Story Archives 2016

 Do you know Harriet Tubman bought property for a home for elderly and disabled free Black people.

 

 

Harriet Tubman well known for the underground railroad.  Under the oppressive system of slaver she became disabled with seizures that played apart of here disguise during the underground railroad. In order to fulfill her dream to build a home for the elderly Tubman purchased additional land. In 1896 Tubman bought at auction 25 acres of land adjacent to her property located at 182 South Street. The land was sold for $1,450. The AME Zion Church raised funds and with the support of a local bank providing a mortgage Tubman was able to complete the transaction.  In 1903 as she was unable to make tax payments on the property, she donated it to the AME Zion Church with the condition that the church would continue to operate the home, that way her dream would outlive her. It took 5 years to fully staff and equip the home and on June 23, 1908 the Harriet Tubman Home for the Elderly was inaugurated. Tubman continued to live in her residence until her health deteriorated and could not take care of herself. She moved next door where she was cared for until the day she died in 1913.

Editor's Note: Editors Note: Jose Villarreal is one of several power-FUL PNNPlantation prison correspondents. As currently and formerly incarcerated poor and indigenous peoples in struggle and resistance with all plantation systems in Amerikkka, POOR Magazine stands in solidarity with all folks on the other side of the razor wire plantation. 

“The political Legacy of Malcolm X” by Oba T’ Shaka, Third World Press, $11.95

This book attempts to give another analysis of Malcolm’s theory. Here we read of Malcolm X the revolutionary. Many other books focus on his upbringing or his religious nature, but this book teaches us of his political side.

As a prisoner, I have always drawn strength from Malcolm X, who, like myself, also developed consciously in U.S. prisons. Like so many, I also used these pintas to study and learn from my own history and this drew me to Chican@ revolt. It was the extreme repression of California’s control units which enabled my consciousness to rise up in resistance. Malcolm X’s story is one being reborn many times over in dungeons throughout the U.S.

On page 29 we read of Malcolm’s psychological transformations. Like so many today, Malcolm X went from Malcolm to Lumpen street hustler to Malcolm X the revolutionary. This transformation was brought out by learning from history and what his role was under Amerikkka. He not only fully grasped that role which Amerikkka played in keeping the oppressed thoroughly disoriented, but he laid it out for others to also learn from. On page 32-33, he is quoted as stating…” one of the best ways to safeguard yourself from being deceived is always to from the habit of looking at things for yourself, thinking for yourself, before you try and come to any judgement. Never base your impression of someone on what someone else has said or upon what someone else has written. Never base your judgement on things like that. Especially in this kind of country and in this kind of society which has mastered the art of very deceitfully painting people whom they don’t like in an image that they know you won’t like. So we end up hating our friends and loving our enemies” (1).

This is what I enjoyed about this book, rather than focus on the trivial aspects of Malcolm X’s life, the author concentrates Malcolm’s political contributions for all of those struggling against the oppressor nation. In the above passage, Malcolm highlights how deceitful and crafty our oppressor is and how they have many out of touch with reality and manipulated to the point that some folks love the enemy and hate the people. This is what I mean by Malcolm having a deep understanding of Amerikkka and its foulness.

Many today, especially amongst the Black bourgeoisie, attempt to kidnap Malcolm’s legacy and paint him erroneously, particularly when it comes to Black nationalism. The author reminds us of what Malcolm X thought of Black nationalism where on page 36, Malcolm is quoted as saying it is t” the type of ingredient necessary to fuse or ignite the entire Black community”. This is a truth which applies to all oppressed peoples. Indeed even within Aztlan Chican@ nationalism will be what ignites the entire Chican@ nation. In today’s social reality in U.S. borders revolutionary nationalism of the oppressed is the correct method to propel us forward under today’s conditions.

Another thing that I enjoyed about this book was how the author put revolutionary nationalism in its proper context. Many have said towards the end that Malcolm had moved away from nationalism and into internationalism. But as the author states on page 107 “Malcolm was not changing from Nationalism to internationalism, he was simply linking up African nationalism in America with African nationalism in Africa”.

I believe that Malcolm did begin to see that the Black struggle in the U.S. was linked to that of Africa. As a Chicano I also see that the Chican@ struggle is linked to the struggle in Mexico. Our efforts ultimately are aimed at capitalism-imperialism which works to sabotage our liberation at every turn. For Chican@s revolutionary nationalism is our path forward to the day when Chican@s can decide whether we build a Chican@ nation or remerge to a future liberated Socialist Mexico.

White Marxists nationally and internationally, could not tolerate the existence of a base outside of their control”. Here the author speaks of the fact that Trotskyites work hard to corral non-white revolutionary organizations under their white leader-ship. Those non-whites who attempt to organize oppressed nations under their own leadership are branded as “bourgeoisie” by the Trots. It is a way, as the author explains, to push white nationalism under the guise of Marxism.

A good chunk of the book is focused on what the author calls Malcolm’s “African strategy” where we read how Malcolm attempted to re-orient Black people’s thought back to Africa. It was a re-education process which sought to ultimately get New Afrikans to want to someday re-locate back to Afrika. This is up for debate today.  I think many New Afrikans see the land in the Black Belt as the national territory of New Afrikans, just as Black Haitians would not want to go back to Afrika, but stay in a Black controlled Haiti. Just as many Chican@’s would not want to be under the Government of Mexico. Rather, some would want to build a distinct Chican@ Nation. These are pressing issues even today for the internal semi- colonies. These are questions people need to begin to think about and build their collectives around.

There was some error in this book. For one, the author speaks of “radical” religious groups being a step forward for Black people. He goes on to say that those who are against religion surrounding the Black liberation struggle are pretty much Western influenced. This is a metaphysical approach no matter which nation we are speaking of. A nation will liberate itself on it’s own accord not some supernatural force.

