Everyone: Call on Obama to pressure Turkey to let Kurds cross the border, whether to defend Kobani or escape from massacre there.

US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act.

UK thug chiefs insist on allowing thugs to confer to coordinate their testimony.

Manuel Velez was convicted of murder because the public defender didn't bother to investigate the evidence that proved he was innocent.

The cruel prosecutors gave him a choice between a new trial (on charges already known to be false), which would probably have meant keeping him in jail for a year or two, and pleading guilty to a smaller false charge. Evidently they are more interested in pretending they are never wrong than in justice.

The main cause of these repeated injustices is that we don't have enough public defenders in the US. They can't possibly do a proper job for so many clients. Most of the time they advise clients to make a deal and accept a lesser charge, whether it is true or not.

Philadelphia students went on strike in solidarity with their teachers, whose contract was cancelled.