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Bob Herbert Gets It: "Race Is Like Pornography-But Even PornAddicts Get Their Fill"
Race is like pornography in the United States — the dirty stories and dirty pictures that everyone professes to hate but no one can resist. But I suspect that even porn addicts get their fill sometimes.
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Overkill and Short Shrift By BOB HERBERT
May 3, 2008
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no doubt (and regrettably) a big issue in the presidential campaign. But what we’ve seen over the past week is major media overkill — Jeremiah Wright all day and all night. It’s like watching the clips of a car wreck again and again.
Most of the electorate understands that the U.S. is in sorry shape, which is why more than 80 percent of poll respondents say we’re on the wrong track. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has nothing to do with any of that. The idea that his nonsense may shape the outcome of this election is both tragic and absurd.
We’ve allowed the entire political process in what is perhaps the most important election in the U.S. since World War II to become thoroughly warped by the histrionics of a loony preacher from the South Side of Chicago. There’s something wrong with us.
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A Little Known American Story!
By: Pamela A. Hairston
It is the story of the Martinsville Seven, the largest mass execution for rape in United States history.
In 1949 in Martinsville, Virginia, seven black men were arrested for the rape of a 32-year-old married white woman. Within 30 hours of this rape, all seven had signed written confessions. Within seven days, all had been tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Two were tried at the same time. The youngest was only 17 years old at the time of his arrest and the oldest was a 37-year-old WWII vet with a wife and five beautiful, young children.
Three times the Supreme Court refused to hear their case. During their appeals, Oliver W. Hill and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, both NAACP lawyers, helped represent the Seven. Russia and China sent telegrams to the White House in defense of the Seven. Actors Ossie Davis and Paul Robeson rallied Hollywood to their defense, but to no avail. Then-President Harry Truman, an alleged Klansman, refused to grant clemency. For the record, no white man in Virginia had ever been executed for rape of any woman.
Two years later, 1951, eight men were executed in Richmond, Va., seven for the rape of one white woman. On Feb. 2, 1951, four black men were executed every 10 minutes. (They say the chair was too hot to touch) On the following Monday, Feb. 5, the remaining three were executed. Five were mere teenagers. The day before the youngest one died, he said: God knows I didn’t touch that woman and I’ll see ya’ll on the other side. Around the world, they became known as the Martinsville Seven, the largest mass execution in United States history.
The Seven case was the first time in an American court of law that lawyers appealed a death sentence on grounds of systematic discrimination against African Americans. Finally in 1977, over 25 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that rape is not punishable by death. The Martinsville Seven case was instrumental in helping change the rape laws that govern this great nation.
For the record, three of the Seven were Hairstons, relatives of mine, and I was born and raised in Martinsville. The true story of the Seven has yet to be told.
White Americans constantly tell us black Americans to stop whining, to "get over" our history.
Let us know our history before we have to forget it.
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The Cherokee Nation: A CASE OF FREEDMEN
Angela Walton-Raji
The Freedmen were ostracized and prevented from voting in the 1970s when Ross Swimmer, realized that a number of Freedmen voters were supporting the opposition.
The by blood/CDIB rule brought on by Mr. Swimmer has prevented freedmen from registering to vote.
Then in 1988 Wilma Mankiller realized there was no law for what they were doing to the Freedmen so she had her controlled Council pass a Resolution adopting the Rules Which you can see here:
CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF THE CHEROKEE NATION RESOLUTION NO. 21-88 - Supporting the Guidelines: Rules and Regulations of the Cherokee Registration Committee
NOTE----
Prior to 1983, Freedmen enrolled as Cherokee citizens and voted. Fearing their vote as a block against him, Swimmer began a campaign requiring a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) card to be required to obtain membership.
It had been pointed out at that time that Freedmen who might enroll that they could be a powerful "voting block" in the Cherokee Nation.
When Ross O. Swimmer dismissed the Freedmen from the citizenship rolls of the Cherokee Nation in 1983, illegally stripping them of their civil rights in the Nation, not a single Freedmen was consulted, even though a large number of Freedmen were enrolled citizens of the Cherokee Nation and had actually voted in the 1970 and 1975 elections.
Wilma Mankiller followed up to cement the ousting of Cherokee Freedmen when she and her coucil adopted legislation defining Cherokee Citizenship on having a Certificate of Degree in Indian Blood, thus legislatively booting the Freedmen from the tribe.
The basis for determining the blood was a the Dawes Rolls that segregated the citizens by color and race. Included on the "BLOOD ROLLS" were adopted "Intermarried Whites." Many of the Freedmen were related to those on the blood rolls since many of the slave owners had children with African slaves.
HOWEVER----BLOOD blurs the issue-----the Freedmen and thier ancestors EARNED their citizenship through DECADES of SLAVERY!!
Their Indian blood was NEVER checked on the auction block!!!
Their Indian blood was NEVER checked when they remained in the nation---speaking only Cherokee, and living by Cherokee custom.
Their Indian blood was NEVER checked when they had to adhere to Cherokee law---yet NOW---
The Cherokee Nation is paid millions of dollars by the U.S. for being victims.
And Cherokee Freedmen are expelled by popular vote for being the victims of Cherokee slaves owners. Freedmen are being punished by having slaves as ancestors.
By requiring provable "blood" the Freedmen portion of the Dawes Rolls---which did prove that they were Cherokee citizens----and Wilma Mankiller stood by this, and even stated that Freedmen should not be citizens because of their blood.
It was apparently their AFRICAN blood that Mankiller and Swimmer chose to erase from Cherokee presence. Their Cherokee history, heritage, language, culture and in many cases blood as well---meant nothing. Mankiller agreed that their African blood was justification enough to strip their citizenship.
The Cherokee Nation signed a treaty in 1866, to admit the Freedmen as citizens. They have now proven that they have no more obligation to adhere to treaties.
In every case where Cherokees have sued for treaty violation--they have won. They have now indicated that they can freely violate treaties, violate people and violate law.
This legislation began with Wilma Mankiller, a woman who made history beyond being the first female principal chief of a Native American tribe. Her legacy now stands to be one of expulsion based on a flawed roll to grant priveleges to their slave owning legacy.
