A little Black Bird says Oakland and California cities will launch the Black Arts Movement's 27 city tour

A little Black Bird has told Marvin X the people of Oakland will provide him with the necessary financial resources ($2.7 million @ $100,000 per city) to fund his proposed Black Arts Movment's 27 city tour in honor of BAM founder Amiri Baraka.

Known as resourceful, Marvin X has friends in places who have the financial and other resources to make the BAM tour a success. See the March 19-25 issue of the Oakland Post, by Dr. Ayodele Nzinga on the recent BAM conference at University of California, Merced, page 7.

We should acknowledge Merced, California as the first leg of the tour, and let us acknowledge the generous resources that

UC Merced and the people of Merced made available to the BAM conference, produced by graduate student Kim McMillan, in association with Marvin X.

 Marvin X, known as Mr. Resourceful. They say, "Marvin how did you get all those people to participate in your conference?" Answer: "I got on my cell phone and called them!"

 Bay Area living legend, choreographer Linda Johnson, on left, (Val Serrant and Jamali in bg) has signed on to the tour. We can also count on dancer Raynetta Rayzetta, right, to be a part of the BAM tour. Raynetta is Marvin X's favorite dancer as per interpreting his poetry. "Raynetta reads my poetry, then choreographs a movement for my every word. No one has been this precise!"

 Berkeley High B-Tech students visit Exhibit Marvin X in Berkeley. The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley acquired the archives of Marvin X.

A visit to Alameda County Juvenile Hall, cost: $250,000 per inmate per year.

Marvin X with students from Academy of Da Corner, along with Rev. Blandon Reems. Aries and Toya published their own books, after mentoring by Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.Academy of da Corner is also at the Berkeley Flea Market, ASHBY BART station, Saturdays and Sundays. 510-200-4164.

Come meet and greet the author, a living legend of the Black Arts/Black Liberation/Black Studies/Black Students Union movement......

Aries Jordan, student of Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.

Oakland Post Publisher, Paul Cobb and Marvin X. They are childhood friends from West Oakland.

Oakland Post Publisher, Paul Cobb, indorses the BAM tour, especially if it will be helpful to young North American African males. If BAM can educate rappers that they can utilize more than three words of the English language, i.e.,  (b...., ho, mf), then there are resources available to make the BAM tour happen, especially here in Oakland and the Bay Area, and throughout California.

Marvin X says the mission of the BAM tour is to pass the baton to the next generation of youth, to redirect them into the positive aspects of the cultural revolution. BAM was about higher consciousness, educational, spiritually healing and the liberation of the human spirit from reactionary mythology and ritual, retrograde ideas that inhibit human and divine progress.

Aside from Oakland, California, Philadelphia PA seems to be generating the energy for the East Coast Black Arts Movement 27 city tour. Brother Maurice Henderson is on the case in Philly.

In sha Allah, the 27 City Black Arts Movment is gonna happen!

For information or booking: call 510-200-4164, jmarvinx@yahoo.com, www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

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Stop and Frisk, Oakland style: Blacks are 62% of Police stops

Blacks stopped more often in Oakland, data show

Will Kane

Updated 8:46 pm, Monday, March 24, 2014

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Nearly two-thirds of the stops made by Oakland police between April and December last year involved black people, according to data released Monday by the city in an effort to made policing practices more transparent.

Of the 14,591 stops made by police during that eight-month period, 62 percent involved black people, 17 percent were Hispanics, 12 percent were white, 6 percent were Asian and 3 percent were categorized as other race.

Oakland police are prohibited by an internal order from racial profiling or practicing biased-based policing, and the public release of this data is meant to allow the public to review the numbers and comply with a decadelong court-ordered reform effort.

"We want to have that conversation openly," Mayor Jean Quan said at a press briefing Tuesday.

According to the data, traffic violations were the legal basis for 61 percent of all stops, followed by probable cause at 23 percent and reasonable suspicion at 10 percent.

African Americans had the highest percentage of stops based on probable cause and reasonable suspicion and the lowest percentage of stops for traffic violations. Asians were stopped for traffic violations 76% of the time, according to the data.

A little more than 16 percent of the stops for all races led to a felony or misdemeanor arrest, while 19 percent of black people stopped were eventually arrested. Those who were not arrested were cited, interviewed for leads, warned or no action was taken.

Experts said it is difficult to put the data in context. There are no national standards for what percentage of stops should lead to an arrest, and Oakland has recorded incomplete and inaccurate data for the last decade, so it is impossible to compare with the past.

African Americans make up about 28 percent of Oakland's population, according to 2010 U.S. census numbers. Many experts, however, say population demographics have no legitimate relationship to who police stop.

John Burris, an Oakland civil rights attorney closely involved with reforming the Police Department, said the evidence supports community concerns that blacks are targeted by police.

"It certainly supports the notion that African Americans feel like they have been racially profiled," Burris said.

But Burris also said there wasn't enough context to "analyze this data to determine if there is discriminatory policing."

Most crime happens in predominately nonwhite neighborhoods, he said. It isn't necessarily bad that police stop more people passing through East and West Oakland, he added.

"If you have crime in the area then you have to respond to the crime," Burris said. "But that doesn't mean that all the stops are lawful."

Police should be looking at the stops of particular officers or squads to see if they have disproportionably higher rates of stopping minorities, Burris said.

"What you are looking for is outliers," he said.

Interim Police Chief Sean Whent said it is too early to explain what the data means about Oakland police. But the department will release similar reports twice a year and will hire an outside consultant to analyze trends.

Geoff Alpert, criminologist at University of South Carolina who studies racial profiling, said releasing the stop data was "a huge step forward for Oakland police. I think before they were behind the curve, but they are getting ahead of the curve."

Will Kane is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: wkane@sfchronicle.comTwitter: @WillKane

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Breakfast forum with Oakland Black Elected officials and Preachers

Please Join us for the Black Elected Officials   & Faith Based Leaders    MONTHLY BREAKFAST FORUM   Wednesday, March 26th  7:30am (Sharp!!!) - 9:00am Geoffrey's Inner Circle  410-14th Street, downtown Oakland    This month's panel will discuss the  significance   of the electoral races &  initiatives   for the upcoming    "June 2014 Election  "     Moderated by: Hon. Dezie Woods Jones former Oakland Vice Mayor /  State President BWOPA Panel Speakers: Meredith Brown Peralta Community College District Trustee Marlon McWilson Alameda County Board of Education Trustee Peggy Moore Peggy Moore Political Consulting Form           The meeting will start promptly at 7:30am    Please arrive on time!    Breakfast contribution   $10.00        RSVPs most efficiently TO CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE CLICK   ON THE FOLLOWING LINK http://beofblmarch2014.eventbrite.com   or CALL (510) 779.3036

Aborted, miscarried babies burned to heat U.K. hospitals!

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Aborted, miscarried babies burned to heat U.K. hospitalsMore Sharing Services

By Jessica Chasmar

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The Washington Times

Monday, March 24, 2014

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

      

It’s over between us, Latinos tell President Obama

By Albor Ruiz • Published on March 9, 2014

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 Murguía, 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 Murguía 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,” Murguía 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.

 albor.ruiz@aol.com

(From the Daily News)

[Photo is of President Obama during better times with NCLR's Janet Murguía.]