Stop Incarcerating Youth May 17-23

Save the Kids
@STKgroup

The 2015 National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth will be May 17 to May 23, 2015. It is a volunteer project organized by hundreds of groups and individuals around the United States.

We are looking for groups and individuals around the United States to organize events.

The juvenile justice system targets four youth group for incarceration; they are the following, in no specific order: (1) Youth of Color, (2) Youth with Disabilities, (3) Economically Disadvantaged Youth, and (4) LGBTTQQIA Youth. 

GOALS: Another world is possible, and it begins with community based programs and alternatives such as rehabilitation, therapy, counseling, job readiness workshops, tutoring, more community programs and centers, and transformative and restorative justice programs in the community and in schools to address conflicts. Incarceration is not the solution, but the problem. Once youth are involved in the juvenile justice system, it is hard for them to get out of it. Please support youth and their futures and demand that no more youth are incarcerated no matter the crime/harm they have committed. Incarceration does nothing to address the needs of the youth who have committed the harm.

PROBLEM: The three step oppressive punishment process targeting youth is: 

(1) Criminalization of Youth is the stigmatization of youth through laws and norms that are based on their behavior, dress, socializing, identity, and community they live in. 

(2) Policing of Youth is the surveillance and social controlling of youth by law enforcement and those in disciplinary roles.

(3) Punitive Discipline of Youth is the punishment of youth which includes detention, out of school suspension, incarceration, home arrest, and probation. 

These three steps need to be eliminated in the juvenile justice system, which is the prison part of the school to prison pipeline. 

TACTICS: The events can take any form the group or individual wishes, such as a candlelight vigil, spoken-word mic night, protest, rally, teach-in, workshop, lecture, panel, banner drop over a bridge, walkout, conference, dinner, lunch, lobby day, dance, street theater, movie night, press conference, potluck, sit-in, parade, or disbursing pamphlets.
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Print out and laminate this "Against Incarcerating Youth" sign:
http://savethekidsgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Against-Incarcerating-Youth-Sign.pdf

Example of sign: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfaK5p0eUE
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SUGGESTED THEMES

May 17
Sunday - Invest in Public Schools
Brown vs. Board of Ed. 1954

**Segregation through economics is still socially present and is displayed through mass public school closures in poor urban communities, while wealthier school districts are being given more staff and resources. 

May 18
Monday - No SROs in Schools and Alternatives to Police Involvement

**Rather than more counselors in communities and schools, we fill them with police and SROs to manage conflicts through arresting youth not listening and giving them therapy. 

May 19
Tuesday - Youth of Color and Racial Profiling
Malcolm X B-Day 1925

**With the rise of Ferguson Movement to defend Youth of Color against police brutality, this day is dedicate to addressing the racism in the juvenile justice system and the policing of Youth of Color. 

May 20
Wednesday - LGBTTQQIA Awareness 

**From homelessness to incarceration, LGBTTQQIA are the highest per capita nationally of youth who are targeted for homelessness, suicide, and incarceration. 

May 21
Thursday - Youth with Disabilities Awareness 

**Police, because of their lack of knowledge and skills on issues around physical and mental disabilities, have been more likely to escalate conflict with youth with disabilities resulting in brutalization, death, and incarceration. 

May 22
Friday - Girls Matter 

**Recently, because of social awareness of sexism and girl empowerment, girls are not submitting to abusive authority and are fighting back against sexual assault from family members and boyfriends. As a result, girls are finding themselves the fastest growing group of youth that are being incarcerated. 

May 23 
Saturday - Transformative/Restorative Justice - No More Prisons

**The problem with the current juvenile justice system is it is punitive in nature, promoting mass incarceration, rather than a holistic, transformative, and restorative justice system. 
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The days of May 17 and May 19 were chosen for four reasons: 

(1) because they are close to the time when students are getting out of school for the summer, which is the time when there is the most amount of youth violence and youth incarceration;

(2) because May 19 is the birthday of Malcolm X, a U.S. civil rights and Black liberation leader. Malcolm X once told his favorite teacher that he had a dream to be a lawyer, his teacher replied that was “no[t] [a] realistic goal for a [n-word]”. This caused Malcolm X leaving school and entering the street life of selling drugs, gambling, and pimping. His childhood life is a perfect example of the school to prison pipeline. The National Week holds to Malcolm X’s statement: “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today";

(3) because May 17 is the anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, which ended segregation legally, but segregation still exists today systematically and socially; and

(4) because it acts as a bookend to the other National Week of Action. The other is organized by Dignity in Schools’ National Week of Action Against School Pushout, which is at the beginning of the school year.  

