Translate

Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social justice. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Get Tickets to SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting Next Wed Mar 11, 2015

    We just got 4 Tickets to the SF Project Homeless Connect 'SF HOMELESS TOWN HALL MEETING' set for March 11, 2015 6pm - 9pm Event...  We want ALL OF YOU to write some notes about what you want and need OUR CITY TO DO FOR YOU to enable you and empower you -- where you are -- as you are.

     If you want to improve conditions where you are or wish to move into a home here or there or anywhere...

    YOU must share with everyone WHERE you wish to live and WHAT YOU NEED FROM OUR CITY TO DO WHAT YOU WISH THEM TO DO -- TO HELP REDUCE HARM AND IMPROVE YOUR LIFE SAFELY.

    EMAIL YOUR WISHES FOR YOUR HOUSING NEEDS AND HUMAN SERVICE HELP, - TODAY -  TO:    SFAWARENESS@ZOHO.COM

Example:  We hate policies that DIVIDE couples and families WHO ARE SAFER TOGETHER - Yet, by policy, they are SPLIT APART and become easy prey for the hordes of abusers we have WORKING in our agencies, non-profits, shelters and programs who have been there FOR DECADES.

Tell EVERYONE that DIVIDING SAFE COUPLES IS WRONG!

  We'll make summaries of Your Wishes to present to all at next week's SF Homeless Town Hall Meeting... BE THERE !

  ** THIS IS ABOUT YOU PEOPLE TELLING OUR CITY WHAT YOU WANT AND NEED **  IF SOME OF THEIR NOT-FROM-HERE IDEAS WORK FOR US, GREAT.  IF NOT, THEN THEY WILL KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND WE CAN HELP CRAFT OUR OWN SOLUTIONS -- FOR OUR SELVES AND OUR SF COMMUNITY.   **

   See The Story posted here for details:

  https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2015/02/attn-all-sfhomeless-peers-be-ready-for.html

   To get your tickets go here:   http://www.projecthomelessconnect.org/events/endhomelessness-town-hall/

Friday, February 27, 2015

ATTN: ALL SF HOMELESS, PEERS: SF Town Hall Meet-Be Ready With OUR IDEAS, NOT THEIRS!

    Okay, these folks are using flowery words like SF FAMILY and what not, but remember, the man who is organizing this may mean well, but he has not lived among us for many years and decades, as the rest of us have, here in San Francisco.

    He (Gopman) also has admitted recent, prior bias, if not hatred or anger towards our homeless, but now claims 'he's seen the light'.   

     And he may have, and he's spent some time inside homeless world, as observer, but don't mistake that for the decades of in depth experience that thousands of you residents have in our city, deep in homeless, shelter, human services and city, state and county programs and agencies, that these folks coming to us with THEIR WAYS AND IDEAS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS do not have.

    BRING WHAT YOU WANT AND KNOW TO THE TABLE TO MAKE SURE WE GET WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW WE WANT AND NEED, AT COST, NOT TO ENABLE MEGA PROFITS TO RUN PROGRAMS THEY LIKE DOWN OUR THROATS, AS THEY'VE DONE FOR DECADES NOW.   

       BE AWARE AND DOUBLE CHECK EVERY FACT AND PERSONA AND CORPORATE OR NON-PROFIT BACKER, SPONSOR OR PROGRAM THEY APPROACH US WITH BEFORE WE AGREE TO ANYTHING!

   And he's already linked up to not-from-here ideas and organizations, so, this looks like they wish to present their plans for all of us... but, we need to make sure WE, THE PEOPLE, are the ones who present them, with what we want, where we are, as we are... we must inform them of OUR NEEDS from our point of view where we are at now....     

   They may try to get us all to go move into some complexes they're doing with government - private partnerships FOR PROFITS which means costs for what they 'provide' for us, will always increase, being controlled by bankster faux market values.

   The National Coalition on Homelessness says the majority of all human service programs FAIL because they are not created, designed, managed and operated by local clients, themselves.

   Every time out of towners or newbies come with big programs to solve problems that locals did not create, they fail.   Meaning, they make megabucks for organizers, managers, investors and tax agents... but over time, they fail and collapse on the clients, then there's another crisis and more new top down, not-from-here programs are introduced as 'the next homeless solution'.

