"Sam Dubose Bad Dream Team: O'Mara, Zimmerman's Lawyer, and Wright, a Cochran Firm Fraud Lawyer

MaryLovesJustice discusses latest news regarding The Cochran Firm frauds. "Immaterial People Catch Hell in America's Legal System."  NNIA1 welcomes guests to speak on air by calling 818-572.2947.This broadcast will explore what it is like to be an "immaterial" American, which includes all people in the working class or on fixed incomes, especially African Americans. The Cochran Firm is possibly going out of business, having been declared nonexistent as "a law firm" by USDC, Central District of CA, on May 12, 2015. Nevertheless, Michael Wright has been selected (by the police union?) to represent Sam DuBose's family, along with O'Mara, George Zimmerman's former attorney. This might be the world's worst legal team to defend the wrongful death lawsuit against police who shot and killed Sam DuBose in an inexcusable violent police encounter at a traffic stop. Please read the following article and prepare to discuss the DuBose case during our upcoming broadcast: "Sam DuBose Bad Dream Team: Zimmerman's Lawyer O'Mara, and Wright from The Cochran Firm Frauds" 
http://maryneal.hubpages.com/hub/Sam-Dubose-Dream-Team-Zimmermans-Lawyer-OMara-and-Wright-from-The-Cochran-Firm-Frauds  >> As America's most censored journalist, MaryLovesJustice experienced difficulty scheduling the broadcast for August 15. "Immaterial" Americans are dissuaded from speaking, because our opinions do not matter to elitists in this country that wages wars for human rights in other countries.

This is a case of 'blame the messenger.' Our two radio channels, "Human Rights Demand" and "NNIA1" only report the numerous lawsuits against The Cochran Firm frauds. We do not cause partners to repeatedly violate the Code of Professional Responsibility and get sued by their former clients, attorneys, partners, and partnering law firms who allege fraud, malpractice, racism, and sexual discrimination against the firm that misuses Johnnie Cochran's name. When it comes to ruining one's own good name like Cochran Firm partners and associates have done, "Nobody else can do this for us" (MLK).

This Blogtalkradio host had significant trouble scheduling our "Johnny Strozier Keeping It Real" broadcast at "Human Rights Demand" channel tonight, Aug., 15, 2015, probably because successful reentry after parole damages prison investors' stock portfolios. I promised G+ followers I'd broadcast at NNIA1 at 11pmEST, but I was not allowed to schedule any show for before 11pmPST (which is 2amEST). Strozier was incarcerated in the Georgia prison system from age 10 until his mid-50's, and we follow his reentry into society. America has a 67.5 percent recidivism rate, which is unacceptable and evidence that a prison system based on harsh punishment rather than rehabilitation and education is ineffective for anything other than generating increasing prison profits for wealthy, unscrupulous prison and jail investors who profit by other people's hardship. 

Both of these radio shows will be rescheduled at Blogtalkradio, where paying for broadcasting time is apparently not enough to ensure that one will be allowed to go on air. We believe prison and jail investors should divest or resign from public offices and be immediately excluded from serving as Justice Department personnel, lawmakers, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and crime lab technicians. Furthermore, lawyers who are known to defraud their own clients in order to protect police like The Cochran Firm should not be representing Sam DuBose's family or anyone else in court proceedings. Let us hope that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where The Cochran Firm frauds appealed USDC's decision, will not revive the monster. 

Prison investors regard American's requests to end mass incarceration and corruption in government as being "immaterial," because working class people and those on fixed incomes in the USA are considered immaterial by bloodsucking elitists.

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Stop Mass Incarceration ATL

Save the DATE! 

Stop Mass Incarceration
Saturday, May 30, 1:00pm until 6:00pm

GRANT PARK @ the GAZEBO

BODY COUNT:
WE SAY NO MORE! 

MUSIC, BBQ, FESTIVAL OF ACTIVISM 

TO STOP POLICE MURDER AND MASS INCARCERATION

Conscious hip hop, reggae, spoken word, performance art.

BBQ Fundraiser for
Stop Mass Incarceration Network ATL

Meet the families whose loved one's lives have been stolen by police murders 
and mass incarceration. 

Connect with activists.

Bring a blanket or lawn chair and join us for the afternoon or an hour.

