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Jamie Mazur
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Newbery Award
2008 Newbery Award Winners Announced / 2008 Newbery Award Winner: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy SchlitzHonor titles:Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul CurtisWednesday Wars, Gary SchmidtFeathers, Jacqueline Woodson
Derobing Children’s Literature Awards / When I was a child, I was obsessed with the Newbery Award. I was a reader, big time, and with so many books to choose from, I saw those gold and silver seals as holy stamps of official worthiness. I imagined the Newbery Committee as a circle of robed ancients in a windowless room, unchallengeable in their wisdom. Since then, I’ve met folks who served on the Newbery Medal Selection Committee. You’d think that with the curtain raised I might be disappointed, but it’s quite the opposite. I’ve been nothing but impressed by their credentials, their zeal for quality children’s books, their realness, and their lack of hooded robes. The truth behind the curtain is much more exciting than the fantasy. (Speaking of which, to get a real look at the Newbery process, read Monica Edinger’s excellent blog, Educating Alice.) I’ve served on some judging committees myself now, including this year’s Cybils Award. And while I do tend to don a hooded robe, lock myself in a dark room, and bathe soberly in a pillar of light while I make my own deliberations, I suspect that I’m in the minority.
Mock Newbery Award and Honors
Reading the Newbery Award Winners
Derobing Children’s Literature Awards / When I was a child, I was obsessed with the Newbery Award. I was a reader, big time, and with so many books to choose from, I saw those gold and silver seals as holy stamps of official worthiness. I imagined the Newbery Committee as a circle of robed ancients in a windowless room, unchallengeable in their wisdom. Since then, I’ve met folks who served on the Newbery Medal Selection Committee. You’d think that with the curtain raised I might be disappointed, but it’s quite the opposite. I’ve been nothing but impressed by their credentials, their zeal for quality children’s books, their realness, and their lack of hooded robes. The truth behind the curtain is much more exciting than the fantasy. (Speaking of which, to get a real look at the Newbery process, read Monica Edinger’s excellent blog, Educating Alice.) I’ve served on some judging committees myself now, including this year’s Cybils Award. And while I do tend to don a hooded robe, lock myself in a dark room, and bathe soberly in a pillar of light while I make my own deliberations, I suspect that I’m in the minority.
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Mock Newbery Award and Honors
Reading the Newbery Award Winners
Jeff Greene
Nami Ryu Testimonials - Jeff Greene, Karzai Protetive Detail / The principles that I have learned over the years as a student of James have come into play on an almost daily basis. We are here protecting President Karzai, who has many many enemies. I have used my aiki more here than anywhere else I have ever been.
I also train with my Bugei Bamboo Katana three times a week. Though a feudal weapon, the principals that I have learned from my study of the sword directly correlate to my M4, sniper system, and obviously empty hand. The most important thing that James has passed on to me is proper mindset. Not only adopting the predatory mindset, but also knowing when and where to fight, as well as being cogniscent of your surroundings in a 360 degree sphere is paramount in a country such as Afghanistan where being an American makes you stand out.
I just wanted to thank James Williams openly and to encourage anyone who can to train with or attend one of his seminars.
Jeff Greene
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Duluth High School
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a Loooooong Time ago........ / The attacks on the World Trade Centers happened two months before. The Concorde was still making trans-Atlantic flights. Enron had not yet filed for bankruptcy and Kenneth Lay was still working there. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. Milton Berle was still alive. So was George Harrison. The Euro was not the legal tender for the 12 European Union Members. Windows XP was only 1 month old. Nintendo Game Cube was released only two weeks earlier. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. The Baltimore Ravens were the reigning Super Bowl Champions. David Duval was the British Open Champion. Evander Holyfield was the WBA Heavyweight Champion.That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Saddam Hussein was still President of Iraq. Bill Clinton began the year as U.S. President, and George W. Bush was sworn in after the year began. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Johnny Cash won the Best Country Male Vocalist Award for �Solitary Man� at the Grammys. The song of the year was U2�s �Beautiful Day� and the Grammy for the best rock song was �With Arms Wide Open� by Creed. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Kevin Millwood were pitchers for the Braves. Jeff Francoeur was a junior at Parkview High School and Brian McCann was a junior at Duluth High School.That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.My oldest daughter, who graduated from Auburn University in May, was just a junior in High School. My son, who is in the 5th grade, was only in pre-school�not even kindergarten. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. Fear the other hand.War Eagle!
Duluth Georgia Home On the Market! / $158,900Contact Tim @ 404-414-9968 · 2 Bedrooms and 2 Full Baths on Main · Hardwood floors in Family Room, Dining Area, and Loft · Tiled floors in Kitchen and Bathrooms· Fireplace · Large Fenced and Level Backyard · Updated Hardware and Fixtures · Walk-in Attic with Pegboard Walland Extra Storage · Low Maintenance Home · Front Yard Maintained by HOA,fees are very low · Chattahoochee Elementary, Duluth Middle School, Duluth High School
a Loooooong Time ago........ / The attacks on the World Trade Centers happened two months before. The Concorde was still making trans-Atlantic flights. Enron had not yet filed for bankruptcy and Kenneth Lay was still working there. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. Milton Berle was still alive. So was George Harrison. The Euro was not the legal tender for the 12 European Union Members. Windows XP was only 1 month old. Nintendo Game Cube was released only two weeks earlier. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. The Baltimore Ravens were the reigning Super Bowl Champions. David Duval was the British Open Champion. Evander Holyfield was the WBA Heavyweight Champion.That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Saddam Hussein was still President of Iraq. Bill Clinton began the year as U.S. President, and George W. Bush was sworn in after the year began. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Johnny Cash won the Best Country Male Vocalist Award for �Solitary Man� at the Grammys. The song of the year was U2�s �Beautiful Day� and the Grammy for the best rock song was �With Arms Wide Open� by Creed. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Kevin Millwood were pitchers for the Braves. Jeff Francoeur was a junior at Parkview High School and Brian McCann was a junior at Duluth High School.That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama.My oldest daughter, who graduated from Auburn University in May, was just a junior in High School. My son, who is in the 5th grade, was only in pre-school�not even kindergarten. That�s how long it has been since Auburn has lost to Bama. Fear the other hand.War Eagle!
