prisoners - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T09:11:54Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/prisonersDo We Have A Compassionate President?https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/do-we-have-a-compassionate-president2013-12-23T21:00:00.000Z2013-12-23T21:00:00.000ZCharles E. Campbellhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/CharlesECampbell<div><p style="text-align:center;"><b>by </b><b>C. Earl Campbell DA 3rd ~</b></p><p><span> President Obama has pardon more Thanksgiving Turkeys than Political Prisons, who were victims of the US Government's Counter Intelligence Programs (CoIntelPro), started under FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Even Russian President Putin had the courage to correct one of his mistakes this week by releasing a political prisoner. Black African Americans were overwhelmingly the targets and victims of the US Government attacks under that program and President Obama should have the moral courage to address this historic injustice. America needs leadership with solutions, integrity and courage, who won't make excuse about who created the problems of this country, but will accept the responsibility and accountability of the President to address and solve them, without excuses, fear or greed. To speak of Nelson Mandela, who was once a political prisoner and turn a blind eye to the US History and existing political prisoners is the greatest example of US Hypocrisy. Where is the compassion for fellow human beings, who have suffered for more that 30 years in prison for demanding justice, fairness and civil rights in a democracy? This is a clear opportunity for Presidential Leadership. </span></p><p>Here’s A Solution: President Obama Should Issue an Executive Order Requiring Attorney General Eric Holder to establish a National Political Prisoner Review Process that grants Presidential Pardons and releases anyone convicted with the involvement of US Government Illegal Counter Intelligent Program (CoIntelPro): The criterial should include prisoners who are over 60 years old and having served more than 25 years in prison because of their political activities. A failure to take action would demonstrate a lack of compassion for the suffering of other human beings like the late Nelson Mandela. </p><p><span> </span><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/23/part_2_calls_grow_to_release">http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/23/part_2_calls_grow_to_release</a></p></div>Busy Bees Help to Create Permanent Jobs For Prisoners, Ex-Offenders in Chicagohttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/busy-bees-help-to-create-permanent-jobs-for-prisoners-ex-offender2012-10-04T16:07:48.000Z2012-10-04T16:07:48.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">- Some people see a bee and want to swat it. Brenda Palms-Barber sees a bee and thinks about products it helps to produce and jobs it creates.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Palms-Barber is executive director of the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN) in Chicago. The nonprofit organization partners with about 100 agencies to help low-income people, primarily former offenders, find and keep jobs.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">In 2004, she launched Sweet Beginnings, a company that makes honey locally and sells natural, honey-based beauty products in local stores and businesses. Assisted by grants from organizations such as the Illinois Department of Corrections and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Sweet Beginnings is creating jobs for the unemployed.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">It has expanded from a single apiary facility with about 20 hives to four with 100 hives, including one with 50 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Sweet Beginnings also keeps 18 hives in the city at the Cook County jail, where the company works to teach incarcerated offenders the art of beekeeping.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"The growth of business is so important because it continues to prove that there can be a market-driven solution to a large social issue," Palms-Barber says. "From here, look out world, right? If we can make this happen successfully in Chicago with one of the largest airports in the country, it helps to codify the model and makes it more reputable to take it to communities where there are fewer economic opportunities in employment for people who need second chances."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">When Palms-Barber moved to Chicago from Denver with her husband in 1999, she was concerned about the high employment rate for formerly incarcerated men and women. Several NLEN employment initiatives to help ex-offenders move into the workforce had failed. For years, the network had been operating U-Turn Permitted, a 90-day training program, for offenders but had difficulty finding employers willing to hire them.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"We needed to do something," she says.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Unemployment in the North Lawndale community was three times higher than that in the city of Chicago. She needed to train and find jobs for dozens of men and women a year. But how could she keep them employed?</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Palms-Barber put her business management degree from the University of Phoenix to work, seeking a sustainable business model. While she was brainstorming with her partners and board members about job creation, one member mentioned beekeeping.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"Beekeeping seems to be open and receptive to a person no matter what their past," Palms-Barber says. "Bees don't discriminate between what is a flower or a weed. They are seeking nectar. They draw the good out of whatever that plant source is and make it into honey."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">NLEN hires 30 to 40 men and women annually at a rate of nine or 10 a month. After transitional work experience, 25 percent of those who complete training are hired permanently with Sweet Beginnings.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Kelvin Greenwood, an assistant general manager with Sweet Beginnings, is one example of many success stories.