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:largeThere's an Army of Local Lawyers Itching to Fight Trump's Policies
My profession has some great people in it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/volunteer-lawyers-are-lining-up-to-fight-trump-policies
Walther is one of a growing number of lawyers, interpreters and other professionals across the U.S. claimed as members of Lawyers for Good Government, a nonprofit whose founder says its nonpartisan, but progressive. (The group said that 10 percent to 15 percent of its 125,000 Facebook followers are active members, by either volunteering or donating.) Little known outside legal circles, the organization was launched as a Facebook group the day after Donald Trump was elected president. L4GG screens attorneys such as Waltherwho heads the groups Minnesota chapterand funnels them to legal services groups. L4GG has people who identify as independents, Republicans, Democratsits all across the spectrum, she said.
After the first Trump administration ban on travel to the U.S. from Muslim-majority countries, the group directed hundreds of lawyers via the web to airports across the nation, coordinated volunteers with legal services groups and had international members hand out know-your-rights flyers in more than 20 languages at airports around the world. L4GG also runs programs in areas including prevention of voter suppression and environmental protection. Adam Cohen, a Westchester, N.Y., attorney who joined L4GGs board of directors last year, said there are a lot of attorneys out there dying to do something, not just donate money.
But showing up isnt all thats neededmany practitioners have little or no experience in these arenas. Full-time civil rights advocates such as Terri Burke, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, welcome the outpouring, with the caveat that volunteers need to be trained and managed to be effective.
Alex Jones faces existential courtroom battle over limits of fake news
Juanita Jean's son, Mark Bankston, is representing the plaintiffs suing Alex Jones n two of these lawsuits https://www.mystatesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/alex-jones-faces-existential-courtroom-battle-over-limits-fake-news/uzGiDhpaPz0c1OJ79fd6bJ/
If the Travis County Sandy Hook case makes it to trial, it could become an epic courtroom showdown, heading into Trumps re-election campaign, over where to draw the line between free speech and libel in an era of competing claims of fake news.
Bankston and Dallas attorney Mark Enoch, representing Jones, will be in a Travis County courtroom Wednesday arguing over Enochs motion to dismiss the defamation case under the Texas Citizens Participation Act a law unanimously passed by the Legislature in 2011 and signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry that was intended to protect citizens First Amendment rights from meritless claims intended to silence them. Bankston said the law is being invoked in this case as nothing more than a stalling tactic.
Enoch argues that the suit is a strategic device to silence Jones as well as anyone else who refuses to accept what the mainstream media and government tell them, and prevent them from expressing any doubt or raising questions.
How Blizzard convinced sports billionaires to buy into the Overwatch League
ESPN has several reporters covering esports. This article on Overwatch is interesting http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/24203693/how-blizzard-convinced-robert-kraft-other-billionaires-buy-overwatch-league
Why did these American sports titans invest millions in a brand-new esports league? Because there had never been anything like the Overwatch League before. It is the most ambitious esports project ever attempted -- a truly global league whose success could transform the gaming landscape once and for all.
To pull this off, Blizzard aggressively recruited traditional sports owners like the Krafts, and now, on the first day of the Overwatch League finals at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, that investment will reach its zenith. Here's the inside story of how Blizzard convinced one of the most successful owners in sports to join its very new, very risky venture.,,,,
ctivision Blizzard officially announces the first seven Overwatch League franchises, based in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Shanghai and Seoul. Among the new owners are the Wilpon family, owners of the New York Mets, as well as endemic esports organizations like NRG Esports, Immortals and Misfits, who between them have investment from owners of the Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies and Miami Heat.
This is a major business now.
He quit his State Department job to play video games. Now he's a star in the NBA's 2K League.
The rise of professional gamers https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/07/09/he-quit-his-state-department-job-to-play-video-games-now-hes-a-star-in-the-nbas-2k-league/?utm_term=.e1abcdcd0e1b
Good D there, he calls out. Got to get a stop. All right, good board. Yo, everybody stay home on your shots. And so on.
Even as the score tightens and the players look winded, he never breaks a sweat. Austin Boo Painter plays basketball five days a week alongside his teammates, all lined up against one wall, all facing oversized screens and holding video-game controllers. Painter is the leading scorer for Wizards District Gaming, which is in the midst of its inaugural NBA 2K season, a fledgling league thats backed by the NBA.
The upstart is trying to capitalize on the esports explosion big-name investors are lining up to get involved in various teams and leagues, and even the International Olympic Committee has taken an interest and in the process the new NBA 2K League has helped carve out unlikely career paths for sports gamers, perhaps few as improbable as Painters.
Overwatch League Grand Finals brought 11,000 mostly booming fans to Brooklyn
This is amazing 11,000 paid attendees watching at video game match https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sports/wp/2018/07/27/overwatch-league-grand-finals-brought-11000-mostly-booming-fans-to-brooklyn/?utm_term=.104295ccb4d4
The crowd, announced as 11,000, might not have reached the desired number but their volume helped bridge the discrepancy. Spray-painted sidewalks alerted the unknowing that the Big Apple was at esports epicenter. Fans from Staten Island and California and Canada and South Korea flocked to Barclays. Jerseys in dark blue and light blue and orange and green dotted the streets and subway cars. For a 7 p.m. start, fans lined up at the door at about 2:30.
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