violence - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T01:23:59Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/violenceWe Are Being Desensitizedhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/we-are-being-desensitized2023-04-27T18:16:10.000Z2023-04-27T18:16:10.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>We Are Being Desensitized</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}11037061677,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}11037061677,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="11037061677?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#212121;">“<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Long-term socialization effects of the mass media are also quite likely increased by the way the mass media and video games affect emotions. Repeated exposures to emotionally activating media or video games can lead to habituation of certain natural emotional reactions. This process is called ‘desensitization.’ Negative emotions experienced automatically by viewers in response to a particular violent or gory scene decline in intensity after many exposures. For example, increased heart rates, perspiration, and self-reports of discomfort often accompany exposure to blood and gore. However, with repeated exposures, this negative emotional response habituates, and the child becomes ‘desensitized.’ The child can then think about and plan proactive aggressive acts without experiencing negative affect.” The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research by L. Rowell Huesmann </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704015/"><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704015/</span></span></a></u></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> As we look at what is happening in our country we are forced to admit we live in a violent society, a culture where we are inundated with daily reports and images of hurt, harm and murder, individual attacks, mass shootings and assaults. It’s as if we are going mad but when we stop to analyse what’s going on we see the culture we live in condones and encourages antisocial behavior. The ongoing escalation in violence in the US, in my opinion, coincides with the increase of violence promoted and shown in the mass media which is now ubiquitous and omnipresent. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> The availability of violent programming in film, television, streaming services and video games are having a devastating impact on our psyches and behavior, especially in young children. “Children in the United States spend an average of between three and four hours per day viewing television and the best studies have shown that over 60% of programs contain some violence, and about 40% of those contain heavy violence. Children are also spending an increasingly large amount of time playing video games, most of which contain violence. Video game units are now present in 83% of homes with children. In 2004, children spent 49 minutes per day playing video, and on any given day, 52% of children ages 8–18 years play a video game games. Video game use peaks during middle childhood with an average of 65 minutes per day for 8–10 year-olds, and declines to 33 minutes per day for 15–18 year-olds. And most of these games are violent; 94% of games rated (by the video game industry) as appropriate for teens are described as containing violence, and ratings by independent researchers suggest that the real percentage may be even higher. No published study has quantified the violence in games rated ‘M’ for mature—presumably, these are even more likely to be violent.” The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research by L. Rowell Huesmann </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704015/"><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704015/</span></span></a></u></span></p><p><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> You say, so what? Just watching violence on television or playing violent video games doesn’t make a person violent or induce them to act inappropriately. Well, that is the question. Do watching violent programming and playing violent video games impact our psyche and undermine human impulse control? There are studies that show this is indeed the case. “More recent studies have confirmed that high exposure to television violence for children and adolescents is also associated with higher levels of aggression and violent behavior. Exposure to violence shown through media is consistently associated with problem behaviors, such as increases in aggression and anxiety. Children could also end up with </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0002764215596554"><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">lower empathy and compassion</span></span></a></u></span><span style="color:#212121;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> for others.</span></span></p><p>Some children exposed to various forms of media violence – not just television violence but violence on the internet, in movies and in video games – can come to view the world as a <span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="http://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.26.021304.144640">mean, scary place</a></u></span> where they are not safe and they can do little to protect themselves from harm. This is a particular problem for very young children, such as those under the age of six, who have difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy.” Here’s how witnessing violence harms children’s mental health <span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://theconversation.com/heres-how-witnessing-violence-harms-childrens-mental-health-91971">https://theconversation.com/heres-how-witnessing-violence-harms-childrens-mental-health-91971</a></u></span></p><p>What we are experiencing is more and more children are showing less empathy and compassion for others. While media is not the sole cause, media consumption is a major factor. Our children watch around five hours of television per day and this doesn’t include other media. “Most television programming contains violence. <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Children who witness considerable media violence can become desensitized — or less shocked by violence, less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others, and less likely to show empathy for victims of violence. Violent media — and specifically violent video games — desensitize children. Many popular games are even similar to modern military training techniques that desensitize soldiers to killing. For example, only about 20 percent of soldiers in World War II actually were able to shoot the enemy. However, during the Vietnam War, 90 percent of soldiers could shoot and kill without hesitation. The change was attributed to new training procedures that included having soldiers practice shooting human-shaped figures rather than bulls-eyes (Grossman and Siddle, 1999). Lifelike video game violence desensitizes children in the same way, and leads to automaticity — or the learning of a behavior to the point that it becomes reflexive.” How violence in media effects children’s behavior by Terry Levy </span></span><span style="color:#000080;"><u><a href="https://evergreenpsychotherapycenter.com/violence-media-affects-childrens-behavior/"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">https://evergreenpsychotherapycenter.com/violence-media-affects-childrens-behavior/</span></span></a></u></span></p><p>Many parents lack empathy or they are chronically stressed out, frustrated and angry; and their children emulate them thus passing their dysfunction onto another generation. What can we do to address this pressing problem? In future articles we’ll look at practical ways we can heal ourselves and our community.