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Monday, March 24, 2014
Breakfast forum with Oakland Black Elected officials and Preachers
Aborted, miscarried babies burned to heat U.K. hospitals!
Aborted, miscarried babies burned to heat U.K. hospitals
The remains of at least 15,500 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste and even used to heat some hospitals in the United Kingdom, an investigation has revealed.
The Department of Health on Sunday issued an instant ban after 10National Health Service trusts admitted to burning fetal remains alongside garbage and two others used the remains in “waste-to-energy” programs, the U.K. Telegraph reported.
“Dispatches,” an investigative news program on the U.K. television station Channel 4, revealed that at least 15,500 fetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years.
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge incinerated 797 babies in its “waste to energy program,” while telling mothers the remains had been “cremated,” the Telegraph said.
And Ipswich Hospital incinerated 1,101 fetal remains brought in from another hospital to generate energy between 2011 and 2013.
“This practice is totally unacceptable,” said Health Minister Dr. Dan Poulter. “While the vast majority of hospitals are acting in the appropriate way, that must be the case for all hospitals and the Human Tissue Authority has now been asked to ensure that it acts on this issue without delay.”
The NHS Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh, has written to all NHStrusts to tell them to immediately halt the practice.
The Chief Medical Officer has also written to the Human Tissue Authority to review its policies, the Telegraph reported.
Vaya con Dios, Latinos tell President Obama
NEW YORK – Their honeymoon was already over, but last week, after the oldest and largest Hispanic advocacy organization in the country made clear it no longer supported him, the Latino divorce from President Obama became oficial.
It happened Tuesday at the National Council of La Raza Capital Awards gala, in Washington, when the group’s president, Janet MurguÃa, called Obama “the deporter-in-chief” in her keynote address.
With those words she added her voice — and the considerable weight of the NCLR — for the first time to the increasingly loud chorus demanding that the President use his executive powers to stop deportations, which are about to reach the 2 million mark. Obama has repeatedly said he cannot do so.
NCLR and MurguÃa have close ties to Obama. Cecilia Muñoz, the White House Domestic Policy Council director, was La Raza’s director of research and advocacy before moving to the White House. Apparently so as to not jeopardize its access to the President, NCLR had been the last important immigration reform organization to hold back public criticism of the administration’s record-breaking deportation policy. That all changed last week.
“We respectfully disagree with the president on his ability to stop unnecessary deportations,” MurguÃa said. “He can stop tearing families apart. He can stop throwing communities and businesses into chaos. He can stop turning a blind eye to the harm being done. He does have the power to stop this. Failure to act will be a shameful legacy for his presidency.”
Making the split even more significant is the fact that it was at a 2008 NCLR event that then-candidate Obama, vying for Hispanic votes, spoke these moving words: “When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.”
Six years later, with immigration reform dead in the water and massive deportations continuing unabated, Obama’s words sound like demagoguery — and have come back to haunt him. “I agree that Obama doesn’t need to wait for reform to stop deportations,” said Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, who last Wednesday, along with more than 250 farm workers, day laborers, students, family members and supporters converged on Albany for his group’s 17th Annual Immigrant Day of Action.
The NYIC went to Albany to push its Immigrant Equality Agenda, advocating for the Senate to pass the New York Dream Act, for drivers’ licenses for undocumented immigrants, enhanced access to health care and preventing state and local law enforcement agencies from acting as immigration surrogates.
“Obama should stop deportations but we need to keep the pressure on Congress to pass immigration reform, both need to happen,” Choi said.
As if not to leave any doubt that his policy won’t change, Obama’s budget proposal calls for $2.6 billion for deportations and border security and $5.4 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s disastrous 287(g) program, which trains local law enforcement officers to serve as immigration agents and which most House Democrats voted last year to defund. It also handsomely rewards the despicable private prison industry — companies like Corrections Corp. of America and the Geo Group Inc. — by allocating $1.3 billion to lock up a minimum of 30,359 immigrants each day no matter what.
As Sen. Bob Menéndez, who also spoke at the NCLR event on Tuesday said, “The current deportation apparatus is an outrage, and it’s a tragedy.” On Wednesday, two more senators, Dick Durbin (Ill.), the second-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) backed Menéndez. Yes, the divorce is official, bitter and totally justified.
