Dear Supporters,Mrs. Rasco received a call from Jamie Scott this morning complaining of excruciating head pain that she has suffered with all night long and that the prison refuses to take her to the hospital.Jamie has been dealing with severe headaches this entire month and has only been given Tylenol, which has not helped and which she is worried may cause liver and other types of damage.Please contact everyone below for Jamie Scott, #19197, and urge that she be taken to the hospital immediate
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Dear Supporters,Mrs. Rasco received a call from Jamie Scott this morning complaining of excruciating head pain that she has suffered with all night long and that the prison refuses to take her to the hospital.Jamie has been dealing with severe headaches this entire month and has only been given Tylenol, which has not helped and which she is worried may cause liver and other types of damage.Please contact everyone below for Jamie Scott, #19197, and urge that she be taken to the hospital immediate
NOTICE OF MEETING OF UN RAPPORTEUR IN HARLEM
BUILD THE HUMAN RIGHTS TO HOUSING MOVEMENT
A community forum and strategy session with Raquel Rolnik, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing one year of her historic UN mission.
An opportunity to share the strength of our movement and collaboration.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Doors open at 6 PM/Event at 6:30 PM
James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary
121st Street 7 Broadway
FREE & OPEN TO ALL
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Two Poets on Politics in Oakland
Two Poets on Politics in Oakland:Ishmael Reed and Marvin X
Below is Ishmael Reed's analysis of Oakland's mayoral race. Ishmael has abrand of optimism that I lack, especially in the political arena. Hischoice for Oakland's next mayor is a
formerstudent of his at UC Berkeley, now a professor at San Francisco StateUniversity, Joe Tuman. Ishmael is not alone in his choice of ProfessorTuman. My political advisers who visit Academy of da Corner
October 21, 2010
Raynard Jackson
Am I the only one who has noticed the media’s total irresponsible coverage of the Rutgers’ college student who committed suicide when he became aware that his roommate streamed his gay sexual encounter on the internet? I think, therefore, I am not.
Supposedly, the student jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate broadcast his gay sexual encounter live on the internet. The media portrayed his death as a cause célèbre as to how “gay” bullying has led
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Seeks Visiting Professorship
Seeks Visiting Professorship
Marvin X is author of 25 books.He is one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement and the father of Muslim American literature. Bob Holman calls him the USA's Rumi, Hafez and Saadi.Ishmael Reed calls him Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.
Marvin X (b. 1944), poet, playwright, essayist, director, and lecturer. Marvin
Ellis Jackmon was born on 29 May 1944 in Fowler, California. He attended high
school in Fresno
Monday, October 18, 2010
Thinking Out da Box
Thinking Out of the Box
of Pax Americana
Afree man exercises the divine and human right to self determination inhis thinking and right actions. He thus thinks globally but actslocally, for he must remain grounded in the reality that surrounds him.He cannot get lost in the stars, in the other worldliness of globalevents to the extent he loses focus on events in his daily round.
Forsure, he must, as Baraka urges us, stop thinking like an American,since he is
Deadline for submissions, Nov. 15
send to jmarvinx@yahoo.com
include bio, pic, MS Word attachment
send to jmarvinx@yahoo.com
include bio, pic, MS Word attachment
Monday, October 18, 2010
Tentative Contents, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies
Tentative Contents of Poetry Issue
Journal of Pan African Studies
Marvin X, Guest Editor
Itibari M. Zulu, Senior Editor
Special thanks:
Louis Reyes Rivera
Eugene Redman
Bruce George
Gwendolyn Mitchell
Askia Toure
Rudolph Lewis
Amiri Baraka
Dedication to Jose Gancalves, Publisher/Editor, Journal of Black Poetry
List of contributo
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Preview #17, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
DR Congo: Africa's sleeping giant? - Africa... States of Independence - Al Jazeera English
Film Review
Patrice Lumumba
A Film by Raoul Peck
Reviewed By Marvin X
© 2002 by Marvin X
Note: We send out this review on the 50th anniversary of independence in the Congo. Lumumba said he was fifty years aheadof his time, and so it is. But even fifty years later the same problemsof poverty, ignorance and disease remain, the Europea
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JESUIT EXTREME OATH HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW PAGE 4 OF DOCUMENT BELOW
Affidavit Of Jeanette Audrey; [Triplett], agent
( third party witness)
The People Of The United States, ex reI
I, Jeanette Audrey; [Triplett], am one of the people of the united states of America, am of age of majority, over 21 years old, and competent to
testify as a professional witness, having first hand
knowledge of the facts stated herein as true, correct, complete, and not misleading, to the best of my knowledge and belief, an
By Chief Elder Osiris
There Is Much More Where This Come From
Imposing your Will through influence of having others to believe in what youclaim to be godly true, such is the action of Religion.
