3 Black Churches burnt in North Carolina, Georgia and S.Carolina in the past 5 days.
3 Black Churches burnt in North Carolina, Georgia and S.Carolina in the past 5 days.
Between 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, three thousand four hundred and forty-six black men, women, and children were lynched in this country—a practice so vicious and frequent that Mark Twain was moved, in 1901, to write an essay called “The United States of Lyncherdom.” (Twain shelved the essay and plans for a full-length book on lynching because, he told his publisher, if he went forward, “I shouldn’t have even half a friend left down [South].”) These thousands of murders, as studied by the Tuskegee Institute and others, were a means of enforcing white supremacy in the political and economic marketplaces; they served to terrorize black men who might dare to sleep, or even talk, with white women, and to silence black children.
On the evening of June 17, 2015, a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney; a tenth person was shot and survived. The church is one of the United States’ oldest black churchesand has long been a site for community organization around civil rights.
Police arrested a suspect, later identified as 21-year-old Dylann Roof, in Shelby, North Carolina, the morning after the attack. The United States Department of Justice is investigating the possibility that the shooting was a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism, among other motives.
In Charlotte, N.C., authorities say a June 24 fire at Briar Creek Baptist Church was the result of arson and is being investigated as a possible hate crime. NBC News reported that more than 75 firefighters were needed to extinguish the three-alarm fire.Two firefighters received medical treatment for heat-related injuries. The church sustained $250,000 in damage, including a collapsed ceiling and significant damage to a space used for a children’s summer camp.
A June 23 fire at God’s Power Church of Christ, a predominantly Black church in Macon, Ga., has been ruled as arson, although there is no indication it was a hate crime. As was reported in the Macon Telegraph, the front doors of the church were locked and wired shut when authorities arrived, but a side door was unlocked. According to this report at Raw Story ‘hate crime’ has yet to be suggested to determine.
And today,June 26, 2015 Early Morning Fire Destroys Tallahassee Church
Firefighters responded to the blaze around 5:20 a.m. at Greater Miracle Apostolic Holiness Church near the intersection of Wakulla Street and Campbell Street.No one is believed to have been in the church at the time of the fire. Power lines were also down in the area.
Former President Bill Clinton in a 1996 radio address after white supremacists went on a burning spree on black churches in the south .”In our country, during the fifties and sixties, black churches were burned to intimidate civil rights workers,” Clinton said. “I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child.For 18 months from 1995 to 1996, more than 30 black churches were destroyed or damaged by arsonists.
Bill Clinton’s 1996 Speech On Church Attacks Shows Nothing Has Changed.
Alabama Removes Confederate Flag From State Capitol.
Alabama Removes Confederate Flag From State Capitol
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) quietly ordered the removal of the Confederate flag from the state Capitol grounds this morning, his office confirmed to local press.
When asked if this was due to the controversy over the flag following the shooting of nine black Americans at a church in Charleston, S.C., Bently said, “Yes, partially this is about that. This is the right thing to do. We are facing some major issues in this state regarding the budget and other matters that we need to deal with. This had the potential to become a major distraction as we go forward. I have taxes to raise, we have work to do. And it was my decision that the flag needed to come down.”
It was flying atop a Confederate monument on the statehouse grounds, reportedly a short walk from the governor’s mansion.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became law #OnThisDay .
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became law #OnThisDay in 1972. We’re celebrating the 42nd anniversary of Title IX, which says: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Learn more: http://bit.ly/T58AOv (Photo: Senator Birch Bayh, Title IX author & chief sponsor.)
World Refugee Day…Refugees Have No Choice You Do .
World Refugee Day.Refugees Have No Choice You Do !
There are more refugees in the world today than ever previously recorded — and more than half are children.
Nearly 60 million people were counted as forcibly displaced in 2014, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
If those people were the population of one country, it would be the 24th largest in the world.
One person out of every 122 on the planet is said to be either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum.
The conflict in Syria has been the biggest single driver of displacement, according to the refugee agency’s Global Trends report –
Turkey became the world’s top refugee-hosting nation in 2014, with 1.59 million Syrians within its borders. Within the EU, Germany and Sweden received the most asylum applications.
Most refugees come from the Middle East, with 7.6 million Syrians taking to the road within their own country, and 3.88 million having become refugees.
Many more come from sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing conflicts in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere.
In Asia, the report highlights growing numbers of people fleeing Myanmar.
