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The Police State Is Here! Constitutionalists and Conservatives Targeted! (SHOCKING VIDEO)

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Police: Armored Military Vehicles Needed for ‘Constitutionalists’ with Firearms

“We’ve got a lot of constitutionalists… a lot of people that stockpile weapons”

by Mikael Thalen

December 14, 2014

Shocking video provided exclusively to Infowars shows a Washington state sheriff’s deputy proclaiming that law enforcement officers need armored military vehicles because of “constitutionalists” with firearms.

thCAFNQAIVThe footage, recently captured in Spokane Valley, begins with a local resident asking two deputies why police would need vehicles specifically designed for warfare abroad.

“I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons, lots of ammunition,” one deputy says. “They have weapons here locally.”

The startling admission not only points to active surveillance of legal gun owners, but of those who support the country’s founding document, further solidifying concerns among law-abiding citizens that police are receiving military equipment and training in order to target conservative Americans.

download (6)The deputy’s specific mention of “constitutionalists,” a broad term covering millions of Americans, as opposed to criminals in general, also indicates a clear training mindset linked to the FBI and Homeland Security, two groups which have absurdly labeled “liberty-lovers” as terror threats.

Such clear talking points are unsurprising given reports that Spokane County sheriffs have received training from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that ludicrously compares mainline conservative Americans to racist hate groups.

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Sandy was born and raised in Atlantic Canada, now lives and works in Vancouver BC. She presently works as a scenic designer and propmaker/painter. Education 2015 Stagecraft Diploma Douglas College (New Westminster BC) 2009 BFA Emily Carr University (Vancouver BC) 2004 BA St. Thomas University (Fredericton NB) Awards John David Carr Memorial Scholarship for Painting ECU 2008 Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship in Art ECU 2008 Kerry Black Scholarship ECU 2007 Exhibitions 2016 Surface Tension Solo Show, The Phoenix Gallery Vancouver BC. 2015 The Geometry of Knowing Part IV, Group Show Audain Gallery Vancouver BC. 2014 Incubator Group Show, Black & Yellow/The Midtown Project Vancouver BC. 2011 Merkintile Group Show, Gallery 221A Vancouver BC. Performance piece entitled “Pie”. 2009 Transcontinental Divide Group Show, Helen Pitt Gallery Vancouver BC. Assisted artist Ron Tran with painting piece. 2009 Emily Carr Grad Show Group Show, Concourse Gallery Vancouver BC. 2009 New Works on Paper Group Show, Low Brow Gallery Vancouver BC. 2008 Untitled Show Group Show, Go-Go Gallery Vancouver BC. 2008 Gender and Materiality Group Show, Concourse Gallery Vancouver

Painting, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Drawing.
Contact: sandymargaret1@gmail.com

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More Than Miles

Sometimes miles drag. It’s impossible to push yourself out of the bed in the morning. Then there are those kind of runs. The ones that are etched in your memory as a really great run. We’ll take 14 “meh” runs just to have that one.

This morning was a great one.

I had my clothes set out the night before, making it less likely to talk myself into another “just 10 more minute” love affair with my snooze button. Grabbed some water, some breakfast and out the door I went.

The early morning, before the rest of the world is vertical, is my absolute favorite time of day. I love the feeling of being the only person out and about. It’s open space, quiet calm, and time that is mine alone.

It was a misty, almost foggy morning. This is the kind of heavy mist that makes it smell fresh and clean. If green had a scent, it would smell like the Pacific Northwest after a long-awaited rain. Hearing the damp gravel crunch and grind under the rhythm of my feet, I noticed bunnies poking their heads out, look at me, then dart quickly back under cover. Birds were busily chattering their morning routine. Nearing the end of the trail where I regularly run, I looked up to a piling about 10 yards away and saw an eagle perched right on top eye-balling me. I stopped and just smiled and admired how majestic (and freaking HUGE!) he was. Some runs are about more than just miles.

After a few moments Mr. Eagle grew bored with me and our staring contest and spread out his impressive wings and flew off. As I made the run back up the hill, I decided on impulse to head in a different direction and popped through a little trail.

With purple being my favorite color, I was stunned and delighted to discover this field that is normally covered in yellow Native American paintbrush plants was dotted with lavender:

The picture doesn’t do it justice. It was stunning to see what I expected to be yellow, covered in purple.

The little bunny was watching me!

So pretty and purple!

This was just one of those runs that felt tailor-made for me. It was as if the my little corner of the world held up it’s cup of coffee and said “cheers!” We are down to less than 2 weeks from moving and I know this was one of my last runs in this beautiful place. Today wasn’t about miles, which are great. It wasn’t about pace, which is fine. It was just feeling the gravel under my feet, hearing the birds getting their day started, and me finding a way to bid farewell to another chapter in this crazy military journey.

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Could your worst detractors also be your greatest fans?

When I think about businesses I love, business I use frequently or businesses I’ve grown to rely on, I feel an immediate emotional reaction – this got me thinking; love them or loathe them, fans and detractors have a lot more in common than we might think, so this week, I thought we could explore the emotional element of customer experience through the eyes of fans and detractors, and see what we might learn.  I’ll take 2 examples , one transactional customer experience (I don’t want it, but I need it) and one experiential customer experience (I don’t need it, but I really want it).

“The Tube”: Like millions of people in London and the South East of England, I use the London Underground service daily to get to work. Established back in the Victorian era, the current London Underground network is a complex mix of trains, buses, trams and automated rail services that powers London and the surrounding area.  Due to its age and complexity, it regularly creaks and groans with the strain of passengers, especially in the rush hour.  The first thing I always think of is hot, overcrowded trains, delays, grumpy staff, expensive fares – all pretty negative thoughts.

At the same time, when visitors criticise the buses & “tube”, as it’s locally known, I spring to the defense of this amazing and sophisticated feat of engineering.  I wouldn’t give it up for the world, despite the frustrations I feel as a daily user.  Sure, it needs a huge amount of investment & modernisation, but it’s an iconic part of London – the double-decker bus is one of Britain’s most visible exports!  So why do I feel love & loathing at the same time?  Am I a fan or a detractor?  I’m in fact both – I need this service to reach work, visit friends, go shopping – I rely on London Underground to get me from A to B.  When they deliver on their promise, I’m happy.  When delays and overcrowding result in me arriving at my destination hot & bothered, I’m seriously grumpy.

I clearly have a strong emotional connection with London Underground.  I can’t live without them, but there’s also a big part of me that doesn’t want to live without them.  The fact that I swing from being a fan to a detractor shows that even with no nurture, and very little human engagement, an emotional connection has been established.  When I think what London Underground could do to nurture my fan side more and reduce my detractor feelings, three things spring to mind:

  1. Provide the service you charge me for – trains on time, with enough seats for everyone!
  2. Communicate more – if there are problems, be open and honest and manage my expectations better!
  3. Show me more of the iconic personality and history – visits to the London Transport Museum Depot, where you can see unique historical vehicles and signage or visits to disused stations make us tube geeks so excited!

