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Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:16 pm (EST) . Posted by:

Two accused in Canada 'honour killing' case face extradition
8 September 2017

Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Subjit Singh Badesha (right photo) are accused of planning the attack on the young couple
Canada's Supreme Court has paved the way for the extradition of two Canadians facing charges related to their alleged role in an "honour killing".
Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Subjit Singh Badesha have been fighting extradition to India.
They are accused of orchestrating the murder in 2000 of Jaswinder "Jassi" Sidhu in Punjab.
The highest court has restored surrender orders for the two accused.
In 2014, Canada's then federal justice minister ordered their surrenders after receiving assurances from India regarding their treatment if incarcerated.
In its unanimous decision released on Friday, Supreme Court set aside a 2016 British Columbia appellate court decision that struck down the orders over concerns the two could be subjected to violence, torture or neglect while incarcerated in India.
Mrs Sidhu, Jassi's mother, and Mr Badesha, her uncle, deny any involvement in her death.
Both are elderly and have a number of health conditions.
The alleged murder of Jassi, a young Indian-Canadian woman, was over a clandestine marriage to a man her family considered unsuitable.
Sidhu secretly married Mithu Sidhu, a rickshaw driver, instead of the wealthy, older man her family reportedly preferred.
She fled to India to reunite with her husband a few months after her family learned of the marriage. Soon after, the couple were attacked while on a motor scooter.
Mithu was badly beaten while the body of Jassi, with her throat cut, was found in a ditch the next day.
Efforts to bring those behind Sidhu's murder and Mithu's assault to justice have been followed closely in North America and India for years.
Thirteen people, including Mr Badesha and Ms Sidhu, were charged in India in connection with the attacks. Three men in India were eventually given life sentences.
Mrs Sidhu and Mr Badesha - the two Canadians accused - were arrested in Canada in 2012 under the Extradition Act following an international investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Indian authorities.
India wants them to stand trial on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
In 2014, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ordered they be extradited.
Government lawyers appealed to Canada's top court after a surrender orders was struck down by a British Columbia appellate court.

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Slavery in the US prison system If you want to find an example of modern day slavery, look no further than US prisons. 09 Sep 2017 07:12 GMT |


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Prison inmates lay water pipes on a work project outside Oak Glen Conservation Fire Camp #35 in Yucaipa, California on November 6, 2014 [Lucy Nicholson/Reuters] http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/david-a-love.html By David A Love http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/david-a-love.html @davidalove https://twitter.com/davidalove
David A Love is a Philadelphia-based freelance journalist and commentator.
http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/vijay-das.html By Vijay Das http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/vijay-das.html @vijdas https://twitter.com/vijdas
Vijay Das is a Washington-based essayist and policy advocate who writes on social, economic and criminal justice issues.
Today marks one year since the largest prison labour strike in US history. More than




FAULT LINES: The Prison Factory (24:08) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWxXf7CACRw

24,000 prisoners across 29 prisons in 12 states protested against inhumane conditions, timing it around the anniversary of the Attica Prison uprising, a prisoner strike now 46 years old.
That violent uprising originated from prisoners rebelling against overcrowded cells, unsanitary conditions, medical neglect and abuse. From Attica to the strike led by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee https://incarceratedworkers.org/about last year, these protests draw attention to an ugly truth: Prisoner abuse runs rampant and it has extended into modern-day versions of slavery. Last year's strike organisers described slavery-like conditions in prisons in the nationwide call to action.
Slavery persists by another name today. Young men and women of colour toil away in 21st-century fields, sow in hand. And Corporate America is cracking the whip.
Influenced by enormous corporate lobbying, the United States Congress enacted the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program http://www.nationalcia.org/piecp-2 in 1979 which permitted US companies to use prison labour. Coupled with the drastic increase in the prison population during this period, profits for participating companies and revenue for the government and its private contractors soared. The Federal Bureau of Prisons now runs a programme called Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) that pays inmates under one dollar an hour. The programme generated $500m https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21718897-idaho-prisoners-roast-potatoes-kentucky-they-sell-cattle-prison-labour in sales in 2016 with little of that cash being passed down to prison workers. Stateside, where much of the US addiction to mass incarceration lies, is no different. California's prison labour programme is expected to produce some $232m https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21718897-idaho-prisoners-roast-potatoes-kentucky-they-sell-cattle-prison-labour in sales in 2017.
These exploited labourers are disproportionately African American and Latino - a demographic status quo resulting from the draconian sentencing and other criminal justice policies ransacking minority communities across the United States http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html. African Americans are incarcerated at a rate five times higher than that of whites. In states like Virginia and Oklahoma, one in every 14 or 15 African American men http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/ are put in prison.
We lock people of colour up at alarming rates. We put them to work. Corporations gain. This story is an age-old American tradition. Throughout history, our nation has successfully pulled back corporate greed, but private corporations have always found new ways to reap enormous wealth from cheap labour.
The historical circumstances following the abolition of slavery provide the necessary context to understand how corporations function in a de facto replacement for slavery. Although the US Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude, it made an exception - a loophole for "punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted", which made prison labour possible.
Workers flipping burgers and frying french fries for minimum wage at McDonald's wear uniforms that were manufactured by prison labourers.


