shooting Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground on the train platform. On July 8, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter, but he was acquitted on the more serious charges of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. The jury included eight women and four men. No African-Americans served on the jury. Mehserle will be sentenced on August 6th and voluntary manslaughter carries a penalty of two to four years in prison, but a sentencing enhancement for using a gun means he could face an additional three to 10 years behind bars. Members of Grant’s family expressed shock that Mehserle was acquitted of second-degree murder. Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson, spoke outside the courthouse.

WANDA JOHNSON: That the system has let us down but God will never ever let us down. Though the system has failed us, though we fight continually, but you know what, one thing I know, that the race is not given to the swift nor to the strong but to the one who endures till the end. And as a family and as a nation of African-American people, we will continue to fight for our equal rights in this society. The Scripture tells us that the rich bribed the judges and certainly we have seen the judges be bribed. Certainly we have seen how this judicial system has worked on such a case as this. We couldn’t even get six hours of deliberation. And we have a new juror who came in who had not probably even reviewed the evidence with the other jurors. But the jury had already had their minds tainted. And so I believe I still remember what Dr. King said that he had a dream. I believe that one day as a nation of people, that you guys will not look at us according to the color or content of our skin, but that we will be treated right as a people. And my son was murdered.

He was murdered.

He was murdered.

He was murdered.

My son was murdered.

And the law has not held the officer accountable the way that he should have been held accountable. And I look at this, and I just say like my brother said to any other family who goes through this, do not give up. Do not give up. Even though the system will fail us and let us down, God will never fail us nor will he let us down. And I will trust in him until I die.

The family’s attorney John Burris also spoke to the media after the verdict.

JOHN BURRIS: Now of course, we feel that the involuntary manslaughter conviction is better than no conviction at all. We do recognize and appreciate that there are that there probably is some historical significance that I and my long history being involved in police matters since 1979 and well over 30 homicides involving the police, have never had a case where an officer was convicted of any crime against an African-American male. So in that sense, it is a small victory. But it does not in and of itself fairly and accurately represent that the system works. But it cannot work in a situation where a person is killed with his hands behind his back, with an officer over him, claiming that he has seen something come and that becomes an involuntary manslaughter.

In California, a former Bay Area police officer has escaped a full conviction for the 2009 killing of the unarmed African-American passenger Oscar Grant. On Thursday, the officer, Johannes Mehserle, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter but was acquitted on the more serious charges of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter—both of which carry longer sentences. Videotape of the killing shows Mehserle shooting Grant in the back while Grant lay face down on a subway platform.


Jury Convicts Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge of Lying About Torture
Decades after torture allegations were first leveled against former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, a federal jury has found him guilty of lying about torturing prisoners into making confessions. Burge has long been accused of overseeing the systematic torture of more than 100 African American men. Two years ago federal prosecutors finally brought charges against Burge—not for torture, but for lying about it. After a five-week trial, Jon Burge was found guilty on all counts of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about the abuse. He could face up to forty-five years in prison.


Wages for High School, College Graduates Fell in Last Decade
A recent study shows median wages for both high school and college graduates have fallen over the last decade. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the years 2000 to 2009 marked a "prolonged period of wage stagnation." Earnings for high school graduates dropped an average three dollars per week, and earnings for college graduates dropped an average five dollars per week. The wage stagnation preceded the current recession, with wages falling even as the nation’s economy expanded from 2002 to 2007. Speaking at a factory in Kansas City, President Obama said he thinks the U.S. economy is headed to recovery.

President Obama:"And I’ve said since I took office that my administration will not rest until every American who is able and ready and willing to work can find a job and a job that pays a decent wage and has decent benefits to support a family. We’re not there yet. We’ve got a long way to go. But what is absolutely clear is we’re moving in the right direction."


