Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Rev. Al was a snitch for the FBI in the 80s

Rev. Al was not alone in his snitching activities. We have had snitches among us since slavery. Many slave revolts were snitched on by African Negroes. We had snitch ass nigguhs during the Marcus Garvey era, Civil Rights, Black Liberation Movement down to the now. Here in the Bay Area they say Give Up Three and You Go Free! A US Marshall told Oakland Post Publisher Paul Cobb half the preachers are card-carrying police and FBI agents, like himself. The US has 16 different spy agencies. In the hood there are African Negroes who report of the Mood of the people. Then there are those who report on persons of interest. Rev. Al is in the tradition of the rats. We have rats here in the Bay posing as journalists, some are posing as Black Studies professors. We are in a police state, just know that!
--Marvin X



Rev. Al Sharpton worked as FBI informant, taping conversations with mob pals to help bring down Genovese crime family: report

Sharpton became an informant after he was caught on tape with a drug kingpin discussing cocaine deals, and the feds threatened him with charges unless he flipped and snitched on Mafia acquaintances, according to The Smoking Gun. In an interview with the Daily News on Monday, Sharpton disputed much of the report, saying he turned to authorities after receiving threats from Gambino family member Joseph (Joe Bana) Buonanno and others.

 
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
 
Published: Monday, April 7, 2014, 5:38 PM
Updated: Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 9:07 AM


Portrait of American religious leader and civil rights activist Reverrend Al Sharpton in his office, New York, New York, January 20, 1991. (Photo by New York Times Co./Chester Higgins Jr./Getty Images)NEW YORK TIMES CO./GETTY IMAGESThe Rev. Al Sharpton in his office in New York on January 20, 1991. Sharpton worked as an FBI informant during the 1980s, according to a report by The Smoking Gun.
He's had the titles of civil rights activist, presidential candidate and TV host.
But for a time, the FBI secretly called the Rev. Al Sharpton something else: “CI-7” — a confidential informant who taped mobsters with a bugged briefcase, helping the feds bring down members of the Genovese crime family, it was revealed Monday.
For four years in the 1980s, Sharpton secretly assisted a joint FBI-NYPD task force known as the “Genovese squad,” The Smoking Gun website disclosed.
Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant was first disclosed in 1988 — but The Smoking Gun obtained hundreds of pages of secret court filings and FBI memos that provide stunning new details of his cooperation. The documents depict Sharpton operating easily in an underworld of violence and corruption, helping the feds collect essential information.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20:  Rev. Al Sharpton listens as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (not seen) speaks during the National Action Network's annual King Day Breakfast, at The Mayflower Hotel, January 20, 2014 in Washington, DC. On Monday, Americans honor the birth of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The Rev. Al Sharpton disputed much of The Smoking Gun's report in an interview with the Daily News.
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“Sharpton’s cooperation was fraught with danger since the FBI’s principal targets were leaders of the Genovese crime family, the country’s largest and most feared Mafia outfit,” said the report by writer William Bastone.
In an interview Monday with the Daily News, Sharpton acknowledged assisting the FBI beginning in 1983, but he denied he was an informant and disputed much of The Smoking Gun’s report.
The revelations come as Sharpton’s National Action Network holds a convention in New York this week that will feature speeches by Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday and President Obama on Friday. The White House had no immediate comment on The Smoking Gun report.

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The feds referred to the Rev. Al Sharpton in court documents as 'CI-7' — shorthand for Confidential Informant No. 7.
Sharpton allegedly became an FBI informant after he was caught on tape with a drug kingpin discussing cocaine deals. The feds reportedly threatened him with charges — although it’s unlikely any case would have held up — and successfully flipped him to snitch on Mafia acquaintances.
They saw Sharpton as an asset because he had “established relationships with (boxing) promoter Don King, various elected officials and several powerful New York hoodlums involved in concert promotion, record distribution and talent management,” The Smoking Gun said.
Agents gave Sharpton a customized Hartmann briefcase he used to record conversations touching on mob hits, extortion schemes and the activities of Genovese crime boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, the cagey mobster who tried to outfox the feds by claiming he was mentally incompetent, The Smoking Gun disclosed.