      Okay, our teams are meeting with peers and local groups to make sure THE PROGRAMS are to be not for profit and are at lowest cost possible and must be owned, operated and managed by OUR LOCAL PEOPLE and must enable us all to be where we are and stay where we are and not be transported in and out of targeted zones for development or condos, et cetera.   

    Remember, the Elite in our city have hijacked every good program, process, campaign and 'town hall' meetings we've had over decades, to ensure their needs and profit motives are met, ahead of our critical human needs.  

         We saw that with the 'train' to reform the shelters, after we, the people, with Eric Bayer started the SF Power Group (which got our most hardcore folks off the streets and fully housed and employed or enrolled in school in 11 to 20 weeks, with natural foods, self direction and at one tenth of the cost of any other program to date with a 75% success rate).

     And again with the SF Shelter Standards of Care Workshops and Laws that we, the people created, that The Elite wanted to block with then Mayor Gavin Newsom's Veto, which didn't happen.  We passed that law that we wrote and both of the 'from-the-people up' campaigns became world class models.  

  So, we're dealing with CORPORATE TYPES who have a certain nature, no matter how much they may be changing... BE AWARE.

 BE PREPARED FOR ADD ON PROGRAMS THAT COST US MORE AND COME FROM OUTSIDE THE MINDS OF OUR PEOPLE (i.g. Agenda 21, behavior modification, public safety programs from New York, Sweden, et al) that DON'T work here.

    Give us what we know we need and want, how we want it is how programs work best here... we're reasonable adults capable of explaining what we need... we don't need others telling us what we want or what they're going to do for us...

Onward, mark this event on your calendar and organize all your groups now!


You are invited to the following event:
Town Hall
Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Nourse Theater
275 Hayes Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

View Map

Share:
Twitter

To our #SFCares Family:

Are you ready to see real change in San Francisco?

Join us, Supervisor Mark Farrell, and our co-host Project Homeless Connect at the Town Hall to #EndHomelessness on March 11th. We'll be discussing big ideas that could transform homeless services in SF. Come ready to challenge the status quo and join our community of change-makers.

Questions or concerns? Reach out to us at homelesstownhall@gmail.com

See you there!

A Better SF (previously San Francisco Cares)

eventbrite
Eventbrite

URGENT ACTION! ON MARCH 2ND & 4TH-MAXIMUS PLAZA 16 COALITION PROTEST!

From our friends....
In this email:
  • TAKE URGENT ACTION (DEADLINE MARCH 2nd): Send comments to Planning Department
  • MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS: We need you there!
  • PLANNING MEETING for March 4th Event: This WED. 3/24 at 6PM
  • REPORT BACK from 2/19 Plaza 16 Coalition Community Meeting
 


::: PLEASE TAKE URGENT ACTION :: DEADLINE MON. MARCH 2nd :::

Please take a moment right now to email, fax, or mail the Director of Environmental Planning requesting increased scoping for the 1979 Mission Environmental Impact Report (EIR). We've made it easy! Just visit the website for submission instructions, sample letter, and sample text.
 


::: MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS :::
WE DEMAND AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOT MEAGER "COMMUNITY BENEFITS!"


Please join the PLAZA 16 COALITION, CALLE 24 LATINO CULTURAL DISTRICT, OUR MISSION NO EVICTION, and the LATINO DEMOCRATIC CLUB in this action to stop the monster luxury development at 16th and Mission.

MARCH 4th ON MAXIMUS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
MEET at 5:45 PM
LABORERS LOCAL 261 UNION HALL
3721 18TH STREET at SHOTWELL


RSVP ON FACEBOOK AND INVITE YOUR FRIENDS

On March 4th we will march into Maximus's public meeting. We will demand truly affordable housing for our community, instead of monster luxury towers and meager "community benefits."

MAXIMUS Real Estate Partners--the developers who have proposed the twin ten-story towers at 16th and Mission Street, better known as the MONSTER IN THE MISSION--have announced a public meeting on March 4th.