US to Deploy Predator Drones Along Texas-Mexico Border
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has confirmed plans for the United States to deploy unmanned Predator drones to patrol the US-Mexico border in Texas. The United States currently has four drones patrolling the border with Mexico in Arizona and one in the northern border with Canada in the state of North Dakota. Napolitano made the announcement during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Janet Napolitano: "I’m also proud to announce today that the Federal Aviation Administration has approved the use of CBP unmanned aircraft system flights along the Texas border and in the Gulf region...These types of flights aren’t useful everywhere, but in some places they’re part of the right mix of infrastructure, manpower and technology that improves border security."

Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano also unveiled new plans to increase government surveillance along the border by developing a system to begin photographing the license plates of every vehicle.

Janet Napolitano: "We’re partnering with the Office of National Drug Control Policy to implement Project Roadrunner, an automated license-plate recognition system. Project Roadrunner was conceived to target both north- and southbound drug trafficking and associated illegal activity along the Southwest border."


64 Die in Uganda Blast
In news from Africa, at least 64 people died July 10 in a pair of bomb explosions in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. One blast hit an Ethiopian restaurant where people had gathered to watch the World Cup Finals. Ugandan officials blamed the Somali militant group al-Shabab of carrying out strikes but no arrests have been made in connection to the attack.


Justice Dept To Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Arizona over the state’s new anti-immigrant law. The main argument of the suit will be the legal doctrine of "preemption," which is based on the Constitution’s supremacy clause and says that federal law trumps state statutes. The Arizona law requires police officers to stop and interrogate anyone they suspect is an undocumented immigrant.


New York Lawmakers Approve Labor Standards for Domestic Workers
Here in New York, state lawmakers have given final approval to a measure establishing a landmark set of working standards for housekeepers, nannies and other domestic workers. The bill requires overtime pay after a forty-hour workweek, at least one day off per week, and at least three days off with full pay per year. New York Governor David Paterson says he’ll sign the bill into the law.


New Details Emerge on "Backdoor Bailout" Through AIG
New details have emerged on how the New York Federal Reserve under Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner helped orchestrate the "backdoor bailout" of major Wall Street firms through the insurance giant AIG. The Fed’s rescue of AIG helped secretly funnel nearly $70 billion dollars to sixteen big US and European banks. According to the New York Times, recently-disclosed documents show the government forced AIG to forfeit its right to sue several major banks, including Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, for any irregularities in the mortgage securities it had insured on their behalf. The documents also suggest regulators ignored advice from their own advisers to force banks to accept losses on the AIG deals instead of paying the banks in full. One regulator personally thanked Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein for his "patience" as the Fed worked to ensure Blankfein’s company would receive taxpayer money. In a November 2008 email to Blankfein, the regulator wrote: "Thanks for understanding." The New York Times also reports the Treasury Department’s point man on the AIG bailout, Dan Jester, was himself a former Goldman executive who at the time still owned company stock.


APA Supports Efforts To Strip License of Psychologist Tied to Torture Program
The American Psychological Association is supporting efforts to strip the license of a psychologist accused of helping to develop the Bush administration’s torture methods used on foreign prisoners. The psychologist, James Mitchell, is under investigation by the licensing board in Texas. APA spokesperson Rhea Farberman said "The allegations put forward in the complaint and those that are on the public record about Dr. Mitchell are simply so serious, and if true, such a gross violation of his professional ethics, that we felt it necessary to act." Mitchell was a partner in the firm Mitchell Jessen & Associates based in Spokane, Washington


House Approves Over $30B for Escalating Afghan War
The House has approved a spending measure that includes over $30 billion dollars to escalate the war in Afghanistan. The war funding passed by a 215 to 210 vote after Democratic leaders combined it with around $50 billion dollars for domestic initiatives. The new spending would come on top of the $130 billion dollars already earmarked for the Afghan and Iraq wars this year. Hours before the vote, members of the House’s Out of Afghanistan caucus challenged their colleagues for approving war spending while cutting social programs in the name of deficit reduction. Democratic Congressmember Raul Grajalva called the ongoing support for war spending an "essential hypocrisy."

