Showing posts with label Slavery. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families - Black History Month at "Human Rights Demand"

PRESS RELEASE
(Revised Feb. 4, 2015 12pm EST)
Human Rights Demand, a Blogtalkradio channel, presents
"Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families"
Mary Neal, station director
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741
Wednesdays throughout February 2015, at 9pm EST until 11pm EST
Join discussions via phone (347)857-3293, or computer
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand
(Archived tapes are re-played on Sundays at 3pm EST and are available after live shows for public access 24/7)

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015 - "Human Rights Demand" began a discussion on Wednesday, January 28, which continues throughout February: "Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families." Please call (347)857-3293 Wednesdays at 9pm EST to participate. Family members of victims often experience retaliation in the form of financial persecution, police harassment, arrests, or even murder, especially if they expose and oppose wrongful convictions or wrongful deaths. In the bad old days, crosses would burn in Black survivors' yards to warn them against seeking justice after lynchings. Retribution sometimes happens to non-relatives and unrelated supporters, i.e., attorneys and civil/human rights advocates. Eighteen(18) examples might include:

~Kendrick Johnson, Jr. was killed and organs stolen in Lowndes Co., GA - His parents are currently being prosecuted for complaining.

~Larry Neal, 54, secret murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail - Mary Neal endures censorship, terrorism, and stalking.

~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated - mother assassinated, brother died under suspicious circumstances.

~Malcolm X was assassinated - First male descendant, Malcolm Shabazz, complained about government stalkers; killed in 2013 in Mexico.

~Johnnie Cochran, Jr. represented wrongful death victims' survivors - Cochran's brother and 16-yr-old nephew were killed by unknown assassins in two incidents.

~Jason Smith, 14, died in LA, and his organs were stolen - Father claimed being run out of Eros by the KKK.

~Gregory Johnson, Jr. killed by blunt force trauma at SJSU (falsely ruled suicide by hanging) - His mother claims being censored.

~ji-Jaga Pratt was wrongfully arrested 27 yrs on a CoIntelPro setup - His godson, Tupac, was killed by an unknown assassin.

~John Crawford, III shot by Ohio police in Walmart - His girlfriend, Tasha Thomas, was interrogated by police and died in a suspicious car accident 1/1/15.

~Tamir Rice, 12, shot dead by Officer Tim Loehmann in OH - His sister was arrested at the scene.

RETRIBUTION AGAINST NON-RELATIVES

~Eric Garner's NYPD choke hold death - Ramsey Orta filmed it and is being prosecuted.

~Darren Rainey killed by scalding in a FL prison - Psychotherapist George Mallinckrodt was fired for complaining about his patients' abuse.

~Micheal Brown killed by former officer Darren Wilson - Protesters were tear-gassed, plummeted with rubber bullets, and intimidated by militarized police.

~Alton Maddox, Esq. represented victims of oppression - His NY law license was suspended.

~Lynn Stewart, Esq. represented members of the Black Panther Party and others against the government - Her NY license was suspended, and she was jailed on a 10-year sentence until winning a compassionate release due to illness.

~Rev. Edward Pinkney protested victimization of Blacks in Benton Harbor, MI - Prosecuted and sentenced on voting fraud charges related to a recall petition.

~Social Studies teachers at Howard U Middle School - Fired for teaching Black History. Some objected to the common core curriculum.

~Dr. William Scott, Black History Professor and Author - First male descendant imprisoned over five years without trial - Terrell Scott, Pennsylvania.


On February 4, 2015, our special presenters will be Ralph Poynter and Randy Short. Poynter is a retired New York school teacher, a former union organizer and legal investigator. Short is a well-known human rights advocate who regularly addresses matters of human and civil rights concerns on international media. Human Rights Demand issued an invitation to Alton Maddox and Lynn Stewart to join us on a Black History Month program later in February. We hope to present journalists from African American media companies on a later show, also. Bob Darby will speak during one broadcast about the civil rights era from the standpoint of a Caucasian abolitionist, including the Freedom Riders, his work with a civil rights group at Emory University during the 60s, and the reaction of his fellow students in the Northeastern college he attended upon hearing the announcement of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death.

