Fw: Studio Museum | Weekly Newsletter | September 12, 2012

Studio Museum | Weekly Newsletter | September 12, 2012 Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Studio Museum | Weekly Newsletter | September 12, 2012 studiomuseum.org/event-calendar Events This Week 9/16/12 Gallery Tour: Caribbean: Crossroads of the World 1PM: Enjoy an interactive and informative tour of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World led by a knowledgeable Museum educator. Read more.    Hands On: Caribbean Bounty Collages 2PM: Join a workshop where you will use a variety of colorful materials to create a food platter collage inspired by foods, fruits and vegetables traditional to the Caribbean. Read more. Image (top): Rachelle Mozman, Las Damas from the series "Casa de Mujeres," 2010. Collection El Museo del Barrio, NY. Courtesy the artist Featured Upcoming Events 9/28/12 Uptown Fridays featuring DJ Max Carnage 7PM: It's a party and you're invited! Spend your Fridays nights at The Studio Museum in Harlem during Uptown Fridays. More information. Apply Now! ETW 2013 Application Now Available Online Metlife Foundation presenting sponsor of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World Expanding the Walls is made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; Colgate-Palmolive; Dedalus Foundation; The Keith Haring Foundation; Joy of Giving Something; and Surdna Foundation. Upcoming Events 9/18 Arts & Minds 2PM: Arts & Minds brings adults with memory disorders and their caregivers together in new experiences of art. More information. 9/20 Books & Authors: Lorna Goodison 7:00PM: Join celebrated poet and author Lorna Goodison as she discusses her book By Love Possessed. More information. 9/22 Film Series: I Remember Harlem Toward A New Day 2:00PM: I Remember Harlem (1980) is a four-part series by the legendary filmmaker Bill Miles tracing the history of Harlem over three centuries. More information. 9/28 Open House for Educators 4:30PM: Don't miss this great opportunity to learn about resources for educators, upcoming programs, and opportunities for your school! More information. Image (top): Zeus Eugene, 4, 2012. Courtesy the artist Current Exhibitions Through October 21, 2012 The Bearden Project Caribbean: Crossroads of the World Primary Sources: Artists in Residence 2011–12 Illuminations: Expanding the Walls 2012 Harlem Postcards Summer 2012 Upcoming Exhibitions November 8, 2012–March 10, 2013 Fore Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 Image (top): Noah Davis, The Frogs, 2011. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Marc Bernier Copyright © 2012 The Studio Museum in Harlem, All rights reserved. You've expressed an interest in The Studio Museum in Harlem. Our mailing address is: The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027 Add us to your address book

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Fw: [TheBlackList] MEMPHIS POLICE BODY COUNT - http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/memphis-police-body-count.html Re: Press Release: Two Killed in Police Car Crash Were Victims of Brutality, Activists Say