“BA”: When I think about a different transport provider who I choose to use every couple of weeks for leisure purposes, British Airways is my number one choice.  The flagship national airline of the UK, I have refined the art of making the airport & aircraft experience an integral part of my trips.  Arriving at the airport, swiftly proceeding to security to the comfort and calm of the lounge, enjoy a glass of champagne and a bite to eat before my flight, I’m already enjoying my holiday before even reaching the plane.  Once on board, charming staff, who take time to engage me, surprise me by using my name, a decent meal and maybe a little more champagne, and I arrive at my holiday destination already in the holiday spirit.  Because I enjoy the experience so much, I travel every couple of weeks, flying out for short breaks to plenty of European cities.  I encourage all of my friends to join me on trips, and as a result of my fan behaviour, I have encouraged numerous friends to change their own behaviour, and regularly take weekend breaks that they would not have thought to do.

This is exactly what any modern business wants – free marketing, additional business, more revenue.  Word of mouth advocacy is so much more effective than traditional marketing.  A glossy advert or a slick video cannot compete with my photos and stories when it comes to influencing my friends and convincing them to travel more often.  British Airways don’t reward me or incentivise me to do this, I do this because I want my friends to share in the same fun experience that I am having.  British Airway‘s financial benefit from this is not interesting to me.

But I can also be a big detractor.  This year, I’ve had numerous flights cancelled, many delays, some for many hours, and it frustrates me greatly.  When I don’t receive proper updates and information, I follow the example of Gen Y and take to social media to air my gripes.  I feel upset that service issues and disruption detract from my experience, curtailing my plans or dampening my anticipated experience.  When traveling with friends, I feel a sense of responsibility for THEIR experience.  After all, I was the one who convinced them to splash out on the trip.  That additional emotional responsibility weighs heavy on my conscience.

Few if any businesses think about think about this emotional aspect for their fans.  If you create a network of new customers, the halo effect of a positive experience is well known, but more research needs to be done on the impact of a poor experience for customers who came to the business through a fan.  So what can British Airways do to help me remain a fan and avoid me becoming a detractor?

  1. Acknowledge my status as a fan – when there is a group of us traveling together, invariably one of us is a fan, so finding out who that person is is important!
  2. Communicate better when things might go or have gone wrong – as the fan who brought together that group of travelers, better communicate means I won’t be left with egg on my face!
  3. Give your fans chance to interact and engage with the business – just because you’re a multi-national, you don’t have to be faceless and corporate!

Interestingly, for both experiential and transactional customer experiences, making sure fans stay fans (at least for me) require very similar corrective actions.  I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on this topic, so thinking about your own or your customers’ experiences, why not share you observations?

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Death panels, VA hospital, What next?

There are a few things that can rile me up faster than hitting a wasps’ nest with a stick. One of these things in the care and treatment of veterans. These deaths in Albuquerque and Charleston seem to be the tip of the iceberg. What makes me madder than a wet hen is that the main information on death tolls is coming from the alternative presses on the internet.

The Patriot Post headline is VA Delays Are an ObamaCare Death Panel Preview and WND headline is Rush Limbaugh: Death Panel at Work in VA. Even CBS is in the act with What did Obama know about the VA hospital scandal and when? Unfortunately while the entire US has been waiting for ObamaCare, (Affordable Care Act), the military has been suffering under its effects for much longer.

Since I am married to a retired Veteran and a Veteran as well, I have some personal experiences with Tricare. When we moved to this area, I was required to go on Tricare Prime so that my disease could be treated. After several years of my rhuematologist getting referrals so I could see him two to three times a year, suddenly we were on ACA rules. My primary care doctor had to see me so that I could see my rhuematologist (I think it was around 2011…). This also meant that instead of getting my labs done every three months, it had to be done exactly after the 90 day period. I walked into a testing facility two days early and they wouldn’t let me have the labs done. I had to come back two days later. These new rules doubled my expenses for healthcare.

In 2012 I received a notice reported by The Military Wallet. I was one of the people who lost TriCare Prime. My insurance without my agreement or participation was reduced to the Standard version for meds and doctors. This doubled my now doubled expenses.

Do you see where this is going?

What really upset me during this kerfuffle is that when I would point this out to a few people with my disease they either thought I was a whiner or thought I was a liar. Honestly, I quit trying after awhile because I knew that the veterans were just two to four years ahead of the ACA implementation. These people would experience it soon.

Yes, I also wrote to my representatives. It wasn’t worth the pixels because I was told that I was too late to complain. It had been implemented and slipped under the radar of anyone who could have stopped it in time.

So this is the warning call. The veterans are the canaries in the mines and are dying around you. Are you going to get out of the mine?

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    • We had problems before but they were easier to solve– a phone call to a supervisor usually. Now there is no recourse. I find it scary and disturbing.

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See here.

UPDATE: Sen. Sanders (I-VT) has a press release on the issue, “Senate Passes Food Safety Bill, Sanders Provision Protects Small Farmers and Processors.”

UPDATE 2: Process Mistake May Kill Food Safety Bill

A Summit on the Future of Vermont’s Working Landscape will be held at the Vermont State House on Friday, December 10, discussing the challenges facing the agricultural and forest-based enterprises in Vermont.  Full agenda available here.

I’m becoming increasingly sympathetic and more understanding of the types of argument made in an article in Newsweek entitled “Divided We Eat” (where Michael Pollan is quoted as making the statement used in the subject of this post).  The article argues that a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and grains is becoming less affordable to most Americans.  One certainly sees that high-calorie mass produced foods are increasing in price at lower rates than healthier foods, and many healthy foods (e.g., good produce) is not available in many poor urban neighborhoods.  In addition, it is true that having an organic locavore diet is becoming a sign of being of higher socio-economic status.  I do think the article undervalues the importance of food literacy (e.g., knowing where your food comes from, how to cook, and what is healthy), underestimates the power of marketing for unhealthy industrial food, and does not address whether eating healthy with better coventional ingredients could be affordable when cooking as opposed to buying prepared foods.  Finally, I am becoming fascinated of late with price (i.e., how can we all afford healthy local low-input food) and choice (i.e., why are we spending so much less of our income on food).   At the end of the day, I think the locavore and organic movements are good, but we can’t lose sight of wider social justice concerns like hunger and food insecurity.  Locals should be able to afford local food, and everyone should have access to fresh raw fruits and vegetables, and healthy dry grains.

Today is the first day of the international climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, known as COP16.  Professor Kat Garvey and 3L Daniel Miller will be representing Vermont Law School at these climate talks.  You can follow the adventures of the VLS delegation on their blog at:

Green reports that the InterAcademy Medical Panel is urging a low-carbon diet and lifestyle.  This should come as no surprise, but perhaps is long overdue.  Many things that are ‘low-carbon’ are much healthier than the alternatives (and both healthier for your personal biology and the environment).  Examples abound: red meat v. chicken, chicken v. vegetable, walk v. drive, etc.  Sometimes the choices aren’t so clear.

