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Dec 31, 2008
Infinite Complacency / John Peeler's Story
Dec 31, 2008
Infinite Complacency / The RPF: "Scientology's Gulag"
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / A history of violence
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / Accusing Miscavige
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / Jeff Hawkins' Story
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / Life at the Base
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / The case against Miscavige
Dec 27, 2008
Mayor evicts Second Chance: Center violated its lease, city says — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dan McKay ,
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Mayor Martin Chavez on Friday sent a notice to the Second Chance rehabilitation program, ordering it out of the old West Side jail by Jan. 31.
The city contends that Second Chance violated its lease agreement by housing violent offenders and making unauthorized changes to the building.
C h ave z said he was particularly c onc er ne d that Second Ch a nc e, i n h is v iew, had recently moved some of its residents to "avoid ...
Dec 27, 2008
Rehab center loses contract, lease — KRQE
Type: TV
Source:
KRQE SOCCORO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) - It's been a bad week for the controversial Second Chance drug and alcohol treatment center.
On Friday, the City of Albuquerque terminated the center's lease, and a day later Socorro County is cutting ties.
The El Defensor Chieftain newspaper reports that the Socorro County Commission voted this week to void their contract with Second Chance because of problems that recently surfaced at the facility.
Two Socorro County inmates were housed there when commissioners voted Tuesday.
Friday, ...
Dec 26, 2008
City pulls plug on Second Chance — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dave Bohman Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A controversial drug-rehab center organized on elements of Scientology is being evicted for housing inmates convicted of violent crimes, Albuquerque's mayor said Friday.
The eviction notice gives Second Chance until the end of the next month to wind down the operation housed in a former city jail on Albuquerque's northwest mesa. So far there has been no response from Second Chance.
For the 46 inmates now housed at Second Chance it appears that in a matter of weeks ...
Dec 26, 2008
Is horrible 'Valkyrie' Tom Cruise's Nazi apologia? — FOX News
Dec 26, 2008
Officials say lease is probably up for Second Chance Center — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal The controversial Second Chance Center is probably not going to get another chance, officials said Thursday.
The violent criminals from around the state who are being housed at the secure residential drug treatment facility may cost Second Chance its lease on the old West Side jail building, Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli said Thursday.
Housing inmates with convictions for violent offenses is in direct violation of Second Chance's mandate, Dinelli said.
"We made it very clear to (Second Chance) ...
Dec 25, 2008
Obituary: Traci Williams; Actress With Outreach Troupe — Washington Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Holley Source:
Washington Post Thursday, December 25, 2008; Page B06
Traci L. Williams, 45, an actress and arts educator with Living Stage Theatre Company from 1985 to 1995 and more recently an administrator with the Church of Scientology, died Dec. 14 of cancer at the Washington Home hospice. She lived in the District.
Living Stage was the community outreach branch of Arena Stage and was led by Robert Alexander.
Ms. Williams, whose stage name was Halima, was a performing artist, writer and educator with the ...
Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance inmates moved: 8 are driven away in van; 40 people taken to shelter — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal Dec 25, 2008 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –
Eight inmates were loaded onto a van at the embattled Second Chance Center drug rehabilitation program early Wednesday and driven west from the secure center and across the Bernalillo County line, officials said.
Another 40 people were loaded onto a bus outside the center and dropped off at an Albuquerque homeless shelter, city officials said.
Authorities are still trying to sort out how many of the 48 people were ...
Dec 25, 2008
Second Chance responds to allegations — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dave Bohman Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Director of the Second Chance rehabilitation center is firing back after a News 13 report on Wednesday.
Director Joy Westrum is angry after Albuquerque police claimed the facility snuck out 40 inmates ahead of a deadline to report them.
The city made a mistake. Those 40 people bussed downtown on Wednesday were from the Albuquerque Rescue Mission which shares a building with Second Chance.
However Albuquerque Public Safety Director Pete Dinelli said he's confirmed eight other people ...
Dec 24, 2008
Keith Henson Appeal: Time to Undo an Injustice — Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Dec 24, 2008
Nighttime shuttles clear rehab center / Second Chance blew last chance? — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Dave Bohman Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Under cover of darkness Wednesday the troubled Second Chance rehab center mysteriously shuttled nearly 50 patients or inmates away from its facility just ahead of a deadline to explain who it's been housing.
Albuquerque police who put the West Mesa facility under surveillance said they witnessed the bizarre twist in the Second Chance saga early Wednesday. Later in the day the rehab program was under a 5 p.m. deadline to document all its inmates and clients to the ...