</p><p style="text-align:center;">-30-</p><p> </p></div>We Can Do Betterhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/we-can-do-better2022-03-31T15:49:54.000Z2022-03-31T15:49:54.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p><strong> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10252723282,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10252723282,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="10252723282?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></strong></p><p><strong> We Can Do Better</strong></p><p> Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> One of my cousins called me Tuesday to talk; she asked if I was going to do a podcast on the Will Smith Chris Rock dust up at the Oscars Sunday night? (Here’s a shameless plug I produce and host a podcast called <strong>Akoben the War Horn </strong>that can be heard on streaming platforms like: Soundcloud, Podbean, Spotify, Mixcloud and Anchor.)</p><p>I told her I usually don’t address issues like that. When I told my wife what my cousin asked, she asked me if I was going to write about it? I though about it and decided to add my two cents to the growing controversy, reactions and commentary. In my opinion Will Smith publicly slapping Chris Rock at an even such as the Oscars is symptomatic of a larger societal malaise, resorting to violence to “solve” issues and personal disagreements!</p><p>We see violence in the news daily, homicide is on the rise in most major urban areas, suicide and domestic violence, child and elder abuse are rampant to the point society seems to be unraveling. The corporate media is hyping the War in Ukraine to make it okay for defense contractors to rake in more money as the US government sends weapons to Ukraine! </p><p> The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is American culture: television, motion pictures, video games, virtual reality, books and other media all exhort violence.. The history of this nation is full of violence. The United States has been a war 93% of its short existence! <a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-17-years-of-peace.html?c">https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/usa-only-17-years-of-peace.html?c</a> Americans love war and violence, war and violence drives the US budget. At their core, budgets reflect values, priorities and what is important. The US has the highest military budget of any nation in the world. <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-spending-by-country">https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-spending-by-country</a> War and war profiteering are vitally important to the US ruling class.</p><p>Violence is glorified in history books that either defend or ignore the indefensible: genocide, enslavement, oppressive child labor, economic privation and exploitation. So on a societal level an emotionally out of control wealthy pampered actor loosing it on national TV is totally consistent with the cultural norm. Will Smith’s actions at the Oscars are part and parcel of this maladaptive social dynamic within a larger dysfunctional social milieu.</p><p>The Oscar’s stating they don’t condone violence is the height of hypocrisy and mendacity. The motion picture industry and the media in general are filled with violent content; they make their money as purveyors of violence on a global scale!</p><p>Their dependence upon violence to sell movies and news has a concomitantly negative impact on society. “Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in aggression and violence in young viewers. Television news violence also contributes to increased violence, principally in the form of imitative suicides and acts of aggression. Video games are clearly capable of producing an increase in aggression and violence in the short term, although no long-term longitudinal studies capable of demonstrating long-term effects have been conducted. The relationship between media violence and real-world violence and aggression is moderated by the nature of the media content and characteristics of and social influences on the individual exposed to that content. Still, the average overall size of the effect is large enough to place it in the category of known threats to public health.” Media violence research and youth violence data: why do they conflict? <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15298868/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15298868/</a></p><p>What does Will Smith’s behavior at the Oscars say about him as a person? Smith claimed he was defending his wife. In his incongruent ramble during his acceptance speech, Smith attempted to justify his behavior (after he recognized the potential career ending consequences of his actions) by saying “Love makes you do crazy things”. He tried to tie his behavior to the Richard Williams character he played in the film for which he just won the Oscar!</p><p> That was despicable, there is no comparison to Will Smith’s outburst and the decades long struggle of Richard Williams as a Black working class father raising two daughters to be highly competitive an the affluent mostly white world of tennis! I’m sorry that was a specious attempt to justify his unwarranted actions which is another reflection on Smith’s character.</p><p> Even more dastardly by Smith trying to compare himself to Richard Williams, he reinforced the vile stereotype of Black men being violent out of control miscreants. This is a stereotype most Black men in America have to try to refute every day of our lives and Will Smith’s actions made it more difficult!</p><p>Hopefully some good can come out of this unfortunate event. Perhaps it will force us as Black people and a society to look at ourselves, do some introspection and foster genuine change. We can do better. Peace and harmony are possible but we have to work at them and make them real in our own lives. The more of us who do this the better off the world will be!</p><p> </p><p> -30- </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Chicago Christmas Violence Proposed Solutionhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/chicago-christmas-violence-proposed-solution2016-12-27T22:37:56.000Z2016-12-27T22:37:56.000ZCharles E. Campbellhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/CharlesECampbell<div><p>Chicago Christmas Violence Proposed Solution<br /> by</p><p>Charles E. Campbell, Founder & CEO<br /> The Quiet Resolution, TQR, Inc.<br /><a href="http://www.tqrinc.com">http://www.tqrinc.com</a><br />ahecgreen@live.com<br />614-668-0327</p><p>12/27/16</p><p>The mass shootings that occurred over the 2016 Christmas Holiday Weekend in Chicago, Illinois <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-violent-christmas-in-a-violent-year-for-chicago-11-killed-50-wounded/ar-BBxAmMj?li=BBnb7Kz">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-violent-christmas-in-a-violent-year-for-chicago-11-killed-50-wounded/ar-BBxAmMj?li=BBnb7Kz</a> was sad and painful for those of us who care deeply about our humanity. The loss of any human life is sad and must not be ignored any longer. I offer a combination of ideas, if implemented, will create a model for addressing and solving gun violence in Urban Cities. Leaders solve problems without fear or excuses. Politicians do the opposite. To implement this proposed solution will require leaders.