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Loving for All

By Mildred Loving*
Prepared for Delivery on June 12, 2007,
The 40th Anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia Announcement

Originally posted 2007-06-15 06:34:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The California governor’s office should never have a “buy it now” button and yet, this is what the 2010 elections has in store if we don’t take a stand now. You can help me and other Californians level the playing field in 2010 against Ebay billionairess Meg Whitman. She will use her Ebay billions in her quest for Governor to gain access into Sacramento.  California shouldn’t be for sale to the highest bigger on Ebay, nor should any U.S. state, for that matter; therefore, join California residents as we work together to level the 2010 political playing field.

“The Jews who ‘returned’ in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. They were converts to Judaism long after the end of the Hebrew conquest and short-lived domination of much of Canaan, the name as in the Bible by which Palestine was first known to the world.

Read more of what Alan Hart has to say

Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

International Arrest Warrants Requested

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

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h/t- ICH

In honor of Martin Luther King’s true birthdate, January 14th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia although the US has made it a holiday thus making the weekend a three-day weekend to celebrate and honor the late Mr. King.

This article was originally published in Scholastic Newstime.

The crowd was hushed as it listened to the man speak. “I have a dream,” he cried from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “One day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed…that all men are created equal.”
The man — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — was speaking to a crowd of 250,000 black and white Americans. They shared his dream of equality. They had gone to Washington, D.C., to hear this message: It was time all Americans were treated equally. The year was 1963.

Many of the people in the crowd had, like Dr. King, not been treated as equals by other Americans. Some blacks had been forced to use separate all-black schools, restaurants, and stores. They entered hospitals at different entrances, and used separate water fountains. In some parts of the nation blacks were denied the right to vote.

In 1963, blacks were rapidly gaining more equality in their rights. In most places in the U.S., schools, restaurants and stores were integrated. But even in these places, many black Americans could not buy homes where they pleased, or get good jobs.

Laws were needed to change these conditions. People had to be made aware that such a need existed. So the civil rights movement had begun. There were many leaders in the movement. Dr. King was among them. They led marches. They held boycotts. They held sit-ins. They helped register black citizens to vote.

What were the problems the civil rights movement faced? How could they be solved? What will happen in the future? Here are comments made by Dr. King in the years before he was killed in 1968.

ON THE PROBLEM

“Only 7.8 percent of the Negro students in the South are attending integrated schools this year, a hundred years after our emancipation from slavery. At this pace it will take 92 more years to integrate the public schools of the South.” — 1960

“I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs, and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered.” — 1964, on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

“We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.” — 1965, after march on Alabama state capital

“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.” — 1958

“Segregation…not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually…It scars the soul…It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying ‘You are less than…’ ‘You are not equal to…’”

ON THE SOLUTIONS

“We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. If I am stopped, our work will not stop, for what we are doing is right.” — 1956, in Montgomery, Alabama

“Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words “all,” “now,” and “here.”

“Green power — that’s the kind of power we need.”

“You can’t win against a political structure where you don’t have the votes. But you can win against an economic power structure when you have the…power to make the difference between a merchant’s profit and loss.” — 1962, after demonstrations in Albany, Georgia

“Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” — 1963

ON THE FUTURE

“We’ve broken loose from…slavery and we have moved through the wilderness of legal segregation. Now we stand on the border of the promised land of integration.”

“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love…Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.” — 1958

“…We must continue to resist the system of segregation…We must work constructively to improve the standards themselves…This is a great hour for the Negro. The challenge is here…”.

When one person has had his/her human rights removed and violated, everyone’s human rights have been removed and violated. Additionally, this  music video has brought together sixteen of the worlds top musicians. It is a plea set to music. Collectively, they’re asking for human rights to be guaranteed to everyone and not just a select few. As a general rule, many of us take our Human Rights for granted; however, how long will it take before our human rights are removed and violated if we join our own voices don’t deliver a united message of concern?

Introduced by Mr. Lawrence Fishburne, the video is donated by Aterciopelados and arranged by fusion music guru Andres Levin, the combined voices of Hugh Masekela, Julieta Venegas, Stephen Marley, Angelique Kidjo, Yungchen Lhamo, Aterciopelados, Yerba Buena, Natacha Atlas, Rachid Taha, Kiran Ahluwalia, Chiwoniso and Emmanual Jal join voices with U.S. artists Natalie Merchant, and Chali 2Na of Jurassic 5.

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The Wizard of Oz film will be 71 years old this August. Furthermore, if Dorothy were to encounter people with no brains, no hearts, and no courage today, she wouldn’t be in Oz.

She would be in Congress. 