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(From the Daily News)
[Photo is of President Obama during better times with NCLR's Janet MurguÃa.]
Saturday, March 22, 2014
An invitation from Angela Davis to join the Celebration of Mumia Abu Jamal's Life.
Marvin X on Mumia Abu Jamal
Never before in history has a man done so much from death row to liberate his people. Mumia shows what can be done while shackled and deep down in the dungeon of the devil. What is our excuse for not being politically involved out here in the big yard of the prison house called Amerikkka! Thank you Pam Africa, Ramona Africa, Angela Davis, Cornel West and all those around the world who have fought to keep Mumia alive and work to bring him home!--Marvin X
Marvin X in St. Louis MO with Akbar Muhammad of the NOI
Marvin X will be in Philly for Mumia's 60th B day Celebration
C U There! In sha Allah!
The Black Arts Movement and the Cultural Revolution
Do not play with the Black Arts Movement and the cultural revolution. BAM is needed and so must be injected into the culture of North American Africans.
I wish I could be gentle with you, Miller Lite, but I cannot, I must come full strength, Old English 800, no Miller Lite up in here. Your problem is severe, not moderate or mild, so let us not play around.
Manhood and womanhood training is the priority, so let us go there. The African woman knows she is entering womanhood on her first cycle, but when do you know you are entering manhood? She knows she has entered womanhood when she sees blood, but when do you know you have entered manhood?
We must take you into the manhood ritual training, into the jungle so you can slay the lion, spend the night in the forest, build a house for your wife, no, you don't buy her a house, you build her a house. It is not about your money but your skills as a man. Please do miss the concept.
After learning all the herbs in the forest, you must walk to town and back, thus is your manhood training. And your woman has a similar task. She must know the duties of womanhood, wifehood, motherhood.
Her most difficult task is mother of the next generation. Mother spreads culture. She is the one who gives values to the next generation.
Amina Baraka is the Shaman Woman, seek her out to see if she is not the Shaman Woman,
she will tell you all because she knows all and tells no lies but only gives up truth. No amount of money can divert Amina from telling the truth. Truth is in her face!
I wish I could be gentle with you, Miller Lite, but I cannot, I must come full strength, Old English 800, no Miller Lite up in here. Your problem is severe, not moderate or mild, so let us not play around.
Manhood and womanhood training is the priority, so let us go there. The African woman knows she is entering womanhood on her first cycle, but when do you know you are entering manhood? She knows she has entered womanhood when she sees blood, but when do you know you have entered manhood?
We must take you into the manhood ritual training, into the jungle so you can slay the lion, spend the night in the forest, build a house for your wife, no, you don't buy her a house, you build her a house. It is not about your money but your skills as a man. Please do miss the concept.
After learning all the herbs in the forest, you must walk to town and back, thus is your manhood training. And your woman has a similar task. She must know the duties of womanhood, wifehood, motherhood.
Her most difficult task is mother of the next generation. Mother spreads culture. She is the one who gives values to the next generation.
she will tell you all because she knows all and tells no lies but only gives up truth. No amount of money can divert Amina from telling the truth. Truth is in her face!
Marvin X with poet Nancy Mercado
Sonia, my favorite poet of all times. Sonia asks a simple question, will your book free us?
Living legend Henry Grimes will perform with Marvin X while he is on the East Coast. Henry is a living legend of the Black Arts Movement.
We must know Marvin X is a disciple of Amiri Baraka and Sun Ra. So let us flow with the flow of Amiri and Sun Ra, there is no other way to appreciate Amiri, Sun Ra and Marvin X, they are one and the same in the BAM tradition. Marvin X says, "Only when I appreciated Amiri and Sun Ra could I understand the BAM tradition. Amiri provided some of the linguistics but Sun Ra gave us the mythology, ritual and philosophy, lights, sound, costume, make up, dance, music, poetry--yes, Sun Ra gave us the whole enchilada. Sun Ra gave us the narrative for the myth/ritual drama of the Black Arts Movement. Marvin, armies march to music! he told Marvin X. Marvin, he said, stop teaching that freedom to your actors and dancers, they are already free so teach them discipline, that's what I teach to my musicians!
Marvin listened to his Master Teacher Sun Ra, "You so right you wrong! Yes, Marvin, so right ya wrong! Teach discipline, put them in your jail, yes, the Marvin X prison--and they will love you because they know you love them and want only the best of them."