The author also lists a slew of things which he states help in the “disintegration of the Black family” and one of these things is homosexuality. Here the author defends those Westernized (white) patriarchal views which he spent a whole book telling us he’s against, by blaming homosexuality on a broken black family. He adds to gender oppression and as a result strengthens the white ruling class he claims to be against.

Overall this was an interesting book which attempts to give another view of Malcolm’s political thought.

Notes:

(1)    Quoted from Malcolm X speaks, London: Secker and Warburg, 1966, p.91.

I recently read an article about Airdnd (dnd=death ‘n displacement) CEO Brian “C” recently.  If you don’t know, Brian “C” is founder of Airdnd, part of a number of related businesses making up a cartel that uses the moniker “The sharing economy”.  Brian “C’s” brainchild, Airdnd, is a hosting platform where you can turn your room, house or building into a hotel on a supposed short term basis.  The problem is that people are renting out entire homes and buildings, contributing to an affordability and eviction crisis plaguing many cities.  This business model is a violation of the zoning laws here in San Francisco.   In response, San Francisco passed a law that would regulate short term rentals (Str’s), putting limits on the number of days one could offer a room and requiring those who engage in this practice to register with the city.  Of the many thousands of short term rentals being offered in San Francisco, less than 400 “hosts” have registered with the city. Airdnd refuses to divulge information on their hosts so it’s almost impossible to get an accurate number on how many are engaging in short term rentals.  This situation has put the city in a continuous loop in an effort to get Airdnd to get its s**t together and stop playing ring around the Rosie.

 

Brian “C”, at the helm of a corporation that takes in billions of dollars yet pays no taxes, is a modern day P.T. Barnum—clean, pressed and tech washed—the internet providing app-based absolution (ie: no accountability) for the havoc his so-called clever business model has caused.  According to the article, Brian still inhabits the place where it all started, his apartment, a slick version of the Hewlett Packard garage, offering his couch for $50 a night to allow visitors the pseudo religious experience of a white couch, framed by white walls--a couch with a sleek slickness that Brian--The Reverend Ikea himself--envisions as a homage to his business core value—belonging—a mantra hatched from the Airdnd syntax suites by lawyers, lobbyists and politicians, often repeated in annoying commercials and marketing materials complete with yuppies, babies and suitcases; but in reality, has seeded a sense of not belonging in this city for thousands who lived here before the arrival of the modern day P.T. Barnum/Reverend Ikea.  I recently came across something called AIRBNE, which allows access to people’s homes (illegally of course, following the Airdnd model).  It was through AIRBNE that I secured an interview with Brian’s couch.  It was white, sleek and looked as though nobody had sat on it.  The couch had much to say.

 

TR: How do you like living at the home where Airdnd started?

Couch: I feel neglected

TR: Really, don’t you feel like you belong?

Couch: Hardly

TR: Explain

Couch: I’m tired of accommodating everybody’s ass.  How would you like to be sat on?  And the vapid conversations about wine, cheese and Brian.  The conversations don’t make a dent.  It’s enough to make you want to jump out of a window.  In fact, I already tried.

TR: But you seem sturdy enough to handle things

Couch: looks are deceiving.  I was ok ‘til I got kidnapped.  I could have gone home with a family that would appreciate me.  I’d be part of the family.  I’d of course have to deal with the occasional tortilla chips in the cushion and a stain here and there, but no biggie.  But then Brian comes around, The Reverend Ikea himself.  I’m not myself anymore.  This place looks like nobody belongs in it.  He’s worth billions and he’s pimping me out for $50 a throw.  It’s enough to make you puke.

TR: that’s tough

Couch: And these fools that make the pilgrimage here act as if it were a shrine, the Taj Mahoe

TR: Don’t you mean Taj Majal?

Coach: Call it what you want but it’s pimp central, plain and simple.

TR: how do you keep your sanity?

Coach: I don’t

TR: Any other thoughts?

Coach: yeah…I got to give it to this cat Brian.  A housing tech pimp empire is what he’s created. Pimping everything that ain’t nailed down—the mayor, the supes, the commissions—soon he’ll be charging $75 to crap in his toilet, $100 to camp in the fire escape, which reminds me, how did you get in here?

TR: Illegally, with an app

Coach: Oh, then that’s ok

TR: Any last words?

Coach: this guy, through his so-called clever idea has taken thousands of rental units off the market.  Lots of rent controlled units.  And folks are doing this s**t illegally.  You got realtors and landlords in on this scam, using it as a business model.  A whole lot of ‘em live out of state too.  And they get away with this stuff.  Not a peep from good old Brian though.  You got to be gentle with him as he is a sensitive soul.  “Come, come now Brian, do the right thing now…pretty please with artificial sweetener on top.  You have to nudge him, without a night stick—mind you.  The rest of us that do wrong, they just shoot, but you can’t do that with Brian.  He has a mute button inside him.  Not a sound but lots of fallout.

TR: A tech pimp?

Coach: A modern day P.T. Barnum

 