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Vincent (Chin) Gigante, wearing a bathrobe, is escorted to court in this Sept. 11, 1995 photo after being arrested in a massive RICO case.
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Sharpton had 10 face-to-face meetings, all recorded, with Joseph (Joe Bana) Buonanno, a Gambino family member. FBI agent John Pritchard, one of the heads of the squad, paid Sharpton in small amounts, the report said.
The information Sharpton gathered was used to get wiretaps to bug two Genovese family social clubs, three cars used by mobsters and many of their phones, according to the court records obtained by the website.
“The resulting surreptitious recordings were eventually used to help convict an assortment of Mafia members and associates,” The Smoking Gun said.


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Italian gangster Carlo Gambino, circa 1935.
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Genovese crime boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante.
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Sharpton was referred to in the documents as CI-7, short for Confidential Informant No. 7.
In his interview with The News, Sharpton said he contacted authorities after receiving death threats from Buonanno and others over his activism in trying to get African-Americans more work in the business end of the music industry. “If you’re a victim of a threat, you’re not an informant — you’re a victim trying to protect yourself,” he said.
He acknowledged that his conversations with mob figures were recorded, but he denied using a bugged briefcase. He said he was never paid, but was occasionally reimbursed for travel. “I encourage kids all the time to work with law enforcement,” he said. “You’re acting like it’s a scandal for me to do that?”

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He said the role of his information in bringing down mob figures was vastly exaggerated.
“I was never told I was an informant or I had a number or none of that,” he said. “Whether or not they used some of the other information they got during that period for other purposes, I don’t know.”
But the report said that eight federal judges signed wiretap orders based on sworn affidavits that included information from Sharpton — including two taps of Gigante’s home, the phone of Genovese big Dominick (Baldy Dom) Canterino, the Queens home of reputed mob soldier Federico (Fritzy) Giovanelli — who was later sentenced to 20 years for racketeering — and the office of music industry honcho Morris Levy, a family associate.

Reverend Al Sharpton stands with US President Barack Obama after introducing him at the 20th anniversary National Action Network Gala on April 6, 2011 in New York City. The National Action Network is a coalition of civil rights groups headed by Sharpton. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGESThe report comes as Sharpton is set to stage a three-day convention beginning Wednesday that will include appearances by Mayor de Blasio and President Obama.
In his conversations with Sharpton, Buonanno spilled dirt on Gigante’s role at the head of the crime family, a hit ordered by Levy on Buonanno’s brother that was never carried out, and details of loansharking, gambling and African diamond-dealing schemes, according to recaps of the meetings obtained by the website. The bombastic reverend’s relationship with law enforcement petered out after the Tawana Brawley scandal in 1987, the report said.
Sharpton insisted his only goal was to draw out evidence about the threats against him. “You don’t just walk in to a guy and say, ‘Threaten me.’ You get in a conversation,” he told The News. “They may have said things that hurt them, but that wasn’t my goal.”
He called the report an effort to smear him ahead of his convention this week. “Where is the crime?” he said. “They admit that I never did anything wrong.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rev-al-sharpton-worked-fbi-informant-80s-report-article-1.1748744#ixzz2yKPlaz3Y

Monday, April 7, 2014

Marvin X in Philly for Mumia Abu's 60th Birthday--We love you, Mumia, Ona Move!

 
Marvin X interviewed in Philly at the Black Power Babies Conference, 
produced by Muhammida El Muhajir

 Two classics by Amiri Baraka as he worked on that identity problem, the communal schozid
personality of the North American Africa. How could he live in two worlds, this conundrum confounded Amiri to the end, and yet we observed on more that one occasion performing in both worlds, the white and the black!. Some people call this ability JAZZ or Black Classic Music. See his book on Black Classical Music, Diggin!, University of Calfornia Press, Berkeley.

