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UNHEARD VOICES
A response to the brutal police killing of Sean Bell in New York City and the history of lives stolen by law enforcement agents and border patrol in this country.


MCGOVERNMENT
A parody about the lies our government feeds us.

Student Privacy Protection Act

Global Kids' Human Rights Activist Project (HRAP) spent their at William Cullen Bryant High School focusing a campaign on military recruitment in high schools and the No Child Left Behind Act. This is what they have to say:

"We are writing to express our serious concern about the military recruitment provision, section 9528, of the No Child Left Behind Act. Our schools are places for education, not recruitment. Forcing schools to turn over student information to recruiters or risk losing federal funds is a violation of the privacy of young people. The 'opt-out' policy is unclear and carried out irregularly from district to district. We believe it is important to protect the privacy and rights of youth."

For more information or to sign the petition, visit: HRAP Student Privacy Protection Act Petition

Students Walkout to Protest Killing of Unarmed Man

On May 18th an off-duty NYPD officer shot and killed Fermin Arzu of Honduras. Fermin was unarmed and shot from behind by officer Raphael Lora, who claimed the thought Arzu had a gun. High school students from the Bronx walk out & protest at the Fort Apache station in the South Bronx.

GIs take Manhattan: Operation First Casualty

Over Memorial Day weekend 2007, members of Iraq Veterans Against War, staged Operation First Casualty, a simulation of sniper fire and mass detentions on the streets of Manhattan, that brought home a small piece of the Iraq War. Check out the video from meerkat media:

Fact Checking the Government...

Back in May of 2006, journalist Ray McGovern confronted (now ex-Secretary of Defense) Donald Rumsfeld about his lies concerning our reasons for going to war in Iraq.

Where does our money go?

where do you see our tax money being spent? where do u think the government should be spending the most money at? why ?

where WE WOULD put the money...


how THEY do it...
The following chart shows the breakdown of the proposed federal discretionary budget for fiscal year 2008. (The discretionary budget refers to the part of the federal budget proposed by the President, and debated and decided by Congress each year. This part of the budget constitutes more than one-third of total federal spending. The remainder of the federal budget is called 'mandatory spending).

Increases in Govt Spending More Focused on Corrections than Education

Excerpt from Justice Policy Institute article “Effective Investments in Public Safety: Education”


Increases in government spending are more focused on corrections than on education


In fiscal year 2004, federal, state and local government spending for police protection, corrections and judicial and legal activities—totaling $193 billion—increased 4 percent from the previous year.

The President recently proposed decreasing funding for the Department of Education while increasing spending for the federal prison system

For fiscal year 2007, President Bush requested $54.4 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Education, a 4.8 percent decrease from 2005. Meanwhile, the Office of Management and Budget estimates that the Department of Justice will spend $4.96 billion on the federal prison system in Fiscal Year 2007, a 4.2 percent increase from 2005.