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God’s/Allah’s Punishments on Those Committed the Two Genocides in the Israel-Hamas War

God’s/Allah’s Punishments on Those Committed the Two Genocides

in the Israel-Hamas War

By Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen or Trang

(The female Buddha carrying the reincarnation theory of Buddha via Hinduism or the hardcore heterosexuality of God/the father of Jesus/Allah/Krishna/Ong Troi/ etc. living as a Vietnamese hardcore-heterosexual female with hardcore-heterosexual eggs.) 2/15/2024 (3:16 p.m.)

Dear Israelis:

Yes, God or Allah (same thing in my view) is using Netanyahu, his IDF, and American freedom-equality bombs to punish the Hamas terrorist animals, the Palestinian terrorist animals, the Gazan terrorist animals, and the Gazan children terrorist animals (even the 5 Gazan premature-incubator-baby terrorist animals who died around the first month of battle because electricity was cut off by Israel) in the last 4.2 months for their actions, celebration, and denials of a tiny-tiny genocide of shooting a poor colonizing-settler Israeli infant in his/her crib, possibly burning still-alive-after-getting-shot-at poor colonizing-settler Israeli baby(ies) in the fire along with Israeli colonizing-settler adult carcasses, kidnapping colonizing-settler Israeli babies and toddlers (use precious war bargaining chips while living in the land of bombs, starvation, and dehydration with hepatitis A erupting), and killing the highest number of deaths in a terrorist attack/war in one day during the last 2 decades (1,139) with 8,730 people injured.

I, as revengeful animal and an American banana, can think it is genocide against their occupiers, because those poor Israeli infants and children never had a chance to vote for Netanyahu and his IDF to be their government who impose such an inhumane apartheid system on their indigenous people (the Gazans, the Palestinians, and the Gazan violent militant group called the Hamas) whose land got stolen (75% and still losing more) while Netanyahu, his IDF, and most Israelis call themselves a civilized democracy white people. Those poor Israeli children never chose to come to steal Palestine and renamed it as Israel (the land where the Hamas said their Muhammad died and went to heaven, the land where the Christians said their Lord Jesus Christ or God’s was born, the land where the ancient Jews (ancestors of the Israelis) who happened to nail God’s son Jesus lived 2,500 years ago). To an animal like me, babies (even premature babies in incubators) and people under 18 represent life of earth, humanity, a race, a religion, a type of people, a piece of that land, etc. Because we live in today’s humanity with tons of bibles, religious books, many versions of God here and there being thrown in our faces, a billion self-help books/websites/radios/podcasts, etc. to help us humans control our animal instincts, I (a hardcore-heterosexual female with eggs) learned that harming people under 18 years old constitute a genocide even if they and their adults are the first to hurt me (so I must wait until they are 18).

Now let’s discuss how God or Allah would punish Israel as the result of “civilized’ democracy Israel, “able to be reasoned with” Netanyahu and his “humans and not animals” IDF in their animalistic revenge with generous-free-obese American bombs and probably guns from “nice guy” Biden and the great democracy of America. I, Trang, think the solution is for Gaza to be the Vatican City of Muhammad’s religion with its own control of drinking water from the river via the “from sea to river” chant to pay for the sacrifice of those 5 dead Gazan incubator babies. Replace the name West Bank to Palestine as its own country of its own government and military, with no trace of any paw prints of the Israeli government and its army, police, and settlers. Kick out all Israeli and American (militia men and cowboys) settlers and hand them handsome fat checks for their hard work building the freeways and infrastructure of the land they are stealing and already in the West Bank in which the U.N. condemned.

If this aforementioned is not possible, then our children and grandchildren will fix their parents’ and grand-parents’ mistakes and turn Israel into a finally legit country (recognized by the U.N.) under the name of Israel-Palestine with the “true democracy” of allowing the returning of millions of Palestinians from Egypt, Lebanon, London, New York, America, etc. which will make Israelis the minority citizens (as what God truly intended when the British only gave the Nazi-camp Jews a tiny piece of Palestine to live and rebuild their tortured lives after the genocide of 6 million jews in Europe). However, your future Israeli generation will finally get peace and happiness living under true democracy laws that will protect them from being bullied and hurt by the Palestinian young generation. It will be true democracy in the Middle-East (right next to Africa). Those rich ex-settlers of the West Bank (American militia men from the North East of America and church cowboys) can use their fat checks to buy off properties around the place where their Lord Jesus was born and get permits to build their white people’s churches (not Palestine people’s churches). I believe their Lord would approve of this path because it involves no stealing and killing of indigenous people under their Lord’s name.

Below is a list of acts which constituted a genocide in Gaza and even in the West Bank released by the hurt and hate of the Israelis, Netanyahu, his IDF, and the settlers in the West Bank (Israelis and Americans) in their animalistic revenge against the Hamas and its people:

The deaths of 5 poor premature Gazan babies during the first 4 weeks of this war because Israeli democracy deliberately cut off electricity, prevented fuel from entering Gaza via aid trucks, and refused to allow dozens and dozens of premature Gazan babies in the incubators to leave Gaza before showering down American generous-obese bombs in Gaza.

The deaths of 12,000 of Gazan children, 100 deaths of the West Bank children (one Palestinian child was attacked with blood spilling out by an IDF dog in a house raid according to Al Jazeera News), the missing of 2,000 Gazan children, the physical disability of 8,500 Gazan children, 19,000 Gazan orphans with no parents to take care of them during this war, and lastly, the total of deaths of Palestinians is 28,000, total missing is 7,000, and total injured is 67,000.

Netanyahu said that the numbers are quoted by the lying Hamas terrorist animals government, and Biden even said he didn’t trust the numbers in the earlier days of this war. On 2/24/2024, Biden’s and America’s spoke person John Kirby said that Netanyahu’s IDF are protecting civilians more than American soldiers would--Perhaps subconsciously the colonizing-settler hearts of John Kirby, Biden, and America consider the Gazans (Palestinians in Gaza) and the Palestinians in the West Bank as animals (rats) so they don’t fit in their definition of “civilians” to be qualified in their democracy protection of civilians in this war). I am sure their Lord Jesus Christ would consider the Gazans, the Palestinians in the West Bank, and the Palestinians abroad as humans or civilians because Jesus himself was born in their homeland (historic Palestine in the last 400 years). Jesus was born in the same location 2,000 years ago next to the mouth of black Africa (top right area of Africa where the skin shade is lighter than black, and more Muslim looking being next to Egypt). I am sure your Lord Jesus as God’s son wouldn’t think he was an animal or a rat by being born in this Palestinian area 2,000 years ago to have such compassionate heart as a man to come up with such Godly words via God’s Christian door. I am sure the science of all races and religions will confirm the Palestinians do fit the definition of human beings so they must be considered as be civilians in a war, too. The internet via many news prominent websites and even Israeli news websites said behind the door Biden called Netanyahu “an a…hole” and “a bad f… guy.” As an ethnic American, I, Trang, would consider these names are names for person who failed miserably in protecting civilians in this war through the action of his army called the IDF. What do you think Kirby?