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Greenwood was imprisoned for seven years before joining U-Turn Permitted, the transitional program, in 2008. His initial reaction to bees and beekeeping was the same as that of most novices. "At first, I wasn't too pleased working with them," he said in a phone interview. "At the time, I was ignorant to the fact of what they do, but as I got to working with them, my opinion opened up."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">The bees are friendly midwesterners from Wisconsin, but honey produced in their hives wasn't enough to create a sustainable and profitable business. The profit margin for honey was only about 13 percent.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Then the Employee Volunteer Council at The Boeing Company took an interest in Sweet Beginnings, attracted in part by how different beekeeping was from traditional volunteer work such as painting buildings or cleaning up lots.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">For a year, Palms-Barber says, she worked with Boeing's high-level and midlevel executives on a business plan including risk management and sales projections. With their help, Palms-Barber sharpened her plan to include honey-infused merchandise such as natural hair care products, lotion, lip balm and body cream. The profit margin for natural products was 80 percent to 85 percent.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"That was a game-changing decision, a real pivot," Palms-Barber says. Sweet Beginnings continues to expand its reach by marketing products in local and national businesses.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">The company developed the first apiary at an airport through its relationship with the Chicago Department of Aviation, which administers O'Hare and nearby Midway International. Sweet Beginnings skin care products are available at 18 Whole Foods stores nationwide and at Hudson News stores at O'Hare and Midway.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Although the business has grown, Palms-Barber says it still faces hurdles as a small brand in an unstable economy. "We don't have brand recognition. We're still young and very new. Trying to penetrate the market at a time when people are pulling back is very tough."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">With help from Whole Foods, Sweet Beginnings sales increased 45 percent in the last year. Palms-Barber attributes some of that to having a quality product with an inspiring social message. As nationwide awareness of the importance of local and organic products has increased, she says she and other Sweet Beginnings employees have backed into a health-conscious advocacy role in addition to providing jobs for people.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"We've had film showings in the neighborhood about bees and the role that bees play," she says. "We give out samples of honey, and they begin to taste things that are made locally and in their neighborhood. It's very exciting to talk to people about bees, people who say 'I used to swat them or kill them.' And now they say, 'Usher that bee out the door, don't kill it.' "</span></p>
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<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">The biggest takeaway for Palms-Barber remains the image of drawing nectar and sweetness out of a bleak situation.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"On the West Side of Chicago, people will say, 'Where are the bees even finding flowers?' Bees don't discern between what you and I see as a flower and what you and I see as a weed - like white clover, which is actually a weed.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:'Times-New-Roman';color:#000000;text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">"It makes the best honey, and there's a lot of that on the West Side. It's about drawing the good out of what looks like a bad plant."</span></p>
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<p> </p></div>Prisoners Across at Least 6 California Prisons Join Pelican Bay Hunger Strikershttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/prisoners-across-at-least-62011-07-05T22:10:06.000Z2011-07-05T22:10:06.000Zmoorbeyhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/moorbey<div><font size="4"><b>Prisoners Across at Least 6 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_1">California</span> Prisons Join <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_2">Pelican Bay</span> Hunger Strikers<br /><br /> Strike Could Involve Thousands of Prisoners<br /><br /></b></font> <b><font size="3">Press Contact: Isaac Ontiveros<br /> Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition<br /> Office: <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_3">510 444 0484</span><br /> Cell: <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_4">510 517 6612</span><br /><br /></font></b> <font size="3">Oakland— More than 100 hours into an indefinite hunger strike started at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit, prisoners in at least 6 state prisons have joined in, with participation potentially growing into the thousands. Hunger strikers at Pelican Bay and other prisoners participating are protesting the conditions in the Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU). <br /><br /> Dozens of U.S.-based and international human rights organizations have condemned Security Housing Units as having cruel, inhumane, and torturous conditions. SHU prisoners are kept in windowless, 6 by 10 foot cells, 23½ hours a day, for years at a time. The CDCR operates four Security Housing Units in its system at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_5">Corcoran, California</span> Correctional Institution (CCI), Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) as well as Pelican Bay. <br /><br /> As of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_6">Tuesday morning</span>, advocates had confirmed hunger strike participants at Corcoran and CCI, as well as <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_7">Folsom</span>, Centinela, and Calipatria State Prisons. Despite the Hunger Strike spreading, the CDCR claimed in an <i>LA Times</i> article this past weekend that less than two dozen prisoners were on hunger strike.