Rep. Raul Grajalva: "And here we are, prolonging a war that most of the American people oppose and not paying for it. That’s the essential hypocrisy. We are required to offset anything for education, we are required to offset anything for jobs, and now this war is reaching $280 billion for taxpayers, all under an emergency supplemental category which doesn’t require offsets of pay-fors."
The war funding measure now goes to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to oppose the bill’s non-military provisions.


Toyota Cuts Funding to School After Professor Exposed Vehicle Flaws
The Associated Press is reporting Toyota has withdrawn funding for Southern Illinois University after one of the school’s professors exposed major flaws in the electrical systems of Toyota vehicles. The professor, David Gilbert, was among the first to suggest that electronics, not sticky gas pedals or badly designed floor mats, caused the unintended acceleration problem that led to the recall of millions of Toyota vehicles. After Gilbert spoke publicly about his findings, two Toyota employees resigned from an advisory board of the school’s auto-technology program, and the company withdrew offers to fund two spring-break internships.


Two Striking Banana Workers Killed in Panama
In Panama, at least two striking banana workers have died during a series of protests against a new anti-union labor law. Banana union leader Antonio Smith died as a result of tear-gas fired by the security forces. Another banana worker was shot to death.


CNN Fires Middle East Editor for Twitter Post
In media news, CNN has fired its veteran Middle Eastern editor for a Twitter message in which she says she respected the late Lebanese cleric, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah following his death last week. Fadlallah was Lebabon’s most eminent Shia cleric. In her Twitter post, Octavia Nasr wrote: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot." Nasr had worked at CNN for 20 years.


Ousted Honduran President Accuses US of Being Behind the 2009 Coup
Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya has directly accused the United States of being behind the 2009 coup that ousted him a year ago. In a letter released on Monday, Zelaya wrote, "What we suspected at the beginning has now been confirmed. The United States was behind the coup." He went on to write, "the Honduran people are faithful witnesses to the role that the economic interests of the United States played in this tragic event." The United States is the largest source of foreign investment in Honduras and accounts for much of its trade. Zelaya is currently living in exile in the Dominican Republic. In Honduras, thousands of people marked the anniversary of the coup by marching in Tegucigalpa and calling for the return of Zelaya.

David Castillo, supporter of Manuel Zelaya: "We are seeing the resistance growing every day. The Honduran people have awoken, and we have faith this struggle will not last days or a year. We know the people every day, when they see the needs, the economic, political and social crisis in the country, the insecurity and all that, the people have to unite more to the resistance to look for solutions to these problems."


CENTCOM Nominee Led Fallujah Assault, Dropped Charges in Haditha Massacre
The Pentagon’s new nominee to head the U.S. Central Command is expected to draw scrutiny for a controversial record that includes outlandish comments and alleged disregard for Iraqi civilian life. On Thursday, Marine General James Mattis was tapped to replace General David Petraeus, who took over as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan following the ouster of General Stanley McChrystal last month. As head of Camp Pendleton’s 1st Marine Division in Iraq, Mattis played a key role in the two U.S. assaults on Fallujah in 2004. The assaults killed hundreds if not thousands of Fallujah residents, displaced thousands more, and destroyed much of the city. Mattis later dismissed almost all of the charges against eight accused Marines involved in the November 2005 massacre of twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha. Of the eight Marines originally charged in the case, only one still faces prosecution. In February 2005, Mattis was reprimanded after he told a public event that he enjoys fighting in places like Afghanistan because "it’s fun to shoot some people." He said: "You know, it’s a hell of a hoot… I’ll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."


Wealthier Americans Have Higher Mortgage Default Rate
A new analysis shows wealthier Americans have a higher rate of mortgage defaults than the rest of the population. According to the New York Times, more than one in seven homeowners with loans exceeding one million dollars are seriously delinquent. By contrast, the delinquency rate for mortgages below the one million mark is about one in twelve.


