What is the State of our Nation regarding sex crimes? Jane Manning joins us to discuss the shocking  landscape in New York and what we must do to change these injustices.

Jane is a former sex crimes prosecutor, a victim rights advocate, and a leading expert in criminal justice and violence against women. As Director of the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she helps survivors of sexual assault navigate the criminal justice system.

She began her career as a prosecutor of domestic violence, sex crimes, and child abuse. In private practice, she represented a coalition of battered women’s organizations arguing, successfully, for reversal of a court decision allowing men who murdered wives or girlfriends to invoke the victim’s “nagging” as a mitigating factor. She then joined the international human rights organization Equality Now, where she coordinated a successful campaign for a strong and comprehensive law against human trafficking in New York State and helped draft New York’s first anti-trafficking statute. She served as president of the NYC chapter of NOW, where she helped lead successful campaigns to repeal New York’s statute of limitations on rape and to criminalize strangulation attacks. She trains first-year prosecutors annually on interviewing crime victims. At the Women’s Equal Justice Project, she is working to improve the justice system’s response to sexual assault, including the violent and under-prosecuted crime of drug-facilitated sexual assault.

Her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan, the Brian Lehrer Show, Buzzfeed, the New York Post, Good Day NY, and other venues.

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Twitter – @JaneFromNYC
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08 07 JANE MANNING, Director of the Women’s Equal Justice Project Shocks with Criminal Justice Facts

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Public Order Act: latest anti-worker legislation to outlaw protests and strikes

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Interview with persecuted Czech communist Josef Skála

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In this podcast episode, Nicole O’Byrne talks to Keith Mercer about his book, Rough Justice: Policing, Crime, and the Origins of the Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871, published by Flanker Press in 2021.

In Rough Justice, Keith Mercer examines the history of policing and crime in early Newfoundland. It focuses on the period between the appointment of the first constables on the island in 1729 to the establishment of the Newfoundland Constabulary in 1871, now known as the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. This makes the Constabulary the oldest continuous police service in Canada. These early policemen, mostly untrained amateurs, were officers of the court, but they also played important roles in some of the most notable historical events and social crises of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The establishment of the Constabulary in 1871 built upon that strong foundation of community service. Rough Justice weaves that narrative into the larger history of Newfoundland.

Keith Mercer was born in Gander and holds graduate degrees in history from Memorial and Dalhousie Universities. He works for Parks Canada as the Cultural Resource Manager in Mainland Nova Scotia. He lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, with his wife, Amy, and children, Abby and Sam.

If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society’s mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada’s past.

Rough Justice: Policing, Crime, and the Origins of the Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871

Abhorrent racial disparities in America’s criminal justice system are well-documented, but less covered is the over-representation of people with disabilities. Drs. Jennifer Bronson and Hassan Enayati discuss how supports from elementary school through the hiring process can help mitigate the links between disability and employment opportunities as social determinants of justice.

The Social Determinants of Justice: Disability, Employment, and the Justice System Connection

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Demonisation and lawfare used to suppress support for Palestine in Britain

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Anti-zionism is not racism! Join our protest today!

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Get ready for Day X: Julian Assange must be freed!

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Communist party rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice for Julian Assange

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His name is Cristian Díaz and his crime is supporting Palestine

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Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition from Britain to the USA

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Prof David Miller's significant tribunal victory: anti-zionism is not racism!

This episode covers well known and lesser known justice system disparities and failures. We discuss harmful practices that have devastated communities and stolen years from innocent citizens. We identify examples of people and practices that must be changed.

#3-Systemic Racism-Justice System Disparities

Marxist analysis of current events and scientific socialist theoretical insights from the CPGB-ML. Get educated and get organised!

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Lynn's Warriors is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization committed to ending human trafficking and sexual exploitation by raising awareness through media and grassroots mobilization, advocacy, education and policy. Lynn's Warriors WVOX will present expert guests. survivor voices, digital safety tips to protect our children, resources and real conversation about this escalating crime happening in our own homes and communities. We will all learn how to intervene and prevent new victims and how to help survivors thrive and regain their lives. Raising awareness and education are the key first factors to sounding the alarms against these human rights abuses happening in every town, city and rural area in the United States. Learn more https://lynnswarriors.org/

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