Friday, March 21, 2014
BAM tour update: National support grows for BAM 27 city tour to advance the cultural revolution with the United Front of cultural workers
ASE, Baba Marvin !! Your daughter is the tru business
In white attire: Alase Oba Adefunmi Adejiuyigbe, King of Yoruba African Village, Sheldon, SC
Photo from Black Power Babies, produced by Muhammida el Muhammida,-- Black Power Babies intergenerational discussion, Brooklyn, NY, later Philadelphia PA
Marvin X replies to Alase Oba Adefunmi Adejuyigbe, King of Yoruba African Village
Nefertiti is in Houston, you met my other daughter, Muhammida, producer of the Black Power Babies Conference in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. We must all come together for the cultural revolution. Amiri talked about the United Front. Let us finish our work that your father ignited along with Amiri and so many others. But you, Alase, must step to the front of the line, especially as per manhood and womanhood training, along with the mighty Yoruba mythology and rituals.
Comment from Maurice Henderson, Philadelphia
I just wanted to know if we are going to be working together for Marvin X's 27 city tour for BAM. I am asking because i want to use my influence and personal contacts for Black Colleges, African-American Studies Programs, Black Librarians and the Association of Black Culture Centers to book engagements of the BAM tour and also develop a Curriculum, Reading List and Outcome Asset Based Measurements for Historical purposes.
Marvin X replies to Maurice Henderson, Philadelphia
We worked with Maurice in Philly when we produced the concert at Warm Daddies: we performed with members of Sun Ra's Arkestra (Marshall Allen, Danny Thompson, Elo, along with Rufus Harley on Bagpipes, Alexander El on drums, Ancestor Goldsky on djembe, Elliot Bey on keyboards. 37 Minutes of Jazz History, album title.
We welcome the support of Maurice Henderson, a Philadelphia cultural worker in the BAM tradition, along with Oakland's Eastside Arts workers Elena Serano and Greg Murozumi, Greg Bridges, Berkeley, Mwalimu of Los Angeles, Geoffery Grier of San Francisco, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga of Oakland, Nefertiti Jackmon, Houston, TX, Bernard Stringer, Atlanta GA, Muhammida El Muhajir, Philly, Eugene Redman, East St. Louis, Umar Bin Hassan, Baltimore. We want to hear from cultural workers in other cities. Send us your thoughts and comments, planning and promotional ideas, possible funding sources, especially from independent North American African persons and institutions.--Marvin X, Planner
The Black Arts Movement Poets Choir and Arkestra, after a performance at the BAM Conference, University of California, Merced, Feb 20 thru March 2, 2014
The BAM Poets Choir and Arkestra is now booking nationwide. Call 510-200-4164 for fees and dates available
Marvin X gets drivers license--according to DMV, 1964 was last time he had a license
Marvin X renewed his driver's license today. Yes, this so called Negro has been driving without a license since 1964. Now let's see if he can regain his US citizenship he renounced in 1967 while exiled in Toronto, Canada, protesting the Vietnam war, along with other brothers from the US, including Toronto journalist Norman Richmond.
Marvin X organized Bay Area Black Writers to celebrate the life of slain journalist Chauncey Bailey
photo Adam Turner/Gene Hazzard
photo Adam Turner/Gene Hazzard
Marvin X will be in Philadelphia to celebrate the 60th birthday of Mumia Abu Jamal
Syrian poet/activist Dr. Mohja Kahf and Marvin X when he visited the University of Arkansas
on a speaking tour
Jah Amiel, Marvin X's grandson, said, "Grandpa, you can't save the world, but I can!"
The Next Mayor of Newark, NJ: Ras Baraka, vote May 13, 2014
Ras Baraka Speaks:
I knew that our culture, our art, our ideas, our institutions, our politics, our voice must be designed to push us forward and to stand in the gap! To create beauty and expose ugly to protect our communities and defend our families. I understood that no matter what they said about you, did to you, or organize against you you had to stay steadfast. Right will always be triumphant. Most importantly I am so grateful that I got to see what a free man looked like! How he wrote and sung and spoke..what he read and listened to...and by the grace of God I dont have to do things against my will. I don't bow to money or position. I can support who I want and vote the way I want. I can speak the way I want and believe in what gives me life and not death....
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