How Civil Forfeiture Laws Are Costing Innocent People Their Homes

Published August 25, 2013

How Civil Forfeiture Laws Are Costing Innocent People Their Homes

Filed under: Many Faces Of Crack Cocaine

In October 2009, police raided the house and charged her son, Andrew, then 24, with selling eight packets of crack cocaine to an undercover informant. (Upon entering the … On its face, Bing's predicament might seem implausible if not unjust. How … Read more on Pacific Standard

Guinea-Bissau and the South Atlantic Cocaine Trade

Filed under: Many Faces Of Crack Cocaine

Many believe that AQIM is already playing a prominent role in the West African cocaine trade, levying taxes and protection charges on narcotics smuggled across the Sahara from coastal West Africa to Europe. The group's co-founder, Mokhtar Belmokhtar … Read more on Center For American Progress

The fierce urgency of now

Filed under: Many Faces Of Crack Cocaine

They will be commemorating a different historical moment: the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. …. in court for enforcing existing sentences for … Read more on Socialist Worker Online