See more information at the following website: 
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/24655-2015-no-youth-in-prison-week

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Spelman, April 7, 1968

This event has passed. You missed it 47 years ago, or perhaps some of you did not. This is a trip down memory lane, commemorating the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Day of Infamy, 47 Years Ago Today

Atlanta and the Assassination of
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   Martin Luther King

Sisters Chapel, Spelman Campus

April 7, 1968

by Heather Gray (1996)

The line moved in unison up the stairs
   and through the chapel door.

No one spoke.

I could barely lift my feet.

It was April, the onset of Spring.

I was shivering.

His body was still.

His eyes were closed.

He was peaceful.

His compassionate voice was no more.

I wanted to run.

Yet, so desperately did not want to leave.

What now? I thought. What now?

by HEATHER GRAY
Counterpunch

In 1968, the tragic events in the first week of April turned the world upside down. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis on Thursday, April 4. He was there to support sanitation workers who were on strike. In an interview with Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now", Harry Belafonte described the sequence of events that day. He was in Atlanta when Coretta King received the news of her husband's death. The grieving Mrs. King asked him to help select the clothes for her deceased husband's showing and funeral. She expressed her concern, like all the rest of us in America, about the aftermath of his assassination and what she could or should do. Belafonte recommended that she continue in the support of the Memphis workers. She did exactly that.

On Monday, April 8, the day before her husband's funeral, Mrs. King was in Memphis marching with the sanitation workers. This remarkably brave and determined woman, along with her three oldest children, marched in silence in the company of 15,000 supporters from all over the country. Mrs. King told the crowd, "His work must go on.We are concerned about not only the Negro poor but the poor all over America and all over the world. Every man deserves a right to a job and an income so that he can pursue liberty, life and happiness."

I was in Atlanta at that time as well. Earlier in the week a Chinese friend, who taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, had asked me to attend an event and spend the night in the campus dorms. That was my plan. Little did my friend or I know how events that week would dramatically affect us all. Dr. King was assassinated on Thursday and by the weekend his body was in state at Sister's Chapel on the Spelman campus.

In the introduction to his excellent book "Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement 1957-1967" (2005) Harry Lefever provides a brief history of Spelman. It is "the nation's oldest and best-known black liberal arts college for women, founded in 1881. In 1929, Spelman signed an Agreement of Affiliation with Morehouse College and Atlanta University, two black institutions located directly across the street from Spelman." Ultimately other black schools of higher learning in the adjoining location joined the agreement. "Today, the total consortium of six institutions, known as the Atlanta University Center (AUC), represents the largest affiliation of predominantly black institutions in the United States." Dr. King received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in 1948.

That weekend a long line of mourners stood outside Sister's Chapel to honor the fallen leader. The silence was deafening. It was April, the onset of Spring, and I stood there shivering. All you could hear was the sound of feet slowly walking toward the chapel and people crying. As we walked into the Chapel toward the coffin, you saw men on either side of the coffin wiping away the tears that fell on the glass over Martin King's body. Only later did I learn that because so many people were crying, resulting in tears cascading into the coffin and over Dr. King, that a decision was made to cover it with glass. Once by the coffin I observed this physically small, yet great man of peace, and found it virtually impossible to believe that his resounding, powerful voice and message were no more. It was an incredibly sad moment to witness his still body and to even think of the contemptible violence that killed him. But I was also angry. I kept thinking "What now? What on earth is now in store for America?"