This story, it must be stated is repeated with the other slave owning tribes as well---the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles have all embraced this new "tradition" of punishing the children of slaves.
-The Cherokee vote March 3 called for an amendment to the tribal constitution that stipulates that only those on the "by blood" lists of the 1906 Final Dawes Rolls and their descendants are eligible to be members of the tribe.
-The approved constitutional amendment removed from the Cherokee Nation rolls about 2,700 freedmen who were given citizenship by the tribe's high court in March 2006.
Angela Walton-Raji
Choctaw Freedman Descendant
Author, Black Indian Genealogy Research. African American Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes.
www.afrigeneas.com/forume
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FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
August, 2006
On Friday, August 18, 2006, the FDA approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on foods we eat. This is the first time viruses have been approved for use as food additives. The FDA wants you to believe it will be safe to consume these viruses every day for the rest of your life with no adverse health effects. Not surprisingly, the FDA doesn't want you to know which foods are adulterated in this manner, for fear you may not buy them; thus, no labeling will be required. This is a monumental announcement by the FDA, indicating they are throwing all caution to the wind regarding the safety of our food supply.
Are you willing to stand in line for a virus-laden sandwich? How do you like the idea of buying virus-infested food for your family? The first virally contaminated foods entering our food supply with the blessings of the FDA will be luncheon meat and poultry. Live viruses will be sprayed on foods such as cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken.
At issue is the very real problem of a poor quality FDA-approved food supply that is already full of diseased and sickly animals, many of them imported from other countries. The use of antibiotics during growth and radiation during food processing is required by the fast-food animal farms owned by multi-national companies to cover up the horrendous health of the animals they wish to feed to Americans. Animals in poor health are a friendly place for bacteria to grow and prosper, especially after such meat goes to market. Rather than address the source of the problem, the FDA wants to add another adulteration into our food supply.
The stated goal of the new FDA-approved viruses is to kill a rare bacterium known as Listeria monocytogenes. This bacterium is killed by cooking; however, it poses a problem in meats that are cooked during processing and not cooked again prior to consumption, so it can readily infect foods such as deli meats.
Yes, the FDA plans to use one infectious organism to fight another. The carnage of battle will end up in your digestive tract along with the victorious live viruses, which the FDA assures us will not attack human cells. However, they cannot possibly be certain the viruses will not attack the friendly bacteria that make up the lining of your digestive tract. The FDA approval was based on scant human testing, mostly from unrelated medical experiments. Such safety data is woefully inadequate to determine safe ingestion of a specific product by humans over the course of a lifetime.
Turning Loose the Bacteria-Killing Viruses
The company that produces these biotech viruses is Baltimore-based Intralytix, Inc. The viruses are known as bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, or phages for short. Phages have been around a long time, living as parasites inside many bacteria.
Intralytix uses biotechnology to grow viral phages in a culture with Listeria, in theory teaching the viruses to recognize the bacteria. The FDA-approved cocktail contains six different viruses intended to attack one strain of bacteria.
This concoction is then sprayed on food. If Listeria is present in the food, the bacteria will ingest the viruses. This results in massive viral replication inside the bacteria, until such point as the bacteria simply bursts. This battle results in significant production of bacterial poisons called "endotoxins", as the bacteria tries to defend itself. When the bacteria burst, these endotoxins are released. These, along with the victorious live viruses, will now be on the food that will be eaten.
The FDA and Intralytix would like us to believe that these viruses will only attack the specified bacteria they are intended to kill and will be harmless to humans. I'm sorry to burst their bubble, but they can't possibly guarantee such safety. It is true that the viruses, at least at this time, cannot recognize human cells. However, the virus can potentially recognize normal bacterial cells in the human digestive tract and may be able to adapt to infect one or more of these friendly bacteria.
The FDA Certainly Knows There Are Risks
The FDA had some concerns about the amount of bacterial endotoxin in the Intralytix product before it is sprayed; however, FDA tests apparently showed that the product was adequately purified and so they declared it safe if used as approved. Will the FDA diligently monitor the quality of this product once it is on the market, or will it go the path of many FDA-approved drugs that the agency can't keep track of?
There is certainly a risk that humans will be exposed to excessive amounts of endotoxin. This could come from the manufacturing of the viral cocktail, the interaction of the viruses with bacteria after being sprayed on food, and/or the interaction of the viruses with bacteria in the digestive tract.
The human immune system is highly reactive and sensitive to bacterial endotoxins. They provoke allergy, asthma, autoimmune problems, and elevate cholesterol. They also interfere with the healthy function of cells lining the digestive tract. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of bacterial endotoxins can start cancer in the colon .
Additionally, the human immune system reacts directly to viral phages. Thus, a person who eats a lot of processed deli meat is certain to evoke an immune reaction to the viruses. What will this reaction be? Allergy? Asthma? Autoimmunity? Cancer? How can the FDA approve a food additive that it knows can induce a variety of human immune responses? Phages are so good at disrupting normal immunity that they are being considered for use as part of organ transplant medicine.
The ingestion of significant amounts of viral phages into the human digestive tract is a wild card full of unknown outcomes. For example, it is certainly possible that these phages, which constantly mutate in order to survive, are likely to find a way to infect bacteria they were not intended to infect. Since phages are parasites, they could hijack the friendly bacteria of the digestive tract and turn them into viral machines, constantly generating viral particles that are likely to confuse the human immune system, if not directly infect the body. We know from history that these viral phages can turn innocuous bacteria into a killer, which is how cholera occurs.
Furthermore, the Listeria bacteria are not going to take the issue lying down. They will develop resistance to the viruses over time, as we have seen with the overuse of antibiotics. Going down this path we are likely to have hundreds of viral food additives in the food we eat, all designed to combat some possible infection coming from poor quality food. Sooner or later we will inadvertently create deadly new super-strains of bacteria and/or parasitically infect the human digestive tract with an untreatable infection.
There is also the very real possibility of unintended viral recombination. What happens when a person with viral stomach flu eats food containing a dose of this viral food additive? It is certainly possible for the genetic material of the flu virus to interact with the genetic material of the viral phages, provoking an undesirable new viral infection.
