tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43042213367162218502024-03-18T04:09:11.844-07:00Decarcerate The Garden StateArticles, opinions, proposals for fighting against mass incarceration in NJ.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-80206891346562407062020-09-11T20:00:00.009-07:002020-09-15T16:36:43.966-07:00Mother to Lead #Justice4FrankieDiaz Philly March Thu. Sept 17<p><b>Mother to Lead #Justice4FrankieDiaz Philadelphia March Thu, Sept 17, Starting at 10 am<br /></b><br /><span face="" style="color: black;"><b>Justice for Frankie Diaz, Philly Victim of Corrections Homicide!</b></span></p><p><span face="" style="color: black;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br /><span>Contact: Bob Witanek 908-881-5275
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</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="" style="color: black;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2e9Z1P8ciHWUfKCqJWPotwo7SeBAjCbYRyDsDwNrzkkJQ-rmGJbrbFAduZ1-P8vVIuDxRK52NDwhB4X1kJyAMdbxYI452-icXtzbhrvGwNqXTtZQ_XQ427pq_n6Jwb7ke1iJkuqTo4s/s1042/FDFiler.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1042" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN2e9Z1P8ciHWUfKCqJWPotwo7SeBAjCbYRyDsDwNrzkkJQ-rmGJbrbFAduZ1-P8vVIuDxRK52NDwhB4X1kJyAMdbxYI452-icXtzbhrvGwNqXTtZQ_XQ427pq_n6Jwb7ke1iJkuqTo4s/w400-h310/FDFiler.JPG" title="Event Flier, Please Share Widely" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p><span face="" style="color: black;">Eva Diaz, mother of Frankie Diaz who died after blunt force injuries at Philadelphia Detention Center will lead a march of family members, friends and supporters demanding answers and justice for Frankie Diaz. While Philadelphia Corrections is stonewalling against family demands for answers, some details of the circumstances surrounding Frankie Diaz's death that are known are provided in the interview with Eva Diaz below.<br /><br /><b>PROTESTERS PLAN PRESS CONFERENCE AND MARCH TO TUMAR ALEXANDER'S AND DA LARRY KRASNER'S OFFICES</b><br /><br />Family members and supporters will begin by by attending Frankie Diaz's scheduled court appearance at 10 am (with some supporters convening outside) </span>at the Philadelphia Municipal Courthouse (1301 Filbert Street). The hearing is expected to be quick as the former defendant is now deceased </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4207ByKBMoEg1-IutbtBezoAwGtdpHZAoRhepQ1DnhfW9w992a16k3fY4c_CIl-CDejf2Itq3-VFExTUj7To7WelqYqfxkEd437hdmbNE1xtn_wCM2CqcjgexVq6fpH5AlkKcwa424mQ/s960/119461350_974393256363145_1031234994567988622_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="960" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4207ByKBMoEg1-IutbtBezoAwGtdpHZAoRhepQ1DnhfW9w992a16k3fY4c_CIl-CDejf2Itq3-VFExTUj7To7WelqYqfxkEd437hdmbNE1xtn_wCM2CqcjgexVq6fpH5AlkKcwa424mQ/w400-h270/119461350_974393256363145_1031234994567988622_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Following the court hearing a rally and press conference will convene outside the courthouse. Next the supporters of Frankie Diaz will lead a march to the office of Tumar Alexander at 1401 JFK Boulevard where protesters will demand immediate answers. Mr. Alexander is Interim Managing Director of Philadelphia who is responsible for Philadelphia corrections operations. He has not responded to family requests for explanations.<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UD_CNUicM3iIo2p62p38nsSSLXb96R6H20-K3a5XNtvQuPeNBYSTzzdyPlfI7P_K8PBzkCfdfPUOCksdqnGKsqxyhc6PnlTPvBRzlkx6LlLFqCiq3R3pInEm6BWuhavu6oZkNQRlxwM/s1052/FGEsp.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1052" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UD_CNUicM3iIo2p62p38nsSSLXb96R6H20-K3a5XNtvQuPeNBYSTzzdyPlfI7P_K8PBzkCfdfPUOCksdqnGKsqxyhc6PnlTPvBRzlkx6LlLFqCiq3R3pInEm6BWuhavu6oZkNQRlxwM/w320-h248/FGEsp.JPG" title="Please Copy and Share to Social Networks" width="320" /></a></div><p><span face="" style="color: black;">Then, marchers will head to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's office at 3 South Penn Plaza to call for a speedy investigation and indictments and effective prosecution of all those culpable in Frankie Diaz's murder. </span></p><p><span face="" style="color: black;"><b>Purpose of Thursday March</b><br /><br />According to Eva Diaz, "The purpose of our march is to demand information from the prison system that they are withholding and refusing to provide. We want the prison authorities to come clean and admit that my son was murdered in their custody. We also want to know where were the Correction Officers when my son was murdered. We want to increase awareness of the injustice that resulted in my son's murder. We are a concerned family that has not gotten any response at all from the prison authorities since my son was killed. It begs the question: Are they unwilling to provide the information because the Philadelphia Detention Center authorities have some direct culpability or are they negligent in overseeing the activities there and thus lacking true knowledge of how Frankie was killed under their watch. Either way, the system failed and my son was murdered."<br /><br />Participants should wear masks and practice safe distancing.</span></p><p><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview with his Eva Diaz, Mother of Frankie Diaz, Victim of Correctional Homicide by City of Philadelphia
</span></b></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOz7ykuX92mkOhDN4zvDwMdsUNTF5wVbcYKsfa12_l3j4bEF7MYFTAV9NxbUUOmx-gcAXOt8p9iJS6fgwDlUskDyATw5KwAEYeAFfsVMO_hVni9Jfj3y-_tKO7ant-QaPLCy6osYP6CUg/s1680/117626779_3410817975607277_2116148884165754273_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1680" data-original-width="548" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOz7ykuX92mkOhDN4zvDwMdsUNTF5wVbcYKsfa12_l3j4bEF7MYFTAV9NxbUUOmx-gcAXOt8p9iJS6fgwDlUskDyATw5KwAEYeAFfsVMO_hVni9Jfj3y-_tKO7ant-QaPLCy6osYP6CUg/w167-h512/117626779_3410817975607277_2116148884165754273_o.jpg" width="167" /></a></div><br />On August 18, 2020 Eva Diaz was notified that her son was near death due to an incident at “DC” jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The following is an interview conducted with Eva Diaz.<o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Bob Witanek, interviewer and co-founder of the NJ based organization Decarcerate the Garden State:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">“Across the nation the people are mobilized – tired of police gunning down innocent civilians, particularly Black, Brown and impoverished and are in the streets. Hopefully, everyone recognizes that the system is also taking out its citizens and residents through Corrections Homicide – deaths from COVID-19, instances of violence due to neglect or CO violence and other causes. Hopefully, the Philadelphia area media will tell Frankie Diaz’s story and get to the bottom of this grave injustice. And hopefully also, the community-based organizations in Philadelphia will respond with an outburst of support. I encourage all to reach out to Eva Diaz, the details on how to do so are at the end of this interview.”
Masks should be worn by participants and safe distancing will be followed.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The following is the text of the interview with Eva Diaz by interviewer Bob WItanek, questions in bold.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Your son was in a detention jail after an arrest ? Was he there awaiting trial in lieu of bail? What kind of charge was he facing?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIQ9nh5YGbUU7vwCJa22XpU73GYFJWMNLnDZqHYUkZ82x-_n_xSoEayQV5SmbRnRbHc37lL_1ePbyJWL7Mef9fCj6TF238y0wotmlQaY34UUxJTtdwB6W8fxu53DQahKSXf_MXK_3GmQ/s621/118211336_604178100463557_3781378752101152367_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="621" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIQ9nh5YGbUU7vwCJa22XpU73GYFJWMNLnDZqHYUkZ82x-_n_xSoEayQV5SmbRnRbHc37lL_1ePbyJWL7Mef9fCj6TF238y0wotmlQaY34UUxJTtdwB6W8fxu53DQahKSXf_MXK_3GmQ/w318-h318/118211336_604178100463557_3781378752101152367_n.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br />Yes. Frankie (my son) was in the jail in Philadelphia that's called DC which is short for Detention Center. My son was being held there while awaiting his trial which was scheduled for September 17th, 2020. He was facing a charge of possession of narcotics with intent to deliver.<o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How long was he held at the detention center?</b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He was held at DC for 7 months and 17 days. December 31, 2019 was the day that he was arrested. He has been jailed since January 1 of 2020. August 18, 2020 was the day that he was murdered.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How did the authorities communicate to you about what happened?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynj9SfFdmqTSsT2U-MWbTpgAtDr-hlaRohFVBuR7Ln5eHzYbqziPQ8uLz7nQhZbDzXmhjhTGRf1vtWrRpbD7C3BBL8X3Bt1r_su8aL9wC2OvptEtANtqoMfzvQb-p7EWEZJDLRLp0g_I/s967/118351582_2158672040930372_3289277425793063555_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="720" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynj9SfFdmqTSsT2U-MWbTpgAtDr-hlaRohFVBuR7Ln5eHzYbqziPQ8uLz7nQhZbDzXmhjhTGRf1vtWrRpbD7C3BBL8X3Bt1r_su8aL9wC2OvptEtANtqoMfzvQb-p7EWEZJDLRLp0g_I/w245-h328/118351582_2158672040930372_3289277425793063555_n.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br />The authorities have yet to communicate with me about what happened to my son. I found out that my son was on life support through the hospital, Aria health (Torresdale campus). They called me while i was working and told me that my son was on life support and that i needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>When did they communicate and how long after the incident that injured your son did they notify you?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">They notified me at approximately 1 pm on August 18, 2020. Unfortunately i am not able to tell you how long it was after the incident that ultimately claimed my son’s life because the prison still hasn't reached out to me with any information in regards to my son’s death.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Do you know exactly when this happened?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWGR-6P0sDgCCLWN6Ge5uko9Q9UVN4UIRzKUqNyNjog2k7RA4k6zcqa-IHJ_xonWg9zFD3j7wvmZVDdltcojjl56PQtDmBMHFzsyFfzvXjE2QfRlBYs23bYEdqfJPJjrAj69BMOPg2iY/s720/118472568_1021123938320883_1319166755854850907_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWGR-6P0sDgCCLWN6Ge5uko9Q9UVN4UIRzKUqNyNjog2k7RA4k6zcqa-IHJ_xonWg9zFD3j7wvmZVDdltcojjl56PQtDmBMHFzsyFfzvXjE2QfRlBYs23bYEdqfJPJjrAj69BMOPg2iY/w328-h246/118472568_1021123938320883_1319166755854850907_n.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br />I know that it happened on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. I won't know what exact time it happened unless the prison decides to give me that information.<o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What do you know about the injuries to your son? </b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My son had a black and blue swollen left eye. He also had lacerations on his head, forehead, and mouth area. The trauma doctor also said that my son had zero brain activity and he was bleeding internally from his brain.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Did you see your son before he died? (or did anyone?)</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXRhE0wjT6v7QsZLuB27YNodh5E_C-isMTr8iB_97BXuS-DVF63scrhDWVvJpRBGGmIib34sd8KaWU6AiNQWixwg97EzNJMIxU8I1zjvNcqlVX6gjhnMPdvTP5XBtx7MxHNC30IxiUz0/s862/118517244_971157020064573_2876893227559874140_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="720" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXRhE0wjT6v7QsZLuB27YNodh5E_C-isMTr8iB_97BXuS-DVF63scrhDWVvJpRBGGmIib34sd8KaWU6AiNQWixwg97EzNJMIxU8I1zjvNcqlVX6gjhnMPdvTP5XBtx7MxHNC30IxiUz0/w219-h262/118517244_971157020064573_2876893227559874140_n.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br />No. The prisons aren't allowing visitors due to the national pandemic that is happening. My two sons went to say their final goodbyes to their beloved brother because me and my husband were too distraught to see our son this way.<p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">How would </b><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">you describe his physical appearance? Did you see wounds and injuries? </b></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My son, Joshua Diaz, who works in a level 1 trauma emergency room, described my son’s injuries to me. He stated that Frankie had multiple lacerations on his head, forehead and mouth area. And that Frankie had a very noticeable swollen black and blue eye. It was clear to see that my son had been assaulted.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What is your best recollection of exactly what the authorities told you?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The authorities have still yet to speak to me or my family in regards as to what happened to my son. The hospital, on the other hand, has stated that they believe that my son passed away due to a brain aneurysm. And that "it didn't look like any foul play had taken place".</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What did they say when you asked for more details? What are some of the questions about this incident that the authorities are not providing?</b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHFMYJbDijZVqq1Z0jECwDNaumocFO4or5kYJMmFCAALFEnnnZmFDom4mEWsl6dqmGx82tCisFXzYxHFDMEFWUbSqU_odjj5rqqSbUZp9XPvycVe-t9Dhtf4bLj7KAH1XAAj7D3yKuCs/s540/118519692_743509843155256_4588863151949029420_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHFMYJbDijZVqq1Z0jECwDNaumocFO4or5kYJMmFCAALFEnnnZmFDom4mEWsl6dqmGx82tCisFXzYxHFDMEFWUbSqU_odjj5rqqSbUZp9XPvycVe-t9Dhtf4bLj7KAH1XAAj7D3yKuCs/w222-h222/118519692_743509843155256_4588863151949029420_n.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br />They simply didn't answer any of our questions. No one is responding to our phone calls or emails. We have asked many questions that were simply not answered by the jail officials. Some of the questions that we have is: How many correctional officers were working during this incident? How long after this incident did it take to get my son medical attention? Why is there only one working camera in this facility? And the biggest question that we have is who did this to Frankie?<o:p></o:p><p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What are some of the protest actions you have organized?</b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We have organized a total of four peaceful protests so far. We go down to state road, where the prison is located, with a good crowd of people and we tell my son’s story. We have made signs, we have made noise and i'd like to think that we
have made some sort of impact as many organizations have reached out to our family and 2 major news outlets have ran our story on air.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What are the demands that you are making?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I want total and complete justice to be served in my son’s name. I want the correctional officers who were supposed to be protecting the inmates to be held accountable to the fullest extent for not doing the job that they took an oath to do. I want whoever did this to my son to be charged and convicted of murder. And I want the prison system to adopt better security measures to keep prisoners safe. No parent should feel the emptiness and sadness that I am currently experiencing.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Do you believe that your son was murdered by the criminal justice system?
