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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Fw: Licensee Compliance with Local Law 36 of 2012
A cultural/political evening of celebration and solidarity
| SAVE THE DATE:  Saturday January 5, 2013 @ 6pm (Reception) 7pm (Cultural program and dance party) Venue to be announced... Dos Alas 2013 A cultural/political evening of celebration and solidarity presented by The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign and Casa de Las Americas! Dedicated to the FREEDOM OF THE CUBAN 5 AND THE PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS! Join us as we celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Cuban revolution anniversary and the 70th Birthday of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera! Music by DJ Carlito and DJ Che The BEST in all kinds of Latin Music, Hip Hop & more! Boleros by Abram Alberto Poetry by Bobby Gonzalez Rafael Landron www.ProLibertadWeb.com and www.Unacuba.org | ||
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Christmas Day and the Winter Solstice
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Christmas Day and the Winter Solstice
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Christmas Day is a Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Although the actual date of Christ's birth is unknown, it has been celebrated on December 25 since the 4th century.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Fw: [TheBlackList] !*`CENTRAL PARK 5` TRIAL SUPPORT MONDAY + Video
| Here's a video of Sharpton interviewing the Central Park 5 Bros. He also does a promo on a special he's doing on the case next week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjt1McTZw8&feature=youtube_gdata_player Come to court & support the Central Park 5 suit to end 23 years of monstrous injustice Monday, Dec. 17 from 2:30 PM at 500 Pearl St., Fl. 18-D See <http://ow.ly/g3yNu > same as... sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/18109_10152311860530201_142951604_n.jpg Directions to 500 Pearl St. / Moynihan Federal Courthouse / Southern District Court: It's that modern skyscraper just northeast of Foley Sq., with entrances on Pearl St. just west of Park Row - or - on Worth St. btw Baxter & Mulberry; transit: J train (not M) to Chambers; #4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; R (not N) to City Hall (at Broadway & Warren); A, C to Chambers; N, Q to Canal (east exit stairs, through J platform, to Centre St.); #1, 2, 3 to Chambers; E to WTC; PATH to WTC; M22 bus via Madison St., East Broadway, Worth & Chambers; M9 via Essex St., East Broadway & Park Row; buses via 3rd Av./Bowery or via Broadway or via 2nd Av. & Allen St.; map: http://ow.ly/5or1N bus map http://ow.ly/6SK4u = = = = = = = = = Please e-mail any NYC left event announcements to thousands at: No subscription needed. Where possible, please no file attachments. Send using TO: (not BCC:). Announcements of any in-person events that are primarily about struggle for progressive or revolutionary social change will be approved for distribution promptly. Read more event announcements at: Please. We urgently need some sort of sustainable, collectively run system for communicating event announcements between NYC left factions and groups with at least a bit of thoroughness. Help figure out how to do that. ***TO UNSUBSCRIBE from NYPROTEST listserv*** click & send any msg to: or visit: -- Vicente "Panama' Alba panama.alba@gmail.com Tel # 917 626 5847 "Lets Be Realistic Lets Do The Impossible" Ernesto "Che" Guevara ------------------- DREAD TIMES - Dedicated to the free flow of information - http://www.dreadtimes.com | ||
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Fw: Hatewatch Headlines for December 13, 2012
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Fw: [New post] University of Minnesota blackface video
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WordPress.comTuesday, December 11, 2012
Fw: [TheBlackList] Black Agenda Report Forum Post Election Analysis Dec 14th 6 to 9 PM Riverside
 BAR invites all truth seekers and tellers in this age of Obama to join us for a 2012 Post Presidential Election Analysis Forum: Domestic & Global Impact: Will "Things Fall Apart?" Friday, December 14, 2012 at The Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive 6 PM to 9 PM in Room 10T (Enter at Claremont Avenue) * A light supper will be served. Suggested donation of $10 to help defray cost. Please RSVP to this email: harlemfightbackagainstwar@gmail.com Panelists will include Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor; Margaret Kimberley, Senior Columnist ("Freedom Rider"); Dr. Anthony Montiero, Temple University & frequent BAR contributor; Nellie Bailey, Black Agenda Radio; Invited: Dr. Cornel West, Attorney Michael Ratner, Dr. Bill Sales, Sexton Hall University & journalist Arun Gupta. "Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some convenient season." Dr. W. E. B. duBois After President Obama's re-election Obama rascals dug their heels in even deeper than four years ago. None more breathtaking than the shameless spectacle of Black leftists, Marxists, progessives and liberals rallying around super rich, super