racial justice
WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY !
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 4:15pm.AMERICANS ARE SLOWLY LEARNING ABOUT HOW EASY IT IS FOR OUR COUNTRY TO HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FALSLY IMPRISONED US INMATES NATIONWIDE!!
What kind of Judeau Christian values is our country demonstrating to the rest of the world when our national prisons are reported to contain 100,000 innocent and falsely imprisoned inmates who can not find even one American Political Leader or National Media source willing to take the high road in fighting for justice and equality within our federal appeal judicial process?
** Great societies that do not protect even their innocent, become the guilty!
POORER AMERICANS NEED WORLD'S COURT HELP !
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 8:36pm.POORER AMERICANS NEED WORLD'S COURT HELP !
by Douglas Field | 06.16.2008WHEN THE WORLD'S INTERNATIUONAL COMMUNITY LEARNED THE TRUTH !
I hate to say it, but I do believe that this injustice that our US judicial system has been inflicting on the tens of thousands of our Middle Class and Working Poor Amercans (who are the least educated US prison inmates) with prolonged incarceration, is a very realistic human rights violation if not a crime against humanity issue.
The International World Court and United Nations should be investigating why only wealthy Americans are able to receive federal retrials using proper legal representation and US poorer prison inmates are forced to be their own best lawyers from prison and failing in mass at their opportunities for federal retrial reviews.
Our judicial system just recently released 360 men who spent 25 to 40 years being incarcerated for rapes they never committed! Had these judicial victims been given appeal attorneys for their federal appeal reviews, just maybe they might have been given retrials and not have had to wait until DNA evidence exonerated them decades later.
Until our judicial system becomes so perfected to always accurately charge and convict the right individuals with crimes,we all have to stay focused on preserving every legal opportunity for the truly innocent to be able to rise up and out of our cold hearted prison system that treats everyone in their grasp as guilty equals.
Tuesday, June 17th - Call-in for Bashir Hameed
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 1:12pm.Please Call David Paterson at 518.474.8390 and tell the Governor of New York that our dear brother Bashir Hameed (J. York #82A6313) is in Great Meadow Correctional Facility and he is not receiving any health care. Bashir's health is getting worse and he has consistently been DENIED any health care at Great Meadow Correctional Facility.<br><br>
He must receive immediate health care or he should be returned to Sullivan Correctional Facility where he was before and where his health and medical problems were handled much more humanely and professionally by the medical staff.<br><br>
Call on Tuesday the 17th 10 am - 1 pm.<br><br>
If you get a runaround on the phone, you can also email Governor Paterson by using this <a href=http://161.11.121.121/govemail> link</a>. <br><br>
David A. Paterson<br>
State Capitol<br>
Albany, New York 12224<br>
518.474.8390<br><br>
For more information on Bashir's medical status, please read this <a href=http://www.sfbayview.com/200804091054/News/Behind_Enemy_Lines/Bashir_Hameed_needs_immediate_medical_treatment.html>article</a>.
ELITE CONGRESS HAS GED LAWYERS WHO NEVER LEAVE US PRISONS !
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 5:04pm.WHEN GOD'S FACE TURNED RED !!!
It appears that the US Supreme Court way back in 1984 knew the injustice of our federal appeal retrial review process really only being available for affluent Americans to get benefit from.
The masses of poor and mostly uneducated prison inmates who are being forced to write their own federal appeal legal cases, are being denied new trials by the federal courts in mass all across this country everyday.
Some believe this injustice stems way back in our history to pre Civil War era when the US Southern States were railroading blacks into prolonged prison sentences and knowing all along that the Federal Courts would never grant these poor black prison inmates new trials because they never could properly write their own federal appeal legal cases.
The real horror here is that this form of injustice is even in 2008 assisting in the prolonged false incarceration of over 100,000 innocent mostly uneducated American prison inmates nation-wide.
We all know the federal appeal retrial process was designed for all Americans as a fail safe device that every American should be entitled to utilize, but it is quite obvious that our government has allowed this appeal process to slip into a completely new facade in which it has become an exclusive opportunity for only rich Americans to be able to properly benefit from.