Sweden, with it’s new dietary guidelines that take the environment into account, is on the cutting edge.  These recommendations have been suggested for a whole host of environmental reasons in addition to acknowledged health benefits.  For example, the guidelines account for the high climate impact of beef due to methane released in cattle digestion, the depletion of many fish stocks, the energy-heavy refrigerated transport required by delicate fruits and vegetables,  the fact that fiber-rich root vegetables are more likely to be grown outdoors than in greenhouses requiring fossil fuels, that water-soaked rice fields produce more greenhouse gases than potato farms, that oil palms are often cultivated on former rainforest lands, and even the high carbon footprint of plastic water bottles.

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Talk-show Tango March 5-9: Taylor Kitsch and Willem Dafoe for John Carter, plus Emmylou Harris

In television on 03/05/2012 at 2:09 am

Lots of reruns, I’m afraid, but there are beacons. Like Taylor Kitsch with Strombo (and Willem Dafoe elsewhere) to talk about the next big thing in film, John Carter, and Don Fleming and Emmylou Harris on the Colbert Report for the Alan Lomax Collection. Here’s the trailer to John Carter, which opens Friday (sorry about the ad).

Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Woody Harrelson (Rampart), Stephen Merchant (Life’s Too Short), Lana Del Ray (Born to Die) (R)

Tuesday: Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), grocery bag champ Stephanie Teteak, Yelawolf with Kid Rock (Radioactive) (R)

Wednesday: Kathy Griffin, Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory), Joseph Arthur (The Graduation Ceremony) (R)

Thursday: Howard Stern (America’s Got Talent), The Airborne Toxic Event (All I Ever Wanted) (R)

Friday: “Jungle” Jack Hanna, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) (R)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (12:35 a.m. ET on CBS)

Monday: Courteney Cox (Cougar Town), comic Louie Anderson

Tuesday: Joel McHale (Community)

Wednesday: Susan Sarandon (30 Rock), comic Dan Boulger

Thursday: Raquel Welch, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards

Friday: Kristin Davis (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), Chris O’Dowd

The Jay Leno Show (10 p.m. ET on NBC, A Channel)

Monday: Michelle Obama, Mark Harmon (NCIS), Imelda May (R)

Tuesday: Madonna, Chris Colfer (Glee), Joe Perry (R)

Wednesday: Rachel McAdams (The Vow), Cee Lo Green (The Voice), Cee Lo Green with Vicci Martinez (R)

Thursday: Jennifer Aniston, Adam Levine (The Vow), Chiddy Bang (R)

Friday: Denzel Washington (Safe House), Octavia Spencer (The Help), Estelle (R)

Conan (midnight ET on Comedy Network, 1 a.m. on CTV)

Monday: Zac Efron (The Lorax), Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), Joe Louis Walker (Hellfire)

Tuesday: Don Cheadle (House of Lies), Elisha Cuthbert (Happy Endings), WZRD (WZRD)

Wednesday: Jon Hamm (Friends with Kids), Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Kumail Nanjiani

Thursday: Rob Riggle (The Lorax, 21 Jump Street), Mike Lawrence

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m. ET on NBC)

Monday: Donald Trump, Idris Elba , Jake Owen (R)

Tuesday: Bill Cosby, Anthony Mackie, Wale (R)

Wednesday: William Shatner, Padma Lakshmi, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad

Thursday: Maya Rudolph, Dylan Ratigan, Young Jeezy with Ne-Yo

Friday: Paul Rudd, Gabrielle Union

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. ET on ABC)

Monday: Sean Combs (Undefeated), Science Bob Pflugfelder, Miley Cyrus (R)

Tuesday: Jessica Alba (The Honest Company), Barney Frank, cooking with Nathan Myrhrvold, Tower of Power (R)

Wednesday: Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family), Sports Illustrated cover model Kate Upton, Jake Owen (R)

Thursday: Joan Rivers (Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best), Maria Menounos (Dancing with the Stars), Mat Kearney (R)

Friday: Steven Tyler (American Idol), Harvey Weinstein (The Artist), Melanie Fiona (R)

Chelsea Lately (11-11:30 p.m. ET on E!, formerly Star!, Videotron digital 125, Bell 621, Shaw Direct 168 and 527)

Monday: tba

Daily Show with Jon Stewart (11 p.m. Comedy Network, midnight ET, CTV)

Monday: Shaun Donovan

Tuesday: Julianne Moore (Game Change)

Wednesday: Cecile Richards

Thursday: Trita Parsi

The Colbert Report (11:30 p.m. Comedy Network, 12:30 a.m. ET, CTV)

Monday: Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess)

Tuesday: Jonathan Safran Foer (New American Haggadah)

Wednesday: Willem Dafoe (John Carter)

Thursday: Don Fleming and Emmylou Harris (Alan Lomax Collection)

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (11 p.m. ET, CBC)

Monday: Andrea Martin, Tom Perrotta

Tuesday: Ewan McGregor (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), Jim Prentice

Wednesday: Taylor Kitsch (John Carter), Mary Simon

Thursday: Olivia Wilde (Butter), Vandana Shiva, Lea Pool (Pink Ribbons, Inc.)

Friday: best of the week and Eight and a Half

Charlie Rose (11:30 p.m. ET, PBS)

Mr. Rose announces his guests only on the day of broadcast, check the show’s Twitter account for guest announcements.

Real Time with Bill Maher (10 p.m. ET, Fridays only, on HBO Canada)

Friday: Jon Hamm (Mad Men, Friends with Kids), Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, ex RNC chair Michael Steele, ex SEIU head Andrew Stern, journalist and judge Catherine Crier

Live with RKelly (9 a.m. ET, NBC and CTV)

Monday: Nick Lachey cohosts, Kristin Davis, Alison Sweeney

Tuesday: Nick Lachey cohosts, Fran Drescher, Chris Paul

Wednesday: Pat Kieman, Willem Dafoe (John Carter). Leslie Bibb (GCB)

Thursday: Martin Short cohosts, Ewan McGregor (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)

Friday: Martin Short cohosts, Kathy Bates

The View 11 a.m. ET, ABC and CTV)

Monday: 50 Cent, Steve Schirripa (Nothing Personal: Murder for Hire)

Tuesday: Nathan Lane (Mirror, Mirror), Mayim Bialik (Big Bang Theory)

Wednesday: Raven-Symone cohosts, Pastor Mark and Grace Driscoll, Karina Smirnoff (Dancing with the Stars)

Thursday: Bill O’Reilly, Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation)

Friday: Vera Wang, comic Bone Hampton

The Talk (2 p.m., CBS)

Monday: Megan Mullally (Breaking In)

Tuesday: Idina Menzel

Wednesday: Don Cheadle (House of Lies)

