After approving versions of roughly three-dozen bills, hammering out a state budget, and deliberating for more than three hours, the N.C. Senate had one bill left on its agenda Wednesday night: the Racial Justice Act. The Senate had previously passed a version of the landmark bill, which would prevent the execution of defendants on the […]
Matt Saldaña
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“Material support” charges the feds’ best shot in terrorism case
Federal prosecutors have characterized Willow Spring resident Daniel Boyd as the mastermind behind a conspiracy to commit a “violent jihad”a holy warabroad. However, the actual charges Boyd and his co-defendants face, like flying to other countries, purchasing guns or even discussing jihad, are legal. What makes them illegal is that they were allegedly conducted under […]
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Terrorism hearing delayed until Tuesday
The detention hearings for all seven defendants accused of conspiring to advance “violent jihad” abroad have been delayed, following defense motions, until 9:30 a.m. on August 4, at the Terry Sanford Federal Building at 310 New Bern Ave in Raleigh. The defendants will appear before United States Magistrate Judge William Webb, who will rule then […]
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Attorneys for N.C. terrorism suspects request hearing delay; eighth defendant ‘not in the U.S.’
Attorneys representing five of the seven North Carolina men on trial for terrorism charges have requested that their detention hearings be delayed until next week. Two other attorneys have just been assigned their cases today, and have not yet filed motions for continuance. The detention hearings, currently scheduled for Thursday at the federal courthouse in […]
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The Green Party tries to find its center
The Green Party, which drew nearly 3 million voters in 2000 when it nominated Ralph Nader for president, has since struggled from an exodus of supporters and a self-acknowledged identity crisis. In 2008, Cynthia McKinney, the party’s presidential nominee, garnered just one-tenth of one percent of the vote, finishing sixth, behind Chuck Baldwin of the […]
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Miles Holst
On a recent night at Jackpot on Raleigh’s Hillsborough Street, 23-year-old artist Miles Holst scans the dim space from behind a DJ booth, his blue eyes lit both by his laptop screen and the Christmas lights draped over stacks of vinyl records and a baby Jesus figurine he brought for the show. Holst wears a […]
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N.C. terrorism suspects to appear in court Thursday; prosecutors to use FISA
All but one of the seven North Carolina-based men charged with a conspiracy to “advance violent jihad“–or, holy war–that would include murder and kidnapping, are set to appear in a federal courthouse in Raleigh on Thursday. Anes Subasic, who is charged with two counts of conspiracy, will appear on Friday make his first appearance Wednesday […]
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Day 3: Cynthia McKinney speaks to Greens, though not in person
2008 Green Party presidential nominee, and former U.S. Representative (D-GA), Cynthia McKinney was scheduled to deliver a keynote speech to the roughly 100 Green Party members who attended last week’s convention in Durham. Due to health issues, she instead spoke to the group about her recent brush with the Israeli Navy, and her involvement with […]
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Day 2 (Part Two): Green Party pitches single-payer health care
“Live longer; pay less.” That was the mantra offered by 2004 vice-presidential nominee Pat LaMarche during the Green Party’s single-payer health care forum, held on Friday at N.C. Central University in Durham. The former talk-radio host, and Maine gubernatorial candidate, got the crowd of roughly 100 to chant along for single-payer systems throughout the world […]
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Day 2: Greens take a hard look at themselves in Durham
Day Two of the Green Party’s 2009 National Meeting in Durham featured a forum on single-payer health care (though “forum” may be a stretch; the consensus was that single-payer is the best, and only, option) and press conferences introducing Green Party elected officials, and candidates, to the world. But the real action happened in workshops, […]