By Monday, April 8, people starting arriving into Atlanta for the funeral. I drove for the Student Non-Violent Committee (SNCC) to greet people arriving at the airport. My parents and hundreds of others were doing the same in their own cars. Along with two SNCC students from Atlanta University, the first person I escorted from the airport was Ralph Bunche. Dr. Bunche was the first black Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He had received the award in 1950 for his negotiations in the creation of the State of Israel after World War II. In 1968 he was an Undersecretary of the United Nations and was representing the UN at the King funeral. The City of Atlanta had sent its Vice Mayor Sam Massell to accompany Dr. Bunche, but he insisted on coming with us SNCC folks instead. Arrangements had been made for him at Atlanta's Regency Hyatt, but he insisted on staying at Paschals, Atlanta's renowned Black owned hotel and restaurant on Hunter Street, now Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. So here I was, driving Dr. Bunche, who sat in the passenger seat of my little car. His son was squeezed into the back with the other SNCC students. Bunche's son had brought his tennis racket. Life goes on I realized!

Lyndon Johnson was the U.S. President at the time. Johnson had decided to send his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, to the funeral. We were told that this decision was made because of Humphrey's renowned advocacy for civil rights. That being the case, protocol called for U Thant, the UN General Secretary at the time, to send someone under him of rank at the UN, such as Ralph Bunche, so as not to up-stage Johnson.

Interestingly, Bunche had been one of prominent Black leaders in 1967 encouraging the NAACP to write a statement criticizing King's opposition to the Vietnam War. Bunche said King should not be both a civil rights leaders and an antiwar advocate and that he needed to be one or the other. He later called King to apologize for his public statement and that he agreed with King's position on the war. King complained that Bunche did not have the courage to state his views in public.

The next person I picked up at the airport was Allard Lowenstein, an attorney in the movement, and one of his colleagues David Sweeney (see note below). He first wanted to pay his respects to Mrs. King. I drove them to her house that was surrounded by at least a hundred or more people. While I waited outside with throngs of people first i saw Harry Belafonte walk out of the house and then Sammy Davis, Jr. Mrs. King was serving fried chicken to her guests. There were so many that the empty boxes that had held the chicken were being burned in her back yard.

Next, Lowenstein wanted to greet Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, known as King's right hand man, who was to take over the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), now vacated by King of course. Lowenstein said that this time he was taking me into the house with him.

As we drove toward Abernathy's house down Hunter Street (now "Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive") in southwest Atlanta, my car stalled. Here we were, three whites in the predominantly Black part of the town five days after King had been killed. Suddenly about three black youth started aggressively shaking my car. Lowenstein said, "Heather, you need to get your car going and out of here!" It was of course what I was trying to do. Suddenly and rather miraculously, my car started again and we were off. We then drove to Reverend Abernathy's house and what a dramatic experience this was.

To set the stage, King had just been assassinated. No one knew what this meant exactly. No one knew what other violence could be expected. It was not known how white and black communities across the country would respond or what challenges and threats where ahead in the movement. It was assumed, of course, that the work was to be increasingly more dangerous.

As we walked into the Abernathy house there were four men sitting in silence in the living room. The Reverend was resting at the time. Then we walked into the kitchen where Mrs. Abernathy was on the phone. Suddenly, here I was, a young white student who had never met Juanita Abernathy. Once off the phone she grabs my hand, holds on to it and recounts the events of the past few days. For some five minutes or so, she described her husband's frightening experience of being at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where King had been killed just five days ago, and how nervous and concerned she was about her husband taking over the leadership of SCLC. I stood there in awe and silently sympathized.

Then Reverend Abernathy appeared. He seemed rested and congenial. I was amazed at his composure but then thought what else could he do? Everyone knew the work had to continue. We all shook hands, spoke briefly, and I drove Lowenstein and his friend into town.

The funeral was on Tuesday, April 9 at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta-affectionately known as the King church. I joined the funeral march through the City of Atlanta. The Reverend James Orange, of Birmingham protest fame, had organized the mule drawn funeral cart to take Dr. King to his resting place. Thousands of us of all races followed the cart while holding hands and singing an abundance of chants. It was a movement funeral to be sure. One of the most memorable experiences that day was walking in front of the Georgia State Capitol. A wire fence barricade, along with the ominous presence of military sentries, surrounded it. As was intended, the whole area seemed bleak and foreboding. The arch segregationist and erratic Lester Maddox was Georgia's governor at the time. I fully expected him to run out of the building at any moment, stand on the Capitol steps, and shout all kinds of curses at us.

