Artist Creates Shower Curtain That Evicts You If You Stay Too Long

<div class="subtitle" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.1 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> You best be clean in four minutes, or else...</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_36821" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 740px;"> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/artist-creates-shower-curtain-that-evicts-you-if-you-stay-too-long/trapped2/" rel="attachment wp-att-36821" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Credit: Elisabeth " class="wp-image-36821" height="490" src="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Trapped2.png" style="border-radius: 0px !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin: 5px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="730" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Who <i style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">doesn’t </i>love a warm, sudsy session in the shower? To wake up in the early morning or to relax after a hard day’s work, it’s easy to get lost in the rejuvenating stream of water… But as everyone knows by now, taking long showers is a <i style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">very </i>wasteful habit detrimental to the environment.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> For this reason, inspired artist <a href="http://www.elisabethbuecher.com/46.html" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Elisabeth Buecher</a> created a shower curtain that <i style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">evicts </i>you when you take too long getting clean. The London-based designer made a curtain covered in spikes that inflate when it’s time to go dry off, and calls it a <em style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">“design for pain and for our own good.” </em></div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_36819" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 740px;"> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/artist-creates-shower-curtain-that-evicts-you-if-you-stay-too-long/curtain2/" rel="attachment wp-att-36819" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Credit: Elisabeth Buecher" class="wp-image-36819" height="644" src="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Curtain2.jpg" style="border-radius: 0px !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin: 5px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="730" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_36822" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 740px;"> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/artist-creates-shower-curtain-that-evicts-you-if-you-stay-too-long/curtain4/" rel="attachment wp-att-36822" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Credit: Elisabeth Buecher" class="wp-image-36822" height="492" src="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Curtain4.jpg" style="border-radius: 0px !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin: 5px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="730" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px;"> Credit: Elisabeth Buecher</div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> The ingenious spiky shower curtain is part of a line called <a href="http://www.elisabethbuecher.com/46.html" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><em style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“My Shower Curtain is a Green Warrior.”</span> </em></a>Each curtain has a feature that abruptly punishes the water waster for staying in too long.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Another design from the line is called “Trap,” and it inflates around the person showering after 4 minutes, trapping them in the shower. <em style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">*shudder*</em></div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_36820" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 740px;"> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/artist-creates-shower-curtain-that-evicts-you-if-you-stay-too-long/trapped/" rel="attachment wp-att-36820" style="background: 0px 0px; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c10000; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Credit: Elisabeth Buecher" class="wp-image-36820" height="530" src="http://cdn11.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Trapped.png" style="border-radius: 0px !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto !important; margin: 5px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="730" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 5px;"> Credit: Elisabeth Buecher</div> </div> <span style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></span>

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Expensive Busts: Illinois Spent $2.4 Million Jailing Residents of Just One City Block