Duluth Georgia Home On the Market! / $158,900Contact Tim @ 404-414-9968 · 2 Bedrooms and 2 Full Baths on Main · Hardwood floors in Family Room, Dining Area, and Loft · Tiled floors in Kitchen and Bathrooms· Fireplace · Large Fenced and Level Backyard · Updated Hardware and Fixtures · Walk-in Attic with Pegboard Walland Extra Storage · Low Maintenance Home · Front Yard Maintained by HOA,fees are very low · Chattahoochee Elementary, Duluth Middle School, Duluth High School
Cabrini Green
Best in Show: Cabrini-Green /
I’m so proud of my mom.
She just won Best in Show for the quilt pictured above at the Morris Graves Museum/Humboldt Arts Council Member Show. The art there was a pretty incredible cross-section of artists from California’s North Coast, including several phenomenal paintings, photographs and sculptures. You know, “Real Art”.
Just in case you’re not aware, a lot of artists and art critics don’t consider quilting an “Art”, instead calling it a craft. And to be sure, there is a great deal of “craft” involved in the creation of an Art Quilt, but no more than is required to create a stunning photograph or painting. So it’s validating to win such an award, especially when going up against more traditional art forms.
Congratulations, mom.
Here’s her artist statement:
Cabrini-Green Public Housing
Wikipedia: �Cabrini-Green in a public housing project in Chicago�s North Side. At its height, Cabrini Green was home to 20,000 people, living in mid and high rise apartment buildings. Over the years gang violence and neglect created terrible conditions for the residents and the name �Cabrini-Green� became symbolic of problems associated with public housing in the United States. Currently 5,000 residents remain in Cabrini-Green.�
My son rides past what remains of Cabrini-Green on his way to work in Chicago. Most of the original housing projects have been torn down and are being replaced by newer buildings. This 15-story high rise is one of the last remaining buildings. The structure is scarred with fire damage, there are burned out apartments, and a majority of the windows are boarded up or covered in newspaper. My son was impressed with how much this building reminded him of a quilt. There are one hundred and sixty-five identical rectangular window units; all the same and all very different. Many people still call this home, and to continue the quilt analogy, the residents find warmth and security in this soon to be demolished building.
Again, congratulations.
And also to my cousin Adam Parker Smith, who I’ve written about before, whose Bold as Love installation was picked up in Fiber Arts.
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MARCH AGSINT WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN JENA, LA 1/21 / from REVOLUTION newspaper [http://revcom.us/]: January 21st: Oppose the Lynch Mob Racists! No to Nooses! Free the Jena Six! We Want a Better World! White Supremacists plan to march in Jena on Martin Luther King Day in 2008. On Martin Luther King Day of all days, the one day that is supposed to be about the struggle of Black people, they are coming to march with Nooses! This is a call to people everywhere: On Monday January 21st, get to Jena! OPPOSE THE LYNCH MOB RACISTS! Displaying nooses is a hateful and terrorizing message. These racists want to take us back to the days of lynch mobs murdering Black people in this country. Nooses are INTOLERABLE. Bring a sign, hang a poster, make a banner, get to Jena, SAY NO TO NOOSES! The Jena High students said no to nooses hung at their school when they protested by standing underneath the â��white only tree.â�� Then on September 20th, 2007 tens of thousands of people stood up, marching in Jena and around the country. People said â��Enough is Enoughâ�� to the injustice in punishing Black youth who take a stand against racism. The white supremacists call Black youth criminals and thugs, they say, â��Jail the Jena Six.â�� Letâ��s say it loud again in Jena: FREE THE JENA SIX! It is in response to September 20th and what that day achieved that white supremacists are lashing out, with a message that takes us back to the horrors of lynch mobs and segregation. When racism rears its ugly head, it is up to people everywhere, white and Black, people of all nationalities, to take a stand. If you are against injustice and inequality, if you want racism to end…itâ��s up to you to voice it! If we donâ��t speak up and stand up, this horrific message will go unopposed. If not us who? If not now when? Protest in Jena on January 21st. Join people everywhere in politically opposing white supremacy and drowning out their message of hate with the message that WE WANT A BETTER WORLD. January 21st Committee Contact the committee. Email: january21injenacomm@yahoo.com Phone: 318-787-1190 Spread the word! Get out this call far and wide, support and build for January 21st! Initial signatories: A group of 14 Jena residents Black and white, young and old, including two parents of the Jena Six Addis Bey Ababa, Peopleâ��s Hurricane Relief Fund organizer, Atlanta Animas SDS (the Fort Lewis College [Durango CO] autonomous chapter of Students for a Democratic Society Medea Benjamin, Cofounder CODEPINK* and Global Exchange* Black Men 7, Eunice, Louisiana Herb Boyd, The Black World Today, NY, NY Reverend Raymond Brown, Community Activist, New Orleans Marcus Coleman, President-National Action Network, Atlanta chapter* and 37 members and supporters attending the 1st NAN Atlanta meeting of 2008 C3 (Community, Concern, Compassion)/Hands Off Iberville, New Orleans 60 residents of Cabrini Green, Chicago Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party Education Not Incarceration (San Francisco Chapter) Miky Espinal, NY organizer for Health & Hospital Workers Union 1199* Peggy Hendrix, member of Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Idress Stelley Foundation International Socialist Organization, Madison Campus Branch Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law* Mayday New Orleans Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action, Los Angeles NU Coalition to Free the Jena 6, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Don Paul, writer, musician, Housing is a Human Right, New Orleans People Against Racist Terror Don Rojas, The Black World Today, NY, NY San Francisco Bayview Free The Jena Six Task Force San Francisco Village Voice Community Radio, 105.5 FM San Francisco Bayview Campaign to End the Death Penalty Sankofa Community Empowerment