There has been and will continue to be speculation as to why J. Edgar Hoover's FBI under the Johnson administration intensified its surveillance and propaganda against King. It was known, for one, that Johnson was furious about King's outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War, but it is also clear that King was shifting his emphasis to economic justice. While economic justice had always been a part of his message, the primary focus of civil rights and voting rights took precedence in the early movement work. By 1964 the Civil Rights Bill had passed in Congress and in 1965 the Voting Rights Act was a reality. All of this took enormous energy and a death toll. But King and others acknowledged that if there was the right to go to a hotel, what was the point if you couldn't pay the bill?

At the end of his life King was advocating for the economic rights of sanitation workers in Memphis and this was just the beginning. SCLC was in the planning stages of the national Poor People's Campaign march to be held in Washington, DC on April 22. On April 3 in Memphis, in his last speech, King called for boycotts against Wonder Bread, Hart's Bread, Sealtest Milk and, importantly, Coca Cola, for their appalling and unfair hiring practices. He encouraged everyone to follow through on this and to put pressure where it hurts. He said "if something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed."

In relation to the loss of Dr. King., years later I have often thought about insightful and powerful song by "Sweet Honey and the Rock" about Stephen Biko, the black leader who was killed by South African authorities in 1977 They sang, "You can kill one human body, I see ten thousand Bikos!" It rings true. You can kill the messenger, but not the message. As Lefever states in his book on Spelman College activism, that while he focused on individuals in the movement "it is clear" he said, "that their successes were much more than 'individual' successes. The study reveals the significance of the 'group' context in their actions." This has been true all over the U.S. and the world. A Filipino organizer once told me, "You can't organize yourself, who have to organize yourselves."

But it is also rather sobering to realize that when the economic or civil status quo of western "white" dominance is seriously challenged, countless young leaders of color all over the world have either been killed directly by those of us of European descent or by our proxies. Harry Belafonte describes King once telling him that given the outrageously violent and unjust behavior of white America that they were attempting to "integrate" into a burning house. Belafonte asked what should be done. King said, "we all need to become firemen"-and firewomen I might add.

(Note regarding David Sweeney: Sweeney, who was with Lowenstein in Atlanta for the King funeral, in an odd twist of fate, shot and killed Lowenstein in 1980 in New York. Go here for more information about this tragic occurrence.)

HEATHER GRAY is the producer of "Just Peace" on WRFG-Atlanta 89.3 FM covering local, regional, national and international news. In the 1980's she served as the director of the Non-Violent Program at the King Center in Atlanta under the leadership of Coretta Scott King. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and can be reached at hmcgray@earthlink.net. This article was first posted on Counterpunch in 2006.

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Bobby Seale: Black Panther Party Movie

~ Bobby Seale ~

Mary, thank you for your help with and support for getting an honest film produced about our history and the history of the Black Panther Party.

Here is the info on why and how people can support getting this film produced:
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Through BobbySeale.com, LLC (Independent Film Production Division), I am raising development funds to produce “SEIZE THE TIME: The Eighth Defendant,” a feature length film dramatization that chronicles my life experiences as the founding Chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party and in turn the true history of the Black Panther Party.

“SEIZE THE TIME: The Eighth Defendant” will tell the my true 60’s protest movement history and the true history of the Black Panther Party, giving those now and in the future an awareness of our history, as an example of how one should never give up the struggle for true liberation and freedom. Instilling and inspiring in them the hope that change is a possible and that we the people must proactively work to preserve our constitutional rights.

By purchasing books, posters, DVDs and memorabilia from my website, people can help support my efforts to get an honest film about my sixties protest movement history and the history of the Black Panther Party produced. Here is the link to that page:
http://bobbyseale.com/html/orderform1.htm

All Power To All The People!