Let's not forget that the FDA won't tell us which foods in the food supply contain genetically modified organisms (GMO). Seventy percent of the packaged food on grocery shelves already contains GMO adulterated food. These foods have viral promoter genes woven into the DNA of every cell, a technique used to implant a pesticide toxin into every cell of this fake food (see Fight for Your Health, chapter 15). What happens when the viral phages interact with the viral promoter genes in GMO food? What new virus will be encouraged to form?
Keep in mind that the FDA wants to conduct this experiment on our food supply to protect a small minority, only about 2500 people, who are made seriously ill by this infection each year. The ill are mostly pregnant women, elderly with compromised immunity, and small children. It would be a lot more to the point if the FDA would simply warn such people that eating these foods, due to their poor quality of production, may be dangerous. What the FDA should really do is improve the quality of our food supply, the true source of the problem. Why expose millions of Americans to an unproven ingestion of live viruses for the benefit of so few?
The FDA has failed miserably for the past century to protect the public from the adulteration of our food supply by vested interests. This is just one more insult added to a long list of injuries.
The Tip of an Iceberg
Intralytix has an agenda for the American food supply, as well as for healthcare in general. This recent FDA ruling allows Intralytix and other similar biotech companies to get their foot in a door that should be slammed shut and bolted closed.
The company is also seeking FDA approval for viral sprays to treat foods that could be contaminated with E. coli and Salmonella, which means that similar "trained" viruses could end up in a majority of the protein foods in our food supply.
Intralytix sees financial opportunity. They have already licensed their now FDA-approved viral spray to an undisclosed multi-national company for use around the world. When the CEO of Intralytix, John Vazzara, was recently asked about this partner company, he refused to disclose their name. The grand profit-driven biotech experiment on the health and well being of all Americans is now in full swing.
John Vazzara also owns stock in, as well as provided seed money to start, SteelCloud Inc. (formerly Dunn Computer Corporation). SteelCloud is a defense contractor with lucrative deals with the Department of Defense, recently landing a 3.4 million dollar contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
Congress should investigate the financial ties and backroom dealings that would allow this bizarre food additive approval by the FDA.
Of course, we will need new wonder drugs to combat the new bio-tech produced infections. Americans will stay sick and the sickness-driven bio-tech industry will flourish. The bio-tech industry will make people sick on the front end and treat them on the back end. It's a win-win situation for profit on illness.
The FDA is Rapidly Becoming a Public Enemy
Experimenting with viruses being added to the food supply is incredibly dangerous and reckless. It is completely impossible for the FDA to guarantee safety in the near term or the long term. Thus, the FDA has made the bureaucratic decision that relative safety is acceptable to them. What right does the FDA have to tamper with the food supply in this manner?
It is quite clear that the Bush agenda has been to promote American biotech companies as the new future for American prosperity. Administrative opinions have trumped science in virtually every situation wherein safety conflicts with profit.
The FDA will refuse to require labeling on food sprayed with viruses, just as they refuse to require notification that food has been genetically modified and contains toxins in every cell. The reason is obvious; no person understanding these issues would buy or eat such food. Thus, the FDA acts to hide the information from the public to foster profits for biotech companies and the growth of the biotech industry. This is a betrayal of the public trust.
The leaders of the FDA are personally responsible and need to be held accountable. This means Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., temporary head of the FDA and his chief science officer, Scott Gottlieb, M.D. These men are not only obsessed with approving risky drugs for the benefits of Big Pharma, it is now clear that they are willing to allow obvious adulteration of the food supply. They seek to control what we eat, and they are tampering with survival of the human race.
The FDA does not truly know how safe viral phages are to consume on a regular basis. They have no idea of the cumulative effect over the course of a lifetime, especially as more of these viral cocktails are added to the food supply. They have no way to measure how this new type of adulteration in the food supply will interact with the poor digestive/immune health of half the American population, in combination with all the other serious adulterations already approved by the FDA. The FDA lacks due diligence in honoring its mandate to protect the American public.
Boycott Viral Tainted Foods, Support Your Sustainable Farmers
The only hope Americans have is to resurrect the quality of our food supply. Doing so is against the odds, as there are billions of dollars of profit-mongering taking our food supply in the wrong direction. One day Americans will realize that food security is as important to national security as any other topic. It is now crystal clear that we cannot count on the FDA to do the job that Harvey Wiley, M.D., envisioned one-hundred years ago.
How can any responsible parent feed virus-tainted food to their children? The FDA should be forced to revoke this approval. Since the FDA is refusing to make food companies list the viruses as ingredients in food, consumers have no choice but to avoid buying all foods that could be sprayed. I see no other way that safety can be assured, since the FDA refuses to do its job and is putting American's health at risk.
Every American has an obligation to support food security for our nation. Congress must correct the leadership at the FDA and the FDA itself. Americans must quit buying poor quality toxic food. Your greatest ability to change this problem is based entirely on what you purchase.
Get connected to the sustainable family farms in your community. Buy meat that is range raised without antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones. Demand that the food you are eating is labeled with a country of origin. Buy American; buy locally-produced food whenever possible. Support those who truly believe in being the stewards of our land and food for our people and for future generations. These good people are being squashed out of existence by multi-national agribusiness, companies that could truly care less about the quality of our food supply or the security and health of Americans. How you spend your money is your most powerful vote. Vote for those who care.
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FLASH
The U.S. continues to justify its failed "tough on crime" posture and policies that needlessly jails countless American citizens that it claims are criminals.
The “Deciders” that make “new” federal sentencing guidelines ignores overwhelming bodies of evidence that refutes their claims and justifications for more incarcerations.
They know and we should know that the “Deciders” past and current law enforcement policies have overwhelmed the criminal justice system and are the cause of overcrowding in jails.
A recent Justice department agency report found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, which means many of them are awaiting trial. An Associated Press News Service article titled "Number of U. S. inmates rises 2 percent" says: "Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U. S. residents, behind bars by last summer. These figures reflect a law enforcement system that is running amok.