There is more to being A Black Race than appearance, all who appear to be Black is not Black, because being Black is a way you mustact in life and acting is living, and living reveal the way that you makedecisions and allow your self to be treated by your self, and by other than your
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Preview #15, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Guest Editor Marvin X
News, Views, Reviews
Reply to Qaddafi, et al.
on Apology for Slavery
WE must appreciate the Arab apology for their role in the slave trade.The French also apologized for slavery and colonialism, although theyinsist on citing the positive aspects of colonialism, indicating aresidue of white supremacy and their need for further recovery.Australia apologized for genocide of the Aboriginal people. America hasyet to apologize
From: FORKSYAROADS@aol.comCOUNT DOWN TO MISS-LOU’S THIRD ANNUAL BLACK & BLUE CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY EVENT… OCTOBER 29, 30, 2010This two days equal history commemoration project annually aims to restore the Erase-ism memory of the roles and actions of runaway enslaved who served as Union Military soldiers, sailors, nurses and supporting civilians during the Civil War. They and other African descendants significantly helped preserve the United States Union and gained the freedom of enslaved a
Jamie Scott is still enduring a massive headache -- around her forehead and in the temples for weeks. The vomiting has stopped but she is currently experiencing diarrhea after eating each meal. She is being treated for a sinus condition which IS NOT WORKING!AT this point in time, Jamie needs the attention of an outside physician. Would you please call and/or e-mail and ask that she is taken to the hospital where this illness can be immediately taken care of.Drs. Gloria Perry and Zein-Ahmed and r
Philadelphia—On October 13 the movement for social justice throughout the world won a critical victory for the democratic rights of African people, oppressed and freedom loving people everywhere when Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), walked out of his sentencing hearing in a Philadelphia courtroom with two years probation. He could have been sentenced to up to ten years in
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Preview #14, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Preview #14,
Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Guest Editor, Marvin X
Deadline for submissions November 15
Send submission to jmarvinx@yahoo.com,
Include bio, pic, MS Word attachment
Neil Callender, Boston MA
The Maroon is Dead! Long Live the Maroon!
On the night Malcolm died, tough men, hewn from
Louisiana's woodlands and paper mills, and from
the battlefields of Europe and Korea gathered in their
town of Bogalus
October 14, 2010 -
As participants from the U.S. at the 25th National Gathering of Women (XXV Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres) in Paraná, Argentina we denounce the attacks by rightwing Catholics on feminists at the workshops on
"Women, Contraception and Abortion" which resulted in a number of injuries and the hospitalization of one activist.
This gathering is an historic victory by Argentine women and is a crucial place for the sharing of experiences as well as for strategizing on how to advance
October 14, 2010
Raynard Jackson
With the mid-term elections fast approaching, I thought this would be a good time to give my views on the state of the political landscape.
Let me start by saying publically what I have been telling friends all year—if you are an incumbent, you will not be getting my vote!
Politicians from both parties have made a mockery of our political process. I was taught as a child that in a democracy—the majority rules. But, no one notified our U.S. Senate because in order t
Now Available from Black Bird Press:Mythology of Pussy and Dick
This book empowered me. I didn’t know I had that much power!—Young sister
It helped me step up my game!—Young brother
Thank you, thank you, for writing this. I am going to make my son and daughter read it.—A Mother
Mythology
of Pussy and Dick
toward
Healthy Psychosocial
Sexuality
Marvin X
Warning: Contains explicit language
And youth who otherwise don't read, do read this book and even squabble over ownership, as if it were black gold!
--Paradi
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