Memphis Police Body Count Memphis police officers shot and killed another black man. The most recent of six victims in 2012 was Christian Freeman, 19, a paranoid schizophrenic. He was killed on June 12 about 1:40 a.m. behind FedExForum near Fourth and Beale. Police claim Freeman charged at two officers with a knife and they shot him to death. That was Freeman's second encounter with police. He spent a month in a mental health ward after allegedly yelling and making obscene gestures at police officers in April 2012 at Fourth and Beale. Freeman's uncle in Texas, Todd Jones, said police should have tried to incapacitate and restrain Freeman rather than shooting him. Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a model for intervention services regarding arrests of mentally ill people in crisis, but Memphis police do not use it. In response to police violence in Memphis, a demonstration is planned for Saturday, September 8. Marchers will meet at 10:00 a.m. at the FedExForum and march to City Hall where they plan to have a rally. The Neal family is thankful that protest organizers from the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation are making people aware of the secret arrest and murder of Larry Neal, a 54-year-old schizophrenic heart patient who died in Shelby County Jail on August 1, 2003. See the protest announcement at the end of this article. Larry was secretly arrested, held 18 days in jail while police falsely denied having him incarcerated, and he was murdered under circumstances that the jail and the United States Department of Justice colluded with The Johnnie Cochran Firm to keep secret. Many other officials and the media participate in the murder cover-up that has continued for over nine years and through two lawsuits against The Cochran Firm for defrauding the Neal family to help Shelby County Jail escape accountability. THE SECRET MURDER OF MENTALLY ILL INMATE IN SHELBY COUNTY JAIL African Americans need to know about the new modus operandi of The Cochran Firm, a CoIntelPro program that defrauds grieving black families in Johnnie Cochran's name. During the Neal's second lawsuit against the firm, defendants claimed there is no Cochran Firm office whatsoever in Memphis. During the first lawsuit, defendants claimed there is no Cochran Firm office at all within the State of Georgia. Judges dismissed both the Neal family's lawsuits and prevented evidence of the lawyers' fraud from going to jury. The Neals' next lawsuit will be against the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), et al., for helping to cover up Larry Neal's murder and allowing or doing censorship and terrorism to prevent disclosure about Larry's murder and to stop advocacy for justice for America's mentally ill. After the Neal family announced the lawsuit against the USDOJ, our home in Stone Mountain, Georgia was burglarized on August 11. The only things stolen were original Neals v. The Cochran Firm court records and evidence that Larry's family was prevented from presenting to a jury in the cases against The Cochran Firm, but we have backups for most of the records that were stolen. Like Christopher Freeman, police in Memphis may believe Larry got off light when he spat on a nurse during a blood pressure examination two weeks before he "went missing." Larry was arrested for assaulting the nurse, then released to his social worker's care. A couple of weeks later, Larry was arrested secretly, kept from his vital heart medications by lying to his family and social worker, and then killed. One would hope, therefore, that Christopher Freeman was not actually killed for his conduct during his April crisis when he yelled and made obscene gestures at police officers. In 2006, an attorney filed lawsuits on behalf of numerous mentally ill black people who police brutalized or killed in Memphis, but the attorney had a heart attack and the cases were apparently stalled. This writer is sure there have been many other murders and brutality against the mentally ill since the three cases copied below from the WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL website at http://www.wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/updates/updates03.html  It is challenging getting attorneys to file lawsuits after police-related deaths and abuses in Memphis, probably because law officials there have brutality insurance through the United States Department of Justice and are allowed to kill blacks and mentally ill people. MORE MURDERS OF THE MENTALLY ILL IN MEMPHIS Jannie J. Williams, surviving mother of Kelvin A. Williams, Deceased, v. City of Memphis, et al. Filed 12/5/2006.  This case involves the death of a mentally ill adult while in custody. The lawsuit claims, in essence, that Kelvin Williams was assaulted by police officer(s). The assault continued after being taken into custody while on the way to the hospital in the back of an ambulance. Williams subsequently died of his injuries. Willie Hester, Jr., by his next friend and mother Joyce D. Hester v. City of Memphis, et al. Filed 7/3/2006. This case involves the shooting of a mentally ill adult by Memphis police. Hester was shot 21 times, some of the bullets entering his body from the bottom of his feet and some from his buttocks. The lawsuit also alleges that Hester was not properly treated and medicated while at the Shelby County jail; Hester was transferred to the jail after three months in ICU. Braxton Korvacea Moore, by his next friend and mother, Janie Moore, v. County of Shelby, et al. Filed 12/5/2006. This case involves the treatment, or lack thereof, of Braxton Moore, a mentally ill retarded child, while he was housed at the Juvenile Court Detention Facility and at the Shelby County Jail. The lawsuit claims Braxton was not properly treated, cared for, and supervised while he was incarcerated (with adults). The lawsuit also claims that Braxton did not receive his proper medications while he was incarcerated. For information about the demonstration in against police brutality in Memphis on September 8, email   organize.the.hood@gmail.com or call (901)337-2492  (Memphis, Tenn.) – A woman and a teen-aged girl killed in a car crash caused by a Memphis police officer were the victims of just another form of police brutality, say the organizers of a protest on Sept. 8. "We will march and rally this coming Saturday to protest the deaths of Delores Epps and Mackala Ross, and the cover-ups of the deaths of the six black men who were shot to death by Memphis police officers or who died in police custody, " said JoNina Abron-Ervin, acting chair of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, which is organizing the march and rally. The march will assemble starting at 10 a.m. in front of the Fed Ex Forum in downtown Memphis. At 11 a.m., the marchers will proceed to Memphis City Hall, 125 N. Main St., for a rally. Speakers at the rally will include some of the family members of the six men who were killed. Epps, 54, and Ross, 13, of Senatobia, Miss., died on Aug. 26 as the result of a car crash caused by Memphis police officer Alex Beard. According to witnesses, Beard was speeding at the time of the crash. He ignored police regulations to use the flashing lights and the siren on his car when he hit a car driven by Michael Ross, the father of