where i stop is where you begin,where i start is where my ancestors ended

No Pensions
for Ex-Slaves
How Federal Agencies Suppressed Movement To
Aid Freedpeople

By Miranda Booker Perry

World Day of Social Justice: UN stresses need to
build fair, more inclusive societies

United
Nations, New York, 18 February, 2011 -
With 80
per cent of the world's people lacking adequate social protection and global
inequalities growing, top United Nations officials are calling for a new era of
social
justice that offers basic services, decently paid jobs, and
safeguards for the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.

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Secret Government Facility http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aou6c2MOmg Iron
Mountain "US History" national treasures

"Social
justice is more than an ethical imperative; it is a foundation for
national stability and global prosperity," Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon said in a message ahead of the World Day of Social
Justice, observed on 20 February. "Equal
opportunity, solidarity and respect for human rights, these are essential
to unlocking the full productive potential of nations and peoples."

Full
story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37566&Cr=social+protection&Cr1
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U.S. courts and legislatures have become the premier venues for reparations claims of various sorts, and many American political leaders have been outspoken in demanding that leaders of other nations (particularly the current government of Japan)acknowledge and make amends for the
misdeeds of their predecessors.
Passin It On !The
Future Is Yours (don`t sell Yourself to The Devil )

A Message to My Sistas
by Assata
Shakur
http://www.assatashakur.org/sistas.htm
At this
time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE
WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR
STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.I think that Black women, more than
anybody on the face of the earth, recognize the urgency of our situation.
Because it is We who come face to face daily with the institutions of our
oppression. And because it is We who have borne the major responsibility of
raising our children. And it is We who have to deal with the welfare systems
that do not care about the welfare of our children. And it is We who have to
deal with the school systems that do not educate our children. It is We who have
to deal with the racist teachers who teach our children to hate themselves. It
is We who have seen the terrible effects of racism on our children. I JUST WANT
TO TAKE A MOMENT OUT TO EXPRESS MY LOVE TO ALL OF YOU WHO RISK YOUR LIVES DAILY
STRUGGLING OUT HERE ON THE FRONT LINES. We who have watched our young grow too
old, too soon. We who have watched our children come home angry and frustrated
and seen them grow more bitter, m!
ore disillusioned with the passing of each
day. And We who have seen the sick, trapped look on the faces of our children
when they come to fully realize what it means to be Black in Amerikkka. And we
know what deprivation is. How many times have We run out of bus fare, rent
money, food money and how many times have our children gone to school in
hand-me-down clothes, with holes in their shoes. We know what a hell-hole
Amerikkka is. We're afraid to let our children go out and play. We're afraid to
walk the streets at night. We sisters, We have seen our young, the babies that
We brought into this world with such great hopes for, We have seen their bodies
bloated and aching from drugs, scarred and deformed by bullet holes. We know
what oppression is. We have been abused in every way imaginable. We have been
abused economically, politically. We have been abused physically, and We have
been abused sexually. And sisters, We have a long and glorious history of
struggle on this land!
/planet. Afrikan women were strong and courageous
warriors long before We came to this country in chains. And here in Amerikkka,
our sisters have been on the front lines. Sister Harriet Tubman led the
underground railroad. And sisters like Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hammer, Sandra
Pratt and our Queen Mother Moore have carried it on. Sisters, We have been the
backbone of our communities, and We have got to be the backbone of our nation.
We have got to build strong family units, based on love and struggle. We don't
have no time to play around.

A REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN CAN'T HAVE NO
REACTIONARY MAN.

If he's not about liberation, if he's not about
struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation then he ain't about
nothing. We know how to struggle. We know how to struggle and finagle to
survive. We know what it means, sisters, to struggle tooth and nail. We know
what it means to struggle with love. We know what unity is. We know what
sisterhood is. We have always been kind to each other, brought each other hot
soup and biscuits. We have always helped each other through the hard times.
Sisters, We must celebrate Afrikan womanhood. We don't want to be like Miss Ann.
She can keep her false eyelashes and her false, despoiled image of womanhood.
She can keep her mink stole and her French provincial furniture. We will define
for ourselves what womanhood is. And We will create our own style and our own
ways of dress. We can't have no white man in France telling Afrikan women what
to look like. We will create our own New Afrikan way of living. We will create
our own wa!
y of being and living our own New Afrikan culture, taking the
best of the old and mixing it with the new.

SISTERS WE HAVE GOT TO TAKE
CONTROL OF OUR LIVES AND OUR FUTURE WHEREVER WE ARE. AND WE HAVE GOT TO ORGANIZE
OURSELVES INTO A STRONG BODY OF AFRIKAN
WOMEN.


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"I
would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of
Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth
century." - Edward Wilmot Blyden


"However much we may detest
admitting it, the fact remains that there would be no exploitation if people
refused to obey the exploiter. But self comes in and we hug the chains that bind
us. This must cease." - Mohandas Gandhi


UHURU!


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A soldier of Love at War (domestic situation& racism)

Workin on the man in the mirror ,I came across a young man who was having major trouble`s with his view when he looked in mirror. As I have always been , I took time to listen ! And , WOW ! a bomb had exploded in this young mans life an he was terrorized at what to do to get out of war zone till he at least was older & more mature. I admit , it took me back 7 or 8 years to the point in time when I had a young counselor freshhout of college (black male)whom cried and got teary eyed when i told him of the racial Incident I had survived. Now here was a Younger man (puerto rican )who told me of the bomb of sexual exploitation as a Child, followed by physical trauma perpetuated by white supremacist, followed by The attempted Institutionalization by his biologicl kin who was not of same ethnic group as his Father. WOW ! I was Hurt that he was hurt, but being the soldier of love i claim to be i said to him (its us against the world ,and we gotta do what we gotta do ! we fell in love an went to war.........(UPdate he has been captured ) And I am wounded, but in war (wounds do not mean give up nor you are dead . here is to our war on racism an discrimnation !