In 1998, 11.5 million people were released from jails and prisons into communities throughout the United States. The consequences of prisoners rife with disease to the public’s health are widely known. In Atlanta, March 2000, a director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Miles, told a hotel ballroom full of prison doctors and nurses that nearly 600,000 inmates are released every year -- many of them riddled with disease. July 10, 2001, the online magazine “Mother Jones”, published an article “Prisons are rife with infectious illnesses -- and threaten to spread them to the public”. The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law wrote a 78-page report in October 2001 about Infectious Diseases in prisons. More articles like this are on the “You Got the Power” website.
We do not need a panel of experts to tell us that we already have a “public health and safety” problem as we ignore “prisoner rapes”. Here is another link to an article on prisoner rape.
We all have to honestly answer these questions below to make an informed decision and to understand the “real” impact of the alleged social benefits of current drug laws:
(1) Which one of these scenarios is a greater threat to society, a marijuana user or a convicted marijuana user now an ex-prisoner rife with disease returning to society?
(2) Should we trust pharmaceuticals to determine the risks of public safety when we allow them to drug test prisoners and to create unknown public safety problems when the prisoner returns to society?
I think this social contract “on” the American public must be strenuously rejected. This social contract literally entails: (1) sending a peace activist or marijuana user to prison and (2) returning to society a raped ex-prisoner now with mental trauma who is also rife with diseases.
Now, these same decision makers, policy makers, and experts from IOM want us to “trust” them as they create “new” policies that allow drug testing on inmates “for their own good”. If the 62% of the incarcerated who are “waiting” for trials were not exposed to the toxic environments of prisons, or the millions of non-violent offenders who were jailed and exposed to infectious diseases, particularly HIV, Tuberculosis and Hepatitis, we would not need to “drug test” them for “their own good”.
Testing ON inmates
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2006-08-21-our-medicine-prison_x.htm#
From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, inmates at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison and other correctional facilities across the country were treated as human guinea pigs in gruesome medical experiments. The prisoners were "volunteers" who received a few hundred dollars a month but weren't told they had signed up to be exposed to chemical warfare agents and radioactive, hallucinogenic and cancer-causing chemicals.
When this unconscionable exploitation was revealed, Congress passed a law in 1978 that limited testing on inmates to research involving only the most minimal risk.
Now the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a federal panel of medical advisers, wants the government to permit greater research with prisoners but under a tough new oversight regime that would prevent the abuses of the past and limit experiments to those that have a direct potential benefit to prisoners.
Why reopen such a delicate debate?
Because the current rules arbitrarily exclude prisoners from research that could be critical to improving their health and living conditions. Because such research could help control HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, mental illness and substance abuse that are rampant in correctional centers. And because 95% of prisoners are eventually released, society as a whole would also benefit.
The IOM recommendations, which offer a safe and ethical framework, would:
• Set uniform guidelines for all research involving prisoners, regardless of its source of funding. The current restrictions apply only to a few federally funded programs, leaving much research largely unregulated.
• Urge Congress to mandate tough oversight at all federal, state and county facilities, and to expand protections to cover people on parole or probation.
• Limit prisoner research to only those studies where potential benefits to prisoners clearly outweigh risks and are in the least dangerous phases of clinical trials.
• Establish rigorous independent review of all research and a special prisoner advocate to make sure the studies are appropriate, inmates are fully informed of risks, and there is no coercion or undue inducement in getting them to give consent.
• Create a national database to track research involving prisoners. It's impossible now to know how many are involved in studies because no such database exists.
Many of these recommendations can be implemented by federal regulators; others require congressional approval. Given the sordid history of prison research, expansion of testing raises obvious and serious worries. Prison experiments are conducted in an inherently coercive environment with prisoners as a convenient source of subjects.
Even so, any research involves the balancing of risks and benefits. It's a mistake to so severely exclude this population from studies that could improve the quality of prisoners' lives and conditions unique to prisons.
With stronger oversight, human dignity and medical progress needn't be incompatible.
made in america
By Samuel Justiss Vance
C.E.O. of Talkinggreen.com
For many years a public service commercial was run in this country that said "If you want to get a good job, you have to get a good education". During that time our nation was emphasizing the importance of a high school diploma. A high school diploma is still the bedrock of American employment, and I would never encourage anyone to do anything less. I also strongly encourage black Americans to get some type of advanced training and/or higher education.
I am not saying anything now nor will I say anything in the future that is intended to demean or discourage education. Education is the super glue of the super structure that we refer to when we say the "American Dream". We need more people with two year and four year degrees. We need more people with masters and PhD degrees. Indeed PhD should stand for "Preach Higher Dreams". It is, after all, one of the highest educational dreams.
Today, I am addressing a threat that is being presented to Americans of all educational levels, even PhDs and medical doctors.
Our nation is being attacked by a dream thief that goes by the name of globalization. It has manifested itself through what is known as outsourcing. This is a process that has been underway for quite some time. Unfortunately the people that were able to oppose it were the people that tended to do the least to fight it. Many of them felt smug and insulated from the ravages of outsourcing. They thought that their level of education would protect their income and therefore their standard of living.
Martin Luther King said "That injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". How naive is a man that thinks that his rights are not connected to the rights of others? If the rights of the weak have been abridged, the rights of the strong will surely follow.
Many years ago I picked up the expression that "The life that you save may be your own".
Me, myself personally, I have been following outsourcing for quite some time but the final straw for me came when I began to call for airline ticket prices. I noticed that every time that I called Delta; I got a person with an East Indian accent. Were there not enough people in the United States with high school diplomas for these jobs? Taking airline reservations has traditionally been a good entry level job. It was always the type of job that was considered to be a great stepping stone for a person that desired a starting position with a major corporation.
Less than a week after this happened I was talking about this to a friend of mine from the medical field and my friend said that she had been informed that Blue Cross has outsourced its customer jobs to the Indian subcontinent. Once again we have a major corporation with entry level jobs that are being denied to Americans.
I have tried to sort this out in my mind and the more that I think about the ramifications of the economic flight of America, the more confusing this gets. Many years ago I read that Henry Ford said that he wanted his employees to make $5.00 a day so that there would be somebody that could afford to buy his cars.