While us humanity mourns with Israel, Netanyahu, and his IDF for the highest Israeli deaths and injured in one day in terrorist attack or war of the last 20 years, we should also mourn Israeli’ enemies great loss too for this war kills both sides (Hamas initiated the war, and Israel pushed the buttons to throw out indiscriminate bombs), or else the Hamas and their young generation of international sympathizers won’t care. This Israel-Hamas war killed the highest number of journalists in the last 30 years as stated by NPR in December, 2023 (around 120), and they are mostly Palestinian journalists. U.N. lost the highest number of U.N. workers in a conflict (around 130) even though 12-13 U.N. workers are accused of being Hamas by Netanyahu out of 13,000 U.N. workers around the world. Those Hamas-infected U.N. workers are probably regular Palestinians being hired by U.N. to work in Gaza and they got caught up in the Hamas movement and joined in, for U.N. condemned Israel for defying its internation laws for stealing more of Palestinian land in the West Bank (Israeli and American settlers) to be closer to Jesus’ birth town to rebuild this God’s Kingdom of theirs as stated in their Bible for I believe Bethlehem (Jesus’ birth town) is part of the West Bank which U.N.’s international law recognized as left-over land of the Palestinians after fighting dated back to the 70’s or 80’s.

Some Palestinian journalists in the heart of Gaza was told by their Palestinian refugee neighbors to shelter elsewhere because the IDF were sending rockets to explode the house(s) of the journalists with their entire families in it (their parents and their children). Even your Margaret of Face the Nation in February 2024 interviewed a white-sounding American journalist who recently went into Gaza with IDF as his guides and he said he saw no Palestinians around (probably a newly created buffer zone between Gaza and Israel). He told Margaret that he thanked all the courageous Palestinian journalists inside Gaza who risk their lives to send out reports and pictures of the true devastation of this war (Al Jazeera Muslim News is where you can get most of the pictures not shown in American news). He said Netanyahu doesn’t allow any foreign journalists inside Gaza without his IDF’s strick supervision to document the destructions of his revenge.

In December 22nd, 2023, US Defense Secretary Austin said that 50% Israeli bombs are dirty bombs- dumb bombs, bombs missing targets, unnecessary bombs, wasteful bombs, bombs that could be used to help Ukraine for Ukraine didn’t steal land from Russian (Ukraine is not colonizing Russian land). After 2.5 months of bombing in the dark with one eye closed, on KPFA radio with a self-hating American Jew as the host and his guest was a woman monitoring the war, the woman informed the audience that Netanyahu and IDF are asking Biden and America to send them slimer bombs--These free, free, and free obese American bombs that Biden and America donated were too too fat for anorexic Gaza to precisely strike the Hamas terrorist rats in tunnels are running and hiding underneath, next to, between civilian buildings, houses, hospitals, schools, churches, Mosques, etc. Most importantly, Netanyahu and Biden might not know this, but an animal like me can see nearly 35-40% of Gaza has been flattened via satellite pictures to CONCLUDE the possibility of some high number of deaths of these Palestinian children who NEVER voted for the Hamas terrorist animals as their government in which who started this war with its colonizers (Israelis) for the severe Israel’s apartheid system as a democracy (with the wholeheartedly support of the great American democracy) that prevent some of the Gazan and West Bank children to see and get hugs from their grandparents, and get candies from their grandparents who live outside their assigned territories. This Israel-Hamas war marked the first war in humanity (Yes, Israelis: the Palestinians, Gazans, and the Hamas terrorist animals fit the science definition as humans) to have children as 40% of the population in the war zone. Furthermore, this war marked humanity’s first war where the war zone is surrounded by military fencing which prevented the children to flee; along with the smallest piece of war-zone land in the size of 42 km or 26 miles (twice the size of Washington D.C. where 700,000 Americans live) where 840,000 children inhabit; and perhaps even the first war where water was deliberated cut off for the children to drink, clean (washing hands after bathroom #2 regime which probably lead to the recent eruption the hepatitis A outbreak), and wash babies who just popped out in births.

The possibility of massive amount of dead Gazan children in South of Gaza (the last area where Israel hasn’t completely bombed out (the safe zone), but the bombing has begun already 2-3 days ago).

I, Trang, made an amateur theory that God punished the ancient Jews for nailing his son (Jesus) by killing 6 million poor Jews who never nailed Jesus as collective punishment in Hitler’s German Nazi closed-gas-warehouse-starvation camps for their ancestors’ sin. Now, around 2,500 years later, the descendants of the ancient Jews who nailed God’s son are demanding the back their ancient Jew ancestors’ land where God’s son Jesus was born by flaunting their Bible to rebuild this new God’s kingdom even at the cost of blood, deaths, and all land of historic Palestine (if possible, even though 75% has been already stolen, and currently stealing more in the West Bank with Israeli and American settlers conducting harassments, violence, and even kill Palestinians while stealing land, olive crops, and recently destroyed 40 baby olive trees from Palestinian farmers during the war. Netanyahu called all these actions as “peace keeping actions” to prevent uprising of the Palestinians in their own West Bank territory). Even though the Palestinians and their ancestors have been living historic Palestine (now Israel) for ONLY the last 400 years, the Hamas terrorist animals said they are fighting to defend the land where their Muhammad died and went to heaven. One of the top Hamas terrorist animals who currently being hunted down in Gaza by Israel was one of the children whose parents were killed and kicked out of historic Palestine since 1947. The Israelis claim the land was given to them by God, but God via the British only gave the Jews from the Nazi camps around 10-15% of historic Palestine land in 1945 when the British was first white colonizer that land/country. Now after 75 years, Israelis own 75% and more of historic Palestine land thanks to the yearly welfare checks and bombs of 3.5 billion dollars of hard-earned tax money of the bananas of America (the finance commissioner of Israel proudly stated that Israel is not a “banana republic of America” on 2/5/2024 for Biden’s sanctions on 4 Israeli settlers as his effort to win votes. Biden calmed the American bananas down by stating that he didn’t impose sanction on any “American” settlers in the West Bank).

What do you think God’s punishment would be for those Western “colonizer’s heart” countries, the Asian “colonizer’s heart” country called Japan, and the Hindu Asian country that forgot its painful British colonizing past called India who support Israel to steal more of Jesus birthland knowing that the ancestors of the Israelis nailed God’s son Jesus while they all sing, dance, and come out of their gay closets to celebrate their great civilized democracy of freedom, freedom, freedom, and equality for all by chanting the Jewish religious words of “all men are created equal” in America, Israel, Europe, and around the world?

Permanent ceasefire now and return all poor hostages of the Hamas and poor prisoners of Israel’s administrative detention with our God’s or Allah’s forgiving hearts for our lost enemies. The Hamas terrorist government only leaves if the Israel democracy colonizing terrorist government of Netanyahu and his IDF leaves. Thank heavens there are self-hating Jews in the West Bank, America, Europe, around the world, and perhaps even Israel to help the Gazans and the Palestinians to get their freedom, and most importantly to prevent a collective punishment which might involve them and their self-hating Jews children and grandchildren in a WWWIII as we old farts die off. Palestine belongs to the young generation (all pro-Hamas protestors around the world are mostly young farts of all races while pro-Israel protestors are mostly old white-looking farts). If the children of the Palestinians who were killed and got driven off their land since 1947 can create this pain on Israeli on October 7th, imagine what the surviving children in South of Gaza would do after we die if Netanyahu, his IDF, and Biden are allowed to flatten the last section in Gaza which started 2-3 days ago with American free, free, and free bombs.

Peace now to the Gazans, Israelis, Palestinians, and the world before God sprinkles us with nuclear bombs. Take care suckers. Off to prepare for a WWWIII if the human animals can’t wait for A.I. to do the job for God to kill off poor planet earth’s human cancer.

Tell your enemies that you care for the future of your innocent children, grandchildren, and race in this Holy land where Jesus was born, Muhammad died and went to heaven, and your ancient Jew ancestors lived 2,500 years ago so you are willing to take the first step of a permanent ceasefire and let’s release all hostages and administrative detention prisoners, and be BFF’s.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A pregnant Black activist serving four years in prison for her behavior at racial justice protests will have her sentence reconsidered as she struggles to reach her due date behind bars.