At this meeting Maximus will present a package of "community benefits" intended to mitigate the tremendous detrimental impact their development would have upon the Mission District. But, of course, no meager community benefits package will make up for the drastically increased residential and commercial rents, and the widespread displacement this project will cause in our community. 

On March 4th, we will have an opportunity to face representatives of Maximus directly and tell them that the only community benefit we need is affordable housing, and that we refuse to let them build their luxury towers in our community.

Contact Andy@Plaza16.org for more info.


 


::: HELP US PLAN AND PREPARE FOR THE CRUCIAL MARCH 4th EVENT :::

Planning Meeting for March 4th on Maximus
WED. FEB 25 at 6PM
PODER: 474 Valencia Street near 16th
Suite #125

Contact Andy@Plaza16.org for more info.

 


::: REPORT BACK FROM 2/19 PLAZA 16 COMMUNITY MEETING :::

On Thursday, February 19, the Plaza 16 Coalition held its first community meeting for 2015 and it was a rousing success. Community folks once again packed St. John’s Church at 15th and Julian Street to get the latest updates on Maximus Real Estate Partners' proposed development for 1979 Mission St. (at 16th), learn about the City’s approval process for such developments, and to initiate a community-led process for developing a community-serving vision for development for Plaza 16.  Read the full report on our website.





More info on the website: Plaza16.org.
Join and endorse the Plaza 16 Coalition.
Follow us on TwitterFacebook and Instagram.
   

Friday, January 16, 2015

Volunteers Needed To Research Damages For Taxpayers and Cannabis Prisoners Since 1934

ATTENTION:   ALL PEOPLE WORKING ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, ENDING PROHIBITION, NATURAL, HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS WORK FOR OUR PEOPLE:

      In Solidarity with folks here and from coast to coast, the SFAwareness Group and peers have started a San Francisco People's Task Force on Fraud, which includes an urgent project involving:

  1.  STOP MORE FRAUDS BY BAD STATE LAWS THAT CREATE MONOPOLIES - The exposure and blockade of all bad state laws that create Cannabis Monopolies and other laws - that can't show any imminent threat or harm from cannabis activities.

San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union (c) 2007
  2.  Total Number and Costs of Cannabis Prisoners and Prohibition - Drug War Victims - The documentation of the total number of people arrested and unjustly fined or imprisoned by cannabis prohibition & drug war fraud laws since 1934.   Total number of years spent by county, by state and national totals.
  
     Including how much each county, state or federal government values each year spent in jail under false pretenses (i.g. federal rate of compensation is $50,000 per year per person falsely incarcerated).   

       This is for the 1st Demand (Demand #1) for Reparations for 80+ Years of Prohibition and Drug War Fraud, sponsored by our state and federal governments and elite corporations.

      While they KNEW cannabis caused no threat or harm to people, only to big liquor, pharma, petro-chemicals, fossil fuel and criminal mafias.

50+ Million Americans Lost Homes & Families
       In fact, while they beat our people for cannabis, they were filing patents and testing it for helpful, beneficial and medical purposes.

       Complete multiple personality disorder in our national domestic policies.  Greedy Control Freakin frauds.  

  3.  DAMAGES TO TAXPAYERS SINCE 1934 - The documentation of all the Taxpayer Money spent, since 1934 to date, for all the costs associated with the funding ( vis a federal to state grants **See Footnote, costs to house cannabis prisoners ) of the drug laws that enrich the elite and the costs to build more prisons per capita for mostly 'non-violent drug related offenders' on an annual, per person basis. 

    This is for the Second Demand (Demand #2) on Behalf of U.S. Taxpayers who funded the entire prison building, home stealing and family destroying operations, along with corporate funds (think money laundering) as well.    

   This is the Demand for Reparations for Tax Payers, in addition to the Demand for Cannabis Prisoner Victims.

  4.  Financial Documentation and Timelines - The documentation and event modeling of all the profits and gains made by the police, legal, justice, liquor, fossil fuel, insurance, medical care, big pharma and prison building industries that can be tied directly to the excessive enforcement of all the prohibition and drug war laws and policies that caused so much devastation to over 50 Million U.S. Residents.