 Angela Davis, everybody's favorite revolutionary sister. She was mine as well. We were both fighting the US academia in 1969, she was a Black Communist at UCLA and I was a Black Muslim at Fresno State University. Gov. Ronald Reagan removed us both! Oh, God, then she decided to help prison Messiah Gorge Jackson escape from prison--what a slave narrative!

Wanted!
Uppity black wench
mulatto
smart
recalcitrant 
won't follow orders of master
must be whipped
award for capture
dead or alive1


Wanted
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
founders of the Black Panther Party for Self Defenise, Oakland California, 1966
two uppity negroes
won't follow orders
must be whipped
dead or alive
they will inspire other Africans
must be caught ASAP

Marvin X and Philadelphia/ citizen of the multiverse, Sun Ra, Marvin's master teacher, along with AB, HEM, Malcolm X, --Sun Ra, BAM mystic, musician, poet, band leader, philosopher, linguist, numerologist, Mythologist Supreme. Sun Ra taught Marvin X the need for discipline rather than freedom for his artists and common people. Sun Ra said, "We were born free!. Stop teaching that freedom, justice and equality--don't you see how free and wild they are? Teach discipline, discipline, discipline!"


AB was my brother, teacher, example, model, uncle, father, who allowed m!"e into his metaphysical and practical world of total liberation from any form of oppression. I can say I watched him fight his demons up close and personal, and he observed mine simultaneously. "Boy, you let the elephant out last night! Marvin X, when you get drunk, you can say the damnest things!"


Dr. Nathan Hare, sociologist, clinical psychologist, scholar, publisher, father of Black and Ethnic Studies in America. We love you, Nathan--and Julia too, the female Malcolm X! We love you for sharing 57years of marriage with us, the North American African Nation and the Pan African world.
--Marvin X

 Marvin X, his adopted aunt and uncle, Julia and Nathan Hare, Attorney Amiri Jackmon
 Dr. Hare in his boxing robe. Rahim Ali in background. 

The work of revolutionary Black Arts Movement artist Elizebith Cattlett Mora. Just as Gwen Brooks in Chicago joined the Chicago Black Arts Movement, Betty Mora joined the BAM and Black liberation movement as a radical artist.


 Ras Baraka, son of Amina and Amiri Baraka, next Mayor of Newrk, New Jersey. If there are doubts about his qualifications, look at the Eulogy he gave at the memorial for his father.


Revolutionary artist Paul Robeson, taught us we must be the artist as freedom fighter or the slave of oppression. That is our choice. We follow Paul as the artistic freedom fighter! 
Ras Baraka and Paul share the same earth day. 

 Black Love Lives, 
a film and conference by Nisa Ra. 


 Dr. Nathan Hare, sociologist, clinical psychologist, father of Black and Ethnic Studies in America.





Black Bird Press News & Review: Dr. Nathan Hare's Foreword to Marvin X's How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy

Black Bird Press News & Review: Dr. Nathan Hare's Foreword to Marvin X's How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy




How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy Type II

See Dr. Nathan Hare's foreword to How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy by Marvin X. Dr. Hare speaks of Addiction to White Supremacy Type II, now available from Black Bird Press, 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702, $19.95.


Marvin X will participate in the 60th birthday celebration of Mumia Abu Jamal,
Philadelphia PA, April 24-26, 2014. Cornel West will also participate.



Saturday, April 5, 2014

Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins [FULL ALBUM] [HQ]

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane [FULL ALBUM] [HQ]

Senator Vincent Hughes on Breaking the silence on mental wellness

If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here.April 3, 2014
State Senator Vincent Hughes: On the Issues
Senator HughesAn informational update for you!

This publication is your opportunity to receive regular updates on the work and the issues that I have been involved with, both in Harrisburg and throughout our community.
Please visit my website, where you will find a comprehensive overview of our work, various phone numbers and contact information to assist you in solving problems, opportunities to volunteer and assist us in our programs and opportunities to give your feedback.