Sponsored by Stop Mass Incarceration Network [Atlanta] and 
the Georgia Coalition to End the New Jim Crow

Website

http://stopmassincarcerationatl.tumblr.com/
Email
 info@StopMassIncarcerationATL.org
Phone No.

(678)435-9570
National Organization Website

http://stopmassincarceration.net/

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Adolf Hitler Born 126 Years Ago

On April 20, 1889, one of the world's worst dictators was born - Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, Dictator, Führer of Nazi Germany, Genocidist

Born: April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria

Died: April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany

Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Spouse: Eva Braun (m. 1945–1945)

Parents: Klara Hitler, Alois Hitler

Read about Hitler at the Jewish Virtual Library url below

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html

Prosecution of Nazis who participated in Hitler's genocide are still being prosecuted today. NBC News reports the following:

MAINZ, Germany — Dozens of Holocaust survivors and their relatives from around the world are expected to converge on a German courtroom Tuesday, April 22, 2015, as the so-called "accountant of Auschwitz" is due to go on trial.

Former concentration camp bookkeeper and guard Oskar Groening, 93, is accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews.

"Many of the survivors, who are co-plaintiffs in the trial, are stepping on German soil for the first time since the end of Nazi regime," Christoph Heubner, the executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee, told NBC News from Berlin. See the full report and video at the NBC site -  

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bookkeeper-auschwitz-oskar-groening-set-stand-trial-n344796

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Tallahassee Rally v. Racism Apr.9

Students to hold rally against the KKK and racist violence

By staff | 

April 6, 2015

Read more articles in Anti-racism

Tallahassee, FL - Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other groups will be rallying against recent Klan activity in Tallahassee and North Florida on April 9. A Ku Klux Klan chapter has been flyering in Tallahassee neighborhoods, passing out racist and Islamophobic messages in an attempt to recruit. Recently it was revealed that three KKK members who worked for the Florida Department of Corrections were plotting to murder a black prisoner.

Students will rally at Florida State University’s Westcott Fountain at 7:00 p.m. and will then march to the steps of the Old Capitol. Representatives from the Black Liberation Action Coordinating Committee, the Center for Participant Education, Trans Liberation Front, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and others will speak on the struggle against racist violence and discrimination.

A leading member of SDS, Zachary Schultz said, “SDS is calling on the people of Tallahassee to drive the Klan out of town. We do not value the rights of white supremacists to spread their hate literature. Florida law enforcement is filled with KKK members and is part of a racist system that needs to be dismantled. We will be marching for an end to white supremacy.”

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2015/4/6/students-hold-rally-against-kkk-racist-violence

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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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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 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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Justice for Tamir Rice: City Council Meeting, March 2 Rally

Justice Rally for Tamir Rice and Family
Where: Cleveland, OH City Council Meeting
March 2, 2015, 7:00 p.m.

From: "PunctureTheSilenceCLE" <puncturethesilencecle@gmail.com> via Don Bryant

An article in Saturday’s "Plain Dealer" states, “The city, in its response, wrote that Tamir’s death on Nov. 22 and all of the injuries his family claims in the suit ‘were directly and proximately caused by their own acts, not this Defendant.'"

The city is blaming a 12-yr. old boy, gunned down by police in 2 seconds, for his own murder. This is a slap in the face to the Rice family, every family who has lost a loved one to police murder, and all of those who are struggling to stop police murder of Black and Brown people. The policemen involved in Tamir’s and Tanisha’s deaths are still on the job. Mayor Jackson touts his interest and record in reform, yet he accepts no responsibility for this and other crimes. Does anyone think, with this response, police murder in Cleveland will stop?

The people at the Sardis Primitive Baptist Church last Wednesday expressed righteous outrage at the police and city officials. They are part of a rising voice that needs to be heard. When these are their conclusions, clearly the city is not listening.

This serves as a Call for an Immediate Response to an intolerable development -- Converge on City Council Meeting this Monday, March 2, at 7pm to demand Justice for Tamir, Tanisha, Malissa and Timothy.

Cleveland: 12-year-old's police shooting death his own fault (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/us/cleveland-responds-lawsuit-police-shooting-tamir-rice/

Shooting of Tamir Rice (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

Full Surveillance Video Released of Tamir Rice Shot by Police

http://youtu.be/sdAYPQd1H1A

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