CRDDC Self Empowerment Training

forks and knives empowerment

2012-01-27T08:01:00.001-08:00

nuf' said!

now what?

empowerment with a knife...

2012-01-27T07:50:00.000-08:00

nothing more empowering than this...

2012-01-24T17:45:00.001-08:00

Become an INSTANT Author

Dear Author,

I say Author (even if your book isn't completed) because if you think you are an Author, you are. It's as simple as that. Now what can make that happen rather quickly, (or as slow as you like) is that you make the decision to make the process happen.

You do that by doing the following:

1. Make the decision NOW to begin this process and have it done as quickly or as slow as you like!

2. Committ to at least a page a day. (Write a sentence every hour)

3. Set aside $20.12 for your deposit to make it happen. (IRS Refunds, earn extra $$ doing odd jobs, borrow it, savings, etc.)

Total Payment for
-Self Publishing Project $99 for 1/2 Day Seminar
In Half Day seminar you learn the basics, manual included

-Whole Day Self Publishing Project $199.00
In Whole Day seminar you
-learn the basics
-1 on 1 consultation
-manual
-ISBN FREE!
-15 Second Promo (Commercial) for your book!
( www.zeldaspeaks.com/14.html) Scroll down to see author promo's!

Once you MAKE THE DECISION, UNIVERSAL LAW sets it into motion!
There is no turning back!

To help you along the way, I have included the FIRST Chapter of the book
FREE OF CHARGE! I will show you how to get your ISBN FOR FREE! ($300 Value)

Now you have NO EXCUSE! Email or call me and we can discuss making this happen for you! 2012 is yours for the asking!

email me now:

HigherLearningNw@gmail.com
to get your first chapter FREE!

Please share this with your fellow Writers, Spoken Word friends, Poets, Lyracists, Artists, etc.

If you alread have a book and ready to market it via TV, web, blogs, etc.
you too can have same results by amaking the decision to get started publicizing your book! (on Facebook, Linked Inn, Twitter and other social websites!)

Let me help you and other writers to promote book sales and/or create buzz around your work! It's just that simple. Never as hard as you think!

email me now:

HigherLearningNw@gmail.com

Be the first to have your own BOOK COMMERICIAL running BEFORE Black History Month!

First 20 people who sign up get a 50% Discount on future Book Trailer! (Book Commercial)
____________________________________________________________________
Taking requests now for TV Taping
Saturday Feb. 11th 8pm in Chicago!

Location will be revealed once we hear from you.
A reservation in your name will be held for you!

HigherLearningNw@gmail.com

First Come! First Serve! LIMITED SEATING!

I will teach you how to get your
-ISBN FREE!, produce an ebook, and more! Just in time for
Feb. 2012 (Black History Month)
March (Women's History Month)

Here's a SAMPLE from the Inner Author Self Publishing Manual!

INDEX Chapters
1. How to get started/Writer’s Block
2. Manuscript Development
3. The Editing Process
4. Copyright/Bar Code/ISBN
5. Choosing a Graphic Designer/Your Cover
6. Choosing a Publisher/Printer
7. Turnaround Time
8. What Will It Cost?
9. Marketing/Promotions/ Creative Visualization
10. Sample Press Kit

SECTION 1
1. How To Get Started/Writer’s Block
Now it’s time to get started. I’ve laid the foundation; you have to build the house. Answer these questions and you’ll be on your way.
• Why am I writing this book?_______________________________
______________________________________________________
• What is my book going to be about?_________________________
_______________________________________________________
• Who are my readers?_____________________________________
• Why would anyone want to read this book?___________________
________________________________________________________
• Am I willing to share a part of my personal self?_______________
________________________________________________________
(Readers love your personal business and it sells books!)
• Am I okay with the fact that this book may not become a bestseller?_______________________________________________
• What determines the success of my book?_____________________
• Who determines the success of my book?_____________________

email me now:
HigherLearningNw@gmail.com
________________________________________________________________________

Not only can you write your own book, but you can begin to make jobs in your community!