Following the Civil War, the Southern economy was in shambles and the slaves were emancipated. A cheap labour source was needed, and the convict lease system http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/convictleasesystem.html#.WakitZMjE0R was invented. States leased out their convicts to industrialists and planters to work in locations such as railroads, coal mines and plantations, and entrepreneurs bought and sold these leases.
With little capital investment required and no need to care for the health of the prisoners, the system of economic exploitation became highly profitable http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=3179 for businesses and states and even cheaper than slavery. For example, in 1883 convict leasing provided Alabama with 10 percent of its revenue, 73 percent in 1898. Leased convicts were treated abysmally, with death rates 10 times higher than prisoners in states that did not employ leased convict labour. Secret graveyards contained the bodies of prisoners who had been tortured and beaten to death.
The viability of the convict lease system required that black people be returned to their former status as a source of labour. Hence, the Black Codes were enacted to suppress the rights of the recently emancipated African Americans, and criminalise them for minor offences such as vagrancy. Under the vagrancy laws, any black person under the protection of a white person could be swept up by the system for simply loitering, as black people were rounded up in this manner to provide a source of nearly free labour.
Today, prison labour is a billion-dollar industry, and the corporate beneficiaries of this new slavery include some of the largest corporations and most widely known brands. For example, Walmart has purchased produce from farms, where women prisoners face bad working conditions, inadequate medical care and very low pay.
Workers flipping burgers and frying french fries for minimum wage at McDonald's wear uniforms that were manufactured by prison labourers.
Further, UNICOR https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-prison-owned-factories-fences-face-scrutiny-n639791 manages 83 factories and more than 12,000 prison labourers who earn as little as 23 cents an hour working at call centres, manufacturing items such as military body armour, and in past years, defective combat helmets http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/08/18/pentagon-prison-inmates-produced-thousands-of-defective-helmets.html. In 2013, federal inmates made $100m worth of military uniforms http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/world/americas/buying-overseas-clothing-us-flouts-its-own-advice.html.
UNICOR has also provided prison labour in the past to produce Patriot missile parts https://www.wired.com/2011/03/prisoners-help-build-patriot-missiles/ for defence contractors Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, and parts for others such as Boeing and General Dynamics.
Corporations such as Starbucks https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-02/paying-inmates-minimum-wages-helps-the-working-class, AT&T, Target http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/business/as-prison-labor-grows-so-does-the-debate.html, and Nordstrom http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/14/news/brave-new-jeans-warriors.html?mcubz=0 have also profited from prison labour at some point in the past as well.
Some critics oppose the characterisation of the US prison system as a slave labour camp. For example, James Kilgore https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/09/the-myth-of-prison-slave-labor-camps-in-the-u-s/ argues that prison labour is infrequently used, and identifying multinational corporations that profit from it loses sight of the key issues behind mass incarceration.




INSIDE STORY: US - a nation of inmates? (25:00) http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/02/201322071650496567.html


Kilgore is correct in his analysis that a lack of economic opportunity coupled with draconian laws results in a perverse private incentive to drive up mass incarceration. We should enhance employment options for former inmates to reduce recidivism and integrate returning citizens back into society. However, this does not mean that corporations do not profit from prisons and prison labour today and it is obscene that this still happens.
The Trump administration reversing the Obama-era order to phase out private prisons and enacting new law-and-order policies to increase arrests and fill these prisons will only increase opportunities for profit for Trump's corporate donors and their many investments in mass incarceration. Exploiting prison labour is consistent with this troubling trend.
Over a century and a half since the abolition of slavery, the dreaded institution still lives on in another, dressed up form. Taking advantage of a constitutional loophole, corporate profiteers continue the modern-day version of the convict lease system. In the land of the free, the dollar still takes precedence over human rights http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/categories/human_rights.html, and that which can be monetised and exploited for profit will be, regardless of ethical or moral considerations.
Once again, race, criminal justice and capitalism have joined forces to deprive captive black and brown bodies of their human rights. In the age of President Donald Trump http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/people/donald-trump.html and hardliner Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the return to "law and order" and a war on drugs signals a reversal of progress the US was making untethering itself from the expansive grip of a carceral state.
The anniversary of last year's prison strike is a chilling reminder that one need not point to authoritarian regimes in distant countries to find examples of blatant labour rights violations. If you want to find slavery in the US, look no further than its penitentiaries, jails and detention centres where the consequences of being locked-up extend much farther than doing time.
Vijay Das is a Washington-based essayist and policy advocate who writes on social, economic and criminal justice issues.
David A Love is a Philadelphia-based freelance journalist and commentator, and adjunct instructor at the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information.
The views expressed in this article are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.