Mackala Ross. Michael Ross was critically injured and remains in the hospital. A fourth passenger was treated and released. Beard, who has been suspended with pay, suffered minor injuries. This is the third time in five years that Memphis police officers have caused a car crash that killed innocent bystanders. "Beard's criminal negligence is inexcusable, as is the police department's continuing failure to properly train officers how to chase suspects without endangering the public," Abron-Ervin said. About 360 people in the United States are killed annually in police chases, according to a 2010 report by USA Today, which cited figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The total number of deaths caused each year by police chases is likely three or four times higher than what is reported because police departments are not required to report deaths in pursuits, the USA Today report said. The Memphis Black Autonomy Federation has compiled a special report, "The Body Count," that calls into question the accounts provided by Memphis police of the deaths of Jermie McCraven, 20, William Howlett, 41, Dewayne Bailey, 38, Christian Freeman, 19, Hernandez Dowdy, 36, and Lorenzo Davis, 28. The six men died between Feb. 10 and July 3 of this year. McCraven, Bailey, Freeman, and Dowdy were shot to death while being chased by police. The four men were killed in violation of a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlaws police from shooting fleeing felons in Tennessee, Abron-Ervin said. Howlett and Davis were alive when police arrested them but died later under suspicious circumstances, according to "The Body Count." The report maintains that the police beat the two men to death after arresting them. The march and rally will also protest the death of Chavis Carter, whom Jonesboro, Ark, police claim killed himself while handcuffed following his arrest. [Thanks to the media blackout regarding numerous lawsuits against The Cochran Firm by its defrauded clients, Carter's mother is now "represented" by the backstabbers.] ***** Congratulations to the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation for organizing a march and rally to protest police brutality. Many people think the Internet can be used to protest government and judicial corruption, and it could be except for cyberstalkers who are hired to contain information and protests regarding secret crimes against humanity in America. Protected murders are kept out of mainstream media reports, also. This writer has found that the only effective way to communicate about covered-up crimes is to take it to the streets. Mary Neal protests the media blackout surrounding The Cochran Firm's continuous  frauds against Africans in America to help police departments escape accountability after killing black people in the United States of America On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:01 PM, JoNina Ervin <organize.the.hood@gmail.com> wrote: Memphis Black Autonomy Federation P.O. Box 16382 – Memphis, TN 38186-0382 (901)337-2492 – email organize.the.hood@gmail.com   For Immediate Release Sept. 4, 2012   Contact: JoNina Abron-Ervin (901)337-2492 Two Killed in Police Car Crash Were Victims of  Brutality, Activists Say   (Memphis, Tenn.) – A woman and a teen-aged girl killed in a car crash caused by a Memphis police officer were the victims of  just another form of police brutality, say the organizers of a protest on Sept. 8. "We will march and rally this coming Saturday to protest the deaths of Delores Epps and Mackala Ross, and the cover-ups of the deaths of the six black men who were shot to death by Memphis police officers or who died in police custody, " said JoNina Abron-Ervin, acting chair of the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation, which is organizing the march and rally. The march will assemble starting at 10 a.m. in front of the Fed Ex Forum in downtown Memphis. At 11 a.m., the marchers will proceed to Memphis City Hall, 125 N. Main St., for a rally. Speakers at the rally will include some of the family members of the six men who were killed. Epps, 54, and Ross, 13, of Senatobia, Miss., died on Aug. 26 as the result of a car crash caused by Memphis police officer Alex Beard. According to witnesses, Beard was speeding at the time of the crash. He ignored police regulations to use the flashing lights and the siren on his car when he hit a car driven by Michael Ross, the father of Mackala Ross. Michael Ross was critically injured and remains in the hospital. A fourth passenger was treated and released. Beard, who has been suspended with pay, suffered minor injuries. This is the third time in five years that Memphis police officers have caused a car crash that killed innocent bystanders. "Beard's criminal negligence is inexcusable, as is the police department's continuing failure to properly train officers how to chase suspects without endangering the public," Abron-Ervin said. About 360 people in the United States are killed annually in police chases, according to a 2010 report by USA Today, which cited figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The total number of deaths caused each year by police chases is likely three or four times higher than what is reported because police departments are not required to report deaths in pursuits, the USA Today report said. The Memphis Black Autonomy Federation has compiled a special report, "The Body Count," that calls into question the accounts provided by Memphis police of the deaths of Jermie McCraven, 20, William Howlett, 41, Dewayne Bailey, 38, Christian Freeman, 19, Hernandez Dowdy, 36, and Lorenzo Davis, 28. The six men died between Feb. 10 and July 3 of this year. McCraven, Bailey, Freeman, and Dowdy were shot to death while being chased by police. The four men were killed in violation of a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlaws police from shooting fleeing felons in Tennessee, Abron-Ervin said. Howlett and Davis were alive when police arrested them but died later under suspicious circumstances, according to "The Body Count." The report maintains that the police beat the two men to death after arresting them. The march and rally will also protest the death of Chavis Carter, whom Jonesboro, Ark, police claim killed himself while handcuffed following his arrest. For more information about the march and rally, call (901)337-2492 or email organize.the.hood@gmail.com.  -30-   -- Mary Neal's Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - Follow me at Twitter @koffietime - http://twitter.com/koffietime - Current, urgent justice issues from a laywoman's viewpoint at my primary blog http://FreeSpeakBlog.blogspot.com (the name is a joke, believe me).  See also http://MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com and DogJusticeforMentallyIll http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com JusticeGagged http://JusticeGagged.blogspot.com Davis/MacPhailTruthCommittee http://DMTruth.blogspot.com Mary Neal at HubPages http://MaryNeal.hubpages.com .Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address:  MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com (I am censored, but some emails reach my box) Try to phone me at 678.531.0262, however, none of us really has free speech, so they may prevent your call.