<div> <div> <h2> <br /></h2> Expensive Busts: Illinois Spent $2.4 Million Jailing Residents of Just One City Block <br /> <div> <br /></div> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.01.10_am.jpg?itok=rpbLVdDQ" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.01.10_am.jpg?itok=rpbLVdDQ" /></a> <br /> <div> In just five years, the State of Illinois dedicated more than $2.4 million to the 4800 block of West Adams Street in Austin.<br /> But don't look for new developments or freshly paved roads on that stretch of street, because that's not where the money went. No, $2.4 million is the amount of money the state spent on incarcerating people for drug offenses from that block alone.<br /> "Honestly that doesn't really surprise me. ... There's a lot of drug activity around here, a lot of these boys operate out of these vacants," said Byran Rose, pointing to a pair of boarded-up apartment buildings across the street. Rose, who grew up in Austin, has lived on the block for 14 years.<br /> "But the police come around here every chance they get, harrassing and arresting people whether there's drugs or not."<br /> More than once, Rose said, officers have grabbed him while he stood outside his house and hauled him to a city jail "for no reason," before releasing him without a charge a few days later.<br /> "I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house," Rose said. "Every time it rains, it turns into a damn swimming pool, I can barely drive through."<br /> The 4800 block of West Adams and 4,636 other blocks in the city were the focus of Chicago's Million Dollar Blocks, a new data project published last week. A collaboration between social justice advocates and tech company DataMade, the site features an interactive block-by-block breakdown of how much money the city spent on jailing criminals from 2005 to 2009.<br /> Based on data released by the Chicago Justice Project last year, the site was developed as a way "to see how incarceration affects communities on a local level," according to Dan Cooper, one of the project's leaders.<br /> "All we hear about is how the state is in billions of dollars in debt, and meanwhile we have more than a billion dollars every year pumped into a corrections system that's had a track record of failure," said Cooper, the co-director of Adler University's Institute on Social Exclusion.<br /> "We're always hearing about money being spent on development, and here you have this shadow budget pumping tons of money into taking people out of neighborhoods, instead of bringing them in."<br /> Million Dollar Blocks looks at more than 300,000 criminal records, showing what developers called a "conservative estimate" of how much the Illinois Department of Corrections spent on people from each block and neighborhood.<br /> Cooper said he and his colleagues assumed the minimum sentence for each offense, when in reality the state likely spends much more.<br /> Developers at DataMade spent months putting together data based on offenders' home addresses, assuming that the state spends an average of $22,000 on each criminal every year.<br /> DataMade founder Derek Eder said his team didn't factor in offenders who served more than one sentence, again suggesting that the actual amount spent on incarceration is even larger than what the site projects.<br /> Alongside the map is a brief report breaking down some of the ways mass incarceration impacts local communities, plus suggestions for how the state could more effectively reinvest its corrections budget.<br /> Daryl P., who's lived in Austin his whole life, said the state's incarceration pattern is hardly making the area less dangerous.<br /> "They just keep taking people out of here and pumping them back in, and then once [ex-convicts] get back here they're just like Romans, doing as the Romans do," said Daryl, who declined to give his full last name.<br /> Daryl said he's had multiple stints in prison.<br /> "There ain't no rehabilitation when you're locked up. ... If anything, being around all those criminals, it makes you slicker. It makes you want to get back into it."<br /> The state has already embraced some criminal justice reforms since 2009, and Gov. Bruce Rauner has beaten the drum for reducing the state's prison population since his campaigning days. But Cooper said the state should do more than aim for "the low-hanging fruit."<br /> "We want to show that it really isn't enough just to do things like shortening sentences or lightening drug charges," Cooper said. "We need to shift money into rehabilitation programs, and move away from this overreliance on a punishment that's so severe, it's left a lot of neighborhoods worse off."<br /> Other findings from the project include:<br /> • Illinois spent almost twice as much on incarcerating people from Austin ($550 million) as it did on jailing people from any other neighborhood. Runners-up included Humboldt Park ($293 million), North Lawndale ($241 million) and West Englewood ($187 million).<br /> • The state spent the least on incarcerating people from Edison Park ($1.24 million), followed by O'Hare ($1.43 million), Forest Glen ($2.33 million) and Hegewisch ($3.7 million).<br /> • Of the more than 4,600 blocks included in the project, 851 of them had at least $1 million committed to the Department of Corrections.</div> </div> </div>

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Activists Rappel From Portland Bridge As Kayaks Swarm to Block Shell's Arctic Vessel

<div> <h2> <br /></h2> Activists Rappel From Portland Bridge As Kayaks Swarm to Block Shell's Arctic Vessel<br /> <div> <div> </div> </div> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/sHell-No-81.jpg?itok=ENafH8qH" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/sHell-No-81.jpg?itok=ENafH8qH" /></a> <br /> <div> A group of environmental activists rappelled off a bridge in Portland, Oregon, at 2:45 a.m. on Wednesday in a bid to block a key vessel in Shell’s Arctic drilling fleet leaving the city’s port. The vessel’s departure time has been delayed but it is unclear if the protesters have played a role. The vessel was originally scheduled to leave at 4:45 a.m., according to the Columbia River Pilots website.