An Ancient Alternative to Oil
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 4:16pm.Billion Dollar Crop
The ONLY way our past foreign policy, and present war, can be justified is if we accept the fundamental premise that WE NEED OIL TO SURVIVE. We must believe that oil is our only source of energy and without it civilization as we know it would collapse. In order to justify more "precision bombing" and selling weapons to terrorists, we must believe that protecting our oil-based economy is the same as protecting the people of America.
This quickly leads to the concept of "overpopulation" and the idea that our planet cannot support this many people, so some have to die. The people of the First World take all the oil we need, while the people of the Third World have to fight for clean food and water, because it is better for them to die than for us to die. Better for Arabs to die than Christians. Better black people die than white people. Better for my neighbor to die than me.
At every level, we allow the fundamental fear of starvation to justify our ignorance and hatred toward anybody who seems different and is therefore perceived as a threat to our family and friends. When self-preservation is our only goal, we can safely justify any actions that seem to protect our lives, no matter how violent, because it is "self-defense."
Unfortunately, this desperation and fear of death is based on a century of lies.
WE DON’T NEED OIL AND NEVER HAVE.
Our forced dependence on the limited supply of petroleum is due entirely to greedy politicians protecting their own business interests instead of the American people.
Everything now done by fossil fuels can be done cheaper and better with renewable natural resources grown on American soil by American farmers. For more than 12,000 years before it was banned in 1937, the world’s number one natural resource for food, fiber, fuel and natural oil was hemp.
THE US CONGRESS IS HOLDING 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICAN PRISON INMATES HOSTAGE !!
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 11:23am.WILL THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HELP RESCUE THESE THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED POORER AMERICANS ??
**** JUSTICE NO LOBBY, NO US SENATE ASSISTANCE ! NO $$ NO LOBBY == 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS FALSELY IMPRISONED IN US. ****TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT POORER AMERICAN PRISON INMATES NEED INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR LEGAL FEES IN HELPING THEM ATTEMPT TO EXONERATE THEMSELVES FROM THE US PENAL COLONIES !!
Most Americans are well aware that there are plenty of innocent poorer US citizens in our prison systems nationwide,but very few of us have ever heard about our US Congressional representatives who are mostly lawyers themselves, denying our Middle Class and Working Poor Americans proper legal counsel for their federal appeals.
When any poorer American is charged with a Federal crime all legal costs and appeals are paid for,but when one is charged in the various 50 states and run out of higher court state appeal opportunities and need to appeal to the Federal courts,it appears that these poorer and mostly uneducated prison inmates are left to their own best lawyering skills to attempt to write a federal appeal that could sway a US Federal judge to grant them a new retrial.
Our US Congressional Representatives sleep soundly every night knowing there are reported to be an estimated 100,000 innocent Americans (some residing for decades even on death row) in our US Prisons who have been denied proper legal counsel to help them attempt to exonerate themselves with their Federal Appeals?
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Atlanta's Answer to America's Urban Transit Apartheid
Submitted by coyote on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 7:07am.
Denuded of their manufacturing sectors, urban America is the scene of a new gold rush. Chambers of commerce and speculators are scrambling for the last goodies, many of which are literally nailed down -- the assets of her public transit, public health and public education systems, her tax revenue streams and the land beneath her remaining public housing. The "regionalization" and eventual privatization of these lucrative assets is high on the agenda of chambers of commerce everywhere, and protecting them is seems not even on the horizon of the black political elite.
In Atlanta state and exurban public officials and business interests have carjacked billions in transit assets the region's two majority black counties have taxed themselves to build and operate over a generation while the black political elite is silent or complicit. Leadership is emerging from the communities themselves, who have offered a concrete plan for the democratic development of the region, but will the black political elite prove an ally or a stubborn obstacle?