I decided to try and sort this through with someone who had more knowledge and experience with this than I did. How bad was this really? I decided to speak to Bob Baugh because he is the National Executive Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council. He started off the conversation by telling me that "manufacturing is the canary in the coal mine". It turns out that we have lost 3.5 million manufacturing jobs since 1998.
In the new millennium we have expanded our job losses into research, engineering, design, and professional technical jobs. We even have companies that are outsourcing the reading of X-rays (do we really need this one?) GE has outsourced tens of thousands of financial service job in particular. And just in case you're thinking that what we need are more major American companies with major contracts, you had better think again.
Boeing got a new Aerospace contract to build 787 jets. Boeing turned around and outsourced more than 70% of the labor that was needed to build the 787s. Meanwhile they have laid off 25,000 machinists and 25,000 engineers. They thought that these jobs should go to some very deserving people in places such as China, Japan and Italy. As we went through these facts, Bob Baugh pointed out something that we have heard many times. "The last hired are the first to be fired", so this job destruction does not bode well for Black America.
Just in case something in this article has disturbed you, you'll probably sleep better tonight knowing that the average CEO of a Standard and Poor's Company made $11.75 million in total compensation in 2005. I've concluded that we need to look at Homeland Security in a new way. Homeland Security isn't just about being safe in your home. Homeland Security is also about being able to afford a new home to be safe in.
This election cycle and every election cycle hereafter we need to pay close attention to anything and everything that our future leaders have to say about outsourcing. If we don't 'Made in America' will be just a memory that is made in our minds.
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Aviation Professionals Gather to Raise Funds
for Minority Youth Exposure to Industry
Acclaimed Activist, Dick Gregory, to Serve as Keynote Speaker
And Aviation Pioneer, Joe E. Forrest, Jr. to be Honored
(ATLANTA, GEORGIA – February, 2006) As the nation commemorates Black History month, there is one organization that has strongly emerged with a solid purpose of increasing the spectrum for the future of metro Atlanta’s minority youth as it relates to the aviation industry. The Atlanta chapter of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) is pleased to announce their Black and White Scholarship Ball to be held March 18th at the Atlanta Airport Hilton Hotel. This annual fundraiser will feature internationally acclaimed comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, as the keynote speaker. A special tribute to renowned aviation pioneer, Joe E. Forrest, Jr. will be made during the auspicious occasion.
For nearly 30 years, NBCFAE has worked tirelessly on behalf of minorities and women in the aviation industry. A nonprofit organization with a membership base that includes pilots, air traffic controllers, engineers, doctors, attorneys, and other corporate representatives, NBCFAE continues to be a forerunner in the development of educational programs that will increase minority and female participation in aviation. One way this is accomplished is through local Aviation Career Education (ACE) camps and its scholarship fund, to which NBCFAE distributes nearly $100,000 in scholarships and educational grants each year. The Black and White Scholarship Ball is the conduit through which the funds are raised.
?We are truly excited about this year’s Black and White Ball because it presents yet another opportunity for African American youth to gain greater access to a very unique and lucrative industry, of which Blacks are still a large minority,? states Michael Muhammad, President of the Atlanta Chapter of NBCFAE. ?It remains a priority of our organization to instill within our youth a different and better side of life. The diversity of the aviation industry is a tremendous catalyst to reinforce this priority. And, the fact that two distinguished gentlemen, Dick Gregory and Joe Forrest, will be with us will make the evening a more unforgettable experience. Our young people need to see that there really are exceptional options available to them. These young men are living examples.? he adds.
While ACE camps are typically held during the summer months, these camps are not typical summer camps. Their main focus is to introduce students interested in science and technology to careers in aviation. The development of critical/logical thinking, an element which is essential to success in any field of study, is another primary focus of ACE camp.
Industry experts serve as instructors during this week-long experience. These highly-skilled and well-trained instructors emphasize important life skills through the excitement of ?hands-on? learning. Through fun games, projects, and field trips, ACE camp participants will explore the wonders of flight and space exploration, while mastering the teamwork concept. They will also be introduced to the obvious field of Commercial Aviation, as well as others such as Airport Administration, Aviation Medicine, and Space Science. They will learn basic aerodynamics, and even fly a single-engine aircraft during their exciting week.
In addition to Dick Gregory’s keynote address, a special tribute will be given to Joe E. Forrest, Jr. a living legend who was one of the first African American pilots to be hired by a major airline. Forrest was also a Captain with United Airlines during a time when few people of color had yet attained this status with any commercial airline. Additionally, Silas “Si-Man” Alexander of Classic Soul 102.5 will serve as the host for the event, which will begin with a cocktail reception at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner and dancing from 7:00 p.m. until midnight. For more information, please call Ms. Tina Criss at (678) 698-6871. You may also visit the following websites: National Black Coalition of Black Federal Aviation Employees – www.nbcfae.org or the Atlanta Chapter – www.atlantacoalition.com.
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The Great New Orleans Land Grab
The 17th Street Canal levy was breeched on purpose
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Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - September 7, 2005 - (ACN) There were numerous incidents that occurred during and immediately after Katrina struck that point to the "unthinkable". It now appears that a sophisticated plan was implemented that utilized the "cover of a hurricane" to first destroy and than take over the City of New Orleans? As the world watched the events unfolding, one could not help think that something was terribly afoot concerning the rescue by FEMA of the city's poor and predominate Black population. It seems that a well laid out plan was put into effect to grab valuable real estate from well established but poverty stricken Black families of New Orleans? What is being implemented now is nothing less than a sophisticated scheme to purge and ethnically cleanse what Whites have termed "Black and 'welfare bloated' New Orleans".
Among the most telling anomalies pointing to something terribly afoot is the gun battle, killing 5, that occurred at the breeched levy between the New Orleans Police Department and, what have now been identified as US military agents. An Associated Press report, which has now disappeared, stated that at least five USA Defense Department personnel where shot dead by New Orleans police officers in the proximity of the breeched levy. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said later that those killed were "federal contractors" on their way to "repair" a canal. The "contractors" were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain, in an operation to "fix" the 17th Street Canal, according to the Army Corps of Engineers spokesman. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley of New Orleans later reported that his policemen had shot at eight suspicious people near the breeched levy, killing five or six.