Bobby Seale

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Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran Fired

Atlanta's mayor has terminated Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran just for being Christian and speaking out against homosexuality.

Below is a news report by Fox News ["They" would not let the embedded video work. Christianity is censored in the USA. At least one inmate was murdered by prison guards for expressing a belief in Jesus. His name was Daniel Linsinbigler, a 19-year-old Caucasian youth in Clay County Jail in Florida]:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/13/christians-rally-to-defend-fire-chief-who-wrote-anti-gay-book/

I hope you agree with me that it is completely unacceptable for Mayor Reed to censor Christianity.

And it is even worse that he is putting his liberal ideology before the lives of Atlanta residents.

The mayor cannot make safety decisions -- such as who is qualified to fight fires -- based on radical, personal beliefs.

Christians and pro-family advocates across the country are rallying to Chief Cochran's side.

Public Advocate of the United States is focusing our efforts on alerting Atlanta area residents to this outrageous violation of Free Speech.

I need you to contact Mayor Reed's office right now and insist he reinstate Chief Kelvin Cochran and issue a full apology for censoring Christian, pro-Family speech.

Mayor Reed's Office: (404) 330-6100

Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

HON. EUGENE DELGAUDIO
President, Public Advocate of the United States

The controversy arose when Cochran published a book. Cochran, who served seven years as the chief of the Atlanta Fire Department, lost his job over a book he wrote about biblical morality titled, “Who Told You That You Were Naked?” A small portion of the book contained what critics called homophobic language.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FIGHT FOR FAMILY VALUES

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Comments by MaryLovesJustice Neal

Mayor Reed revealed that he was harassed by phone calls to his home and that some people called him the antichrist after firing Atlanta's fire chief. I don't believe Mayor Reed is the antichrist, but I was aware of the spirit of antichrist in him when he refused to correct his police officers who threatened me with Tasering and arrest if I continued to tell people in Atlanta about the lynching of my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal. Larry died under secret incarceration (kidnapped) in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003. Apparently, Atlanta is a co-conspirator to keeping this news from the mainstream.

In 2010, I went to downtown Atlanta and warned the public that The (Johnny) Cochran Firm was representing the family of Kathryn Johnston, the 92-year-old woman on whose residence Atlanta police officers had done a home invasion and killed her in November 2006. The Cochran Firm defrauds its non-white clients throughout America to save government entities and certain large corporations from its clients' lawsuits. Police who killed Johnston had been tried and sentenced, and yet the family had not received any wrongful death payment in June 2010 when I went to The Cochran Firm building to protest corruption.

Two Atlanta police officers were sent to threaten me for using my First Amendment rights to expose my own brother's lynching and The Cochran Firm fraud against Johnston's family. In August 2010 when the family still had not been paid, I notified officials that I would report The Cochran Firm's fraud of Kathryn Johnston's survivors to the students at the AU center as soon as school convened for its fall session. The City then arranged a settlement for the Johnston lawsuit in a hurry just one day before college registration. It was a lawsuit The Cochran Firm had never filed properly. Furthermore, the treacherous lawyers settled for less than a third of the demand without taking the matter before a jury. See "Treacherous Lawyers: The Cochran Firm" for many lawsuits against that firm by its former clients, lawyers, and partnering law firms, alleging fraud, racism, and malpractice. The article is in my "Cochran Firm Fraud" blog at http://CochranFirmFraud.blogspot.com

Secondly, Mayor Reed was tolerant of Occupy Atlanta camping in Troy Davis Park (Woodruff Park) as long as the protesters were overwhelmingly white. When Occupy Atlanta had a hip hop concert and drew African Americans and Native Americans arrived the next day, Atlanta's tolerance ended immediately. The Occupy protesters had been told they could stay until the end of the month, but Reed sent police to remove their encampment immediately once Blacks and Native Americans arrived. I consider Mayor Reed to be a plantation overseer. The racism was obvious, yet Reed called Kelvin Cochran prejudice.