Thursday: Amy Brenneman (Private Practice)

Friday: Rick Springfield

Anderson (weekdays at 3 p.m. ET on CTV Two and NBC, 5 p.m. ET on CTV)

Monday: Easy Money Hour

Tuesday: Could You Be Fired Over Your Facebooik Page? and A Mom’s Double Life

Wednesday: One a a Kind Primordial Twins

Thursday: Are ADHD Drugs Helping or Hurting you Kids, plus Kristin Davis

Friday: Julianne Moore (Game Change), Jack Hanna

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (4 p.m. ET, CBS)

Monday: Julianne Moore (Game Change), Idina Menzel (Barefoot at the Symphony)

Tuesday: Christian Slater (Breaking In), Lenny Kravitz (The Hunger Games)

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9.42 pm To rate this address on any political meter would be to demean it. The president wrested free of politics tonight and spoke of greater things. I pledge myself to try and follow his advice and debate with vigor and spirit and candor and bluntness, but with more civility, more empathy, and, yes, more love. — Andrew Sullivan, 1/12/11

He sounds like a cult member.

Still, maybe Obama is the only guy he will take character advice from. Many in the anti-torture debate said the same thing to him, but the damage, the damage via The Atlantic anyway, has been done.

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psalms 143:1
Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.

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King James Version

Hear my prayer, O Lord,
give ear to my supplications:
in thy faithfulness answer me,
and in thy righteousness.

English Standard Version

Hear my prayer, O Lord;
give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
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Children, Youth and Families

Dane County Youth Commission

Projects and Programs

The Youth Commission engages in the following activities to achieve its vision:

  1. Youth Assessment—In collaboration with area schools and funding partners, the Commission conducts a county-wide assessment of students in grades 7-12. The most recent Youth Assessment was released in 2015. Data from the Assessment is used by policy makers, schools, law enforcement, social agencies and researchers to plan programs, develop policies and seek funding to better serve youth in Dane County.
  2. Youth Governance ProgramYGP is a partnership between Dane County and UW Extension. YGP participants serve on county committees as advisory members. The goal of YGP is to promote youth leadership, provide learning opportunities about local government and public service, and to bring youth voice to community issues while fostering the development of confident, capable and independent leaders for the next generation. The Youth Commission relies on YGP to provide perspective on policy and program issues.
  3. By Youth For Youth Grants—In collaboration with the United Way, Oscar Mayer, Inc. , the City of Madison and the Megan Crowley Fund, the Youth Commission supports this youth-led project that provides grants up to $3,000 for projects developed by youth for youth throughout Dane County.
  4. Service—The Youth Commission supports and advocates for Youth Resource Centers and the other member agencies of the Youth Resource Network in their efforts to provide services that promote positive youth development, build youth assets and prevent risk behaviors.


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Children, Youth and Families

Youth Assessment

Since , Dane County youth in grades 7-12 have been surveyed regarding their opinions, concerns, attitudes, behaviors and experiences. Survey results provide essential data and “youth voice” to educators, service providers, parents, policy-makers and funding bodies to inform grant writing, program development and public policy. The Youth Assessment was a collaborative effort led by the Dane County Youth Commission in partnership with the United Way of Dane County, Public Health Madison & Dane County, the City of Madison, sixteen public school districts and one private school in Dane County. Over 20,000 students completed the survey between and . Three reports summarize information collected from youth. The HS and MS County-wide Reports provide data tables of every survey question along with county-wide youth responses. The DCYA Overview Report summarizes and highlights key findings.

For questions or comments, please contact Connie Bettin, LCSW or call at (608) 242-6422.


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Tag Archives: Luke Jermay

Latitude 2014

*Originally written for A Younger Theatre*

Theatre Ad Infinitum are a company which constantly reinvents itself; two years ago, Translunar Paradise told a heartbreaking story of two people in love using masks and music, whilst 2013’s Ballad of the Burning Star considered Israeli-Palestinian tensions in the form of a cabaret drag act. This year, they’re back with Light, which is a futuristic sci-fi romp about privacy and surveillance told entirely through hand-held lights using no spoken text whatsoever.

In some ways, it’s the perfect show for Latitude, with no dialogue to listen to over the boom of music and a hi-tech aesthetic to keep our minds buzzing. Light takes place late in the twenty-first century, and over the course of a handful of different timelines we discover a dystopian society where humans are fitted with implants so that individuals around them can control and read their thoughts. Red lights float in and out of brains as information travels across the ether.

If the content is 1984 meets Blade Runner, then the form feels much like the expressionistic world of Dr Caligari. Aside from red pinpricks of light, pretty much the entirety of the piece is in monochrome, with bright white bulbs and LEDs illuminating the faces of the five-strong cast. Like early cinema, we get short snapshots rather than roving scenes, and a projector provides captions to clarify narrative. Much of the power of Light lies in the audience’s imaginative ability, as we construct what goes on in the gaps and create a whole world which is all-but invisible to us.

A perfectly timed soundtrack of music and noise helps this startling and original mode of storytelling, even allowing humour to creep in at certain moments. More than anything, however, the sound design allows Theatre Ad Infinitum to create the rhythms of an oppressive, predictable world in which everyone is constantly being watched. The society we are presented with may be in the future, but like our own there are issues surrounding free speech, protest and the manipulation of minds. It all feels eerily familiar.

At present, Light loses its novelty about twenty minutes before its end, and sometimes repetitive scenes make it difficult to focus, but philosophical musings on “inner light” and a strongly political subtext create intrigue regardless. This is the company’s most technically assured and formally ambitious show to date, and the images presented throughout are the kind that flash up in your mind for weeks afterwards.

Void Story

Five years on from its première, Void Story is still during the rounds and continues to delight audiences. It’s a strange but beautiful mix of live graphic novel, post-apocalyptic novel and performance art, but is completely compelling. The narrative thrust of the show follows a couple – Jackson and Kim – as they make their way around a largely deserted realm of cities and forests, coming across various larger-than-life characters along the way. They are plunged into sewers, chased by bears and bundled into army vehicles. It’s all kind of thrilling, really.

Crucially, Void Story does not use conventional theatrical methods of storytelling; rather than seeing all this played out in front of us by actors, the company chooses to project beautifully created, collage-like images onto a screen and accompany them with text spoken by four actors sat in pairs on either side of the stage. Immediately, then, we get a disconnect between story and storytelling, but this makes the plot no less absorbing. The four performers (Robin Arthur, Richard Lowdon, Cathy Naden and Terry O’Connor) fiddle with scripts, tweak microphones and create sounds, but our attention is perpetually given to the on-screen story.

There’s something of the bricolage in Tim Etchells’ images, with photographs merged on photographs mixed with pencil drawing and cartoon creations, creating a dark black-and-white aesthetic which is full of character and surreal charm. Accompanied by occasional high-pitched talking and frequent morbidity, Void Story often treads on the beautiful line between deeply dark and wretchedly funny, always spinning on the axis as episodes seem to become worse and worse for our protagonists.