</p><p>Proposed Solutions:<br /> The City of Chicago should outlaw all criminal gangs. Creating a mandatory 20-year sentence, if anyone is convicted of a crime, while affiliated, associated or a member of a criminal gang.</p><p>Allow community members to vote for a Non-Lethal Bullet Initiative that outlaws the use of Lethal Bullets, while allowing the ownership of guns. It should include an exception for licensed hunters with hunting rifles.</p><p>Create (8) Eight New Civic Associations for (Ex-Gang Members) with new colors, symbols, literature, mission of community service, and goals that promote family, harmony, peace, knowledge, community and respect for law.</p><p>Hire or Release from Prison Reformed Original Gangsters (OGs) to lead and run the new civic associations with a mission to provide Rights Of Passage for Manhood and Womanhood training, and mentoring for ex-gang members.</p><p>Use Ex-Ray Technology to detect weapons on individuals using public transportation, walking on the streets, or inside their vehicles. Offer a weapons Buy-Back Program.</p><p>Use Electronic Wrist Bans (e-Ban) Technology for convicted felons to monitor their association and track geolocation, which would aid law enforcement in solving gun violence related crimes.</p><p>Release to the public the names of individual gang members who are likely to be murdered or imprisoned due to their criminal history, so that their family, friends and other professionals can encourage them to join one of the new civic associations and live a productive and healthy life.</p><p>Create four training facilities in Chicago to train new members with Social Skills, Life Skills, Problem Solving Skills and Employment Skills for manufacturing, construction, technology, entertainment and entrepreneurial professions.</p><p>Use Private/Public Funding from Professional Sports Teams and Players to raise the initial seek capital by offering tax incentives. Allow residents to add $0.02 sales tax, $1.00 Property Tax, $0.10 Public Transportation Tax and a $1 Professional Sports Ticket Fee. Twenty Percent (20%) of the funds will be allocated for Administration and Eight Percent (80%) of the funds would be distributed equally between the 8 New Civic Associations and all funds will be made public in real-time over each Civic’s Association’s Website. The State, County and City Auditors would provide oversight, auditing and accountability of all fund expenditures.</p><p>Where there is a WILL to solve this problem, there will always be a WAY, but where there is NO WILL, there will always be EXCUSES and FEAR! We must have enough compassion, love and empathy for the suffering of others humans to demand leaders end the Cycle of Violence in Chicago. I welcome the opportunity to meet with those ready to lead without Fear or Excuses.</p></div>The Right To Live Lawhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/the-right-to-live-law2013-03-13T20:34:06.000Z2013-03-13T20:34:06.000ZCharles E. Campbellhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/CharlesECampbell<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>"The Right To Live Law"</strong></span></p><p>After another senseless murder of an infant in Chicago, I am once again proposing a solution (<a href="http://www.BlackStart.org">http://www.BlackStart.org</a>). The Solutions is a "Right To Live Law" that allows any community to place an initiative on their community, city, county or state ballet, which creates a zone free or (dry) of lethal bullets and it provides a free Non Lethal Bullets for Lethal Bullet Exchange paid for by a $1.00 property tax and a $0.02 Sales Tax. Anyone charged and convicted of owning lethal bullets gets mandatory jail time and those who use lethal bullets get charged with attempted murder or murder and a felony of possession and use of lethal bullets. When Enough Is Enough, Communities will take action. Start the petition drive now!</p><p>Respectfully,</p><p>Charles E. Campbell <br /><a href="http://www.CharityChangeApp.com">http://www.CharityChangeApp.com</a> <br />wbspbd88@gmail.com</p></div>Obama Blasted On Chicago Violence By Father Pfleger and Democratic Leader - Promoting Double Standard on Value Of Liveshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/obama-blasted-on-chicago-violence-by-father-pfleger-and2012-07-25T16:28:05.000Z2012-07-25T16:28:05.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><p></p><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">An angry Pfleger to Obama: “You will not ignore violence in Chicago”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">‘You will not put a double standard on life’</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">By Chinta Strausberg</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Referring to the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado where accused James Holmes, a 24-year-old former doctoral student killed 12 people and wounded 58 others, Father Michael L. Pfleger Sunday said while he loves President Barack Obama “you will not ignore the violence in Chicago.”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger asked everyone to call President Barack Obama at 202-456-1111, and ask him to reinstate the assault weapons ban and to help reduce the violence in Chicago.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger said 3 people were killed and more than 28 shot just over the weekend and on Monday, July 23, 2012, a 17-year-old boy was killed and 6 people were shot in a 15-minute span during a shootout at a Southeast Side park in the 2100 block of East 96<sup>th</sup> Place where gangs have reportedly been engaging in turf wars.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger seeks a link between the national drought covering most of the nation and the crippled economy he said was brought about by “crooked Wall Street terrorists” and the violence that is spreading like an infectious disease that is not being addressed by President Obama or Mitt Romney.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Saying this is the fifth worst drought in the history of America covering two-thirds of the country, Pfleger said it has ruined crops and taken lives due to the extreme heat. “Most people don’t die from extreme heat. They die from extreme neglect because somebody didn’t check on them.”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">He said besides the drought, many Americans are “facing a crippled economy that was basically brought about by crooked bankers” he later labeled “terrorists on Wall Street” who were never held accountable.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">In talking to a financial investment friend, Pfleger said, “when you lose your house, the bank doesn’t lose nothing. The bank has insurance to pay for your mortgage. Now they got the money and the house. What kind of mess is that? That’s why the banks had millions of dollars of profit while we were losing our homes because when you took out a mortgage, they took out an insurance on you so they can’t lose either way.”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger said the state of politics in America is not stable. “We’re in a country that is divided in a dysfunctional political system. Poverty is higher than it was in 1968. We see a disrespect of a president like I’ve never seen.