Thirdly, Mayor Reed is an adversary to the Atlanta Task Force, Atlanta's largest homeless center. It sits on coveted real estate in Midtown, and certain wealthy companies want to evict the homeless and take the land for themselves. Mayor Reed refused to accept a $100,000 check from the Atlanta Task Force for a past due water bill. Without water, The Atlanta Task Force must close. That would not only give the opportunity to take the homeless shelter's land, but closing the Task Force would also render its 900+ occupants eligible to become prison commodities if arrested for vagrancy or panhandling (these charges probably led to my own brother's secret arrest in Memphis). Only prison investors would cheer. Access the article at the link below: "Kasim Reed: No Water for Homeless People"
http://hreventsbymlj.blogspot.com/2014/09/kasim-reed-no-water-for-homeless-people.html

Read more: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com/main.html

See also a news article by The Daily Signal about the controversy regarding firing the Atlanta fire chief:
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/08/atlanta-fire-chief-fired-expressing-christian-beliefs/

Give me a call one day, Hon. Eugene Delgaudio, IF "they" let you. I believe Mayor Reed is in "a big club, you ain't in it." (YouTube)

Mary Neal 

(678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741

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SOARS Award March 21, 2015

Announcement by Alton Maddox, Jr., Esq.

Sister Geneva Butts Receives the SOARS Award

When: Sat., 1:00 p.m. on Mar. 21, 2015

Where: The Brooklyn Christian Center

1061 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY



PLEASE JOIN LEOLA MADDOX ON SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015 IN CELEBRATING SIS. GENEVA BUTTS, WHO WILL BE RECEIVING THE SISTERS' OUTSTANDING AND REMARKABLE AWARD (SOARS) FROM THE WOMEN’S COMMITTEE OF THE BROOKLYN CHRISTIAN CENTER. SISTER BUTTS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST MEMBERS OF THE UNITED AFRICAN MOVEMENT. THE LUNCHEON WILL BE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN CENTER, 1061 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK AT 1:00 P.M. EST. SIS. BUTTS DESERVES THIS AWARD AND MANY MORE. THE TICKETS ARE $30.00.

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March 2015 Blogtalkradio Schedule

PLEASE JOIN US! We use two human rights radio channels. Call (818)572-2947 for NNIA1, and call (347)857-3293 for Human Rights Demand. Upcoming BlogTalkRadio programs are listed in this schedule. Most of the shows are weekly presentations.

Sat. and Sun., 9amPST, March 7th and 8th, AIMIvs.USA claimant's conferences. FreeConferenceCall dial-in number (605)562-0020, Meeting I.D. Code: 992-212-650. If that fails, the backup number is (805)360-1075. Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) plans an action in International Court to win restitution for mentally ill people and their families or next friends regarding negligence, torture, and/or wrongful deaths of mentally ill people under the color of law. People who were victimized by untreated mentally ill people or drug/alcohol addicts can also become claimants. **See the website for "AIMI vs. USA" at http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com >> See also "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" at http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

Sat. 4pmPST, March 7, at NNIA1 - Darrell Gatewood's grieving family. Gatewood, a 47-year-old mentally challenged black man, was killed by Oklahoma City police officers, who reportedly pulled Gatewood from a home and deposited him in a pool of muddy water where he was Tasered to death. This happened on the same day that LAPD fatally shot Africa, a mentally ill homeless man. Oklahoma City is called America's Taser capital.

Sat. 6pmPST at Human Rights Demand (weekly) - Johnny Strozier Keeping It Real. Strozier was incarcerated from 1968, when he was 10 years of age, until 2013. He literally grew up in Georgia's prison system. Strozier advises youths and released prisoners to think right and act right so that things will go right in their lives. Don't miss this re-entry program.

Sun. 12noonPST, March 8, at Human Rights Demand - Our guest was the grieving father of a Jackson, Tennessee police victim, Cinque 'Q' DJahspora.  'Q' was an 20-year-old student with no criminal background. He was unarmed when Jackson police shot him in his back. 

Sun. 9pmPST at NNIA1 (weekly) - MaryLovesJustice Prayer Meeting. February and March topic: "Giants Among Men" (Gen. 6:4).