Through all its contemplations of the city and communication between individuals in a decaying world, Forced Entertainment also manage to ask questions about survival and positivity. At one point, for example, Kim suggests that hope and optimism are not synonymous, arguing it is only possible to be one or the other in this terrifying vision of our world.

Void Story also fits surprisingly well into the theatre tent programme at Latitude, with its mix of popular culture, cinematic aesthetic and simple storytelling finding itself perfectly placed on the Friday morning before festivities truly get under way. This is Forced Entertainment at their best, entertaining audiences whilst also interrogating a theme in a form which asks questions about the acts of storytelling and theatre-making.

Jamaica, Farewell

Sometimes, shows just aren’t suited to the festival environment. Even in the relatively quiet and contemplative context of Latitude, theatre needs to grab you as it fights against the hubbub and rhythms murmuring outside the tent. We can forgive shows, then, if they aren’t quite able to work in this context. All theatre, however, should be consistent; though it’s possible to excuse Jamaica, Farewell for not quite working in the surroundings of Henham Park, its inconsistency of storytelling remains troubling and means an interesting journey never quite packs the punch it deserves.

Debra Ehrhardt’s solo show tells the true story of her upbringing in and eventual escape from Jamaica as a teenager. Set during a time of political struggle and conflict, the show – which was first shown in the US in 2007 – demonstrates the difficulties of growing up in a country in minor turmoil and the attraction of living elsewhere even though borders are impossible to cross.

In this sense, Jamaica, Farewell undoubtedly speaks to pertinent questions we are asking in the UK today, but this is largely a show about Jamaican and US identity and the promises made by each. More than this, however, Ehrhardt’s piece looks at parent-child relationships and the tensions within them, offering many moments of humanity and humour.

Despite this, however, Jamaica, Farewell is riddled with problems. Aside from the fact that Ehrhardt’s representation of younger self is little more than a giggly schoolgirl who falls in love instantly and is willing to follow the first man she sees to America, the show is frustratingly inconsistent. Various items organised in a line on stage (including a crate, a lectern and seats) seem to gesture towards different areas or emotions in Debbie’s life, but the conceit soon falls apart and is nigh-on impossible to follow when she suddenly breaks from the horizontal line and heads upstage without reason. Similarly, the framing device of a school talent show is underdeveloped and not followed-through, so that the entire story ends up feeling a bit like a rehearsal rather than a fully-fledged play.

Ehrhardt is buoyant with energy throughout, but it’s not quite enough to salvage the bizarre staging choices and lack of genuine enquiry surrounding the political undercurrents in the piece. It’s a touching piece of writing with some heartfelt sequences and poetic speeches, but Jamaica, Farewell is similar to its protagonist in that its story feels like it’s longing to escape to bigger and better things.

Sixth Sense – Luke Jermay

Magic cards on the table: I one hundred per cent do not believe in psychics or fortune-tellers. Being a rationalist, I refuse to believe that the human mind has any ability whatsoever to reach out to another mind through the medium of telepathy, and believe prediction can only truly occur within the scientific realm. Still, there’s something inordinately fascinating about watching performers predict facts about individuals and the future as if they were genuine psychics.

In Luke Jermay’s Sixth Sense, the performer asks self-selecting members of the audience to write down on a piece of paper a question they want answering about their future. Coins and tape are then strapped to his eyes, rendering him blind, before he selects pieces of paper and finds audience members by ‘predicting’ their initials and birth date (which would be impressive at the best of time but is nigh-on astonishing when an event like this isn’t ticketed as such). He then follows this with a (fairly broad) answer to their question, which tends to be fairly accurate if we are to believe the audience member’s account of their question.

Jermay is – above all else – a performer, and to lose sight of that would be to give ‘psychic powers’ credence where they deserve none. Like theatre, magic shows like this rely on illusion and deceit, but in a setting which defines itself as real and bases its narratives on those of the audience. It’s weird – in conventional theatre, we mostly remain aware that what we’re watching is fiction, but something in us shifts when watching these kind of shows as part of us yearns for the illusion (and that’s all it is, let’s not forget) to be real. In turn, this makes the coups all the more spectacular.

Left, right and centre, Jermay predicts occupations, relationship troubles, holidays and anxieties with a showmanship which rivals Derren Brown’s. Throughout, he holds us in the palm of his hands even though we know he’s engaged in some sleight-of-hand wizardry, meaning that when he predicts Japanese teenagers living as vampires, a Miley Cyrus sex-tape and a murder in space at the end of the show, a not insignificant part of us leaves wondering whether these things will indeed come true. He did predict the World Cup, after all. It’s all bollocks, though. Obviously.

Frisky & Mannish: Just Too Much

In the past, the shows of pop deconstructionists Frisky and Mannish have mixed styles and genres in order to demonstrate the basic history and rules of popular music and have even considered the lives and music of members of the ’27 club’. In their latest show, Just Too Much, which previewed at Latitude this weekend in a slightly truncated form a little later than scheduled, F&M look at break-downs in pop, from Miley Cyrus to Sinead O’Connor, and in the process ask some important (and hilarious) questions about gender and celebrity in contemporary music.

Just Too Much begins with an imagined series of letters from Sinead O’Connor to a variety of icons who have made questionable decisions in the past, finishing with Frisky and Mannish themselves as the Irish singer berates them for their actions. This sequence is then followed by a number which showcases the pair’s not insignificant amount of genius, as they pull apart and the meanings of various pop songs as they attempt to find a feminist pop anthem. Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, the Spice Girls and Miley are all considered then binned, leaving a surprising but brilliant choice at the end of it all.

Over the course of the next hour, we’re treated to a sublime sea-shanty version of Rather Be (which is almost as good as Clean Bandit’s own rendition the following night in the 6Music tent) and other pop delicacies before a surreal but masterful dream sequence, which draws on everything from Disney to Debussy. Though the various songs are ostensibly fairly disparate, the duo manage to find some kind of through line in order to extrapolate on their chosen themes, taken apart each with the tenacity of a rottweiler and the charm of a Disney prince.

Even though Just Too Much is still going through a period of honing and sharpening on its way to Edinburgh and was without its opening and closing numbers on this occasion, it already looks like it may be F&M’s best show to date. Here, the years of interrogation, humour and craft come to a head as they manage to make a show which is hilarious and honest and asks us to reconsider our own attitudes to popular music. In their trademark postmodern fashion, however, the critique is not without love and irony, and the pair manage to subvert and undermine these tropes just as they succumb to their glorious and attractive potential to entertain.


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A call for protest in Greater Houston of Texas against Ethiopian dictator

July 27, 2014

Ethiopians in Greater Houston of Texas

 Hailemariam Desalegn

Press Release

The Ethiopian community in Houston is outraged to learn that the City of Houston and thee Greater Houston Partnership are hosting the Ethiopian dictator, Hailemariam Desalegn next week.