Retrieved from my inbox a short while ago. Written by Matt Lockshin

You can bet Dianne Feinstein will never have to eat cat food. But that may not be true for seniors, low-income people and other at-risk folks if she gets her way. There’s a powerful movement in Washington, D.C. demanding big cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Thursday that those “entitlement” programs should be slashed to bring the budget under control, instead of raising taxes on the wealthy who have benefited from his bailouts.

Now, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Senator Dianne Feinstein is preparing to help Bernanke achieve his goal. That’s why the Courage Campaign and CREDO Action are teaming up to stop Senator Feinstein before it’s too late. Will you join us in demanding that Sen. Feinstein stop trying to undermine Social Security and Medicare and start expanding health care? Please sign our joint action now.

Senator Feinstein is trying to ram through far-reaching legislation that would lead to major cuts to Social Security and Medicare — before there can be any debate or the public even knows what is going on. The Senate should be working to expand health care programs and aid to those suffering from the recession, instead of pulling the rug out from under them. We’ve saved Social Security once before in 2005. Now we need to step up and both Social Security and Medicare from Dianne Feinstein.

Join in and demand that Sen. Feinstein stop trying to undermine Social Security and Medicare and start expanding health care. Click here to take action.

It gets worse. Sen. Feinstein is holding the economy hostage to force Congress to cave in before the American public has a chance to find out what’s going on.

Sen. Feinstein has joined with Republicans and conservative Democrats to demand Congress cede special legislative power to an unelected commission convened to slash government spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The commission would be able to offer legislation in both chambers of Congress that could not be filibustered or amended and that would pass on simple majority vote.

To ensure this comes to a vote, Sen. Feinstein is threatening to create a new financial panic. Because the U.S. government has already hit its debt ceiling, Congress must pass a law to raise it or else the government will default on its debt, causing economic havoc. The threat? Sen. Feinstein has publicly declared that she will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless other Democrats agree to create what some are calling the “cat food commission” — a backdoor attempt to make critical cuts to Social Security and Medicare that will endanger the lives of our nation’s senior citizens.

Join the Courage Campaign and CREDO Action today and tell Sen. Feinstein that she needs to get her priorities straight — and place the needs of senior citizens over devastating cuts to the the programs that safeguard their health and well-being. Pressure placed on Sen. Feinstein this summer, along with Courage and CREDO, helped force her to support the public option. Now you can help save Social Security and Medicare by applying that pressure again.

Thank you for helping us push for progressive change in California and across the country.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager

CREDO Action from Working Assets

Note: I don’t practice this type of copy and paste type of publishing as a general rule, however, this is an exception to the rule.

Feinstein is clearly not thinking about the health, safety, or welfare of her aging constituents who have supported her throughout her time as Congresswoman. Instead, she wants to hold everyone by the short hair as her hostages in order to make herself look good. Additionally, it’s time that we remind her that we’re still here doing the best we can with what we have to work with and we certainly do not need covert Congressional thieves trying to pass one over on us by ripping off senior citizens pitiful monthly incomes. The state of California has already dipped into our pockets due to piss poor financial management as it been since the 70s.

Take the money out of your own pocket, Feinstein. The many fat cats in office can afford it and then some. Not one greedy fat cat in either Congress or the House of Representatives would collectively miss one penny.

The Philippines, was devastated by Typhoon Ondoy (also known as Ketsana), which killed hundreds of people, submerged entire cities, and left millions of Filipino countrymen homeless. They need all the help they can get. Relief & rescue operations are being carried out by the more fortunate Filipinos who were unharmed by the typhoon alongside other organizations because the government is corrupt, flawed, and will not be helpful nor useful at all.

If you are living in the U.S. & wish to help in the Ondoy Typhoon Relief Effort, one option is to call the American Red Cross at 1-800-435-7669. Please choose the 3rd option (International Donation), tell the operator that your donation is for the Ondoy (Ketsana) typhoon victims in the Philippines.

Additionally,  Filipina bloggess, moongirl, has  put together a helpful list of World-Wide organizations for those around the world who also wish to help. The list is vast.

The Philippine National Red Cross is one of the major organisations providing aid to those affected by the floods. Wherever you are in the world, you can send your donations to them through this online donations form. Choose “Typhoon Ondoy” in the Project/Activity drop down selection.  

Since you can send donations using Philippine Pesos, just a few Australian, Canadian, or US Dollars can go a long way. AU$1, for example, is approximately 40 PHP. And, US$1 is about 47 PHP. So, just a gift of $5 can make a bit of difference.

PNRC’s online donation system allows you to send a donation using your credit card.

Join the People Power Revolution today!

h/t goes to Shai Coggins for updated info regarding PNRC.

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