And in the Americas, there was a rise in the number of people seeking to escape gang violence in Central America.
Asylum claims in the United States were up 44% over the year.
In a briefing paper, Amnesty Internationalalso called the current refugee crisis the worst since the Second World War.
This Saturday, June 20, was the UNHCR’s World Refugee Day.
How you can help ?!
There are many ways that you can help refugees, whether they are right in your own community or half a world away.
Over the decades, millions of refugees have resettled to countries around the globe to rebuild their lives. You can help create a welcoming and supportive environment for those arriving in your community. If there are refugee services in your area, contact them and see if there’s something you can do to help, even if it’s just extending a smile and a welcoming hand.
Some ideas at the community level could include:
Support World Refugee Day (June 20) events in your community.
Set up a fundraising event to help refugees.
Write to your local government representatives to support the refugee cause.
cover refugee issues and raise public awareness.
Subscribe to refugee publications, including UNHCR e-newsletters
Invite refugees or those who help them to speak in schools, workplaces and clubs.
Encourage teachers to include refugee issues in classroom discussions.Information for teachers.
On a more global level, individuals and groups can support the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which has offices in more than 120 countries and cares for tens of millions of refugees and displaced people worldwide
Donate in support of UNHCR field operations around the world.
Apply for an internship at the UNHCR office in your country.
Businesses and foundations wanting to support the refugee cause can contact UNHCR’s Corporate and Foundation Partnerships Unit in Geneva.
If you are an experienced, skilled professional, offer your services as a UN Volunteer.
UNV is administered by the UN Development Program and mobilizes more than 7,500 volunteers for development projects worldwide each year, including programs to help refugees.
Join UNHCR’s digital dialogue via Twitter, Facebook, Causes, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and other platforms.
Nominate a candidate for the annual Nansen Refugee Award, which is given out every October to a person or group for outstanding services in supporting refugee cause
#TakeDownTheFlag
#TakeDownTheFlag
Retweet to tell South Carolina’s Governor @nikkihaley to take down the Confederate flag!
Everyone needs to call Nikki Haley’s office..leave a message @ 803-734-2100, be polite to the poor person who answers, but give your name and the state you are from, tell them you know the Gov can’t take the flag down, but she could sure speak about the need to take it down. Remind her that the entire country is watching what they do and if they leave it up, we will start a boycott.
السيسي والإسعاف والعدالة الاجتماعية
السيسي والإسعاف والعدالة الاجتماعية
نظام المخلوع مبارك كان يقوم بنقل السياح في حوادث الطرق بطائرات الجيش المصري التي هي من اموال الشعب المصري وكانت الإسعاف ترفض الحضور لمكان الحادث عندما تعلم بانه لايوجد سائحين اجانب وكان يتم علاج المصابين الأجانب في مستشفيات القوات المسلحة التي هي من اموال الشعب المصري وايضاً في حالات الوفاة كان تعويض المصري يصل الي ١٢٠٠ جنيه مصري كحد أقصي اما تعويض الأجنبي فوصل في حوادث سمك القرش بشرم الشيخ الي اكثر من خمسين الف دولار ،،، وكان لغياب العدالة الاجتماعية عاملا كبيرا في قيام ثورة ٢٥ يناير وعزل مبارك، وتصريحات السيسي المستمرة المتكررة بان المصري لم يجد من يحنوا عليه ،، وان مصر ام الدنيا وحتبقي قد الدنيا،،، وتصريحاته ايضا بان الدستور المصري الجديد هو دستور عالمي ،،،،، فبالامس نشرت جريدة الوطن بالصور من عين شمس بان مصري إنسان بلا مكان يأويه اي مشرد كما أطلقت عليه الصحيفة مصرعه في شارع عزيز المصري بمنطقة جسر السويس بعد أن وافته المنيه أثناء جلوسه في حديقة وكان يعاني ازمة قلبية تبعتها سكرات الموت.