Ethiopia is a gross human rights violator, a totalitarian state, where people are deprived of their liberty and property rights by the regime. There is no freedom of the press, consequently most journalists are in prison or fled the country.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the UN, the U.S. Department of State, and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have documented gross human rights violations committed by the incumbent criminal regime in Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian people have been subjected to a vestige of abuse for generations. Just Last Friday, government forces attacked peaceful gathering of Muslims in Addis Abeba mosque killing a number of them. Last Month close to 40 university students at Ambo University were also killed for protesting government confiscation of land without compensation in Oromia region. The pathetic situation continues where 90 million Ethiopians have no freedom and no hope for improvement. The regime uses any tactics or measures necessary to stay in power including intimidation, patronage, kidnapping, open murder and political assassination.

Through its cronies and paramilitary forces, as well as party members it controls the economy and the political space in Ethiopia. Using the Federal Police regularly intimidates and kills at will on streets, schools, churches and mosques.

In Ethiopia besides the political oppression and ethnic tensions created by the regime, the government owns all land, Internet, food distribution, banking, telecommunication, and other industries causing massive inefficiency in production which in turn brings about massive starvation and unemployment.

According to Professor Mesfin, a leading human rights activist, “The government has placed itself above the law, rules the country by force, and exonerates itself from any crimes it commits against defenseless citizens and this makes up the saddest reality prevailing in present-day Ethiopia.” According to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, “paramilitary units continue to use random searches, beatings, mass arrests and lethal force against peaceful protesters.”

The Daily Telegraph calls the current situation “a systematic onslaught against the majority of the Ethiopian people,”. The Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Africa, Chris Smith, and R- New Jersey referred, Meles, the late Prime Minister as the “vicious dictator” of Ethiopia. Given these facts, the Ethiopian community will protest and urge those freedom- loving citizens of Houston to refrain from appearing or honoring Mr. Deslalegn or give credence to his local collaborators in Houston. We also urge the U.S. government to stop supporting African dictators who rule by the barrel of the gun instead of with the support of the masses.

Where: The Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa | 111 North Post Oak Lane, Houston, Texas 77024 When: Tuesday, July 29 | 6:00 to 8:00 p.m

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Last Chance To Back Our Kickstarter

16 Apr

K.B Goddard

Well, ladies and gents we are down to the last 6 hours of our Kickstarter for the Shadows at the Door anthology. We are 81% funded and need as much help as possible to get us to the finish line.

Kickstarter is all or nothing so if we don’t reach our target by the deadline we wont receive a penny from all the pledges so far.

So please spread the word if you can and back us if you can/would like to. And a big thank you to everyone who has sponsored us so far. We really appreciate it.

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New Western Mass. Families in 1790 sketches

We have added six new sketches to Western Massachusetts Families in 1790. This database focuses on families listed in the 1790 census in historic Berkshire and Hampshire counties, an area which includes parts of modern Franklin and Hampden counties as well.

Ebenezer Peirce (Partridgefield)
Smith Phillips (Partridgefield)
Elijah Powell (Lanesborough)
John Safford (Windsor)
Sylvina Safford (Windsor)
Nathaniel Williams (Lanesborough)

Please note:  This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership .

Database Tip: On the transcript page, click the plus sign next to any person’s name. You can download a PDF of the entire sketch rather than having to download each page image separately.


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Author Spotlight: George Sirois

Over on the YAAR blog an interview with my friend George Sirois. George and I will be running two panels together in the fall in audio book creation at Archon and at the Central St. Louis City Library.

YA Author Rendezvous

george sirois - authorInterview by Michelle Lynn.

An interview with George

What are the titles of your works, and can you tell us a bit about them?

“Excelsior” is a young adult / science-fiction novel, the first part of a trilogy. It tells the story of 17-year-old Matthew Peters, who has been spending seven years writing and drawing his own webcomic about a character named Excelsior, who is from the faraway planet Denab IV. Matthew is visited by an older woman who tells him that she is from planet Denab IV, and everything he has been writing and drawing have actually taken place. So now, with Excelsior’s enemies growing in power on both Denab IV and Earth, Matthew realizes that he has the opportunity to become the hero that he thought only existed in his imagination.

“From Parts Unknown” is a five-part science-fiction / sports serial that is currently…

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Suspect Calls ‘Black Death’ Kidnapping a Publicity Stunt

Lukasz Herba, the Polish man accused of kidnapping an Instagram ‘model’ to auction on the darknet, told officials that the model had planned the so-called “kidnapping” to further her career. The model, Chloe Ayling, had accused Herba and his brother of luring her to a fake photoshoot in Milan, kidnapping her, and attempting to auction her on the darknet several months ago. She immediately faced skepticism for the inconsistencies in her story.

Even Ms. Alyling’s lawyer called the story “hard to believe.” The timeline for the seemingly fake kidnapping can be read here—Timeline: British Model Supposedly Kidnapped for Darknet Auction. According to the version of events Ms. Ayling gave to Italian police, Lukasz Herba and his brother Michal Herba kidnapped the single mother to auction on a darknet human trafficking site. Lukasz Herba claimed they worked as operatives for the “Black Death Group.” The group itself claims to be a secretive human trafficking organization that operates on the darknet. The group is likely fake, but even if it exists, Lukasz and Michal have no affiliation with the group.

We covered the various elements of the story that made no sense in the article “Black Death Group Kidnapping Case is a Publicity Sham.” Even then, Ayling’s story was suspect. She lied to the police about the events (on likely more occasions than we know). She said that she had never left the house that her alleged kidnappers had kept her in. But shop owners saw Ayling and Lukasz Herba walking through the small town and eating lunch. They even went shoe shopping.

L. Herba and Ayling had met (at least once) several months before the “kidnapping.” The Polish man’s lawyer said that Ayling had planned the ordeal at a previous meeting in France. She would do anything if it would put her on TV and boost her career, one of Ayling’s friends said.

In the Milan court, Herba’s lawyer requested that the court summon Ayling to give a statement. Francesco Pesce, Ayling’s lawyer, said that his client did not want to see the person who made her fear for her life “second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour.” Pesce added that “she doesn’t want to return to Italy and again see the face of her kidnapper.”

Ayling returned to her Coulsdon home in Surrey and fired her original agent and hired a celebrity agent. The bikini/Instagram model started working on a book about her “traumatic experience” as a “victim of sex traffickers.” She now does public speaking at human trafficking awareness events. She may still be bookable for modeling gigs through Instagram.

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  1. It’s so obvious now that this whole thing was a big hoax. The model’s ex-boyfriend even doubted her story and told people that she craved publicity and would do literally anything to boost her career. Add in all the inconsistencies in her story and her previous history with the “kidnapper(s)” (plus her unexplained meeting with one of them after the whole thing) and I think it’s pretty obvious where the truth is: not with her.