Sess 4-5, Nuthin But Fire Records, New Orleans Adam Shapiro, â��Current Eventsâ�� on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta Cindy Sheehan, Candidate for Congress, California’s 8th district, mother of KIA soldier Casey Sheehan Benetta Standly, Georgia Statewide Organizer, ACLU* Student Organizers from University of California, PA and Howard University Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can’t Wait â�� Drive Out the Bush Regime Everett Taasevigen â��Mzeeâ�� Leonard Tate, Millions More Movement Atlanta Chapter Ms. Beauty Turner, National award-winning Journalist/Activist/Groundbreaking researcher, Founder of Poor People Millennium Movement McNair Wagner, member Georgia Students for Sustainability Cornel West William Winters, Baton Rouge Activist Alice Woodward and Hank Brown, Jena, LA correspondents for Revolution *For identification purposes only Join us! This call is still in progress and we invite organizations, student groups, Jena residents and others to endorse. KKKluckers with NOOSES marching on MLK Day in Jena, unopposed? NO WAY! A white supremacist group that calls itself the â��Nationalist Movementâ�� plans to march in Jena on January 21. Theyâ��re telling people to bring signs calling for jailing the Jena 6, abolishing the Martin Luther King holiday, and â��down with communism.â�� Theyâ��re openly encouraging people to DISPLAY NOOSES!! Around the country, when people heard about this, a lot of them said, â��itâ��s time to go back to Jena.â�� And in Jena, many said, â��itâ��s time for people to come back to Jena.â�� The January 21st Committee has issued a Call to people of all nationalities to come to Jena on Monday, January 21 to say: Oppose the Lynch Mob Racists! No to Nooses! Free the Jena Six! We Want a Better World! (see Call in article below)) This Call already has a number of prominent and significant signatories including Black and white residents of Jena, some parents of the Jena 6, 60 people from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, Cornel West, Herb Boyd, Cindy Sheehan, and Medea Benjamin. Endorsers are still being gathered. And this is shaping up to be very significant. We encourage people to spread this Call far and wide, sign it, and get others to sign it. The Call puts out an important challenge to people of all nationalities to organize to be in Jena on January 21 to DROWN OUT these KKKluckers, whose message is about actually carrying out terror and murder against Black people. What Time Is It in America? Nooses hung on a â��whites-onlyâ�� tree at Jena High School put a huge spotlight on the unequal oppressive social relations and institutions that exist today and are brutally enforced. This struck a nerve among Black people all over the country. AND it also struck a nerve among despicable and hateful proponents of white supremacy who are striking back in response to the powerful demonstration in Jena on September 20 in support of the Jena 6. There is a real battle going on in this country over NOOSES and all that they represent. A real struggle over what kind of world we want. After the September 20 rally in Jena, in just the next two months, there were as many as 50 to 60 noose incidents around the country. There were more than 22 noose incidents in October 2007 alone, including: October 4, a noose is hung on a construction site in Oâ��Hara Township, PA; October 5, nooses are found hanging from a tree in front of a local high school in Columbia, SC; October 9, a Columbia University professor, a Black woman who teaches about racial justice, finds a noose hanging from her office door; October 22, in Brooklyn, NY, a noose is sent to the Black principal at Carnarsie High School; and October 24, in Shreveport, LA, a noose is found in a doctorsâ�� break room at the LSU Health Science Center. But the forceful imposition of white supremacy and this explosion of ugly, racist threats against Black people is not simply or even fundamentally a case of â��good ole boysâ�� going wild. All this is happening at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the land, has overturned Brown vs. Board of Educationâ��officially fortifying segregation and savage inequalities in the schools. This is happening only a couple of hundred miles from New Orleans, where the U.S. government carried out the most horrendous crimes against hundreds of thousands of Black people, abandoning them in the floodwaters of Katrina, treating them like animals, heartlessly evacuating them and then making it all but impossible for them to return and rebuild their homes and lives. White supremacy, lynchings and KKK terror were shaped, encouraged by and served to keep in effect a whole system that could not have existed without first slavery, and then near slavery, and segregation and terror centered in the South. The economic system of SLAVERY was an integral and foundational part of the whole way capitalism developed and grew in the United States. The end of slavery did not end the systemic oppression and super-exploitation of Black people. Millions of Black people were subjected to new forms of exploitation as sharecroppers. And a whole â��Southern cultureâ�� came out of thisâ��of KKK cross burnings, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws that required â��white onlyâ�� and â��Black onlyâ�� public schools, drinking fountains, trains, buses, and all kinds of other public places. These unequal and oppressive relations have been and continue to be brutally enforced. And while Black people no longer mainly face widespread lynching and cross burningsâ��though the kluckers planning on marching in Jena would like to bring them backâ��Black people do face the widespread terror of police brutality and murder. The U.S. system of capitalism has profited off the exploitation and oppression of Black people from Day One. And white supremacy has been and is built into the very foundations of this systemâ��in the economic relations, social relations, and all the thinking and culture that come from and in turn reinforce these relations of inequality. This is why nothing short of getting rid of this system, of making revolution and building a whole new socialist system based on emancipating all humanity, can lead to actually getting rid of the oppression of Black people and other minority nationalities in this country. Past and Present Reality of Lynch Terror The kluckersâ�� plan to march in Jena is happening in a whole climate and atmosphere in this country where white supremacy is being given a green light and is running amok. Look at what has happened just since September 20, when tens of thousands came to Jena to say: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! November 14, 2007: In Pasadena, Texas, a white racist named Joe Horn saw two Latino men, who he thought were Black, breaking into his neighborâ��s house. Horn called 911 to say he was going to shoot them dead. And then he didâ��giving them a vigilante death sentence for suspicion of burglary. When a group of about ten Black people marched in the street protesting the killing, hundreds of supporters of Joe Horn surrounded them, carrying American flags, hurling racist slurs, and shouting over and over, â��USA!, USA!