hawk war maiden Susan Rice whose role in the ongoing Congo genocide exposes Obama's recolonization agenda in Africa, more brutal than under George Bush! The US imperialist agenda for full spectrum dominance couldn't be grander than under the Obama Administration: From Africa to Haiti, to the Middle East, Latin America, to the Pacific Rim, there's not a spot on the globe they don't covet. On the domestic front Obama will soon finalize his grand bargain deal with racist right wing Republicans, the evil twin of evil Democrats. The corporate media's fictional "falling off the fiscal cliff" hysteria is meant to justify the devil sandwich soon to be served up to the 99%: supposed tax cuts for the super rich 1% in exchange for dismantling social programs and public services earned by the people. Left out of this fiscal cliff drama, the military industrial complex receiving half of discretionary spending. The Federal Reserve Bank, the Executive Branch and Congress will allow "too big to fail banks" to continue their mafia criminality unparallel in the history of banking despite 16 trillion dollars in bailouts. By far the greatest thief of public dollars in the history of the world. But sometimes things fall apart! Internal and external contradictions compounded with on the ground authentic uprisings by the people can waylay the best of plans. Join us for this truth telling analysis. BAR'S RESPONSIBILITY AS A MEDIA OUTLET TO BLACK AMERICA IS TO TELL THE TRUTH! THERE IS NEVER AN EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE ESPECIALLY DURING THIS AGE OF OBAMA. NO MORE FREE LUNCHES FOR US IMPERIALISM UNDER THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OR ANY OTHER! THE MASSES AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEMANDING BUTTER NOT GUNS, LIBERATION NOT TYRANNY. LET US ALL HAVE THE COURGE TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER! PLEASE POST AND FORWARD TO OTHER TRUTH SEEKERS AND TELLERS!
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Fw: New Layover Zone at Barclays Center
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Fw: Hatewatch Headlines for December 6, 2012
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Fw: "Reefer Man" Cab Calloway and his Harlem Maniacs
| Here's Cab Calloway's legendary performance of his song "Reefer Man" from his appearance in the 1933 musical review film "International House." Video: Thanks, Enjoy! Matt Chauvin 30sJazz.com P.S. Please help spread the word and share 30sJazz.com with your friends and colleagues, Thanks. | ||
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Fw: ANNIVERSARY OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT PROTEST TOMORROW AT 4:30PM
| Please attend 'Daily Jobs Protest' in honor of the 'Montgomery Bus Boycott's' anniversary. Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 4:30pm Corner of West Market and Springfield Avenue, Newark. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal episode in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person, to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.[1] Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back.[3] On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard.[4] National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Main article: Rosa Parks  Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her. Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake. As a member of the NAACP, Parks was an investigator assigned to cases of sexual assault. In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama, to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor. The protest that arose around the Taylor case was the first instance of a nationwide civil rights protest, and it laid the groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott. [5] In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee where non-violent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the frontmost row for black people. When a Caucasian man boarded the bus, the bus driver told everyone in her row to move back. At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake. While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats. Found guilty on December 5,[6] Parks was fined $10 plus a court cost of $4[7], but she appealed. On the night of Rosa Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council, led by Jo Ann Robinson, printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community which read as follows: "Another woman has been arrested and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. This woman's case will come up on Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial. Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way to go except by bus. You can also afford to stay out of town for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off all buses Monday."