most famously, in attic in new attica in new york people are inspired by jackson. when george jackson was killed, they went on a fast. a one-day strike to honor george jackson. this so terrified the guards because of the already existing tensions at the prison. three weeks later it burst into this major prison riot. you can think of it as the sort of, what happened at watts moving to prison. attica was a four-day process were prisoners built to their own commune inside the prison. until the governor of new york nelson rockefeller sent in state troopers and killed 43 people. prisoners and guards alike. the origins of that came from remembering george jackson. people start trying to write on books. writing newsletters. taking classes in teaching each other things. inspired by his version of dignity and autonomy. militancy inside the prison. it is not just other activists who are inspired by george jackson. the government also has a response to george jackson. it continues to influence prison policy to this day. hugo panell was a comrade of jackson's. after he was kil

temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s in parts of southern new jersey. attica, 49. also in piney hollow. pemberton, 49. temperatures mainly in the upper 40s. mount laurel 49. temperatures, you're a little chilly this morning. we'll be on the chilly side later this afternoon, meaning in the low to mid 60s. not the 50s we had yesterday. so better than yesterday but not the 71 that's normal for this time of year. currently we are seeing winds from 5 to 10 miles per hour. it's more important that we're still seeing the winds off the ocean out of the east. that's bringing in the moisture, so we're going to beÑi dump as head throughout the early part of today. it's not going to be into early this evening where the low loses control over us. we have two things to get through before clearing it out later on mother's day. we have a sweeping radar showing us light rain falling across the area. not much but still enough to bring us the wet weather. a front will come through later on overnight into later sunday to bring us more showers on mother's day. future cast. going throug

case centered on a lawsuit filed on behalf of prisoners killed and injured in the attica prison uprising in upstate new york. michael ratner was deeply involved in latin america and the caribbean challenging u.s. policy in cuba, haiti, nicaragua, guatemala, puerto rico, and elsewhere. in 1981, he brought the first challenge under the war powers resolution to the use of troops in el salvador as well as a suit against u.s. officials on behalf of nicaraguans raped, murdered and tortured by u.s. backed , contras. in 1991, he led the center's challenge to the authority of president george h.w. bush to go to war against iraq without congressional consent. a decade later he would become a , leading critic of the george w. bush administration filing lawsuits related to guantanamo, torture, domestic surveillance and the 2003 invasion of iraq. , he also helped launch the group palestine legal to defend the rights of protesters in the u.s. calling for palestinian human rights. in recent years he was the chief , attorney for wikileaks founder julian assange and became a leading critic of the u.s. crackdown on whis