Recommended HLLN Link:
Bulldozers for the Poor, Huge Tax Credits for Wealthy Developers
By BILL QUIGLEY
http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley12032007.html
Bulldozers for the Poor, Huge Tax Credits for Wealthy Developers
By BILL QUIGLEY
http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley12032007.html
Ezili Danto: Watch this Video of Attorney Bill Quigley getting roughed up and
arrested. What has become of the law in the U.S.? (OK, that was a rhetorical
question.)
But folks, we simply cannot take this attack on a treasured and authentic
friend to the poorest of the poor, without comment and strong protest. And so I
write here to you about Bill Quigley, about this arrest. Because Bill Quigley
is a man who shows up, time and time again, not to help us, but because he
knows his liberation is bound up with that of the most disenfranchised. He is a
man who, I do not hesitate to say, is one of the most honorable of attorneys
and activists working in the Americas. He represents what HLLN wishes to see
extended in this world. He does not extend dependency, struggle or talk FOR
black or poor people. But, Bill Quigley has consistantly stood up for what's
just, humane and decent. Most often, he is the lone white guy taking abuse with
and alongside his poor, underprivileged friends and clients, as you’ll see if
you watch this video and as he did once in Haiti when a mob was beating down
Father Jean Juste at Jacques Roches' funeral. (See, "Priest Assaulted by Mob at
Funeral and Arrested for Murder : Harrowing Hours in Haiti By Bill Quigley |
http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley07232005.html ) This New Orleans officer's
action here seems arbitrary, capricious and extremely violent without cause or
defense. Charges seems to be in order against this arresting officer, NO?
Someone needs to be fired immediately.
http://www.wdsu.com/video/14794232/index.html
Bill Quigley is a law professor as well as Director of the Law Clinic and the
Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. ( For more
info on Bill and his work, go to:
http://law.loyno.edu/faculty/bio/quigley ;
http://law.loyno.edu/%7Equigley/ )
To learn more about the issue, which landed Bill Quigley in this danger, please
go to: Bulldozers for the Poor, Huge Tax Credits for Wealthy Developers
By BILL QUIGLEY
http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley12032007.html
Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