<br /> No new departure time has been listed on their site. The Columbia River Bar Pilots website now lists the launch time as 12 p.m. Greenpeace said that 13 of its climbers were hanging off St. Johns Bridge and had enough supplies to last days in their attempt to hinder Shell’s Arctic drilling plans, with another 13 people assisting them.<br /> The oil company’s 380-foot Fennica icebreaker arrived in a dry dock in the city for repairs on Saturday, following damage to its hull in the Aleutian Islands earlier this month. The vessel must be at Shell’s drill site before they can reapply for federal approval to drill deep enough for oil in the Chukchi Sea, according to the latest federal permit.<br /> Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace U.S., said, “Every second we stop Shell counts. The brave climbers here in Portland are now what stand between Shell and Arctic oil. This is President Obama’s last chance to wake up and realize the disaster that could happen on his watch.”<br /> Sergeant Peter Simpson, a Portland police spokesman, told the Guardian that arrests could take place later Wednesday.<br /> “We are aware of the demonstration and are monitoring it in the area. The St. Johns Bridge remains open to all vehicle traffic. Arrests may be possible as the day goes on. Our top priority is public safety, including that of the demonstrators and other people using the river.”<br /> The U.S. coast guard was reported as monitoring the situation. Onlookers said the activists were handing out diapers to one another because they could be on the river for a long time.<br /> Other protesters have taken to the water in kayaks to attempt to block the vessel from leaving Portland. They met at noon on Tuesday in North Portland’s Cathedral Park before taking to the water. Local media reported that about 60 kayaks were in the water early Wednesday morning.<br /> The action is similar to one that took place in Seattle last month in an attempt to stop Shell’s rig, but failed after the so-called ‘kayaktivists’ were pulled out of the way by the coast guard. “Our goal is to basically demonstrate as much community resistance to Shell’s plans to drill for oil and secure new oil reserves in the Arctic,” Meredith Cocks, of local green group Portland Rising Tide, told Reuters.<br /> Last week, the Obama administration granted Shell permission to bore two new exploratory wells, subject to conditions. Leonard added: “Greenpeace priorities safety above all else and rappelling from a bridge is a walk in the park compared to the risks that we’ll face if we continue the climate change trajectory we’re on now.”<br /> A Shell spokeswoman said: “The Fennica will begin its return journey to Alaska once we’ve completed the final preparations.”<br /> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/1654.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" height="384" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/1654.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/rappel1.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="kayaktivists, Shell protests, Fennica, Arctic oil drilling" height="360" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/rappel1.jpg" title="kayaktivists, Shell protests, Fennica, Arctic oil drilling" width="640" /></a><br /> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/Arctic_Offshore_Drill_Papp_3.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="kayaktivists, Shell protests, Fennica, Arctic oil drilling" height="455" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/Arctic_Offshore_Drill_Papp_3.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/10682385_533147723499458_145898955203435242_o-1030x687.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="kayaktivists, Shell protests, Fennica, Arctic oil drilling" height="426" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/10682385_533147723499458_145898955203435242_o-1030x687.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> "I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house."</div> </div> <div> <div> Dozens of kayaktivists took to the water to block Shell's Fennica ice breaker from leaving port, while a group of 13 climbers rappelled off a bridge in Portland, Oregon, with enough supplies to last days if needed.</div> </div> <div> <div> “This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona of Ireland, who attended the recent Frackanpada.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> The call for a ban follows controversial legislation allowing E.U. member states to opt-out of GM cultivation, even though it has been approved at the European Union level.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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Cincinnati Police Officer Indicted for Murder After Killing Unarmed Black Driver

<h2> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/us-news/video/2015/jul/29/prosecutor-releases-body-camera-footage-cincinnati-police-video" width="560"></iframe> <br /> <div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot dead a motorist after pulling him over for a missing front license plate was indicted on murder charges Wednesday.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Ray Tensing “purposely killed” 43-year-old Samuel DuBose, a black man who was unarmed at the time of the incident. Tensing “should never have been a police officer,” Deters said.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> A grand jury indicted Tensing on a murder charge, and Deters said he would be seeking “life in prison” for the 25-year-old officer who later turned himself in.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> The indictment came as authorities also released a video depicting the incident on July 19, in which Tensing is seen shooting DuBose seconds after DuBose’s car rolled slightly forward.