â�� Horn faces no charges. Meanwhile: December 23, 2007: A Black man in Long Island, who confronted what he says was a â��white lynch mobâ�� at his house is found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and faces 5 to 15 years in prison. John White says he remembers childhood trips to the Deep South and how KKK mobs chased his grandfather out of Alabama in the 1920s. He says this is what came to mind when the white mob confronted him, smacking their fists and hurling racial epithets. The angry mob had followed John Whiteâ��s son home, alleging he had made sexual remarks about a white female. White said: â��In my family history, thatâ��s how the Klan comes. They pull up, they blind you with their lights. They burn your house down. They threaten your family. Thatâ��s how they come.â�� January 4, 2008: While broadcasting a PGA tour event, Kelly Tilghman, the Golf Channelâ��s main play-by-play anchor, was talking about Tiger Woodsâ�� dominance on the Professional Golf Tour and laughed as she said that his competitors should â��lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.â�� As usual, Tilghman issued a formal apology, asking forgiveness from viewers who â��may have been offended by my commentsâ��â��as if she herself wasnâ��t offended or didnâ��t even have a clue as to why such a remark is so racist! The whole history of nooses, of lynching, runs long and deep in this country. And it is not just a thing of the past. In 1981, Michael Donald was randomly picked out by members of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan who were angry that a Black man on trial had not been found guilty of killing a policeman. They beat him with a tree limb before cutting his throat and hanging him from a tree. And remember what happened to James Byrd? A Black man in Jasper, Texas. A rope tied around his neck, dragged behind a truck by white racists until his head separated from his body. What year was that? Not 1870 or 1920 or even 1950. It was 1998. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 3,437 African-Americans were lynched between 1880 and 1951. This means that for many Black people in this country the NOOSE and LYNCHING are not-so-long-ago family history. Denzel Washington was recently on the Tavis Smiley Show talking about the movie American Gangster and the character he played, drug kingpin Frank Lucas. Washington said that he injected into the story what he thought was one of the most fascinating â��turnsâ�� in Frankâ��s lifeâ��that when he was six years old he witnessed his cousin being murdered because of â��reckless eyeballing.â�� Denzel said: â��They said this 12-year-old, whatever he was, 12, 13-year-old cousin was looking at a white woman. Klan types or whatever, authority figures came to his house, smashed a shotgun in his cousinâ��s face, and blew his head off in front of him.â�� The â��whites-onlyâ�� tree where nooses were hung in Jena symbolized a whole â��way of lifeâ�� in that townâ��of blatant segregation, discrimination, and inequality for Black people. It echoed decades of American history when KKK night-riders lynched Black people and town sheriffs put white sheets on after sundown. Of â��southern just-usâ�� where any white person could get away with the murder of someone Black. Where 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman by a gang of racist whites who were quickly acquitted by an all-white jury. These nooses reflected todayâ��s reality of Black youth shot down by the police or locked away in prison for the rest of their lives. Of 21st-century USA â��just-usâ�� where an all white jury can sentence Mychal Bell (one of the Jena 6) to years in prison for standing up against white supremacyâ��and the U.S. Justice Department then calling this all â��regular, not irregular.â�� Where residents of Jena can recall how a Black man, not that long ago, was stomped to death by a gang of white guys because he bumped into a white woman. THIS STATUS QUO of white supremacy is what the kluckers want to defend and enforce with their march in Jena. This year the official parade in Jena is scheduled for Sunday, January 20, the day before the official MLK holiday on Monday. For many people nationwide, MLK Day is associated with the struggle against white supremacy and the oppression of Black people, and it is outrageous that these kkkluckers are marching on this day. (For an evaluation of the actual role of Martin Luther King, Jr. see sidebar: â��Martin Luther King… And What We Really Need.) The Unity We Need The white supremacists must be politically confronted and opposed and put on the defensive. One resident of Jena said: â��If they [the white racists] do this and nobody says anything, theyâ��re going to feel like they can do anything they want.â�� But the message that emerges on that day must be very different: That it is long past time for this to be tolerated. There must be a powerful political response and a heightened understanding throughout society of the kind of unity we need, of people of all nationalities standing up against white supremacy in any form, wherever it rears its head. We should remember that it was a very GOOD thing that the hanging of nooses in Jena was NOT ignored, that people didnâ��t just dismiss it, hoping it would just go away. NO! People all over the country and the world heard about it and in response people felt it had to be widely, boldly, and massively exposed and opposed. People felt compelled to find the ways to make it known that: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It was shameful that hardly any white peopleâ��from Jena or anywhere elseâ��were at the â��Free the Jena 6â�� protest on September 20. And now it is especially important that white people be out there among those who respond to the call to protest white supremacy on January 21. Those white people in Jena who say theyâ��re not racists, who are perhaps sorry they didnâ��t come out on September 20, now have a second chance! The kluckers are declaring that white people in Jena will be marching with them. And the system will come down on anyone, Black or white, who goes up against the racist status quo. As one young white woman in Jena said, â��If youâ��re white and you go to visit your Black friends in their neighborhood, youâ��re gonna get stopped, because you â��donâ��t belong there.