Raising questions about free speech and equal justice, Brittany Martin, 34, was found guilty this spring of breaching the peace in a high and aggravated manner over comments she made to police. Her lawyers have been pushing for a lesser sentence amid increasing concerns about her health and that of her baby, due in November.

Advocates with Black Voters Matter have been circulating a petition calling for her release. Civil rights attorney and former state lawmaker Bakari Sellers will tell the judge on Sept. 12 that the punishment is unjust.

“She’s in jail because she talked in America,” said Sybil Dione Rosado, her trial attorney. “She’s a dark-skinned Black woman who is unapologetically Black and radical.”

Martin moved with her four younger children to Sumter, South Carolina, from Iowa in spring 2020 and was “ready to go and protest” after the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a nationwide movement that year, her sister said.

But Martin also had someone else on her mind: In 2016, Sumter police fatally shot her brother-in-law 19 times when officers said he fired a gun after a chase in a stolen car. When she took to the streets, she carried grief over her family’s past.

In court, prosecutors presented police body camera recordings including snippets of those demonstrations. Shared with the AP, they don’t show her laying hands on any officers. Videos from May 31, 2020 show Martin chanting “No justice, no peace,” in an officer’s face. Police donned riot gear and discussed using tear gas before letting the crowd disperse.

Martin used stronger language days later.

“Some of us gon’ be hurting. And some of y’all gon’ be hurting,” Martin told officers. “We ready to die for this. We tired of it. You better be ready to die for the blue. I’m ready to die for the Black.”

The jury acquitted Martin of inciting a riot and reached no verdict on whether she threatened officers’ lives. Her legal team was “elated” when jurors found her guilty only of breaching the peace, punishable by no more than a $500 fine and 30 days in jail, investigator Tony Kennedy recalled.

State law defines breachers of the peace as any disturbers, “dangerous and disorderly persons” or people who utter “menaces or threatening speeches.” But prosecutors presented the charge as a “high and aggravated” crime, which carries up to 10 years imprisonment. Rosado said Judge Kirk Griffin did not allow her to explain the distinction, and the possibility of a much stiffer penalty, to the jury.

Prosecutors did not respond to interview requests. Sumter police said it would be inappropriate to comment, given the potential for additional action.

Sellers called the sentence “beyond the pale.”

“The fact is you have people who stormed the Capitol, who led to the death of law enforcement, who tried to overturn an election and fracture democracy. And they’re getting two months, three months, six months,” Sellers said. “And Brittany Martin gets four years.”

Of the roughly 850 people charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, more than 330 have pleaded guilty to receive lesser sentences, mostly misdemeanors punishable by no more than a year.

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Monday, November 16, 2020

After thousands of Trump supporters rally in D.C., violence erupts when night falls (AP) Several thousand supporters of President Donald Trump in Washington protested election results and then hailed Trump’s passing motorcade before nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators sparked fistfights, at least one stabbing and at least 20 arrests. Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College and popular vote victory as legitimate. Cries of “Stop the Steal” and “Count Every Vote” continued in spite of a lack of evidence of voter fraud or other problems that could reverse the result. After night fell, the relatively peaceful demonstrations in Washington turned from tense to violent. Videos posted on social media showed fistfights, projectiles and clubs as Trump supporters clashed with those demanding they take their MAGA hats and banners and leave. The tensions extended to Sunday morning. A variety of charges, including assault and weapons possession, were filed against those arrested, officials said. Two police officers were injured and several firearms were recovered by police.

Coronavirus Deaths Are Climbing Once Again (NYT) For weeks, as coronavirus cases spiked across the United States, deaths rose far more slowly, staying significantly lower than in the early, deadliest weeks of the nation’s outbreak in the spring. New treatments, many hoped, might slow a new wave of funerals. But now, signs are shifting: More than 1,000 Americans are dying of the coronavirus every day on average, a 50 percent increase in the last month. Twice this past week, there have been more than 1,400 deaths reported in a single day. “It’s getting bad and it’s potentially going to get a lot worse,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2 (AP) The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran. Four current and former U.S. officials said Abu Mohammed al-Masri, al-Qaida’s No. 2, was killed by assassins in the Iranian capital in August. The U.S. provided intelligence to the Israelis on where they could find al-Masri and the alias he was using at the time, while Israeli agents carried out the killing, according to two of the officials. The two other officials confirmed al-Masri’s killing but could not provide specific details. Al-Masri was gunned down in a Tehran alley on Aug. 7, the anniversary of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Al-Masri was widely believed to have participated in the planning of those attacks and was wanted on terrorism charges by the FBI.

Hurricane Iota heads for battered Honduras, Nicaragua (AP) Iota became the thirteenth hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dangerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras—countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hurricane Eta. Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s extraordinarily busy Atlantic hurricane season. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday morning that Iota had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 kph), making it a Category 1 hurricane. But, forecasters said Iota would rapidly strengthen and was expected to be a major hurricane by the time it reaches Central America. The system was forecast to bring up to 30 inches (750 millimeters) of rain from northeast Nicaragua into northern Honduras. Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador could also experience heavy rain and possible flooding, the hurricane center said.

Peru’s interim president resigns as chaos embroils nation (AP) Peru’s interim president resigned Sunday as the nation plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades following massive protests unleashed when Congress ousted the nation’s popular leader. In a short televised address, Manuel Merino said Congress acted within the law when he was sworn into office as chief of state Tuesday, despite protesters’ allegations that legislators had staged a parliamentary coup. The politician agreed to step down after night of unrest in which two young protesters were killed and half his Cabinet resigned. Peruvians cheered the decision, waving their nation’s red and white flag on the streets of Lima and chanting “We did it!” But there is still no clear playbook for what comes next. Peru has much at stake: The country is in the throes of one of the world’s most lethal coronavirus outbreaks and political analysts say the constitutional crisis has cast the country’s democracy into jeopardy. “I think this is the most serious democratic and human rights crisis we have seen since Fujimori,” said analyst Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, referring to the turbulent rule of strongman Alberto Fujimori from 1990 to 2000.

Lessons From Europe, Where Cases Are Rising But Schools Are Open (NPR) Mahua Barve lives in Frankfurt, Germany, with her husband, a son in first grade and twin daughters in kindergarten. All three children are currently attending school full time and in person. That’s despite a coronavirus surge that has led Germany to shut down restaurants, bars, theaters, gyms, tattoo parlors and brothels (which are legal in the country) for November. Schools were allowed to remain open. Despite the resurgence of the virus, Barve says, her children’s school’s careful safety strategies give her confidence. “When I see all the parents who are coming to pick up and drop off, they’re wearing masks. The teachers are always wearing masks. They’re doing their best to minimize risk. And as soon as something is detected, they are quarantining.” Across Europe, schools and child care centers are staying open even as much of the continent reports rising coronavirus cases, and even as many businesses and gathering places are shut or restricted. Countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy appear to be following the emerging evidence that schools have not been major centers of transmission of the virus, especially for young children. The U.S. has taken a different approach. As new cases climb above 100,000 per day, there are very few places in the U.S. where classrooms have remained full.

German government ad hails couch potatoes as virus heroes (AP) The German government has released a tongue-in-cheek ad hailing an unlikely hero in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic: the humble couch potato. The 90-second video posted online Saturday begins with an elderly man recalling his ‘service’ to the nation back when he was just a young student “in the winter of 2020, when the whole country’s eyes were on us.” “I had just turned 22 and was studying engineering,” he continues, “when the second wave hit.” With violins stirring at viewers’ heart strings, the setting switches to a scene of the narrator as a young man. “Suddenly the fate of this country lay in our hands,” he says. “So we mustered all our courage and did what was expected of us, the only right thing. We did nothing.” “Days and nights we stayed on our backsides at home and fought against the spread of the coronavirus,” the narrator continues. “Our couch was the front line and our patience was our weapon.” The ad ends with a government message that “you too can become a hero by staying at home.”

