12.30.08
Posted in Pearls of Wisdom at 10:34 am by Shhh....
JEWEL’S RULES for Successful New Year Results
1. Make at least one life altering resolution.
2. Plan, prepare, be prayerful, patient, passionate and persistent.
3, Isolation and pride breeds doubt and procrastination. Take advantage of the power of accountability.
4. Avoid wishful thinking, excuses, blame and pity parties. Let go of the woulda, coulda and shoulda.
5. You can’t do it alone. Work on building your networking skills, relationships, mentoring, and professional alliances. Read the rest of this entry »
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12.29.08
Posted in Pearls of Wisdom at 7:09 pm by Shhh....
Her parents sold their daughters to the devil, now this beautiful child has lost her Islam along with everything else.. May Allah guide us to what really matters!
IRVINE, Calif. (Dec. 29) — Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn’t much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms.
To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.
Shyima Hall was just 9 when she began working as a servant for a wealthy couple in Alexandria, Egypt. A year later, the couple moved to California with their five children and took Shyima with them. Hall, who is now 19, worked up to 20 hours a day with no days off. Her pay: $45 a month. She is part of a surge of child trafficking for domestic labor in the United States.(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)
But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family’s crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. She had no breaks during the day and no days off. Read the rest of this entry »
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12.27.08
Posted in Miscellaneous, Do Something...Get Active! at 12:16 am by Shhh....
Dear Friend,
A new report in The Nation[1] documents what many have claimed for years–for some Black New Orleanians the threat of being killed by White vigilantes in Katrina’s aftermath became a bigger threat than the storm itself.
After the storm, White vigilantes roamed Algiers Point shooting and, according to their own accounts, killing Black men at will–with no threat of a police response. For the last three years, the shootings and the police force’s role in them have been an open secret to many New Orleanians. To date, no one has been charged with a crime and law enforcement officials have refused to investigate.
The report is helpful, but given Lousiana’s horrible record on protecting its Black citizens, justice will only come if we demand it.
I’ve joined ColorOfChange in calling on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, and the U.S. Department of Justice–to conduct a full investigation of these crimes and any police cover-up. Will you join me? It takes only a moment:
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=2008-276725
In the two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the media created a climate of fear with trumped-up stories of Black lawlessness. Meanwhile an armed group of White vigilantes took over the Algiers Point neighborhood in New Orleans and mercilessly hunted down Black people. “It was great!” said one vigilante. “It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it.”
The Nation’s article tells the story of Donnell Herrington, Marcel Alexander, and Chris Collins–a group of friends who were attacked by shotgun-wielding White men as they entered Algiers Point on September 1, 2005. As they tried to escape, Herrington recalls, their attackers shouted, “Get him! Get that nigger!” He managed to get away. Alexander and Collins were told that they would be allowed to live on the condition that they told other Black folks not to come to Algiers Point. Herrington, shot in the neck, barely survived.
And there’s the story of Henry Glover, who didn’t survive after being shot by an unknown assailant.[2] Glover’s brother flagged down a stranger for help, and the two men brought Glover to a police station. But instead of receiving aid, they were beaten by officers while Henry Glover bled to death in the back seat of the stranger’s car. A police officer drove off in the car soon afterward. Both Glover’s body and the car were found burnt to cinders a week later. It took DNA analysis to identify the body.
These are only a few of the stories of Black folks who were accosted in Algiers Point, and you can read more in The Nation. But unless you speak out, we may never learn the full extent of the violence. Journalists have encountered a wall of silence on the part of the authorities. The coroner had to be sued to turn over autopsy records. When he finally complied, the records were incomplete, with files on several suspicious deaths suddenly empty. The New Orleans police and the District Attorney repeatedly refused to talk to journalists about Algiers Point. And according to The Nation journalist A.C. Thompson, “the city has in nearly every case refused to investigate or prosecute people for assaults and murders committed in the wake of the storm.”
The Nation article is important, but it’s just a start. For more than three years now, these racist criminals have by their own admission gotten away with murder while officials in New Orleans have systematically evaded any kind of accountability. We have to demand it.
Please join me in calling on state and federal officials to investigate these brutal attacks and the conduct of Orleans Parish law enforcement agencies, and please ask your friends and family to do the same.
http://www.colorofchange.org/nation/?id=2008-276725
Thanks.
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1. “Katrina’s Hidden Race War,” The Nation, 12-18-2008
http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=2008-276725&cat=nation&link=1
2. “Body of Evidence,” The Nation, 12-18-2008
http://www.colorofchange.org/link/?id=2008-276725&cat=nation&link=2
Tags: America, injustice, Katrina, racism
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12.24.08
Posted in Pearls of Wisdom at 7:21 pm by Shhh....
“It’s not the package and the wrapping which counts but what is inside, underneath the clothes and the skin.” –Lame Deer, LAKOTA
Our eyes and ears gather information that is fed to the mind, and we tend to form judgements, opinions and assumptions on what our perception is. We might see someone act a certain way, then label that person forever, not at all concentrating on what is inside the person. It matters not our height, our size, our facial features, or our gender. What matters is our thoughts. Good thoughts overcome all obstacles.
Great Spirit, let my inside contain Your qualities.
-WhiteBison.com
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12.21.08
Posted in Miscellaneous at 7:17 pm by Shhh....
Says size 10s more valuable than everything he owns
Saudi man bids millions for shoes thrown at Bush
A Saudi man offered to pay $10 million for the pair of shoes that an Iraqi journalist lunged at U.S. President George W. Bush, saying he considers the size 10s a “medal of freedom.”
Retired school teacher Mohamed Makhafa, 60, said he thought Muntazer al-Zaidi’s shoes, which almost hit Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, were more valuable than everything he owns.
“It is more precious than all my property. I will bequeath it to my children and display it in a museum and call it the Medal of Freedom,” Makhafa told AlArabiya.net.
Makhafa said the combined value of the land and property he owns exceeds the price he is offering for Zaidi’s shoes, adding if the journalist’s lawyer manages to reclaim the infamous pair he will buy them.
Arab pride
Makhafa said he does not look at it from a commercial perspective and said his offer was the start of an auction.
“This is a partial salvation for the Arab pride that has been violated by the current American administration and its occupation of Arab and Muslim countries and it shedding of innocent blood,” Makhafa said.
The 60-year-old stressed that he does not hold a grudge against the U.S. and said he respects its people, but hates its foreign policies that have humiliated Arabs and Muslims.
Makhafa announced his offer on the internet and said tribesmen and public figures in the Arab world had expressed their support and many showed interest in taking part in the auction.
Makhafa calls himself an activist and has been involved in various social issues in his community. In an unprecedented initiative, he sued the Ministry of Transportation for a road accident that claimed the lives of 28 people. He also took part in exposing swindlers who cheated some local shareholders out of their money.
(Translated from the Arabic by Sonia Farid.)
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/12/16/62132.html
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