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Police shoot suspected robber “Critters” dead after he attacked cop

A suspected robber, already before the court for armed robbery, was Sunday shot and killed when he attacked a senior police officer with a machete and a knife in New Amsterdam, authorities said.

Dead is 29-year old Marlon “Critters” Shepherd of Smythfield, New Amsterdam. He was shot on the Matthew Allen Road and Strand New Amsterdam around 1 O’clock Sunday morning.

The Guyana Police Force said an Assistant Superintendent of Police had responded to a report of armed robbery and pursued Shepherd who was riding a bicycle and had been pointed out by the victim.

 The Police Officer caught up with the suspect at Republic Road and Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam, and during efforts to arrest him the suspect attacked the policeman with a machete and a knife.

“Despite calls for him to desist, the suspect continued to attack the Officer who was forced to resort to the use of force and shot him to his chest. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital,” police added.

Shepherd was before the courts on a charge of robbery under arms. This resulted from investigations into a report where on February 12, 2013, he attacked Daryl Edwards, 18 years, of Tucberg Park, New Amsterdam, while armed with a cutlass at Garrison Road, New Amsterdam, and took away his cell phone and jewellery.


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Updated: Two killed in shootout with police

Two men were shot dead in Diamond Saturday night during a shootout with police opposite the Diamond Police Station, East Bank Demerara shortly before they were about to rob a gold miner, police said.

Guyana Police Force spokesman, Ivelaw Whittaker said that acting on information received that a robbery had been planned to be carried out on a gold miner, the police staked out an area at Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara.

“At about 10:30 PM. the police challenged two men who were approaching on foot and one of them pulled out a handgun and opened fire on the ranks. The police returned fire and fatally wounded both men,” said the spokesman.

A .38 snub-nose revolver with two live rounds and two spent shells, along with one 9mm. round and two 7.62 x 39 rounds were recovered by the police.

One of the men has been identified as Paul Bascom called ‘Shine Buck’ of Diamond Housing Scheme, EBD, while his accomplice has not been identified so far.

The bodies are at the Lyken Funeral Parlour.


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Heavy winds wreak havoc on East Coast Demerara

The house in which Cousin Dorris lived

Strong rainstorm winds on Saturday damaged several houses and businesses in the East Coast Demerara villages of Beterverwagting, La Bonne Intention (LBI) and Nootenzuil.

One decades-old colonial cottage occupied by an elderly woman  only known as Ms. Dorris, was blown down.

There were no immediate reports of injury at Beterverwagting. Heavy winds also damaged roofs at LBI and Nootenzuil.

Residents along Quamina and Slowe Streets in BV were Saturday afternoon busy patching up their roofs before heavy rains continued.

The owner of Nisha’s shop, Bibi Z. Nisha, said she has to spend at least GUY$500,000 on materials and workmanship to replace her roof.  “I sent to buy two tarpaulin until they finish the roof. It is an old time V roof so I have to pull that down and build a flat roof,” she told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com ).

Lorrain Hamer of Oily’s Shop said her business entity also suffered damage as a result of the high wind. “All I know is the breeze started blowing and the zinc blow off,” she said.

Weather forecasters earlier Saturday said that wins were expected to be East North East  and East South East between  5 to 10 meters per second. gusting to 40 meters per second. over some areas.

Following is the latest weather forecast issued by the Timehri Weather Station:

Current Conditions:
Cloudy to overcast conditions are currently being observed throughout most of Guyana. Regions 2 and 3 are currently experiencing moderate to heavy showers and intermittent rain over some areas. Inland areas are currently experiencing cloudy to occasionally overcast skies as well with scattered moderate showers. Other areas, reporting mostly cloudy skies with brief light showers. Water accumulation/Flooding has been reported in some areas of Region 2, 3 and 4.
Radar data shows, widespread rainfall along coastal regions and some inland location. Regions 2 to 6 and 10 are experiencing varying rainfall intensities from light to heavy. Other areas, isolated light to moderate showers.
Expected condition:

Over the next four (4) hours, these conditions will continue over these same areas. Regions 2, 3, 4 and 5 will continue to experience heavy downpours, but mostly light to moderate showers and intermittent rain are expected. The inland areas will continue to see overcast skies with occasional light to moderate showers and southern half of Guyana are expected to be mostly cloudy conditions with passing showers. Highest rainfall amount are expected over Regions 2 to 6.

Winds: expected to be   ENE  and ESE between  5 to 10 M.P.S. gusting to 40 M.P.S. over some areas.

Rainfall may measure an average between 45.0 mm to 70.0 mm over the coastal areas. Elsewhere across Guyana, values are likely between 0.0 mm to 25.0 mm.


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Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor

Baltimore-Riots.jpg_23790e32da49a4d09d45db82b7634b69To hear President Obama and Baltimore mayor Rawlings tell it, politeness, nonviolence and respect for law and property are the fundamental obligations of those confronting the brazen and lawless violence of police in Baltimore and beyond. This is a truly upside-down reality.

By Ajamu Baraka

Source: Black Agenda Report

Anti-Black racism, always just beneath the surface of polite racial discourse in the U.S., has exploded in reaction to the resistance of black youth to another brutal murder by the agents of this racist, settler-colonialist state. With the resistance, the focus shifted from the brutal murder of Freddie Gray and the systematic state violence that historically has been deployed to control and contain the black population in the colonized urban zones of North America, to the forms of resistance by African Americans to the trauma of ongoing state violence.

The narrative being advanced by corporate media spokespeople gives the impression that the resistance has no rational basis. The impression being established is that this is just another manifestation of the irrationality of non-European people – in particular, Black people – and how they are prone to violence. This is the classic colonial projection employed by all white supremacist settler states, from the U.S., to South Africa and Israel.

The accompanying narrative is that any kind of resistance that does not fit the narrow definition of “non-violent” resistance is illegitimate violence and, therefore, counter-productive because – “violence doesn’t accomplish anything.”  Not only does this position falsely equate resistance to oppression as being morally equivalent to the violence of the oppressor, it also attempts to erase the role of violence as being fundamental to the U.S. colonial project.

The history of colonial conquest saw the U.S. settler state shoot and murdered its’ way across the land mass of what became the U.S. in the process of stealing indigenous land to expand the racist White republic from “sea to shining sea.”  And the marginalization of the role of violence certainly does not reflect the values of the Obama administration that dutifully implements the bi-partisan dictates of the U.S. strategy of full spectrum dominance that privileges military power and oppressive violence to protect and advance U.S. global supremacy. The destruction of Libya; the reinvasion of Iraq; the civil war in Syria; Obama’s continued war in Afghanistan; the pathological assault by Israel on Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S. supported attack on Yemen by the Saudi dictatorship, are just a few of the horrific consequences of this criminal doctrine.

