Friday, December 30, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
With Misguided Leadership and Misdirected Priorities
With Misguided Leadership and Misdirected Priorities (Who is determining the rastaman's priorities nowadays?) By Ras Jahaziel August 21, 2009 - rastafarivisions.com Foreword When a house is burning or a ship is sinking it is typical for those that are imperiled to focus urgently on the immediate problem that needs to be fixed...that is if they are not dead asleep or drugged by the dope of domestication. Similarly the priorities of any people who are beset by crisis ought to be characterized by urgency and focus on the immediate problems that need to be fixed. |
Sunday, December 11, 2011
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS (And Learn To Understand Them)
“It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.”
Subrahmanya C. Bharati
Honor and respect to the royal sons and daughters spread out north, east, west and south with peace and love. Greetings to all who care to join in this feast of knowledge.
Many of us living in the world today may know that December 10th is Human Rights Day and many of us may not; some of us probably saw it highlighted on a calendar and never did the research to find out the significance of it. I congratulate those of you who took time and know, but it is our duty to make everyone aware. “Leading a horse to water and getting him to drink”.
Subrahmanya C. Bharati
Know Your Rights
by Hon. Prophet Lion
Honor and respect to the royal sons and daughters spread out north, east, west and south with peace and love. Greetings to all who care to join in this feast of knowledge.
Many of us living in the world today may know that December 10th is Human Rights Day and many of us may not; some of us probably saw it highlighted on a calendar and never did the research to find out the significance of it. I congratulate those of you who took time and know, but it is our duty to make everyone aware. “Leading a horse to water and getting him to drink”.
AFRICAN HEROES SERIES VOL.1..HON.KING EMMANUEL CHARLES EDWARDS THE FORMATIVE YEARS
"The ends you serve that are selfish will carry you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common will take you into eternity."
Hon. Marcus Garvey
AFRICAN HEROES SERIES VOL.1..HON.KING EMMANUEL CHARLES EDWARDS THE FORMATIVE YEARS
By: Hon Priest Jaja
Among the countless number of immortalized heroes, who have selflessly fought for the upliftment of our race, the Rt. Hon. King Emmanuel Charles Edwards' name will be forever etched into the annuls of history. Founder of the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress Church of True Divine Salvation, King Emmanuel struggled relentlessly for the rights of African people the world over. Undeniably, it was the Rt. Hon. King Emmanuel who coined the slogan, "Freedom, Redemption and International Repatriation," that for which the Rastaman and Woman so longed desired, the right to return home. King Emmanuel ever since the late 40’s has pursued the Right of Repatriation for the African slave children scattered throughout the west as a result of slavery. Noted for being one of the earliest agitators for Reparations, King Emmanuel and his Congress has for decades been on the forefront in the Repatriation struggle.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Breaking News--Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia's Release
Breaking News
For an Interview or Media contacts, photos or audio of Mumia
email NMH1@live.com
215-535-3757
415-706-5222
Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia's Release
"Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released. I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served."
Desmond Tutu
DA Drops Death Sentence
For Interview Contact
Dr. Johanna Fernandez, 917.930.0804
Dr. Suzanne Ross, 917.584.2135
Dr. Mark Taylor, 609.638.0806
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia Abu-Jamal's Release
"Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released. I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served." Desmond Tutu
The news that the DA’s Office of Philadelphia is no longer seeking the death penalty for Mumia is no news to supporters of the nearly 30 year Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner. However, because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.
Mumia’s case is like thousands of other cases in Philadelphia in which the prosecutor, the judge, and the police conspired to obtain a conviction. One of the most important and least known facts of this case is the existence of a fourth person at the crime scene, Kenneth Freeman. Within hours of the shooting, a driver’s license application found in Officer Faulkner’s shirt pocket led the police to Freeman, who was identified as the shooter in a line-up. Yet Freeman’s presence at the scene was concealed, first by Inspector Alfonso Giordano and later, at trial, by Prosecutor Joe McGill. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that withholding evidence of innocence by the prosecutor warrants the overturning of a conviction.
The police investigation that led to Mumia’s conviction was also riddled with corruption and tampering with evidence. The recently discovered Polokoff photographs that were taken at the crime scene, reveal that officer James Forbes, who testified in court that he had properly handled the guns allegedly retrieved at the crime scene, appears holding the guns with his bare hands. The photos also discredit cabdriver Robert Chobert as a witness; his taxi, contrary to his testimony, is pictured facing away from the fallen officer’s car. This evidence hasn’t been reviewed by any court.
Our call to Seth Williams is that he honor DA Lynn Abraham’s 1995 promise to the city of Philadelphia that she would discard any cases where evidence surfaces that even one of the officers involved in an investigation lied in court or in written reports.
The D.A. may think that the case can be laid to rest by sending Mumia off to life in prison. But an aroused public, with the Supreme Court ruling the death sentence to be unconstitutional, is ready to challenge anew the entire trial. The same judge, jury, and DA that were involved in the unlawful sentencing process committed equally egregious violations in the conviction. This is not an ending, it is a new beginning for the movement supporting Abu-Jamal’s quest for release.