[7] The next morning at a church meeting led by the new MIA head, King, a citywide boycott of public transit was proposed to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses. Such a line would have meant that if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would have to stand; blacks would not be forced to remit their seats to whites. This demand was a compromise for the leaders of the boycott, who believed that the city of Montgomery would be more likely to accept it rather than a demand for a full integration of the buses. In this respect, the MIA leaders followed the pattern of 1950s boycott campaigns in the Deep South, including the successful boycott a few years earlier of service stations in Mississippi for refusing to provide restrooms for blacks. The organizer of that campaign, T. R. M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had spoken on the brutal slaying of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience and later said that Emmett Till was on her mind when she refused to give up her seat.[8] The MIA's demand for a fixed dividing line was to be supplemented by a requirement that all bus passengers receive courteous treatment by bus operators, be seated on a first-come, first-served basis, and blacks be employed as bus drivers. The proposal was passed, and the boycott was to commence the following Monday. To publicize the impending boycott it was advertised at black churches throughout Montgomery the following Sunday. On Saturday, December 3, it was evident that the black community would support the boycott, and very few blacks rode the buses that day. That night a mass meeting was held to determine if the protest would continue, and attendees enthusiastically agreed. The boycott proved extremely effective, with enough riders lost to the city transit system to cause serious economic distress. Martin Luther King later wrote "[a] miracle had taken place." Instead of riding buses, boycotters organized a system of carpools, with car owners volunteering their vehicles or themselves driving people to various destinations. Some white housewives also drove their black domestic servants to work. When the city pressured local insurance companies to stop insuring cars used in the carpools, the boycott leaders arranged policies with Lloyd's of London. Black taxi drivers charged ten cents per ride, a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, in support of the boycott. When word of this reached city officials on December 8, the order went out to fine any cab driver who charged a rider less than 45 cents. In addition to using private motor vehicles, some people used non-motorized means to get around, such as cycling, walking, or even riding mules or driving horse-drawn buggies. Some people also hitchhiked. During rush hours, sidewalks were often crowded. As the buses received few, if any, passengers, their officials asked the City Commission to allow stopping service to black communities.[9] Across the nation, black churches raised money to support the boycott and collected new and slightly used shoes to replace the tattered footwear of Montgomery's black citizens, many of whom walked everywhere rather than ride the buses and submit to Jim Crow laws. In response, opposing whites swelled the ranks of the White Citizens' Council, the membership of which doubled during the course of the boycott. The councils sometimes resorted to violence: King's and Abernathy's houses were firebombed, as were four black Baptist churches. Boycotters were often physically attacked. King and 89 other boycott leaders and carpool drivers were indicted[10] for conspiring to interfere with a business under a 1921 ordinance.[11] Rather than wait to be arrested, they boldly turned themselves in as an act of defiance. King was ordered to pay a $500 fine or serve 386 days in jail. He ended up spending two weeks in jail. The move backfired by bringing national attention to the protest. King commented on the arrest by saying: "I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice."[12] Also important during the bus boycott were the grass-roots activist groups which helped to catalyze both fund-raising and morale. Groups such as the Club from Nowhere helped to sustain the boycott by finding new ways of raising money and offering support to boycott participants.[13] Many members of these organizations were women and their contributions to the effort have been described by some as essential to the success of the bus boycott. Pressure increased across the country and on June 4, 1956, the federal district court ruled that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. However, an appeal kept the segregation intact, and the boycott continued. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling, leading to a city ordinance that allowed black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they wanted. The boycott officially ended December 20, 1956, after 381 days. The Montgomery Bus Boycott resounded far beyond the desegregation of public buses; it stimulated the national civil rights movement and launched King into the national spotlight as a leader. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/poprogress?hl=en | ||
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
NEW THIS MORNING