â��â�� People who step out to join the struggle against white supremacy, Black or white, should be supported and if they face official or unofficial threats, people should have their backs. There is no â��being neutralâ�� when white supremacists plan on marching on MLK Day with NOOSES! The question is what message will emerge on January 21 from Jena. That Kluckers with nooses marched unopposed? Or that there was a powerful political response that DROWNED OUT their hateful message? The masses of people of all nationalities have a common interest in opposing white supremacy. But it will take real struggle to forge this unity. And it is important to bring about real concrete and visible manifestations of peopleâ��s determination to NOT TOLERATE white supremacy in any form.
MARCH AGSINT WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN JENA, LA 1/21 / from REVOLUTION newspaper [http://revcom.us/]: January 21st: Oppose the Lynch Mob Racists! No to Nooses! Free the Jena Six! We Want a Better World! White Supremacists plan to march in Jena on Martin Luther King Day in 2008. On Martin Luther King Day of all days, the one day that is supposed to be about the struggle of Black people, they are coming to march with Nooses! This is a call to people everywhere: On Monday January 21st, get to Jena! OPPOSE THE LYNCH MOB RACISTS! Displaying nooses is a hateful and terrorizing message. These racists want to take us back to the days of lynch mobs murdering Black people in this country. Nooses are INTOLERABLE. Bring a sign, hang a poster, make a banner, get to Jena, SAY NO TO NOOSES! The Jena High students said no to nooses hung at their school when they protested by standing underneath the â��white only tree.â�� Then on September 20th, 2007 tens of thousands of people stood up, marching in Jena and around the country. People said â��Enough is Enoughâ�� to the injustice in punishing Black youth who take a stand against racism. The white supremacists call Black youth criminals and thugs, they say, â��Jail the Jena Six.â�� Letâ��s say it loud again in Jena: FREE THE JENA SIX! It is in response to September 20th and what that day achieved that white supremacists are lashing out, with a message that takes us back to the horrors of lynch mobs and segregation. When racism rears its ugly head, it is up to people everywhere, white and Black, people of all nationalities, to take a stand. If you are against injustice and inequality, if you want racism to end…itâ��s up to you to voice it! If we donâ��t speak up and stand up, this horrific message will go unopposed. If not us who? If not now when? Protest in Jena on January 21st. Join people everywhere in politically opposing white supremacy and drowning out their message of hate with the message that WE WANT A BETTER WORLD. January 21st Committee Contact the committee. Email: january21injenacomm@yahoo.com Phone: 318-787-1190 Spread the word! Get out this call far and wide, support and build for January 21st! Initial signatories: A group of 14 Jena residents Black and white, young and old, including two parents of the Jena Six Addis Bey Ababa, Peopleâ��s Hurricane Relief Fund organizer, Atlanta Animas SDS (the Fort Lewis College [Durango CO] autonomous chapter of Students for a Democratic Society Medea Benjamin, Cofounder CODEPINK* and Global Exchange* Black Men 7, Eunice, Louisiana Herb Boyd, The Black World Today, NY, NY Reverend Raymond Brown, Community Activist, New Orleans Marcus Coleman, President-National Action Network, Atlanta chapter* and 37 members and supporters attending the 1st NAN Atlanta meeting of 2008 C3 (Community, Concern, Compassion)/Hands Off Iberville, New Orleans 60 residents of Cabrini Green, Chicago Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party Education Not Incarceration (San Francisco Chapter) Miky Espinal, NY organizer for Health & Hospital Workers Union 1199* Peggy Hendrix, member of Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Idress Stelley Foundation International Socialist Organization, Madison Campus Branch Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law* Mayday New Orleans Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action, Los Angeles NU Coalition to Free the Jena 6, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Don Paul, writer, musician, Housing is a Human Right, New Orleans People Against Racist Terror Don Rojas, The Black World Today, NY, NY San Francisco Bayview Free The Jena Six Task Force San Francisco Village Voice Community Radio, 105.5 FM San Francisco Bayview Campaign to End the Death Penalty Sankofa Community Empowerment Sess 4-5, Nuthin But Fire Records, New Orleans Adam Shapiro, â��Current Eventsâ�� on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta Cindy Sheehan, Candidate for Congress, California’s 8th district, mother of KIA soldier Casey Sheehan Benetta Standly, Georgia Statewide Organizer, ACLU* Student Organizers from University of California, PA and Howard University Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can’t Wait â�� Drive Out the Bush Regime Everett Taasevigen â��Mzeeâ�� Leonard Tate, Millions More Movement Atlanta Chapter Ms. Beauty Turner, National award-winning Journalist/Activist/Groundbreaking researcher, Founder of Poor People Millennium Movement McNair Wagner, member Georgia Students for Sustainability Cornel West William Winters, Baton Rouge Activist Alice Woodward and Hank Brown, Jena, LA correspondents for Revolution *For identification purposes only Join us! This call is still in progress and we invite organizations, student groups, Jena residents and others to endorse. KKKluckers with NOOSES marching on MLK Day in Jena, unopposed? NO WAY! A white supremacist group that calls itself the â��Nationalist Movementâ�� plans to march in Jena on January 21. Theyâ��re telling people to bring signs calling for jailing the Jena 6, abolishing the Martin Luther King holiday, and â��down with communism.