Dec 22, 2008
Scientology refuseniks sue over compulsory workplace courses / Diskeeper fights religious discrimination suit — The Register (UK)
Dec 21, 2008
Face-Slashing State Senator-To-Be Also Big-Time Scientologist! — Gawker
Type: Commentary
Source:
Gawker
Dec 20, 2008
Center may be out of options: Second Chance must make accounting to city or face closure — Albuquerque JournalMore: forums.whyweprotest.net
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Proctor Source:
Albuquerque Journal The Second Chance Center has until Christmas Eve to satisfy the city or face eviction.
If the secure rehabilitation facility for drug offenders currently leasing the old West Side jail building from the city doesn't give a detailed accounting of its inmates, what charges landed them at Second Chance, what treatment they are receiving and information about the center's insurance and property taxes, it will most likely be shut down, city officials said.
Albuquerque Chief Public Safety Officer Pete Dinelli sent ...
Dec 20, 2008
Former CIO sues Diskeeper claims he was fired for not participating in Scientology training — realitybasedcommunity.net
Dec 20, 2008
Official backs off Second Chance inmates / Mayor still wants investigation — KRQE
Type: TV
Author(s):
Michael Herzenberg Source:
KRQE ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A Sierra County official engaged in major backtracking Friday after her statements the day before threatened to cause big trouble for an Albuquerque drug-treatment program called Second Chance.
County Manager Janet Porter-Carrejo told News 13 that she was sending overflow inmates from her jail to the Second Chance rehab center without getting permission from a judge.
However on Friday she said she now believes that judges did OK those inmates. She also said a clerical mistake at her ...
Dec 18, 2008
NM rehab center housing overflow inmates — Albuquerque Journal
Type: Press
Source:
Albuquerque Journal ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A controversial Albuquerque rehabilitation center is struggling with finances, and the secure facility for drug and alcohol offenders could be in violation of the law that allowed it to open by housing overf low prisoners from a county jail .
The Second Chance Center uses massage, natural diet, saunas, and some training manuals based on criminal justice research done by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to detoxify and rehabilitate drug offenders.
But the program is facing ...
Dec 18, 2008
Scientology - former NZ scientologists speaks out — Radio New Zealand National
Type: Radio
Author(s):
Kathryn Ryan Source:
Radio New Zealand National Lance Hoskins joined the church in the 1970's, and then worked for the Sea Org - the church's management body in the US. (duration: 44?58?)
Dec 17, 2008
Will Smith Gives $1.3 Million to Charities — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Just-released tax returns for movie star Will Smith’s charitable foundation show he and wife, Jada, gave $1.3 million in donations last year to a variety of religious, civic and arts groups.
Smith’s biggest single contribution was, as usual, Yesha Ministries of Philadelphia. He gave the born-again Christian based organization run by Reverend James Robinson a whopping $250,000. That’s a hefty raise from the $140,000 he gave them the previous year. Another $200,000 went to a Christian ministry outside Los Angeles called ...
Dec 16, 2008
After long delay, Scientology church opens in Carytown — Style Weekly (Richmond, Virginia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chris Dovi Source:
Style Weekly (Richmond, Virginia) Delayed for more than a year, the grand opening of the Church of Scientology Mission of Richmond Dec. 14 looked a lot like any old ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Big red bow stretched across the doorway at Cary and Nansemond streets? Check.
Founder of the church mission indulging his teenage son’s rock-star dreams with a rented public address system and a captive crowd? Check.
Plates of holiday cookies and punch? Check.
Slightly off-putting future man in black suit, black shirt and bright red ...
Dec 16, 2008
We are Legion: Anonymous and the war on Scientology
Dec 15, 2008
Religious school fees not deductible, Ninth Circuit rules — Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kenneth Ofgang Source:
Metropolitan News-Enterprise (Los Angeles, California) Tuition and fees for religious day schools are not deductible for federal income tax purposes, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
The court, for the second time, rejected claims by local residents Michael and Marla Sklar that they received only intangible religious benefits as result of their five children’s attendance in Orthodox Jewish schools, so their school payments should be deductible, at least in part, as charitable donations.
The Sklars have been seeking to deduct their payments, going ...
Dec 15, 2008
The Scoop: Group bungles protest at ‘Valkyrie’ premiere — MSNBC
Dec 14, 2008
Clearwater business owner focused on growth amid gloom — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeff Harrington Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Joy Gendusa spins through the converted NAPA Auto Parts warehouse; Lulu, her white Maltese, scampers at her feet in a valiant effort to keep pace. Over the din of ringing phones, she dishes updates about dozens of employees, many of them related. "And that's her stepmother over there," she gestures. "The girl next to her, her mother works here too." PostcardMania, a direct-mail company that prints and ships postcard advertisements on behalf of businesses nationwide, is 10 years old with 160 ...
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