July 14, 2015

NAACP chapters going after white supremacy in public square



Today we will be joined on air by Rachel Wolkenstein is an attorney admitted to practice in New York State since 1974 and a member of the United States Supreme Court bar since 1985. Attorney Wolkenstein will update us on the case of her client Corey Walker. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office is attempting to remove her from the case based on her "intolerable" political views. Walker maintains that he is the victim of a wrongful conviction due to police misconduct and corruption and is seeking to have access to the courts to prove his innocence.

 In the news....

The Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal of the white supremacists Confederate Monument from Stone Mountain Park.

 Maria Boynton of CBS Radio Atlanta V-103 reports, "Local chapter president Richard Rose says, “It is time for Georgia and other Southern states to end the glorification of slavery and white supremacy, paid for and maintained, with the taxes of all its citizens.” According to Rose, “all of this recognition of Confederate generals is upholding the white supremacy on which the Confederacy was founded and the war was fought.” He goes on to say, “all of this should have ended in 1865 when Lee surrendered to Appomattox.” 

I once incorrectly said that there were no cops running around shooting down Black people with confederate emblems on their uniforms. I was wrong as the NAACP of Huntsville, Alabama is calling on the the state of Alabama to remove Confederate flag symbols that are displayed on uniforms and the cruisers used by Alabama State Troopers.

We will give an update on the petition drive demanding The President and Congress restore the staff of the homeland security unit tracking potential right wing mostly white terrorists. Early this month some of the Democrats in Congress asked for hearings on racist based domestic terrorism while some of the Republicans are trying to protect white supremacy symbols of the South.

July 13, 2015

President Obama commuting sentences of a few drug war victims

Tune in for an hour or more of news, information and social/political commentary. Today we will be joined on air by Jaemillah Kemp, the founder and president of It Takes Two Inc. We will discuss some of the work the organization which among other things, help students apply for scholarships and College prep courses. In the news, President Obama commuted the sentences of a few federally held victims of the USA's failed Drug War which is used to fill the neo-slave plantations with neo-slaves. Is this a sign that the Obama administration intends to get serious about modern slavery or if this is just a token act? Speaking of the Drug War, "Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the billionaire kingpin who escaped from a Mexican prison over the weekend, is the notorious face of the Sinaloa cartel, the world's most powerful drug trafficking organization." according to NBC corporate news. What the news corporations are not reporting on is the collaboration between the Sinaloa cartel and the US Drug Enforcement Agency to smuggle drugs into the USA. A federal judge has ruled that the mother of a 16 yr-old Mexican teen who was shot down by border control agents can sue in the federal courts. The teen was walking down a street in Mexico when a border agent shot him several times in the back. Considering the gun walking scheme run by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), under both the Bush and Obama administrations, every victim of gun violence in Mexico where the weapon can be tied to the US government, should follow up with their own lawsuits. That could potentially be tens of thousands of victims over the years.