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> DuBose's family praised the indictment in a press conference after the announcement. Still, DuBose's sister, Terina Allen, 42, told reporters that without the video footage her brother's death would have been written off as justified. She said Tensing's fellow cops would have corroborated his story.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> "My brother was about to be one more stereotype, and that’s not going to happen," she said. "We knew the video was going to vindicate our brother. When you know somebody, you know somebody."</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> Authorities have said Tensing spotted a car driven by DuBose and missing the front license plate, which is required by Ohio law. They say Tensing stopped the car and a struggle ensued after DuBose refused to provide a driver's license and get out of the car.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> Tensing has said he was dragged by the car and forced to shoot at DuBose. He fired one shot, striking DuBose in the head.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> But Deters dismissed Tensing's claim that he was dragged by the car and suggested that he shouldn't have pulled DuBose over to begin with. The prosecutor added that he believed Tensing lost his temper.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “I couldn’t care what his motivation was. I just know he intentionally killed somebody,” Deters said after playing a body camera video from the incident.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> In that footage, Tensing is seen pulling over DuBose on a sidestreet and requesting the driver's license.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> DuBose is not able to find the document. Seconds later, Tensing shoots and kills DuBose, and then runs after the car, which continues to move forward after the fatal shot.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> <a class="lightbox-cont" data-lightbox="gal-1" href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/maxresdefault_14.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #0054a6; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Samuel DuBose, Ray Tensing, police killings, police brutality, police violence, indicted officers" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/maxresdefault_14.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Samuel DuBose, Ray Tensing, police killings, police brutality, police violence, indicted officers" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> <a class="lightbox-cont" data-lightbox="gal-1" href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/1438197116-sam_dubose.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #0054a6; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Samuel DuBose, Ray Tensing, police killings, police brutality, police violence, indicted officers" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/1438197116-sam_dubose.jpg" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: auto;" title="Samuel DuBose, Ray Tensing, police killings, police brutality, police violence, indicted officers" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “He was dead instantly,” Deters said. “It broke my heart. It’s just bad, it’s bad what he did and it shouldn’t have happened.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> DuBose’s death comes amid months of national scrutiny over police treatment of unarmed black men. The Cincinnati incident has also led to questions about the role armed campus police should play when they are off campus, as Tensing was.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “This was a chicken-crap stop,” for a minor infraction, Deters said, adding that Tensing might as well have let DuBose go. He also said he would recommend the disbanding of the University of Cincinnati (UC) police and the creation of a new police district that covers the University.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> "I graduated from UC twice,” Deters said, praising the school. “But they're not cops. We have a great police dept in Cincinnati. Probably the best in Ohio.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> According to Tensing, who is white, DuBose refused to show his license or get out of the vehicle, and instead pulled out a bottle of alcohol. He said a scuffle ensured and later told 911 dispatchers that he had been “almost run over” by DuBose’s car.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “I think he was making an excuse for a purposeful killing of another person,” Deters said when pressed by a reporter why Tensing would do this even with the body camera evidence.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “I’m not saying he’s smart, I’m just saying what I think he did,” Deters said, referring to Tensing.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> At DuBose’s funeral ceremony on Tuesday at the Church of the Living God in Avondale on Tuesday, more than 500 people — including Blackwell, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley and University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono — paid their respects to DuBose, a father of 10 and grandfather to four.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> DuBose's sister, Allen, called for transparency in the investigation but told USA Today after the funeral service that her family didn’t “want any riots.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> “Sam wasn’t violent,” Allen said. “It would completely harm his memory if people were to take that route.”</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 1.5em;"> UC officials said Monday they planned an independent review of police department policies following the incident, announcing the university had hired an independent reviewer to go over police policies and procedures.</div> <span style="color: #58595b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">- See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/cincinnati-police-officer-indicted-murder-after-killing-unarmed-black-driver#sthash.4oYwitlP.dpuf</span></div> </h2>

