Learn Important Steps for Voting this Election SeasonWhile American citizens have the right to vote, some don't simply because they don't know where to go, how to register or have other basic questions that must be answered before voting. USA.gov has the information you need to know before you cast your ballot: You must be 18 years old to vote in the United States. To register, contact your state board of elections. Most states also accept the National Mail Voter Registration Form, which allows you to register from anywhere in the United States. And most state departments of motor vehicles also allow voter registration. It's important that you register to vote before your state's deadline. Most state deadlines are about 25-30 days before the election, but check your state's deadline well before that to make sure you register in time. If you are living away from your permanent address, are working or studying abroad, or are a member of the armed services, you can vote absentee. Absentee voting allows you to place your vote in advance and to mail it to your local election center by the election date, which this year is Tuesday, November 6th. On Election Day, you must vote at your designated polling place. Be sure you know ahead of time where it is, its hours and which congressional district you're in. Congressional districts and polling place locations can change when new lines are drawn based on a change in the population. You can check your local election office or use the League of Women Voters' online search tool to find out where to vote and when.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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September 22—Autumnal EquinoxSaturday, September 15, 2012
When Chattel Slavery Ended, Neo-Slavery Started
| When Chattel Slavery Ended, Neo-Slavery Started By Malik Al-Arkam White America did not end chattel slavery in 1865 because it loved or respected oppressed Blacks. The Civil War was not fought to liberate slaves; it was fought to preserve a government which has always been owned and controlled by wealthy Caucasians. When obsolete chattel slavery ended, neo-slavery started and it continues to this day in 2012. So-called freed Negroes were not granted their Human Rights (the rights to their original language, original culture and original religion). Nor did they receive the land, equipment and money necessary to elevate themselves in a brutal capitalist system. Soon after the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, whites lynched many Blacks for attempting to vote. Right now Caucasian America's nefarious government is systematically eradicating the masses of Blacks and Browns through educational ethnocide, ghetto implosions, mass incarceration and bio-chemical warfare. She is implementing "The Final Solution" to her centuries-old race problem. Today we the awakened Afrodescendants are demanding both Human Rights and Reparations for all 250 million slave descendants throughout the western hemisphere, regardless of whether they speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Creole. We now have our own Constitution, our own executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch. We deserve our own territory outside of the rapidly falling USA and all the monies and equipment necessary to feed, clothe, shelter, educate, employ and medicate ourselves for the next 60 years. Please invite our first President, Ajani Mukarram, to speak about our quest for real justice at your church, mosque, college or corporation. Peace Be Unto The Righteous, Minister Malik Al-Arkam M.A. In Political Science, Atlanta University 1981 B.A. Cum laude in Government, Harvard College 1971 www.muhammadspeaksonline.net | ||
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Fw: Thursday, Sept. 20th, Celebrate the Change of Seasons with Wine, Live Music, Friends and Mother Nature at Fort Tryon Park!
| Only one week until the end of summer and the end of discount tickets to our wine tasting fundraiser, A Toast to Fort Tryon Park & A Taste of Washington Heights! Join us in support of park upgrades, free public programming and events in Fort Tryon Park! Get your advanced purchase discount tickets A Toast to Fort Tryon Park & A Taste of Washington Heights Thursday, September 20 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Location: Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park In only one week, you'll have your chance to wine and dine overlooking the Hudson at the historic David Rockefeller Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Celebrate the last eve of summer with fine wine and live music along with your friends and neighbors at the annual wine tasting benefit for Fort Tryon Park. Local musicians Annette A Aguilar and the String Beans will bring you Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Salsa, Brazilian, and new sounds that make you feel the passionate melodies of the music. Cosponsor Cabrini Wines will supply an elegant assortment of wines for the tasting and special discounts for orders placed through the event. You can sample 20 wines from Cabrini Wines paired with delectable food from restaurants in Washington Heights and Inwood thanks to the Washington Heights Business Improvement District. All proceeds support Fort Tryon Park restoration, horticultural supplies, maintenance staff, free programs, special events, volunteer initiatives and improvements in the park. Advanced Purchase Discount Tickets Discount tickets are available now at www.FortTryonParkTrust.org .. They will be available online for $50 until Wednesday, September 19. After the 19th, full-price tickets will only be available at the door for $60 (cash or check only). Space is limited. Reserve your spot now! This is a tented event and will take place rain or shine. No refunds will be available. Access to the historic Linden Terrace is not wheelchair accessible. Get More Info on What's Happening in Fort Tryon Park this Fall Find out what's happening in the park this fall with the latest edition of the Fort Tryon Park Gazette! Fort Tryon Park Fall Gazette powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- | ||
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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  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 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. | ||
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