   People like you and me, who posed no threat and caused no harm to any other human, yet, had their lives and families ripped apart and were beaten down and falsely imprisoned by all these elite cartels of government officials, corporate CEO's, Chase banksters, local planning departments, sheriffs deputies and police ALL WORKING FOR THE CORPORATE FORCES, against all of us.

  5.   Data Analysis - To connect all the dots of fact and historical evidence from public, private and government sources to show who, is here with us today, trying to create monopolies and continue these frauds by writing bad state laws who are from the same families and corporations that have been beating us down and killing us for cannabis, for the past 100 years.

    We need to create visuals for everyone to clearly see, who from our past is here today, trying to control our cannabis and all other natural things that we need, for our selves, that they wish to take away from us, by writing more laws...

That's all we have time to post for, right now.

    Have a great weekend and NEVER FORGET about the men and women of our past that maintain honor to this day.

   We Honor our role models - Martin Luther King, Junior,  John F. Kennedy (who SMOKED CANNABIS FOR BACK PAIN & WE APPROVE as we have for 10,000 years of safe use without government interference or fraud), Bobbie Kennedy and many others who believe in freedom, justice, open government and prosperity & human rights, for all people, not for the corporations and governments who are here, to serve, us - The People.

   Cheers!

   s/J. Leonard
Co-Founder San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union

SFCANNABISUNION@ZOHO.COM

San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union:  https://www.seen.is/group/4423

SFAwareness Group (c) 2007-2015

** Footnote:    **  Federal-State Drug Grants - to enable the taking of real estate by means of false red tags by planning departments;  demonization of residents who are addicted to drugs by local business groups;  felonization of edlers, disabled and drug addicts and seizure of real estate presold to waiting bankers and developers all working together.

     Basically, the feds give $35,000 to a local county, like Santa Cruz, in a Grant that has the county PROMISE to deliver 100 Bodies for Federal Prosecution;  20 Bodies for ongoing local prosecution; $500,000 in Seized Assets (i.e. your home and land and bank accounts - after intentional devaluation of your property and others by 'demonization' community targeting...). 

   We have copies of the real Federal State Grant & court case documents showing how  conspiring Santa Cruz County Officials, Sheriffs Deputies, Felton Business Association, Liberty Bank Manager, Real Estate Speculators and County Planners -- were all overheard plotting and planning how to steal land by fraud & burying people in paperwork, fake red tags on property or septic systems...  all under color of authority. 

  I.E. Racketeering in Santa Cruz - See Article We Posted On This Before Here:
  http://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2013/05/real-estate-racketeering-in-santa-cruz.html


Wednesday, January 7, 2015

SF Cannabis Patients' Union Seeks Cannabis Prohibition Fraud Reparations- Unjust Prosecution over 80+ Years

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  San Francisco, California USA - Sat Dec 27, 2014 -

SF Cannabis Patients' Union Seeks Cannabis Prohibition Fraud Damages- For 80+ Years of Unjust Prosecution & Asset Seizures 

https://www.seen.is/group/4423
    Our San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union and our peers from (coast to coast and beyond) Now Stand United on ending all cannabis prohibition & drug war & faux state law frauds, now. 

   These are the elite 'new state laws' that burden our people, increase our costs that enrich the elite and enable monopolies and further exploitation of the Safe, Beneficial Plants of Cannabis & Hemp that Nature gave to us all, for free.

    It causes no great harm or risk to anyone, but a legion of elite families built up great, harmful, deadly liquor, big pharma, militarized police forces, prison building & privatization Empires based on a Great Pack of Lies told to us about cannabis, that was paid for by our tax dollars. 

   All corrupted folks involved in enforcement, arrest, imprisonment, mass media information and public policy over the past 80+ Years of Prohibition & Drug War Frauds ARE GUILTY of Treason, Crimes Against Humanity and Violation of all of our Natural, Human, Civil & Constitutional Rights.

    When it comes to harm, we've suffered only because of the unjust outlawing of cannabis, in the first place.

    We seek freedom for all cannabis related, non-violent prisoners, moratoriums on all  'drug grants' that seize homes related to cannabis activities that pose No Great Threat and reparations in the hundreds of billions of dollars for all of their crimes, home, land & family wealth takings and unjust & cruel imprisonment for harmless, cannabis related 'crimes'.  


