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Family and Youth Defense Fund

AdvoCare's Family and Youth Defense Fund is established as a legal defense fund using AdvoCare's current tax exempt status and charitable purpose under their Family Bound program. The purpose of the fund would be to provide assistance in general actions, individual cases, or for filing amicus briefs where the outcome of such cases may effect our members and the general public in areas related to our organizations charitable purpose, goals, and description of activities. The fund, and all donatio… Continue

Added by DoNotGiveUpHopeUSA on November 8, 2009 at 7:43am — No Comments

Joe Lieberman, Zionist Threat to America's Interest #tcot #HCR

oe Lieberman has indicated that he plans to call for a filibuster of Sen. Harry Reid's Health Care Reform Bill, aiding the Republicans. Obama forgave Lieberman for his attacks against him on behalf of John McCain during the presidential elections. We now see the betraying behavior of Joe Lieberman continuing. Is this a last attempt to make Health Care Reform Obama's "Waterloo"? If so, it shall fail because Health Care Reform is going to pass and what will that be for Lieberman and his Republican… Continue

Added by One Black Man on November 8, 2009 at 5:41am — No Comments

Secret Debate Begins On House Health Care Reform Bill #hcr #tcot

By Scotty Reid Conservative talking heads and quite a few Republican politicians have been claiming to whoever with listen that healthcare reform is being done in secret behind closed doors. See Media Matters Right-wing media ignore weeks of open debate, GOP actions in accusing Democrats of legislating "behind closed doors". More secret meetings behind closed doors started today.… Continue

Added by Black Talk Radio Network™ on November 7, 2009 at 8:40pm — No Comments

Activist Gloria Steinem Links “Homosexual Rights” and “Civil Rights” Together

By Scotty Reid

photo by pinguino Political activist Gloria Steinem recently spoke at East Carolina University and linked a number of causes. Two of the causes linked together sharing common concerns were the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. Most Black civil rights activist would object to linking the gay rights movement to the civil rights movement.… Continue

Added by Black Talk Radio Network™ on November 7, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

“I’m ready to sign them papers! When is enough, enough in Male Female Relationships?”

God willing, this Sunday evening we are going to get into a very relevant topic for our community. The great prophetess, Lauren Hill sings, “It could all be so simple, but you’d rather make it hard…” How do you assess whether you should continue in your relationship or not? What criterion do you use? Is y… Continue

Added by Brother Marcus! on November 7, 2009 at 1:03am — No Comments

Salisbury Citizens Dissatisfied with Salisbury Police Department Brutality Investigation

BY Scotty Reid Witnesses described chaos at the La Bamba nightclub in Salisbury, North Carolina early Saturday on August 1, 2009. That night, Salisbury officer Kareem Purando stands accused of committing acts of brutality against patrons at the nightclub where officers were responding to a reported brawl at the rap concert occurring at the club. A video crew from GroundBreaking Video Productions was on hand that night to film a rap act and captured portions of the incident on video. In the vide… Continue

Added by Black Talk Radio Network™ on November 6, 2009 at 5:24pm — No Comments

What happened on November 3?

The Struggle for Palestine, a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. One interpretation, the one coming from the White House, says they don't matter at all. The other, coming mainly from the Republican Party and the likes of Glenn Beck, holds that the elections were a sharp repudiation of Barack Obama's "big government" agenda and a signal that Americans are ready to embrace the right wing again. Let's take the se… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 6, 2009 at 3:33pm — No Comments

The war on public-sector unions

State and local governments are making deep spending cuts wherever they can, and taking aim at the power of public-sector unions. Lee Sustar documents this latest turn in the long war on labor--and talks to activists who are putting forward an opposition. THE LONG war on unions is escalating in the public sector as the recession wipes out tax revenue and triggers deep budget cuts in states, large and small. The biggest headlines have come out of California, where 193,000 state workers have suffe… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 6, 2009 at 3:31pm — No Comments

The U.S. is the only country that sentences juveniles to life in prison without parole. Will the Supreme Court declare it unconstitutional?

. North Korea considers it a cruel form of punishment. But in the United States sentencing a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole is legal. But on November 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up two cases involving juvenile offenders in Florida who claim their life sentences for rape and robbery violate the cruel-and-unusual-punishment clauses of the Constitution. There are about 2,500 juveniles (ranging in age from 13 to 17) currently sentenced to life in prison in the U… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 6, 2009 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Editorial: Justice restored

Finally, a court ruling that considers the impact on the Luzerne County kids whose lives have been upended. After stumbling during the initial stages of the upstate cash-for-kids scandal, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court moved to try to restore confidence in the state's juvenile-justice system. In an unprecedented ruling last week, the high court tossed out 6,500 juvenile-court cases tainted by an alleged kickback scheme involving a former Luzerne County judge. The teens - many of them now young a… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 6, 2009 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Memo to Congress: On Health Care Vote You Must Choose Between Insurance Companies and Average A

