Mumia Abu-Jamal, one of the world’s best known political prisoners, is feared by the powers that be for his revolutionary journalism – he was minister of information for the Philadelphia Black Panther Party at the age of 15 and in more recent years his commentaries have been broadcast by NPR (National Public Radio) and the Pacifica radio network and published widely, including by the Bay View – and for his millions of supporters around the world.
April 26 – The United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has unanimously declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence is unconstitutional. In today’s decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr. Abu-Jamal’s sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering evidence supporting a life sentence.
The court found that, in violation of the United States Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Mills v. Maryland, the jury was improperly led to believe that that it could only consider unanimously agreed upon evidence favoring a life verdict. This mistake rendered Mr. Abu-Jamal’s death sentence fundamentally unfair. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and Professor Judy Ritter of Widener Law School represent Mr. Abu-Jamal in this appeal of his 1982 conviction and death sentence for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 death sentence is again declared unconstitutional | Happily Natural Day
Monday, April 25, 2011
Eni, Meeny, Miny, Birther....
Why can't Obama ever show his long-form birth certificate?
He spent millions of dollars trying to hide this!
No matter what [liberals/fact-checkers/Barack Obama] says, he still hasn't provided evidence to prove he's a natural born citizen!
He never showed his college transcripts from Occidental College. His grandma says he was born in Kenya. His legal name is Berry Soetoro. He's actually a Muslim who masquerades a Christian. Of course, he attended a Black Liberation Church with an anti-American racist pastor named Jeremiah Wright!
Expect this from a conservative reader or viewer.
The notorious Birther Movement is alive and well.
CBS/New York Times Poll states that nearly a quarter of Americans believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Among all Republicans, 45 percent believe he was born in another country, as do 45 percent of Tea Party supporters, the poll shows.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20056061-503544.html
Even with the amount of evidence to debunk the claims, conservatives refuse to believe that the President Of The United States is legitimate.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Incident at McDonald's Sparks Outrage of Hate Crime!
Brutal Beating Leaves Woman Convulsing
Drudge Report headline: 'Racial Beating'
The video has already gone viral, gaining thousands of views for the day.
White supremacist websites Niggermania and Chimpout, again!
The never ending conflict from these cowards with keyboards. Tom Shelly's racist shithole Niggermania is fuming up over the conservative agitator and gay activist Matt Drudge's link to a vicious beating at a McDonald's in Baltimore.
The attackers were teenagers, the victim was a transgendered.
The source of ire, Black teenagers, white woman.
A video of a vicious beating at a Baltimore County McDonald’s restaurant went viral Friday, garnering hundreds of thousands of views on websites and prompting the fast-food giant to issue a statement condemning the incident.
The video shows two women — one of them a 14-year-old girl — repeatedly kicking and punching the 22-year-old victim in the head, as an employee of the Rosedale restaurant and a patron try to intervene. Others can be heard laughing, and men are seen standing idly by.
Toward the end of the video, one of the suspects lands a punishing blow to the victim’s head, and she appears to have a seizure. A man’s voice tells the women to run because police are coming.
The three-minute clip was apparently first posted on YouTube, then taken down by administrators who said it violated the site’s policies. But it popped back up on other sites and was ultimately linked from the popular Drudge Report, which gave it top billing for much of the day.
Equality Maryland said the victim is a transgender woman and called on state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler to step in and investigate the case as a hate crime. Police and prosecutors said they did not know whether the victim is a transgender woman.
“It does appear that the victim was a transgender woman, and she was brutalized while people stood by and watched,” said Lisa Polyak, vice president of the board of directors for Equality Maryland, an advocacy organization that fought unsuccessfully in the past legislative session for greater protections for transgender individuals.
“There’s no excuse for that violence under any circumstances, but we would encourage police to investigate as a hate crime.”
The police report does not provide a motive, but quotes one of the suspects saying that the fight was “over using a bathroom.”