NEW THIS MORNING

NEW THIS MORNING * Political observers believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo will run for president after giving a partisan speech to the state delegation, but he could have difficulty swaying delegates who love Hillary Clinton, the Wall Street Journal writes: http://on.wsj.com/TpZQ32 * Con Ed is seeking increases for electricity and natural gas rates from the state Public Service Commission in November, which consumers in New York City and Westchester will notice in October 2013, the New York Post reports: http://bit.ly/OUDPFo * The Bloomberg administration wants to market the city's logos and brands to corporations as a way to raise funds more quickly through the quasi-public tourism agency, NYC & Co., the News reports: http://nydn.us/RHWNS6 * Students in 550 schools in New York State will sit for a standardized test that doesn't count as the state revises future test questions, but some parents vow to pull their kids out of school in protest, the Journal reports: http://on.wsj.com/PNZYnM

Fw: E-Hailing and Payment

September 06, 2012 To All Interested Parties: Industry Notice #12-31 September 06, 2012 For Immediate Release Electronic Hailing and Payment The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) reminds medallion taxicab drivers and owners that it has NOT authorized any electronic hailing or payment applications ("apps") for use in New York City taxicabs. In light of the recent release of applications which may permit the electronic hailing of taxicabs and payment of taxi fares, including a release by UBER, taxicab drivers and owners are reminded that: Taxi fares must be accurately entered into the TPEP system.  A passenger paying by credit or debit card must use the TPEP system.   TLC rules also require that medallion owners maintain accurate trip records; if a driver accepts payment of taxi fares through a payment app not connected to the TPEP system, the trip records will not be accurate and the medallion owner will be summonsed. A driver cannot charge a passenger more than the fare on the meter for a taxi ride.  If a driver uses a payment app that charges the passenger more than the fare on the meter for a taxi ride, the driver is responsible for a passenger overcharge. A driver must not use any electronic communication device, including a cell phone or smartphone running a hail or payment app while operating a taxicab.  Any driver using such a device at any time except when the taxi is legally standing will be summonsed. Drivers and owners are reminded that violations of Commission rules can lead to fines and, in some cases, the suspension or revocation of their TLC license. Visit Taxi and Limousine Commission website at: http://www.nyc.gov/taxi This is the NYC.gov News You Requested For: TLC NEWS To unsubscribe, please go to this link: https://www.nyc.gov/portal/signin.jsp Comment on this news service PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE!