ووفقًا لأحد شهود العيان، اتصل أهالي المنطقة بالإسعاف 3 مرات، وجاءت سيارات الإسعاف ورفضت نقله بحجة أنه مجهول الهوية، ويجب اصطحاب أحد من افراد أسرته ،،، فالاسعاف لاتنقل المشردين في مصر ،، وإذا كنت مشردا فالدولة لن توفر لك ابسط السبل الانسانية ،،،وهذا تعارض مع الدستور ولكن الدستور معلقا حتي يكون هناك مجلس شعب ولن يتواجد مجلس شعب حقيقي لان السيسي لايرغب في وجود معارضة حقيقية تصل بها مصر الي دولة تُمارس ديمقراطية حقيقية،،،الاعلام المرئي لم يذكر قصة المصري الذي مات في العراء ولن يذكرها وصحيفة واحدة فقط لاغير ذكرتها و ،،، وغدا يموت غيره وهكذا كثيرون من الفقراء المعدومون الذين يناموا تحت الكباري وعلي الارصفة وفي الأزقة بلا ماوي في دولة تلعب حكومتها بالدستور وترفض وجود مجلس شعب يراقبها ويناقش ميزانيتها وتضخم الدين المحلي،،،،، في دولة السيسي هو وحده يسيطر علي الجهة التنفيذية والتشريعية ويقوم بعزل اكثر من ٢٠ من قيادات المخابرات الاسبوع الماضي في تصفيات داخلية وفي دولة يتم التسامح مع رجال الاعمال وسرقاتهم وتركهم يحققوا أرباح ضخمة ولايقوموا بالمساهمة في حل مشاكل الفقراء من خلال اعمال تطوعية تحدث توازن في المجتمع ،،، في دولة الاعلام الموجه يتم تضليل الشعب بان مشاكله قد تم حلها بعد القبض علي احمد منصور وهل احمد منصور هو من اصدر قرار بعدم نقل المشردين المصريين تحت الكباري وفي الحدائق ،، لماذا هذا التضليل الإعلامي وكاءن حياة المصري البسيط سوف تتحول الي الرفاهية مثل مواطن السويد بعد القبض علي احمد منصور ولماذا لإيناقش الاعلام الموجه غلاء الأسعار والحياة القاسية والبطالة وغيرها لمصلحة من هذا التعتيم الإعلامي وتجاهل مشاكل المواطن البسيط واحتياجاته مقابل صفحات عن الممثلة الفلانية والراقصة ورجل النظام العجوز عادل امام او احمد موسي الفن كما يطلق عليه هل هم المستقبل هل هم مصر هل هم القدوة هل قدموا شيئا لمصر حقيقي ،،،،نحن في دولة تعاني الشيزوفرنيا في قرارتها من خلال حملات الداخلية القبض علي من يجاهر بالإفطار في نهار رمضان وتراقب من يدخل يصلي او يعتكف للواحد القهار ،،،
في دولة الفنانيين يحصلوا علي مكاسب وامتيازات ولا يقدموا اي خدمات للمجتمع المصري ،،،،،، انظر الي تبرعات وزيارات الممثلة الامريكية أنجلينا جولي الي الحدود التركية وكل أماكن الصراعات كممثلة تقدم خدمات إنسانية وتتبرع بجزء من اموالها وغيرها من الأمثلة الكثيرة،،،، باختصار لن يستطيع السيسي ان يستمر في الحكم بدون إصلاح اقتصادي يصاحبه إصلاح وممارسة لديمقراطية حقيقية ولن يستمر الوضع كثيرا في اعتمادا اقتصاد مصر علي المعونات فهي سياسة فاشلة اقتصاديا ،، وبدون ذلك فان مصر في حالة ركود البركان الان وسوف تكون هناك تغييرات كثيرة في حالة نشاط البركان ومن لايقرا بين السطور فبدون عدالة اجتماعية فان مصر فوق صفيح ساخن ،،،
انتزعت الدنيا من قلوبكم الرحمة في شهر الرحمة ،،
خالد عبيد
Khaled Eibid
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WikiLeaks posts 60,000 Saudi secret documents online
WikiLeaks posts 60,000 Saudi secret documents online
The WikiLeaks website published more than 60,000 diplomatic documents from Saudi Arabia on Friday and promised to publish another half-a-million in the near future.
The documents, claimed WikiLeaks, disclose some of the operations of Saudi embassies around the world. Those to be published in the coming weeks include a number classified as “top secret” which were issued by the interior ministry and information department.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that the new leaks expose “one of the most ambiguous dictatorships in history.” The new leaks, he said, coincide with the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, “which is a threat to itself and to its neighbours.”
WikiLeaks started publishing leaked documents in 2010. It started with American documents and said that it got the Saudi papers from the e-mail correspondence of the Saudi foreign ministry and secret reports.
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