Nixon and Kissinger Admitted to CIA Assassination Attempt in Chile; Nixon Ordered Plans for Nuking North Korea
And newly-released archives show President Richard Nixon and his then-national security adviser Henry Kissinger privately admitted to a CIA assassination attempt in Chile. Nixon and Kissinger were in the midst of a campaign to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende at the time of the tape in June 1971. On the recording, Kissinger and Nixon joke about a CIA attempt to kill the top Chilean army commander who supported Allende. The general, Rene Schneider, was killed in 1970 by right-wing Chilean military forces. In an apparent reference to Schneider and the CIA, Kissinger says: "When they did try to assassinate somebody, it took three attempts, and he lived for three weeks afterwards." Kissinger has long claimed the CIA broke off contact with Schneider’s killers before the third attempt on his life. The US helped overthrow Allende three years later, leading to a military takeover by General Augusto Pinochet. In related news, other recently-disclosed archives show the Nixon administration drew up plans for a nuclear attack on North Korea. Nixon reportedly ordered nuclear bombers on standby after North Korea shot down a U.S. spy plane in 1969.



Gary Rivlin on "Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.–How the Working Poor Became Big Business"
Wells Fargo has announced that it will stop handing out subprime loans and close down 638 Wells Fargo Financial offices. Until very recently, the bank was at the forefront of subprime lending in poor and middle-income communities of color across the country and was sued last year by Illinois and in the cities of Memphis, Tennessee and Baltimore, Maryland for deceptive and discriminatory mortgage lending. The Wells Fargo and the other big mainstream banks did not invent this kind of predatory lending. They were inspired by an industry that has long exploited the working poor, it is an industry that has become a fixture across America. Mom-and-pop pawnshops, payday loan brokers, rent to own stores, and storefront check cashing operations.

These may be small companies, but they invented the subprime loan. The best selling author and former New York Times Reporter Gary Rivlin says their rapacious practices laid the foundation for powerful mainstream banks to get into the subprime business, and turn it into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. He calls this the poverty industry. He wrote the book Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.–How the Working Poor Became Big Business. It’s just out.

GARY RIVLIN: What really struck me are the profits being made here. We have always had poverty industry. All these pawn shops go back centuries, Check cashers have been around since the 1930’s. But what has changed, is you used to be able to get a big house, drive a Cadillac rich; but starting in the 80’s and 90’s, with Wall Street’s help, with the help of the big banks, with the Wells Fargos of the world, suddenly this became huge business. And people figured out how to take old line business like check cashing, and Pawn Shops, take them on Wall Street and make tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. There are seven publicly traded check cashing companies. At the same time, we saw all these new inventions, the subprime mortgage came around, because of deregulation in the 1980’s. In the late 1980’s, you started seeing subprime credit cards. And the banks started seeing the amount of money the subprime entrepreneurs were making selling these credit cards, they are making two or three times the rate on their subprime customers as they were on their regular customers, so of course, the JP Morgan Chase’s of the world, and the big banks started got into the subprime credit card. And then finally you saw all these new inventions, the payday loan came around in the early 1990’s, these instant tax mills which you see in working class communities all around the country, you know get your tax refund today or tomorrow rather than waiting two or three weeks, oh and by the way you are going to pay a triple digit interest rate typically to get your money that quick. They are really preying on People so desperate for the money, that they will pay a huge premium to get it tomorrow rather than waiting two or three weeks. So really, I just was struck that this was a Wall Street phenomenon, in the last 20 or 30 years, these have become multi billion dollar industries.

JUAN GONZALEZ: The payday loans in particular, they basically did not exist before the mid-1990s in most places around the country. How did they develop and grow so rapidly?