Mon. 12noonPST at NNIA1 (weekly) - "Is there a lawyer in the house?" People who need legal representation state their cases in civil and criminal matters.

Mon. 6pmPST, March 9, at Human Rights Demand - Cinque 'Q' DJahspora's family and supporters, Part 2. 'Q' was shot in his back by Jackson, Tennessee police. A grand jury refused to indict police officers involved in the shooting fatality.

Tue. 12pmPST at NNIA1 (weekly) - Dorothy Mackey, Human Rights Advocate, reveals shocking information about child endangerment, military sexual assaults, and other human rights issues (Google her). Children of incarcerated mothers and others are subject to CPS custody and enforced adoption. Some do not fare well after that.

Tue. 6pmPST at Human Rights Demand (weekly) - Ralph Poynter "What's Happening", a show hosted by a human and civil rights icon (Google him). Poynter is regularly joined on air by his wife, former activist attorney Lynne Stewart, and colleagues, including Betty Davis, Larry Poynter, and others.

Wed. 6pmPST, March 18, at Human Rights Demand - George Mallinckrodt, author and mental health advocate, discusses recent developments in his efforts to influence positive change in Florida Department of Corrections. Mallinckrodt wrote "Getting Away with Murder" regarding the scalding death of Florida inmate Darren Rainey, who expired in a prison where Mallinckrodt worked as a psychotherapist until being terminated upon complaining about inmate abuse.

Wed. 9pmPST at NNIA1 (weekly) - Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Thur. 12pmPST at Human Rights Demand (weekly) - Bob Darby  Advocate for the homeless mentally ill. Discussions include American eugenics, drug dealing by U.S. officials, avoidable wars, and power without compassion.

Thur. 6pmPST, March 19, at NNIA1 - Interview with +ZORA JAY. Zora is a retired psychiatric nurse and a recovering addict. She recently volunteered to work with Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), and may take the lead regarding recruiting/counseling people with drug/alcohol addictions.

Friday 12pmPST at Human Rights Demand (weekly) - Mary Diaz and Human Conflict Org. show - Advocating parole of prisoners in Florida and throughout the USA after serving their minimum sentences. Every Friday!

Friday at NNIA1 - Reserved for special broadcasts and open mic night - The time for this show is determined and announced as broadcasts are scheduled. "Friday at NNIA1" are not presently scheduled for every week but will be announced (if/when shows are scheduled) at Mary Neal's pages on Facebook, Google+ (MaryLovesJustice Neal), and Twitter under the @koffietime account.

Monthly on Human Rights Demand - MaryLovesJustice presents authors and their latest books about social, economic, and legal justice issues. Dates and times for authors' interviews will be announced at Mary Neal's pages on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter under the @koffietime account. Recommended books are featured at our blog "MaryLovesJustice" http://MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com

**NEW** Monthly AIMI Volunteers Conference. Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) has advocated for the human and civil rights of mentally challenged individuals and their families since 2007. AIMI offers volunteer positions for students, unemployed persons, and retirees who wish to enhance their resumes and/or devote themselves to a meaningful part-time career as a human rights advocate to decriminalize mental illness in America. Mental illness and drug/alcohol dependencies affect people of all races and socioeconomic classes in America; therefore, our volunteers include people of all races, educational levels, and backgrounds. "Whomsoever will, come." Conferences are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. PST on the first Saturday of each month, immediately after the "AIMI vs. USA" claimants conference. (AIMI conferences scheduled for April will move to the second weekend, April 11 and 12, because the first weekend of April is Easter.)
** Learn more about "AIMI vs. USA" at http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com and by searching online for "AIMI vs. USA." See "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog at http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com for individual stories of avoidable tragedies and methods for improving mental heath care in America.

Thank you for planning to join us for these Blogtalkradio broadcasts. All shows are archived for later listening by computer at your convenience 24/7, but please call in to speak on air! Comments and questions are invited for every program (see both telephone numbers above). Please call Mary Neal at 678.531.0262 or (571)335-1741 if you have questions about our schedule, want to be a special guest, or if you experience trouble connecting to our shows or the conference line for "AIMI vs. USA."