Atlanta's Answer to America's Urban Transit Apartheid
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
The contours of urban apartheid in twenty-first century America are depressingly familiar. Where post WW2 government spending built the interstate highway system and the suburbs to fuel white flight from the cities, the dispensation for the new century involves massive diversions of public resources toward the objective of disempowering and expelling the black and poor from central cities.
IS THIS US CONGRESSIONAL INJUSTICE RACIST,OR CALLOUS NEGLECT ?
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 1:05pm.
Tens of thousands of innocent poorer American prison inmates need international assistance for legal fees in helping them attempt to exonerate themselves from the US penal colonies !!
NO $$ NO JUSTICE!
NO LOBBY, NO US SENATE ASSISTANCE!
NO $$ NO LOBBY == 100,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS FALSLY IMPRISONED
WITHOUT FEDERAL APPEAL LAWYERS!
Most Americans are well aware that there are tens of thousands of innocent poorer US citizens in our prison systems nationwide,but very few of us have ever heard about our US Congressional representatives who are mostly lawyers themselves,denying our Middle Class and Working Poor Americans proper legal counsel for their federal appeals. When poorer Americans are charged with a Federal crime, all legal costs and appeals are paid for by the Federal Government. When Americans are charged for state crimes in all the various 50 states and run out of higher court state appeal opportunities,their cross over appeals to the US Federal courts are somehow not worhty of Federal financing.Poorer prison inmates with mostly little formal education are left to their own best lawyering skills to attempt to write a federal appeal that could sway a US Federal judge to grant them a new retrial ??
Our US Congressional Representatives sleep soundly every night knowing there are reported to be an estimated 100,000 innocent Americans (many residing for decades even on Death Row) in our US Prisons,who have been denied proper legal counsel for their Federal Appeals ??
Martin and Malcolm Alive in Today's Black Radicalism
Submitted by coyote on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 12:29pm.The term “radical” is always subject to misunderstanding. During the recent controversy about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, many white Americans heard edgy black political discourse for the first time and were alarmed. It was to them radical. Yet today anyone out of the mainstream is considered radical. Such a definition is only a negative one and as such is useless.
“Radical” refers to getting to the root or foundation of something. In that sense, a political radical is someone who attempts to get to the root of a problem and suggests a solution. Defined this way, one can be a radical from the political Right or the political Left, but generally speaking the term “radical” suggests someone on the Left.
Black radicalism is a current that has long existed in Black America. What is critical to grasp is that radicalism has no permanent definition. What was radical in 1892 may not be as radical in 2002.
Black radical currents surface and decline much like other political movements. One must be very careful however, to not define radicalism by rhetoric, bravado or even tactics. In understanding radical currents, one must look at the entirety of the movement and from that draw conclusions. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for instance, is often viewed as something of a mainstream black political figure, yet when one follows the evolution of Dr. King between 1965 and 1968, one sees a trajectory that is clearly radical.
Southern Nuclear Company Seeks Early Site Permit for Georgia Power's Two New Nuclear Reactors at Plant Vogtle
Submitted by diannevalentin on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:45am.The first step Georgia utilities are taking to try to get federal approval to build new nuclear reactors along the Savannah River is to apply for an “early site permit.” If the permit is issued, concerns such as water, land, public health, and safety cannot be brought up again even if we learn new information. For example, the new reactors will require tens of millions of gallons of water above and beyond the tens of millions Vogtle is already pulling from the Savannah River—this issue cannot be revisited again if the “early site permit” is granted. If approved, this permit essentially allows the Southern Company and its utility partners in Georgia to use the permit at any time for up to 20 years in any future applications with the NRC. Together, Atlanta WAND, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Center for a Sustainable Coast, Savannah Riverkeeper, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy legally challenged the permit.
The Savannah River basin and nearby communities are already suffering; building more nuclear reactors will only make this situation worse. Since the Early Site Permit (ESP) process allows a company to potentially ‘bank’ a site for up to 20 years, the NRC should have to look not only at Georgia ‘today,’ but the Georgia we are likely to live in several decades from now.
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