Maintains
a private practice in the Philadelphia region focusing on criminal defense and
civil rights. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal court
and has represented thousands of clients facing charges ranging from major
felonies, complex drug conspiracies, racketeering offenses, white collar crimes
to capital murder.
Civil
Rights: He represents people with claims ranging from police misconduct,
(including wrongful death) as well as prisoner rights, sexual harassment and
racial discrimination claims. He is also a tracher at Arcadia University. And
he's president of the Board of the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
Paul had some bandwidth problems that kept crashing the video, so we had to break the interview into two parts. The audio has been edited to be one soundtrack. The two videos are below.
Prep and interview notes
Police
corruption, war on crime, drugs terror
Police
have sought expansive power
Getting
rid of mandatory minimums
Challenge
to credibility of police officers
Plea
bargains
Undermined
rights
"Always
the struggle between reform and revolution."
We
have an assemy line of injustice in this country.
Worked
on defending protesters with Philly DA Larry Krasner
Police
corruption: perjury, violence.
At
the heart of the matter is police perjury
We
are not taught democracy . We are taught autocracy.
We
need to reinvigorate what is fundamentally democratic
How
does authoritarianism translate into the criminal justice system
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet (more...)