<br /><br /> “The CDCR is not following its own protocol around hunger strikes, but we have evidence that thousands of prisoners across in at least 6 prisons in California could be participating in the strike. We think that CRCR knows this and is purposefully withholding information,” said Carol Strickman, staff attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and legal team representative for Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity. <br /><br /> In a statement released from Corcoran Prison’s SHU, prisoners said, “It is important for all to know Pelican Bay is not alone in this struggle and the broader the participation and support for this hunger strike and other such efforts, the greater the potential that our sacrifice now will mean a more humane world for us in the future.”<br /><br /> A recent prisoner work strike in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_8">Georgia</span> drew support from thousands of prisoner across at least 5 prisoners – the largest prisoner strike in US history. And at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_9">Lucasville, OH</span> State Prison <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_10">this January</span>, three hunger strikers won far-reaching changes to prison policy concerning conditions for prisoners on death row. “Given what’s happening in California prisons themselves, its no surprise we’re seeing organized action here too,” said Taeva Shefler from Prison Activist Resource Center. “The US Supreme Court – not just liberal activists– has agreed that California prison conditions amount to cruel and unusual punishment. This growing Hunger Strike is the culmination of decades of abuse, neglect, foot-dragging, and incompetence by an unbroken sequence of CDCR administrations.” <br /><br /> Actions in more than 12 cities are scheduled to happen throughout this week to show support for the Hunger Strike, and an end to indefinite Solitary Confinement, gang validation and inadequate food and medical care as administrative punishment. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /></font> <font color="#FF0000" size="3"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_11">Freedom Archives</span><br /> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_12">522 Valencia Street<br /> San Francisco, CA 94110</span><br /><br /></font> <font color="#008000" size="3"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_13">415 863-9977</span><br /><br /></font> <font color="#0000FF" size="3"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1309903250_14">www.Freedomarchives.org</span></a></font></div>MY TROUBLE WITH "POLITICAL PRISONERS"https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/my-trouble-with-political2010-05-27T11:00:00.000Z2010-05-27T11:00:00.000ZKWASI Akyeamponghttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/KWASIAkyeampong<div><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-weight:normal;"></h3>
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<div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content" align="center"><span class="UIStory_Message"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:xx-large;"><b>Carlos Alberto Torres Parole Campaign<br /></b></span></font></strong></font></font></font></span><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="3" color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><b><img src="http://www.prolibertadweb.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/carlosflag2.jpg" alt="carlosflag2.jpg" /></b></font></strong></font></font></font></span></p>
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<div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content" align="center"><span class="UIStory_Message"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF0000" size="5">CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES Wins Release on Parole <br />May 21, 2010 <br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;">For the complete story:</span></font></strong></font></font></span></div>
<div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content" align="center" style="text-align:left;"><div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Calibri"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium;"><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium;"><strong><a href="http://www.prolibertadweb.com/id19.html"><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.prolibertadweb.com/id19.html</font></font></a></strong></span></font></span></font></strong></font></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium;"><strong><font color="#FF0000" size="5"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The National Boricua Human Network and the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico have the <font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The National Boricua Human Rights Network and the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico have the great and historic pleasure of announcing that Puerto Rican<br /> political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres, after serving 30 years in U.S. prisons<br /> for his commitment to the independence of his nation, will be released on parole<br />
in July of this year, to reside in Puerto Rico.</font></font></font></strong></span></font></div>
<font face="Calibri"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="3" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b><br />This historic release is due to Carlos Alberto’s maintaining his integrity and commitment throughout
three decades behind bars, and to the support of the people of Puerto Rico,<br />
Puerto Rican communities in the U.S., as well as those who support human rights<br />
throughout the world. This broad support was key in winning his release, and he<br />
is looking forward to expressing his gratitude in person. <br /><br />For no
legitimate reason, he was made to serve almost 11 years more than his<br />
compatriots who were released in 1999, when president Clinton deemed their<br />
sentences to be disproportionately lengthy. The United States stands out as the<br />
country whose political prisoners serve among the longest sentences in the<br />
world. <br /><br />Two Puerto Rican political prisoners remain in U.S. custody.
