Word: redressing
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...Chicago force, though one department spokesman says he has heard that the dues-paying cops in Robinson's group number no more than 50. In San Francisco, which has 1,800 policemen, all 85 of the blacks belong to Officers for Justice, founded two years ago to redress black grievances. Among them: the regular police organization refused legal aid to black cops charged with off-duty offenses, but hired Jake Ehrlicha well-known California criminal lawyerto defend a white cop accused of manslaughter. The Guardians, once only a social organization of black patrolmen...
...House that the proposed IRS policy change could effectively block citizen efforts to protect the environment. And North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, a conservative Democrat, charged that the IRS denial of tax exemptions could endanger the First Amendment right to free expression. By withdrawing the exemptions for organizations seeking redress in the courts, wrote Ervin, the IRS "is striking at the heart of one of the most effective, traditional and basic American freedoms...
...claimed that the surveillance, data banks, and blacklists violated the Bill of Rights by reason of the chilling effect which knowledge of their existence can have upon the willingness of citizens to exercise their freedom of speech, press, and association, and their rights to petition the government for redress of grievances...
...outrage of the P.F.L.P. skyjackings, let us recognize these actions as the result of years of oppression of one people by another. Eventually, the oppressed react with violence, as the P.F.L.P. is doing, as black militants in America are doing, as any oppressed people does, when no recourse or redress is available...
...cash prize will go to the contestant who best suggests how one can "obtain redress or 'satisfaction' from the computer systems of credit card companies, government agencies, banks, the F. B. I., ad nauseum...