Explain.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes. I believe that my son needed rehabilitation, not jail. My son has never been arrested for a violent offense in his life. He wasn't a violent person at all so I do believe that the system failed him ultimately. Their job was to protect him during his duration at that jail. They failed at their job.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What do you want to see happen now?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I want for everyone who was involved in my son’s unfortunate murder to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. I will not stop until justice is served in my son’s name. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How can organizations and individuals help and get involved? </b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Our family wants to be heard. We believe that if enough people are talking about this then we will attract the attention of city officials and hopefully that can open the door to get some justice for my son. Keep sharing. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How can they get in contact with you.?</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The two best ways to contact me are on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eva.aponte.52">facebook </a>and via my email address. My Facebook name is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eva.aponte.52">Eva Diaz</a>. And my email address is </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: #1155cc;">evadiaz400@yahoo.com </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">
</span><span>Thank you so much for your time. God bless. </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-81859379485906171902020-08-26T18:52:00.006-07:002020-09-14T19:01:31.095-07:00Justice for Frankie Diaz, Philly Victim of Corrections Homicide: Interview with his mother, Eva Diaz – System Stonewalling on Explanation for How Her Son Was Killed<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">Justice for Frankie Diaz, Philly Victim of Corrections Homicide:</span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview with his mother, Eva Diaz – System
Stonewalling on Explanation for How Her Son Was Killed</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact: Bob Witanek 908-881-5275</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/349521109758833/" style="color: #33aaff;" target="_blank">Confirm Participation on Facebook Event</a>
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On August 18, 2020 Eva Diaz was notified that her son was near death due to an incident at “DC” jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The following is an interview conducted with Eva Diaz.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">According to Bob Witanek, interviewer and co-founder of the NJ based organization Decarcerate the Garden State:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">“Across the nation the people are mobilized – tired of police gunning down innocent civilians, particularly Black, Brown and impoverished and are in the streets. Hopefully, everyone recognizes that the system is also taking out its citizens and residents through Corrections Homicide – deaths from COVID-19, instances of violence due to neglect or CO violence and other causes. Hopefully, the Philadelphia area media will tell Frankie Diaz’s story and get to the bottom of this grave injustice. And hopefully also, the community-based organizations in Philadelphia will respond with an outburst of support. I encourage all to reach out to Eva Diaz, the details on how to do so are at the end of this interview.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">The following is the text of the interview with Eva Diaz by interviewer Bob WItanek, questions in bold.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">Your son was in a detention jail after an arrest ? Was he there awaiting trial in lieu of bail? What kind of charge was he facing?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIQ9nh5YGbUU7vwCJa22XpU73GYFJWMNLnDZqHYUkZ82x-_n_xSoEayQV5SmbRnRbHc37lL_1ePbyJWL7Mef9fCj6TF238y0wotmlQaY34UUxJTtdwB6W8fxu53DQahKSXf_MXK_3GmQ/s621/118211336_604178100463557_3781378752101152367_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="621" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIQ9nh5YGbUU7vwCJa22XpU73GYFJWMNLnDZqHYUkZ82x-_n_xSoEayQV5SmbRnRbHc37lL_1ePbyJWL7Mef9fCj6TF238y0wotmlQaY34UUxJTtdwB6W8fxu53DQahKSXf_MXK_3GmQ/w318-h318/118211336_604178100463557_3781378752101152367_n.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br />Yes. Frankie (my son) was in the jail in Philadelphia that's called DC which is short for Detention Center. My son was being held there while awaiting his trial which was scheduled for September 17th, 2020. He was facing a charge of possession of narcotics with intent to deliver.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">How long was he held at the detention center?</span></b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">He was held at DC for 7 months and 17 days. December 31, 2019 was the day that he was arrested. He has been jailed since January 1 of 2020. August 18, 2020 was the day that he was murdered.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">How did the authorities communicate to you about what happened?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynj9SfFdmqTSsT2U-MWbTpgAtDr-hlaRohFVBuR7Ln5eHzYbqziPQ8uLz7nQhZbDzXmhjhTGRf1vtWrRpbD7C3BBL8X3Bt1r_su8aL9wC2OvptEtANtqoMfzvQb-p7EWEZJDLRLp0g_I/s967/118351582_2158672040930372_3289277425793063555_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="720" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynj9SfFdmqTSsT2U-MWbTpgAtDr-hlaRohFVBuR7Ln5eHzYbqziPQ8uLz7nQhZbDzXmhjhTGRf1vtWrRpbD7C3BBL8X3Bt1r_su8aL9wC2OvptEtANtqoMfzvQb-p7EWEZJDLRLp0g_I/w245-h328/118351582_2158672040930372_3289277425793063555_n.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br />The authorities have yet to communicate with me about what happened to my son. I found out that my son was on life support through the hospital, Aria health (Torresdale campus). They called me while i was working and told me that my son was on life support and that i needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">When did they communicate and how long after the incident that injured your son did they notify you?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">They notified me at approximately 1 pm on August 18, 2020. Unfortunately i am not able to tell you how long it was after the incident that ultimately claimed my son’s life because the prison still hasn't reached out to me with any information in regards to my son’s death.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">Do you know exactly when this happened?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWGR-6P0sDgCCLWN6Ge5uko9Q9UVN4UIRzKUqNyNjog2k7RA4k6zcqa-IHJ_xonWg9zFD3j7wvmZVDdltcojjl56PQtDmBMHFzsyFfzvXjE2QfRlBYs23bYEdqfJPJjrAj69BMOPg2iY/s720/118472568_1021123938320883_1319166755854850907_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWGR-6P0sDgCCLWN6Ge5uko9Q9UVN4UIRzKUqNyNjog2k7RA4k6zcqa-IHJ_xonWg9zFD3j7wvmZVDdltcojjl56PQtDmBMHFzsyFfzvXjE2QfRlBYs23bYEdqfJPJjrAj69BMOPg2iY/w328-h246/118472568_1021123938320883_1319166755854850907_n.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br />I know that it happened on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. I won't know what exact time it happened unless the prison decides to give me that information.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What do you know about the injuries to your son? </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">My son had a black and blue swollen left eye. He also had lacerations on his head, forehead, and mouth area. The trauma doctor also said that my son had zero brain activity and he was bleeding internally from his brain.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">Did you see your son before he died? (or did anyone?)</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXRhE0wjT6v7QsZLuB27YNodh5E_C-isMTr8iB_97BXuS-DVF63scrhDWVvJpRBGGmIib34sd8KaWU6AiNQWixwg97EzNJMIxU8I1zjvNcqlVX6gjhnMPdvTP5XBtx7MxHNC30IxiUz0/s862/118517244_971157020064573_2876893227559874140_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="720" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXRhE0wjT6v7QsZLuB27YNodh5E_C-isMTr8iB_97BXuS-DVF63scrhDWVvJpRBGGmIib34sd8KaWU6AiNQWixwg97EzNJMIxU8I1zjvNcqlVX6gjhnMPdvTP5XBtx7MxHNC30IxiUz0/w219-h262/118517244_971157020064573_2876893227559874140_n.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><br />No. The prisons aren't allowing visitors due to the national pandemic that is happening. My two sons went to say their final goodbyes to their beloved brother because me and my husband were too distraught to see our son this way. <p></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="">How would </span></b><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="">you describe his physical appearance? Did you see wounds and injuries? </span></b></p><p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">My son, Joshua Diaz, who works in a level 1 trauma emergency room, described my son’s injuries to me. He stated that Frankie had multiple lacerations on his head, forehead and mouth area. And that Frankie had a very noticeable swollen black and blue eye. It was clear to see that my son had been assaulted.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What is your best recollection of exactly what the authorities told you?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">The authorities have still yet to speak to me or my family in regards as to what happened to my son. The hospital, on the other hand, has stated that they believe that my son passed away due to a brain aneurysm. And that "it didn't look like any foul play had taken place".</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What did they say when you asked for more details? What are some of the questions about this incident that the authorities are not providing?</span></b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHFMYJbDijZVqq1Z0jECwDNaumocFO4or5kYJMmFCAALFEnnnZmFDom4mEWsl6dqmGx82tCisFXzYxHFDMEFWUbSqU_odjj5rqqSbUZp9XPvycVe-t9Dhtf4bLj7KAH1XAAj7D3yKuCs/s540/118519692_743509843155256_4588863151949029420_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoHFMYJbDijZVqq1Z0jECwDNaumocFO4or5kYJMmFCAALFEnnnZmFDom4mEWsl6dqmGx82tCisFXzYxHFDMEFWUbSqU_odjj5rqqSbUZp9XPvycVe-t9Dhtf4bLj7KAH1XAAj7D3yKuCs/w222-h222/118519692_743509843155256_4588863151949029420_n.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br />They simply didn't answer any of our questions. No one is responding to our phone calls or emails. We have asked many questions that were simply not answered by the jail officials. Some of the questions that we have is: How many correctional officers were working during this incident? How long after this incident did it take to get my son medical attention? Why is there only one working camera in this facility? And the biggest question that we have is who did this to Frankie?<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What are some of the protest actions you have organized?</span></b></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">We have organized a total of four peaceful protests so far. We go down to state road, where the prison is located, with a good crowd of people and we tell my son’s story. We have made signs, we have made noise and i'd like to think that we
have made some sort of impact as many organizations have reached out to our family and 2 major news outlets have ran our story on air.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What are the demands that you are making?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">I want total and complete justice to be served in my son’s name. I want the correctional officers who were supposed to be protecting the inmates to be held accountable to the fullest extent for not doing the job that they took an oath to do. I want whoever did this to my son to be charged and convicted of murder. And I want the prison system to adopt better security measures to keep prisoners safe. No parent should feel the emptiness and sadness that I am currently experiencing.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">Do you believe that your son was murdered by the criminal justice system?
