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Hurricane survivors have serious charges against the federal, state and
local governments for violating their human rights. The charges cover
three periods of abuse: (A) Pre-Katrina/Rita, (B) Katrina/Rita storm, flood, occupation, and removal (evacuation) related abuses, and (C) post-Katrina/Rita. Learn more ...
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Support MXGM's effort to end racial profiling and the murder of Black and Brown people by Police. Take a moment to sign the petition below and get justice for Oscar Grant, Adolph Grimes and Robbie Tolan.
In the span of 24 hours between December 31st, 2008 and January 1st, 2009, three Black men were the victims of racial profiling at the hands of various law enforcement agencies throughout the US.
Oscar Grant, a 22-year old father, was shot and killed by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police while laying face down and handcuffed after leaving a New Years Eve party.
Adolph Grimes, was killed after being shot 14 times, 12 times in the back, by several New Orleans police officers in front of his home after leaving a New Years Eve celebration.
Robbie Tolan was critically shot in the back by police in Bellaire, Texas, a suburb of Houston, after being falsely accused of a suspected robbery of his parents SUV.
Racial profiling is the product of the systematic denial of the human rights of non-European peoples in the United States. In “Blueprint for Change”, President Barack Obama promised to end racial profiling and to expand hate crime statutes, including the Mathew Shepard Act, which will deem crimes against gay, lesbian, and transgender people hate crimes. We demand that President Obama live up to his campaign promises and take immediate action to end the discriminatory and deadly system of racial profiling.
We demand:
The Federal Department of Justice (DOJ) must intervene in all three cases and charge all the officers involved with murder.
The creation of a special commission in the DOJ to systematically eliminate all racial profiling policies, practices, and operational procedures in all the law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
Legislation that eliminates racial profiling and deems it a punishable human rights violation in compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) be introduced and passed.
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From the GRITtv website: A legacy of torture closer to home. In 1973 thirteen alleged black
militants were arrested in New Orleans in connection with the shooting of a San Francisco police officer in 1971. Some of the men were tortured for several days by law enforcement authorities. Even though evidence obtained was dismissed by a Federal Court in San Francisco the case has recently been reopened. Legacy of Torture, a new documentary, tells the story of the San Francisco 8.
News Years Day 2009 started with the execution-style murder of 22 year old Oscar Grant III. Brother Oscar became a victim of police terrorism at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Station. Brother Oscar was shot, while laying face down, by Bart Officer Johannes Mehserle. While the victim and his friends were cornered in and terrorized by the BART Police. Oscar Grant could be heard saying “…don’t kill me, I have a 4 year old”. Oscar and his friends were utilizing the BART stations all night service, an annual process on News Years Eve.
On January 7th, Oscar’s friends and family laid him to rest. The spirit of Oscar Grant lives on as a powerful rally of over 1,000 strong protested and shut down Fruitvale BART Station. A crowd of Bay Area youth, adults, activists and artists demanded that charges be brought against Johannes Mehserle. The people have grown tired of the domestic militarization of Oakland’s Black and Brown communities.
One of the central principles of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is that of self-determination. We understand the recent and historical actions of Israel against the people of Palestine to be nothing less than an attempt to violently stifle their right to sovereignty and self-governance.
In the following article from 1964, Malcolm X exposes the intellectual and legal illegitimacy of an Israeli Zionism operating through camouflage and dollarism that ultimately serves to undermine the self-determination of Afrikan and Arab peoples.
The continued assault upon the people of Palestine is of direct relevance to our struggle. This is yet another step of a fortified imperialism sweeping through the Middle East and headed straight towards Africa (via an Obama supported Africom).
We fully support the struggle of the Palestinian people.
Zionist Logic -- Malcolm X on Zionism
Malcolm X (Omowale Malcolm X Shabazz)
Taken from The Egyptian Gazette -- Sept. 17, 1964
The Zionist armies that now occupy Palestine claim their ancient Jewish prophets predicted that in the "last days of this world" their own God would raise them up a "messiah" who would lead them to their promised land, and they would set up their own "divine" government in this newly-gained land, this "divine" government would enable them to "rule all other nations with a rod of iron."