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Global Fracktivists Converge At First International Anti-Frack Camp In Basque Country

<div> <div> <h2> <br /></h2> Global Fracktivists Converge At First International Anti-Frack Camp In Basque Country <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.55.30_am.png?itok=z-mJazSS" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.55.30_am.png?itok=z-mJazSS" /></a> <br /> <div> “This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – it has been incredible to meet people from struggles across the world, activists from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona, from Ireland, who attended Frackanpada held earlier this month in the Basque Country of Spain.<br /> Communities across both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland are actively resisting efforts to frack for oil, Catriona said. But what this event showed her is that "it is a truly international [fight], united in our common struggle.”<br /> At Frackanpada, the world's first international anti-fracking camp that took place in mid-July, hundreds of activists from across the globe joined skill shares, attended panel discussions and watched documentaries dedicated to strategies and campaigns in resistance to fracking.<br /> Located on the fringe between the Pyrenees Mountains and the agricultural plain of northern Spain, the camp was situated on common land, owned by the village of Subijana de Alava just outside Vitoria-Gasteiz, some 50 miles south of Bilbao.<br /> In the late 1990s, conventional drilling was attempted near the village but the gas pressure was too low to make it economically viable. In the early 2000s, the site was earmarked for fracking – but the extractive process has recently been stopped throughout the Basque country, making the place a potent symbol for resistance.<br /> The fact that land was once intended for fracking has just played host to the broadest international gathering to date to resist fracking is a telling sign about the movement's global victories in recent years. Fracking in now on hold in the UK and banned in France. Companies are pulling out their fracking operations, like Chevron withdrawing from Eastern Europe. And in Spain, the Basques have done perhaps more than anyone else to send frackers packing.<br /> “In the Basque Country what we have is even better than a ban, even though our Parliament does not have the jurisdiction to do this," Mikel Otero of the group Fracking EZ, which organized the camp, tells me. "No fracking can go ahead due to three laws – a triple filter – passed through the Basque Parliament that all make fracking impossible."<br /> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.58.37_am.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Frackanpada, anti-fracking movement, fracking bans, anti-fracking camp, fracking resistance, Fracking Ez, Basque anti-fracking movement" height="430" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/screen_shot_2015-07-30_at_2.58.37_am.jpg" title="Frackanpada, anti-fracking movement, fracking bans, anti-fracking camp, fracking resistance, Fracking Ez, Basque anti-fracking movement" width="640" /></a><br /> <strong>Organized and Powerful</strong><br /> The power and influence of the anti-fracking movement in the Basque region is obvious, where towns and villages are covered with Fracking Ez (No Fracking) flags. Otero explains how the movement used every avenue available to them to create broad public opposition to the drilling process – from diverse activist tactics to working with the Basque Parliament and at local municipality levels.<br /> "The campaign has focused on carefully explaining the technical and scientific details to local people through hundreds of meetings everywhere, including the smallest villages," he says, "so locals are the reference for fracking: it means when the industry come to sell the idea of fracking, everyone is warned.”<br /> The Frackanpada camp, which served as an autonomous temporary community, also showcased energy alternatives like solar ovens and solar water heaters. Organized by activists from the Basque country and across Spain, a core aim of the camp was to bring together an international anti-fracking movement that can organize resistance and drive policy not only here, but across Europe.<br /> “This camp has given us the opportunity to come and meet face to face and talk about the different tactics [we use], to find common ground to fight together but still in [our] own ways,” says Estaban Domenech of the Plataforma Antifracking Comarques de Castello.<br /> A remarkable translation system was used to facilitate the trainings, with all of the sessions, meetings and assemblies held in Basque, Spanish, English or other languages, and immediate translation transmitted via FM radios and earphones.<br /> But the ethos of the camp, while internationalist, was firmly grounded in Basque culture. I ask Mikel Otero about the relationship between the Basque Independence and anti-fracking movements.