Did GA Prison Officials Severely Beat, Then Conceal Inmate For Two Weeks?

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Saturday January 01, 2011 · 7:33 AM PST

2011/01/01 · 07:33

terrance dean On December 9, 2010, black, brown and white inmates in at least six Georgia prisons locked themselves into their cells in a peaceful, nonviolent protest that lasted several days.

Prisoners were demanding wages for their unpaid work, educational and recreational opportunities (no educational programs are offered to GA prisoners except GED, and then only to those under 25 with less than six months remaining on a sentence) adequate food and medical care, better access to their families, and more just parole decisions.... all arguably basic human rights. In reprisal, heat and water were cut to some cell blocks and individuals were summarily beaten. It appears that at least one man, not thought to be a strike leader, was so seriously injured by staff that prison officials had to transfer him to a hospital in Atlanta more than 130 miles away. The man's family only learned of his injury and transfer when the friends of other inmates contacted them two weeks later.

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Wednesday March 03, 2010 · 3:44 PM PST

2010/03/03 · 15:44

Can a black president be guilty of environmental racism? President Obama's new proposed nukes are in one of the poorest areas east of the Mississippi. Burke County Georgia is majority black, the home of existing commercial nuclear reactors and directly across the river from the Savannah River nuclear weapons facility. Its river is the 4th most polluted in the nation, and its residents are suffering a veritable epidemic of unexplained cancers, with no local, federal, public or private funds available to test their air, soil, water or environment for its causes. But Burke County's residents are neither silent nor powerless.

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Can a black president perpetrate environmental racism

34 votes Vote Now!

Can a black president perpetrate environmental racism

Of course not. He's surrounded by Clouds of Glory and can do no wrong.

11 votes

He's not doing it himself. He's a Good King with lots of Bad Advisors

4 votes

He probably doesn't even know Burke County GA is mostly black

5 votes

Sure, why not? Nuclear utility campaign contributions talk louder than votes any day.

14 votes

Gingrich, Sharpton, Duncan: 3 Stooges For Corporate School Reform

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 3:01 PM PDT

2009/08/19 · 15:01

Quite separately from each other, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Rev. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich have long ago forfeited whatever credibility they may once have had. Taken together, they are simply a bad joke: three grown men publicly eye-poking and slap fighting each other while they all come together to sell us high-stakes testing, charter schools, educational privatization and the whole package of corporate "school reform."

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Wednesday December 03, 2008 · 7:10 AM PST

2008/12/03 · 07:10

Want to hold the new president accountable? Want to complete the unfinished work of Dr. King? Let's start calling the Pentagon what it is: the War Department. And let's call Barack Obama's re-appointee Robert Gates what he is --- the Secretary of War --- and a lying bloodstained Reaganite hack. Is this the "change" many worked for, and tens of millions voted for?

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We should call the Pentagon

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We should call the Pentagon

The War Department. And whoever sits in the the big chair is the Sec of War

61 votes

The Defense Department. Rebranding it from "War Deptarment" was a good idea.

52 votes

Obama (and Big Media) Turn Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid

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Thursday July 24, 2008 · 3:27 AM PDT

2008/07/24 · 03:27

Across Europe and the Middle East, and even within Israel itself, the view that Israel is truly an apartheid state is widespread and credible. South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, who should know what he's talking about on that score, has said that the situation of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is in some way worse than that of blacks in South Africa under the old regime.
With the renewal last month of an odious Israeli law restricting marriage and family reunions between residents of Israel proper and the West Bank and Gaza no less a prominent member of the Israeli elite than Amos Schocken, the publisher of Ha'aretz, Israel's daily paper of record ran an editorial declaring that his country was now officially an apartheid regime. Still, the visit of Barack Obama earlier this week occasioned no question from adoring US mainstream reporters on how the candidate, the son of a mixed marriage himself, can offer his uncritical support to the "Jewish identity" of a nation that bans mixed marriages.

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Laws against mixed marriage

55 votes Vote Now!

Laws against mixed marriage

are always wrong, period

26 votes

are OK in Israel cause Arabs are a de facto security threat

5 votes

should be enforced on unions between Republicans and Democrats

1 vote

should be violated frequently

6 votes

are none of Obama's business if they're in Israel

11 votes

should have been addressed by Obama in Israel

1 vote

should have been headline news in the US, since we pay Israel's bills

5 votes

Grand Theft Digital: How the FCC is Helping Hijack Digital TV

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 3:46 AM PDT

2008/06/12 · 03:46

The FCC is spending millions supposedly informing the public about the transition from analog to digital TV on Feb. 18, 2009. But they are deliberately concealing the fact from the public that with the transition to broadcast digital TV the number of available broadcast channels will multiply by two, or four or ten. The FCC is issuing no new TV station licenses, however --- ALL the new channels are to be allocated exclusively to the wealthy individuals and corporations who already have station licenses.
Why has the FCC, acting as sock puppet for the National Association of Broadcasters, crafted a process that quietly gives broadcasters exclusive rights to newly available channels? Why shouldn't new local operators, community organizations, colleges and schools, local unions and churches, local entrepreneurs, blacks, Latinos, Native Americans and women get some of those channels? Why does the FCC want to avoid public notice and public debate on this $70 billion dollar giveaway of public spectrum?