FREE CONFERENCE: BREAKING THE SILENCE ON MENTAL WELLNESS

Breaking the Silence

FRIDAY, APRIL 4TH & SATURDAY, APRIL 5TH
STARTS AT 8AM


Temple University School of Medicine
3500 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19140
TWO FULL DAYS ** OVER 100 WORKSHOPS ** EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ** LICENSED PROFESSIONALS ON-SITE ** COMPLETELY FREE *** CEU CREDITS
FIND OUT MORE: www.senatorhughes.com/bts or call 215.879.7777
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IN THE NEWS
Breaking the Silence: Free mental health symposium at Temple
Jenice Armstrong, Daily News Columnist | Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Even if her fashion line was in deep financial trouble, to the outside world it seemed that L'Wren Scott had everything: a personal estate worth $9 million, a rock-star boyfriend, fame.

But who knows what demons Mick Jagger's girlfriend struggled with before hanging herself with a black silk scarf on a doorknob inside her posh New York City apartment last month? In hindsight, you'd think someone - Jagger maybe - would have sensed just how despondent Scott had become.

"She didn't just wake up that day and say, 'I'm going to kill myself,' " said Marcella Daniels, an organizer of a free mental-health conference that starts Friday called "Breaking the Silence on Mental Wellness: Real Talk. Real Help. Real Solutions."
Is exercise one of the missing links to mental wellness?
April 2, 2014 | Philly.com
The positive effects of working out extend far beyond the gym. As you might have guessed, physicians, researchers and mental-health practitioners have long discovered the positive relationship between exercise and mental health.
More than a decade ago, researchers at Duke University released a groundbreaking study demonstrating that 30 minutes of brisk exercise three times a week is just as effective as drug therapy in relieving the symptoms of major depression in the short term, and also that continued exercise reduces the chances of the depression returning.
PA Senator Vincent Hughes Makes Mental Health a Priority
Mar 12, 2014 | By Tonya Pendleton | BlackAmericaWeb.com
Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes is known by Philadelphians as a hands-on legislator with an active community agenda. As part of that agenda, the West Philadelphia native has been a major part of raising awareness for HIV/AIDS along with his wife, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and for sponsoring events that deal with finances and assistance for the elderly.
Hughes is also very passionate about mental health. This year, he will hold his fifth mental health symposium, ‘Breaking The Silence’ at Temple University’s medical school on April 4th and 5th. Here’s why Hughes feels that mental health is particularly important in the African-American community. » Continue Reading


You can find out more specifics about the Breaking the Silence: A Summit on Mental Wellness and provide your feedback on my website at senatorhughes.com as well as on Facebook and Twitter (@SenatorHughes).

Offices of State Senator Vincent Hughes

 DISTRICT OFFICE
4950 Parkside Avenue | Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19131
Phone: 215.879.7777
Fax: 215.879.7778
HARRISBURG OFFICE
Senate Box 203007
Harrisburg, PA 17120-3007
Phone: 717.787.7112
Fax: 717.772.0579
 

John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961) [Full album]

In a sentimental mood - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

Jimmy Smith - The Jumpin' Blues

You Send Me - Jimmy McGriff & Hank Crawford Quartet

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Memorial Service for Judge Henry Ramsey, Jr., Saturday, May 3, 1-3pm, Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley






















MEMORIAL SERVICE TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OFF JUDGE HENRY RAMSEY, JR SATURDAY MAY 3, 2014, 1-3 PM WHEELER AUDITORIUM  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CA

Reception for reflections will be held at the California Memorial Football Stadium, University of California, Berkeley immediately following the ceremony

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS PLEASE DONATE TO THE JUDGE’S FAVORITE CHARITY

Restorative  Justice  For  Oakland  Youth  (RJOY) interrupts  cycles  of  violence  and incarceration by promoting restorative justice policy and practices in Oakland’s schools and juvenile justice system. With an emphasis  on repairing harm and inviting all  affected to jointly figure out how to do so, restorative justice gives equal attention to community safety, victim’s needs, and offender accountability and growth. Most recently, at a continuation high school in West Oakland for youth in the juvenile justice system, violence and suspension rates have fallen dramatically, graduation rates and test scores are on the rise, and the school has garnered national attention for its stories of transformation. The Oakland Unified School District adopted restorative justice as official policy in 2010. www.rjoyoakland.org

