Freedom Friday &Jury Nullification &Lunch Break for Liberty FIJA | 25 Jun 2010
This week’s Freedom Friday video features Maine Freedom Watchdogs making the case that jury nullification was intended by the United States’ founders as the people’s final check on the other branches of government. We invite you to take a moment during your lunch break today to distribute the link to this blog post to your [...]
Contests &Freedom Friday &Jury Rights Day &Lunch Break for Liberty FIJA | 24 Jun 2010
The Fully Informed Jury Association invites you to participate in its first jury rights video contest in conjunction with Jury Rights Day 2010. The theme of the contest is “Justice Through Jurors”. Juries are a rational mechanism for justice. Jurors are independent judges of the facts and the law because they have no legal career [...]
Freedom Friday FIJA | 18 Jun 2010
This week’s Freedom Friday video features a brief introduction to jury nullification by Brian Murphy of Maui County Citizens for Democracy in Action. This is a good video to pass along to those who haven’t yet been introduced to the concept of jury nullification: We invite you to take a moment during your lunch break [...]
Freedom Friday &Lunch Break for Liberty FIJA | 11 Jun 2010
This week’s Freedom Friday video illustrates the people’s intended role from the founding of the United States to be the masters of government and the juror’s role in “The People’s Branch” of government: We invite you to take a moment during your lunch break today to distribute the video to your friends and family via [...]
Media Catalog FIJA | 04 Jun 2010
If you are one of the many who has tried to order The Lysander Spooner Reader in recent months only to find that we were out of stock and that the reader was out of print, we have good news for you! We are pleased to announce that it is back in print, and we [...]
Freedom Friday FIJA | 04 Jun 2010
On this, the 21st anniversary of the massacre of peaceful, freedom-seeking people by the Chinese government Tiananmen Square, our Freedom Friday video features the man known as the Unknown Rebel- a Chinese citizen who stood alone in front of a line of tanks saying No the the Chinese army and government. The video is set [...]
FIJA in the News &FIJActivist FIJA | 03 Jun 2010
George Donnelly may be wondering what country he is in right now. Recently, he and other activists trying to hand out pamphlets published by the Fully Informed Jury Association were confronted by U.S. marshals in Manhattan. Attempting to record the encounter, Donnelly found himself being pushed to the pavement by the marshals. Then arrested. He [...]
Freedom Law FIJA | 03 Jun 2010
Several years ago, an active Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) supporter and advocate, R. J. Tavel–an attorney from Indiana and long-time friend of FIJA and its directors–started a complimentary web site named Freedom Law. On this site, R. J. built an encyclopedic compendium of law-related articles, links, references, and commentary. Freedom Law became a resource [...]
Function of Juries &Jury Nullification FIJA | 02 Jun 2010
To the Editor Please publish in full and with attribution. Helena, Montana The Human Right to Conscience Iloilo Jones, Executive Director, Fully Informed Jury Association Recently, making recommendations on certain ballot measures, Montana Human Rights network (MHRN) sent this message: “Sponsored by Darby’s Frank Kucera, CI-104 would require that juries be told that they can [...]