Amber Alert

Alert issued 9/5/2012 6:50 PM. The City of Newburgh Police has issued an AMBER Alert for confirmed child abduction of an unknown 5 year old female.  She was last seen at South Jr High School, 33 Monument Street, around 3:50pm today, being grabbed and forced into a black/dark pick-up truck with possible green writing on it.  She is described as black, 3 feet tall with long black hair.  She was last seen wearing a short sleeve bright pink shirt.  The suspects are described as two Hispanic males, one with long black hair with a black shirt and black baseball cap.  The second suspect is light skinned.  For the most up to date information, please visit http://amber.ny.gov.  If you have any information, please dial 9-1-1.   The sender provided the following contact information.    Sender's Name: Notify NYC    Sender's Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov    Sender's Contact Phone: 212-639-9675

Fw: Contaminated Tattoo Inks Can Cause Dangerous Infections

Tattoo inks and the pigments used to color them can become contaminated by bacteria, mold, and fungi. In the last year, inks contaminated with a family of bacteria called nontuberculous mycobacteria have caused serious infections in at least four states. Some bacteria in this family can cause lung disease, joint infection, eye problems, and other organ infections. The skin ointments provided by tattoo parlors are not effective against them. Read about symptoms and what you should do if you suspect you have a tattoo-related infection.         You received this message because you are subscribed to e-mail updates from USA.gov. If you have questions, contact us. Stay Connected to USA.GOV: Facebook  Twitter  YouTube  Our Blog

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NEW THIS MORNING

NEW THIS MORNING: * Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver will announce the state's delegates on the floor of the Democratic National Convention despite his involvement in a sexual harassment scandal, but some want him to give up the honor, the Daily News reports: http://nydn.us/PTmnES * The leading candidate to replace Assemblyman Vito Lopez as Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman, Frank Seddio, vowed to unify the party, but progressives and some black and Latino party leaders are wary, the New York Times writes: http://nyti.ms/OFBQVj * Gov. Andrew Cuomo will maintain a low profile during his party's convention in Charlotte, skipping all but its last day and refusing to address national delegates despite his interest in a presidential run in 2016, the News writes: http://nydn.us/OGxexW * The state's Democrats are pondering how to be relevant nationally with their governor all but skipping the convention, its senators split among downtown hotels, and its speaker hobbled in a harassment scandal, the Albany Times Union reports: http://bit.ly/PT3r3a * Unions are building a 65,000-member coalition, led by the Detectives Endowment Association's Michael Palladino and the Correction Officers Benevolent Association's Norman Seabrook, to elect the next mayor, the News reports: http://nydn.us/NLemLZ * The state Department of Labor is investigating whether the company that manages Frontier Field paid its workers a living wage, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports: http://on.rocne.ws/NFo0pw * Department of Education officials say Harlem students are better off than they were a decade ago, but some parents complain that their schools are performing poorly even with the influx of charters, the Times writes: http://nyti.ms/ScWq4k

Fw: [TheBlackList] Visa Campaign for the Cuban 5

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 www.freethecuban5.com freethecuban5@gmail.com 718-601-4751   Cuban 5 Pressure Campaign   Support the Cuban 5!! Due to the U.S. government's denial to approve visas, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert have not seen their wives since their incarceration!! Others in the Cuban 5 have not seen their parents, wives and children with regularity. The U.S. government has taken prolonged periods of time to issue them visas. The U.S. government's denial of visitation rights is a cruel and horrible form of psychological torture. Their rationale for denial is ridiculous and baseless; none of these family members are a threat to national security.   We are asking people to fax or mail out this letter to Ms. Navanetham Pillay, The NEW High Commissioner of Human Rights of the Office for Human Rights-United Nations Office at Geneva. We are asking her to intercede on behalf of the Cuban 5's mothers/wives to pressure the U.S. government to grant them VISAs to visit their husbands/sons!! Sign it and mail/fax to:      Ms. Navanetham Pillay, High Commissioner of Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights-United Nations Office at Geneva 8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Fax: + 41 22 917 9011   Letter to High Commissioner         FREE THE CUBAN 5 MONTH SEPT. 12TH-OCT. 12TH! Free the Cuban 5 Film Series!   Sat. Sept. 22nd, 2012 at 2pm   The Brecht Forum 451 West Street (Between. Bank and Bethune Sts.) A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River and turn left. Suggested donation: $5-10 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)     As part of our ongoing efforts to educate about Cuba, the Cuban 5, and the Cuban political system, The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 is hosting this film screening as part of "Free the Cuban 5 Month!" Join us for South of the Border, a film by Oliver Stone!   Film Synopsis:   There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.     The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5: For more information on the Cuban 5 please contact: freethecuban5@gmail.com or 718-601-4751 Visit our website: www.FreetheCuban5.com