â�� Theyâ��re openly encouraging people to DISPLAY NOOSES!! Around the country, when people heard about this, a lot of them said, â��itâ��s time to go back to Jena.â�� And in Jena, many said, â��itâ��s time for people to come back to Jena.â�� The January 21st Committee has issued a Call to people of all nationalities to come to Jena on Monday, January 21 to say: Oppose the Lynch Mob Racists! No to Nooses! Free the Jena Six! We Want a Better World! (see Call in article below)) This Call already has a number of prominent and significant signatories including Black and white residents of Jena, some parents of the Jena 6, 60 people from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, Cornel West, Herb Boyd, Cindy Sheehan, and Medea Benjamin. Endorsers are still being gathered. And this is shaping up to be very significant. We encourage people to spread this Call far and wide, sign it, and get others to sign it. The Call puts out an important challenge to people of all nationalities to organize to be in Jena on January 21 to DROWN OUT these KKKluckers, whose message is about actually carrying out terror and murder against Black people. What Time Is It in America? Nooses hung on a â��whites-onlyâ�� tree at Jena High School put a huge spotlight on the unequal oppressive social relations and institutions that exist today and are brutally enforced. This struck a nerve among Black people all over the country. AND it also struck a nerve among despicable and hateful proponents of white supremacy who are striking back in response to the powerful demonstration in Jena on September 20 in support of the Jena 6. There is a real battle going on in this country over NOOSES and all that they represent. A real struggle over what kind of world we want. After the September 20 rally in Jena, in just the next two months, there were as many as 50 to 60 noose incidents around the country. There were more than 22 noose incidents in October 2007 alone, including: October 4, a noose is hung on a construction site in Oâ��Hara Township, PA; October 5, nooses are found hanging from a tree in front of a local high school in Columbia, SC; October 9, a Columbia University professor, a Black woman who teaches about racial justice, finds a noose hanging from her office door; October 22, in Brooklyn, NY, a noose is sent to the Black principal at Carnarsie High School; and October 24, in Shreveport, LA, a noose is found in a doctorsâ�� break room at the LSU Health Science Center. But the forceful imposition of white supremacy and this explosion of ugly, racist threats against Black people is not simply or even fundamentally a case of â��good ole boysâ�� going wild. All this is happening at a time when the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the land, has overturned Brown vs. Board of Educationâ��officially fortifying segregation and savage inequalities in the schools. This is happening only a couple of hundred miles from New Orleans, where the U.S. government carried out the most horrendous crimes against hundreds of thousands of Black people, abandoning them in the floodwaters of Katrina, treating them like animals, heartlessly evacuating them and then making it all but impossible for them to return and rebuild their homes and lives. White supremacy, lynchings and KKK terror were shaped, encouraged by and served to keep in effect a whole system that could not have existed without first slavery, and then near slavery, and segregation and terror centered in the South. The economic system of SLAVERY was an integral and foundational part of the whole way capitalism developed and grew in the United States. The end of slavery did not end the systemic oppression and super-exploitation of Black people. Millions of Black people were subjected to new forms of exploitation as sharecroppers. And a whole â��Southern cultureâ�� came out of thisâ��of KKK cross burnings, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws that required â��white onlyâ�� and â��Black onlyâ�� public schools, drinking fountains, trains, buses, and all kinds of other public places. These unequal and oppressive relations have been and continue to be brutally enforced. And while Black people no longer mainly face widespread lynching and cross burningsâ��though the kluckers planning on marching in Jena would like to bring them backâ��Black people do face the widespread terror of police brutality and murder. The U.S. system of capitalism has profited off the exploitation and oppression of Black people from Day One. And white supremacy has been and is built into the very foundations of this systemâ��in the economic relations, social relations, and all the thinking and culture that come from and in turn reinforce these relations of inequality. This is why nothing short of getting rid of this system, of making revolution and building a whole new socialist system based on emancipating all humanity, can lead to actually getting rid of the oppression of Black people and other minority nationalities in this country. Past and Present Reality of Lynch Terror The kluckersâ�� plan to march in Jena is happening in a whole climate and atmosphere in this country where white supremacy is being given a green light and is running amok. Look at what has happened just since September 20, when tens of thousands came to Jena to say: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! November 14, 2007: In Pasadena, Texas, a white racist named Joe Horn saw two Latino men, who he thought were Black, breaking into his neighborâ��s house. Horn called 911 to say he was going to shoot them dead. And then he didâ��giving them a vigilante death sentence for suspicion of burglary. When a group of about ten Black people marched in the street protesting the killing, hundreds of supporters of Joe Horn surrounded them, carrying American flags, hurling racist slurs, and shouting over and over, â��USA!, USA!â�� Horn faces no charges. Meanwhile: December 23, 2007: A Black man in Long Island, who confronted what he says was a â��white lynch mobâ�� at his house is found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and faces 5 to 15 years in prison. John White says he remembers childhood trips to the Deep South and how KKK mobs chased his grandfather out of Alabama in the 1920s. He says this is what came to mind when the white mob confronted him, smacking their fists and hurling racial epithets. The angry mob had followed John Whiteâ��s son home, alleging he had made sexual remarks about a white female. White said: â��In my family history, thatâ��s how the Klan comes. They pull up, they blind you with their lights. They burn your house down. They threaten your family. Thatâ��s how they come.