Austria orders three-week lockdown to rein in surging coronavirus cases (Reuters) Austria on Saturday ordered a three-week lockdown in a last-ditch effort to bring surging coronavirus cases under control and relieve the stress on the health service in time for retailers to reopen in the run-up to Christmas. The country had so far used a lighter touch in dealing with the second wave of cases than it did with the first outbreak. A nighttime curfew is in place from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. this month but shops are open; cafes, bars and restaurants are limited to take-away service; theatres and museums are closed. The current nighttime curfew will become an all-day requirement to stay at home, with only some exceptions such as for shopping or exercise. Working from home should happen wherever possible. Non-essential shops will close, as will service providers such as hairdressers. Secondary schools have already switched to distance learning; primary schools and kindergartens will now follow suit but still provide childcare for those who need it.

900 reported arrested in Belarus protests (AP) A human rights group in Belarus said more than 900 people were arrested Sunday in protests around the country calling for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to step down. The demonstrations continued the wave of near-daily protests that have gripped Belarus since early August. In the capital Minsk, police wielded clubs and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of demonstrators. The Viasna human rights organization reported detentions at demonstrations in other cities, including Vitebsk and Gomel. It said the nationwide arrest total was at least 928 and that some of those detained were beaten by police.

‘You Cannot Say No’: The Reign of Terror That Sustains Belarus’s Leader (NYT) Appalled by savage police violence at the start of Belarus’s would-be revolution, the host of a popular morning show on state television quit his job in protest and declared that his country’s veteran leader, no matter how brutal, would never “force Belarusians back into the box they existed in for these 26 years.” Arrested soon afterward and held in a grimy prison, the broadcaster, Denis Dudinsky, reappeared a few days later—this time with a video message calling on opponents of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko to stop protesting. Asked what made him change his mind, Mr. Dudinsky declined to go into details, just remarking obliquely that “these people know how to formulate their requests in such a way that you cannot say no.” After nearly three months of protests that began with widespread anger over a rigged election, Mr. Lukashenko seems to be surviving the challenge to his power. He has managed this not just through harsh police tactics, hollow promises of reform or the passage of time. Rather, he has relied on a more insidious and often invisible machinery of persuasion, coercion and repression: a domestic security agency little changed from the Soviet era that, indeed, still uses its old Soviet name, the KGB. It controls a network of spies and monitors—known as “curators”—who oversee every establishment in the country, from schools and businesses to the presidential administration. Its agents collect compromising materials on just about anyone suspected of disloyalty and eavesdrop on the conversations of senior government officials to make sure they toe the party line.

ASEAN, China, other partners set world’s biggest trade pact (AP) China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world’s largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the pandemic. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was signed virtually on Sunday on the sidelines of the annual summit of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The accord will take already low tariffs on trade between member countries still lower, over time. Apart from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, it includes China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, but not the United States. It is not expected to go as far as the European Union in integrating member economies but does build on existing free trade arrangements.

Palestinians torn as Israel seeks Gulf tourists in Jerusalem (AP) When the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize relations with Israel, the Palestinians decried the move as a “betrayal” of both Jerusalem, where they hope to establish the capital of their future state, and the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the city’s holiest Muslim site. But with Israel now courting wealthy Gulf tourists and establishing new air links to the major travel hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Palestinians in east Jerusalem could soon see a tourism boon after months in which the coronavirus transformed the Holy City into a ghost town. “There will be some benefits for the Palestinian sector of tourism, and this is what I’m hoping for,” said Sami Abu-Dayyeh, a Palestinian businessman in east Jerusalem who owns four hotels and a tourism agency. “Forget about politics, we have to survive.” The prospect of expanded religious tourism could end up benefiting Israelis and Palestinians alike, as wealthy Gulf tourists and Muslim pilgrims from further afield take advantage of new air links and improved relations to visit Al-Aqsa and other holy sites.

Ethiopia’s Tigray leader confirms firing missiles at Eritrea (AP) The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is threatening more, marking a huge escalation as the deadly fighting in northern Ethiopia between Tigray forces and the federal government spills across an international border. The brewing civil war in Ethiopia between a regional government that once dominated the country’s ruling coalition, and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister whose sweeping reforms marginalized the Tigray region’s power, could fracture a key U.S. security ally and destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa, with the potential to send scores of thousands of refugees into Sudan. At least three rockets appeared to be aimed at the airport in Asmara, hours after the Tigray regional government warned it might attack. It accuses Eritrea of attacking at the invitation of Ethiopia’s government after the conflict in the Tigray region erupted on Nov. 4 with an attack by regional forces on a federal military base there.

UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020 (AP) The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” David Beasley said in an interview with The Associated Press that the Norwegian Nobel Committee was looking at the work the agency does every day in conflicts, disasters and refugee camps, often putting staffers’ lives at risk to feed millions of hungry people—but also to send “a message to the world that it’s getting worse out there ... (and) that our hardest work is yet to come.” Beasley likened the upcoming crisis to the Titanic saying “right now, we really need to focus on icebergs, and icebergs are famine, starvation, destabilization and migration.” Beasley said WFP needs $15 billion next year—$5 billion just to avert famine and $10 billion to carry out the agency’s global programs including for malnourished children and school lunches which are often the only meal youngsters get.

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r-nicole07092004 · 3 years ago

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THE SATANIC CULT TERRORIST BABY RING OPERATORS ARE FREE TO ENSLAVE (ONE OF MY SIRNIKS WAS MURDERED BY THE ANGRY CULT TERRORISTS, WHY ARE THEY HOLDING MY BABIES, INCLUDING THE FACES OF MCGRIFF, SANDERS, DAVIDSON, MILLER, IRVING GOTTI, I HAD NO ASSOCIATION WITH EITHER TREVOR RODRIGUEZ AND SONS, GEORGIAL HALL, ANDREA WALKER,ETC... ARE STILL OPERATING THE BABY RING,I WAS NEVER CRIMINALLY INVOLVED, I WOULD NEVER TAKE PART IN SOMETHING SO EVIL AND SICK, THE MALES AND FEMALES PRETENDING TO BE MY MOTHER AND BROTHER, LUDACHRIS BRIDGES, VERIZON EMPLOYEES(NEED MORE MURKED)ARE ALL GUILTY, GETTING THE KIDS THING ISN'T FLYING HERE,

FUNK THOSE DIRTY CHILD MOLESTING BABY KILLING, BABY RING OPERATING TERRORISTS CHILDREN, NOT A DIME OF MY MONEY, MY DOG HOUSE WOULD BE NICER THAN MY OFFERING TO THE CHILDREN OF MY BABIES HARM!!BEGINNING IN 1969!!

