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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=caevans2@hotmail.com href="mailto:caevans2@hotmail.com">Christopher
Evans</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=dlj725@hughes.net href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">Dave
Johnson</A> ; <A title=caevans2@hotmail.com
href="mailto:caevans2@hotmail.com">caevans2@hotmail.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 08, 2012 10:01 AM</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><B>Thanks for the update, Dave. <BR>Our own "Cynthia McKinney" is
working hard to get justice here in "the backyard"<BR>of Champaign-Urbana and
this Tuesday night, <BR>at 6:00 p.m.<BR>at the Brookens Administration Center on
1776 E. Washington in east Urbana, next to the damn Satellite Jail-<BR>is Policy
meeting of the entire county board that Carol Ammons will be chairing. <BR>It
will be historic in what she is attempting to accomplish, that is stave off the
attempt to build a <BR>$22 million taxdollar, maximum-security jail expansion.
<BR><BR>If people could come to that meeting and more meetings to watch this
county board <BR>and address them how better to use tax dollars for a real
reduction in crime, that would be helpful right here at home. <BR><BR>Jobs,
substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling and treatment,
apprenticeships, education, ect.<BR>are the real turn-arounds, and preventions
that help people not commit a crime, elevate themselves to better<BR>lifestyles
and such. You know this I know, <BR>and I hope we can begin to get the crowds to
come and put a stop to a very long-term (debt on a jail expansion could <BR>run
the county budget into debt to at least 2029) stupid decision. <BR><BR>pass the
word, 6:00 p.m. Tuesday. <BR>Peace, Chris<BR></B><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>From Cynthia McKinney, </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>former democratic party U.S. Congress Woman from
Atlanta, who resigned from the democratic party in disgust and ran as the
Presidential candidate for the Green Party USA in 2008.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>David J.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 08, 2012 2:33 AM</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>by Cynthia
McKinney</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">“<FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>If
the number of persons murdered by the police were included in the sum of
executions, America would rank third in executions globally – just behind Iran.”
The Trayvon Martin horror reminds us that U.S. foreign policy mirrors its
domestic behavior towards Blacks and browns. “If leadership inside the U.S. will
do this to their own citizens, what is done to others outside the U.S. should
come as no surprise.”</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=4><B>Justice for Trayvon Martin Also Means
Joining the International Struggle Against U.S.
Lawlessness</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><B>by Cynthia
McKinney</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" align=center><FONT color=#2323dc>“<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><I>The United States Department of Justice, according
to the ACLU 2009 report, has done virtually nothing to combat the clear evidence
of systemic racism the nation.”</I></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>As a
mother of a young Black man whom I pray for nightly and worry daily about his
life being violently ended either by someone marginalized by the unjust social
structure of U.S. life or by some rogue officer of the law or one pretending to
be a policeman, I offer my sincerest condolences to the Martin family and
friends over their loss of their son Trayvon. Each loss is irreparable and
I have no words that can succor the pain that this entire nation is
feeling. Further, I wish to extend my compassionate sympathies to the
hundreds of thousands of victims of police brutality, racial profiling, and the
millions wrongfully ensnared in the American gulag prison-industrial complex.