When you cast your vote this weekend on the historic health care reform bill, you will be faced with a simple, clear choice: cast a vote for average Americans, or for health insurance companies. The stark clarity of the choice is obvious to most Americans, but it has not yet come into focus for some of your colleagues. Yesterday I spoke with several Democratic Members who professed to still be studying the "details" of the bill and pondering their decision. The health care reform measures have b… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 6, 2009 at 3:25pm — No Comments

The Pretenders, The Liars, and these fools, who's raising these idiots? You_

Don't sit there and act like I said something wrong. I could have called them something worst. These kind of people exist in the human family, in society, they're in the community along with the murderers. You have children. They come from somewhere. If they fell out the sky then, I can't blame you. An… Continue

Added by KeeKeeDonz on November 6, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Justices, in Aftermath of 2 Murder Cases, Hear Claims of a Process Gone Wrong

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two cases involving claims that the criminal justice system had gone badly awry. In one, Iowa prosecutors are accused of fabricating evidence that sent two innocent men to life imprisonment for murder. In the other, an Alabama prisoner attributed his death sentence to an appointed defense lawyer’s failure to present evidence at the sentencing phase of his trial. In the Iowa case, Curtis W. McGhee Jr. and Terry J. Harrington, having spen… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 5, 2009 at 2:14pm — No Comments

Swine Flu Outbreak Sparks Mutation Fears

British scientists are examining samples of a strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to determine whether the virus has mutated. Skip related content More than 80 people have died in Ukraine in the last two weeks and there have been 450,000 cases of respiratory illness. The World Health Organisation has sent an emergency team to monitor the epidemic and says it assumes most of the illness in the country has been caused by H1N1 swine flu. The Ukrainian government has closed scho… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 5, 2009 at 12:40pm — No Comments

Cocaine's charge through Europe undiminished: report

Cocaine and heroin continue to maintain a firm hold on Europe's drug scene, and there is little to suggest at present any improvement regarding their use in Europe," said Wolfgang Goetz, who heads the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. "With seizures up across the continent, there were "indications that suppliers may be experiencing difficulties in meeting consumer demand in some major markets," its 'State of the drugs problem in Europe' report for 2009 said. According to t… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 5, 2009 at 12:35pm — 2 Comments

'Never Again': Cameron Pledge On EU Treaty

Unveiling the Tories' new policy on Europe, following ratification of the Treaty, he said the new act would ensure British law takes precedence over EU law. "We cannot hold a referendum and magically make the Lisbon Treaty itself disappear," Mr Cameron said. But, he promised, "never again" would power be passed to the EU, without a referendum, under a Conservative government. "This is not about Westminster striking down individual items of EU legislation," the Tory leader said. "It is about an a… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 5, 2009 at 12:33pm — No Comments

The public option mirage

Malalai Joya is known around the world as a courageous opponent of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, the corrupt regime presided over by President Hamid Karzai--and the Taliban and other conservative Islamist forces battling U.S. and Afghan government troops. An uncompromising fighter for women's rights, Joya was elected to parliament in 2005, where she denounced the presence of representatives who she called "warlords" and "war criminals." In 2007, she was suspended on the grounds that she ha… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 4, 2009 at 11:25pm — No Comments

The warlords' president

AFGHANISTAN'S ELECTION farce came to an appropriately laughable end in early November when incumbent President Hamid Karzai was declared the winner, after his rival, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a run-off vote scheduled for November 7. Karzai tried to steal the first election on August 20 through massive vote fraud, but the theft was so brazen--more than 1 million votes cast for him in the first round were disqualified--that he was pressured by international observers into admitting he hadn'… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 4, 2009 at 11:23pm — No Comments

The banksters plot their next robbery

Warren Buffet are among the few people laughing during the current crisis "WE HAVE to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all." Those were the words of Lord Brian Griffiths, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a recent panel discussion in London. And why wouldn't Griffiths feel that way? After all, he's vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, and therefore is about to personally experience much, much "greater prosp… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 4, 2009 at 11:22pm — No Comments

Buffoon Blakely Should Apologize To New Orleans

Former New Orleans Recovery Director Ed Blakely has done it again. He has made condescending, racist and inflammatory comments that are harmful to the City of ....New Orleans..... In an interview with CalTV of the University of California-Berkeley, Blakely said that ....New Orleans.... residents are “racists” and that white people sense “blood in the water” post-Katrina and are working to take back political power. Blakely warned that white were trying to “put their foot back on black people’s t… Continue

Added by Delaproser on November 4, 2009 at 11:20pm — No Comments