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New Jersey cops guilty, appeals court rules
A three-judge panel representing the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia June 24 reinstated conspiracy and violation of civil rights convictions of five Orange, N.J., police officers. The officers, after a seven-week trial in November/December 2000, had been found guilty of beating and pepper spraying Earl Faison, 27, an aspiring rap artist who had been arrested in the death of officer Joyce Ann Carnegie, also a member of the Orange Police Department.

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Whites defy order to vacate farms
HARARE, Zimbabwe (PANA)�Thousands of embattled White farmers in Zimbabwe on June 24 defied a government order to vacate their farms for resettlement, and mounted a fresh challenge of the legality of the forcible acquisitions of their properties. At least 2,900 farmers were due to cease farming operations by midnight June 24, at the end of a 45-day notice period they were given by the government to allow for resettlement of landless Blacks on the properties.

COINTELPRO specter haunts Black America
The recent announcement by the FBI that it was propagating new guidelines that would extend far-reaching powers to its agents to monitor the internet, snoop in mosques and keep an eye on people everywhere from the local library to a protest demonstration was met with reactions within the Black community ranging from disbelief to anger and fear accompanied by calls to resist this unconstitutional encroachment on civil liberties and the right to dissent.  �The Administration�s continued defiance of constitutional safeguards seems to have no end in sight,� stated the dean of the Black Caucus and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers (D-Mich.).