© 2016 Tony Robles

div span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125em; line-height: 18px;"Patrick Wetter, brother, son, mechanic, long-time friend to many, and loving uncle, was just 25 years old, and living with his father, when he was brutally killed by Stockton police on January 6, 2015. nbsp;Patrick#39;s death, unlike his life, was extremely violent. nbsp;A police dog was sicked on him, he endured six gunshots to his trunk, he was struck with a tazer. nbsp;In life, Patrick stood 6 foot 5 inches tall, and his friends and family refer to him as a ldquo;gentle giantrdquo; and he had the nickname of Tiny. nbsp;When he was little his older siblings and parents called him ldquo;pokie bear,rdquo; and when Patrick was ldquo;in troublerdquo; his mother Holly addressed him with his full name of Patrick Wayne Wetter. nbsp;Patrick Wayne Wetter went out fighting for his life and died on the floor of his neighbor#39;s home wearing handcuffs and in a pool of his own blood./span/div div p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;Patrick, a white man in his early 20s stands tall in a white football jersey with the number 32 on the front, he has a beard on the bottom of his chin, a mustache and a round belly. nbsp;He has a crew cut, a sweet smile and a tiny birthday hat on the very top of his head. nbsp;He is surrounded by green trees and grass at a birthday party for himself and his young niece Gabby in 2012]/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Only Patrick Wetter knows why he (allegedly) kicked in the door of his next door neighborrsquo;s home, people he knew, one year ago today, which prompted them to call 911 on him. nbsp;When the police arrived, they claim they could see Patrick inside ldquo;trying to force his way into a bedroom,rdquo; where his neighbors were ldquo;barricaded.rdquo; nbsp;Police say they ordered Patrick to ldquo;stop and surrenderrdquo; and when he ldquo;did not complyrdquo; the first thing officers on the scene did was release a K9 police dog to attack Patrick. nbsp;/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"img height="523px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/s4-oVuguiE_FQpZbR-o6DChti3jKHD9RQRPSQIHIbXvNAlEnMWrT69KEvxOGaJr74quN4XjkzKXDU4zMzbtRJ54tR958m41DIyyHGZhPFkFWruLXoEdC4QhBt1wZfRvrg3mVKTZF" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px;" width="348px;" //span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;Smiling Patrick wears an A#39;s cap, a bright red shirt and blue jeans and holds a white cup, he is seated among many empty tables at Manteca Bowling Alley]/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The Stockton Police Department have a reputation for excessive use of force, specifically when it comes to police dogs, their K9 units. nbsp;There are many instances of the Stockton K9 dogs let loose to maul and attack people, in an unnecessary abuse of force. nbsp;In November of 2014 a young Black teenager named James Smith was profiled by officer Houston Sensabaugh (an officer who has killed at least two people on the job). nbsp;James, who is Disabled and whose disabilities include Cerebral Palsy, was in a crisis and needed help. nbsp;Instead of getting help, Sensabaugh escalated the situation, and aggressively subdued and handcuffed James. nbsp;Sensabaugh then released a department K-9, which first attacked a neighbor, Patrina Walker (a bystander), before mauling James, who was down on the ground on his belly in handcuffs. nbsp;James and his neighbor Patrina survived the attack. nbsp;James has huge scars on his torso and now suffers from PTSD./span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Police training is in the use and science of Force rather than de-escalation. nbsp;What about the training of the K9s? nbsp;What would cause these dogs to attack bystanders and how are these animals treated by Stockton Police? nbsp;In June 2015 a police dog named Nitro was left in a hot squad car by a Stockton police officer, and died. nbsp;The police narrative mourned the loss of the dog and took no responsibility for the dog#39;s death, and never named the police officer responsible for leaving Nitro in a hot car to die. nbsp;This endangerment of K9 life could provide insight into the violent behavior of the dogs./span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"img height="398px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/0Uxp2YoBLySzsAcIkQJJNvZFtp3l-GwE-PO7srjcHB8csuPI_sIaYp84Bhf5XCpSgmLvZYCfY0jsN--wINMglhWYevYg3fSXzr9uKTEgPFiM8Kzmypzpz0OS6DIWNdpqxi-5FMU7" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px;" width="530px;" //span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;A two tiered outdoor altar covered in flowers for Diacute;a de Muertos at Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, with sidewalk chalked names of Loved Ones lost to police violence. Patrick Wetter and Aura Rosser are front and center with hearts drawn around each. nbsp;The bottom of a mural is seen with the words ldquo;STOP CRIMINALIZATIONrdquo; and there is a sign that says ldquo;Justice for Guadalupe Manzo-Ochoa #39;Luperdquo; with hearts drawn on it]/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The police narrative of the brutal killing of Patrick Wetter is easy to find in the mainstream press, framed as police killings are, as an ldquo;officer involved shootingrdquo; rather than a killing. nbsp;The reporting does not investigate those that did the killing at all (the police) and it criminalizes Patrick. nbsp;According to the ldquo;official statementsrdquo; by the Stockton Police Department, officers Gabriel Guerrero and Mark Afanasev are the shooters that killed Patrick, and the K9 police dog involved is named Rocky. nbsp;The report says that Guerrero and Afanasev were given three days of paid vacation after killing Patrick and are back on the force. nbsp;The report states that when Patrick was being attacked by Rocky, he produced a ldquo;Dirk or Dagger,rdquo; and that he/spanspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;stabbed the police K9 in the shoulder area.rdquo; nbsp;They claimed Patrick to be in ldquo;close proximity with the two officers, then raised the knife over his head in a threatening manner.rdquo; nbsp;nbsp;Guerrero and Afanasev then unloaded at least 6 bullets into Patrick#39;s trunk, and he fell to the floor. nbsp;The police claim that Patrick fell ldquo;still holding the knife in his hand.rdquo; nbsp;The narrative continues, ldquo;Another Officer then deployed a taser striking the suspect. The suspect was then handcuffed and Officers administered first aid and CPR. Medics arrived and took over CPR and then pronounced the suspect deceased at the residence,rdquo; the report states. nbsp;It seems odd that first aid or CPR could be administered to someone in handcuffs. nbsp;The report also claims Patrick to be a ldquo;gang memberrdquo; and talks about his criminal past. nbsp;It described his small clip on pocket knife as a ldquo;Dirk or Dagger,rdquo; and vaguely described the size saying ldquo;the blade was curved/spanspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;/spanspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"and appeared to be 3 to 4 inches in length.rdquo;/span/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"img height="564px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uLaZZw0knO0fVaooHy_FdTK4eHAUg-0y2sSZjOQZGeDBGi_i4WVsAMpRvJx8nvLKaJCZPfeQWbPu8Bn1iie082X4KTJABatT2iXTsA37TtIWl0LuuI7evm7P93fUT0iP1u0izQU0" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px;" width="477px;" //span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;Young, tall Patrick stands next to a christmas tree, holding two of his nephews who are toddlers, Zackery and Jaylin, with his hands clasped. nbsp;The three of them just used teamwork to put the star atop the tree. nbsp;Zackery is white and is barefoot while Jaylin is Black and wears spiderman slippers. nbsp;Zackery and Jaylin have both been devastated since the police killing of their Uncle] nbsp;nbsp;/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Patrick#39;s mom, Holly Quigley-Papke, said yes he carried a little pocket knife that he used as a tool for a lot of things and that the closest he ever came to being in a gang was that one of his favorite shirts was red. nbsp;She also said that in 2014 at the time of his arrests, Patrick was struggling and spent some time homeless. nbsp;Holly says that the arrests for ldquo;Dirk and Daggerrdquo; and resisting arrest happened when he was profiled for being Poor. nbsp;The two arrests on the SPD report happened within a month and a half of each other, and these two arrests are what the SPD are stating that establish Patrick as a life-long ldquo;criminal.rdquo; nbsp;Holly says Patrick got into a little bit of trouble and that he was no criminal. nbsp;She says Patrick spent a lot of time with his nephews and friends, and that he loved fishing. nbsp;She said he really loved being an Uncle. nbsp;Patrick#39;s sister Suzan said that Patrick was ldquo;one English class away from having his diesel mechanics degree.rdquo; nbsp;She said Patrick ldquo;always kept in contact with his high school friends, along with making new ones along the way.rdquo;/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"img height="443px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/00R85O7cW105FiuU7pYo6l_kxqPm8ypV4FifglB9szBiZpKlgkok-DwW27FG93P6VHgUOqm07QCuoiZHqVmWE9N0dR2-czoD2SYq_ChP_OZiyqPvNKgr0p840MZOSWnUniRWsXcc" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px;" width="665px;" //span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;the family of Patrick Wetter together at the cemetery in front of Patrick#39;s gravesite at his funeral, pictured from left to right are young Gabriel (Patrick#39;s nephew), then Patrick#39;s sisters Suzan and Melissa, his mom Holly, then Patrick#39;s sisters Jeannette and Tiff, in front of that loving row are Patrick#39;s nephews Jaylin and Zackery./span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Patrick had a tight knit group of friends he kept since youth. nbsp;One of those friends is Anthony McHenry, Anthony#39;s mom Roseanne Kimball wrote this about Patrick#39;s wrongful death, in response to the mainstream media articles about Patrick:/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"ldquo;/spanspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"First of all, calling him a prowler was off base. He lived right next door. I was told by his sister that the person that he was looking for, was a young man who also lived in the home, who was not supposed to be living there with foster children, as he has a criminal record. Yet, in one news blurb that I read, it stated that someone thought he might be after the teenage girls, as they had grown up. The news reported that it was a group home, when in actuality it was a family home that had a couple of foster children living there./spanbr class="kix-line-break" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"I, nor his family, are condoning the fact that he broke into the home, but to shoot him not once, but SIX times goes beyond (what was) justified in such a small space./spanbr class="kix-line-break" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"My concerns as follows:/spanbr class="kix-line-break" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"He was very tall, approximately 6 ft 5 inches. From photos that I saw of the dog wounds, (on foot, and on back) he would have to have bent pretty far down to stab. Why were 2 policemen unable to subdue him with nightsticks, flashlights, etchellip;while he was bent over stabbing the dog, if indeed this was the case?/spanbr class="kix-line-break" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Patrick had at least three bad dog bites on his leg. That almost surely would have taken him down, or at the very least stumbling and in extreme pain. If he was down, how could he have lunged at the officers to the point where they feared for their lives? Why were they shooting weapons when civilians were so close? Not one news agency reported the damage the dog did on his leg, which is when he produced his pocket knife and (allegedly) stabbed the dog./spanbr class="kix-line-break" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" /br / span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"The family states that the blood had pooled in Patrickrsquo;s face, which would have occurred had he been lying face down.nbsp; How was CPR purportedly administered if he was face down?/span/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Are officers not trained to use less than lethal force? Especially against someone WITHOUT a violent past? Is that not why they are physically trained to be able to take someone down? Why not taze him, pepper spray him, or use another method to subdue him? He had no gun, and the dog was not gravely injured.rdquo;/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"img height="639px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/lO1K1r4uhPSNA9DkjlS1SKZo2XM8uroO2Oyu1Jh_nYoytL5BCY_RmWD_ddE7jz3LDLWc2YNdFSO0zRohL_MYo8voOdH4JkhVFwt4dw5VBfZ9OTOcYWmuKfF5lUDxMBe0pTRtO7C9" style="padding: 4px; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px;" width="479px;" //span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"[image description: nbsp;Loved Ones lost to police violence are chalked in bright colors with hearts in front of the steps of San Francisco City Hall at a Black Lives Matter protest of the police commissioners meeting shortly after the SFPD killing of Mario Woods. nbsp;Patrick Wetter#39;s name is in the foreground along with the names of Kayla Moore, Phillip High Bear, Phillip Watkins, #39;Lupe Ochoa, Asa B Sullivan, Dontre Hamilton, Raymond Eacret, Kenneth Harding Jr, Alex Nieto and Mario Woods]/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Stockton Police radio transmissions show how fast Patrick#39;s killing happened. nbsp;In a matter of a couple minutes of police arriving, Patrick was terrorized by a dog, defended himself, was shot six times, then tazed, then handcuffed, then supposedly given first aid and CPR. nbsp;Rather than talking with Patrick, or trying to de-escalate the situation, Stockton police officers used violence as the first and final plan of action. nbsp;Patrick Wayne Wetter, Loved One lost to police violence, is missed the most by his family and close friends. nbsp;/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"This story was originally posted on January 6, 2016, the one year angelversary of Patric#39;s death.nbsp;/span/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Here is the facebook Justice for Patrick Wetter page/spanspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;/spana href="https://www.facebook.com/Justice-for-Patrick-Wetter-335193886679418/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"https://www.facebook.com/Justice-for-Patrick-Wetter-335193886679418//span/aspan style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"nbsp;nbsp;/span/span/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"#JusticeforPatrickWetter #PatrickWetter #Justice4PatrickWetter #LovedOnes #IdrissStelleyFoundation #POORmagazine/span/p p style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"nbsp;/p p dir="ltr" style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px; font-size: 0.8125em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"span id="docs-internal-guid-870146dc-2daa-3ff8-1d4c-89afab0b414d" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"Lisa Ganser is a white Disabled genderqueer artist displaced from San Francisco and now living in Olympia, WA. nbsp;They are the daughter of a momma named Sam and this is their second story as a writer for POOR Magazine./span/p /div

