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Nonilex

The grants sent millions of dollars to organizations that support #intervention programs for #nonviolent youth offenders; programs to avert #opioid-related deaths in #Newark; programs aimed at identifying community-based approaches to preventing #HateCrimes against #Arab, #Jewish & #Asian Americans; & a confidential hotline run by the National Center for #Victims of #Crime to inform crime victims about their rights.

#law#Trump#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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DoomsdaysCW

State by State Pending and recently passed #AntiProtestLaws: #WestVirginia - Part 2

HB 3135: New penalties for #protesters who block #streets and #sidewalks

Would create new penalties for protesters who block streets, sidewalks, and other public passageways. Under the bill, someone who obstructs a highway, street, sidewalk or “other place used for the passage of persons, vehicles, or conveyances,” whether alone or with others, commits a misdemeanor, punishable by at least $500 and one month in jail. A second or subsequent offense would be a felony, punishable by at least $1,000 and at least three months and up to three years in prison. The bill defines “obstruct” to include conduct that makes passage “unreasonably inconvenient.” As such, protesters on a sidewalk who were deemed to have made it “unreasonably inconvenient” for pedestrians to pass could face jail terms. A substantially similar bill was introduced as HB 5446 in 2024.

Full bill text:
wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/

Status: pending

Introduced 4 Mar 2025.

Issue(s): Traffic Interference

HB 2757: Potential "#terrorism" charges for #NonviolentProtesters

Would create several new, sweeping “terrorism” offenses that could cover nonviolent protesters. One new offense, “terrorist violent #MassAction,” is defined to include “violent protests” and “riots” that “appear intended” to coerce or intimidate groups, governments, or societies. The bill provides that participation in a “terrorist violent mass action” constitutes an “terrorist act,” and any entity that uses such actions “to advance its agenda” is a “terrorist group.” “Violent protest” is not defined in the bill or elsewhere in the law, nor does the bill require that a person individually commit any act of violence or property damage to be culpable of “terrorist violent mass action.” As such, someone who peacefully participates in a #nonviolent but #rowdy protest where a few individuals commit #PropertyDamage could conceivably face “terrorism” charges. Likewise, a #NonprofitGroup involved in organizing or supporting such a protest “to advance its agenda” could be deemed a “#TerroristOrganization” under the bill. Individuals and organizations not directly involved in such a protest could also face felony “terrorism” charges for providing protesters with “material support”—broadly defined by the bill as “any property, tangible or intangible, or service.” The bill also creates a new felony “terrorism” offense for “actions… taken for political reasons to bar other persons from exercising their freedom of movement, via foot or any other conveyance.” As written, that could cover a large, peaceful march that even temporarily stops traffic. Meanwhile, the bill provides complete immunity for people who “injure perpetrators or supporters of perpetrators” while attempting to “escape” such “terrorism.” This provision would seem to eliminate consequences for acts of violence against protesters by people whose movement has been blocked by a protest, including drivers who hit protesters with their cars. The bill also creates new felony “threatening terrorism” offenses for a person or group that "for political reasons blockades property containing critical infrastructure,” or that “trespasses for political reasons onto property containing critical infrastructure.” As such, nonviolent protesters who block a road to a pipeline or enter onto pipeline property could face “threatening terrorism” charges, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. A nearly identical bill was proposed in 2024 (HB 4994) and 2023 (HB 2916).

Full text of bill:
wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/

Status: pending

Introduced 21 Feb 2025.

Issue(s): #ProtestSupporters or Funders, #DriverImmunity, Infrastructure, Riot, Terrorism, #TrafficInterference, Trespass

#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws #PipelineProtests

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#Pranksters vs. #Autocrats : Why #DilemmaActions Advance #Nonviolent #Activism

Author(s) Popovic, Srdja, McClennen, Sophia A.

Abstract
The Lawrence & Lynne Brown #Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at #PennState , recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, & organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the USA or around the world.

> I was just introduced to this #book. Does anyone have any commentary or feedback?

ecommons.cornell.edu/items/8e9

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Touaregtweet

- #teslatakedown
'Rep. Jasmine Crockett joined a group that is organizing a nationwide protest at 277 Tesla dealerships in the US and over 500 worldwide on March 29. She also told people to sell their Tesla cars and stock: “I am truly here for very selfish reasons, starting with on March 29 it’s my birthday and all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.” “Obviously, everything that I am promoting is non-violent.” #NonViolent

substack.com/home/post/p-15947 #march29 #Swasticar

still of a video, showing Rep. Jasmine Crockett calling for a world wide protest against Musk On the screen are also the words: #TESLATAKEDOWN MASS CALL and #TESLATAKEDOWN
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Drew Crecente (they/them)

Not at GDC? Here's a free talk.