Who were these "military agents" that were killed by the police near the 17th Street Canal breeched levy and what were they doing there? Why did the New Orleans police find it necessary to shoot and kill 5 or 6 of them? No one is saying anything and it appears that the news story has now been swept under the rug. Were these US Department of Defense personnel a Special Forces group or Navy Seals with top secret orders to sabotaged the levy? There are verifiable reports that at least 100 New Orleans police officers have disappeared from the face of the earth and that two have committed suicide. Could these be policemen that died defending the levy against sabotage by "federal contractors"?
Another telling incident that points to a "nefarious plan" is what New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said at the height of the crisis. He said publicly, "I fear the CIA may take me out!" Mayor Nagin, a Black, said this twice. He told a reporter for the Associated Press: "If the CIA slips me something and next week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened." Later he told interviewers for CNN on a live broadcast that he feared the "CIA might take me out." What does Mayor Ray Nagin know and why does he fear the CIA?
In an interview by WWL TV, Mayor Nagin complained vociferously that Louisiana National Guard Blackhawk helicopters were being stopped from dropping sandbags to plug the levy soon after it breeched. There is evidence that no repairs were allowed on the levy until after New Orleans was totally flooded!
Many civilian groups who were attempting to aid people trapped in their attics, on their roofs and at the Superdome are reporting that FEMA, other federal agents and the US military essentially "stopped" them from doing so. Convoys that were organized by truckers and carrying "food and water" were blocked by agents of the federal government on the highways and roads leading to New Orleans. The American Red Cross, in addition, encountered numerous incidents and has made formal complaints.
A private ham radio network that deployed throughout the hurricane ravished region reported that the airwaves were being "jammed" making it impossible to communicate emergency information. Churches, hospitals and other essential community groups reported that the first thing that the US military did, when they arrived, was to cut their telephone lines and confiscate communications devices. We all witnessed news reports and heard statements by flood victims concerning the behavior of the US military. Many Black families complained that military vehicles did not stop to assist them but just drove by. One news report showed military personnel playing cards inside a barrack while Black citizens were dying of thirst and hunger.
Today, it is very revealing how the federal government is handling the disaster. They want every Black out of New Orleans and those who insist on staying in their homes will be removed by force. The government, through some media, is utilizing scare tactics to cleanse New Orleans of all Blacks. They want no witnesses and this will make the "land grab" a lot easier to undertake. One scare tactic is calling the flood water "a horrid toxic soup of feces a rotting flesh of corpses". The military thugs are now getting tough with Black families that have owned their old but beloved homes for many generations. Mr. Rufus Johnson, a family patriarch who lives in the French Quarter, said in an interview, "The army has given me an ultimatum to leave or suffer the consequences of a forced eviction. I do not understand . My entire family and I survived Katrina and now they want to throw me out of the home we have had for generations". Mr. Johnson lives in a neighborhood where the flood has subsided and his home is not heavily damaged yet FEMA wants him out!
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The fact that Vice President Dick Cheney is heavily involved in the FEMA operations from behind the scenes is very troublesome. Cheney and his cronies at Halliburton are in line for the lucrative contracts to "reconstruct a New Orleans". |
Deals are already being made with a Las Vegas business group to construct multi-million dollar casinos in the Big Easy on prime real estate that was owned by Black families. Whites throughout history have been notorious "land grabbers". In the USA they first confiscated land that belonged to American Indians. Most of the Indians ended up in worthless tracts of land called "reservations". The largest "land grab", however, was the theft of Aztlan. This occurred soon after the Mexican-American War. In Alta California , vast "Ranchos" were stolen from the Californios through a variety of scams. A favorite ploy was to impose extremely heavy land taxes on the Mexicans and then foreclosing on the properties. The land was then given or sold at very low prices to the Forty Niners who came in large hordes to Alta California during the so called "Gold Rush" of 1849. |
Frances Newton Executed
A Miscarriage of Texas Justice
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Newton executed for 1987 slayings
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — Frances Newton was executed today for the fatal shootings of her husband and two children 18 years ago, becoming the third woman, and first black woman, to be put to death in the state since executions resumed in 1982.
Strapped to the death chamber gurney and with her parents among the people watching, she declined to make a final statement, quietly saying "no" and shaking her head when the warden asked if she would like to speak.
Newton, 40, briefly turned her head to make eye contact with her family as the drugs began flowing. She appeared to attempt to mouth something to her relatives, but the drugs took effect. She coughed once and gasped as her eyes closed and her mouth remained slightly open. Eight minutes later at 6:17 p.m. CDT, she was pronounced dead.
One of her sisters stood flat against a wall at the rear of the death house, her arms raised against the wall and her head buried in her arms, refusing to watch. Her parents held hands and her mother brushed away a tear before they walked to the back of the chamber to console their other daughter.
About 50 demonstrators chanted outside but the crowd paled in comparison to the group of hundreds that assembled in 1998 to protest the execution of Karla Faye Tucker, who was the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War.
"She's back with her family, in her mind," said John LaGrappe, one of her attorneys, who met with Newton less than two hours before she was executed and described her as "strong and optimistic."
"It's her faith in God," LaGrappe said.
He characterized her as the victim of a set of statutes that denied her access to the Supreme Court and blamed state-appointed lawyers early in her appeals process for missing deadlines that barred Newton from raising legal claims.
"It's a sad statement about the judicial process," he said. "To me, this is outrageous."
Two cousins of Newton's slain husband, who also watched the execution, complained that too much attention had been focused on Newton, and not enough on the three murder victims.
"I wanted her to apologize, just to confess," Tamika Craft-Demming said. "I don't know if you can get any satisfaction.
"Justice is not to me served. If we saw some kind of apology, that would have been justice."
Craft-Demming, who sobbed loudly in the death chamber, described Newton as a "mean and kind of evil-spirited person. I knew she was vindictive. None of these things have been talked about.