p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Welcome back to Krip-Hop Nation Breaks Down Lyrics Series in this issue we talk about George TraGiC Doman remake of Tupac Shakurrsquo;s 1991 song ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Babyrdquo;. This project was a collaboration between Krip-Hop Nation, Rob Da Noize Temple, music producer. We were going to make a video but it never came together./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"As we know the song came from Tupac Shakurrsquo;s 1991 album, , 2Pacalypse Now. On the web it says, ldquo;The song, which features RB singer Dave Hollister, is about a twelve-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it. The song explores the issue of teen pregnancy and its effect on young mothers and their families. Like many of Shakurrsquo;s songs, ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Babyrdquo; draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the babyrsquo;s father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a twelve-year-old girl who became pregnant from her cousin and threw the baby in a trash compactor.rdquo;/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"What is left out on many online write ups about the song/video is that disability plays a key role in the beginning of the song. nbsp;In the video Tupac says ldquo;hellip; Brenda got a baby but Brenda barely got a brain damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her namehellip;hellip;rdquo; This is the only reference to her disability in the song. We can hear the harsh political story that is with us today throughout the song./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"TraGiC nbsp;and I played around with this song to bring out the disability portion throughout the song but to add Disability story in our Krip-Hop flavor. This is one of the greatest Krip-Hop collaboration. nbsp;In TraGiCrsquo;s remake he flips it to be the strength of disability. nbsp;In his song the baby, him has a disability and he grows up struggling but finds music. nbsp;You know just like Hip-Hop, Krip-Hop Nation likes to flip it with disability justice lyrics. nbsp;TraGiC talks more about his remix of Tupacrsquo;s song, Brenda Got a Baby. Also the lyrics are below along with the mp3 of the song./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Yo! This is George TraGiC Doman. Yoursquo;re listening to ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Baby with CP,rdquo; a disability./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The whole reason why I wrote this song was because I know that my mom, she went through a lot when she had me. You know, Irsquo;m sure that the thought process, having a kid is not easy. So Irsquo;m sure she was very frightened at the moment. Thatrsquo;s why I wrote the song, but to be honest with you, I didnrsquo;t even write this song. I just went into the booth, I grabbed 2Pacrsquo;s ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Babyrdquo; instrumental, and I just poured my heart out into it. Tried to give it the same time of vibe because when I heard ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Babyrdquo; when I was younger, by Tupac Shakur, it meant a lot to me. So I wanted to take that and put a different twist on it./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"But the reason why, also, that I wrote it was there was an interview a while ago with Machine Gun Kelly, MGK, and Peter Rosenberg from Hot97 in New York, and they were discussing how there was this kid with cerebral palsy. And this kid walked at Machine Gun Kellyrsquo;s show because Machine Gun Kellyrsquo;s music inspired him, and that was the reason. I thought it was andash;You know, Irsquo;ve met Machine Gun Kelly. I have nothing against him. But I thought it was a crock ofhellip;poop [laughs]. Or should I say shit? Because it was just like a PR stunt, you know? That kid was gonna walk regardless. Irsquo;m glad that you inspire people, but the kid was gonna walk regardless. Donrsquo;t use his strengths, that kidrsquo;s strengths, to your advantage tondash;what is the word I wanna use?ndash;to capitalize and use it towards your success in music. Thatrsquo;s, it was just a crock of shit, basically, when I heard it./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"And I remember Peter Rosenberg was saying, ldquo;Oh, well, I thought you were saying,rdquo; he was telling Machine Gun Kelly, ldquo;I thought you were saying you were the one with CP. And no onersquo;s picked up on that story?!?rdquo; You know? Yeah. No onersquo;s picked up on that story. You know why? Because we face discrimination every day. Even in the regular workforce, we face discrimination. As soon as I walk into a building, they might see my resume, but as soon as I walk into an interview, and they see that I walk a little bit funny, peace out. There goes the job. There goes the diploma that you worked for. There goes all the hard work you put in. There it goes. Now, Irsquo;m not making any excuses. Irsquo;m sure that one day Irsquo;ll probably land a job that fits me. One day, somebody probably will give me a shot and look past it. But our journey is a lot tougher than yours. Please respect it. Thatrsquo;s all Irsquo;m saying. And yeah, no onersquo;s picked up on that story. But guess what? I am that story. ldquo;Brendarsquo;s Got a Baby with CPrdquo; is basically about me and basically about Leroy Moore and basically about Krip-Hop Nation and us./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Pick up on our story because we got something to say./p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Brendarsquo;s Got A Baby With C.P. (Disability) MUSIC BY: ROB DANOIZE TEMPLE WRITTEN/PERFORMED BY: Georgetragic/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"LYRICS HERE/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Yeahellip; Lets do it! What Chu Know? What Chu Know? GT Yeah!/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"They saying Brenda Got A Baby but Brenda Got A Baby With C.P., Cerebral Palsy. Probably wont walk right all his life! But all she could do is trust in Christ. She like please Christ! Donrsquo;t let my baby walk like this through life. Donrsquo;t let my baby talk like this through life! Let him be alright!! But I cant see the light! Ugh! My baby cant grow, my baby canrsquo;t learn, my baby wont learn, my baby wonrsquo;t earn, a true pay check, a cool scholarship! Brenda go to school but she wanna quiet! Cause she feels that life isnrsquo;t fair! All she seersquo;s is the weird stares that people give her baby (and itrsquo;s driving her craaaahzy)/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Now Brendarsquo;s babyrsquo;s getting bigger hersquo;s learning pretty quick, hersquo;s learning pretty quicker go figure!? Check the figures hersquo;s a cool little kid in class. (Hersquo;s getting all the ass) Yeah! Go ahead and laugh hersquo;s a little pimp with a limp but she never knew this that, that could be her prince. If she loves him! She never knew (she never knew)nbsp;that he would reach his goals, she never knew that he would reach his dreams! He would become a politician, the Dr. would make incision, now listen, pay attention!/p p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.6rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"This baby would grow old! This baby would grow wise cause he got a cool soul, cool life, and a cool wife, and a few kids, listen to this! ( clears throat audible ) He picked up a 2pac tape wait. Now thatrsquo;s where it stoprsquo;s Hip-Hop made his heart drop. And cause he learned to rhyme, and cause he learned to spit, and cause he learned lyricism (lyricist). He was so sick! He wouldnrsquo;t quite! Now Brendarsquo;s baby with C.P. You never really knew his name itrsquo;s a shame. (::singing:: They saying Brendarsquo;s Got A Baby, They saying Brendarsquo;s Got A Babyhellip;And Brenda Got A Baby With C.P.) ::song fades::/p div nbsp;/div