The  Center  for  Youth  Development  Through  Law  (CYDL) provides  life  changing experiences  to  high  school  students  from  low-income  backgroungs  through  a  summer internship  and  education  program,  educational  mentoring,  and  after-school  program. Building on the students’ passion, intelligence and interest in law and social justice, these programs foster academic and pratical skills, interpersonal competence, self-confidence and high  aspirations.  More  than 92% of  the  students  go on  to  attend  institutions  of  higher education. After participating in the Center’s summer program, one student remarked, “ It was like I was drowning for so long, and this program finally threw me a rope!”                    www.youthlawworks.org

The  Young  Women’s  Saturday  Program  (YWSP),  founded  in  2011,  serves  as  an enhancement to Alameda County Girls  Court.  YWSP,  also know as The Alameda County Young Women’s Empowerment Program, mainly serves girls in Alameda County who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and those at-risk for such exploitation who are on probation.  The  12-week  program,  which  focuses  on  trauma  recovery....


Henry Ramsey Jr., Legal Scholar, Former Howard Law Dean, Dies at 80


by AFRO Staff


Henry Ramsey Jr. was involved in every facet of the law in his 30-plus year career. He started as a deputy district attorney, moved into private practice, was elevated to judge, taught law and served as dean at the Howard University Law School.

When he died after suffering a stroke March 14, acquaintances said the world lost a brilliant legal mind. He took over as dean at Howard’s law school in 1990, an imposing figure in a field of impressive legal minds.
“He wore bow ties all the time,” said Orlan Johnson, an intellectual properties lawyer and former Howard Law School professor who lives in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C.. “He reminded you of someone in academia. He had a very professorial intellect. You never saw him not looking the part of being an academician.”
Johnson said prior to becoming Dean of the Law School, Ramsey had no connection to Howard, but was hired because of his strong credentials.
“He had no connection to the law school,” Johnson said. “He was one of the deans who quote unquote didn’t have a Howard background. He was part of the legacy of outside people coming in to take leadership positions. Whenever you go outside the family, things can get tough, but he was well respected in what he brought.”
Among Ramsey’s priorities was improving the law school’s bar passage rate.
“He brought a lot of structure and discipline, as well as a high level of focus on academics,” Johnson said. “He believed in the Howard tradition of being a civil engineer, but he also felt that should be coupled with strong academic achievement.”
Ramsey came to Howard after an illustrious career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Riverside in 1960 and his law degree from the University of California’s Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law.
His first job was in the Contra Costa County District’s Attorney’s Office, one of the first African Americans to be hired as a prosecutor there.
After a few years, he moved into private law, focusing on civil and criminal matters, according to his LinkedIn page. From 1981 until 1990, he served as a judge with the Alameda County Superior Court. During the same time, he worked as a law professor at Berkeley. He became dean at Howard in 1990 and retired in 1995.
Besides working in the law, Ramsey served on the Berkeley City Council from 1973 to 1977, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told the newspaper that he and Ramsey worked together on several cases representing “those who couldn't get representation, like the Black Panthers.” Brown remembered Ramsey as being “forceful” and someone who “caused everyone to be conscious of their own conduct.”
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte told the Chronicle that she remembers Ramsey as a "warrior for justice and fairness and equality in our court system.”
Charles Ramsey, one of Ramsey’s six children, president of the West Contra Costa Unified School District board, said his father taught his children to give back.
"My dad always said, 'You'll be measured as a man not by what you did for yourself, but what you do for others,'" he told the San Francisco newspaper.
Ramsey died Friday at Berkeley’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center after having a stroke at his home.
He is survived by his second wife, Eleanor, and six children.