"I did have a rough go in that room," she said of her experience in the death chamber, where she broke down in tears. "I'd like to say not one tear was for Frances. They were for the kids."
Without dissent, the high court declined a pair of appeals about an hour before Newton was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which last year paved the way for Gov. Rick Perry to issue a reprieve about two hours before Newton was set to die, on Monday unanimously rejected a request that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. Perry rejected another delay in the execution Wednesday afternoon.
She also lost appeals in state and lower federal courts. Her execution was the 13th this year in Texas. She was the 11th woman executed in the United States since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed the death penalty to resume.
Newton didn't deny putting a gun in her 7-year-old son's knapsack and stashing the bag at an abandoned house. But she and her lawyers argued the .25-caliber blue steel revolver she hid was not the one used to fatally shoot her son, Alton; her 21-month-old daughter, Farrah; and her husband, Adrian, 23, at their Houston apartment.
Newton insisted she was innocent, and the claim about the gun was among several in her appeal to the Supreme Court. She also contended her trial attorneys were incompetent and evidence at her trial improperly was destroyed.
"I know I did not murder my kids and my family," she told The Associated Press in a death row interview. "It's frustrating ... nobody's had to answer for that."
Prosecutors called Newton's appeals meritless, noting that a second gun never was recovered, that repeated ballistics tests confirmed the gun she hid was the murder weapon, and that any destruction of evidence was not improper.
"The unbroken chain of custody directly links Newton to the murder weapon," the Texas Attorney General's Office said in its filing to the Supreme Court.
Newton, accompanied by a cousin, found the bodies April 7, 1987. Her husband had been shot in the head, the two children in the chest, all with a .25-caliber pistol.
Three weeks before the slayings, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and said she signed her husband's name to prevent him from discovering she had set aside money to pay for the premiums.
Prosecutors said the insurance payoff was the motive for the slayings.
The reprieve last year was granted to allow for additional ballistics testing on the weapon. In March, the new ballistics tests confirmed earlier findings and Harris County officials then rescheduled her execution.
Newton believed the real killer is or may be related to a drug dealer she knew only as "Charlie," who she said was upset with her husband for not repaying a $500 debt.
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Bush Team Conspired Against Blacks, Activists Charge
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Correspondent
September 12, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - Several black civil rights leaders are accusing the federal government of conspiring against poor African Americans in the aftermath of the flooding in New Orleans. But one of those hurling the charges, comedian and political activist Dick Gregory, on Friday refused to say what, if anything, he has personally contributed to the relief effort.
Gregory, who had just visited evacuees at the Houston Astrodome and the city's convention center, said he was able offer the flood victims something else besides money and food.
"I'm a hero in America, so just to go there and touch them, means a lot to them. [That] means more than taking them to the Red Cross and giving them food," Gregory told Cybercast News Service. Gregory did not reply to the question about whether he had made a personal donation.
Earlier, Gregory participated in a rally in front of the White House with leaders of the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) and Black Voices for Peace. They charged that the Bush administration delayed rescue efforts of the flood victims because of racism and class-ism.
The Network's co-chair Donele Edwards laid the specific blame at the doorstep of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps, she charged, "deliberately designed the floodwaters to go into the 9th Ward," of New Orleans.
Damu Smith, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, added that "whether they (the federal government) got in a room and conspired or not, what they did is they ignored us, they forgot about us ... because we look like we look." As he was speaking, Smith held out his arm to show his skin color.
New Orleans' mayor, Ray Nagin, who is African American, should bear little responsibility for the city's flooding, Smith said. "I think Mayor Nagin has done everything he could. He's cried out, but I really think the governor, and Bush especially, they really dropped the ball on this," according to Smith. Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco is white.
"There's been some mistakes made by folks in the mayor's office, too," Smith said. "But the most of the blame must be laid at the doorstep of Bush and Governor Blanco."
Smith said he had personally contributed "a lot" to aid in the recovery efforts. "I have friends who lost their homes and lost everything and they've been displaced so this is very personal to me to help out so we gotta do it."
He encouraged people to donate to small organizations instead of the American Red Cross. "You see, the Red Cross is getting all the money - about $500 million - but there are groups in Houston and other places that are struggling, that are helping people," Smith said. "They don't get the money, so we're gonna make sure the money gets channeled to them as well."
Gregory intensified Edwards' conspiracy charges, accusing the government of orchestrating the evacuation to access oil under the city.
"It (Hurricane Katrina) didn't hit, it went down the Gulf," Gregory said. "And nobody is asking, if it missed, where's this damn water coming from? Who shut them pumps off and who's going to investigate those two barges with dynamite on them that hit that levee," he said in reference to the failure of the city's levees and water pumps, which were intended to protect the city from flooding.
Gregory said the government has no plans to let residents back into New Orleans or to rebuild the city. "They will have no problem declaring that whole city a disaster area because of the mold," he said.
"Last Friday he (U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert) said there's no need to rebuild it, plow it under," Gregory said, exaggerating the comments Hastert made immediately after the city was flooded. "Well that's what they're planning on doing," Gregory added.
If his accusations are correct, Gregory told Cybercast News Service, it will create a backlash beyond just the black community. "If they found oil under there and they're going to turn it into an oil well," Gregory said, "that's black and white folks."
In time, as people stop reacting based on emotion, Gregory concluded, "It's gonna come out. There's been too many mistakes."
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Depression Via Constipation
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By Dr. Jennifer Daniels, MD/MBA
September, 2005
Los Angeles -ACN - Anger, hate, unhappiness and depression are only a few of the emotions that often invade our lives, harming ourselves and the ones we love, as well as limiting our unique ability to grow and to evolve. Unfortunately, the clouds of depression and other so-called "emotional disorders" that canvas America today have led many to believe that it is acceptable to numb the pains and symptoms of our "illnesses" with drugs and other harmful therapies rather than addressing the root causes.