p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"ldquo;Paha Sapa, The heart of everything that isrdquo; at least that is what my people, the Lakota Sioux Nation, say about our homeland. nbsp;The dark black rolling hills filled with the smell of pure oxygen thanks to the pine trees, sticky with sweet smelling sap made by my peoples as a syrup source, small clear creeks filled with minnows. Hot and green during the summer and cold and snowy during the winter.The tall majestic pines are a testament to the Earths#39; fertile, dark pungent soil, which I think of when thinking of the struggle of Oak Flats. The Lakota creeks were clean enough to drink from, the sky always blue and clear, even when a storm rolled through, the Paha Sapa changed any fearsome storm to a calming downpour with the smells of the pines only amplified with the rain. Any snowstorm was well welcomed with the thought of being suurounded by ldquo;Christmas Treesrdquo; as children. Paha Sapa, like any land as gracious as that, would be considered sacred lands, but as we say here at a href="http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org/academy"Deecolonize Academ/ay, nothing left is sacred./p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"As a young Lakota warrior, I find the theft of land today still appaling. My name is Phillip Standing Bear, super baby daddy and young Lakota warrior here to inform you of the atrocities of land theft. I can atest to the wrongful act of land theft through my own Lakota peoples Paha Sapa, or the Black Hills of South Dakota. Just like Oak Flats, the Black Hills was uprooted of First Nations Lakota peoples for the fact that gold resided in the depths of the land. Treaties were broken or never held, for the sake of profit. Even today treaties long been ignored are still uprooted for the sake of profits. The only way we get that land back is when it is destroyed and is no longer the place we once called home./p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"Oak Flats is a recreational park, and is used by the Apache and surrounding tribes as a sacred ceremonial site. This is where coming-of-age rituals were and still are performed. Now Oak Flats is in danger, of being given off to a foriegn mining company, Resolution Copper. What happens next are three things. First, First Nations losing more land, yet again, for the sake of profits. Second, rock climbing, camping and fishing will no longer be able to occur, for the sake of profits. And third, you lose the natural beauty and wonder of such a sacred site, for the sake of profits. And for those of you who believe they have a job coming their way, this is a foreign mining company, which means they have their own workers at their own wages. Which means while you sit on the sidelines with your hopefullness in getting a job, someone, not from here, comes along getting paid terrible wages for a job they likely don#39;t even want to have. You therefore condone slavery on a deeper level without even realizing it./p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"Lets start with a look into how treaties held between First Nations and the U.S. Federal Government were broken. Treaties usually were made to protect First Nations peoples, sacred sites, and religious freedoms, however with a slight catch, land-ownership. Land-ownership was not something we, as First Nations, understood. What we understood was that we, as people, NEVER owned the land around us, rather that the land owned us. We were as much a part of this landscape as the rocks, plants and animals we shared that space with. So with every treaty, there came a ldquo;business opportunityrdquo;. This wherein lies the problem. While promising our peoples a better land, The U.S.Federal Government was making business proposals./p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"nbsp;/p p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in"Every year, thousands of avid rock climbers, campers and fishermen, come to this region for it#39;s natural beauty, and even more First Nations come here for their sacred ceremony. There is no justice for Oak Flats, just another battle. This is Phillip Standing Bear, young indigenous warrior, super baby daddy and Indigenous Peoples Media Project correspondent from Deecolonize Academy, Homefullness, and POOR Magazine, signing out./p