The Smoking Gun reports- The police report identifies the victim as 22-year-old Chrissy Lee Polis, who appears identical to Christopher Lee Polis, whose rap sheet includes convictions for disorderly conduct, property destruction, and prostitution, according to court records. Polis told police that she was walking to the restaurant’s bathroom when she “got into a verbal argument with two black females” who “began punching her in the face with their fists and pulling her hair.”
The video featured on the Drudge Report shows two black women beating a white woman at a McDonald’s restaurant in Baltimore County, Maryland.
Various persons look on as the assault occurs. The victim is on the floor as both women punch and stomp her.
After the 2 women are done with the assault, they leave the restaurant. Soon after they re-enter and assault the woman again, dragging her to the front of the restaurant.
Eventually the beaten woman appears to have a seizure near the doorway. Her whole body begins to shake as her arms flap against the wall and window door.
The Baltimore Sun reports the victim was 22-years-old. Her condition is not yet known.
The 2 women are ages 14 and 18-years-old. The 14-year-old has been arrested and charged as a juvenile, according to the Associated Press.
McDonald’s has responded to the video, saying it is working with authorities to find out what exactly happened.
The women who commit this act upon the victim should face harsh punishment. No matter what the victim did in her past, the actions of these young women is callous and destructive.
The Smoking Gun reports that a person filming the incident Vernon Hackett. The manager at the Rosedale McDonald’s said she was “not allowed to speak to a reporter." In a corporate statement this afternoon, McDonald’s said it was “shocked by the video from a Baltimore franchise,” and called the incident “unacceptable, disturbing and troubling.” The firm added, “We are working with the franchisee and the local authorities to investigate this matter.”
The Smoking Gun tried to contact the person and his response. The Facebook profile and YouTube channel has since been deleted.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Jan Brewer: Can't Support Birther Law!
Brewer Vetoes Birther Bill In Arizona
"I do not support designating one person as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions," Brewer said in her veto message, the Associated Press reports. Brewer herself is a former Arizona Secretary of State.
"In addition, I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their early baptismal circumcision certificates' among other records to the Arizona secretary of state. This is a bridge too far."
Earlier, Brewer had foreshadowed her decision with skeptical statements about the bill: "I think my big concern probably, just shooting a little bit from the hip, is the fact that I don't know if we regulate federal elections."
It should be noted, however, that the bill had previously passed the legislature with margins that would potentially be veto-proof: 20-9 in the Senate, and 40-16 in the House. The question, then, is whether Brewer's veto would take the wind out of the bill's sails or if its backers will try to override the veto and be able to hold on to their numbers.
Jan Brewer is a controversial governor. Also the governor vetoes a law that requires firearms in public institutions and colleges. In 2010, the governor signed an illegal immigration law that requires state and local law enforcement to engage in targeting illegals. The United States Justice Department and law groups oppose the law. Brewer also called upon civil discourse after the shooting of Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January 2011.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
John John: Nde' Delegation to Participate in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Representatives from El Calaboz Rancheria, Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Nde' inland traditional territory will participate in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10th Session, New York City, NY, May 16-27, 2011.
Dr. Margo Tamez (Nde', Co-Founder, Lipan Apache Women Defense) and Chairman Daniel Castro Romero, Jr. (Lipan Apache Band of Texas) will accompany an Apache delegation to present concept papers, research, and interventions related to the human rights violations in the matter of Lipan Apache peoples and Indigenous Proprietary Title ('Aboriginal Title'), land claims, the border wall, gender violence, and the situation of Indigenous women human rights defenders, among the many concerns raised by Nde' communities.
Margo Tamez stated, "We have a specific mandate from our people, and it is up to us to ensure that our peoples' voices and concerns are heard and understood by other Indigenous peoples at the UNPFII 10th Session, by U.N. officials, NGOs, and by States--particularly Spain, the Holy See, Mexico and the U.S. Indigenous peoples in South Texas, the LRGV and along the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river are and have always been deeply related along cultural, social, political and economic perspectives and our histories of colonization. The Nde' delegation are actively engaging international arenas today more than ever, which is part of a broader movement of Indigenous peoples across the hemisphere. We are finally reclaiming our rightful place in the international legal arena as a Nation--a self-determination process in which Nde Lipan Apaches are uniquely situated for, given our long international relations experiences with Spain, Mexico, Texas and the U.S."