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Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:20 pm (EST) . Posted by:

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What happened? Toronto speeches by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama may help explain: Delacourt Back-to-back talks at end of September could fill in some pieces of puzzle that brought Donald Trump to the White House.



Hillary Clinton and then-President Barack Obama during an election eve rally on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia. She would soon be calling him and apologizing for losing to Trump, according to reports. (Spencer Platt / GETTY IMAGES)




By Susan Delacourt https://www.thestar.com/authors.delacourt_susan.htmlParliament Hill
Fri., Sept. 8, 2017


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Last September, Hillary Clinton was getting ready for the presidential candidates’ debates — a spectacle that would include Donald Trump creeping up behind her on stage.
A year and what probably feels like a lifetime later, Clinton is getting ready for another public tour, and a different, old rival is following close behind her — this time, only metaphorically.
Within 24 hours at the end of September, Toronto audiences will have a chance to hear from Clinton and former U.S. president Barack Obama.
Clinton is doing a book-launch event in Toronto https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2017/08/29/hillary-clinton-book-tour-stopping-in-toronto-in-september.html on the evening of Sept. 28 at the Enercare Centre. The very next day, Obama will be in Toronto as well https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/06/barack-obama-to-cheer-on-invictus-games-in-toronto.html, speaking at a lunchtime event hosted by the Canada2020 think-tank at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Obama will also be popping in at the Invictus Games, the Star also reported this week.
The proximity of the two visits (not to mention the hefty ticket prices) could force some people to make a choice — not unlike one that U.S. Democrats had to make back in 2008: Clinton or Obama?

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Ideally, however, one would see both. If you’re a Canadian still a bit surprised that Trump ended up in the White House last year, Clinton and Obama may be able to fill in some pieces of the puzzle. Clinton’s new book, after all, is titled What Happened.
Judging from the excerpts now emerging, the “what” is actually many things. Vanity Fair columnist Bess Levin summed up the multiple blame targets https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/people-clinton-blames-for-her-election-loss this week in a piece titled:
“A brief list of people Clinton blames for her election loss: Part 3.”


















The list includes Bernie Sanders, former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times, sexism, Vladimir Putin and former vice-president Joe Biden. It also includes the two people speaking in Toronto later this month: Obama and Clinton herself.
About Obama, Clinton muses in her book about whether the president might have been more open with the American people about the Russian election-tampering efforts during the 2016 campaign.
“I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack. Maybe more Americans would have woken up to the threat in time. We’ll never know,” Clinton has written in the book, according to one excerpt.
Drawing up these Clinton blame lists has become a popular pastime among pundits since her defeat, but it often strikes me as a bit of a cheap shot (not by this particular Vanity Fair columnist, I should say.) All this talk of blame seems to be a bid to cast Clinton as trying to evade responsibility, even as she has repeatedly claimed it.
“Every day that I was a candidate for president, I knew that millions of people were counting on me and I couldn’t bear the idea of letting them down. But I did. I couldn’t get the job done. And I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life,” she reportedly writes in the book. It’s roughly what she said to Obama, too, on election night, according to other reports, when she called the president and apologized for failing to keep the White House out of Trump’s hands.
Speaking of Trump, it’s probably safe to bet that most people attending the Toronto events will be wanting to hear some disparaging words about the president. If you’re paying to listen to Obama or Clinton for a couple of hours, you’re probably not a fan of the guy who won the election last November.
It will be interesting to see which one, Obama or Clinton, will have the more withering criticism. Neither has much to lose from doing so, and Obama has been a bit more outspoken even this week, with Trump’s decision to end a program that protected children of undocumented immigrants from deportation. (In a Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155227588436749, Obama called the decision “cruel” and “self-defeating.”)
If the next few weeks are anything like the past year, Trump will have given Clinton and Obama lots more to criticize when they get before their Canadian audiences.


One boast that Clinton and Obama can make in their back-to-back appearances this month is that they’ve paid more calls on Canada this year than Trump has. Obama did an event in Montreal in June and the Clintons vacationed in Quebec’s Eastern Townships this summer.
The new U.S. president, on the other hand, has yet to visit Canada and no plans for such a trip seem to be on the immediate horizon. Canadians wanting to hear from residents of the White House will have to content themselves for now with former occupants; two of them in one week this month.



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