Race and oppressive violence has always been at the center of the racist colonial project that is the U.S. It is only when the oppressed resist — when we decide, like Malcolm X said, that we must fight for our human rights — that we are counseled  to be like Dr. King, including by war mongers like Barack Obama. However, resistance to oppression is a right that the oppressed claim for themselves. It does not matter if it is sanctioned by the oppressor state, because that state has no legitimacy.

No rational person exalts violence and the loss of life. But violence is structured into the everyday institutional practices of all oppressive societies. It is the deliberate de-humanization of the person in order to turn them into a ‘thing’ — a process Dr. King called “thing-afication.” It is a necessary process for the oppressor in order to more effectively control and exploit. Resistance, informed by the conscious understanding of the equal humanity of all people, reverses this process of de-humanization. Struggle and resistance are the highest expressions of the collective demand for people-centered human rights – human rights defined and in the service of the people and not governments and middle-class lawyers.

That resistance may look chaotic at this point – spontaneous resistance almost always looks like that. But since the internal logic of neoliberal capital is incapable of resolving the contradiction that it created, expect more repression and more resistance that will eventually take a higher form of organization and permanence. In the meantime, we are watching to see who aligns with us or the racist state.

The contradictions of the colonial/capitalist system in its current expression of neoliberalism have obstructed the creation of decent, humane societies in which all people are valued and have democratic and human rights. What we are witnessing in the U.S. is a confirmation that neoliberal capitalism has created what Chris Hedges called “sacrificial zones” in which large numbers of black and Latino people have been confined and written off as disposable by the system. It is in those zones that we find the escalation of repressive violence by the militarized police forces. And it is in those zones where the people are deciding to fight back and take control of their communities and lives.

These are defining times for all those who give verbal support to anti-racist struggles and transformative politics. For many of our young white comrades, people of color and even some black ones who were too young to have lived through the last period of intensified struggle in the 1960s and ‘70s and have not understood the centrality of African American resistance to the historical social struggles in the U.S., it may be a little disconcerting to see the emergence of resistance that is not dependent on and validated by white folks or anyone else.

The repression will continue, and so will the resistance. The fact that the resistance emerged in a so-called black city provides some complications, but those are rich and welcoming because they provide an opportunity to highlight one of the defining elements that will serve as a line of demarcation in the African American community – the issue of class.  We are going to see a vicious ideological assault by the black middle class, probably led by their champion – Barack Obama – over the next few days. Yet the events over the last year are making it more difficult for these middle-class forces to distort and confuse the issue of their class collaboration with the white supremacist capitalist/colonialist patriarchy. The battle lines are being drawn; the only question that people must ask themselves is which side they’ll be on.

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights activist, organizer, geo-political analyst and editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. Baraka serves as the Public Intervenor for Human Rights as a member of the Green Shadow Cabinet and coordinates the International Affairs Committee of the Black Left Unity Network. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C.

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2 Responses to Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor

  1. I agree, to a point. However and correct me if I’m wrong, from what appears to me, the violent actions of protests, in many, perhaps most cases are misdirected. And if so, their act of burning, looting, and destruction of property, are counterproductive and reduced to that of senseless and self-serving violence. It seems to lack organization and the benefit of targeting any semblance of source, hence the problem. I’m reminded of the attacks on Rodney King and Reginald Denny. I hold the same contempt for the police as I do those dragging Denny from his truck. These acts, in both cases, were that of punks and thugs of the first order. The result was alienating the sympathetic support of non-blacks, and even some blacks, who should not be condemned for their condemnation of attacking the innocent.

    Oppression likes nothing better than matters to be that of us and them, black and white. It serves their purposes. And they do a fine job of keeping it thus with many on both sides blindly playing right into the hands of oppression’s end.

    I couldn’t say this without remarking that oppression has its very roots firmly rooted in the manner in which we treat the vulnerable and defenseless as objects to be owned, mastered, and controlled by a self-conceived intelligent, superior, and entitled species, idolized by itself. Layers of the authoritarian order of white, non-white, animal; the result is a damning desensitizing one for the other for which we may forever be plagued.

    Peace to you and yours, Luther.

    • I agree that violent actions are in many cases misdirected but also often misrepresented by corporate media. Justified civil unrest will always be covered by corporate news as senseless riots instigated by out-of-control “thugs” while ignoring systemic violence at the root of the problem. Though there are genuine thugs whose behavior should never be condoned, they’re not created in a vacuum (whether black, poor, wealthy, cop, etc). And as you probably already know, in many demonstrations where violent acts escalate tense situations, the blame is placed on activists when in fact the perpetrators are actually police/agent provocateurs.

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Nothing says Christmas like gingerbread cookies but like what screams Christmas like Disney Gingerbread cookies! So here is the Disney’s recipes for their magical gingerbread cookies.

  • 1/4 C Milk
  • 1/2 Teaspoon salt
  • 1 Teaspoon ground fennel
  • 1 Teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 Teaspoon ground cloves
  • 2 Sticks softened butter
  • 2 1/2 C confectioners sugars sifted
  • 3 2/3 C all purpose flour
  • 2 1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 1/4 Teaspoon ground coriander
  • 2 Teaspoon ground star anise
  • 1 1/4 Teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 C ground mace
  • 1 C colored decorating sugar
  • 2 Eggs

  1. Combine butter and sugar in a bow and beat until smooth. Beat in eggs.
  2. Sift together flour,cinnamon, coriander,anise, baking powder, ground fennel, ground ginger, clover.salt and mace into a separate bowl.
  3. Slowly add the fry ingredients to the butter mixture until dough hold together
  4. remove dough from bowl and wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate until firm
  5. preheat over to 350º and line your cookie sheet with parchment paper
  6. remove dough from refrigerate and set aside until its at room temperature. roll dough out and cut. your shapes out.
  7. Lightly brush the  cookies with milk and sprinkle with colored sugar
  8. bake until firm and edges begin to darken about 10-14 minutes.

Now i hope you enjoy making them as much as i do with my little cousins. ITs one of our greatest memories together and its something i look forward doing with them every year.


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Ideological conflicts in Slovenia over religious issues
Sergej Flere, 2014, izvirni znanstveni članek

Opis: Since attaining independence, Latin pattern (Martin, 1978) disputes and conflicts have characterized the Slovenian political scene, particularly as to relations between the state and religious communities. Slovenia adopted a law on the issue only in 2006, availing itself of the law from the 1970s. The 2007 Religious Freedom Act contained many privileges for the dominant Roman Catholic Church, including those of a symbolic nature and those of an economic one. The Constitutional Court declared the Act unconstitutional and void, departing from the European Convention of Human Rights and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Thus, it set other beliefs at the same level with religious ones, did away with many privileges and obstacles 81 in recognition and registration of new religious communities. However, this decision has legislatively been implemented only in a small portion, remaining to be fully implemented. However, the absence of substantive agreements with the Holy See and the absence of religious instruction in public schools indicate a predominance of liberalism on the public scene.
Ključne besede: Slovenia, Church and state, religious freedom, roman catholic church, latin pattern
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