The December 9 forum at the National Constitutional Center, featuring Prof. Cornel West, will be preceded by an 11:30 a.m. Press Conference, at the American Friends Service Committee building, 1501 Cherry Street. Then the following day there will be a full-day of organizing and fundraising activities, Saturday December 10, at the Germantown Event Center, 5245 Germantown Avenue, beginning at 12 Noon.
email NMH1@live.com
215-535-3757
415-706-5222
Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia's Release
"Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released. I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served."
Desmond Tutu
DA Drops Death Sentence
For Interview Contact
Dr. Johanna Fernandez, 917.930.0804
Dr. Suzanne Ross, 917.584.2135
Dr. Mark Taylor, 609.638.0806
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia Abu-Jamal's Release
"Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released. I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served." Desmond Tutu
The news that the DA’s Office of Philadelphia is no longer seeking the death penalty for Mumia is no news to supporters of the nearly 30 year Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner. However, because Mumia has for thirty years been subjected to torture on death row and because he is innocent, justice for Mumia will not be served by life imprisonment, but by his release from prison.
Mumia’s case is like thousands of other cases in Philadelphia in which the prosecutor, the judge, and the police conspired to obtain a conviction. One of the most important and least known facts of this case is the existence of a fourth person at the crime scene, Kenneth Freeman. Within hours of the shooting, a driver’s license application found in Officer Faulkner’s shirt pocket led the police to Freeman, who was identified as the shooter in a line-up. Yet Freeman’s presence at the scene was concealed, first by Inspector Alfonso Giordano and later, at trial, by Prosecutor Joe McGill. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that withholding evidence of innocence by the prosecutor warrants the overturning of a conviction.
The police investigation that led to Mumia’s conviction was also riddled with corruption and tampering with evidence. The recently discovered Polokoff photographs that were taken at the crime scene, reveal that officer James Forbes, who testified in court that he had properly handled the guns allegedly retrieved at the crime scene, appears holding the guns with his bare hands. The photos also discredit cabdriver Robert Chobert as a witness; his taxi, contrary to his testimony, is pictured facing away from the fallen officer’s car. This evidence hasn’t been reviewed by any court.
Our call to Seth Williams is that he honor DA Lynn Abraham’s 1995 promise to the city of Philadelphia that she would discard any cases where evidence surfaces that even one of the officers involved in an investigation lied in court or in written reports.
The D.A. may think that the case can be laid to rest by sending Mumia off to life in prison. But an aroused public, with the Supreme Court ruling the death sentence to be unconstitutional, is ready to challenge anew the entire trial. The same judge, jury, and DA that were involved in the unlawful sentencing process committed equally egregious violations in the conviction. This is not an ending, it is a new beginning for the movement supporting Abu-Jamal’s quest for release.
The December 9 forum at the National Constitutional Center, featuring Prof. Cornel West, will be preceded by an 11:30 a.m. Press Conference, at the American Friends Service Committee building, 1501 Cherry Street. Then the following day there will be a full-day of organizing and fundraising activities, Saturday December 10, at the Germantown Event Center, 5245 Germantown Avenue, beginning at 12 Noon.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
All Mi Haffi Say Is Dat Them Nuh Really Care About Wi (Banned Prison Dubplate)
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
Michael Jackson
I can't say exactly when and to whom I said it, but I do know that in the days following the scandalous behavior of NYC police during the West Indian Day Parade just this past September, I let ones and ones know how seriously hateful and vile their behavior was. I exhorted people for merely laughing in prudish shame; brushing off the incident(s), as one would the overseer to ward off the whip, as innocent bacchanal. I knew there was an unforeseen devilish, fiendish enjoyment that was masking perfect hatred and an attempt to ridicule and demoralize.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Andrew Holness Visits the Diaspora and Anancy Comes to Town
“I am not a politician..I only suffer the consequences”
Peter Tosh
In a departure from my usual sabbath activities, I traveled some 20 miles from home to listen, or maybe just to hear, the new Jamaican Prime Minister(PM) Andrew Holness, speak at a church in Miramar, Fl. I motivated myself to be there out of an unanswered curiosity as to the mission of this new PM in these very uneasy days, in Jamaica and ever increasingly worldwide. With all curiosity and tepid enthusiasm, you'd think I would have arrived at the scheduled event time. But my lateness would prove to pale in comparison to that of the PM, who himself had, as of 5 pm, only just gotten on the plane for a scheduled 3 o'clock event.
Peter Tosh
In a departure from my usual sabbath activities, I traveled some 20 miles from home to listen, or maybe just to hear, the new Jamaican Prime Minister(PM) Andrew Holness, speak at a church in Miramar, Fl. I motivated myself to be there out of an unanswered curiosity as to the mission of this new PM in these very uneasy days, in Jamaica and ever increasingly worldwide. With all curiosity and tepid enthusiasm, you'd think I would have arrived at the scheduled event time. But my lateness would prove to pale in comparison to that of the PM, who himself had, as of 5 pm, only just gotten on the plane for a scheduled 3 o'clock event.
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