Explain.</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">Yes. I believe that my son needed rehabilitation, not jail. My son has never been arrested for a violent offense in his life. He wasn't a violent person at all so I do believe that the system failed him ultimately. Their job was to protect him during his duration at that jail. They failed at their job.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">What do you want to see happen now?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">I want for everyone who was involved in my son’s unfortunate murder to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. I will not stop until justice is served in my son’s name. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">How can organizations and individuals help and get involved? </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">Our family wants to be heard. We believe that if enough people are talking about this then we will attract the attention of city officials and hopefully that can open the door to get some justice for my son. Keep sharing. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span face="" style="color: black;">How can they get in contact with you.?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">The two best ways to contact me are on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eva.aponte.52">facebook </a>and via my email address. My Facebook name is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eva.aponte.52">Eva Diaz</a>. And my email address is </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: #1155cc;">evadiaz400@yahoo.com </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="" style="color: black;">
</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you so much for your time. God bless. </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-64714854814899196002018-04-24T04:58:00.001-07:002018-04-24T04:58:07.303-07:00Lucasville Survivors on Hunger Strike over communication access<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="msgbody" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: sans-serif; padding: 2px; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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Phone: 614-704-4699 (leave text or voicemail, please)</div>
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Website: LucasvilleAmnesty.org<br /><br />Lucasville Survivors on Hunger Strike over communication access<br /></div>
Three prisoners sentenced to death and held in solitary confinement since the Lucasville uprising of April 11-21, 1993 are on hunger strike. Late afternoon on Friday April 20 the prison administration restricted phone and JPay email access for Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Keith LaMar, Jason Robb, Namir Mateen (James Were) and Greg Curry.<br /><br />Over the weekend, staff admitted that the restriction was made to prevent them from telling their story about uprising during the 25th anniversary of it's conclusion. They promised the restriction would be lifted Monday morning. As of Monday night, only Greg's phone access was restored.<br /></div>
Thanks to an in person visit with supporters, and with the help of other prisoners calling on their behalf, Siddique, Keith and Jason have communicated that they will refuse food until their access is restored. In 2011 these same three prisoners refused food for 13 days to gain access to phones, contact visits, and legal resources.<br /></div>
The current restrictions turn back the communication access they had won in 2011. This access has allowed these prisoners to expose injustices and retaliation they've experienced since the uprising 25 years ago, as well as the horrors of solitary confinement, prison slavery, death row and prosecutorial misconduct experienced by many behind bars in the US today.<br /></div>
Supporters have organized a call-in campaign to pressure the administration to return phone and email access to the prisoners, who have filed complaints and contacted their lawyers, including those who are suing the State of Ohio for consistently denying on-camera interviews with the Lucasville Uprising prisoners, in violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.<br /></div>
More information can be found at LucasvilleAmnesty.org.<br /><br /></div>
Full text of the call to solidarity call ins:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1773815042661544/" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;">https://www.facebook.com/events/1773815042661544/</a><br /><br /><span class="gmail-_4n-j gmail-_3cht gmail-fsl">Call to Action! Defend Survivors of the Lucasville Uprising<br /><br />In clear retaliation during the 25th anniversary of the 1993 uprising, the Ohio State Penitentiary administration rolled back communication access and possibly other conditions exclusively for the survivors of the Lucasville Uprising.<br /><br />Please call Ohio State Penitentiary between 9am and 5pm EST. Dial 330-743-0700 and press 0 then ask to speak with Warden Bowen.<br /><br />SUGGESTED SCRIPT:<br /><br />“Hello, my name is _____. I'm calling to demand you reverse Friday's policy changes that i<span class="gmail-text_exposed_show">mposed new restrictions on prisoners impacted by the Lucasville uprising. None of these prisoners violated any rules and there's no justification for rolling back important policies that help them survive the 25 years of solitary confinement the ODRC has cruelly subjected them to.”<br /><br /><br />ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS:<br /><br />- The policy change seems to have impacted Siddique Hasan, Greg Curry, Jason Robb, Namir Mateen (James Were), Keith LaMar and possibly others. Some of these prisoners were actively reaching out to media regarding the 25th anniversary, others weren't. Some are on special “5A long-timer” status, (something the prison invented to keep them at OSP indefinitely) others are at lower security levels. The common thread is that they're all survivors of the uprising.<br /><br />-The move took place late Friday afternoon, so that supporters would be unable to call the prison for more information or to reverse the policy until Monday morning.<br /><br />-Over the weekend, admin assured the prisoners that the restriction would end Monday morning, and was only imposed to prevent them from talking to the public about the anniversary of Lucasville (which is itself a violation of their rights).<br /><br />-This turned out to be a lie and delaying tactic. Phone and email access was not restored. In fact, the prison showed greater disregard for the prisoner's rights by denying a legal call.<br /><br />-Keith, Hasan, and Jason are starting a hunger strike on Tuesday April 24 demanding restored access.<br /><br />-A new captain on the block has been threatening to return “long-timer” privileges back to “how it used to be”. That might refer to conditions before the series of hunger strikes that won increased contact visitation, phone access, law library, congregate recreation, Jpay kiosk access for email and video visits, and less restrictions on books and music. We're not sure at this time which of these conditions have changed.<br /><br />-Greg Curry is not on “long-timer” status, but his communication access is restricted. Monday he regained phone access, but still has no email. Last month he was scheduled to transfer out of the institution, then admin canceled the transfer without explanation at the last minute.<br /><br />-Four of the restricted prisoners (Greg, Hasan, Keith and Jason) are litigants in a media access lawsuit which has been making gains in the courts and has a hearing Wednesday April 25. This restriction may be an attempt to punish or deter the prisoners from suing the ODRC.</span></span><br /><div style="font-size: 9pt;">
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conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for
destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Phone calls, canteen
purchases, visits from loved ones, and work assignments are all part of Florida
prisoners’ daily routines. But so is massive coordinated resistance to
incarceration conditions that, in Florida, includes the 2012 torture and
subsequent death of Darren Rainey. Rainey was incarcerated in the Dade
Correctional Institution in South Florida when guards “punished” him by pouring
boiling shower water on him for two hours. Unfortunately, his death has become
emblematic of general Florida prison conditions many are courageously
resisting.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.miamisao.com/pdfs/DarrenRaineyincustodydeathcloseoutmemo.pdf"><span style="color: #1155cc;">101-page report</span></a>
released last spring, officials ruled Rainey’s death an “accident,” and blamed
it on his poor health condition that includes schizophrenia and heart disease.
Others investigating the death point to an incomplete investigation into
Rainey’ death… You know: business as usual for the Florida Department of
Corrections (FDOC). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's treatment like
torture, solitary confinement, medical neglect, and exploited labor and living
conditions that have us witnessing sustained prisoner resistance efforts in the
face of serious administrative repression. The most recent campaign is
Operation PUSH (#OperationPUSH), which was launched on January 15, 2018 to
honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This is a statewide prisoner strike to
end inhumane, even deadly, Florida prison conditions.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Florida’s Prison
Plantations</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is one thing to
refuse to purchase services or take visitors, it’s quite another to refuse
work. This is exactly what the savvy organizers inside, and their outside
supporters, know well. Hitting the industries profiting from prisoner wage
theft can serve as a wake up call to the FDOC. Not only do inmates perform the
grunt work that keeps the prison running-- laundry, cooking, cleaning-- but
they also participate in a state-approved non-profit program called </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.pride-enterprises.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">P.R.I.D.E</span></a>. This
organization has prisoners working in all kinds of industries like furniture
and garment manufacturing--for very low pay and in frequently dangerous
conditions--under the auspices of inmate vocational training that makes
communities safer and saves taxpayer money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the word “pride,” striking prisoners in 8 facilities started a laydown/ work
stoppage and refusal of other privileges for at least one month, or until
demands are met.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Theft of prisoners’
wages is a growing topic of concern in the liberal media, like </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/incarcerated-women-risk-their-lives-fighting-california-fires-its-part-of-a-long-history-of-prison-labor"><span style="color: #1155cc;">PBS</span></a> and NPR.
Recently, we saw coverage of California women prisoners earning a mere $2.00 to
fight deadly toxic wildfires. In Florida, the average hourly wage is from $0.00
to $0.32. This wage theft reminds us of Florida’s status as one of a handful of
states where prison jobs can go unpaid altogether. Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Texas are the other states with
literal <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">slavery </span></a>conditions:
there’s no other way to describe mandatory free labor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This no and low pay condition for mandatory labor has a cascade effect hindering other quality of life issues for prisoners, such as inability to pay exorbitant fees for canteen items and phone calls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">One organizer explains
in an interview with It’s Going Down, as </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/news/interview-operation-push-organizer"><span style="color: #1155cc;">published</span></a> on the
Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) website: “These “privileges”
are a facade which help them more than it does inmates by boosting their
revenues. Boycotting them may temporarily seem like creating burdens for
ourselves, but that sacrifice now is worth having a better tomorrow. Or
future.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Meet the F&$%*@!
Demands</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This widely supported
and extremely well-coordinated effort has </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/operation-push-florida-prison-strike"><span style="color: #1155cc;">three major demands</span></a>:
“payment for our labor, rather than the current slave arrangement; an end to
outrageous canteen prices; and the reintroduction of parole incentives to
lifers and those with Buck Rogers dates.” (Buck Rogers dates are release dates
set so far in the future as to seem fictional in nature.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Other more specifically
stated goals </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/operation-push-florida-prison-strike"><span style="color: #1155cc;">include</span></a>: stop the
overcrowding and acts of brutality committed by officers throughout FDOC which
have resulted in the highest death rates in prison history; expose the
environmental conditions we face, including extreme temperatures, mold,
contaminated water, and being placed next to toxic sites such as landfills,
military bases and phosphate mines (including a proposed mine which would
surround the Reception and Medical Center prison in Lake Butler); honor the
moratorium on state executions, as a court-ordered the state to do, without the
legal loophole now being used to kill prisoners on death row; restore voting
rights as a basic human right to all, not a privilege, regardless of criminal
convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The idea is to laydown
and refuse work until Governor Rick Scott faces the harsh financial reality of
hiring outside of his precious walls for labor to run daily prison operations. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://blackrosefed.org/solidarity-operation-push-fl/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">This</span></a> “could cost
millions of dollars each day the strike continues, which the state of Florida
relies on incarcerated workers to do for a fraction of that cost.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Haitian strikers
currently incarcerated in Florida are connecting their presence as laborers in Florida
facilities to Trump era detention policies. A </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/a-statement-from-haitian-prisoners-supporting-operation-push/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">solidarity statement</span></a>
from Haitian prisoners explains: “Prisons in America are nothing but a
different form of slavery plantations... There are so many Haitians, Jamaicans,
and Latinos in the FDOC serving sentences that exceeds life expectancy and or
life sentences who are not being deported. They use all immigrants, for free
Labor and then deport them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This strike emerges on
the heels of what has been a few serious years of prisoner resistance and
organizing in the state, coordinated with national efforts. August 2016 saw
prisoners placed on lockdown in anticipation of the national prisoners’ strike
commemorating the Attica prison uprising’s 45th anniversary on September 9,
2016.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prior to
#OperationPUSH’s January 15th kick-off date, on January 13 it was reported that
facilities began to retaliate against strike leaders and organizers by placing
some in solitary confinement.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Liberation</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the strike’s first
day, communication from inside ceased. Outside, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/south-florida-shows-solidarity-striking-prisoners/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">supporters</span></a>,
including 100 organizations, organized solidarity actions including a protest
at Norfolk City Jail in Virginia and a solidarity demonstration in Tallahassee,
Florida where one demonstrator, a Dream Defender, was arrested. Supporters also
rallied outside Miami’s Florida Department of Corrections building, outside the
Lake Butler facility, and in Jacksonville. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It’s no shock that </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FBYx3lYUYw"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Angela Davis</span></a> has
thrown her enthusiastic support behind the strike, exclaiming that: “There’s no
better way to keep the legacy of Dr. King alive than by supporting the
prisoners’ strike.” Her speech was delivered to a packed audience at Florida
State University, Tallahassee on Wednesday, January 16, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">IWOC has merely heard
rumors of what is currently happening inside, and the organization initially
waited to verify rumors as facts before releasing information. As of January
17, there’s verification of pre-emptive organizer sweeps and facility
lockdowns: collective punishment, if you will. Given the brutal conditions that
characterize U.S. prisons, jails, and detention facilities, we should not be
surprised to hear about prison administration crackdowns on strikers-- yet we
should remain outraged.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the Supporting
Prisoners and Real Change (SPARC) </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SPARC-133851070619730/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Facebook
page</span></a>, it’s reported as of January 17 at 10
AM that: “Info coming in... key organizers being held in confinement ‘under investigation’
with no reason being given. Strong possibility they do not have access to
certain personal property such as writing materials or extra clothing to deal
with the extreme low temperatures in these prisons without heat. Details will
be updated as we receive them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The temperature
throughout the state is no joke this time of year. January 17, 2018’s evening
temperatures dropped below freezing in Florida’s panhandle.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">By January 18, the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5269313/Florida-prisoners-declare-strike-protest-unpaid-wages.html"><span style="color: #1155cc;">UK’s Daily Mail</span></a> has
covered the strike, reporting that Florida prisons have the highest death rate
in history. Also, in 2017 alone, the FDOC confirms prisoners performed 3.15
million hours of outside labor as “community work squad members,” worth $38
million. Part of the arrangement is that instead of getting paid, inmates can
work off sentence time. Of course, this also produces a sinister culture
whereby guards can place time onto prisoners records-- especially if they are
strike organizers and participants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Speaking of sinister,
Florida eliminated parole for non-capital felonies in 1984, and strikers are
demanding the return of the parole option, which would reduce overcrowding,
illness, suicides, and deaths.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some prisons have
already cancelled visitation and phone calling privileges in retaliation
against strike demands. This is nothing other than pre-emptive collective
punishment as this new round of serious struggle commences. Under collective
punishment, every prisoner is a political prisoner. SPARC reports that </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SPARC-133851070619730/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Avon Park</span></a> prison has
shut off all facility phones. Prisoners who once planned to boycott phone use
are now being denied the privilege pre-emptively by Polk County’s Avon Park
administrators. What the hell are they planning to do to strikers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the meantime, as more
news trickles in about the strike climate, there are many things you can do as
an individual or a group to support #OperationPUSH. You can organize and attend
solidarity demos; coordinate your organization’s endorsement of the strike
(email </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="mailto:fighttoxicprisons@gmail.com"><span style="color: #1155cc;">fighttoxicprisons@gmail.com</span></a>); use the #OperationPUSH hashtag to publicize the strike;
write prisoners; and donate to supporting organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Relevant and informative
websites following the strike include: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://incarceratedworkers.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://twitter.com/FightXPrisons"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://twitter.com/FightXPrisons</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SPARC-133851070619730/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.facebook.com/SPARC-133851070619730/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Addendum: Kevin “Rashid”
Johnson’s Invaluable Perspective</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amidst the general
organizing efforts inside Florida prisons, there’s a recent addition to the
Florida system, and officials can’t be happy. Kevin “Rashid” Johnson,
co-founder and Minister of Defense for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
(Prison Chapter), and author of anti-prison organizing book, <i>Defying the
Tomb</i>, Kersplebedeb: 2010) was transferred from Texas to Florida State
Prison in Bradford County six months ago.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since this is Johnson’s
fourth state prison system in six years (he’s also done time in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://sdonline.org/61/political-struggle-in-the-teeth-of-prison-reaction-from-virginia-to-oregon/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Virginia and Oregon</span></a>),
he is one to adequately compare state systems. He has gone down on record as
stating that he “can personally attest that conditions [in Florida] are among
the worst I’ve seen.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In addition to slave
labor, Johnson also </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/news/florida-prisoners-are-laying-it-down"><span style="color: #1155cc;">describes</span></a> other
travesties of justice: “On a literal daily basis prisoners are gassed, tortured
and/or brutally beaten by guards with the full complicity of medical and mental
health staff. As part of this culture of abuse, grievance officials
routinely trash prisoners’ attempts to grieve their mistreatment. This to
eliminate any records of the abuses and to frustrate any potential attempts at
litigation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Other shocking examples
of more routinized economic exploitation include Johnson’s list comparing Texas
prison </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://incarceratedworkers.org/news/florida-prisoners-are-laying-it-down"><span style="color: #1155cc;">canteen prices</span></a> to Florida.