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"><span> </span>“An officer of the law says he’s going to shoot the First Lady and get puts on desk assignment. If an officer of the law under Ronald Reagan says he’s going to shoot the First Lady, he wouldn’t be found yet,” said Pfleger.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“We see teacher strikes looming in the possibility of this year, unemployment skyrocketing and social programs cut so we can balance budgets and not just social programs like Medicare and anti-violence programs and the rest cut around this country, but mental health programs. So, now if you are suffering and you are” have mental illnesses there is no place for you to go, Pfleger said.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"><span> </span>“One of the finest mental health agencies in Chicago for the black community, the Community Mental Health Center” headed by Dr. Carl C. Bell,<span> </span> “would be shut down for good…because the state didn’t fund him,” he said. Calling Dr. Bell one of the finest psychiatrist, Pfleger said on August 1<sup>st</sup> that center will be shut down “for good.”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">To add insult to injury, Pfleger said, “We see violence all over this land. We see more than 300 children killed in this school year. That’s bigger than some schools. We see tragedy that happened in Aurora, Colorado on Friday morning….</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“What happened in Colorado was tragic and horrific and bad and life was lost, but I’m trying to figure out 12 people got killed in Colorado and the nation stood still and everybody speaking about it. Eric Holder comes in, but there are more than 12 killed every weekend in Chicago.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“Where is God’s name is the nation caring about black folks, brown folks and poor folks in Chicago” he asked. Pfleger said every life is valuable. “ I’m glad that the president is going out to counsel families in Colorado, but Mr. President, go meet Demarius’ mother who lost her child Friday night in Chicago. Go meet the mother crying today whose child was killed last night.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“Every life is valuable. You will not put a double standard on life,” he bellowed. It’s unacceptable, and both presidential candidates need to say where you stand on guns. Why do we allow assault weapons in America? We don’t allow it in Iraq. We don’t allow it in Afghanistan. They are military weapons. Why do we sell them?</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“I’m angry,” he admitted. “I’m angry if the 300 elephants died that last year. PETA would have the whole nation responding to that, but 300 children die we don’t say a word. Mr. President, you will not ignore the violence in Chicago and focus it alone on Colorado,” Pfleger said.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“I’m sorry. This is an epidemic. This is a national disaster and because it did not happen in a movie theater and happened on the South Side or the West Side, and Little Village in Chicago all of a sudden life is not important. How dare you government,” bellowed Pfleger. “You will not ignore the violence in Chicago.”</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Referring to CNN that reported children are traumatized over the Aurora, Colorado shooting, Pfleger challenged officials to walk the streets with him to see traumatized children.<span> </span> “Three killed and 28 shot this weekend. Shouldn’t the nation be focused on Chicago?” he asked.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“I love you, President Obama, but you are the president.<span> </span> I will not let you ignore the violence in Chicago.” Pfleger vowed to send the president an e-mail and will urged others to call him asking why couldn’t the President stop by Chicago on the way to Colorado to address the violence.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“The squeaky wheel gets the oil,” said Pfleger. “Politicians do what you make them do,” he said. “I can’t think that the physical drought in the land is not some how reflected in the emotional, spiritual drought of the human family. The human family is in a drought…barren not just the crops of the field but of humanity…. That could overwhelm…consume you and cause you to be weighed down with its reality except that we have a God who specializes in barren situations,” said Pfleger.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger said much was sad about the 300 elephants that were killed last year in Cameroon; yet, while the entire nation responded to those killings, Pfleger said the president has yet to say a word about the 300 children killed in one school year.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Pfleger isn’t the only one upset with President Obama and his silence on violence in Chicago. Rikki Jones, president of the Cook County Democratic Women, says she has supported him in the past even to the point of running into the red with her organization but is upset with his “distancing himself” from his own community.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">Jones wrote: “President Obama, I have been involved in the civil rights movement since I was sixteen. From that time up until now I knew that the best way for us to change the wrongs done to our people were to change the people we elect. I knew even back then that dealing with politicians who could care less about our community was our major problem.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt;"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“During my life I have help elect candidates that made a difference for African- Americans. Those were very proud moments for me. But the proudest moment came when Dr. Finney ask me to join him in running the only inner-city office for your run for president. How proud I was to be able to take a leadership role in your campaign. </font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt;"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“I did this without taking a dime from you. In fact my organization is still recovering from running that office. But I had something money could not buy and that was the pride of having a leadership role in electing the first Black president. But Mr. President you don’t seem to share this pride.</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt;"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“I feel like you want to do everything in your power to distant yourself from your own community. Why is it that you can come into Chicago and totally ignore the violence? Is it because you know that this is done by design and not chance? When you allow people to go into a school and destabilize it so that rich people can use taxpayer’s dollars to get richer, don’t you know our babies are going to suffer? Is it because you know that when you close neighborhood schools you tell those children that they don’t matter?</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt;"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“Is it because taking away a child’s right to a good education in their neighborhood dehumanizes them? Mr. President how do you think the Black children and their parents feel about being ignored? How do you think they feel when you run to another state to stop the violence while ignoring not only the violence but the cause of it in your own back yard?