If you have experienced retaliation or wish to discuss either case listed above or others, please call in every Wednesday in February when the "Human Rights Demand" subject will be retribution. We are particularly interested in speaking with the eighteen(18) people listed above or their representatives. Listeners who do not wish to speak can join us via phone or computer. Archived tapes will be stored at the link below for future access and re-played every Sunday at 3pm EST throughout February.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand

The article, "Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families" is in FreeSpeakBlog
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/secret-war-on-black-america-and-victims.html

"Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families, Part 1" radio program was taped January 28. It is archived at the link below and can be accessed for listening any day, 24/7.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2015/01/28/secret-war-on-black-america-and-victims-families-part-1


The Kendrick Johnson Case - Elaina Porter joined Mary Neal for a broadcast on February 3, exposing oppression against the parents of Kendrick Johnson, the 17-year-old from Lowndes County, GA whose parents are in court this week facing a year in prison because they blocked the courthouse to insist on answers as to how Kendrick was killed in his high school and his organs were stolen.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2015/02/03/kendrick-johnsons-parents-prosecuted-4-protesting-sons-murder-and-organ-theft

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ANNOUNCEMENT: You are invited to contact Mary Neal to become a radio guest or weekly program host (short-term or long-term) and make a human rights demand regarding any issues of legal, social, or economic justice. Guests at "Human Rights Demand" channel are not selected on the basis of race, socioeconomic status, or ethnicity. Every human being has the right to life, liberty, and protection of property. Upcoming weekly programs include Bob Darby, an advocate for the homeless (returning); Ralph Poynter, a human rights advocate whose background includes teaching, labor unions, and conducting legal investigations; and Mary Diaz, a prisoner advocate primarily for Florida prisoners. The times available for regular program hosts are either 3pmEST (preferred) or 9pmEST. "Human Rights Demand" is particularly interested in adding a Native American advocate, and we invite a children's rights advocate to expose problems in the child welfare system. Guest hosts have their own programs on a particular day of the week, and they can invite their own guests. Mary Neal will run the radio board for all programs.

Thanks for promoting justice and participating in our "Black History Month 2015" by sharing this invitation.

Archived tapes from the Black History Month programs are re-played at "Human Rights Demand" channel on Sundays at 3pm EST and are available after live shows for public access 24/7. If you are prevented from accessing the data at any of the six(6) links above, escape censorship by copying the link and placing it into a new search tab, preferably at Google. The header for this article is repeated below.

PRESS RELEASE
(Revised Feb. 4, 2015 12pm EST)
Human Rights Demand, a Blogtalkradio channel, presents
"Secret War on Black America and Victims' Families"
Mary Neal, station director
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741
Wednesdays throughout February 2015, at 9pm EST until 11pm EST
Join discussions via phone (347)857-3293, or computer
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand
(Archived tapes are re-played on Sundays at 3pm EST and are available after live shows for public access 24/7.)


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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Dr. Joy De Gruy at Clark Atl Univ Oct. 16

Dr. Joy De Gruy authored a book called "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS)." She will be at the Clark Atlanta University Library in Atlanta at 4pm on Thur., Oct. 16, 2014. http://youtu.be/MH7tpAK8APY See a lecture by Dr. De Gruy embedded below.