WHICH CHILD MOLESTING FUNK KITED AND KIDNAPPED ME, GEORGIA HALL, OR HER DIRTY FUNKING TEST TUBE DAUGHTER, CREATED VIA RAPE OF REPRODUCTION OF MCGRIFF,SANDERS,MILLER,DAVIDSON,AND WHY THOSE RAPISTS CHILD MOLESTERS, WEREN'T IN PRISON LONG AGO, FOR RAPING, ENSLAVING MY DAUGHTERS AND ME, WITH KAREN AND TANYA HOWARD,OPERATING THE BABY RING MA, ETC... DID MCGRIFF FUNK ANY GEORGIA HALL TO CREATE LITTLE GEORGIA'S, WHY NO ARRESTS AND REGISTERED AS A SEX OFFENDER

***I SEE WHY MR DMX DON'T LIKE JAMAICANS, GEORGIA CHANT SHE AND HER FAMILY ARE STRONG, THE RAPISTS ARE THE RAPISTS OF REPRODUCTION AND THE BSBY RING OPERATORS, SO WHAT IS THE BRAG, GEORGIA HALL AND FAMILY!!? I AM NOT THE RAPISTS OF ANYONE'S REPRODUCTION, CASE SEPARATE FOR A REASON CHILD MOLESTER LYING FUNX

TRACEY AUSTIN, ALSTON ANOTHER CHILD MOLESTING BABY KILLING PAEDOPHILES, HOW LONG WAS THE DIRTY BISH HANGING AROUND MCGRIFFS, SANDERS, DAVIDSONS, MILLERS, ETC....WHY THE DIRTY BISH TRACEY PLACED A PILLOW, UNDERNEATH MY SHIRT,

I WAS KITED AND KIDNAPPED FROM MY MOTEL ROOM IN FORT MYERS FLORIDA!! I EXPECT ALL THE FACES OF RAPISTS TRACEY AUSTIN AND TEST TUBE BABIES DEAD!! WHY NO ARRESTS USGOV!!?

DARKY MCGRIFF COLLECTING TRACEY AUSTIN UGLY FUNKING AZZ DAUGHTER(WHO SHOT YA UGLY AZZ SISTER), MORE LIES, THE FREAKS WERE AT MY MOTHER'S APARTMENT AND IT WAS AN OLD HYPNOSIS, FUNKING LIES OF UNTRUTHS!

THE FREAKS OPERATING THE BABY RING, HAS OUR OLD FURNITURE AND FLOORING, AND PURCHASE THE SAME, (I RIPPED THE FLOORING TO SHREDS)HOW LONG WERE THESE NASTY CHILD MOLESTING FUX GETTING AWAY, STAGING THE SAME FUNKING SCENES,ON I AND OTHERS!!? I SHOT UGLY FUNKING NADRA WITH HER OWN GUN,AT WHAT APPEARED TO BE 7E COPENHAGEN!! I DON'T KNOW HER UGLY FUNKING DAUGHTER!

***THE SATANIC CULT TERRORIST BABY RING OPERATORS, WILL NOT BE EXPANDING THEIR FUNKING LIES, GO SUNK YOUR MOTHER PAEDOPHILE PSYCHO LIARS!! WHO IS YOUR SMARTEST, THOSE CHILD MOLESTERS ARE CREATING THEIR DOCUMENT, THEY ARE THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND HAVE A CASE AGAINST ME!!

THE DIRTY LYING BISH BUSH STATES THE INNER CIRCLE DIDN'T HAVE A CASE AGAINST ME, ONE OF THEIR PAEDOPHILE LYING CIA HAS A CASE, WHICH HE REALLY WANT TRANSLATED TO REAL CIA INTELLIGENCE!!

WHERE IS THE MEDICAL REPORT PROVING THIS WAS FROM THE EARLY 80'S AND NOT AFTER 2011, FLOORING BEEN GONE, NOT DUE TO BLOOD AND HIDING MY BEAUTY AT WORK(SHOT YA WITH THE TERRORISTS GUN), WHILE EVIL STAND IN MY SPACE,

I DON'T HAVE TO DEFEND MY SELF TO THE USGOV CURRENT AMD FORMER PRESIDENTS, SELF DEFENSE,MY MOTHER'S RESIDENT(FUNK OFF)I WOULD NOT HIDE IT, PROUD TO BE ABLE TO PROTECT ME!! I MENTIONED DR CHOROWSKI, ETC...

THE PSYCHOS ARE ALL TESTIFYING AGAINST ME FOR THE USGOV AND OTHER PSYCHOS, THE TERRORISTS ARE COMPLETELY INSANE!! LOL WORLD LEADERS

***USGOV WHY THE MEN I WAS HARMED WITH, MCGRIFF, MILLER, ARE INCARCERATED AND WHY DID THE NFL AND MEDIA GIVE MR DEION SANDERS A DIFFICULT TIME!!??. A CONTRACT WAS PLACED ON MR KENNETH DAVIDSON, THE OTHER MEN I WAS HARMED WITH, THE SAME TERRORISTS ARE OPERATING THE BABY RING!! NO ARRESTS!!

NADRA A PAEDOPHILE CORRECTIONAL OFFICER IS ALLOWED TO CARRY A FIREARM, SHE'S NOT ALLOWED TO BREAK AND ENTER, RAPE FOR REPRODUCTION, OPERATE A BABY RING, MOLEST CHILDREN, NOR SHOULD SHE BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE AS A RIKERS ISLAND GUARD, NADRA SHOULD OF BEEN ARRESTED, WHO IS THE PIECE OF CHIT, RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT MAKING ARRESTS, RETIRING THE PAEDOPHILE NADRA!!? WHERE ARE THE DOCUMENTS AND THE EDITED AUDIO VIDEO!!?

NASTY MOUTH CHILD MOLESTING BISH, NADRA, I CATCH THAT UGLY FUNKING GRAND DAUGHTER OF TRACEY AUSTIN, SHE'S DEAD, THIS ISN'T NEMESIS, PAYBACK TO ME, THOSE NASTY CHILD MOLESTING FUX OPERATE THE BABY RING USING MY REPRODUCTION VIA RAPE!! WHERE ARE MY DAUGHTERS, OF IMPORTANCE AND MY MATTER!! DEATH TO ALL!!

DO NOT TRUST THE LEFRAK CITY ARMED SECURITY OFFICERS, SARGEANT BROWN AND ALL THE OTHERS!! MY LAWSUITS WERE FILED AND AWARDED!! GET THE PAEDOPHILES AWAY FROM MY BABIES!!GOOD PEOPLE CONTINUE MURKING, TEAR LEFRAK CITY UP!! BURN IT DOWN TO THE GROUND, WHEN I ASSISTED MAKING AMERICA SAFER, I DIDN'T HEAR MANY COMPLAINTS FROM FACEBOOK AND TWITTER!!

' DID THE LYING GOVERNMENT ASSURE EVERYONE THINGS ARE UNDER CONTROL! THE TRUTH, A WAR IS ABOUT TO ENSUE!! GET THE FUNK OFF MY MONEY CHILD PREDATOR USGOV, VERIZON, DENTISTS, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, WESSON WOMEN HOSPITAL, BAYSTATE, DCF, CPS, ACS, ELECTRIC COMPANY, FREEDOM/TELEPHONE WORKERS CREDIT UNION,

THE BEWILDERED USGOV DON'T KNOW WHY PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRISTS, ARE BEING MURKED, THE MOMENT, I LEARN OF THE PHONY PSYCHIATRISTS STATING, BEAUTIFUL HARD WORKING ,NO PROBLEMS, HAPPY GO LUCKY ME, WAS IN NEED OF THEIR SERVICES,ANOTHER DEAD ONE!! I EXPRESSED TIME AND TIME AGAIN, I AM AND BEEN MY OWN PSYCHOLOGISTS, THERAPISTS,

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itsfinancethings · 4 years ago

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Before police launched tear gas and rubber bullets within a block of the White House. Before officers on horseback charged a line of protestors. Before President Donald Trump held up a Bible in front of a church with the sting of chemicals still in the air. There were the trucks.

Shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday in Washington, a line of nine military trucks carrying National Guard troops in helmets and tan camouflage uniforms slowly rolled onto the White House grounds and down a narrow alley past the entrance to the West Wing, the canvas tops passing just below the windows of the offices of the President’s chief of staff, the vice president and the national security advisor.

Protestors, calling for an end to police violence and systematic racial discrimination, could be heard chanting louder across Lafayette Square Park as the District of Columbia National Guard vehicles drove out of the White House’s north gate, and turned right along a fence line that, on another June evening, would have been dotted with tourists snapping selfies in front of the north portico’s iconic columns.

The rare showing of military might at the White House was just the beginning of the orchestrated drama Trump had set in motion. Inside the White House, a podium was being set up in the Rose Garden for Trump to address the nation roiled by wide-spread protests and vandalism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. In the surrounding blocks, police and federal officers were positioning themselves as more protestors gathered and the 7 p.m. curfew neared.

Alex Brandon–APTear gas floats in the air as a line of police move demonstrators away from St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House, as they gather to protest the death of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington.

Read more: After the Death of George Floyd: Voices Behind the Most Powerful Protest Photos

A few hours before, Trump held a conference call with state governors, telling them some had been “weak” in responding to the protests. Trump had his own ideas on how to handle unrest, and he had been stung by reports the Secret Service had taken him into the White House bunker on Friday night as protests outside escalated. While the President has little control over how states use their police or national guard troops, in Washington, D.C. he does command a large array of federal forces including the Secret Service, the United States Park Police, the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S. Marshals and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

By 6:30 p.m., more than a thousand people lined the north edge of the park chanting “Black lives matter,” “No justice, no peace,” and “Stop killing black people,” and facing down a line of Secret Service and D.C. Metropolitan Police officers with helmets and riot shields.

Then the bangs started.

Evelyn Hockstein–The Washington Post/Getty ImagesPolice block 16th Street in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

As Trump began to speak in the Rose Garden, tear gas canisters could be heard being launched into the crowd across the park, and the sounds of bangs and screams carried over the treetops and punctuated his remarks. Trump began with three sentences about Floyd, the 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis on May 25 after a white police officer kept his knee on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. “All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd,” Trump said, adding that his Administration “is fully committed that for George and his family justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.”

For the rest of Trump’s six minute and forty-two second speech, the President did not mention or commit to solve the main grievance of the protestors being noisily gassed outside: the frequency of killings of unarmed black men and women by police officers across the country. Instead, he pivoted to his central point of the night projecting himself as the defender of order. “We cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protestors to be drowned out by an angry mob,” he said. “I will fight to protect you. I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protestors.”

Read more: ‘I Couldn’t Just Sit and Watch.’ Photographing New York City’s George Floyd Protests

He said he was taking action to “restore security and safety in America.” He will mobilize “civilian and military” resources to “stop the rioting and looting,” he said, and “protect the rights of law abiding Americans including your Second Amendment rights,” a line some feared was an invitation for gun owners to take the law into their own hands. He said he wants every governor to deploy the National Guard and “dominate the streets.” If a city or state doesn’t do enough, Trump said, he “will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” a threat would require the use of the Insurrection Act of 1807 and test the Constitutional limits of the President’s power to use the military on home soil.

Trump ended his speech by saying he was going to pay his respects “to a very very special place.” The President then left the Rose Garden and walked out of the front gates of the White House, escorted by the Secret Service and several aides. He stopped in front of the parish house of St. John’s Church, which had been vandalized the night before when protestors ignited a fire in the basement nursery. An hour earlier, the sidewalk in front of the church had been a station where priests and other volunteers were helping hand out water to protestors, before the crowd was violently cleared by police and federal officers.

Brendan Smialowski–AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump leaves the White House on foot to go to St. John’s Episcopal Church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020.

There, in front of the historic pale yellow sanctuary, known as “The Church of Presidents,” Trump stood for pictures, awkwardly balancing a Bible in his right hand. When a reporter asked if it was his Bible, Trump said it was “a Bible.” Asked if he had any thoughts, Trump said, “We have a great country. That’s my thoughts. Greatest country in the world. We will make it greater. We will make it even greater. It won’t take long. It’s not going to take long. You see what’s going on. You see it coming back. ”

Trump’s moment—for him to look in control of the two-block radius around his home and to stand with a Bible in front of a church—came at a huge cost, using the full force of the federal government to quash a peaceful protest and raising echoes of martial law.

The Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, D.C., which includes St. John’s Parish, objected to Trump’s photo-op. “The Bible teaches us to love God and our neighbor; that all people are beloved children of God; that we are to do justice and love kindness,” Budde wrote on Twitter. The President “used a Bible and a church of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus,” Budde wrote, and “to do so he sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the church yard.”

Tonight President just used a Bible and a church of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for. To do so, he sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the church yard. 1/1

— Mariann Budde (@Mebudde) June 2, 2020

Two hours before Trump stood at the church, Anya Colon was holding a poster that read “Black Lives Matter,” at a spot nearby facing the columns of the White House. Colon, 38, had driven seven hours from Rome, N.Y., to bring her message to the President. “I feel like Trump catalyzed a lot of racism going on in this country — that’s always been going on, of course, it’s not his fault, but I had to bring it to him,” Colon says.

Colon’s grandmother marched in Selma, Alabama in 1965 to push local authorities to allow black people to vote. “We have to do some things that make change. This marching has been going on for decades. I had to be here, something from inside my gut drove me and pulled me here,” says Colon, who is African-American. She brought her cousin with her, Iliana Arthur, 41. Arthur also held a sign. It read: “We matter.”

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thesnhuup · 6 years ago

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Confronting Racism, Past and Present

Our Board of Trustees meets in mid-winter for what we have called a “learning retreat,” going with my leadership team to a place where we can expand our thinking, to learn from some other area of work or industry, and to engage with thinkers and doers in other fields. One year it was Washington, D.C., where we did a deep dive into policy. Another year it was Silicon Valley to engage with new technology. Last year it was LA, where we visited SpaceX, heard from experts in entertainment, and met with Mayor Eric Garcetti. This past week we went to Alabama, to the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery and Birmingham, a fitting place to think hard about diversity, inclusivity, and equity. For most of us, maybe for all of us, it was the single most powerful experience of our time at SNHU.

I’m still processing why it was so. Almost everything we learned we knew at some level, intellectually, but this felt more visceral, often like a punch to the gut and a clasping of the heart. We know that the gun violence of a place like Chicago is out of control and exacting a terrible toll on the children and young people who live in what is effectively a war zone on American soil, but then Arne Duncan joined us with a group of the young men from his Chicago CRED program and we heard the reality of their lives. One had been shot ten times. Billy, the learning coach, had served twenty years for the murder of one of Arne’s best friends and the basketball hope of the neighborhood (a story told in ESPN’s 30-for-30 episode “Benji,” in which Billy appears). The story of the dinner he then had with the victim’s family was a knee buckling story of redemption and forgiveness – not a Hallmark version, but raw and true and ongoing. It’s a story I’ll never forget and one I really can’t recount here – I’m not good enough a writer to do it justice.

Arne shared that in the elementary school classrooms he can ask kids to raise their hands if they know someone who was shot and every hand goes up. He asks them to keep their hands raised if they know five people who were shot — all hands remain up. Ten people? Most hands. Fifteen people? More than half the hands. Twenty people? Half the hands. Think about it – these are little children in an American city. If they were white children, we would have a massive government effort to address the problem. This was a gut punch moment.

We spent time with our colleagues in Birmingham, one of our first urban eco-system learning pilot sites, and had a panel with the amazingly talented team Mayor Woodfin has assembled to address Birmingham’s challenges, including a similar wave of gun violence in the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

Not coincidentally, these are the same neighborhoods that were “redlined,” set aside for Blacks, as official city planning policy.