Orange County CA Republican Leader Send Racist Email Depicting President Obama As A Monkey
Today’s installment of “heinous, unacceptable racism disguised as ‘jokes’” features a Republican official on Orange County, California, President Obama, and monkeys in photoshop. GOP official Marilyn Davenport is coming under fire for sending other Republican officials an email depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee, in the arms of chimpanzee “parents,” claiming, “Now you know why– no birth certificate! [sic].” Davenport is sticking to her guns, blaming the media for making too much of a fuss.
Among Davenport’s detractors (including, one would hope, “everyone else”), local news station KCAL caught up with former California Republican chairman Michael Schroder, who correctly posited: “no average person would send this out and feel comfortable with this, that this was just a joke.” Then again, Schroder also notes Davenport doesn’t come into this embarrassment with a clean slate– among the people in Orange County Republican politics she has defended are an official who sent an email with an illustration of the White House covered in watermelons and an official who opposed the installation of grass near beaches on the point that “grass attracts Mexicans.”
Nonetheless, Davenport said off-camera that she considered the email merely a “joke” and was confused as to why the media had blown the issue way out of proportion. She is still on the governing board of the county party, though one can expect that not for long.
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Earlier this year, the Orange County Republican Party and various Tea Party groups protested a Islamic Mosque and hateful rhetoric was shouted at attendees.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Activist Communique: 3,000 missing women should be an election issue | rabble.ca
How can 3,000 missing women not be an issue for the 2011 election? A prominent issue, in fact?
Is it because the 3,000 missing women are Indigenous and not white-skinned?
As Canadians soon face the decision of who they want to run their country, let me remind you that it was the Conservative government under Stephen Harper that cut funding to Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC).
According to research conducted under NWAC's Sisters in Spirit program, nationally over 580 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing, most of them over the last 30 years.
I concede that the number is much higher, as Gladys Radek from Walk4Justice estimates over 3,000 women are known to have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since the 1970s, with at least 80 per cent of these women being from First Nations.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The “criminal look” « Jewamongyou's Blog
Monday, March 28, 2011
$20 and not a penny more! - Minnesota GOP seek provisions to eliminate welfare!
Minnesota GOP wants it to be illegal to carry cash if you're poor
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| Kurt Daudt wants to crack down on cash for poor people |
For a political party that keeps harping on Democrats for trying to control people's lives, Republicans in Minnesota sure are doing some weird things. First, they want government to control decisions made between pregnant women and their physicians. Now they want to make sure that poor people never have more than $20 in their pockets. Poor people can't be trusted with cash, it seems.
A bill introduced by Rep. Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) would prohibit people who use EBT cards--government assistance on plastic--from withdrawing cash at ATMs with the cards, except for $20 per month.
We haven't been able to reach Daudt yet, but Angel Buechner of the Welfare Rights Committee is not amused.
"The Welfare Rights Committee would like to state that this Bill, House File 171, is not based in any common sense or fiscal responsibility," Buechner said at this week's hearing on the bill. "It is appears to be based on knee-jerk, ignorant bias and a desire to stigmatize the poor."
The bill (see the text here) would require cashiers to ask for photo ID and prohibit EBT-card holders from purchasing alcohol or cigs.
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| Steve Gottwalt (R-St. Cloud) thinks $20 is enough for the month |
We reached Jodi Boyne, director of public affairs for House Republican Caucus, and she confirmed that the intent of the bill is to crack down on public money used for bad stuff--those alcohol and cigs again--and actually, in some cases, at a casino, according to this KSTP news report.
"There is documented evidence that these cards have been used for fraudulent purposes, and it's looking at addressing that," Boyne says.
The KSTP report was the reason Daudt launched his bill--watch this video to see the report--and he is not the only Republican supporting it. A whole host of his fellow GOP-ers have signed on, as you can see here.
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