GARY RIVLIN: So I really wanted to find, I called them the pioneers of subprime. I really wanted to find the people who invented these various products to hear their side of the story. So, I went to Cleveland Tennessee where Allan Jones the man who invented the modern day petty loan industry, I spent a couple of days with him, and of course, He sees himself as noble. A payday loan for those who don’t know, it is a quick cash advance against your next pay check, against a social security check, against an unemployment check. 2, 3, 400 dollars, you don’t have the money now, and you need to fix your car.

In theory it makes sense. What do you do if you do not have a rich uncle or you don’t have a credit card, and you need to fix your car or need a new refrigerator? The problem is, the person who is so desperate for a loan today, that they will pay fees that come out to an annual interest rate of 400% or more, those people that are so desperate today, that they’ll pay annual fees that work out to an annual interest rate that work out to 400% or more, those people that are so desperate today, how in two weeks when the loan is due are they going to have the extra $300 they borrowed plus the $45 in fees on top of the regular bills? So you see a cycle, you see people get stuck. And even the industry confesses the average person takes two or three months to pay back one of these loans. So instead of $15 for every 100, your sometimes paying $100 for every $100 you loan, and the academics, the consumer rights groups, they find that the average person takes out 13, 12 or 13 of these a year, that’s half the year, you have a loan that has an effective interest rate of 400%, 1/5 of the people have 21 or more of these loans a year. If you’re the five borrowing $500, and you can’t pay it back, you’re effectively paying 2 thousand dollars in fees for that same 500 dollars. And these are the people who could least afford to pay those kind of rates.


Study: Media Stopped Calling Waterboarding "Torture" Following Its Disclosure as Routine U.S. Practice
A new study says the U.S. corporate media drastically altered its use of the word torture after its practice by the U.S. became widely exposed under the Bush administration. Researchers at Harvard University found newspapers almost uniformly described waterboarding as torture dating back to the 1930s. But when it was revealed as a common tactic approved under President Bush, the same newspapers stopped using the word torture almost entirely. Whereas the New York Times had previously characterized waterboarding as torture in 81.5% of articles, from 2002 to 2008 it characterized waterboarding as torture in just 1.4 percent of articles.


ACLU Sues U.S. Over No-Fly List
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. government to challenge a no-fly list that has in some cases stranded Americans abroad. The suit was filed Wednesday on behalf of ten U.S. citizens or permanent residents prevented from boarding U.S.-bound flights. Ben Wizner of the ACLU’s National Security Project said: "There is simply no legal basis for placing a U.S. citizen into involuntary exile. And to use a secret government list without any process to accomplish that goal is… unconstitutional."


U.S. Army Analyst Charged in Wikileaks Case
A U.S. Army intelligence analyst has been charged in connection with the leaking of classified video and documents to the whistleblower website Wikileaks. Army Specialist Bradley Manning is accused of releasing video of a July 2007 attack in which US military gunships indiscriminately kill twelve Iraqis and wound several others, including two children. In addition Manning is also charged with passing on over fifty State Department cables. He faces up to fifty-two years in prison. Manning was detained while serving in Iraq in May after an acquaintance said he had taken responsibility for sending Wikileaks the video along with thousands of classified US government records. Manning hasn’t retained a civilian lawyer and is being represented by a military defense attorney. In an interview with Democracy Now! last month, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg urged support for Manning should he turn out to be Wikileaks’ source.

Daniel Ellsberg: "For forty years I’ve hoped that someone would put out information on the scale that I did, but in a more timely way than I did, before I chose to do it in my time. And Manning would be the first person in forty years to have done that, if it is true that he’s put out a great raft of cables, which he regards as criminal. And I give him—I’m very gratified, if that’s the case. And I hope he’s not the last."


U.S. Awards $1.85B in Loan Guarantees For Solar Projects
President Obama has announced the awarding of $1.85 billion in loan guarantees to two solar power companies. Part of the money will go to the Spanish corporation Abengoa Solar for the construction of a large solar plant in Arizona.
President Obama: "Once completed, this plant will be the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night. And it will generate enough clean, renewable energy to power 70,000 homes."