If the Israeli Zionists believe their present occupation of Arab Palestine is the fulfillment of predictions made by their Jewish prophets, then they also religiously believe that Israel must fulfill its "divine" mission to rule all other nations with a rod of irons, which only means a different form of iron-like rule, more firmly entrenched even, than that of the former European Colonial Powers.
These Israeli Zionists religiously believe their Jewish God has chosen them to replace the outdated European colonialism with a new form of colonialism, so well disguised that it will enable them to deceive the African masses into submitting willingly to their "divine" authority and guidance, without the African masses being aware that they are still colonized.
I, Chokwe Lumumba, announce my candidacy for city council in Jackson’s Ward 2. I have been a committed community organizer and activist for human rights most of my life. I have a wealth of experience that includes my work over the last 40 years as a lawyer, small business owner, youth program director, factory worker, teacher, and as a board member of several non-profit organizations. It is these experiences that I believe will allow me to make a meaningful contribution as a member of the Jackson, Mississippi City Council.
I believe we must make Jackson a 21st century city and I believe the time to do that is now. As a member of the council I will dedicate myself to improving life in Jackson and the South by focusing on the following issues:
• A rights based approach to solve the economic crisis afflicting the city, state, and country
• Economic growth and job creation that brings Jackson into the forefront of the struggle to create a green economy and increase employment opportunities
• Create jobs programs and a better educational system that supports the real needs of our youth
• Public safety and an end to police misconduct
As a child of the civil and human rights movements I have a passion for the goals of freedom and justice. Our success requires that this city have dynamic leadership from elected officials and from our community. We need our youth, elders, business owners, workers, professionals, teachers and public servants to be educated, motivated, and organized to make and sustain fundamental positive change. Please support me in this initiative to make this change.
In order to run a winning campaign, we need to raise a minimum of $60,000 between December and April 2009 to cover staffing, canvassing, publicity and other expenses. To accomplish this fundraising goal, we need the support of all justice loving people in Jackson and throughout the country. We understand that we are all struggling in these trying economic times, but we know this is an attainable goal. How you might ask? One way is to get 1,200 people to donate $50 each, or to get 120 people to donate $500 each. As the math demonstrates, the goal is attainable –but not without your support.
What I need you to do is donate now to our campaign. And also please share this appeal with your family, friends, union, church and other civic organizations encouraging them to make a generous contribution to our campaign. Your contribution will help build a new Jackson and a new south, built on a foundation of human rights and sustainable, green economic growth.
Please mail your contribution to
The Committee to Elect Chokwe Lumumba
440 N. Mill Street
Jackson, MS 39202
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Sincerely,
Chokwe Lumumba
For Change We Can Achieve!
When imprisoned, and placed in an isolation unit, at some point you begin to live inside yourself, assessing and measuring how you are doing against the moment-to-moment, day-to-day challenges that you are confronted by to gage how well you are getting on. Even though we may spend countless years in prison, little if anything ever changes there. This might sound contradictory: in our minds we can become inured to the harshest conditions as a natural survival instinct; however in reality, they remain just as agonizing. How we deal with them, process them, interact with them in our mind largely determines the change we perceive around us and inside ourselves.
Isolation bears two recognizable features: one is introspection, the other is torture. It brings out the worst in us and the best in us; regardless, we must somehow still make it through the day. And in the course of that day, and every day, we must fight our demons, real and imagined. The real ones are plain enough to see. They turn the keys. (But not all the turn-keys are bad, just most of them. I like to think that the decent ones were well brought up by their parents; and that the bad ones, perhaps, didn't receive all they thought they should from their parents and others, and therefore will always feel the world owe them something and that meantime they can do whatever they want. Controlling for greed and ideology -- how else do we explain the pathology of man's inhumanity to man?)
One of the central principles of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is that of self-determination. We understand the recent and historical actions of Israel against the people of Palestine to be nothing less than an attempt to violently stifle their right to sovereignty and self-governance.
When imprisoned, and placed in an isolation unit, at some point you begin to live inside yourself, assessing and measuring how you are doing against the moment-to-moment, day-to-day challenges that you are confronted by to gage how well you are getting on. Even though we may spend countless years in prison, little if anything ever changes there. This might sound contradictory: in our minds we can become inured to the harshest conditions as a natural survival instinct; however in reality, they remain just as agonizing. How we deal with them, process them, interact with them in our mind largely determines the change we perceive around us and inside ourselves.