Highlights include price-gouging for ramen, oatmeal, and other anti-starvation
necessities: “One Top Ramen soup is $.30 (TX); $.70 (FL); ten individual packs
of oatmeal are $1.50 (TX); $5.30 (FL)...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Florida is outdoing
other monumental prison states like Texas and California for exploitation and
corruption, we have a serious situation on our hands that will not simply go
away. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">While striking prisoners
portray their resistance as deliberately non-violent in the tradition of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., the state remains complicit in running a violently
racist, class bludgeoning death chamber that is receiving international
attention. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Even an imperialist U.S.
president like John F. Kennedy can tell you that “Those who make peaceful
revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Governor Rick Scott and
Company: it’s probably a good idea to heed this warning.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i><b>Michelle Renee Matisons,
Ph.D. is an adjunct philosophy professor and writer living in the Florida
panhandle. She can be reached at michrenee@gmail.com.</b></i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-19185389269055812612018-01-08T21:04:00.000-08:002018-01-08T21:06:11.577-08:00The Coalition of Medical Marijuana, New Jersey (CMMNJ)<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI58Aul78XtmlHV8dYMfvsOJCzEbIB_wqGH5m_qcYxsF1gQaloAXXgsm8Scp7UMRgdoFnU-FSx8BmiJSewa6DkXyK9zj4F0JwaD0X0xD2SkxN0_Jyimdi_Gy2xADhwW28NfffD12XFXU0/s1600/10386783_10152174092878657_241743179037520747_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="453" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI58Aul78XtmlHV8dYMfvsOJCzEbIB_wqGH5m_qcYxsF1gQaloAXXgsm8Scp7UMRgdoFnU-FSx8BmiJSewa6DkXyK9zj4F0JwaD0X0xD2SkxN0_Jyimdi_Gy2xADhwW28NfffD12XFXU0/s200/10386783_10152174092878657_241743179037520747_n.jpg" width="137" /></a>The Coalition of Medical Marijuana, New Jersey (<span style="background-color: transparent;">CMMNJ)</span></div>
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Contact:<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />Peter Rosenfeld (856) 495-5824 or jprosenfeld@yahoo.com</span></div>
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January 9, 2018, State House Annex, starting at 10:30 AM<br />
- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/481623812238371/" target="_blank">Protest and Rally outside the State House Annex By NJ Medical Marijuana Patients for Home Cultivation</a></div>
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New Jersey Medical Marijuana Patients To Governor-elect<br />
Murphy: We Need Home Cultivation</div>
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Trenton:</div>
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Registered medical marijuana patients in New Jersey will gather in front of the State House Building Annex on January 9th from 10:30 AM to 1 PM to call on New Jersey legislators and Governor-elect Phil Murphy to allow home cultivation of cannabis.</div>
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Peter Rosenfeld, a board member of the Coalition of Medical Marijuana<br />
New Jersey (CMMNJ), pointed out that caregivers and patients were expecting home gardens until the provision was removed in 2009 from the Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act. Almost a decade later, and the promises of a robust medical marijuana program have been broken.</div>
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“Home Cultivation is STILL needed for three reasons, Mr. Rosenfeld said:<br />
1) Cost - the cost of medical marijuana exceeds half the income of the 50% of patients who are on disability<br />
2) Consistent supply - many patients need specific strains for their conditions, but the dispensaries often stop providing them for cost and other reasons. Supply, in general, has been an issue.<br />
3) Empowerment - allowing those patients who can to grow their own medicine lets them take control of their disease.</div>
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The recreational marijuana bill that Senator Scutari may be introducing today will make the specific strain supply issue much worst, to the detriment of patients. Home cultivation is one way of alleviating this issue."</div>
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Ken Wolski RN, Executive Director of CMMNJ, who will be speaking<br />
at the press briefing said, “Home cultivation empowers patients to take charge of their own healthcare, to grow their own medicine for pennies and to choose the specific strains that best helps their medical conditions.”</div>
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Rosenfeld added, “As New Jersey moves on to full legalization of<br />
marijuana we want legislators and Governor-elect Murphy to consider the needs of our state's medical marijuana patients.”</div>
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CMMNJ also extends an open invitation to Governor-elect Murphy to attend our January 9th meeting in Lawrenceville.</div>
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Contact:<br />
Peter Rosenfeld<br />
(856)495-5824 or jprosenfeld@yahoo.com</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-25939466742933956972018-01-07T20:31:00.000-08:002018-01-07T20:31:03.982-08:00Resist the Deportation Machine Letter to Joe D / Essex Freeholders<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoGrxGlpD-yO-JbsZS1RyRQ1lVMKA_tGzLrvx725006nXd_lnyOtIN4Tss7NeUzJFICcOBSG8jGbOu3QjQGXWdTd4X-t72OX7JsoJR9jLzL7xTC95kUDQtEpD-dIHAaaeSMicH64ITCo/s1600/10727847-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="380" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEoGrxGlpD-yO-JbsZS1RyRQ1lVMKA_tGzLrvx725006nXd_lnyOtIN4Tss7NeUzJFICcOBSG8jGbOu3QjQGXWdTd4X-t72OX7JsoJR9jLzL7xTC95kUDQtEpD-dIHAaaeSMicH64ITCo/s320/10727847-large.jpg" width="320" /></a>Resist the Deportation Machine, a coalition which Decarcerate the Garden State supports, sent the following letter to the Essex County Freebolders as a follow up to their recently coordinated protest at an Essex County Freeholders meeting.<br /><br />According to Jay Arena of Resist the Deportation Machine organization:<br /><br />"<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">T<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">his letter is a followup to our November 9 demonstration at the Essex County Freeholders. After the demo we went into the meeting and demanded that the county break the contract with ICE to imprison immigrants at the Essex County prison. Enclosed above is a formal letter, sent this week by email, making that request."</span></span><br /><br />This effort to close the detention facilities should be widely supported and linked to the struggles to end mass incarceration and oppose US wars at home and abroad. Stay tuned for an announcement of a protest that will take place on January 27 around these issues.<br /><br />For more information, join: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/143490942937260/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/143490942937260/</a></div>
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Dear Essex County Chosen Freeholders and Essex County
Executive DiVencenzo,</div>
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We are writing to strongly urge you as members of the Essex County Board of Chosen
Freeholders and as County Executive to immediately act to end the contract with
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) to hold 850 immigrant
detainees at the Essex County Correctional Center in Newark.</div>
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ICE’s detention centers throughout the country are a crucial
part of its cruel and illegal deportation machine that is spreading terror and
disrupting the lives of millions of immigrants.
Without ICE’s ability to hold up to 41,000 immigrants in detention, it
would be impossible for it to deport the 400,000 or more immigrants per year it
is now expelling. Most of the 100 detention facilities are, like the Essex
County Correctional Center, leased from local authorities.</div>
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Shutting Down detention centers will force ICE to free
immigrant detainees. The ICE system is full to capacity, and ICE is requesting
Congress authorize 5,000 more beds. Detainees that are no longer housed at ECCC
can’t, in general, be moved elsewhere because there is no room for them. ICE will
have to release many of them. We are as well demanding that Hudson County and
Bergen County close their detention centers and we expect that shutting down
one of these centers will inspire other campaigns throughout the country.
Multiple shut-downs will cripple ICE’s entire deportation operation, preventing
ICE from simply moving detainees around. In 2006, the closing of the Passaic
County immigrant detention facility in Paterson led to the paroling or outright
release of over 140 detainees.</div>
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Immigrant detentions are unconstitutional and a threat to
the rights of all. By ICE’s own
admission immigrant detainees are “administrative detainees” who have not been
charged with or convicted of a crime. Their detention—really imprisonment under
a different name—violates the basic protection of the Bill of Rights that no
person is to be deprived of liberty without due process—indictment and trial by
jury.</div>
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Deportations and Detentions Undermine All Workers’ Rights.
The threat of arbitrary detention and deportation deters many immigrants from
defending their rights to decent wages and working conditions. This hinders the
ability of all workers to defend these rights.</div>
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Essex County Must not Run on Blood Money. The fact that the
county profits from the unconstitutional detention of immigrants, because ICE
pays for the beds, is not a valid argument for collaborating in the ICE
deportation machine. The County could raise money by selling opioids as well,
but that would not make it a wise policy.</div>
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Therefore you should act now to immediately end the
detention contract with ICE.</div>
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Sincerely yours</div>
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Deportation Machine</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-34756482463642322792017-12-20T19:40:00.000-08:002017-12-21T07:44:35.855-08:00What Do I Want for Christmas? FREE NJ WEEDMAN! #FREENJWEEDMAN<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsFheU2tpL9oXEloTo4d_WTr9AMUZzhPLG4zC1MRBgJsSFW5leS673IDZ8Q-lBNWFNsxDcXE8E1g6LynMaUY0hlVKO9WWT5ylhsZdFT0W9UN6UJzfXlfZREpEz46Gr8lhDswcjzN6_NU/s1600/25625506_1785208011513396_608138133_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsFheU2tpL9oXEloTo4d_WTr9AMUZzhPLG4zC1MRBgJsSFW5leS673IDZ8Q-lBNWFNsxDcXE8E1g6LynMaUY0hlVKO9WWT5ylhsZdFT0W9UN6UJzfXlfZREpEz46Gr8lhDswcjzN6_NU/s320/25625506_1785208011513396_608138133_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donations needed. Also send letters of support and thanking<br />
Ed Forchion aka NJ Weedman for his successful leadership<br />
of a movement to legalize cannabis in NJ!</td></tr>
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#FREENJWEEDMAN<br />
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When bail reform was moving forward in the State of NJ, Peoples Organization
for Progress issued a statement critically supporting the measures. One of the points that POP called to be
assured in the process is:<br />
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“It must authorize the release of low risk individuals under the least
restrictive conditions possible.”<br />
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Two years later it is apparent that this POP concern has not
been addressed and the perfect example proving as much is the holding of Ed
Forchion, aka NJ Weedman, without bail. <br />
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Ed Forchion is being held – now for about 9 months – initially for two charges,
2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> degree witness tampering. Based on those charges, the prosecution was
able to convince the judge in the case that he should not be entitled to
bail. Then on November 16 the jury returned
not guilty on the 2<sup>nd</sup> degree charge and was a hung jury – meaning it
did not reach a decision – on the 3<sup>rd</sup> degree charge. </div>
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However instead of immediately offering a
bail option when Mr. Forchion was exonerated of the more serious charge – the judge
scheduled a hearing and then decided that NJ Weedman should continue to be
held. And the judicial used the
opportunity to add more time to the 6 month time line that is supposed to be
enforced to guarantee a speedy trial for those who are denied the options to
either be released on recognizance or be offered a cash bail option.</div>
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wrong with the bail reform that was implemented in NJ. He is being denied the right to speedy trial
and is incarcerated without conviction.
Clearly NJ Weedman has been one of the most outspoken advocates to
legalize cannabis in the state of NJ – an accomplishment that looks like soon
will be a reality at least in some form.<br />
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The legalization of cannabis in NJ will hopefully reduce
drastically the rampant onslaught by police, prosecutors and the judicial –
aimed at otherwise innocent cannabis consumers and merchants – currently NJ
arrests well over 20,000 residents a year!