| Landlords and city, state and federal officials negotiated an agreement to give priority to Superstorm Sandy victims for housing in over 2,500 vacant apartments owned by private landlords across the city, The Wall Street Journal reports: http://on.wsj.com/VlfuJg MTA Chairman Joe Lhota is seriously considering a run for mayor in New York City, even raising the possibility in a meeting with Mayor Bloomberg on Monday, the Times writes: http://nyti.ms/VvIVy6 The News writes that it is "preposterous" for the New York City Council Districting Commission to hold more public hearings on district maps after revising them again to remove Assemblyman Vito Lopez's residence from a Council district: http://nydn.us/SMdGub A dozen male public officials shuttled between Williamsburg and Crown Heights last night to greet thousands of Hasidic constituents celebrating the 68th anniversary of their founding rabbi's rescue from Nazi captivity. Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic community, which is split between two warring sects in a bitter succession battle, held concurrent events at the Marcy and Bedford armories for the holiday. Mayoral candidates Bill Thompson, Bill de Blasio, and John Liu, Councilmembers Domenic Recchia and David Greenfield, state Sen. Eric Adams, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries made the rounds among the vote-rich Orthodox enclave, while Councilman Steve Levin and former District Leader Lincoln Restler stayed among their respective Zali and Aroni sects that supported them in previous elections. Women were not allowed at either event but Council Speaker Christine Quinn sent her campaign manager Michael DeLoach as her surrogate. It is unlikely either sect would allow Quinn to attend the annual event even if she were elected mayor because of the community's religious practices separating the sexes. One Hasidic source said that Quinn would not be allowed inside but another Hasidic leader said the sect would "make accommodations" for her in the future. | ||
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Fw: Notify NYC - Silver Alert
| Silver Alert issued 12/5/12 at 7:00 AM. NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for the disappearance of Gary Sinclair, 63 year old, black male. He was last seen 12/4/12 at approximately 2:00 PM on the platform of the R train at 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan. He is described as 6'0", 230 lbs., heavy build, dark complexion, brown eyes, and bald. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black jacket, and a beige and blue baseball cap with St. Maarten on it. He suffers from dementia. If you see Mr. Sinclair, call 9-1-1. The sender included the following attachment: The sender included the following attachment: The sender provided the following contact information. Sender's Name: Notify NYC Sender's Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov Sender's Contact Phone: 2126399675 | ||
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Monday, December 3, 2012
HEARD AROUND TOWN
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| Mayoral candidates Bill Thompson, Bill De Blasio, and John Liu, and Comptroller hopeful Scott Stringer paid their respects to Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio and 600 other politicos at the Thomas Jefferson Club's annual holiday party in Mill Basin on Sunday night. But the political ambitions of many other guests in attendance remain fluid due to Stringer's decision to drop his mayoral campaign and continued uncertainty over which party will control the state senate. Councilman Domenic Recchia, who has explored a run at comptroller, is now reportedly eyeing Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's term-limited seat. Taxi Commissioner David Yassky, who has kept up a busy schedule of appearances this fall, may be looking at both offices, though sources said he is unlikely to run for comptroller and could be leaning toward borough president. And state Sen. Daniel Squadron, who is interested in either the public advocate or borough president posts, may step away from citywide office if Democrats hold the majority in the coming weeks. State Sen. Eric Adams dismissed rumors that he is interested in becoming Senate Majority Leader if Democrats secured the chamber, and said he was focused on the borough president's race. He spent much of the evening talking privately with Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, who promised the crowd that he was going to "get the Senate back to Democratic control." Markowitz, who has not revealed his plans after he leaves office next year, gave Seddio a model of the Brooklyn Bridge in honor of the event and nudged former Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Vito Lopez. "There are no more demons, no more enemy-lists, no more worries about the future of the Democratic Party," he said. "A new day has begun." | ||||||
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Fw: "The Big Apple" Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
| Today, back by popular demand, we present another film segment featuring the amazing swing dance of "Whitey's Lindy Hoppers." Video: Thanks, Enjoy! Matt Chauvin 30sJazz.com P.S. Please help spread the word and share 30sJazz.com with your friends and colleagues, Thanks. Matt Chauvin 457 Maple St. Apt C-102 Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601 | ||
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