Francisco Avecedo Jr. led an immigration rights march at his high school last May in West Hartford CT. In June, during the school’s annual pranks day, police were called, and he got arrested videoing the police arresting another student. Like it’s against the law to video something… The useless school officials join in the fun of shredding the Constitution too.

On Thursday, the judge acquitted Avecedo on all charges.

He has has a federal lawsuit pending from immigrants right march. Plus, his lawyer said “The town is going to end up paying a lot of money to Mr. Acevedo.” As well they should.

The Cool Justice Report has full details, as does the local paper of record, The Hartford Courant.

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Working on their own with no outside aid, farmers in Niger have made huge areas of land productive again by simple techniques. They stopped cutting down tree sprouts in the fields when preparing for harvests, sowing the crops between the trees. Now the trees hold the soil, have raised the water table, produce firewood, and the leaves are used in composting. In areas where the earth was rock-hard, women dug small pits and filled them with manure. When the rains came, they seeded the manure, producing crops.

Satellite images have shown 7.4 million new trees in the area with vast acreage saved from desertification, all done by farmers working on their own.

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Tree Nation wants to plant 8 million trees in Niger to help stop the desertification. They are affliated with the UN, and have a neat interactive map showing the trees, linking them to blog entries. Check it out.

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