    LET'S NOT CREATE MORE BAD STATE LAW & WASTING TIME

https://www.seen.is/group/4423
   We also wish to see us not spend the next five years and hundreds of thousands of hours Writing Cannabis Law, from state to state, which are bound to be schemes for monopolies that local communities can't defend against or stop from jacking up the burdens, regulations and costs and taxes for all cannabis activities, until they've destroyed all of our private, personal, family and community oriented groups, collectives and cannabis projects. 


    END ALL PROHIBITIONS & TAKE BACK ALL POWERS & BENEFITS TO YOURSELF, FAMILY & LOCAL COMMUNITIES
    By ending cannabis & hemp prohibition now, obtaining compensation for 80+ years of government+corporate fraud we can fund our local communities and give ourselves and our local communities all the powers, benefits and activities to ourselves, without more state laws for the elite.


    COLORADO & OTHER STATE LAWS MAY HAVE BEEN TESTS FOR CALIFORNIA'S PENDING MONOPOLY LAW: AB26    

    We are currently studying California State Assembly Bill AB26 and anticipate we'll be going to Sacramento several times (as we did months ago) to roadblock the marijuana monopoly bill they're trying to ram through, which actually gave dozens of our leaders time to think about the Big Picture of Cannabis.

    We ignored today's channeled buzz on cannabis. 

   Instead, we studied deeper to see all in context of history, current movements; law frauds, the future and our rights and losses over generations. 

    We considered how many of your familes were torn apart by Police Actions in which your people caused no harm, yet were demonized, beaten down, ticketed, arrested.

   And your family & home were taken from you, because of a fraudulent law to do with a harmless plant, created by nature that grows everywhere on its own.


    THE ELITE WRITING TODAY'S STATE LAWS PUT YOU IN JAIL & STOLE YOUR  HOMES OVER THE PAST 80+ YEARS

Government Records
    Seeing how over 50 Million Homes and Families were destroyed, not by cannabis, but only by its corrupted illegality made us think long and hard about what we want and what is right and just for us all.   The Elite made massive fortunes and took over 90% of all of our family homes, wealth and lives -- by their frauds of Prohibition & Drug Wars.


    This all inspired us - to re-think and redraw the best, most efficient and just path to enabling all people to enjoy & heal with cannabis as fast and inexpensively, as possible... which is to get reparations and stop wasting time on more state laws... just destroy the federal law that is fraud and be free).
https://www.seen.is/group/4423

   So, if you wish to join us SF Cannabis Patients' Union on Seen.is Social Network in research, exposing today's fraud in cannabis laws to yesterday's elite families that stole your homes and put you in prison for cannabis over the past several generations, we welcome you all !


    Cheers!
    James Leonard
    Co-Founder SF Cannabis Patients' Union
    c/o SFAwareness@Unseen.is 
    New Social Network Home:  https://www.seen.is/group/4423


Friday, January 2, 2015

San Francisco Sheriffs Department Newsletter Posted Here as Public Service

Yep.   For 2015, we're dedicated to enhancing the awareness of us all in many new and strange ways. 

  It's about building up community and turning our angst 'away from each other' and focus it towards the origins of our woes, harms, losses and conflicts.

   We see ordinary people being denied basic human rights, and rights as natural born and emigrated residents of these united States.  TRUST in government is down to about one in five people.   The other four out of five do not trust government and want them all to be replaced, mostly with non-lawyer citizens who do not lie, cheat, steal or abuse alcohol, narcotics, big pharma drugs or their own childen, families and staff.

  Cannabis & Drug War Frauds, forced participation into drinking liquor to excess (starting with candy liquor bottles as the gateway for bad habit building from age 4 into teens & adulthood),  big pharma addiction that is very, very, expensive (7 out of 10 folks in these united States are hooked onto megaprofit big pharma pipelines..) causing great losses, divisions and conflict for over 50 Million residents over 80+ years.