Oscar López Rivera, who this month will mark his 29th year in prison, is not<br />
scheduled for release until 2023; and Avelino González Claudio, who this month<br />
will be sentenced to a term not to exceed 7 years. While planning the<br />
celebration of Carlos Alberto’s release, the National Boricua Human Rights<br />
Network and the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico will continue to work for<br />
the release of both remaining political prisoners. <br /><br />Contacts: <br />in the
U.S.: Alejandro Molina 312/296-7210 <br />in Puerto Rico: Eduardo Villanueva
787/612-7840 <br /></b></font> <b>and historic pleasure of announcing that Puerto Rican
political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres, after serving 30 years in U.S. prisons<br />
for his commitment to the independence of his nation, will be released on parole<br />
in July of this year, to reside in Pueo Rico. <br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal;"><b><br /></b></span></b></font></font></div>
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</div></div>STRUCTURE OF THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE - Chattlehttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/structure-of-the-birth2009-07-06T01:30:00.000Z2009-07-06T01:30:00.000ZNgone Awhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NgoneAw<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828510848,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="126" height="200" /></p><br />
UNITED STATES IS A CORPORATION NOT A COUNTRY<br />
United States Of America, Inc."Non-Profit " Delaware Corporation,Incorporation Date 4/19/89 File No. 2193946<br />
WHO OWNS THE CORPORATE UNITED STATES?<br />
Great Britain owns USA. Page 4 of 7. still occupying the U.S. ...see we are cows, the IRS is company who milks the cows and the United States Inc. ...<br />
<a href="http://www.natural-person.ca/pdf/Great_Britain_owns_USA.PDF">www.natural-person.ca/pdf/Great_Britain_owns_USA.PDF</a><br />
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Social Security Corporation, Department Of Health, Education and Welfare"For Profit" General Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 11/13/89 File No. 2213135<br />
Central Intelligence Authority Inc. (CIA) "For-Profit" General Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 3/9/83 File No.2004409<br />
Internal Revenue and Audit Service (IRS) "For-Profit" General Delaware CorporationIncorporation Date 7/12/33 File No. 0325720<br />
Federal Reserve Association (Federal Reserve) Non-Profit) Delaware Corporation Incorporation Date 9/13/14 File No. 0042817<br />
FOIA Update: The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. sect. 552, As ...Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) <a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_XVII_4/page2.htm">www.usdoj.gov/oip/foia_updates/Vol_XVII_4/page2.htm</a><br />
"Structure of the Birth Certificate"DID THE STATE PLEDGE YOUR BODY TO A BANK?By: David DeschesneAdvanced Civics Research LibraryRight: Some birth and marriage certificates are now "warehouse receipts," printed on banknote paper, which may mark you and yours as 'chattel' property of the banks that our government borrows from every day.A certificate is a "paper establishing an ownership claim." - Barron's Dictionary of Banking Terms. Registration of births began in 1915, by the Bureau of Census, with all states adopting the practice by 1933.Birth and marriage certificates are a form of securities called "warehouse receipts." The items included on a warehouse receipt, as descried at §7-202 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the law which governs commercial paper and transactions, which parallel a birth or marriage certificate are:- the location of the warehouse where the goods are stored...(residence)-the date of issue of the receipt.....("Date issued")-the consecutive number of the receipt...(found on back or front of the certificate, usually in red numbers)-a description of the goods or of the packages containing them...(name, sex, date of birth, etc.)-the signature of the warehouseman, which may be made by his authorized agent...(municipal clerk or state registrar's signature)Birth/marriage certificates now appear to at least qualify as "warehouse receipts" under the Uniform Commercial Code. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th ed. defines:warehouse receipt. "...A warehouse receipt, which is considered a document of title, may be a negotiable instrument and is often used for financing with inventory as security."Since the U.S. went bankrupt in 1933, all new money has to be borrowed into existence. All states started issuing serial-numbered, certificated "warehouse receipts" for births and marriages in order to pledge us as collateral against those loans and municipal bonds taken out with the Federal Reserve's banks. The "Full faith and Credit" of the American people is said to be that which back the nation's debt. That simply means the American people's ability to labor and pay back that debt. In order to catalog its laborers, the government needed an efficient, methodical system of tracking its property to that end. Humans today are looked upon merely as resources - "human resources," that is " HUMAN CAPITAL"....Governmental assignment of a dollar value to the heads of citizens began on July 14, 1862 when President Lincoln offered 6 percent interest bearing-bonds to states who freed their slaves on a "per head" basis. This practice of valuating humans (cattle?) continues today with our current system of debt-based currency reliant upon a steady stream of fresh new "CHATTELS " to back it.<a href="http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/bcertP.pdf">http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/bcertP.pdf</a><br />
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Structure of the Birth Certificate. Did the State Pledge Your Body to a Bank? ... paper and transactions, which parallel a birth or marriage certificate:Forget Left/Right Wing Polemics. seek "Truth"Notice: the source of this info is not meant on my part to promote any religious ideology..<a href="http://jesus-is-savior.com/Evils">http://jesus-is-savior.com/Evils</a> in Government/.../birth_certificates.htm - Cached<br />
THE UNITED STATES IS A CORPORATION, NOT A COUNTRY<br />
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resources:<br />
<a href="http://www.worldreports.org">www.worldreports.org</a><br />
<a href="http://www.directblackaction.com">www.directblackaction.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.SEDM.org">www.SEDM.org</a><br />
<a href="http://www.freedom-school.com">www.freedom-school.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.moneyonaccount.com">www.moneyonaccount.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.larouchepac.com">www.larouchepac.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com">www.maxkeiser.com</a> TRUTH ABOUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKET, "CRISIS"<br />
PLEASE BE SURE TO ATTEND THE INTERNATIONAL WEBCASTJune 27TH 1pm, EST, at link directly below:NOW ARCHIVED - <a href="http://www.larouchepac.com">www.larouchepac.com</a> -WARNING:(Not for the faint of heart or politically immature)<br />
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