Rabbi Michael Lerner: Praying With Our Feet at Occupy Oakland

Thanks to Rabbi Lerner for again stating the obvious loud and clear!
    

Los Angeles, November 11 – Tikkun’s Rabbi Michael Lerner has called in a Huffington Post opinion piece for “Praying With Our Feet at Occupy Oakland”  Moreover, in it, Rabbi Lerner invokes the historic commitment of the US Jewish community to Human Rights, in the footsteps of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. [i]

Rabbi Lerner again shows his commitment to the cause:

• Rabbi Michael Lerner was unique among rabbis, who had been asked, in his willingness to opine on the Los Angeles Jewish Federation and Bet Tzedek refusal to respond on allegations of high level financial fraud by Sandor Samuels and others, current and former leaders of Bet Tzedek (“The House of Justice”). [iii]
• Privately, Rabbi Lerner also opined on refusal of ADL National Director Abraham Foxman to respond on allegations of racketeering in the courts among the leaders of the Log Angeles Jewish/legal community. [iv]
• Rabbi Lerner was one of several rabbis and priests, who joined the call for ending the death penalty in California. [v]

Thanks again to Rabbi Lerner for stating the obvious loud and clear! [vi]
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LINKS:
[i] 11-11-11 Rabbi Michael Lerner_ Praying With Our Feet at Occupy Oakland
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72473051/
[ii] 11-11-10 Occupy on Russia Today – increasingly censored by Google at US agencies request…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72321114/
11-11-10 Eventually, Much of the Abuse Boils Down to the First Amendment and Related Rights – Oakland Police Denies ACLU Access to Public Records of Police Violence
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72397356/
[iii] 10-11-17 Tikkun’s Rabbi Lerner ANSWERS on a Jewish ethics question pertaining to duties of Bet Tzedek and the Los Angeles Jewish Federation in view of evidence of racketeering in the courts by leaders of the Los Angeles Jewish/legal community
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72476051/1
[iv] 11-05-08 Press Release: Tikkun’s Rabbi Lerner opines on refusal by ADL to respond on Public Corruption/Racketeering in the courts by Los Angeles Jewish-legal community leaders.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54938457/
[v] 10-12-15 Press Release: Tikkun’s Rabbi Michael Lerner Joined the Call Stop the Execution of Kevin Cooper End the Death Penalty in California-s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45352303/
[vi] 11-10-02 Day of Reckoning 5’772 – the US Jewish Community and the Current Crisis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/67268941/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
   
The 2010 submission of Human Rights Alert to the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations was reviewed by the HRC professional staff and incorporated in the official HRC Professional Staff Report with a note referring to “corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.” 
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* Foreclosure fraud: The homeowner nightmares continue
CNN (April 7, 2011)
* About 3 million homes have been repossessed since the housing boom ended in 2006… That number could balloon to about 6 million by 2013 
Bloomberg (January 2011)
* “…a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences.” 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* “…judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit.” 
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001) 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* “This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states… and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”     
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001) 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* “Innocent people remain in prison”
* “…the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of…”
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* “…corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California.” 
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* “On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations.”
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert 
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* “More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning “mandatory and enforceable” ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by “recent media reports,” the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others.”
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011) 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM? 
* “The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition…” 
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/

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