10-06-21 Abusive Justice System in Texas //Sistema de Justicia abusivas en Texas // Missbräuchliche Justiz in Texas

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Citizen activists gather in West Texas to kick off the Green Zone Campaign.  Symbolic green balloons float through the air at Everman Park in 
downtown Abilene, Texas.
   “The balloons represent the loftiness of our intent to restore meaningful citizen 
oversight in America” says Zena Crenshaw-Logal.  She is Executive Director of 
POPULAR, Inc. (POPULAR), a national legal reform organization coordinating 
the GZC.
   “(T)he ability of average Americans to effectively petition their government is 
so diluted or compromised that what would otherwise be our constitutional and 
universal human rights are no more than privileges, doled out at government 
discretion.”  POPULAR recently joined a coalition of grassroots advocates 
making that report to the U.N. for its upcoming, Universal Periodic Review of 
America’s human rights record.
   Crenshaw-Logal joined a Capitol Hill delegation to deliver copies of the U.N. 
submission to staff for key members of Congress. 
“Even the overview of our U.N. 
submission firmly suggests the lack of 
meaningful citizen oversight in America” 
chided Crenshaw-Logal.  “Our 
submission evidences another reality 
inspiring my trips to Capitol Hill and 
West Texas.   My colleagues and I face 
an apparent but unspoken threat of 
government retaliation.”
  A GZC premise is that Americans need 
a figurative “Green Zone”, i.e. “a heavily 
fortified zone in which they can 
responsibly challenge government as well 
as corporate waste, fraud, and abuse 
with impunity.”