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Thousands of new digital TV frequencies

76 votes Vote Now!

Thousands of new digital TV frequencies

Should go only to current licensees, like the FCC says

3 votes

Should be held up until the public debates and a new Congress decides

36 votes

I want a local TV station -- I deserve one as much as current licensees do

13 votes

Some friends of mine will want a local TV station if frequencies are up in the air

0 votes

We need more reality shows and the home shopping channel anyway

0 votes

Daily Kos TV --- Now that's an idea...

24 votes

The Twisted and Racialized History of the 2nd Amendment

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 10:10 AM PDT

2008/04/24 · 10:10

In the waning hours of the legislative session, the GA legislators passed a low allowing the carriers of concealed weapons to bring them into restaurants and on public transportation, but, due to opposition from the Chamber of Commerce, not to one's place of employment, not even to the parking lot outside the job in one's car.

At the same time, police are reportedly going door to door in selected neighborhoods of Washington DC canvassing apartments and asking to search them for guns and drugs, promising amnesty for anything they find. Whether they are taking special note of those who refuse a search nobody can say.

Why does the US Constitution guarantee citizens "the right to bear arms," but not the right to an education or health care or a clean environment, as do the more modern Constitutions of other nations? Why is there no right to a guaranteed income or a job, or housing? What was so important in early America, about the right of citizens to have guns? And like much else in US history, is it even possible to have an honest discussion about the Second Amendment without acknowledging its racist origin?

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 10:44 AM PDT

2008/03/20 · 10:44

As the presidential campaign heats up, the precarious nature of Obama's "multiracial coalition" along with the nature of the "racial reconciliation" his candidacy brings becomes clearer. Under the Obama version of "racial reconciliation" the opinions commonly held by most of Black America are deemed "divisive" relics of the past, and banished from the national discourse. Black opinion, wherever it differs from that of white corporate media, is utterly off the table. A shrewd and savvy politician, Obama is entitled to make these choices for himself, and for his own reasons. But should the voices of Black America be silenced and banished from the national discourse because they do not serve the career plans or short term interests of the Obama campaign? Just what shots does Black America call in this "racial reconciliation", and what benefits do African Americans receive in Obama's "multiracial coalition"?

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Wednesday September 12, 2007 · 1:43 PM PDT

2007/09/12 · 13:43

Local lawmakers in Atlanta, Dallas and other cities pretend to address crime and destructive aspects of corporate-delivered youth culture by targeting the appearance of black youth --- with local ordinances to file or jail the wearers of sagging pants and exposed thong straps.

But the public airwaves over which commercial youth culture is delivered are owned by the people and regulated by their elected representatives. If regulators and legislators were doing their jobs, would the odious fare of BET, MTV and their commercial radio clones be the only messages permitted to reach the ears of young people?

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 6:06 AM PDT

2007/08/31 · 06:06

A slightly different form of this article was published Wednesday, August 29 at http://www.blackagendareport.com. zumbi50 is, of course Bruce Dixon.

Who owns Congressional Black Caucus Institute and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation? Is it the African American legislators who started the these not for profit institutions to attract corporate donations? Is the Black voters who elected those legislators? Or is it the dozens of favor-seeking corporations who who give to the CBC Institute and the CBC Foundation. Have the tails of CBCI and CBCF donors begun to wag the dog of the Congressional Black Caucus itself? Congressional Black Caucus Foundation?donors

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Friday August 24, 2007 · 8:16 AM PDT

2007/08/24 · 08:16

(A somewhat different version of this article appeared earlier this week in Black Agenda Report)

When George Curry's Emerge Magazine published its famous 1993 cover depicting US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "Lawn Jockey for the Far Right", he used ridicule to ignite a potent WMD --- a weapon of mass discussion among African Americans that clarified black opinion on the uses to which an earlier Bush administration put its prominent black faces.

In that spirit, Black Agenda Report and CBC Monitor will be at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference in DC this September 26 to establish a new tradition --- the awarding of the "Lawn Jockey" to the three or four African American members of Congress who score lowest on the semi-annual CBC Monitor report cards. The Honorable George Curry himself will present the awards. It's time to reclaim, to restart and to redeem the African American political conversation, the dialog among and about us that neither black nor white corporate media is willing to air.

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The Congressional Black Caucus

26 votes Vote Now!

The Congressional Black Caucus

deserve a lot more than just 4 Lawn Jockeys between them

10 votes

should be representing black communities and black voters

4 votes

should be representing everybody

2 votes

should be representing their campaign donors and benefactors

0 votes

should be ashamed of themselves

4 votes

should be disbanded

6 votes

Election day in GA -- Diebold machines switching McKinney vote

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Tuesday July 18, 2006 · 8:33 AM PDT

2006/07/18 · 08:33

Before polls were open two hours, reports began coming in tha votes in suburban Atlanta's Diebold black box machines --- purchased and defended by DLC Democratic candidate for governor Cathy Cox with absolutely no paper trail or means of independent verification --- are switching Democratic primary votres votes from McKinney to her opponent Hank Johnson.

Election officials in one precinct told a voter who complained her vote had been switched to look out in advance next time.

Funny how voting machine errors never, ever skew to the left. Always to the right.

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