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1. LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC : EDUCATION: COLLEGE POLICE AND
From: David P. Dillard
2. LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC : EDUCATION: COLLEGE: POLICE AND
From: David P. Dillard
3. EDUCATION: K-12: VIOLENCE BULLYING CRIME: Doctor: Amish Girls Face
From: David P. Dillard
4. ECONOMICS: DEVELOPMENT : TECHNOLOGY : COUNTRIES: INDIA: President
From: David P. Dillard
5. Policy Post 12.20: ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Transparency and
From: David P. Dillard
6. Buy Nothing Day, 11/25/2006, 12:00 am
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1. LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC : EDUCATION: COLLEGE POLICE AND
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:12 am ((PST))
LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC :
EDUCATION: COLLEGE POLICE AND SECURITY:
UCLA Cops Taser ID-Less Student
Published Thursday 16th November 2006 16:28 GMT
The Register
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/ucla_taser_incident/>
A video apparently showing a UCLA student being tasered by University of
California Police Department (UCPD) officers has found its way onto
YouTube.
According to a report on the university's Daily Bruin, the incident
occured at around 11.30 pm on Tuesday when security officers at the Powell
Library CLICC computer lab "asked a male student using a computer in the
back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during
a random check".
When he didn't immediately vacate the building, the security operatives
returned with police officers to escort him from the premises. The Daily
Bruin continues: "By this time the student had begun to walk toward the
door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm,
at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second
officer then approached the student as well.
"The student began to yell 'get off me', repeating himself several times.
"It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for
the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The
student also told the officers he had a medical condition."
The video shows the tasered ne'er-do-well shouting "Here's your Patriot
Act, here's your fucking abuse of power", while refusing to get up.
Shortly thereafter, the cops tasered him a second time for his trouble.
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LA Observed: UCLA student Tasered in library
<http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2006/11/ucla_student_tasered_in_f.php>
Officers taser student at UCLA library
UCLA police say arrest followed fracas during campus library ID check.
Associated Press
Article Launched:11/15/2006 10:46:24 PM PST
Press Telegram
<http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4668293>
LOS ANGELES - A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shocked with a
stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests
to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library,
university police said Wednesday.
<snip>
"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students
during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman
Nancy Greenstein.
She said police tried to escort Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the
library after he refused to provide ID and would not leave.
<snip>
"As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued
to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building," Greenstein
said.
Instead, Greenstein said, Tabatabainejad encouraged others at the library
to join his resistance. When a crowd began to gather they used the stun
gun on him.
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Community responds to Taser use in Powell
By Sara Taylor
DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
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<http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960>
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said
David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly
asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the
gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who
got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the
library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her
with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
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"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It
was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local
news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an
e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.
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2. LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC : EDUCATION: COLLEGE: POLICE AND
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:32 am ((PST))
LIBRARIES: COLLEGE AND ACADEMIC :
EDUCATION: COLLEGE: POLICE AND SECURITY:
Shock and Anger at UCLA
Shock and Anger at UCLA
Inside Higher Ed
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/17/taser>
Students at UCLA have set up Facebook and MySpace sites to organize and
plan to hold a protest today. I think its ridiculous that they used their
Tasers, said Combiz Abdolrahimi, a third year student in international
economics who is coordinating the protest. Abdolrahimi said that he became
involved after viewing a video of the event and that he does not know the
student who was involved.
<snip>
I went back to my work, and when I looked up, I saw that [Tabatabainejad]
was already LEAVING the library, said Laila, a UCLA student via e-mail.
Laila asked that her last name not be used. She said that she does not
know Tabatabainejad and was just another student studying in the library.
He had his backpack on his shoulders, and was next to my computer (about 2
feet away) when he was approached by two [UCLA police] officers.
Laila said that the officers grabbed Tabatabainejads arm and he began to
shout for the officers to stop touching him.
Two videos of the incident, shot with cell phone cameras, can be found
online. One video is carried by the Los Angeles local NBC affiliate. In
the video, officers can be heard shouting numerous times, Get up! Stand
up! The video is shot from behind a table with computers, but
Tabatabainejad apparently pops up briefly before falling. A Taser can then
be heard buzzing.
An officer is then heard shouting, Stand up! A female student in the
background begins crying, and a male voice can be heard saying, I dont
believe this is happening.
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3. EDUCATION: K-12: VIOLENCE BULLYING CRIME: Doctor: Amish Girls Face
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:32 am ((PST))
EDUCATION: K-12: VIOLENCE BULLYING CRIME:
Doctor: Amish Girls Face Long Recovery
Doctor: Amish Girls Face Long Recovery
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Writer
2006 The Associated Press
Houston Chronicle
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4339247.html>
HARRISBURG, Pa. One is completely disabled. Another may never again have
use of an arm.
All five Amish girls who survived last month's schoolhouse massacre
suffered severe gunshot wounds with long-term implications, a physician
familiar with their medical treatment has told The Associated Press.