   Which in turn, caused major suffering, desperation, conflict, violence, false imprisonment and premature death, based on a pack of lies, funded by tax dollars and banksters.   All it mapped out by abusing trust, power and law to create mega empires that push illegal drugs, make safe plants like cannabis illegal, then create mega forced to buy into medical, insurance and health care systems that are corrupt.

  We see people, ordinary people angry over the ways the elite are trying to turn us against each other in our own communities.   We see now, after all we've been through for this past decade in particular, that we have individuals inside every elite family, agency, police department, military group, corporation and institution around the world, who are sick and tired of watching the most extreme of us, who abuse drugs, liquor, power, trust and their own families.  

   We see people attacking and taking over police stations.   We see Elite Media trying to twist the Bad Acts of police into Race Issues, which the wise among us, reject. 

   This is all about making us divided by anything they can, but we know, there is only One Race, the Human Race and we all stand for our natural and human rights, for All of Us.  This is folks pushed to be out of control, causing harm to the masses.

    We see cops and military personnel starting to expose the worst in their own ranks and we can see people supporting every person who 'comes clean' because unlike the greedy tyrants in power now,  we forgive much of what folks do, who do not keep trying to lie and cover up their bad acts.    

   We wish to further the exchange of information between our people and our Elected Law Enforcement Agencies and vice versa for the purpose of informing all and perhaps sparking dialogue about how we, as a local community, can band together and clean out every office in our cities from all the corruption that harms us all.

  We have lots of exciting projects in the works for crowdfunding, so stay tuned!

  James, Dave, Peter

Ross Mirkarimi
People's Elected Sheriff of San Francisco


  CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE DECEMBER 2014 SF SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER or Cut and Paste This:    http://sfawareness.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html


Wednesday, November 5, 2014

49 Alternatives To Facebook- Unseen.is & Seen.is are Secure Social Sites in Iceland. WE LOVE THEM BOTH! #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

Day After Election Day - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - #Leavingfacebook #byebyefb

   A BIG Congratulations to everyone helping us to find New Alternative Social Network and Group Web Sites that are not commercialized and intrusive (i.g. facebook, google+, others).

https://www.lifeknot.comWe're finding LOTS OF ALTERNATIVES where we can feel safe, be more productive and focussed on what really matters to us;  and not be burdened or distracted by all the charming stuff the for profit & control concerns online want us to be, for their benefit, not ours.

We started with a list of 49 Alternatives to Facebook and established our first "primary' anchor site on LifeKnot.com - as our first stop to freedom & privacy our way.

 Then as time passed, we came across the most awesome, ad free, secure site called Unseen.is - located in Iceland. 

https://Unseen.is    Unseen.is is made for people and groups who wish to connect in a non-intrusive, non-commercial environment with secure email and voice, text, video chat and file
sharing and group building. 


  Unseen has apps, and currently requires most browsers
to be near up to date, and there are some Tor issues (may
have to do with common use of Firefox 27.0+ versions) but it works well, once you have it together.

And take heart, our techs have been working with their techs to hammer out making sure 'technology' on the cutting edge, does not cause us all to drop off or stop using Unseen.


   So, the future looks bright if they listen to us, otherwise we'll go find other secure spots that don't change every 90 days.... like the ones we're all trying to escape from, in the first place. 

https://unseen.is

           Many of us are tired of having to update every browser, every operating
           system, patches, fixes and new hardware to keep up with basic social 
           network and file sharing sites in non-commercialized, ad free environments.

          Environments that we control, not vice versa.

So we can spend more time using existing technology than we do making burdensome changes and learning or down time that stops our flows and ability to stay connected, on a realiable, consistent basis.   

We and our peers are there on Unseen.is (and many folks on the same paths as we are from around the globe and San Francisco already), in addition to LifeKnot.com


UNSEEN.IS's MORE PUBLIC TWIN SISTER SITE:   SEEN.IS

Seen.is is Unseen's Sister site that is made for more private, but outwardly public presence and social networking online, with ability to set up groups, forums, chat areas and even Classified ads in a no-ads or personal data collecting environment.



      Both are ideal for anyone who wants to be free of burdens, privacy intrusions and
data collection activities on for profit web sites that even have government defense
contracts and resell data to foreign security forces and intelligence and job screening concerns around the world.