Month: February 2014

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Update On Howard Morgan

 

“This is a case where the jury acquitted Morgan on counts of firing a firearm and counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, but deadlocked on charges of attempted murder.  At the retrial, the judge denied the jury knowledge of the acquitted charges, and the second jury convicted Morgan of attempted murder.  His attorneys have argued double-jeopardy because it was only possible for the jury to convict upon finding that Morgan fired a gun — a charge in which he was acquitted.

 

Tomorrow, February 26, 2014, a rally recognizing 9 Years of injustice against Officer Howard Morgan is being held in Chicago.

 

Time: 12pm – 1pm
Location: James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, Chicago, IL

 

Hosted by: Attorney Benjamin Crump

 

The Free Howard Morgan Campaign has a website where it also provides a petition.

 

http://www.freehowardmorgan.com/

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

U.S. Police are shooting people as if they are in a war zone.

Howard Morgan was shot 28 times

See on blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com

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Nation Of Islam Leader: African-Americans Need Their Own Courts

 

“Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told a crowd of 18,000 in Detroit on Sunday that African-Americans should set up their own courts after being failed by the U.S.’ own justice system.

 

“Our people can’t take much more. We have to have our own courts. You failed us,” Farrakhan said during the keynote speech of 2014’s annual Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day convention, according to the Detroit Free Press.

 

“How long must we let people stand their ground, shooting us and getting away with it while we don’t get justice?” Farrakhan told the crowd, referencing stand your ground laws in several states. “We want justice. Equal justice under the law. We want the federal government to intercede to see that black people get justice in accordance with the law. Otherwise, I’m going on record with this today … we have to have our own courts.”

 
See on www.huffingtonpost.com

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Hunt for driver who ran down elderly man

Police search for a driver who ran down an elderly man in an apparent road rage incident. CNN’s Rosa Flores reports.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Holy shit. This driver intentionally steered car into this old man and slowly ran over his legs.

See on www.cnn.com

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The faces of the forgotten: Heartbreaking plight of the 64,000 black women missing across America… as the country turns a blind eye

Nearly 40 per cent of those who disappear, often in suspicious circumstances, are black. These missing women have not been found (pictured). However critics allege that media attention focuses on missing white women in the U.S.

See on www.dailymail.co.uk

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Kent Wong: A More Inclusive Labor Movement

 

“Kent Wong Director of the UCLA Labor Center and VP of the California Federation of Teachers spoke with GRITtv about the AFL-CIO broadening it’s inclusivity.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Mr. Wong explains that his mentor, Cesar Chavez was able to organized undocumented workers to take on some of the most powerful interests in the U.S. – and win.

See on www.youtube.com

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Scot Nakagawa: Economic Rights are Civil Rights

 

“GRITtv: The demand for jobs was the great unmet demand of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While many have made that point, few have talked plainly about why the demand for federal investment in training and jobs for the unemployed dropped out of the picture of civil rights. Scot Nakagawa is not afraid to talk about it. Nakagawa is co-founder of Changelab, a social movement think tank, and the author of the regularly provocative Race Files.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

We invest in incarceration instead of education.

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