They were kind enough to put my 2015 presentation in their "free forever vault."

In it, I talk about HOW & WHY our nonprofit org & others use #prosocial #nonviolent video games for violence prevention. You might be surprised how video games are used to help teens.

'Gaming Against Violence: Effectiveness of Video Games for Abuse Prevention'

🌐 archive.org/details/GDC2015Cre

Internet ArchiveGDC 2015: Drew Crecente - "Gaming Against Violence: Effectiveness of Video Games for Abuse Prevention" : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAlthough video games are often blamed for a number of societal ills, in this session you will learn that video games are arguably the most effective...
#videogames#GDC#publichealth
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Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

Just wrote to my rep Pramila Jayapal to join the congressional representatives to demand immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. Especially in light of the arrest of Leqaa Kordia and revoking the visa of Ranjani Srinivasan, an Indian citizen and doctoral student at Columbia University, it is clear the reckless administration and the Secretary of State have violated the Constitution and engaged in criminal abduction of persons lawful activity in the US.
#Palestine #protest #nonviolent #mahmoudkhalil

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sheislaurence

More details here: man on #BigBen livestreamed his climb. He is protesting the arrest of the #Filton18, after their action at #Elbit Systems, #Israel’s largest weapons company. palestineaction.org/not-guilty
Repression of #nonviolent protest is accelerating under #KeirStarmer, with the recent arrest of more than 70 protesters incl. Organisers of #Palestine Solidarity marches, #JeremyCorbyn and The Crow actor Khalid Abdalla last month theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m

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Paul Schoe

Interesting read, this #BBC article that, based on research by Erica #Chenoweth (Harvard), states that:

- civil disobedience is not only the moral choice; it is also the most powerful way of shaping world #politics – by a long way.

- it takes (only) around 3.5% of the population actively participating to ensure serious political change.

- #nonviolent campaigns led to political change 53% of the time compared to 26% for violent #protests.

bbc.com/future/article/2019051

Thanks @jwcph, for the link.

BBC · The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the worldBy David Robson
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PKPs Powerfromspace1

@cbsnews

U.S. sending #nonviolent, "low-risk" #migrants to Guantanamo, despite vow to detain "the worst" there.

cbsnews.com/news/guantanamo-ba

(ed: Look he & Elon lied.
Fascist Grifting requires human cannon fodder - scapegoats. Can't wait until Guantanamo bay is handed over to $GEO Corp the for profit 🙄 💸)

CBS News · U.S. sending nonviolent, "low-risk" migrants to Guantanamo, despite vow to detain "the worst" thereBy Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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Chuck Darwin

Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist #Marcus #Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.
After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940.

The Rev Martin Luther King Jr said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny”.

It’s not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by president-elect Donald Trump.
Issuing preemptive pardons – for actual or imagined offenses byTrump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration – would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.

Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.
He announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of #nonviolent #drug #offenses.
He also gave a broad pardon for his son #Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

The president has announced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row,
converting their punishments to life imprisonment just as Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
In his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of executions, 13, in a protracted timeline during the coronavirus pandemic.
A pardon relieves a person of guilt and punishment. A commutation reduces or eliminates the punishment but doesn’t exonerate the wrongdoing.

Others pardoned on Sunday included #Don #Scott, the speaker of the Virginia house of delegates, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and served eight years in prison.
He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 2019, and later became the first Black speaker.

Biden also pardoned immigrant rights activist #Ravi #Ragbir, who was convicted of a nonviolent offence in 2001 and was sentenced to two years in prison and was facing deportation to Trinidad and Tobago;
#Kemba #Smith #Pradia, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and sentenced to 24 years behind bars, but has since become a prison reform activist;
and #Darryl #Chambers, a gun violence prevention advocate who was convicted of a drug offense and sentenced to 17 years in prison, but who now studies and writes about gun violence prevention.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus GarveyBy Guardian staff reporter
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Nonilex

#Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 #nonviolent drug offenders

#POTUS Joe Biden plans Friday to commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent #drug offenses, making good on a promise to reduce the federal prison population….

The commutations target those serving disproportionately long sentences for drug convictions compared with the punishments they would receive today under sentencing laws, policy & practice….

#law #pardon
washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Biden commutes sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offendersBy Ann E. Marimow
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