Many are forced to undergo unnecessary “treatment” for their
punishment. These arrests enrich police,
attorneys, prosecutors, corrections officers and judges who make a significant
part of thelr living from cannabis law enforcement. In 2014 according to an ACLU report, NJ was
spending $127 million per year on cannabis law enforcement – an expenditure
that likely has increased given the ratcheting up of the arrest counts.</div>
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Personally - as far
as bail goes – I think the part of the reform that allows indigent arrestees to be
released is an asset but I was always nervous about the use of the provision that
allows the criminal justice system to hold those without bail for somewhat
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Ed Forchion was not
arrested for any violent offense – he was exonerated on the heavier charge and
not convicted on the lighter charge. A
vindictive prosecutor – instead of dropping the ill fated prosecution – has decided
to press on – and the judge has agreed to continue to hold the supposed “innocent
until proven guilty” Ed Forchion month after month.<br />
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It is now almost Christmas. NJ owes a
debt of gratitude to NJ Weedman, to Ed Forchion, since he had a major role to
play in rallying the state of NJ toward legalization – some such rallies which I
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I know Ed as a friend – I do not always agree with his
antics – but that’s ok – many people do not agree with my political activist
style either. However – I recognize an
injustice and a crime against NJ being committed by Trenton, by the prosecution
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If you ask me what I want for Christmas – I would tell you –
FREE NJ WEEDMAN! I also call upon the
incoming Governor Murphy to – upon assuming office – immediately pardon Ed
Forchion of all charges and release political prisoner number 420!<br />
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Also - please sign petition calling for immediate moratorium on cannabis prohibition enforcement:</div>
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/governor-elect-phil-murphy-demand-immediate-nj-moratorium-on-cannabis-prohibition-law-enforcement">https://www.change.org/p/governor-elect-phil-murphy-demand-immediate-nj-moratorium-on-cannabis-prohibition-law-enforcement</a><br />
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More about the case:<br />
<a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1783304251703772&id=100000726429991" style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1783304251703772&id=100000726429991</a><br />
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E-mail to Ed Forchion (messages will be sent to him): <span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:Edforchion@yahoo.com">Edforchion@yahoo.com
Please click this twitter link and RETWEET:
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Joe Xtarr worked with a team to remove the nazi signs that were hanging in New Brunswick since the day after Thanksgiving according to one Facebook user account.
Please contact him through Facebook to see about a team for nazi sign removal in New Brunswick - or elsewhere - since he and his colleagues took care of it to night. I was geared up for the weather and ready to go join them but </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">according to Joe they found only about 8 signs along George Street. He did not check the side streets so please keep an eye out anywhere in New Brunswick or any where else. If you see signs, contact Joe or you can text me 908-881-5275 to see about getting them cleaned up. You can also e-mail to </span><span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #4b4f56;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="mailto:cnjgdc@protonmail.com">cnjgdc@protonmail.com</a> for anonymous tips and leads. That is the contact e-mail address for the Central New Jersey General Defense Committee of the IWW (International Workers of the World aka Wobblies(.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Get a wood puddy scrape knife and throw it in your glove compartment or pack. The signs were glue adhered. The nazis were probably watching for days as everyone tried to claw them down with their finger nails. They probably were even filiming it - that would be my guess. But if you have a puddy knife handy - - zip zoot bye bye nazi sign. That's how Joe and his team took care of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you see the signs and do not have time or resources to get rid of them - contact Joe - through Facebook, above - you can contact me (Bob Witanek) thru Facebook or 908-881-5275 - call / text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That goes for anywhere else. The nazi signs have to come down as soon as they go up and if we catch them - we have to get a team to prevent them from putting them up or to remove them immediately.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">They should not be permitted to by the community to post those signs. This is not to me a police issue but a community issue. You go to the cops with it and they will spend more time investigating you than the fascists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But NJ here to forward - these signs can not stand 5 minutes!
UPDATE: December 7, 2017
Univision has been in contact and they want to do a story next time these signs show up in NJ so if you see the signs, pleaese call 201-852-7716 (Bill Tipacti)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-91521208691386645462017-11-30T20:48:00.001-08:002017-12-01T20:46:41.190-08:00Press Release: Decarcerate the Garden State Supports Ulisses Rodriguez Family <div>
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DECARCERATE THE GARDEN STATE SUPPORTS Ulisses Rodriguez FAMILY<br /><br />Contact: Bob Witanek 908-881-5275</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br />immediately provide any and all information requested by the family of Ulisses Rodriguez including every detail of the whatever incidents that occurred or circumstances that occurred leading to the death of Ulisses Rodriguez;</span><br />
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Related from Patch - NJ Prison Sentence is a Death Sentence for 1 in 10 NJ Incarcerated!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-89878907773460088502017-10-01T15:09:00.000-07:002017-10-01T19:01:47.474-07:00Meeting to Launch Effort to Close ICE Essex Detention Center 10/7. 2pm NewarkEqual Rights For All Who Live Here!
There is No Such Thing as an “Illegal” Human Being!
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All Welcome to an Organizing meeting to Close the ICE Immigrant Detention Center
at the Essex County Jail in Newark
Saturday, October 7
2 PM
157 Lafayette St.
Newark, NJ
The Trump regime is stepping up its attacks on immigrants and all workers.<br />
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The ending of the DACA program means 800,000 young people will be facing the deportation machinery, some beginning as soon March of next year. This past week Trump’s ICE agents began massive sweeps targeting so called ‘sanctuary “ cities Like Newark.<br />
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-arrests-nearly-500-immigrants-160303060.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-arrests-nearly-500-immigrants-160303060.html</a><br />
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But what kind of sanctuary city is Newark when we have one of Trump’s immigrant jails right in our community? The Essex County facility, and those like it around the country such as in neighboring Hudson County, are key parts of the machinery Trump needs to carry our plans to deport DACA youth and his broader efforts to ramp up deportations and terrorize all workers. The Essex County facility, and those around the county, need to be shutdown NOW!
All are invited to this organizing meeting to strategize on how to close the ICE facility and build a broader fight back to defend immigrants and all workers
For more information call Jay Arena at 504-520-9521
C3/Hands Off Ibervillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261024751552883394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-16229758928557077332017-06-12T16:12:00.000-07:002017-06-12T16:12:20.271-07:00Bill Maher and the Thin Brown Wall.<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;">
It's frustrating to see this unfold as it has. It is indeed a teachable moment. Unfortunately, there are no abolitionists allowed on these global platforms to teach the underlining lesson. Legalized slavery and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/13THNetflix/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">13TH</a> amendment is either an unknown factor in their mind or simply not on the conversational priority lists.
An astonishing thing to consider regarding people acutely aware they are currently standing in the heart of a nation that has more people in cages than at any time in the known history of mankind on planet earth. Hell. Louisiana alone is known as the prison capital of the world. in California incarceration is almost $80,000 a year per person. More than a year at Harvard. The national average is closer to $40,000 per inmate. Now multiply that by 2.4 million yearly. Add another 12 million times $25,000 for jails and from a view in space you can see human bodies pulsing dollars and cents in 6X9 transistor slots. </div>
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Still not feeling nuthin huh? Maybe it's the lead and chlorine diet mixed with SSRI systemic synapse restructuring efforts. IDK... justa guess.</div>
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Breakdown: A white man accepted as an ally, with the ear and eye's of millions, decided to make a big feaking joke out of slavery while talking to a senator in public. Referring to himself (the globe-trotting, footsie playing multimillionaire progressive white liberal) as a house slave when asked to volunteer in political fieldwork. Using his ... intimate "friendliness and familiarity" as a get out of deep shit free card. </div>
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Steve Harvey made a similar error. The re-vitiligo doesn't fool me. Same school of thought.</div>
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Let me point out something an abolitionist would catch. While he was telling that jokey joke about crimes against humanity, some governors mansions and even the white house at times has used or is using prison slave labor solely for economic reasons. The Clinton's used house slaves in Arkansas. I mean if you really want some stereotypes, there are field slaves out picking cotton in Angola prisons or potatoes in Idaho prisons now. Whole foods had access to a whole plantation worth tens of millions in revenue. They didn't see nothin wrong with a little trump and crime.</div>
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There are class action lawsuits in high courts right now against rampant slave labor use. Behind these bars across the nation, in places like Rikers and Tutweiler, suffering and exploitation is beyond a nightmare. </div>
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This past week alone I've reported on 3 different rape cases where SRO's LEO's and CO's are sociopaths. Women and children are being abused in ways that would challenge any poets commitment to being a narrator of the times. And you got jokes?</div>
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This isn't past history. Go to the governor's mansion and you might find a house slave working in the kitchen or offering white-gloved services today. </div>
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Maybe... the senator has seen them personally and was taken aback because Billy boy doesn't fit the description.</div>
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Ask the Clinton's what they know bout dat. I mean how else would those murderers get their freedom one day right? In the eye's of our oppressors, this is a great opportunity for formerly bad people to do something good with their lives. We should be thanking them. Like the other busted bill, O'really said. White House slaves had it real good ya'll.</div>
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I can't even get into the racism and stupidity involved with the video below and the line of questioning by the fallacy driven fake newsagent.</div>
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Slavery is a very sensitive topic of discussion these days. Talk about it enough and you begin to recognize it when you see it again. Maybe that is the problem and the solution. </div>
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I don't know Bill Maher. I don't like or GAF about him. This isn't just about one asinine white guy any more than Kalief Browder's story was just about Rikers.</div>
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You know... I bet I can relate with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/directher/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Ava DuVernay</a> right about now. She said it loud and clear. <b><i>From slave to criminal with one amendment.</i></b></div>
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Everyone loved it. She was a media darling. People played it everywhere and talked. Then, in less than a year folks consciously forgot what you were talking about and went back to living the lie. Maybe you did too. IDK. Denial is definitely an easy escape route. </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/MillionsforPrisonersMarch/?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Millions for Prisoners March on Washington</a></div>
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Max Parthashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844320732441208101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-42775970270049922502017-04-17T10:40:00.001-07:002017-04-17T10:48:17.712-07:00Sussex county judges and officials complicit in aiding even rewarding sexual predators, must be stopped<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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Sussex County superior court judge James McGovern released ex Newton police officer on bail last week, after multiple incidents and vast prior history of this man endangering the welfare of his children, while simultaneously preying on your children. This man showed his genitals to your teenage children during traffic stops, all of which evidence can be seen by asking Newton PD for an OPRA request of the footage. Almost equally profane is how the courts handled their scumbag insider buddy cop. He was released on bail and was on paid leave while they investigated. While out on bail for his first offence, he molested another minor in Burger king. Even amid NJ bail reform, people at risk of offending while on bail, or who have proven they will re-offend should be locked away forever. It disgusts me the way the prosecutor and judges were so eager to let this man back with his young children, or worse back in the community with yours. Call judge McGovern's office and express your feelings, I know I'm not alone. <a href="tel:(973)%20579-0680" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19735790680">973-579-0680</a> (judges phone)</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/index.ssf/2017/04/ex-newton_cop_accused_in_sex_assault_getting_out_o.html</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09851175372502005992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-83286475341171197602017-03-16T17:52:00.000-07:002017-03-17T16:04:08.762-07:00Lisa Davis Sees Something and Says Something About NJ Transit Incarcerating Acts Toward Riders While Total Negligence Toward There Safety<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_vndzUGTMQAFSte_M74G_xgGa_zCXXn6MlsurPwsdxoskaSt-DdrXnqlO1uF0yFvADtisR3vJiCvdmTAn1cA_-CiXMfPzWYcqU-FCsOACp1zEm7HB9tTpGhcDwCU7RPpCfNZQlJbgnQ/s1600/NJT1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_vndzUGTMQAFSte_M74G_xgGa_zCXXn6MlsurPwsdxoskaSt-DdrXnqlO1uF0yFvADtisR3vJiCvdmTAn1cA_-CiXMfPzWYcqU-FCsOACp1zEm7HB9tTpGhcDwCU7RPpCfNZQlJbgnQ/s320/NJT1.jpg" width="240" /></a> Yesterday, Lisa Davis, a well known Newark freedom fighter
and activist, core member of Peoples Organization for Progress, NJ organizer
for Black is Black Coalition and seeker of justice for the unjustly
incarcerated was herself had cops called on her, always an implied threat of unjustified incarceration.<br />
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walkingTHROUGH the the waiting area in Newark Penn Station – while Black – and
when asked to show her passenger ticket, questioning the policy – and she had
transit cops called on her - AFTER presenting her monthly pass (which she pays $170 per month for.)"<br />
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She was there to document the signs now posted by NJ Transit
in Penn Station saying that you can be ARRESTED and criminally PROSECUTED and
removed from the station for sitting in their waiting area in one of their
“rinky” waiting rooms for over an hour.<br />
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Lisa Davis is a regular – daily – user of mass transit and
is in the train stations and port authority ALL THE TIME! In fact, on September 9, 2016, I joined Lisa
to purchase smoothies in one of the Newark Penn Station shops.<br />
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pointed out the priorities of NJ Transit.