MaryLovesJustice Neal is director of Human Rights Demand, a host at National Network in Action (NNIA1), where the Rev. Floyd Harris, Jr. is director, and director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, a human/civil rights organization to decriminalize mental illness in America. Please note that "AIMI vs. USA" now uses only FreeConferenceCall for monthly claimants conferences:(605)562-0020, Meeting I.D. Code: 992-212-650 >> backup no. (805)360-1075. 

Disclaimer:

The information and viewpoints given by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of MaryLovesJustice, Human Rights Demand, or National Network in Action. Neither hosts nor other guests accept responsibility for the accuracy of information given by any other party.

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March 9: Respond to HSS re Enforced Vaccinations of Every Adult in USA

1. People in the United States have until March 9 to respond to the proposal to ENFORCE EVERY ADULT IN THE USA to take VACCINATIONS. I emailed my response to Rebecca.Fish@hhs.gov on March 4 and ask that you also email your response timely regarding whether you favor or oppose the plan. I wrote:

2. I strongly disagree with the Government's proposal to ENFORCE vaccinations of every adult in the USA. I would also like to know how said vaccinations will be "enforced" under the HHS plan, Ms. Fish. Will citizens of the USA face fines and internment in camps if they refuse the vaccines? Are we correct in assuming the enforced vaccinations will be administered to ALL ADULTS IN THE USA, regardless of their ages, other medications they take, and their existing health conditions? Will adults really be forced to "catch-up" their vaccinations to the 49 vaccinations that children currently take? Your responses (or lack of responses) to these questions shall have no bearing on my opposition to enforced vaccination of all adults in the USA.

3. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's ~ Jesus Christ. I believe that the bodies of adults in America belong to the individuals inhabiting them and are not the "property of the USA."

4. The Department of Health and Human Services is taking public comment regarding mandatory Nationwide Adult Vaccination.

5. U.S. Government Moves on Nationwide Adult Vaccination - Published on February 6, 2015, amid the “measles outbreak” media frenzy, the HHS is accepting “public comment” on its Draft National Adult Immunization Plan (NAIP) until March 9, 2015. Under the NAIP, all adult American citizens WILL BE COMPELLED to receive current and retroactive vaccination regimens that may amount to several dozen “shots” per individual during their “catch-up” phase. Under the federally-mandated immunization schedule, children presently receive 49 vaccines before the age of six [and adults will have to catch-up to at least that number of vaccinations]. ~ Right.is

6. HHS says electronic responses are preferred and may be addressed to: Rebecca.Fish@hhs.gov

7. The Gov's request for comments regarding NAIP is on the web at  https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/02/06/2015-02481/solicitation-of-written-comments-on-the-draft-national-adult-immunization-plan

8. Please send your response ahead of the March 9, 2015 deadline. You may feel free to simply copy and forward my response to Ms. Fish at number 2 above if you OPPOSE ENFORCED VACCINATIONS FOR EVERY ADULT IN THE USA. If you know friends and groups who might be interested in commenting on this matter, please forward this information to them as well. Please do not assume that my notification will reach many people without your help. I am censored. 

9. Over 100,000 Americans signed the PETITION OPPOSING MANDATORY VACCINATIONS. The White House may be forced to respond. 
http://www.infowars.com/over-100000-americans-sign-petition-opposing-mandatory-vaccinations/

10. I would appreciate your emailing people about mandatory vaccinations immediately to give them a chance to research and consider the HHS proposal and to respond timely. In my opinion, enforced vaccinations of adults is the most serious matter currently before us - whether We the People or the Government own our bodies. Thank you.

The Philosophy of Liberty

http://youtu.be/8z1buym2xUM

International Declaration of Human Rights - 1948

http://youtu.be/Li6KhPBxkw0

Make your human rights demand today!

Contact U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Rebecca.Fish@hhs.gov

 Contact U.S. elected officials

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

"Open Mic Night - What's Your I.Q.?" is a Blogtalkradio show recorded at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2015/03/07/open-mic-friday-whats-your-iq

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