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Topless Equality
Why Occupy NH Failed
http://ronhelwig.com/blog/2013/sep/why_occupy_failed_nh
20 Years for Pot
http://noarmycanstopanidea.com/half-ounce-of-pot-gets-man-20-years-in-prison/
Cops Target Terminal Cancer Patient for Drug Raid
http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/30/terminal-cancer-patient-in-iowa-entire-f
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A transsexual in Massachusetts does everything topless. Stacey Schnee says she does it to promote equality.
She is a member of activist group, Topless Equality, which advocates for women to be able to be bare-chested outdoors. She said not being able to go topless in public is a violation of rights, and that women should be able to be topless in public just like men. Stacy, who was born a man, was surgically transformed into a woman last year. She said, her past ”puts me in a unique position to fight for topless rights since it is a right that I lost when a single letter was changed on my driver’s license — from M to F.”
Police recently stopped her for riding her bike around town shirtless–something they wouldn’t have done last year before she had surgery. Fortunately, they didn’t arrested her because she wore small stickers, which marks the fine legal distinction between criminal and compliant. Stacey said, “They were trying to tell me I was doing something wrong, and I argued back that no, it’s not.” What are your thoughts on this? Should women have the same rights as men? Tell us your thoughts on the Peace News Now facebook page.
In other news, New Hampshire Liberty Activist Ron Helwig wrote a blogpost at RonHelwig.com this week in which he expounded upon his ideas of why Occupy New Hampshire failed. In it, he provides some helpful insight for those who want to be effective advocates for a free society.
Using a system of colored stickers to vote up or down certain concepts to focus their attention, the group learned that they agreed strongly on the following:
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End corporate personhood
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Only allow individuals to donate to political campaigns
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Ensure total government transparency
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End the wars
Ron speculates that the New Hampshire Occupiers ultimately failed after this because so many people were unwilling to focus on achieving shared goals with people who disagreed with them about others. This information may be useful to you as you reach out to people who might believe differently from you. Why do you think your local Occupy group fizzled out? Tell us at http://PeaceNewsNow.com
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While Colorado and Washington have decriminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes, this week a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison for possessing 15 grams of cannabis. The FBI reports that every year cops put almost a million people in handcuffs for cannabis. That’s about half of all drug arrests.
In a related story this week, Benton Mackenzie is 47 and set to die, suffering from terminal cancer. Benton uses cannabis for his pain and cannabis oil for his skin lesions, which some doctors say is worth studying for the benefit of science. Prohibition makes it illegal for him to obtain the cannabis that alleviates his pain and improves the quality of his life, so Benton grows it himself. When law enforcers searched Benton’s trash cans, they found stalks from his cannabis plants. Benton said, quote “I woke up to a bunch of people screaming ‘search warrant!’ They had me on the ground. They had my wife on the ground. They were throwing stuff around in my son’s room. I heard them trashing the house.”
State agents have brought charges against Benton and everyone in his house: his wife, his adult son, even his parents, who are in their 70’s. Benton spent 42 days in jail awaiting trial so far, all the while battling a cancer that doctors say will soon take his life. Support the Mackenzie family as they defend themselves from the State in trial this December 2nd, 2013 @ 9am at the Scott County Courthouse, Davenport, Iowa. Regardless of what politicians write on paper, it would be nice if cops would stop arresting people for a flower.
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