pstronguMy Daughter Has Run Away/u/strong/p pstronguThese four things; love, understanding, believing, and caring, are the glue that hold a family together./u/strong/p pThis story is about a prodigal daughter who grows up in Saint Louis, Missouri. She is disgusted with her old fashioned parents whom she believes overreact to her when she hangs out with friends, listens to her music, and wears tight short skirts. Then one day, their daughter runs away and ends up with a pimp who tricks her to believe that he wants to help her. The man who called himself helping her is the so-called boss. Now she feels good about herself because she knows nobody is trying to make her change. She can just be herself. Now one day, the young girl gets sick and doesnrsquo;t want to work, but the boss says it doesnrsquo;t work like that with me. The young girl starts crying wanting to go home while sitting in an alley. Oh God, why did I leave home? nbsp;My dog right now eats better than me. I will try hard to call my mother and father to let them know I would like to come back home. She realizes that she should have listened to her parents all the time. Even though my parents are old-fashioned they do lovenbsp; me. I was the one who took their correction the wrong way. So now Irsquo;m in the streets working hard for someone else, not even knowing what to do. I do know all the time my mother told me things not to do that I was wrong. I should have listened to her and my family. The little girl now calls home but no one answers. So later on she calls again, but no one answers. One day the little girl runs away from her boss to go home. When the girl tried to explain to her mother and father, they said, itrsquo;s alright we understand. We are just glad you are back and you are not hurt. Hush, wersquo;ll have a party for you because we love you and care for you./p pBy, T. Yeargin.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;/p pnbsp;/p pstronguA Waste of Time/u/strong/p pIs your life really a waste of time? If so, give me a dime, maybe I will be able to get it back! Times is wasted, because I didnrsquo;t realize the time, or just didnrsquo;t care. Now Irsquo;ve wasted my life as a young man. Some of us dropped out of high school, you never finished, but you did finish sidewalk high. Oh, you never heard of sidewalk high? Then all of you are in for a ride of your life time. I tried to sell dope and be a gangster and followed my friends, also watched TV just to see how it was done. When the TV program was over, what do I do now? Now you got some of our young sisters out there today, trying to be queen of the town, because of what they saw or what they were told. Now our young women have found out it all was a lie. Time wasting and time wasted, some of us thought school was a waste of time, now you are in prison wondering what happened. You know what happened, we all do, listening to the talk of the streets now looking at a lot of time, again, time is wasting and you canrsquo;t get it back! We all have to give it to the game we tried to play. Now time has wasted away for us. Now what do you do, and what do I say? Mother, I am sorry, you was right for the things you told me not to do! I wasted my time not listening to you./p pWasting, Wasted,/p pnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; By, T. Yeargin/p pnbsp;/p pstrongnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; uTears of the Strong/u/strong/p pThe strong said, ldquo;We are weary and heavy-hearted because no one is listening to us anymore.rdquo; I saw this as older brothers on drugs and lying to them. And this makes it hard for the rest of us to have much credibility with the youth. Most of us older people have been mistrusted by our young men and women. And they feel justified in those feelings toward us. So how do we win back their trust?/p pnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; You and I should be working on the inter-personal conflict that each of us have as men. This truth is personal for each of us. Only you know the nature of uyour/u own truth about this, as only I know the truth about umine/u. And before we as older people can talk to any young men here, we must look deep inside ourselves to gain insight and to admit: I know uI/u have a problem, and my young brothers have a problem, too. Having this basic insight is where we all must begin./p pnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Donrsquo;t be overwhelmed by what I say. Just look at yourselves, then ask yourselves whether Irsquo;m right or wrong. The burden will be on you (to make this first step) and no one else. Have you resign ed and given up the job to change a wrong and make it right?/p pI created it.br / You created it./p