</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>All
of my life, no matter how my reputation has been assailed and vilified, I have
struggled to promote justice and dignity to those people most adversely affected
by the racist, intolerant, predatorily capitalistic, and venal society that
feels more every day like when Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, or Martin Luther King,
or martyred Floridian Harry T. Moore walked the Earth decades
ago.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT
size=2>April 4, 2012 will mark the 44</FONT></FONT><SUP><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>th</FONT></FONT></SUP><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2> anniversary of the assassination of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. April 29, 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the
Los Angeles Uprising of 1992. According to Dr. King, the U.S. was “the greatest
purveyor of violence in the world.” Forty-five years later this fact remains
true with some frightening new additions. The U.S. imprisons more of its
citizens per 100,000 persons than any other nation on earth. In 2011, the USA
ranked fifth in the world in execution of prisoners, and annually police murder
scores of citizens. If the number of persons murdered by the police were
included in the sum of executions, America would rank third in executions
globally—just behind Iran. In spite of the fact that the United States ratified
the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (ICERD), which obligates all levels of government to comply with
the treaty, the United States Department of Justice, according to the ACLU 2009
report regarding the persistence of racial profiling in the United States, has
done virtually nothing to combat the clear evidence of systemic racism the
nation.</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B>
</B></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>Therefore, I
cannot say that anyone can be certain that justice will be served to the many
Trayvon Martins and their grieving families. It is sobering and hurtful to
believe that America’s first Black President and first Black Attorney General
will allow this nation to possibly descend into greater levels of intolerance
and tension, when the laws and mechanisms to address the problems exist on the
books. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" align=center><FONT color=#2323dc>“<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><I>I cannot say that anyone can be certain that justice
will be served to the many Trayvon Martins and their grieving
families.”</I></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>This
should be an easy one for the people of this country to face. President Obama
called for us to push him to stand for the people. Now is the time for us to
push so hard that President Obama has no choice but to stand and show us – who
are tired of mourning Stolen Lives in this country – that he is able to lead as
well as compromise and bow to his political rivals.</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B> </B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>President Obama, along with the people of
this country, can act and begin to remove the legacy of hatred, violence, and
injustice before the U.S. is consumed by it – because our community of leaders
and followers lacked the will to be a better society. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>To
the people who care and sacrifice daily for the marginalized and the
dispossessed among us, I wish to remind you that I led a Congressional
delegation to the United Nations World Conference on Racism in Durban South
Africa in 2001 despite President Bush and Zionists daring us to go It was my
hope that the African American leadership would discover the realm of
international law, as was the dream of W.E.B. Dubois, William Patterson, Paul
Robeson, Malcolm X, and Dr. King. The traditional Civil Rights leadership must
become more effective and adroit in presenting the plight of our human rights
before the international community.</FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><B> </B></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>We have enough experience to know that our
progress has always been linked to international pressure because we are in a
“majoritarian democracy” that tramples on the rights of minorities. We must push
within and without the United States to bring the egregious slaughter of our
young people and the mass incarceration and oppression of Black and Brown people
to an end using all tools that we can secure. We cannot wait for another
so-called “random slaying.” </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" align=center><FONT color=#2323dc>“<FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><I>Now is the time for us to push so hard that
President Obama has no choice but to stand and show us that he is able to lead
as well as compromise and bow to his political rivals.”</I></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>It
is clear that the President does not speak in our names when he denies the
existence of racism (in the United Nations follow-up Durban conferences) as he
has done twice. We know that we are world citizens with rights that every Mark
Furman, Rick Santorum, or George Zimmerman must respect – even if our only venue
for redress is before the people of the world. Chattel slavery and Jim Crow
Apartheid were, in part, overturned because of the joint domestic and
international efforts. Let us honor the agreement of Dr. King and Malcolm X to
have a two-fold struggle for our human rights and full freedom. In the 1940s, we
called this the Double Victory over Nazism and fascism abroad and racism and Jim
Crow at home. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>At
home, the U.S. tolerates extra-judicial killings, violation of human rights,
persecution, racial discrimination, and genocide – yes, genocide. So, if
leadership inside the U.S. will do this to their own citizens, what is done to
others outside the U.S. should come as no surprise. The real answer lies in what
"we the people" of the United States are going to do differently to stop this
madness. Clearly, what we've all collectively done in the past is not nearly
enough. If you harbor any doubt about that, just ask young
Trayvon.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT color=#280099><FONT
face="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT size=2><I>Cynthia McKinney is a former
congresswoman from Georgia, and 2008 Green Party presidential
candidate.</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT><BR>_______________________________________________
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