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Decades ago, negative thinking was referred to as "stinkin thinkin", the reason for this being depression's link to constipation. Our brains are programmed for happiness, as there are several types of neurotransmitters which are made by the brain that facilitate and induce various feelings. Happiness is one of these feelings, and in order for the body to make neurotransmitters, it needs enough B-vitamins and minerals (only a few of the many key nutrients). If the human body goes without the necessary supply of B-vitamins and minerals, it cannot utilize glucose, often resulting in wide mood swings and depression, and if the brain has no access to any glucose or minerals, plain old depression will more than likely develop.
When someone is constipated, much of the residue from yesterday's meals remains in the intestines, hampering the absorption of nutrients ingested in today's meal as well as leading to toxicity. Regardless of how nutritious the meal is or how expensive the vitamins are, the nutrients needed for the brain to function optimally are not fully absorbed when the body is constipated. In addition, long standing constipation can result in an impermeable layer of toxins that line the small intestine, preventing nutrients from getting to the rest of the body.
If we delve deeper, looking to our brains and the interactions that lead to certain feelings and moods, we begin to realize how influential constipation can be in our everyday lives and that it isn't irrational to believe that the lack of frequent bowel movements can lead to negative emotions. When an emotion is experienced, neurotransmitters are released, and seconds later, the cell reabsorbs it and another chemical comes along to destroy what was not reabsorbed. The emotional system of the body naturally "resets" after each emotion as enzymes in the cell replenish the neurotransmitters to pre-emotion levels, readying the brain for the next emotion. This activity or mechanism of spontaneously resetting consumes a lot of B-vitamins and energy, and thus when B-vitamins are in short supply, it can lead to people having "mixed" emotions, due to the neurotransmitter from the last emotion still hanging around.
When someone is constipated, some of the chemicals in the intestine that are unable to exit into the toilet, are reabsorbed into the blood, which can spur depression and irritability. Furthermore, food that is eaten and not absorbed becomes food for bad bacteria.
Depression is a special case of constipation. While moving the bowels is very helpful, many people have enhanced their results by taking activated charcoal once the goal of 3 bowel movements a day has been reached. The charcoal can actually augment the effectiveness of bowel movements by soaking up toxins that would otherwise get absorbed into the body and cause depression.
Depression is also without a doubt very sensitive to the foods we eat. Food additives of any kind, such as artificial coloring, artificial flavoring, preservatives, pesticides and herbicides can all worsen depression. While the first step to improving depression is resolving constipation and having 3 bowel movements a day, further improvement can be achieved by reducing the amount of chemicals we ingest, increasing the amount of organic unprocessed foods in our diets and reducing the processed ones.
Much research still needs to be conducted in this field, and hopefully with an ever-increasing number of people who refuse to wade blindfolded in a sea of ignorance, together we will shed more light on this and other issues of great importance in our lives.
Recipe to combat depression:
This recipe involves several ingredients. But it is well worth it! A few bites of this dissipates negative moods and comfortably conquers constipation it can be frozen in 2X2 squares and eaten whenever the need arises. It makes 4 dozen muffins, 3 loaf pans or two 9x13 cake pans. Since it is wheat, egg and dairy free, it is well tolerated.
Banana Bread
6 large bananas, peeled
4 cups water or rice milk
1 cup packed brown sugar or evaporated cane juice
6 tablespoons grapeseed oil
1/4 cups rice bran
1/4 cup ground flax seed
4 cups rolled oats
6 cups oat flour
1/4 tsp cloves
1 tsp cardamom, ground
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbs baking soda
2 tbs baking powder
1 cup shelled walnuts or pecans
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Place bananas, brown sugar, and flax seed in a blender. Blend until mixed well. Add as much of the 4 cups of water as needed to make it pour easily from blender. Pour into a large bowl. Add remaining water and oil and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add 4 cups of oats and set aside.
In another bowl, mix the remaining ingredients. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Stir well with a wooden spoon.
Cooking time varies with the container used. Pick the time that matches the container you use.
Spoon into well greased muffin tins and bake for 30 minutes. Check for doneness and cook for additional time as needed.
Pour into well greased 9x 13 inch baking pan and cook for 45 minutes. Check for doneness and cook for additional time as needed.
Pour into well greased 9 inch bread pan and cook for 1 hour. Check for doneness and cook for additional time as needed.
If you prefer sweeter bread, spread honey on the top.
Bon appetite!
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Jennifer Daniels, M.D., M.B.A is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Wharton School of Business. Dr. Daniels loves receiving email, so feel free to drop her a line at jennifer@vitalitycapsules.com
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Lawyers fight execution of black woman in Texas
By Jeff Franks Fri Aug 26
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the execution of Frances Newton, who is set to receive a lethal injection on September 14 and become the first black woman put to death by the state of Texas.
The case is the latest to spark protests about capital punishment in the state, which leads the nation in executions, and raise questions about the quality of Texas justice.
Newton, 40, was convicted of murdering her husband and two children on April 7, 1987, to collect $100,000 in insurance. She blamed the killings on an unknown drug dealer. She has been on death row for 17 years.
Her lawyers and anti-death penalty groups say she had an incompetent attorney in her 1988 trial and was the victim of questionable forensics work, sloppy investigation and possible prosecutorial misconduct.
"It's the perfect storm, legally speaking," said defense attorney David Dow of the Texas Innocence Network and the University of Houston Law Center.
There are enough questions about the case that Texas Gov. Rick Perry granted a rare reprieve two hours before Newton was set to die last December so more investigation could be done.
Newton's lawyers have filed a request for clemency to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and asked the courts to stop the execution.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals turned down the motion for a stay on Wednesday, but a similar request is pending in a lower court and other legal maneuvers were being planned.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Amnesty International have appealed for Newton to be spared. Her supporters have held protests in Houston and plan another on Saturday at the Texas Capitol in Austin.
'WRONGLY ACCUSED, WRONGLY CONVICTED'
"For a long time I believed in the death penalty. But now I know that the system can't be trusted to be right. I've been wrongly accused, wrongly convicted," Newton told the Houston Chronicle in an interview.
Only two women, both white, are known to have been executed in Texas since the Civil War -- Karla Faye Tucker in a controversial case in 1998 and Betty Beets in 2000.
Executions were once performed by county governments, but the state of Texas took over the task in 1923 and has never put a black woman to death, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons.
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