</font></div><div class="yiv1806332995MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13pt;"><font class="yiv1806332995Apple-style-span" size="4">“Do we matter at all to you? Do you care that schools blocks away from your house are being made to fail so that the rich you say you want to pay their fair share are getting richer. Mr. President, no one is upset about you addressing the issue of mass killings in that theater. Our problem is when are you going to address the violence that is occurring blocks away from your house”?</font></div></div>Chicago Mayor Latest Symoblic PR Campaign, While Shootings and Violence Continueshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/chicago-mayor-latest-symoblic-pr-campaign-while-shootings-and2012-07-12T12:23:38.000Z2012-07-12T12:23:38.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><p></p><p style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><font size="5">Chicago Mayor Latest Symoblic PR Campaign, While Shootings and Violence Will Continue</font></p><p style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"></p><p style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Today some of our political and religious leaders will participate in Mayor Emanuel's latest symbolic PR Campaign as if the Mayor is REALLY doing something to stamp out the causes of crime in our neighborhoods when actually doing nothing to provide resources to deal with the economic violence. Same PR campaign - Same rise in violence despite the PR Campaign. Really is sad, but if more people ain't demanding more, then these same PR campaigns will be the norm while our people continue to suffer and die, and nothing to stop the tensions and life threatening battles to economically survive over illegal street economies. Why do so many people have to suffer and die when one just has to know that these PR campaigns does nothing to deal with the severe lack of social consciousness and legitimate job and economic opportunities?</p><p style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><font size="5"> </font></p><h6 style="text-align:center;" class="yiv957558222uiStreamMessage"><font face=""><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">Mark S. Allen</span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">Chairman/Acting Executive Director</span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1332607479_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337090829_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337192790_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337224071_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1340238070_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1342095103_0">Black Wall Street</span></span></span></span></span></span> Chicago Organization</span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">Chief of Staff To National Chairman Rev. Michael Carter</span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">National Black Wall Street USA</span><br /></font><font face=""><span id="yiv957558222lw_1336750649_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337090829_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337192790_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337224071_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1337227462_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1339859682_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1340238070_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts" id="yiv957558222lw_1342012735_0"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1342095103_1"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1334346388_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1334758424_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1335492101_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1335967745_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1332607479_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1332788265_0" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">4655 South King Drive, Suite 203</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">Chicago, Illinois 60653</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;">773-392-0165</span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1332607479_2" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span id="yiv957558222lw_1332788265_1" class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><a>markallen@blackwallstreet.org marksallen2800@yahoo.com<br /></a></span></span></span></font></h6><h6 style="text-align:center;" class="yiv957558222uiStreamMessage"><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;color:#222222;font-size:13px;"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><span class="yiv957558222yshortcuts"><a>Mark S. Allen recently included in the 2012 Edition of Who's Who In Black Chicago as "one of Chicago's Most Influential Voices In The Black Community</a></span></span></span></h6><p><span style="font-family:'andale mono', times;font-size:14pt;"><b><span style="font-family:'arial black', 'avant garde';"> <br /></span></b></span></p></div>Failure In Addressing Chicago Violencehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/failure-in-addressing-chicago-violence2012-07-11T15:26:01.000Z2012-07-11T15:26:01.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><p>NO AMOUNT of police presence alone can resolve the desperate economic conditions by which so much of the random violence is rooted. Far too much of the criminal activity is not connected to ANY established street gangs. You resolve a desperate economic problem with a desperate economic solution.</p><p><br /> Anyone who is a veteran organizer/activist working in the area of crime intervention and prevention know that the overwhelming majority of our people are in the criminal element for doing something desperate to address their desperate economic conditions. Then the Black community is overwhelmed with the "walking time bombs" left in our community from the closed mental health centers and police presence alone cannot resolve this and what we are really preparing ourselves for is a major confrontation that just results is even more arrests, violence, and death.</p><p> </p><p>At a recent State public hearing on desperate urban unemployment conditions there were hundreds of ex-offenders who angrily testified about their frustration in that almost all of their efforts to find legitimate sources of income were falling on deaf ears and the lack of legitimate job opportunities were all but forcing them right back into the original criminal elements that landed them in jail in the first place. Many of those ex-offenders also testified at how many had started or became a member of non profit community economic empowerment groups to create legitimate community business and job opportunities only for their efforts to get funding met with rejection after rejection, and now they too are left to fend for themselves in trying to make living for themselves.</p><p> </p><p>NO AMOUNT of police deployment without a matching economic solution is going to erase the ongoing desperate acts of these members as well as thousands and thousands of non members all over the streets of Chicago absolutely forced into the gang, drug, and other illegal street economies in the severe absence of not enough legal economic outlets not just facing these constituencies, but far too many "good people" who also get caught up in joining those same illegal street economies when all their efforts at finding a legal income fails.