Study: Climate Pledges Will Lead to 4°C Increase by 2100
A new analysis says the world is headed for an average temperature rise that far exceeds pledges at the Copenhagen climate conference last year. According to the Climate Interactive Scoreboard, temperatures are expected to rise nearly four degrees celcius by the end of the century, double the maximum two degrees discussed in Copenhagen. A separate analysis from the Potsdam Institute in Germany says there’s "virtually no chance" current pledges will keep temperatures below two degrees, and predicts an increase of 3.5 degrees. Developing countries have long warned temperatures should be capped at 1.5 degrees to avoid environmental catastrophe.


Heat Wave Breaks Records on U.S. East Coast
The news comes as an East Coast heat wave is breaking records here in the United States. Recently, the mercury level reached all-time highs in a number of cities including 103 degrees Fahrenheit in New York, 103 degrees in Newark and 102 degrees in Philadelphia.


Sen. Robert Byrd, 1917-2010
And Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia has died at the age of 92. Elected in 1958, Byrd served an unprecedented nine terms in the US Senate. He was a leading critic of President Bush’s push to invade Iraq. On the eve of the US invasion in March 2003, Byrd delivered one of his most memorable speeches.

Sen. Robert Byrd: "After the war has ended, the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America’s image around the globe. The case that this administration tries to make to justify its fixation with war is tainted by charges of falsified documents and circumstantial evidence. We cannot convince the world of the necessity of this war for one simple reason: this is not a war of necessity, but a war of choice."

In the 1940s, Byrd was a prominent member of Ku Klux Klan in West Virginia, rising to the position of "exalted cyclops." He opposed the desegregation of the US military and filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd would later apologize, saying his association with the Klan was a sad mistake. In 2008, he endorsed President Obama for president.


Jamaican Gang Leader Extradited to US
Christopher Coke, a reputed gang leader from Jamaica, arrived in New York in June to face drug-running charges. Coke surrendered nearly one month after at least seventy-six people died when Jamaican forces launched an assault on a poor neighborhood loyal to Coke.


Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Enron CEO
The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling in a decision that will make it harder for prosecutors to file charges in corruption cases. The Court threw out a law that makes it a crime to “deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." The ruling could affect the sentence of Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling and newspaper executive Conrad Black


Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank
An investigation by the New York Times has found that the U.S. Treasury Department is helping sustain Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank by granting tax breaks on donations to support them. Over the past decade , at least 40 American non-profit groups have distributed more than $200 million in tax-deductible gifts to help expand the settlements. The Times reports the tax-deductible gifts goes mostly to schools, synagogues and recreation centers but it has also paid for guard dogs, bulletproof vests and rifle scopes for settlers.


Greenpace Accuses of Paper Firm of Destroying Indonesian Rain Forests
Greenpeace has accused one of the world’s largest pulp, paper and palm oil companies of destroying Indonesian rain forests and threatening Indonesia’s efforts to address climate change. A new Greenpeace report focuses on the company Asia Pulp and Paper, a subsidiary of the Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas. Greenpeace also accuses Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hewlett Packard of sourcing products tied to the destruction of the Indonesian rain forest.


"Promised Land"–New Doc Follows Struggles Over Land in South Africa
A new film premiering on PBS called "Promised Land" follows two legal struggles over land in contemporary South Africa. In 1994, the African National Congress-led post-apartheid government promised to redistribute a third of the land within 10 years but the struggle for economic justice continues.


Cuba to Free Over 50 Jailed Dissidents
Cuba has announced plans to release over fifty jailed dissidents under an agreement with Spain and the Cuban Catholic church. Five of the prisoners would be freed immediately followed by the remainder over the coming months. The move would reduce the number of jailed Cuban dissidents to around one hundred. Cuba has long claimed many dissidents have acted in the service of U.S. efforts to de-stabilize its government.

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