She takes us to a train station and shows us steps covered with snow a
full 24 hours after the Stella winter storm made its way through Newark. Lisa states that earlier today – the platform
itself – was covered with snow – creating a hazard in the dangerous setting
where high speed trains regularly pass through and where people in all stages
of life need to safely on board and depart from passenger train cars.</div>
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frisk type policies in Penn Station Newark is decarcerating work and I salute
Lisa Davis in boldly standing up against these repressive policies.<br />
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Arresting weary passengers who get to the station more than an hour before
their train for trying to take a load off their wary bones is just one more
measure of the system’s repressive war on impoverished and working class
residents and travelers.<br />
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Hats off to Lisa!<br />
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Here is her Decarcerating Street Reporting – Real News – Exposing the carceral
apparatus and the role of NJ Transit in the low intensity warfare against the
impoverished and working people.<br />
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The decscriptions of these videos – which were originally Facebook Live videos
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called on me today (3/15/17) for attempting to walk through their waiting room
in Newark, Penn Station. I questioned why I had to show a ticket to just walk
across the waiting room. I couldn't believe it. But even after I showed the
ticket, the police were still called. But the irony of this is that NJ Transit
has mounds of snow and ice at their train platforms, at least in one Black
community and sees nothing wrong with that. They don't see that as dangerous.
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II, New Jersey Transit. Dangerous Steps 3/15/17. I recorded this video
approximately two hours after the video of the police being called on me for
simply attempting to walk across the NJ Transit waiting room in Newark, Penn
Station. (Please see part I of this video where I was able to record the entire
incident.) These steps are concrete. I had to walk up them earlier this morning
to catch a train. They have ice and snow covered all around this train station.
And they have loads of snow and ice on the train platform. The majority of the
people who catch the train at this station are Black and Latino, so you know
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Thank you Lisa Davis for this top notch expose on the decay of infrastructure
including public transit. I am hoping that
this blog can include much more of this kind of street reporting to bring the
revolutionary side of the issues to the forefront. If you can gather this kind of information
and write this kind of commentary – contact <a href="mailto:Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org">Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org</a> and we will
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<br />Updaete from Lisa Davis, March 18:<br /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">NJ TRANSIT - RIDING THE TRAINS WHILE BLACK. Let's play a game. Can you guess which one is in the Black Community and which us in the White community. All these pictures were taken during the morning commute and the trains stop at both these stations. These stations are one stop away from each other, on the same line, and are just one minute away from each other. Really gives meaning to the wrong side of the tracks, doesn't it? These pictures are worth a thousand words, which means I'll be writing more.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-49811309318730505212017-03-09T21:07:00.001-08:002017-03-09T21:26:48.925-08:00Newark VD (Vacancy Decontrol) / Rent Control Loophole On Mayor's Desk<br />
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The following note from <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Eric Martindale arrived in my in box from the Peoples Organization for Progress. I pasted the letter into the group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/DecarcerateNJ/" target="_blank">Decarcerate the Garden State </a>on March 4. Now it seems the measure being protested by the referenced petition has been passed by the Newark Council and is headed for possible adoption.</span><br />
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Sent: Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:16 AM<br />
Subject: Please email to POP contacts --- urgent action on NEWARK RENT CONTROL</div>
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1. Sign the <a href="http://change.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Change.org</a> petition regarding the proposed bad changes to the Newark Rent Control Ordinance</div>
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<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.change.org%2Fp%2Fras-j-baraka-leave-our-rent-control-ordinance-alone-stop-unfair-rent-increases-prevent-displacement%3Frecruiter%3D635229437%26utm_source%3Dshare_petition%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dshare_email_responsive&h=ATPy2eKKy3Pj4GxoIKasefJDlcWQxN0Ca3iw_kZU2Q7SwIMzi0OE6kEo_Dog9ESAbkW7kQ96j4BLKm8BC4MeYxhCXmPvBPGsz7cqIKrnbFJ6dH9DZfA8A5dHtmUtKACyTatw9FClRv9S6RAHuOFLecg2BrBc&enc=AZOiIDrrah4YKmhioB9mRxqcANz3Vlx7MZJPcc7vQ1WYqqqY9aABhd6sV5Wl56ocV2LhHXEP1f6HINMeo8bHiN-BbWKwwk3Gc-HVGg-T2LodI7kwTX7y3FzHsiNOvvjkfJ4QyxNbfARHJqSbeTM-dPAuANiHkEXmx8UUI3UDHv_8Mx3uu9jjgCDcPBQdCwCmFbE&s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/ras-j-baraka-leave-our-rent-control-ordinance-alone-stop-unfair-rent-increases-prevent-displacement?recruiter=635229437&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive</a></div>
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2. Please call the city council members. Emails are good, calls are better</div>
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Demand that they stop these harmful changes to Rent Control.<br />
MAYOR & COUNCIL MEMBERS<br />
PHONE<br />
EMAIL<br />
Mayor Ras J. Baraka<br />
973-733-6400<br />
rasjbaraka@yahoo.com<br />
Salimu Taylor, Mayor's Assistant<br />
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taylorsa@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Council President Mildred Crump<br />
973-733-8043<br />
crumpm@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilwoman Gayle Chaneyfield-Jenkins<br />
973-733-5870<br />
chaneyfieldg@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Anibal Ramos<br />
973-733-5136<br />
ramosa@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Augusto Amador<br />
973-733-6571<br />
amadora@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman John Sharpe James<br />
973-733-3753<br />
jamesjoh@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Luis Quintana<br />
973-733-5882<br />
quintanal@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Joseph McCallum<br />
973-733-6427<br />
mccallumjo@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Eddie Osborne<br />
973-733-3794<br />
osbornee@ci.newark.nj.us<br />
Councilman Carlos Gonzalez<br />
973-733-6425<br />
gonzalezc@ci.newark.nj.us</div>
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3. PLEASE ATTEND the special Newark City Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 10:00. There will be a public hearing on the proposed Rent Control Ordinance. This has been designed as a morning meeting so that landlords, their lawyers, and their agents will be there in large numbers, while tenants are working. Everyone who can come, its important.<br />
4. YouTube Presentation, March 1, 2017, on rent control<br />
<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DN5RstjUKVhk&h=ATOFVNO5Mo3CW2eejOMLYFGba4bOKHIPoXXfmVGr0HPMoLCz37XiIHxaI3Fu2T_siOB6d3gP8Vg0cbvFaAcv02Yk8FFDErb_9y6tgYxSrq9YAbsMwIRfliJ4RALeTnD9TxEyIdD0NOX1KbjjmZ5_DZCHFB0Q&enc=AZON7FjNMBGs-NqFAdW_noRd-XAz1SzQhyMIc2v5vF2idAJ6c-byv_OUVy_II0OfWPhn5jlzmOvU8RVIxaYmO0ZNqJsIkAAezE9zqEEdUynyfTj7AJD7Z8eCzXWY6QHDkaUnRu5b03twtIMh8x93kkwWBprZ0P-FMNz4qLSEqwuYynhtrDgWZhbXcYAl0cxXZHg&s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RstjUKVhk</a></div>
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For more information, please see <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newarktenantsunited.org%2F&h=ATMTWmGC9NJAhkyOvqJiHnrGwN7oEqzauS92FeaFOYsN92WQ02f6fSK1YHxfBTKN3-1jYzkVLa5xcXpUShugAmIdV_k_Z0VXpkm0cMsYmkCPultOO5I017-gpMbBVX9rPmpSx4M7V43qwgtnZrsdbKZw4mpF&enc=AZNuvl2Vsh2F2nLpl358DDzZqYVZypboAlKz46wFzenIIoRZ2WyozukInsvabF-8_r4X_1w9MFo6aSswqt14Pc2gtFhVWd-4y1SWCxhmdNHFRf254o9rEBUaXAIiygPTCACzJFtfNVbGZfCNuivc51Zac_tImRZpHi9OYjkch6YC25CsLFFXFvL1_awQoLqIkOQ&s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.newarktenantsunited.org</a><br />
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This sequence of events led to a discussion at tonight's POP meeting.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was lamented that council mem</span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bers that are members, supporters and have received support from POP in the past were favorable toward this measure.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">POP intends to write to Ras Baraka to state opposition. </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100006004457773&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006004457773&hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lawrence Hamm</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> lamented that POP had not played a more direct role speaking out against this at council meetings.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">That - he said - is the kind of work POP needs to be doing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">I pointed out that POP had sent the letter out that I posted earlier.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">To </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100007929842005&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/jim.brash.31?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jim Brash</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">;s credit he DID take it to Ras Baraka over twitter and the mayor actually engaged Jim - but his tact was to point out that Jim is not a Newark resident.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jimmy Brash - proponent of the Black Caucus of the Green Party simply suggested to Ras Baraka to listen to his constituency on the matter.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">POP voted to send a letter to Ras Baraka opposing this measure.</span><br /><br /><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1327118693&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/babazayid?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Baba Zayid</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> spoke up that Newark had voted to keep the money out of Newark - but that this shows that the money is coming in nonetheless - and decisions are being made in favor of the landlords and developers - over the tenants.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">To its credit - POP had at least sent the letter out - which led to my posting it and Jim challenging Baraka over it on Twitter.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">POP has a pretty consistent full court press organization on many issues but as a volunteer organization it is not staffed up to be able to fully handle the load of defending the people from the multi faceted attacks ever incoming.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Larry Addams pointed out that coordination of retirees and those out of work (or not working during the day) could get people to the 10 am during the week meetings - like the one where this landlord measure was passed.</span><br /><br /><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100006004457773&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006004457773&hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lawrence Hamm</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> was not optimistic - he believes that Ras Baraka will end up signing it.</span></span></span><br />
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I personally would like to urge folks to contact Ras Baraka and urge him to veto this measure. He can say he needs more time to study the matter. While the Mayor can point out that I personally do not abide in Newark as he did with Jimmy Brash, I did attend a POP meeting which represents at least a significant constituency in Newark and am confident from their reaction to the council vote at tonight's meeting that a <b>Baraka veto of this measure is in the best interests of the people of Newark.</b><br />
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The information to contact him is above. You can also tweet him at:<br />
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Ed Forchion's message from Mercer County Correctional Facility where he is being held until: <i>Detention Hearing scheduled 3/7/2017 1:30pm At the Mercer County Criminal Court in Trenton NJ</i>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Decarcerate Louisiana is organizing to redress this injustice and to battle against systemic racism, classism, inequality, oppression, repression, criminalization and mass incarceration in our communities. We welcome your support in organizational planning and to join us in a broader effort to create an equitable and just system that works for all of us, not just some of us.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-81543671180308605612017-02-10T16:07:00.003-08:002017-02-10T18:57:23.711-08:00Black Youth Killed in "Police Involved Shooting" in Bridgeton NJ Today?There was a police involved shooting and killing of a Black youth in Bridgeton NJ today - the information is still sketchy.<br />
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News reports are very sketchy at the moment:<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">More info:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2017/02/authorities_investigate_bridgeton_shooting_report.html">http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2017/02/authorities_investigate_bridgeton_shooting_report.html</a></span><br /><a href="http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/police-in-bridgeton-investigate-reported-shooting/article_a7f8423f-0402-51db-9411-42691f17455d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share">http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/police-in-bridgeton-investigate-reported-shooting/article_a7f8423f-0402-51db-9411-42691f17455d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">As information comes in - this will be expanded . . . </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">From a local resident:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They said he been shot four times in the back and they won't let his mother see him yet."</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-87997901978430993792017-02-04T19:25:00.001-08:002017-02-05T20:30:05.359-08:00Decarcerate Louisiana Hand Made Card - One of the Nicest Gifts I Have Ever Received<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Hand made card sent to me from inside Angola Louisiana . . . there are several very meaningful messages and it is signed by the members of Decarcerate Louisiana,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE BATTLE CRY OF DECARCERATE LOUISIANA<br />
"THE 13TH AMENDMENT CLAUSE UPHOLDING SLAVERY IS RACIALIZED POLITICS AND SOUTHERN STRATEGY TO CRIMINALIZE BLACKS AND THE POOR!"<br />
:WARS ON DRUGS AND POVERTY IS CLASS AND RACE WAR AGAINST BLACKS AND POOR PEOPLE!<br />
"PRISONS FUNCTION AS A PROFIT-CENTER TO EXPLOIT, SUBJUGATE AND CONTROL BLACKS AND POOR PEOPLE!""<br />
"CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A DE FACTO SCHEME THAT OPERATES TO PERPETUATE SLAVERY!"<br />
"YOUR RACIALIZED POLITICS BUSTED! COOPERATIVE POLITICS WE FOUND!"<br />
"GIVE US COMMUNITY! NOT GHETTOS, SLUMS AND PRISONS!"<br />
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Greetings Bob! Thanks for being good and true to the struggle for peace and justice and an equitable system that works for all of us.<br />
You have a good heart and for that we are grateful, hopeful and encouraged to go forward.<br />
Thanks for DecarcerateNJ and The NJ Decarcerator It's the TRUTH!<br />
Thanks for being there and offering us support and camaraderie. It's because of links like you that the chain (coalition) is strong.<br />
Also we thank all of your staff, cofounders and staff at DecarcerateNJ for spreading the word and keeping the TRUTH alive.<br />
I encourage you all to stay connected to the sources that give us love, light and truth. Lots f0o work to be done in the refinement of society and upliftment of mankind. Always in friendship and solidarity, (name redacted)<br />
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1/29/17<br />
Bob,<br />
Brother in ARMS,<br />
Your support speaks volumes for your character which every man is bound to respect and should emulate. Your confidence in the movement gives an unspoken foundation of validation to push it forward toward its highest goals. I can't thank you and other way but with the word "Love",<br />
Your faithful brother, (name redacted)<br />
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Bob,<br />
Though we have not met yet I have heard of your support to our struggle. This is our way of saying Thank you Big Time.<br />
(name redacted)<br />
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Bob,<br />
Thank you and may God Bless you for all you do for the less fortunate! Truly sir, you are special!<br />
Always your friend,<br />
(Name redacted)<br />
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BOB,<br />
GREETINGS TO YOU COMRADE! ANGOLA 3 DID THERE PART AND NOW Its ON us to do ours TO Bring About Immediate Change to Lousisana!! We ARE just getting started, The World Will Feel Us Suun. Here 4 U, Your Brother.<br />
