Sunday Funday with these two, Eileen, Leann & Bart. (at Prato)
“And vent they did. For four hours, there was a catharsis of personal pain and grief that nobody in the small town could have imagined. Women who had been raped stood in front of the crowd, clad in Guy Fawkes masks, to share their stories. Some of them unmasked at the end of their testimonies as they burst into tears. Rapes at parties, date rapes, rapes by friends and relatives—their pent-up secrets came pouring out. “It turned into this women’s liberation movement, in a way,” MC recalls. “And it just changed everything. There was nothing anybody could do against us at that point because it was so real and so true.”
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“These are hard-core skinheads,” Pitcavage said at the time, referring to the American Front’s 17 active members and associates in Central Florida. He described the group as one of the oldest continually active racist-skinhead groups in the country.
Questions about the investigation began shortly after the arrests, when bond for most members was set at $500,000 while Faella only had to post $50,000 and his wife Patricia just $5,000. The disparity was never explained by authorities. In April, all charges against Patricia Faella were dropped without explanation on the day of her scheduled trial. The decision was reached after consultation with Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jeff Ashton.
“While the State Attorney respects the public’s right to know what motivated this morning’s dismissals, the State Attorney requests patience from the public as it is inappropriate for him or his assistants to comment until the charges against Marcus Faella are also resolved,” Ashton’s spokesman Richard Wallsh said in a written statement at the time.
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Just a few more weeks until #sunnyandgordon get married in #carmel.
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The co-author of a disputed immigration study by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, resigned Friday after questions were raised about racially charged conclusions made in his previous work.
The departure of Jason Richwine, who joined the organization in 2010, came as Heritage sought to move past a barrage of criticism from liberals and conservatives alike over the methodology used in its report that pegged the cost of legalizing 11 million undocumented immigrants at $6.3 trillion.
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