p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span id="docs-internal-guid-58fa446a-f627-2e76-1449-e92c54101848"span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Editors Note: Andre Rosemond is one of several power-FUL PNNPlantation prison correspondents. As currently and formerly incarcerated poor and indigenous peoples in struggle and resistance with all plantation systems in Amerikkka, POOR Magazine stands in solidarity with all folks on the other side of the razor wire plantation. /span/span/p div nbsp;/div pI want you all to have a future! Please read and share in information with Law Enforcement with law enforcement officers Worldwide with ranks of corporals, sergeants, lieutenants, and captains./p pCc:/p pMark Anthony Johnson of CA/p pCoriander Melliew of CA/p pBlack Student union members Tachaka/p pDorsey Nunn of CA/p pLisa Gray-Garcia of CA/p pLee Warren of MO/p pnbsp;/p pPlease see Weather Modification in World Book Encyclopedianbsp;a href="http://www.worldbook.com/"www.worldbook.com/anbsp;for rainmaking, Defense News, Sept 26 1994 for space shuttle weather engineering and Associated Press article in Evansville Courier, Sept 10 1994 for U.S. Space shuttles utilized for weather engineering./p pGlobal warming and climate change is a myth. The elites learned to clone; they also learned to manipulate the weather. Weather Modification is Big Business for the Elites. The Elites own the Weather Control Technologies. LOCK DOWN WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. Seenbsp;a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=734.0;wap2"http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=734.0;wap2/a. The U.S. Laws and U.S. policies are on this website, much more info later./p pThe Roosevelt Cooper and Family, Sharon Norman and Tabernacle Baptist Church members and Mrs. S. Tia Brown of Johnson Pub Co employees, also Capital New Service of Phillis Merrill College of the university of Maryland, College Park, MD please read this information and make photocopies to send to National Black Police Association Members and law Enforcement Officers with ranks of corporals, sergeants, lieutenants and captains. Also Roberts Companies owners and general attorney Jeanne Roberts Johnson./p pWorld Book Encyclopedia, please see at the library or log onto their website. Please see your Wrold Book Encyclopedia at home, or at the library for this information./p pDefense News, use the library resources to locate theis article and ask the library to assist. Also, google Defense News, 1-800-368-5718. Associated Press article in Evansnille Courier newspaper, ask the library to assist you to locate this article./p pYes, Police and sheriff departments are being militarized for the so called Elites. Please see Lock Down Working Class People website and Irsquo;ll provide more later/p pldquo;strongNorth Carolina/strong/p pstrongCamp Lejeune/ New River Marine Airfield ndash;/strongnbsp;facility has renovated, occupied WWII detention compounds and ldquo;mock cityrdquo; that closely resembles Anytown, USA./p pstrongFort Bragg/strongnbsp;ndash; Special Warfare Training Center. Renovated WWII detention Facility./p pstrongAndrews/strongnbsp;ndash; Federal experiment in putting a small town under siege. Bagan with the search/ hunt for survivalist Eric Rudolph. No persons were allowed in or out of town without federal permission and travel through town was highly restricted. Most residents compelled to stay in their homes. Unregistered Baptist pastor from Indiana visiting Andrews affirmed these facts./p pstrongNorth Dakota/strong/p pstrongMinot AFB/strongnbsp;ndash; Home of UN air group. More data needed on facility./p pstrongOhio/strong/p pstrongCamp Perry/strongnbsp;ndash; Site renovated/ once used as a POW camp to house German and Italian prisoners of WWII. Some tar paper covered huts built for housing these prisoners are still standing. Recently, the construction of multiple 200- man barracks have replaced most of the huts./p pstrongCincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus/strongnbsp;ndash; FEMA detention facilities. Data needed./p pstrongPennsylvania/strong/p pstrongAllenwood/strongnbsp;ndash; Federal prison camp located south of Williamsport on the Susquehanna River. It has a current inmate population of 300, and is identified by William Pabst as having a capacity in excess of 15, 000 on 400 acres./p pstrongIndiantown Gap Military Reservation/strongnbsp;ndash; located north of Harrisburg. Used for WWII POW camp and renovated by Jimmy Carter. Was used to hold Cubans during Mariel boat lift./p pstrongCamp Hill/strongnbsp;ndash; State prison close to Army depot. Lots of room, ocated in Camp Hill, PA./p pstrongNew Cumberland Army Depot/strongnbsp;- on the Susquehanna River, located off interstate 83 and Interstate 76./p pstrongSchuykill Haven/strongnbsp;ndash; Federal prison camp, north of Reading./p pstrongSouth Carolina/strong/p pstrongGreenville/strongnbsp;- Unoccupied youth prison camp, north of Reading./p pstrongCharlestonnbsp;/strongndash; Naval Reserve Air Force base, restricted area on naval base./p pstrongSouth Dakota/strong/p pstrongYanktonnbsp;/strongndash; Federal prison camp.rdquo;/p pldquo;strongVandenburg AFB/strongnbsp;ndash; Rex 84 facility, located near Lompoc Santa Maria. Internment facility is located near the Oceanside, close to Space Launch Complex #6, also called lsquo;slick Sixrsquo;. The launch site has had lsquo;a flawless failure recordrsquo; and is rarely used. Norton AFB ndash; (closed base) now staffed with UN according to some sources.rdquo;/p pldquo;strongPensacola/strong- Prison Camp Everglades ndash; It is believed that a facility may be carved out of the wilds here.rdquo;/p