</p><p> </p><p>Those of us who are veterans of the streets know that the announced efforts of Mayor Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy are announcing today will be symbolic at best and offer no real solution to the root causes that the desperate economic conditions at the root of violence will continue to plague the south and westsides. Again, The south and westside needs an economic revival that will sustain and increase community businesses and jobs, something that that time will show that this new police deployment alone will not resolve.</p><p> </p><p>Its almost criminal that Mayor Emanuel and Police Chief McCarthy to take our community on these continued public relations campaigns that these new police deployment are actually going to successfully resolve the criminal element and random acts of violence that plague the south and westsides.</p><p> </p><p>Mark S. Allen</p><p>Chairman Of The Board/Acting Executive Director<br /> Black Wall Street Chicago Organization<br /> Chief of Staff To National Chairman Rev. Michael Carter<br /> National Black Wall Street USA<br /> 4655 South King Drive, Suite 203<br /> Chicago, Illinois 60653<br /> 773-392-0165<br /> <a>markallen@blackwallstreet.org</a></p><p><a>Mark S. Allen recently included in the 2012 Edition of Who's Who In Black Chicago as "one of Chicago's Most Influential Voices In The Black Community</a></p><p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/and-the-ordinary-people-said/category/uncategorized/">Uncategorized</a></p></div>“SAVING OUR DAUGHTERS”: National Rally To Eliminate Violence and Abuse of Women & Girls of African Descenthttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/saving-our-daughters-national-rally-to-eliminate-violence-and2012-02-28T13:17:13.000Z2012-02-28T13:17:13.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br /></font></font></p>
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<div align="center"><b>Fri.</b> <b>March 2,</b> <b>2012 </b> <b>6:30-8:30</b> <b>P.M.</b></div>
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<div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><font size="3"><b>Our Young Girls: “Violent, Abusive, Destructive Behavior & <br /><font size="3">(mis)</font> Conduct”</b></font></span></div>
<div align="center"><b><i>“It’s Not Just About Bullying<font size="4">”</font></i></b></div>
<div align="center"><font size="4"><b><font size="4">It’s Time That We Connect The Dots</font> ……………….</b></font></div>
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<div><b> We must <font size="3"><i>Understand Better,and more realistically, What The Problems Truly Are</i>,</font></b> <b><font size="3">and implement the necessary</font>, well rounded holistically</b> <b>"</b><b>REAL" Solutions…. </b></div>
<div align="center"><div><b>Parents, come out and bring your Daughters, Nieces, etc. <br /> Community & Group Leaders, Professionals, Business Persons, Neighbors, Clergy, etc., Come Out and Bring Your Ideas, Suggestions, Resources, and Commitments.</b></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="1"><b>The “Saving Our Daughters” (SOD) program is an official MWM special “Direct Action” initiative that is a part of the Lil’</b> <i><b>Sistahs Sistoring Program</b></i><b>. SOD is a positive intervention, prevention, and holistic interaction geared to and for girls of African descent ages 7-17 that is uniquely designed to counter and rid of negative influences and thought processes, lack of self-esteem, lack of discipline, etc. The strategic process and administration of this has been developed by females of African descent who have either direct (personal and/or professional) involvements or experiences, who have an appreciation for Black/African history, cultures, traditions, etc. and who are genuinely concerned and committed to proper solutions/remedies.</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="1"><b><br /> Upcoming SOD Sessions will be held City-wide <font size="2">(in Philly)</font> throughout <i>Women's History Month</i> (March) leading up to the <br /> "<font size="4">National Rally To Eliminate Violence and Abuse of Women & Girls of African Descent "</font></b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="1"><b><font size="4"><font size="3"><br /> Sat.</font> <font size="5"><span style="color:#ff0000;">May 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm</span> </font></font></b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="1"><b> <br /> This is the "KICK OFF" Rally to launch the first national/international initiative designed exclusively by and for females of African descent that will aggressively and pro-actively address ALL types of VIOLATIONS (not just domestic) and do so from a frame of reference that understands historical, sociological and political significance, realities, and dynamic. <br /><u>Sessions are also being planned <font size="2">(for March & April 2012)</font>:</u><br /> Trenton, Newark, Camden, Burlington. New Jersey<br /> Wilmington, Delaware<br /> Washington, DC<br /> New York<br /><br /><br /> To schedule a session in your community, be a presenter, volunteer,contributor, etc., or for more information contact: <br /> The MWM National Headquarters at: <a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">nationalmwm@aol.com</a> or <a href="http://aol.com" target="_blank">officialmwm@aol.com</a> </b></font></div>
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<div><font size="3">T</font><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000" face="arial">his segment (2/28/12) of <strong>the "STILL WE RISE"</strong> radio broadcast will focus on what some call <em>"bullying" (</em></font></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000" face="arial">but what we call "Self-Hatred"</font></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><font color="#000000" face="arial">) amongst our youth and the behavior too often exhibited by our young girls today, . Recently a 17 year old girl was jumped by at least 8 other females who not only pushed and punched on her but TASERED her in the head twice and on her body once. Hear more about this incident, the upcoming meeting to address this and the overall matter of what is going on with too many of our young sisters throughout the US and what the <strong>"SAVING OUR DAUGHTERS"</strong> Direct Action Program is about and is <i>doing.....</i></font></font></div>
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<div><font size="3">The attack happened on the street at 59th and Lansdowne, near Overbrook High School, police said.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">NBC10 spoke with <b>Brooke Bethea,</b> victim of this attack. "I was walking and that's when they started grabbing me, punching and stomping me," said Bethea. The high school junior was also zapped with a stun gun, three times.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Bethea says she collapsed during the attack and had a seizure. The 11th grader, who weighs less than 100 pounds, has a pre-existing medical condition that includes a sickle cell trait and a history of seizures.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">"They could've killed her with her being so small and everything. It's just hard," said Penny Talley, mother.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">A group of at least 80 students gathered around the scene of the attack.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Rhonda Richardson, a witness who was working at a hair salon nearby, tells NBC10 she went through the crowd and helped the teenage girl inside to safety.</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Richardson says the girl's face was bloody and she was "delirious." The good samaritan says this type of scene is a regular occurrence near the high school.</font></div>