I had always heard the expression and assumed it was a tacit understanding. It was instead official policy, planned, and its effects are still being felt decades later. Arne’s program in Chicago aims to give young men an alternative to the violence, through work pathways. In Birmingham, we are working to create educational pathways to work through LRNG, our newly acquired community impact group. Billy made a simple and yet deep insight: if you live in a war zone and fear for your life, you carry a gun. If your little sister is going hungry and there is no work, you do whatever it takes to get money to buy food. If you live with incessant fear and hopelessness, you self-medicate through drugs or alcohol. These are rational choices when seen through that lens. Arne and others doing the hardest work imaginable in the hardest places in our country are trying to create hope and a different set of rational choices. I hope that our work with the city of Birmingham will provide a pathway to education, and connect talent with opportunity.

While in Birmingham, we visited the sacred ground that is the 16th Street Baptist Church, where in 1963 white supremacists planted a bomb that killed four little girls.

This storied church is where the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement met, and often preached, including Dr. Martin Luther King, the resolute Fred Shuttlesworth, an amazing man who is not as widely known as he should be, and Ralph David Abernathy, and where the 1963 Children’s Crusade was organized.

We have all read about the heroic struggle for equal rights, but there was something about being in the place that was incredibly powerful. One feels a kind of gravity, the weight of a history that suddenly feels less distant or abstract. It was a feeling I’ve had on the battlefields of the Somme or in the Killing Fields of Cambodia — the presence of those who haunt these places. It was true of Kelly Ingram Park, right across the street from the church and the site of the demonstrations where Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor had dogs released and fire hoses used on marchers.

The images from the church bombing and the brutal repression of the marchers made headlines worldwide, sparking outrage across the U.S., and led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Voter suppression and an ongoing attempt to undercut the act, including demonstrably false charges of widespread voter fraud, are stark reminders that the most basic civil rights remain under threat even after all these years.

If there was any doubt of that fact, it was shattered by our visit to the newly created National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a stunning memorial to all those killed by racial terror, including thousands of lynchings, in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is the first time I’ve seen in the U.S. a formal coming to grips with the racial hatred of our past in the way one sees in Berlin, which lays bare its guilt around the Holocaust.

Every metal piece, reminiscent of tombstones, represents a county and the names of those murdered there. While they are mostly from the southern states that enslaved people, New York, Oregon, California, and Illinois are among the northern states also represented. Racism knows no boundaries in America then or now.

The “crimes” for which people were murdered are shocking.

Lynchings were not rare. The Memorial is stunning in visually and physically capturing the scope of the multi-decade domestic terrorism that created a mass migration north, ethnic cleansing in today’s parlance.

Lest we take some comfort in the notion that these were the acts of some small, psychotic group of terrorists, the nearby Legacy Museum reminds us that thousands of people would turn out to see the violence, bringing children and whole families. Postcards were made and sold. As Bryan Stevenson would remind us, the perpetrators of this systemic terror were not just the uneducated and backward. Complicit were the best educated politicians, business people, clergymen, and yes, academics. And that history is not so distant, extending into my lifetime.

The Memorial and the Legacy Museum were the brainchild of the aforementioned Bryan Stevenson, the crusading lawyer and author of Just Mercy. Founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan has fought against the death penalty (which overwhelmingly reflects racial bias in its application) and mass incarceration. The Museum draws a clear and unequivocal line from slavery to racial terror to mass incarceration and a deeply racist criminal justice system. Later that evening Alabama put another Black man to death, a jarring and vivid reminder that the injustice remains that close.

Bryan met with us and gave a talk that was at once enraged and inspired. The MacArthur Prize winner was an inspiration, a master storyteller, and reminded us that however hard the challenges are today, they pale in comparison to the fights and the suffering that was endured by those who came before and that it is to them that we have a responsibility to continue the struggle for civil and human rights.

It’s how we honor their sacrifice.

How elevated and inspiring the fight can be was made clear to all of us when we spent over an hour with fabled Judge Myron H. Thompson, the first Black federal judge in Alabama. We sat in his courtroom, the courtroom where Judge Frank Johnson ruled in key civil rights cases, including the Rosa Parks case that struck down segregation in public transportation and the ruling that allowed the march from Selma. Judge Thompson, who has also ruled in famous cases, including Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments case and Planned Parenthood vs. Bentley, reminded us that in this melting pot of a country (some would say “salad”), it is the Law that acts as the pot, that keeps it all together. He reminded us that we were sitting in seats once occupied by Rosa Parks and Dr. King. It was absolutely inspiring and that old beautiful 1930s courtroom, witness to so much history, seemed like church.

As we walked back to our hotel, one member of my team, with tears still in her eyes, said, “I thought I knew. This was like a 2×4 to the side of the head.” At dinner, someone else said, “I’ve never cried so many times in one day, both out of sadness and inspiration.” It was against the background of these remarkable three days that the Board of Trustees unanimously approved our new Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity, which we will release in the coming weeks. They did so because it is a superb plan. They also did it with a deep and abiding resolve that SNHU should play its part in countering this country’s long and ongoing racism and genocidal origins. The Legacy Museum begins with American Indians, the far too often neglected origin story steeped in bloody genocide against a whole people, acknowledging that we have so far to go as an institution and as a country.

On our evening news, the embarrassment that is Virginia politics right now, and in the chants of “Don’t shoot” that ring throughout American cities, we have stark reminders that before we can have reconciliation, we need truth. The truth about America’s ongoing racism is hard to bear, as all who were with us this week would attest, but it did not feel defeating. It felt freeing and empowering and humbling. As it does in so much of its work, SNHU will now put its resources into doing its part. At a time when American higher education is seen as part of the problem, we have to be part of the solution. Access is a starting point and we’ve worked hard on that part of the calculus of hope. With purpose and determination, we will focus on equity, diversity, and inclusivity.

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alanafsmith · 7 years ago

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Trump says Mexico has 'the absolute power' to stop 'Caravans' of migrants — here's what he's missing

President Donald Trump inveighed against Mexico for what he perceived as a lack of effort to halt the flow of Central American migrants to the US.

But Trump's comments appeared to reflect a lack of knowledge about the factors driving the migration and Mexico's efforts to stanch it.

Some of the immigration policies Trump has pursued are also expected to worsen the problems causing migrants to leave their homes and head to the US.

President Donald Trump railed against Mexico over what he perceived as that country's inability or unwillingness to carry out immigration enforcement in a series of tweets that spanned from the weekend through Monday.

"Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the US," Trump tweeted on Sunday morning.

"These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA," he added. "They want in on the act!"

"Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large 'Caravans' of people enter their country," he added Monday morning.

The term "caravans" is an apparent reference to a large contingent of Central American migrants who are making their way north across Mexico, headed for the US and points in between, documented by BuzzFeed News. The migrants' travel has notably been covered by Fox News, of which Trump is an avid viewer.

The group — more than 1,000 people, about 80% of them from Honduras, according to BuzzFeed — has been heading through Mexico on foot and by vehicle, guided by a group of volunteers called Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders. Many hope to make part of the journey on freight trains that have become known as "La Bestia" or "the train of death."

One of the group's organizers said Pueblo Sin Fronteras was not calling on people to make the arduous trip — only helping them do so. Gathering in such a large group is a security measure to ward off the violence and depredations frequently carried out against migrants by criminal groups and Mexican officials. As of Friday, according to BuzzFeed, the group had made it to Oaxaca state.

Many of those trekking north intend to reach the US border, either requesting asylum or trying to cross without detection once there. Others hope to reunite with family already in Mexico.