(name redacted)<br />
<a href="http://decarceratelousiana.com/">DECARCERATELOUSIANA.COM</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">THE BATTLE CRY OF DECARCERATE LOUISIANA<br />"UNEEQUAL AND UNDERFUNDED SCHOOL DISTRICTS:MANIFESTS RACIALIZE POLITICS!"|<br />"GENTRIFICATION AND RENTER DISPLACEMENT IS ATTACK ON BLACK AND POOR LIVES!"<br />"GERRYMANDERING AND VOTER SUPPRESSION LAWS </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">IS ATTACK ON BLACK AND POOR LIVES!"<br />"PUT A MORATORIUM ON JAIL AND PRISON CONSTRUCTION! WE DEMAND THE RETURN OF LBJ'S 'GREAT SOCIETY'!"<br />"END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, PRISONER DEGRADATION AND THE PROFIT MOTIVE OF STATE MANAGED PRISON FARM LABOR!"<br /><br />Bob,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you for your loyalty, commitment, sacrifices and contributions to the struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">You truly are a blessing to all of us and we are more than honored to call you our brother from another mother.<br />You are appreciated.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-2648906057515310682017-01-22T10:31:00.001-08:002017-01-22T16:26:12.025-08:00Proposal: Decarcerate the Garden State to Support Millions for Prisoners August 19 March on Washington<div class="MsoNormal">
Proposed Course of Action for Decarcerate the Garden State
2017<br />
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NJ is fortunate that Jennifer McClendon <span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:millionsforprisonersnj@gmail.com">millionsforprisonersnj@gmail.com</a></span> has stepped forward to volunteer for a
coordinating role in the to be historic Millions for Prisoners March on August
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<a href="http://www.iamweubuntu.com/millions-for-prisoners-human-rights.html" target="_blank">http://www.iamweubuntu.com/millions-for-prisoners-human-rights.html </a></div>
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I propose as a project for January through August for
Decarcerate the Garden State that we partner with this national effort – which is
supported by many of the “inside” organizations of incarcerated men and women –
toward making it a success.</div>
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Specifically I propose:<br />
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A series of events all over NJ – primarily in the “cities” and areas of the
state that are targeted by the mass incarceration due to racial and economic
demographics – to promote the goals of Decarcerate the Garden State and the
Million Prisoners March.</div>
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That we begin communicating to all of the organizations and
organizers of the state the details of the planned national march.</div>
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That we offer to join Jennifer McClendon and the Million Prisoners
March movement in a letter calling upon organizations and individuals to
participate.</div>
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That we begin the process now of determining the means to
provide economic means to get into DC on August 19<sup>th</sup>. We begin to reach out to Church organizations
and other institutions that might own or have access to buses and vans. </div>
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That we set up fundraising to provide funded seats to make
participation accessible to the communities that are directly impacted (that
have a tendency to be impoverished).<br />
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That we have an initial meeting at a time that Jennifer
McClendon can participate in Newark, NJ – perhaps as an agenda item with
Peoples Organization for Progress and from there we set up semi-weekly or
weekly phone conferencing.</div>
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That we begin to identify organizers around NJ that can
assist by setting up an event in their community around the issues of mass
incarceration, enslavement of the incarcerated, the 13<sup>th</sup> amendment,
NJ’s racial disparities in incarceration and participation in the national
August 19<sup>th</sup> Millions for Prisoners March demanding the Amendment of
the 13<sup>th</sup> – to remove the exclusion of the incarcerated from the ban
of enslavement in the US.</div>
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Production of a new issue of NJ Decarcerator highlighting the march and our other NJ work.<br />
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To support this effort and second the motion and vote in its
favor, write to <a href="mailto:Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org" target="_blank">Decarc@DecarcerateNJ.org</a> and / or participate in the Facebook discussion on this topic in our group:<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/DecarcerateNJ">https://www.facebook.com/groups/DecarcerateNJ</a>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gov.
Christie’s State of the State Ignores Drug Criminalization as Driver of
“Addiction Epidemic”</span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Governor Christie’s 2017 State of the State Address was missing one factual item: The role of drug criminalization in creating what the Governor called an “Addiction Epidemic.” The speech, which was heavy on drug-war fear rhetoric, grossly exaggerated the “addiction epidemic” while ignoring the role of the state’s own policies in creating the nightmare scenarios Governor Christie described in visceral.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The absence of any recognition of the role of drug criminalization is alarming, considering that prohibition policy is creating many of the issues he wants to address. In addition, the role of prescription drugs in causing the initial transition to illicit drugs seems to be based on anecdotes rather than facts. Blaming anyone involved in the drug use cycle, even our doctors, is required doctrine to avoid admitting that prohibition policy is largely responsible for social service deficits, drug overdoses and many of the harms his proposals seek to save people from.</span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Exaggerating the “Addiction Epidemic”</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Governor claimed the drug epidemic is “more urgent than any other epidemic” due to 1,600 overdose deaths in 2015 in New Jersey. While tragic, this fact is grossly out of context as in 2009 more than 1,900 people died in New Jersey from diabetes alone. Nationally, 1,300 people die each day from cigarette use. This misleading visceral is necessary for the continuation of failed Drug War tactics such as drug criminalization and forced treatment. The Governor’s misleading statistics also ignore the fact that overdoses are counted more than once by the Office of the State Medical Examiner when more than one drug is present in the deceased.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prohibition is Causing Overdose Deaths</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fentanyl deaths are a direct result of drug criminalization. Using substances that are legal, illegal or prescribed, all carry potential consequences. However, making drugs illegal adds risk due to non-regulation of the drugs. Unregulated drugs mean, the people consuming them wont know the purity of them or if they contain adulterants like Fentanyl. In one year 2013 – 2014 illicit fentanyl deaths rose 115% in Florida and 526% in Ohio. New Jersey’s Fentanyl deaths rose more than 300% in that same time period. To be clear, so long as NJ makes the same policy decisions to criminalize personal drug use, this will be a growing problem. Dozens of countries have had exceptional results reducing mortality and improving social outcomes by offering regulated heroin to people who already have a heroin use disorder and have failed regular treatment.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prohibition is a Barrier to Treatment</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Governor Christie spoke of removing barriers to treatment. Viewing treatment, as a significant solution is problematic as nearly 40% of people discharged from treatment in NJ, stated that they did not partially achieve their goal and nearly one in four people were still actively using drugs/alcohol at discharge, according to the 2015 NJ Substance Abuse Monitoring System. Even more concerning is that drug overdose deaths are the 3rd leading cause of death inside NJ’s drug rehab programs according to the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Because NJ has the most regressive compulsory drug court system, those people forced into treatment slots, many of which have no interest in treatment, take up space while those who want treatment are turned away. This is with the knowledge that compulsory treatment is less effective and often harmful when compared to voluntary treatment. Decriminalizing drug use will open a significant number of treatment slots in addition to not squandering resources. Simply appropriating more money to treatment providers, allows them to continually drug-war profiteer by trapping people in their programs while not addressing the deficit.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prescription Drug Reality</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The majority of people who use prescription drugs do so without any complications. Furthermore, the Governor’s proposal to have Attorney General Porrino issue an emergency rule limiting the initial supply of opioids to 5 days down from a 30 day supply. This constant barrage on prescription pills will have negative consequences as people with substance use disorder histories already face discrimination in receiving appropriate pain management as recognized by the World Health Organization. Not receiving medically appropriate pain management can jeopardize a person’s recovery. Lastly, it is well established that 75% of the people using prescription opiates for non-medical purposes get them from other sources than doctors so restricting genuinely needed practice will not address this issue (SAMHSA).</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Forcing Criminal Justice Interaction</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Most people arrested for drug possession have committed no harm to person or property and would not be involved in the criminal justice system if not for prohibition policy. In 2014 New Jersey arrested more than 42,000 people for drug possession alone. Exposure to the criminal justice system for drug use is intentionally harmful and carries severe risk exposure. The recent case of Katie Lee Thomas is a harrowing example as she was arrested for simple drug paraphernalia and found dead in a jail cell a few hours later in Neptune Township. Investing in community education and engagement on this issue would be a more effective measure while continuing non-coercive medicine drop-offs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Help Not Handcuffs takes Governor Christie at his word that he will “accept ideas from any corner of the state” and we call on him to truly treat drug use as any other health issue meaning there would be no arrest and no forced treatment. This would require ending the harmful drug prohibitions via decriminalization, ending forced treatment and considering effective regulation of substances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Randy Thompson</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06145678070705925852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-3543712309451637632016-12-23T17:29:00.000-08:002016-12-23T17:29:33.079-08:00Some critical thinking on mass incarceration.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What would they need to put into place to make such a continuation work?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Well 1st of all it would have to be legalized right? </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />The <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1039219632828622&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/13THNetflix/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">13TH</a> amendment covers that.<br /><br />Secondly you would need a new designation for such "unfree" persons right? Something that already exists would be best so you could just "include" this new unfree person.<br />The term Criminals would work.<br /><br />Next you would need a system that covers all aspects of this new enslavement under legal guise. From the initial "criminalization" via laws and codes that would allow a veritable army to simply gather bodies unopposed, (mass incarceration) and a way to carry these bodies from initial arrest through to incarceration right? Like an assembly line. (Courts)<br /><br />You certainly don't want to give them trials because the entire setup is unjust so you would need to bypass the 6th amendment right?<br />It would look like it does now. 95% of all felony cases ending in an unconstitutional plea bargain forced upon a mainly minority population by a 95% white prosecutorial pool.<br /><br />You would need facilities to hold them in mass quantities using as few resources as possible to keep them alive. (Prisons, detention centers and jails.) 1 in 8 prisoners in the entire world are African Americans.<br /><br />Now you can't call them slaves anymore so people aren't born as slaves but they can damned sure spend time enslaved. As much time as possible so in this new form of slavery recidivism would be a key factor. Reusable resources.<br /><br />"Using a Bureau of Justice Statistic study finding inmates released from state prisons have a five-year recidivism rate of 76.6%, the USSC study calculated comparable federal prisoners released have a 44.7% re-arrest rate after five years."<br /><br />You would also want to put in a safety feature for those whom the system is not meant to oppress that get caught in its grasp. So you would use economic advantages available to those with privilege. Bail, lawyers’ fees etc. Simply put the cost of freedom out of reach for the poor and make sure the population who are poor are dominated by those whom the oppression is aimed at in general. (Institutional racism and for profit justice)<br /><br />And what about the people who jump through all the hoops. Serve their time. Become model prisoners and unavoidably earn an exit from enslavement? You would make it as hard as possible for them to stay out of prison by taking away any rights, privileges and limiting their opportunities for self-sustenance. (Collateral consequences) Thus herding them right back where they came from.<br /><br />And how do you make this entire system self sustaining and perpetual? Well you would have to turn the communities of the targeted population into high crime, high poverty, low income areas and then send in your army to collect them at any time for any multitude of reasons. Generation after generation. Father to son, mother to daughter.<br /><br />And how do you keep them there with limited escape options? Limit education opportunities. There was a reason blacks weren't allowed to read. Why it was literally illegal. <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=106533216050668&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fredrick-Douglas/106533216050668" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Fredrick Douglas</a> told us how that works and why its feared by your oppressor. Knowledge makes a man (woman or child) unfit to be a slave.<br /><br />And there.... is how slavery can happen right under your nose every day and you would never think it wrong.<br /><br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=284072985072645&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/newabolitionistsradio/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">New Abolitionists Radio</a><br /><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/group.php?id=252019828274423&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewAbolitionists/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Move To Abolish 21st Century Slavery</a></span><br />
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For a better understanding of the New Abolitionists movement we suggest watching<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For historical perspectives You can also read </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">both </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Narrative-of-the-Life-of-Frederick-Douglass-an-American-Slave/112541042092094" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Incidents-in-the-Life-of-a-Slave-Girl/105540659478338" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
If you want info right now in a short easy to understand video presentation try these poetic presentations.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4304221336716221850.post-75575685745503009902016-09-06T19:06:00.000-07:002016-09-06T19:06:11.989-07:00From Keith 'Malik' Washington - Spokespersyn for - End Prison Slavery in Texas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From: Keith 'Malik' Washington - Spokespersyn for - End Prison Slavery in Texas!</div>
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Peace and Blessings sisters and brothers! I hope this communication finds all of you doing well! Within the next few weeks many Free World Folks will be wondering why all these prisoners are refusing to work. I'd like you to read this message on any Radio Station that will allow you - focusing hard on the large metropolis cities of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso, Texas.If someo<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ne could post the message on you tube via social media that will help a lot.</span></div>