â�� January 4, 2008: While broadcasting a PGA tour event, Kelly Tilghman, the Golf Channelâ��s main play-by-play anchor, was talking about Tiger Woodsâ�� dominance on the Professional Golf Tour and laughed as she said that his competitors should â��lynch Tiger Woods in a back alley.â�� As usual, Tilghman issued a formal apology, asking forgiveness from viewers who â��may have been offended by my commentsâ��â��as if she herself wasnâ��t offended or didnâ��t even have a clue as to why such a remark is so racist! The whole history of nooses, of lynching, runs long and deep in this country. And it is not just a thing of the past. In 1981, Michael Donald was randomly picked out by members of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan who were angry that a Black man on trial had not been found guilty of killing a policeman. They beat him with a tree limb before cutting his throat and hanging him from a tree. And remember what happened to James Byrd? A Black man in Jasper, Texas. A rope tied around his neck, dragged behind a truck by white racists until his head separated from his body. What year was that? Not 1870 or 1920 or even 1950. It was 1998. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 3,437 African-Americans were lynched between 1880 and 1951. This means that for many Black people in this country the NOOSE and LYNCHING are not-so-long-ago family history. Denzel Washington was recently on the Tavis Smiley Show talking about the movie American Gangster and the character he played, drug kingpin Frank Lucas. Washington said that he injected into the story what he thought was one of the most fascinating â��turnsâ�� in Frankâ��s lifeâ��that when he was six years old he witnessed his cousin being murdered because of â��reckless eyeballing.â�� Denzel said: â��They said this 12-year-old, whatever he was, 12, 13-year-old cousin was looking at a white woman. Klan types or whatever, authority figures came to his house, smashed a shotgun in his cousinâ��s face, and blew his head off in front of him.â�� The â��whites-onlyâ�� tree where nooses were hung in Jena symbolized a whole â��way of lifeâ�� in that townâ��of blatant segregation, discrimination, and inequality for Black people. It echoed decades of American history when KKK night-riders lynched Black people and town sheriffs put white sheets on after sundown. Of â��southern just-usâ�� where any white person could get away with the murder of someone Black. Where 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman by a gang of racist whites who were quickly acquitted by an all-white jury. These nooses reflected todayâ��s reality of Black youth shot down by the police or locked away in prison for the rest of their lives. Of 21st-century USA â��just-usâ�� where an all white jury can sentence Mychal Bell (one of the Jena 6) to years in prison for standing up against white supremacyâ��and the U.S. Justice Department then calling this all â��regular, not irregular.â�� Where residents of Jena can recall how a Black man, not that long ago, was stomped to death by a gang of white guys because he bumped into a white woman. THIS STATUS QUO of white supremacy is what the kluckers want to defend and enforce with their march in Jena. This year the official parade in Jena is scheduled for Sunday, January 20, the day before the official MLK holiday on Monday. For many people nationwide, MLK Day is associated with the struggle against white supremacy and the oppression of Black people, and it is outrageous that these kkkluckers are marching on this day. (For an evaluation of the actual role of Martin Luther King, Jr. see sidebar: â��Martin Luther King… And What We Really Need.) The Unity We Need The white supremacists must be politically confronted and opposed and put on the defensive. One resident of Jena said: â��If they [the white racists] do this and nobody says anything, theyâ��re going to feel like they can do anything they want.â�� But the message that emerges on that day must be very different: That it is long past time for this to be tolerated. There must be a powerful political response and a heightened understanding throughout society of the kind of unity we need, of people of all nationalities standing up against white supremacy in any form, wherever it rears its head. We should remember that it was a very GOOD thing that the hanging of nooses in Jena was NOT ignored, that people didnâ��t just dismiss it, hoping it would just go away. NO! People all over the country and the world heard about it and in response people felt it had to be widely, boldly, and massively exposed and opposed. People felt compelled to find the ways to make it known that: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It was shameful that hardly any white peopleâ��from Jena or anywhere elseâ��were at the â��Free the Jena 6â�� protest on September 20. And now it is especially important that white people be out there among those who respond to the call to protest white supremacy on January 21. Those white people in Jena who say theyâ��re not racists, who are perhaps sorry they didnâ��t come out on September 20, now have a second chance! The kluckers are declaring that white people in Jena will be marching with them. And the system will come down on anyone, Black or white, who goes up against the racist status quo. As one young white woman in Jena said, â��If youâ��re white and you go to visit your Black friends in their neighborhood, youâ��re gonna get stopped, because you â��donâ��t belong there.â��â�� People who step out to join the struggle against white supremacy, Black or white, should be supported and if they face official or unofficial threats, people should have their backs. There is no â��being neutralâ�� when white supremacists plan on marching on MLK Day with NOOSES! The question is what message will emerge on January 21 from Jena. That Kluckers with nooses marched unopposed? Or that there was a powerful political response that DROWNED OUT their hateful message? The masses of people of all nationalities have a common interest in opposing white supremacy. But it will take real struggle to forge this unity. And it is important to bring about real concrete and visible manifestations of peopleâ��s determination to NOT TOLERATE white supremacy in any form.
Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter Issues TNA Statement / This message was posted on the TNA website last night from Dixie Carter:2007 has been a great year for TNA. Your amazing support for this company has brought success that no critic thought would ever happen. The New Year will bring many exciting things to TNA such as the launch of our first video game (which I promise will be the greatest wrestling game ever released) and hitting the road more than ever to bring you the best in-ring action in the world. During this holiday season, I just wanted to let each of you know how blessed we feel to have the best fans in the wrestling industry. So from myself and all of our talent and staff, we hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy and healthy New Year. Here�s to a great 2008! I look forward to meeting more of you in the coming year. All the best, Dixie Carter
Cotton
The Long, Enduring Journey of Cotton-Eyed Joe / Cotton-Eyed Joe,
Where do you come from,
Where do you go?
Truthfully nobody knows where Cotton-Eyed Joe came from. The song itself, a feisty, irresistible dance tune, dates from before the Civil War, and was firmly established as a fiddle piece by the mid-1800s. It has been recorded countless times in endless variations by everyone from Doc Watson, the Skillet Lickers and the Red Clay Ramblers to Garth Brooks, Michelle Shocked and, in perhaps its strangest incarnation, as an urban dance number with sampled beats merging with fiddles and banjos in a fascinating (and for some, irritating) cultural collision by the Euro-dance combo Rednex. The lyrics vary considerably, aside from the �where do you come from� chorus, in the different versions of the song, no doubt due to years and years of square dance callers pulling in whatever floating verses fit their needs at the time. It is, after all, a dance tune, and has prompted dancers to fill the dance floor for well over two hundred years now, an amazing bit of musical survival.
The Skillet Lickers - Cotton-Eyed Joe
So who is Cotton-Eyed Joe? To be cotton-eyed is to have an abnormal amount of white surrounding the iris of the eye, a medical condition that can be brought about by drinking wood alcohol, which blinds, or the effects of any number of illnesses ranging from syphilis to glaucoma and the viral disease called trachoma. Legend has it that Cotton-Eyed Joe was a pre-Civil War slave musician whose tragic life turned his hair white and was famous for playing a fiddle made from the coffin of his diseased son. In the song, Cotton-Eyed Joe is obviously a rambler, coming into town and leaving under mysterious circumstances. Michelle Shocked suggests that he was actually a roving abortion doctor in her version of the song from Arkansas Traveler, which tips things into some pretty heavy territory. Others have pointed out that Cotton-Eyed Joe isn�t a person at all but the name of a specific non-partner spoke-line dance and that one doesn�t meet Cotton-Eyed Joe, one does the Cotton-Eyed Joe.
Whatever its origins, Cotton-Eyed Joe has had an incredible run as a popular song, and in the Rednex version, which contemporary DJs have been quick to add to their standard set lists, it is played constantly at sporting events and makes an appearance nightly at countless clubs, discos, square dances and wedding receptions. It really is an amazing feat and this simple, bubbling melody is now into its third century of filling up the dance floors.
Cotton-Eyed Joe,
Where do you come from,
Where do you go?
Nobody really knows the answers to that. It has been a long journey and it isn�t close to being over, and even as you read this post, someone somewhere is stepping out on the dance floor to Cotton-Eyed Joe. Not bad for a little fiddle tune.
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
Tim Wu vs. Rick Cotton on Copyright / The New York Times Bits blog running run an interesting debate this week between Tim Wu, Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School, and Rick Cotton, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NBC Universal, about copyright issues. Postings so far include: "Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile?" "Should Internet Providers Block Copyrighted Works?" "Mixing It Up Over Remixes and Fair Use" "Responding to Readers on Filtering"
Ep. 242: Cotton And China
Tim Wu vs. Rick Cotton on Copyright / The New York Times Bits blog running run an interesting debate this week between Tim Wu, Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School, and Rick Cotton, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NBC Universal, about copyright issues. Postings so far include: "Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile?" "Should Internet Providers Block Copyrighted Works?" "Mixing It Up Over Remixes and Fair Use" "Responding to Readers on Filtering"
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Ep. 242: Cotton And China
Chair Covers
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Linens and Chair Covers
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Douglas Bruce
Douglas Bruce among three vying for House seat / El Paso County Republicans will vote by secret ballot Saturday morning to fill the House District 15 vacancy created by outgoing Rep. Bill Cadman.
Anti-tax activist Douglas Bruce is among three candidates vying for the Colorado Springs district seat and has said he will run for election next year even if he isn’t appointed to the seat this weekend.
Republican Party activists Reginald Perry and Steve Hasbrouck also are contending for the seat and plan to give Bruce a run for his money. Perry is an army veteran, and Hasbrouck is a businessman and owner of a muffler shop. Both are well known among party loyalists. (more…)