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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 22. Juli 2005 / Time Line July 22, 2005
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Oakland Pays Big Bucks For Injured War Protesters
http://www.nbc11.com/print/4753992/detail.html
The city of Oakland has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit
filed by a war protester who was injured when police fired wooden
dowels and rubber balls during a demonstration in April 2003.
Other than wooden dowels and rubber balls, officers also used
beanbag rounds and "sting balls," which send out a spray of
BB-sized rubber pellets and a cloud of tear gas, in order to
disperse the crowd.
The Oakland City Council also signed off on two other injury claims
from the 500-person protest that took place at the Port of Oakland
during the early days of war with Iraq.
A man who said his fingers were broken will get $85,000, while
another demonstrator who suffered cuts and bruises is set to get
$7,500, according to city lawyers.
Willow Rosenthal, the most seriously injured of the
protesters, settled her lawsuit for $500,000.
Rosenthal was hit in the back of her right calf with a wooden
pellet and said she had at least $80,000 in doctors' bills after
undergoing several surgeries for internal bleeding and skin
grafts.
All but 14 of the 58 people who sued the city after the protest,
including several longshoremen who were caught in the standoff,
have settled their lawsuits.
The remaining cases are scheduled to go to trial in January unless
settled before then.
They city has already paid $154,000 to 24 people who claimed they
were hurt in the demonstration which highlighted the port's role in
shipping supplies to the war...
07/22/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States
Department of Defense
Advanced Product Transitions Corp., McLean, Va., is being awarded a
cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity
contract with completion and level-of-effort task orders to
establish, provide, operate, and manage an industrial partnership.
The goal of the industrial partnership is to reach a wide variety
of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) industry primes, lower
tier suppliers, and small business to address manufacturing,
producibility and industrial base issues impacting BMDS development
and deployment. The principal place of performance will be
Arlington, Va. with a period of performance consisting of a
two-year base period with three one-year options. The total
contract value, including all options, is $251,133,845. The first
task order is valued at approximately $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. The
base period, valued at $50,953,585, will use fiscal years 2005 and
2006 research, development, test & evaluation funds. Technical
projects, which are developmental in nature, pursued under the
Industrial Partnership include electro optics/infra-red,
radiation-hardened electronics and components, advanced materials
and structures, power systems, radar and radio frequency and
propulsion. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting
activity (HQ0006-05-D-0007).
07/22/2005
European Commission, Directorate-General Justice, Freedom
and Security, Directorate D : Internal security and criminal
justiceUnit D2 : Combating economic, financial and cyber crime:
Draft Recommendations to Member States Regarding a Code of
Conduct for Non-Profit Organisations to Promote Transparency and
Accountability Best Practices. Brussels, 22nd July 2005
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