<br /> “It is not an easy question," he says. "The anti-fracking movement transcends some topics. For instance, we say, 'Fracking ez hemen, ez inon,' [No fracking here, not anywhere] as the fracking battle is both our land and what happens everywhere else in the world.”<br /> Toxic chemicals know no borders, he adds, and neither should the anti-fracking movement.<br /> “Of course we know that we have the [Basque] language and culture and a lot of people are tied to our movement for independence, so we are in dialogue and respect these struggles," he says. "I think it’s a balance to remember the geological and global connections, while remembering where we are and our local struggles.”<br /> The collaboration happening across Spain mirrors, in fact, the way the anti-fracking movement has been growing in recent years across borders.<br /> “When I joined the anti-fracking struggle three years ago, I never would have imagined the movement would grow as massively as this camp,” says María Olteanu from the Romanian anti-fracking organization Sustainable Local and Autonomous Energy Transition (TESLA).<br /> “This is a major step in the global fight against fracking, which I feel positive we are winning. There are plenty of us all over the planet, we are young – and I don’t mean in body, but young in mind," she says. "We won’t allow the few to destroy the world. We will reclaim the power.</div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> "I tell you what, I wish instead of spending so much money on [incarcerating people], they'd come fill some of these crater holes behind my house."</div> </div> <div> <div> Dozens of kayaktivists took to the water to block Shell's Fennica ice breaker from leaving port, while a group of 13 climbers rappelled off a bridge in Portland, Oregon, with enough supplies to last days if needed.</div> </div> <div> <div> “This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona of Ireland, who attended the recent Frackanpada.</div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> The call for a ban follows controversial legislation allowing E.U. member states to opt-out of GM cultivation, even though it has been approved at the European Union level.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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MH370: wreckage found on Reunion ‘matches Malaysia Airlines flight’

<h4> <img alt="One of the images on Twitter which reportedly shows a section from the wing of flight MH370" class="" height="309" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03391/twitter_3391483b.jpg" width="495" />Fragments of a wing washed up in the French island of Reunion could be wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, says aviation expert.</h4> <div class="firstPar"> A French aviation expert believes he may have found the wreckage of MH370 – the Malaysia Airlines flight which <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11647775/Have-MH370-searchers-given-up-on-finding-missing-jet.html" target="_blank">disappeared off the coast of Malaysia</a> in March 2014.</div> <div class="secondPar"> Xavier Tytelman, a former military pilot who now specialises in aviation security, was contacted on Wednesday morning by a man living on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean. The man sent Mr Tytelman a series of photos showing wreckage of a plane, which the Frenchman said could possibly be the missing jet.</div> <div class="thirdPar"> <img alt="" class="" height="309" name="MH370-debris" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03391/MH370-debris_3391693b.jpg" width="495" /></div> <div class="fourthPar"> _{Police carry a piece of debris from an unidentified aircraft found in the coastal area of Saint-Andre de la Reunion (AFP/Getty Images)}</div> <div class="fifthPar"> “I’ve been studying hundreds of photos and speaking to colleagues,” Mr Tytelman told The Telegraph. “And we all think it is likely that the wing is that of a Boeing 777 – the same plane as MH370.</div> <div class="body" data-twttr-id="twttr-sandbox-0"> “Police in Reunion examining the wreckage say that it looks like it’s been in the water for around a year, which again would fit with MH370. We can’t say for certainty, but we do think there is a chance that this is it.”<br /> The plane vanished with 239 people on board in circumstances which have baffled investigators, and left distraught families searching for answers.<br /> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/malaysia/11078770/MH370-Six-reasons-why-plane-vanished.html" target="_blank">Wild theories emerged</a> about the plane: that it had landed in Diego Garcia, or flown on to North Korea.<br /> But Mr Tytelman believes that the Indian Ocean location makes sense for wreckage of the plane to have washed up.<br /> “The French police are now looking at it, and the Australians – who are in charge of the search – are interested too,” he said. “We don’t know how long it will take to get confirmation or a definite denial. But it’s an intriguing development.”<br /> Writing on his blog, Mr Tytelman said that <a href="http://blog-peuravion.fr/2015/07/a-t-on-retrouve-les-premiers-debris-du-mh370/#more-1453" target="_blank">the photos of the wreckage had aroused significant interest</a> on the AvGeek website – a closed forum for pilots.<br /> He said that there was much discussion over a code part of the wreckage: BB670.<br /> “The code is not that of a plane number plate, nor that or a serial number on machinery,” he wrote.<br /> “But if the flaperon does indeed belong to MH370, it’s clear that the reference will be swiftly identified. In a few days we will have a definitive answer.”</div>

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