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<p></p></div>Can Kanye West & Jay-Z's new song "Murder To Excellence" Help The Mindset To Stop The Violence?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/can-kanye-west-jay-z-s-new-song-murder-to-excellence-help-the2011-11-21T18:04:30.000Z2011-11-21T18:04:30.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4">Can Jay-Z and Kanye West Help Stop The Violence?<br /></font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4">Coalition of Key Chicago Interfaith Religious leaders, activists, parents, teachers, at-risk youth groups and others appeal to Clear Channel to kick off new STOP THE VIOLENCE radio campaign featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West's new "Murder To Excellence" song <br /></font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-style:italic;">Key religious leaders include Bishop Cody <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_0"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_0">Marshall</span></span>, Bishop Dr. Claude Porter, Chairman of Interfaith <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_1"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_1">Illinois</span></span>, Rev. Gregory Seal <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_2"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_2">Livingston</span></span> and others!!!</span><br /></font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4">Contact Wallace "Gator" Bradley, United In Peace</font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;text-align:center;"><font size="4">@ <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_3"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_3">312-371-6914</span></span><br /></font></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;">November 18, 2011</p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;">Mr. Earl Jones</p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;">General Manager</p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;">Clear Channel Radio</p><p><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_4"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_4"></span></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts">233 N. Michigan</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts">Chicago , Illinois</span></p><p></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;">Re: Stop the Killings Movement</p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal">Greetings Mr. Jones,</p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal">This communication humbly request for your assistance to help the residents of <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_5"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_5">Chicago</span></span> reach the communities in an effort to stops the youth violence and senseless killings.<span> </span> The Redeye reports 28 homicides in the month of November alone.<span> </span> Chicago has experienced more than 300 deaths by the use of a handgun this year.<span> </span> Our city has made many attempts to eradicate violence and save our youth.<span> </span> We have all come together to as one voice to stop the violence and keep our streets safe.<span> </span> We understand that “It Takes A Village To Raise A Child”.<span> </span> Getting the message,” Stop the Killings”, to the youth has been a challenge, one which we continue to pursue.<span> </span> We would like to make a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to address this demise and inform our youth that we understand their circumstance but the killings must stop.<span> <br /><br /></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;">We are aware that our youth communication is often limited to mass media.<span> </span> Now is our opportunity to grasp their attention with the new release, Murder to Excellence by rappers, Kanye West and JayZ, which can ultimately encourage them to escape a state of hopeless and possibly began the process of becoming productive members of society,<span> </span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span>Murder to Excellence’, describes the perils of growing up in disproportionate communities and how the social ills within these communities can bring mediocrity and destructive lifestyles that create dysfunctional abnormalities. The rap artists on the track highlighted their rise from a life of dereliction to fame, fortune and influence. With their profound lyrics, they attempt to revitalize those who grew up in similar communities to understand that there are other options.<span> </span> Both artists, Jay Z (Brooklyn) and Kanye West (Chicago) once lived in impoverished communities and continue to contribute to such communities. The ultimate message is that anyone can transform their live and community by becoming productive individuals.</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span>At this time, our collaboration of Pastors, Community Activist, Politician, Teachers, Students, and Parents are humbly requesting a “40 Days and 40 Nights vigil, which would include playing this song, “Murder to Excellence” three times a day for forty days consecutively.<span> </span> Our efforts to reach the youth and stop the killing are parallel.<span> </span> We have identified the</span> <span style="color:#000000;">Urban Translator/Political Consultant</span> <span>Wallace “Gator” Bradley to deliver the PSA. <br /></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span><br /></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span>Mr. Bradley is the childhood friend</span> <span style="color:#000000;">of Larry Hoover and a former Gang- Enforcer of the Gangster Disciples.<span> </span> He also and ex- Felon who received a Pardon from former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson</span> <span>who was also once a product of his community.<span> </span> He is another testament that one can rise above their circumstances and give back to the very community that once held them hostage.</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormal" style="line-height:18pt;vertical-align:top;"><span>In advance we graciously appreciate your time and consideration.</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span> </span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span>Cc:</span> <span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_6"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_6">Cook County</span></span> Commissioner Jerry Iceman Butler,</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Rev. Jenkins, Fellowship Baptist Church</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Judge Michael B. Hyman,</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> <span> </span>Illinois Appellate Court Judge Joy B. Cunningham,</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> <span> </span>Congressmen Jesse Jackson</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Pastor Edward Davis, St. John Missionary Baptist Church</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Congressman Bobby Rush.