Five of their schoolmates were killed in the Oct. 2 attack at the West
Nickel Mines Amish School.
Two survivors were severely wounded in the head, said Dr. D. Holmes
Morton, a pediatrician and director of the Clinic for Special Children in
Strasburg.
A neurosurgeon told Morton about a week ago that one of the two was
expected to remain in the rehabilitation facility at Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia until December. The other is considered fully disabled and
is being tended to by her family at home.
"She is not expected to recover much function, if any," Morton said. "Hers
is almost a case of palliative care."
Morton said the other three survivors have "face and limb wounds that will
be disabling for a long time, if not permanently."
"They're kids who are pretty damaged and will have long-term consequences
for these wounds," he said.
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4. ECONOMICS: DEVELOPMENT : TECHNOLOGY : COUNTRIES: INDIA: President
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:34 am ((PST))
ECONOMICS: DEVELOPMENT :
TECHNOLOGY :
COUNTRIES: INDIA:
President Asks Media to be a Partner in Economic Development
President Asks Media to be a Partner in Economic Development
Vinay Kumar
Unveils eight-point "media mission" for implementation
The Hindu
Friday, Nov 17, 2006
<http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/17/stories/2006111701331500.htm>
NEW DELHI: Exhorting the national press to transform into the media of
people and play partner in economic development, President A.P.J. Abdul
Kalam on Thursday gave an eight-point mission for immediate
implementation.
The President unveiled his "media mission" in his address on the National
Press Day while inaugurating a two-day seminar on "Journalism Ethics and
Society in the age of Globalisation," organised by the Press Council of
India here.
It included launching a media movement: "Developed India before 2020";
media becoming a development partner in the programme of Providing Urban
amenities in Rural Area; celebrating every aspect of the success of the
people; evolution of a corruption-free India before 2015; promoting an
enlightened society which means education with a value system; scanning
and digitising all old issues of the print media to preserve our national
heritage; and a code of conduct by the media themselves for ensuring that
all reporting is analysed, evaluated and researched prior to publication.
While touching on the necessity of having the code, the President, in an
obvious reference to The Hindu , said the national newspaper had evolved a
healthy practice for maintaining high standards of reporting. "They have
appointed a consultant exclusively for maintaining the standard of the
newspaper reporting and nurture the name of the paper, thereby ensuring
that all the guidelines are adhered to by the reporters. There is a
constant review of the quality of reporting and improvement in the
guidelines. This may be followed by the media organisations all over the
country to continuously improve the quality and maintain the consistency
of news reporting."
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5. Policy Post 12.20: ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Transparency and
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:37 pm ((PST))
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:16:18 -0500
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Policy Post 12.20: ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Transparency and
Accountability
A Briefing On Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online
from The Center For Democracy and Technology
(1) ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Transparency and Accountability
(2) Preliminary Recommendations Focus on Transparency
(3) Reform Process Must Not Be Rushed
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(1) ICANN Seeks Input on Improving Openness and Accountability
Last month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) asked the Internet community for input on how it could build
greater transparency and accountability into its decision-making
processes. CDT was among several groups that filed preliminary
comments with ICANN.
ICANN manages the global domain name system (DNS) under a memorandum
of understanding with the U.S. Government. In September, the
Department of Commerce announced that it had extended its MOU with
ICANN. As part of that extension, ICANN and the Department agreed to
a new Joint Project Agreement intended to help develop the structures
and procedures necessary to continue the transition of the DNS to
full private-sector oversight. The long-term goal of the Agreement
is that ICANN will eventually operate independently of any
governmental control or oversight.
One of the most significant and recurring criticisms about ICANN
since its inception has been that the organization has failed to
operate in a transparent, accountable manner. Too much of the process
by which ICANN arrives at decisions remains inscrutable to outsiders
and participants alike, even though its "bottom-up" coordination
process does represent a range of Internet stakeholders and the
organization has consistently held open public meetings.
In comments to the Commerce Department earlier this year, CDT
highlighted some of the key concerns:
"Equally troubling is that ICANN has made little effort and even less
progress toward improving the transparency of its decision-making
processes. Too much deliberation on important issues still takes
place behind closed doors and on private phone calls. ICANN's
non-appointed, full-time staff is still perceived as wielding too
much influence in setting ICANN policy. Absent real representation,
this lack of transparency has dealt a serious blow to ICANN's efforts
to establish a truly bottom-up coordination structure. Most people
outside the ICANN structure and even some that are ostensibly
participating in the "bottom-up coordination" remain perplexed as to
how ICANN reaches its decisions and which stakeholder groups maintain
the real influence with decision makers."
It was a promising sign, therefore, when the Commerce Department and
ICANN identified strengthening transparency and accountability as a
top priority in the Joint Project Agreement. Equally promising was
that ICANN wasted little time initiating a procedure to develop
"management operating principles" to support greater openness and
transparency. This is a vital process and one that has potential --
if properly executed -- to greatly bolster ICANN's global legitimacy
and set the DNS on a path toward full-fledged nongovernmental
oversight.