But all are apparently fleeing what they see as untenable situations in their home countries.

For those from Honduras, the most proximate cause is violence and instability in the wake of President Juan Orlando Hernandez's reelection late last year, which many believe was fraudulent, although it was endorsed by the US. In the months since, violence, much of it by state-backed actors, against activists and journalists has been elevated. The group traveling through Mexico often chanted, "out with JOH!," according to BuzzFeed.

"The crime rate is horrible, you can't live there,” Karen, a Honduran mother of two traveling with her children, told BuzzFeed near a town in Chiapas a state in Mexico bordering Guatemala. "After the president [was sworn in] it got worse. There were deaths, mobs, robbed homes, adults and kids were beaten up."

'A broader problem here that goes well beyond Trump'

In Honduras, as well as neighboring El Salvador and Guatemala, economic weakness, political instability, and rampant violence are all motivating factors. Much of the violence comes from criminal groups like MS-13 that have their roots in US policies during the region's civil wars in the late 20th century, as well as US immigration policies in the 1990s and 2000s

"There is a broader problem here that goes well beyond Trump and includes the Obama administration. When we hear of Central Americans on the move, we have to think of failed past policies, notably the 2009 coup in Honduras, which worsened political and social conditions there," Greg Weeks, a professor and Latin America expert at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, wrote on Monday. "We have to think of current support for a fraudulent election there. And no politician ever discusses the effects of 1980s policies on El Salvador."

US gun policies, for example, have been blamed for facilitating the violence that many people in the region — called the Northern Triangle — are fleeing.

"It's a bipartisan problem," Weeks added. "Our policies in Central America are never long-sighted and they keep on biting us."

Trump also mischaracterizes Mexican efforts to stem the flow of people moving through its territory, which come at the behest of the US.

In response to a surge of undocumented migrants, many of them unaccompanied minors, arriving at the US southern border in 2014, Mexico enacted Plan Frontera Sur, a border-security and enforcement initiative that quickly led Mexico to surpass the US in the number of Central Americans deported.

From October 2013 to April 2014, the US apprehended 159,103 "other than Mexicans," which was more than three times the 49,893 Central Americans who Mexico detained over the same period.

Between October 2014 and April 2015, those numbers shifted drastically: Mexico detained 92,889 Central Americans, while the US detained 70,226 "other than Mexican" migrants, many of whom were from the Northern Triangle countries. Many migrants detained by Mexican authorities have faced abuses, but the flow north continues.

Mexico has struggled to deal with the surge. As of mid-2015, the Mexican agency in charge of interviewing migrants applying for refugee status had just three offices throughout the country. The US also supplies aid — more than $300 million a year — to the Mexican government, which bought about $3.5 billion in US arms during the first three years of President Enrique Peña Nieto's term, which started in December 2012.

Mexico has been a frequent target of Trump's fusillades against US allies and foes, and Trump has threatened to cut off US aid to its southern neighbor. Such cuts are generally seen as likely to worsen the border-security and immigration situations in Mexico, empowering criminal groups that have moved into the human-smuggling trade.

No one 'has mentioned DACA'

Trump's efforts to crack down on immigration, including removing Temporary Protected Status for some Central Americans, are seen as likely to exacerbate the problems in those countries, leading more people to head north. (US border agents have said Trump's plans overlook the frontline of US border security: border checkpoints themselves.)

Trump's assertion that the migrants traveling north are hoping to take advantage of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is also off base, as that program only applied to immigrants who arrived as children prior to June 2012.

Trump in fact rescinded DACA in 2017, and his invocation of the program this week led some people to question whether he knew the details of it. Others noted the apparent gap between Trump's condemnations of Mexico and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's praise of Mexico's work with the US on numerous recent policies.

Adolfo Flores, the BuzzFeed reporter traveling with the caravan, said Sunday he asked some migrants about Trump's DACA comments.

"Some laughed and others said they thought (correctly) they wouldn't qualify," Flores said, adding, "I've spoken with dozens of people who cite violence, instability, and poverty as reasons for leaving. Not one has mentioned DACA."

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dylan-stableford-blog · 7 years ago

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Students across U.S. stage national walkout month after Parkland massacre

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Students and teachers at more than 2,000 schools across the country staged a national walkout to call for an end to gun violence on Wednesday, one month after 17 people were killed in a mass shooting a Florida high school.

At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the scene of the Feb. 14 massacre, hundreds students and administrators streamed out of the school and onto the football field, where they held a moment of silence in honor of the shooting victims. The Parkland students were then joined by students from nearby schools as they marched to Pine Trails Pine, the site of several memorials for victims since last month’s killings.

Students from Westglades Middle School in Parkland, Fla., walk out as part of a nationwide protest against gun violence on Wednesday. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

The walkout in Parkland came a day after Broward County prosecutor Michael Satz said he would seek the death penalty against Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old gunman accused of carrying out the rampage at Stoneman Douglas.

At Newtown High School in Connecticut, hundreds of students gathered in the parking lot, holding signs and chanting “We want change.” Several students climbed atop a Jeep Wrangler covered in “End Gun Violence” placards to deliver speeches to the crowd. The school is located less than two miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed on Dec. 14, 2012, in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

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In Littleton, Colo., some parents of the victims of the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School planned to join students in their walkout to protest gun violence.

The nationwide walkouts were supposed to last 17 minutes in honor of the Parkland victims. But many of them lasted much longer.

In New York City, more than a thousand students descended on Brooklyn Borough Hall, where they stayed for more than two hours, delivering speeches from a bullhorn and chanting anti-gun-violence slogans. Among them: “Rise up, guns down!”

At Trump Tower in Manhattan, a few dozen protesters gathered outside, holding signs and shouting “No more gun violence!”

In Washington, D.C., hundreds of students of all ages gathered outside the White House, demanding action on gun control. The students there participated a 17-minute moment of silence with their backs turned to the White House. President Trump, who spent the night in Beverly Hills, Calif., after inspecting border wall prototypes in San Diego, was not home.

Sara Durbin joins with other students walking out of classes to demand stricter gun laws outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)

Slideshow: Scenes from the National School Walkout for tighter gun control

The demonstrators, some clutching signs with messages disparaging the National Rifle Association, then marched across the National Mall to the U.S. Capitol, where they called on lawmakers to “stand up to the NRA” and enact “meaningful” change to gun laws.

Many Democratic lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, walked out of the Capitol to join the students.

“Thank you for bringing your urgency to this fight to the doorstep of America,” Pelosi said. “Enough is enough. Whether Orlando, or San Bernardino, South Carolina, Las Vegas, Newtown, Sutherland Springs, Parkland, city streets, homes across across the nation, there’s been too much violence, too much heartbreak.”

Wednesday’s demonstrations, sparked by the massacre in Parkland, were planned by EMPOWER, the youth branch of the Women’s March. At many schools, students needed permission from their parents to participate in the walkouts, which were encouraged in many school districts. But not all schools condoned the walkouts.

Students gather on a soccer field during a 17-minute walkout protest at the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday. (John Minchillo/AP)

The American Civil Liberties Union said it received dozens of calls from students who complained that their schools were threatening to discipline those who walked out of school. The ACLU said that students participating in walkouts should be protected by the First Amendment.

“Kids don’t give up their First Amendment right just because they walk through school doors,” Sonia Kumar, staff attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, told WJZ-TV in Baltimore.

The walkouts come 10 days before the March for Our Lives demonstration on March 24, when hundreds of thousands of students are expected to march in D.C. and more than 700 anti-gun-violence “sibling marches” around the country.

Organizers say they expect as many as 500,000 in Washington alone.