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Chickens Continues
Often Politicians would recruit local vigilantes to ignite
violence against the Chinese and other minority groups,
scapegoating them as addicts and criminals, Cornfield
recounts the consequences of politicians and the skewed
media of the day that coddled vigilante violence, stating The local press
commented occasionally on alleged existence of opium dens and brothels in
Eurekas China town, and several attacks on Chinese people, usually by
Eureka youths, took place.
The early 1880s marked the beginning of a long national political campaign to
prohibit Chinese immigration to the young county of immigrants. The Chinese
Exclusion Act first passed in 1882; and reinstated ten years later, in 1902. The
Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group
from immigrating to the States, and was not repealed until December 1943 by
the Magnuson Act. Since, many minority groups have endured comparable
prohibiting immigration laws, mostly based on the prevalence of work
opportunity, economics, war and the like.
Before the mid 1800s Humboldt was also home to 500,000 acres of old
growth forest. Industry annihilated the voluptuous redwoods, leaving us only
5% to enjoy today, 77% of which is now privately owned. According
Cornfield, By the 1890s logging accounted for 80% of Humboldts exports,
agriculture at 20%, which had less value in the market but employed more
people. The Logging industry thrived in Humboldt for 100 years before
feeling its first major lasting downturn in the 1990s. The entire lumber and
processing industry employs over 70,000 Californians today.
In the early 1900s farming evolved from mostly pioneer settlers to a
large-scale industry in California and around the country. Humboldt was
Known for its wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, in addition to a booming cattle
and dairy industry. As previous slave laborers moved to work other industries
and the other minority groups were just excluded, a new group of desperate
labors where sought to exploit. So, Japanese and Filipino workers were
imported to work plantations in the late 18, early 1900s.
During World War I (1914-1918) Humboldt finally connected to the State and
National railroad network (established since 1869), which signified a new open
door policy for migrant workers, and growers lobbied to create the first guest
worker program allowing more than 70,000 Mexican workers into the U.S.
The inclusive program ended in 1921, not too long after WWI soldiers
returned to resume their positions.
The Great Depression of the 1930s, made more depressing by the Dust Bowl
drought, lead to overnight economic and agriculture failure for the cash
croppers, more exclusion of minority groups, and deportation laws, which
systematically pressured and pushed out more than 500,000 Mexican
Americans.
Genocide, racism, slavery, expulsion, disproportionate property access,
extractive industries, vigilantism and violence play a huge role in Humboldt
Counties inception. Modern sentiments around the ruans of our day, may
have evolved from one ism, to the next, however the tactics, ignorance,
culture of exclusion, hate and violence of the 18th- 20th Centuries still exists
today. If we have not learned from destructive behaviors past, how can
we call this history?
-Shakti

Well see you in court potential targets so broad that it

A federal appeals court has unanimously reversed
part of a lower courts dismissal of a lawsuit filed
by the American Civil Liberties Union for
Wikimedia, which challenges the NSAs mass
surveillance and collection of Internet
communications.
On May 23rd, the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court
ruled that the Wikimedia Foundation had
adequately provided a basis for their claims,
allowing them to move forward with the lawsuit.
ACLU attorney Patrick Toomey, who argued the
appeal in December 2016, called the courts
decision an important victory for the rule of
law...adding:
The NSA intercepts and copies private
communications in bulk while they are in transit,
and then searches their contents using tens of
thousands of keywords associated with NSA
targets. These targets, chosen by intelligence
analysts, are never approved by any court, and
the limitations that do exist are weak and riddled
with exceptions. Under the FISA Amendment Act,
the NSA may target any foreigner outside the
United States believed likely to communicate
foreign intelligence information a pool of
encompasses journalists, academic
researchers, corporations, aid workers, business
persons, and others who are not suspected of
any wrongdoing.Our government shouldnt be
searching the private communications of innocent
people in bulk, examining the contents of
Americans emails and chats day in and day out.
This mass surveillance threatens the foundations
of a free internet.
The suit was filed by the ACLU in 2015 on behalf
of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Nation
Magazine, Amnesty International USA, PEN
America, Human Rights Watch, the Rutherford
Institute, the National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, Global Fund for Women, and
the Washington Oce on Latin America.
In October 2015 a U.S. District Judge, ruled that
the case was based on the subjective fear of
surveillance, at the time claiming the plaintis
hadnot alleged facts that plausibly establish that
the NSA issuing Upstream surveillance to copy all
or substantially all communications passing
through those chokepointsIn this regard,
plaintis can only speculate. Upstream
surveillance, which the government claims is
authorized by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008
(FAA), is designed to ensnare all of Americans
international communications, including emails,
web-browsing content, and search engine
queries. It is facilitated by devices installed, with
the help of companies like Verizon and AT&T,
directly on the internet backbone the network
of high-capacity cables, switches, and routers
across which Internet trac travels.
A previous ACLU lawsuit challenging the NSAs
warrantless wiretapping program, Clapper v.
Amnesty, was dismissed by the Supreme Court in
February 2013 in a 54 vote on the grounds that
the plaintis could not prove that they had been
spied on. Since Clapper was decided, however,
documents released by whistleblower Edward
Snowden and by the government itself have
shown that the governments surveillance
activities go far beyond those that the court
described as speculative in that case.
This kind of indiscriminate surveillance has grave
implications for individual rights, including the
freedoms of speech and association, said
Jameel Jaer, executive director of the Knight
First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
Its gratifying that the appeals court has rejected
the governments eort to shield this surveillance
from constitutional review. -aclu.org

WE MADE ISIS.
With everything thats in the news lately, its important to remember something
that got buried when it was first reported on, right when the torture report
summary came out in late 2014, which is that 25 of the 27 top leaders of ISIS
were all held together by the United States in Camp Bucca, which was a
Guantnamo-like detention facility where we held both kinds of religious
radicals, like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was there, and a whole bunch of
people from the Baath Party, who were bureaucrats and military experts,
generals from Saddam Husseins army, right? And, you know, the crazy kind
of mix that we have with ISIS of religious millenarians and people with actual
expertise in running battlefield campaigns, which you usually dont see,
because good generals usually dont think the rapture is coming tomorrow,
that was pulled together in Camp Bucca, where people were being abused
because of their sectarian aliation and their Muslim religion, right? Just like
what happened at Guantnamo and Abu Ghraib and everywhere else.
So, you know, bottom line with ISIS isand we see this reported so
infrequentlyis we made this. We created this movement and its leadership
with our own misguided and amateurish detention and interrogation policies.
And by keeping Guantnamo open, by speaking approvingly of torture,
President Trump is doing nothing more than running a long-standing kind of
commercial for ISIS.
Shayana Kadidal
ccrjustice.org

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