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Peace and Blessings to all - my name is:<br />Keith 'Malik' Washington. I am one of the key spokespersyns for the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement. I am from Houston, Texas, specifically the 3rd Ward. There are many Prison Authorities and Law Enforcement Officials who will attempt to characterize our movement as violent.<br />I have never endorsed or promoted violence in this Movement simply because it plays right into the hands of the individuals and Agencies who oppress us.<br />The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, F.B.I., D.H.S., and numerous Federal and State Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies are fully equipped to deal with violence.<br />However as prisoners finally become visible in the media we must use this opportunity to convey our thoughts and demands in an intelligent, pragmatic, and respectful manner.<br />What scares T.D.C.J. about this movement is not the violence - it is the prospect of two things:<br />1.) The threat of losing money from having to stop or slow operations of the numerous Texas Correctional Industry Factories which generate millions of Dollars.<br />2.) Being exposed in the main-stream media as an Agency which exploits, oppresses, and abuses human beings in their care.<br />On top of being a spokespersyn for our movement I am also a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. Before I leave you I want to briefly state our Demands:<br />1.) On a National Level we want Presidential Candidates Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein to craft Legislation that will Abolish Prison Slavery by Amending the 13th Amendment.<br />2.) In Texas we want the Following:<br />A.) Good Time & Work Time credits which actually reduce our prison terms - All of us, not some!<br />B.) An Oversight Committee for T.D.C.J.<br />C.) Right to an Attorney on Habeas Filings<br />D.) Abolish the $100 Medical Co-pay System<br />E.) Humane Living Conditions & Treatment</div>
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There are no Racial issues we have - it is well understood that there are Black, White, Latino - Asian and Arab human beings who SUFFER inside Texas Prisons.<br />We are pleading with the World to hear our cries for Freedom and Humane Conditions. I leave you all as I came in Peace.<br />In Solidarity - Malik<br /><br /></div>
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On September 9, 2016 on the 45<sup>th</sup>. Anniversary of
the start of the Atiica State Prison uprising that led to the massacre called
by then NY State Governor Nelson Rockefeller, prisoners in multiple states
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Peoples Organization for Progress and Decarcerate the Garden
State joined in a letter calling for protests around NJ in solidarity with the
action and demand and in support of Decarceration, freedom for political
prisoners and improved conditions for those inside carceral facilities.<br />
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End Prison Enslavement: 13<sup>th</sup> Amendment Keeps
Enslavement Intact and it is organized through the US federal, state and local
incarceration (“corrections”) system<br />
Freedom for all political prisoners in the USA <br />
Mass Decarceration and Immediate Commutation Relief in Response to the 12:1
Racial Disparity in NJ Incarceration Probabilities</div>
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Improved Conditions Inside All NJ Corrections and Detention Facilities<br />
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Initial Letter from POP and Decarcerate the Garden State</div>
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Newark County Superior Courthouse<br />
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Friday Sept 9 (9/9) <br />
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Camden:</b><br />
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Superior Court</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Camden, New Jersey </span></div>
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Friday Sept 9 (9/9)<br />
1:30 – 5:30 pm</div>
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Leafleting and if numbers permit rallying<br />
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<b>Kearny (September 8):</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/994324653998673/">https://www.facebook.com/events/994324653998673/</a></div>
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collaboration with ICE / Marcha para terminar la encarcelación por dinero y
collaboracion con ICE</span></a></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">Join community members from across the state to
urge elected officials to stop making money from the incarceration of
immigrants. Hudson County has been profiting off the prison system. We will
march from the Hudson County Jail, which holds immigrants in jail on behalf of
ICE for a cost, to the Hudson County Freeholder meeting.</span><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Únase a miembros de nuestra comunidad de alrededor
el estado para pedir que los elegidos paren de ganar dinero por encarcelar a
inmigrantes. El condado de Hudson está ganando dinero de la cárcel. Vamos a
marchar de la cárcel de Hudson, cual detiene a inmigrantes a nombre de la migra
por un costo, a la reunión de los representantes del condado.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Start of March: 30-35 Hackensack Ave, Kear<span class="textexposedshow">ny, NJ 07032<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">End of March: 567 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, NJ
07306.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Route will be 3.5 miles, wear comfortable clothing.</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Co-Sponsors:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=154352017954889&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A994324653998673%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Action-21-154352017954889/" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "inherit" , "serif";">Action
21</span></a>,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1442310246072492&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A994324653998673%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/migrantenj/" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "inherit" , "serif";">Migrante
New Jersey</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://decarceratenj.blogspot.com/2016/08/struggles-inside-organizing-against.html">http://decarceratenj.blogspot.com/2016/08/struggles-inside-organizing-against.html</a>
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Organizing Against Inhumane Prison Conditions</span></b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marshall Rountree,
Social and criminal justice reform advocate. Recently released after serving 23
years in prison, many of them in solitary confinement</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be announced</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: forestgreen; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry: Rahime
Hicks and Marshall Rountree</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "lucida grande" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Central Jersey Coalition
Against Endless War </span></b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "lucida grande" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.againstendlesswar.org/"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.AgainstEndlessWar.org</span></a> </span></b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">For additional
information call Ellen at <span class="baec5a81-e4d6-4674-97f3-e9220f0136c1" style="white-space: nowrap;">732-771-7882<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4304221336716221850#" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; bottom: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 16px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: static !important; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px;" title="Call: 732-771-7882"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; bottom: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 16px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: static !important; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px;" title="Call: 732-771-7882" /></a></span></span></b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">or email:<a href="mailto:NoEndlessWar@gmail.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">NoEndlessWar@gmail.com</span></a></span></b><span style="color: #0b31cc; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Statewide campus leafleting 8 am – 6pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1588685001158708">https://www.facebook.com/events/1588685001158708</a>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";">On September 9 (also known as 9/9), prison
laborers throughout the country will begin a work stoppage to protest inhumane
working and living conditions, just as the prisoners in Attica State
Correctional Facility did on September 9, 1971 after their formal grievances
and concerns were consistently ignored by the state. Decarcerate NJ is
organizing events across NJ to take place on or about September 9 in order to
raise awareness about the work stoppage, the inhumane conditions being
protested, and to express solidarity with the prison workers who have been
abused and exploited for their labor for decades.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif";"><br />
<span style="background: white;">One of our goals for September 9 is to get student
supporters from as many NJ college campuses as possible<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span class="textexposedshow">to hand out leaflets
in their dining areas at breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner. The leaflets will be
two-sided -- one side providing information about 9/9, Decarcerate NJ’s
solidarity efforts, and Decarcerate NJ’s contact information, the other side
containing information about the campus organization(s) participating in the
leafleting and local efforts to work towards decarceration.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">In order to meet our goal, we need at least one
point person -- student, faculty, staff member, or student group -- from each campus
where leafleting will occur. The point person or point people at each campus
will be in charge of creating the local organizing side of the flier, printing,
making any signs or t-shirts to wear while leafleting, and of course recruiting
volunteers to help hand out fliers. If you or your student group are interested
in handing out leaflets on 9/9, please contact me as soon as possible with your
name, your student group (if applicable), and the campus you will be leafleting
at. Additionally, feel free to contact me with any questions, concerns, or
requests for help.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Lastly, there is a possible solidarity event on
September 10 in Plainfield. This event is in the planning stages but would be
hosted by Plainfield youth and feature liberationist music and art to celebrate
the unity in struggle for decarceration. There may be additional 9/9 events in
other cities across the state organized by members of Decarcerate NJ. More
information about the possible Plainfield event and any others which
materialize will be released as soon as possible.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Thank you for taking the time to read through this
letter and engage in the discussion around decarceration. We hope to see you
out in your schools for 9/9!</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Best,</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Jennie Chenkin</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Facebook: Jennie Chenkin</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Email: jmac13@hampshire.edu</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">Phone: <span class="baec5a81-e4d6-4674-97f3-e9220f0136c1" style="white-space: nowrap;">(908) 967-4095<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4304221336716221850#" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; bottom: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 16px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: static !important; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px;" title="Call: (908) 967-4095"><img src="data:image/png;base64,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" style="border-image: none; border: currentColor; bottom: 0px; display: inline; float: none; height: 16px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: static !important; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; width: 16px;" title="Call: (908) 967-4095" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://decarceratenj.blogspot.com/2016/08/letter-to-students-re-99-campus.html">http://decarceratenj.blogspot.com/2016/08/letter-to-students-re-99-campus.html</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Rowan University Panel Discussion Sept
15 – Stay Tuned for Details<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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They have given me thirty (30) days restrictions. It was<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> a deliberate plan to cut off my direct communications with the outside world prior to the national event/action, notwithstanding their own policy only permits them to suspend my privileges for a period of up to two hundred eighty-eight hours (See paragraph (C) of rule 5120:1-10-12 of the Administrative Code or disciplinary isolation.) This restriction policy became effective 2/16/2016.</span></div>
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I agree that prison officials are "so used to being invisible and hiding its corruption and abuses from the public"; however, we must reveal what happened in my recent situation. Thus continue to work with the media and attorneys to expose the problems in my case. (I plan on filing my appeal to the Warden on Monday.)</div>
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There are three of us--Keith Dewitt Jr., David Martin and myself--still on hunger strike. We are all Muslims and are dissatisfied with the contract Imam's work performance, treatment of Muslims, and using his position to remove Muslims from their services merely because they disagree with some of his teachings. The others that were on the hunger strike were showing their solidarity about me being wrongfully put in the hole. They were demanding that I be released from isolation. When that materialized, they ended their strike.</div>
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Hereunder are some of the problems in my case:</div>
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1. The incident allegedly took place on July 22nd; however, an incident report was not written until August 1st. The charge is very, very serious and no one would wait for 10 days before writing an incident report if it was true.</div>
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2. They then waited 8 more days before placing me in the hole (on August 9th) with a conduct report for a Rule 59 violation: Any act not otherwise set forth herein, knowingly done which constitutes a threat to the security of the institution, its staff, other inmates, or to the acting inmate.</div>
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3. The above conduct report was dismissed/thrown out and another one was written on 08/15/2016. This was done to embellish and magnify the report.</div>
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4. The reporting staff member's signature should appear on the conduct report; however, this is not the case in my situation. Imam Said Ismail's signature is not on mine; instead, Lt. K. Sample signed it. I hear the Imam should have signed it Friday (August 19th), that would be a day after my conviction by the RIB (the Rule Infraction Board). That's unlawful! The written staff member's signature should appear on the report before the RIB hearing is conducted.</div>
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5. The RIB has the authority to "Order restrictions on personal privileges following an inmate's abuse of such privileges or facilities or when such action is deemed necessary by the warden for the safety and security of the institution, or the well-being of the inmate. Such restrictions shall continue only as long as it is reasonably necessary." Since I did not violate or abuse any of my phone and/or Kiosk privileges, why am I on 30 days phone and Kiosk restrictions? The simple answer is, they wanted to deny me direct access and communications to the outside world until after September 9th.</div>
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6. According to 5120:1-10-13 Violations and penalties, "Major rule violations shall be subject to restriction or suspension of the privileges and/or qualified rights enumerated in paragraph (C) of rule 5120:1-10-12 of the Administrative Code or disciplinary isolation, for a period of up to two hundred eighty-eight hours." That will merely be 12 days of restrictions. So why am I on 30 days of phone and Kiosk restrictions? This policy became effective 2/16/2016.</div>
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Not only was my rights to a fair and impartial hearing was violated, the penalty imposed on me was excessive. It clearly shows OSP was out to get me; hence, the reason for the fabricated charge. Even if the Warden or his designee were to refer my case back to the RIB panel for reconsideration when there is procedural errors have obviously occurred, I am convinced the outcome would be the same.</div>
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Therefore, let's keep up the pressure and expose OSP's diabolical scheme for all and sundry to see. If we don't, I'm convinced they will eventually fabricate more charges on me in the upcoming weeks, months and years.</div>
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With revolutionary love and salute,</div>
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Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan</div>
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