Subhash Kateel
Friday, 20 April 2012 05:13
Subhash: Will Marissa Alexander Do 20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against an Abuser?
While Florida is still raw from the death of Trayvon Martin, a new incident of injustice may be unfolding a few hours away in Jacksonville, Florida, the home district of Angela Corey, the "special" prosecutor in Trayvon's case. In a slight twist of irony, the "stand your ground" (or more properly " justifiable use of force") statutes are also being invoked in this case, except by an alleged victim of domestic violence that says she was defending herself against an abusive husband.
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Subhash Kateel
Subhash Kateel has been organizing immigrant communities for over twelve years. He was the initiator of the detention and deportation workfor Desis Rising Up and Moving and of co-Founder of Families For Freedom, a multi-ethnic network of immigrants facing and fighting deportation in 2002. He was also an organizer with the Florida Immigrant Coalition helping to develop community responses to ICE raids, detentions and deportations. Besides facilitating some of the most sought after know your rights trainings in the South East, he helped lead the We Are Florida! campaign that successfully stopped an Arizona-style anti-immigrant bill from passing in the Florida legislature. He is now the co-host of Let's Talk About It!, a current events talk radio program. He has called many places home, including Saginaw, Michigan, Brooklyn, New York and now Miami Florida.
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