Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

Will The House’s Gutted USA Freedom Act Really Stop The NSA?

« While it represents a slight improvement from the status quo, it isn’t the reform bill that Americans deserve,” says a staff attorney with the ACLU.

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Par Frederick Reese

In a Thursday op-ed for Hays Post, Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp explained his reasoning for not voting for the USA Freedom Act, which cleared the House earlier in the day in a 303-121 vote. “[The] bill presented on the House floor today does not address many of privacy and constitutional concerns expressed by Kansans over the warrantless bulk

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Judge Orders Release Of Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos

For Guantanamo detainees, their last bargaining chip is the U.S. government’s determination to keep them alive. But their hunger strikes come at a cruel, painful cost: force-feeding.

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Par Frederick Reese
Guantanamo

Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) demonstrates Guantanamo force-feeding   CORRECTION: Since the original drafting of this article, new details have emerged concerning this case. As reported Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has lifted the temporary restraining order which blocked federal officials from force-feeding Mohammed Abu Wa’el

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Details On Destroyed Evidence On 2002 IMF Protest Arrests Emerge

Twelve years later, the legality of the arrests of World Bank and IMF protesters in Washington, D.C., are still being debated.

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Par Frederick Reese
Emmet G. Sullivan

On Sept. 27, 2002, approximately 650 activists and protesters were arrested in Washington, D.C., during a crackdown on protests of the start of the annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. The legality of these arrests is still being debated, as evidence has emerged suggesting that not only did the D.C. Metropolitan Police

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Droves Of American Poor Incarcerated For Not Paying Court Fees

An NPR study shows that many are being incarcerated for not paying exuberant court fees, some are even being billed for their own public defenders.

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Par Frederick Reese

Stephen Papa of Grand Rapids, Mich., is an Iraq War veteran. While homeless and unable to find a job after being discharged, Papa was charged with destruction of property and resisting arrest. Assessed with $2,600 in court and legal fees, Papa’s presiding judge placed the veteran on a $50 per month payment plan. However, as Papa only brought $25

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America’s Hand In The Proliferation Of Africa’s Terror Problem

The U.S. is sending help now, but could military aid cuts to Nigeria have played a role in Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls?

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Par Frederick Reese
Barack Obama, Goodluck Jonathan

The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria over a month ago served as the world’s introduction to Boko Haram, a terrorist network in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger seeking to establish a Salafist-ruled state in the West Africa region. With an increasing number of Western states now committing to providing assistance to African nations fighting the

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Department Of Justice Targeting ‘Immoral’ Businesses

Banks are closing the accounts of porn stars and others involved in “high risk” professions, raising questions on the government’s role in forcing the policing of bank accounts.

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Par Frederick Reese
DOJ

Teagan Presley is not your everyday community bank customer. The former porn actress with 175 adult film credits on her resume and current strip club dancer was a faithful customer with JPMorgan Chase with no history of bounced checks or negative balances. A faithful customer, that is, until the bank closed her account in April. When she went to

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America’s Legal Child Laborers Toil In Tobacco Fields

They’re too young to buy cigarettes in most states, but young workers on tobacco farms are still feeling the negative effects of nicotine.

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Par Frederick Reese
A 16-year-old worker harvests tobacco on a farm in Kentucky. Marcus Beasdale | Human Rights Watch

In most of the United States, it is illegal for those under the age of 18 to purchase tobacco or tobacco products. With the primary chemical in tobacco -- nicotine -- carrying a higher rate of addiction than alcohol, the push to slow the flow of new tobacco addicts has grown to be a matter of urgent national attention. However, children as young as

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