WHAT IS P.T.S.S.? P.T.S.S. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery. A form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites. This was then followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury. More info http://joydegruy.com/resources-2/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome/


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SEND YOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR FREE PUBLICATION
Send your community service announcements to the MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
email address in order to be considered for publication in this "Human Rights Events by MaryLovesJustice" blog. Political and Christian announcements are usually welcome. If you do not receive a confirmation within 48 hours, please re-send the announcement, and call (571) 335-1741 for Mary Neal or 678.531.0262.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

UN Celebrates Heroes, Resisters, Survivors of Slave Trade

Press Release
Note No. 6341

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
Note to Correspondents

THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE:  HONOURING THE HEROES, RESISTERS AND SURVIVORS


TO BE HIGHLIGHTED IN SERIES OF ACTIVITIES AT HEADQUARTERS



The fifth annual commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will be observed at United Nations Headquarters under the theme "The Transatlantic Slave Trade:  Honouring the Heroes, Resisters and Survivors".  This year’s theme will focus on many of the courageous individuals who, in various ways, resisted slavery and fought for their own freedom and that of others.

The following events are scheduled:

Friday 23 March:  The weekly non-governmental organization briefing will take place in the Economic and Social Council Chamber, North Lawn Building from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.  It will feature panellists from Africa, North America and the Caribbean in discussion on the theme “Honouring the Heroes, Resisters and Survivors” of the transatlantic slave trade.  Featured panellists include historian and writer Sylviane Diouf, Curator of Digital Collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Sasha Turner, Assistant Professor of History, Quinnipiac University; Rita Pemberton, History Professor at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and author of several books on the topic of slavery; and Herb Boyd, author, journalist and activist.  The briefing is to be webcast live.  Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Public Information, will moderate.

Weekend of 24-25 March:  Special radio features produced by UN Radio in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Kiswahili and Fanti will be made available on the UN Radio website starting Saturday, 24 March.

Monday, 26 March:  A special commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March) will be convened by the General Assembly President and take place at 3 p.m. in the General Assembly Hall.  Statements will be made by the President of the General Assembly, the Deputy-Secretary-General and regional group chairs.  The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Rick Kittles, the Scientific Director of the Washington, D.C.-based African Ancestry Inc., a genetic testing service for determining individuals' African ancestry via DNA testing.  He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  A number of artists are scheduled to perform at this event.

Tuesday, 27 March:  An exhibition will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at 6 p.m.  It will include images of heroes and activists, original documents, historical illustrated newspapers and artifactsfrom a private 19th century collection, the installation “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, maps and radio interviews.  The exhibition will run until the end of May 2012.

Tuesday, 27 March:  At 6:30 p.m. in the General Assembly Lobby following the exhibit opening, an evening celebrating the cultural and culinary specialties of Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas will take place.  Chef and culinary consultant Scott Barton, Instructor at the Institute for Culinary Education, and doctoral student in Food Studies at New York University, will discuss the Columbian Exchange and explain the historical similarities between the foods and culinary practices of African countries from which enslaved Africans came and the countries to which they were brought.

Wednesday, 28 March:  The documentary Slavery by Another Name:  The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II will be screened in Conference Room 2 of the North Lawn Building from 6:30 to 9 p.m.  The film is based on the Pulitzer-prize winning book of the same name by Douglas A. Blackmon that challenges the belief that slavery in the United States terminated with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865.  It chronicles the ways in which African-Americans were coerced into forced labour in the Reconstructionist South following the Civil War and into the 20th century.  The film’s producer, Sam Pollard, will introduce the film and the screening will be followed by a question and answer session.

Friday, 30 March:  In Conference Room 2 in the North Lawn Building, a global video conference will bring together students from secondary educational institutions in six countries — Bermuda (African Diaspora Heritage Trail), Dominican Republic (Amistad America), Gambia, Ghana, United Kingdom and the United States.  This live interactive forum will aim to:  link the history of the transatlantic slave trade to the places where people live; share local stories about heroes, resisters and survivors to raise global awareness of the wide spread resistance to slavery; consider the legacy of slavery and its link to racism and prejudice; and discuss concrete actions that can be taken to address this problem.

A selection of images and materials is available for download on the Remembrance website at:  www.un.org/events/slaveryremembranceday.

Accredited correspondents are invited to cover the events in observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

For more information on the Remembrance events, please e-mail:  adamsg@un.org.

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