</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Gov. Patrick Quinn</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Mayor Rahm Emanuel<br /></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Doc Wynters, Brand Manager (Urban)</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> Kris Kelly, Brand Coordinator (Urban)</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span> </span> <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_7"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_7">Afrika</span></span> Bradley, Parent Coordinator</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Mark S. Allen, Black <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv802529828yshortcuts" id="yiv802529828lw_1321880130_8"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1321898270_8">Wall Street</span></span></span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Bishop Dr. Claude Porter</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Bishop Cody Marshall</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Jay-Z</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Kanye West</span></p><p class="yiv802529828MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#000000;"> Wallace "Gator" Bradley, United In Peace<br /></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></p></div>The New Black Panthers in Newark, NJ, Rally Against Street Violencehttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/the-new-black-panthers-in-newark-nj-rally-against-street-violence2011-11-16T13:54:04.000Z2011-11-16T13:54:04.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><p></p>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>On <b>Wednesday, November 16th</b>, the New Black Panther Party’s Newark chapter will rally with the Newark AntiViolence Coalition against street violence on Tracy and Avon Avenues in Newark at 5pm on what will be their 121nd consecutive week of antiviolence protests.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>This Wednesday will have a dark, bleeding cloud of memory hovering over the rally because it will also mark the 1 year anniversary of the brutal slaying of NAVC member Selenna Baines in Irvington. Baines and a companion, Lashawn Laquan Woods, were both shot to death on Myrtle and Madison Avenues. Baines, a single mother was pregnant when she was senselessly slain.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>The following Wednesday, the NAVC sought to rally that community in honor of their fallen sister. They were greeted savagely with a senseless attack by the Irvington Police department, arresting six NAVC members including Sharif Amenhotep of the New Black Panther Party.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>“Several things need to be said here,” complained an angry Zayid Muhammad, who marched the remaining participants to the Irvington Police Department to secure the release of their members.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>“One, we went out of our way to seek the cooperation of the City of Irvington for this rally. We even filed for a permit and met with both the mayor and the police chief. Two, the police chief who lives in walking distance from where Selenna was killed personally oversaw the police attack on the rally. Three, he has done nothing to make that block safe or to address what happened to Selenna that raw rainy night, nor has Irvington’s spineless elected leadership either, and four, and finally, instead of dropping the charges and streamlining the permit application process and properly getting out in front of issues like these with the community, Irvington now wants to charge people wishing to rally in the town the cost of supplying at least four police officers with a proper permit,” he finished angrily, referring to a recent application of the Peoples Organization for Progress for a permit to march against foreclosures.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>In 2007, Muhammad, himself, had been shot just several doors from where Baines was killed.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>The six NAVC members went to court for the charges they faced from the police attack and the arrest nearly a dozen times only for the matter to be recently transferred out of Irvington. Those charges are still pending.</span></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNoSpacing"><span>For<span> </span> more information on the Newark AntiViolence Coalition, please call 908 605 6282. For more information on the New Black Panther Party, please call 973 202 0745…</span></div>
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<p> </p></div>Support Services,Healing Circles, and activities. for Females of African Descent who have experienced abuse,violence, incarceration, etc.https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/support-serviceshealing2009-05-28T04:43:46.000Z2009-05-28T04:43:46.000ZDaughters of MAAThttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/DaughtersofMAAT<div>Subject: Support Services,Healing Circles, and activities. for Females of African Descent who have experienced abuse,violence, incarceration, etc.It's Time For ACTION....If you (or someone you know) are a female of African descent who has experienced violence, abuse, or violations of any form, (molestation, beatings, harassment, exploitation, stalking, intimidation, rape, sexism, racism, detrimental manipulation, torture, threats, etc.,there is now (starting in Aug. 2009) help and healing especially for you.The Million Woman Movement International and Black Women's Defense League (BWDL) now offers a variety of Support Services, Healing Circles (for survivors, their children, and family members), Prevention Workshops and Self-Defense Classes in addition to other related activities for Females of African Descent who have experienced abuse,violence, incarceration, homelessness, and other transitional or life altering situations.This program is very unique because the fundamental approach is not only holistic but African-centered, utilizing the understanding of history, culture, and traditions that are indigenous to Peoples throughout the African Diaspora with in some instances modified for today's purposesServices include (but is not limited to):Goddess and "Mother of Civilization" Recovery, Self-Discovery, and Empowerment - each Sistah has a specific story, a specific set of circumstances, rhymes & reasons, and a specific purpose. It is knowing (thyself) and understanding some of the dynamics of ones true being that a better and more comprehensive effect and outcome on both external and internal happenings can occur. The application of this process provides greater awareness and access to ones own abilities, value, self-respect, inner power, and freedom.Confidential Reporting - allows a report to be made without necessarily providing name and other revealing information. This is often an initial step in the healing process as well as an aid in the first phases of documenting cases of violence and abuse especially if any future actions are ever sought, requested, or deemed necessary.Group Therapy and Healing Sessions - allows for free expression and the release of emotional distress, concerns, and while providing strengthening and, connection with others who understand andWholistic Self-Defense-mental, physical, and spiritual insight and training to avoid and better respond to violence and abuseLegal Counseling and Assistance- consist of in taking of information, reviewing, evaluation, further processing for possible filings and other related actions regarding complaints and cases.A pro-bono legal team and volunteer's unit is being established to assist with consultations, filings, and reserachTo volunteer or for more information e-mail: officialmwm@yahoo.com or BWDL7@aol.com</div>