ICANN-Commerce Joint Project Agreement
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/jpa/
ICANNJPA_09292006.htm
ICANN request for public comments
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-16oct06.htm
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(2) Preliminary Recommendations Focus on Transparency
In order to craft long-term, workable solutions to increase
transparency and accountability in the ICANN process, a comprehensive
examination of ICANN's existing structures will be needed. In
preliminary comments to ICANN, CDT suggested the possibility of
empanelling a multi-stakeholder body to study the problems and
propose solutions to the ICANN board. While that process will take
time, there are some areas where ICANN can make immediate
improvements. In submitted comments, CDT identified some of these
areas.
The first, and most obvious step in addressing the
transparency/accountability issues is for all of the entities
officially involved in the ICANN decision-making process -- from
constituency committees, to supporting organizations, all the way up
to the board itself -- to examine their procedures for disclosing
information to the public. Where feasible, meetings should be made
public, and at a minimum, the public should have access to major
documents and the minutes of key meetings. The ICANN Board itself
should hold no secret meetings, particularly when addressing DNS
policy.
There may be some wholly internal decisions that ICANN should be
permitted to conduct outside of strict transparency requirements, but
in general, those requirements should be designed to shed as much
daylight as possible on ICANN's activities. For decisions that affect
the DNS, all deliberations should be public.
As part of that process, ICANN must take a hard look at the role its
full-time, non-appointed staff plays in that process. Although not an
official part of the bottom-up structure, the staff has historically
held great sway over the decision-making process. CDT suggests the
staff's role must either be minimized or officially acknowledged, and
thus subjected to the same transparency requirements that apply to
other entities within ICANN.
CDT also recommended that ICANN not limit itself in drawing from
existing models for improving transparency and accountability.
Although ICANN's nongovernmental status has been one of its greatest
assets as a management body, the organization's unique authority over
infrastructure that is a lynchpin of global communication and
commerce gives it government-like powers in this space.
As such, ICANN may want to look to the best practices of governments,
rather than those of other corporations, as it seeks to build a model
that fosters greater transparency. For instance, one excellent
resource for ICANN could be the U.S. Administrative Procedures Act,
which establishes rules and timelines for government agencies to
follow when making policy. Some of those rules would not make sense
for ICANN, but other could be lifted directly from the statute. Were
ICANN, for instance, to establish a rule subjecting all major policy
decisions to a 60-day notice and comment period, the quality and
legitimacy of the decision-making process would be greatly enhanced.
CDT Preliminary Comments to ICANN
http://www.cdt.org/standards/20061101icanncomments.pdf
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(3) Reform Process Must Not Be Rushed
ICANN has undertaken a vital process in drafting of transparency and
accountability "management operating principles," and should be duly
commended. Making this a priority is essential to allowing ICANN to
proceed to the next stage in its evolution. Still, one key concern
has already arisen at this early stage in the process: timing.
ICANN solicited comments from the public on October 16 and requested
that they be submitted on October 31, despite the fact that many
leaders in the Internet governance space were attending the
first-ever global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens during
that two-week period. In its first announcement, ICANN intimated that
it was seeking to resolve the issue at its December board meeting in
Sao Paulo.
To suggest that the public would be able to submit meaningful
guidance for fixing one of ICANN's oldest problems on a two-week
deadline, and that ICANN would be able to implement those solutions
less than two months later, led many in the Internet community to
question whether ICANN had a clear understanding of the scope of the
challenge facing it.
After considerable public outcry at the artificially short timeframe,
ICANN issued a notice clarifying that it was seeking only
"preliminary" comments by October 31, and announcing that it would
plan to implement policy changes at its meeting in Lisbon next March.
Although ICANN should be applauded for responding to public concerns,
even a March 2007 deadline to implement solutions to the problem
would not appear to allow nearly enough time to address the problem
in a comprehensive manner.
ICANN has begun an important process by addressing the deep-seated
issues surrounding its own transparency and accountability. It is
vital that ICANN devote the time, resources and attention needed to
see that process through to a satisfactory conclusion.
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6. Buy Nothing Day, 11/25/2006, 12:00 am
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Date: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:09 pm ((PST))
Reminder from the Calendar of mediamentor
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Buy Nothing Day
Saturday November 25, 2006
All Day
(This event repeats every year.)
(The next reminder for this event will be sent in 6 days, 4 minutes.)
Notes:
For 24 hours on Buy Nothing Day, November 25, we remember that no one was born
to shop,
we pause, make a small choice to participate by not participating, and
we regain some calm. What will you do to tell Nike, McDonald's, Walmart
and the rest that enough is enough? Why not run with some ideas dreamt
up by the more than 3,500 jammers who took part in last year's biggest
ever Buy Nothing Day? Set up credit card cut ups, don white coats and
vaccinate against affluenza, give out free samples of nothing - anything
to show that the best things in life are free. You can find more ideas
and tools i
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