pspanStevie Wonder#39;s Activism Can#39;t Be Laughed/Washed Away/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanAs we all know, well at least Stevie Wonder#39;s hard core fans, that Wonder is more than a musician from his days of fighting against apartheid of South Africa to donating his own money to make sure technology is accessible to people with disabilities to being the key activist/musician to push for a Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and even today as an UN Ambassador of people with disabilities. nbsp;/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanSo with all of the above it was shocking to see and read mainstream media frame of what Wonder said and did at the 2016nbsp; Grammy Awards. He held up the envelope with the winner in braille and said you can#39;t read this then came back with a real disability activist statement, We need to make every single thing accessible to every person with a disability,... The mainstream media so far thought it was an emotional statement with slate laughter but didn#39;t reported it as an activist act on Wonder#39;s part.nbsp;/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanCompared what Beyonceacute; did at the 50th Superbowlrsquo;s/spanspan /spanspanhalftime shownbsp;where local activists gave Beyonceacute;#39;s dancers Mario Woods ( a San Francisco Black young man with a history of mental health disability who was shot dead by ten plus San Francisco police officers) sign to hold up and Beyonceacute;#39;s dancer dressed up in Black Panther#39;s Black suits forming an X for Malcolm X.nbsp; Mainstream media, cultural workers, critics, politicians, Black and woman academic scholars and bloggers all had their two cents of what Beyonceacute; did as activism./span/p pnbsp;/p pspanSo why Stevie Wonder#39;s act was not seen as activism knowing his record compare to the popular view of Beyonceacute; as a performer and only recently as a feminist was insistently called an activist? nbsp;These are some of my reasons. nbsp;/span/p pnbsp;/p pspan1. Mainstream media and the general public are not used of seeing disability activism on television. nbsp;/span/p pspan2.nbsp; Many saw Wonder#39;s act was about the individual not seeing people with disabilities as a political/ cultural group that make up one of the largest group not only the U.S. but around the world./spanspannbsp; /spanspanAndnbsp;/span/p pspan3. Saw and heard his statement as a need not a right that institutions are not providing aka in violation of our legal rights.nbsp;nbsp;/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanAll three reasons twist and turn Wonderrsquo;s activism once again package disability activism as individual feel good stories, more of individual needs and at worst an awkwardness silence or laughter.nbsp;/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanI see Wonder#39;s statement action at the 2016 Grammys more direct than Beyonceacute; actions at the Halftime show at the 2016 Superbowl.nbsp; He not only put the Grammys on blast but the million who were watching with a clear cut demand.nbsp; The interesting thing is Beyonceacute; performed at an All-Star Grammy Salute: ldquo;Songs In The Key Of Lifenbsp; for Stevie Wonder however I wonder if Beyonceacute; really knows Wonderrsquo;s/disability activism, an act that goes beyond the stage and he lives with, Stevie Wonder?/span/p pnbsp;/p pspanAs Wonder being an elder, of Beyonce, I still think that the media, scholars, cultural activists and bloggers miss this opportunity of displaying not only disability activism but intersectionality of disability, sex, race and age especially in the music and Black community from two icons./span/p pnbsp;/p pa href="https://youtu.be/V-A9aajfcbU" title="https://youtu.be/V-A9aajfcbU"https://youtu.be/V-A9aajfcbU/a/p