You will eventually need a marketing team! THINK BIG!

Watch this video!

www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Rus_AwwOeWQ&feature=player_embedded

are we really empowered?

2012-01-18T11:10:00.001-08:00

How empowering is it when you go to try on something and it doesn't fit?

No more New Year's Resolutions we know we won't keep!

I resolve 1 thing: To STOP lying to myself and eat at least one RAW piece of FRUIT OR VEGGIE Daily!

What about you?

Here's food for thought!
Never to insult, only to make us THINK!

www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=nLRQvK2-iqQ

empower yourself on Dr. King's Birthday, Jan. 16th, 2012

2012-01-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

Don't Read about HiStory, MAKE History!
empower yourself on Dr. King's Birthday, Jan. 16th, 2012
MEET! GREET! EAT!
Free Veggie Taste Fest!
2-7pm

Stream of Life
754 E. 82nd (Cottage Grove in Chicago)
(773) 7994-6323
Tell Berlina Baker that Zelda sent you!

You don't have to live in pain, be bloated, indigestion or stay fat!
We have the power of CHOICE! Choose wisely!

Encourage those you care about to get healthy!
THE BODY HEALS ITSELF!
Berlina can help you, heal you!
(773) 994-6323

if Dr. Momma Hawk can't inspire you, no one can...

2011-12-21T08:32:00.001-08:00

more at

starting today 10am central time

2011-11-14T06:43:00.001-08:00

http://www.naturessunshine.com/us/members/content1/webinar2/education-week.aspx

Steve Jobs left a legacy, will you?

2011-11-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

Steve Jobs' Seven Principles For Success

Innovation is a new way of doing things that results in positive change. -
Steve Jobs
Principle One: Do What You Love.

People with passion can change the world for the better.
It’s very difficult to come up with new, creative, and novel ideas unless you are passionate about moving society forward.

Principle Two: Put a Dent in the Universe. Passion fuels the rocket, but vision directs the rocket to its ultimate destination.

In 1976, Jobs’ vision was to put a computer in the hands of everyday people.
Principle Three: Kick Start Your Brain. Creativity is connecting things, that means seeking inspiration. Jobs found inspiration in a phone book, Zen meditation, visiting India. He uses ideas to inspire his own creativity.

Principle Four: Sell Dreams, Not Products. People who buy Apple products are not “consumers, they're people with hopes, dreams and ambitions. We builds products to help people achieve their dreams and we win their hearts and minds.

Principle Five: Say No to 1,000 Things. I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do. From the iPod, the iPad, packaging of Apple’s products, to the Web site. Innovation means eliminating the unnecessary so the necessary may speak.

Principle Six: Create Insanely Great Experiences. The Apple store has become the world’s best retailer by introducing simple innovations any business can adopt to create deeper, more emotional connections with their customers.

Principle Seven: Master the Message.
Steve Jobs is the world’s greatest corporate storyteller, turning product launches into an art form. You can have the most innovative idea in the world, but if you can’t get people excited about it, it doesn’t matter.
What's your message?

National Diabetes Awareness Month

2011-11-04T08:56:00.001-07:00

Be sure and join us around town for a host of events for
National Health Education week!

Join me at the
Stream of Life
754 E. 82nd Street Chicago
773-994-6323
Monday Eves
call for details

If you have PAIN or any Dis-Ease (from Asthma to Arthritis, Cancer to Kidney Failure, Liver to lung congestion) and anything else you can think of, come out and get EDUCATED! NOT MEDICATED! LEARN as much as you can!
FREE! OPEN TO PUBLIC! Costs you nothing but some time, and your opp to save your own life free from pain and disease!

May you never know the disease you prevent in your body!

fyi

Join Dr. Marshall Chin and Dr. Monica Peek on the Jacinda Show

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Monica Peek photo

Dr. Monica Peek

Dr Marshall Chin

Dr. Marshall Chin

Jacinda show logo

Come Out and Learn the Truth About Diabetes, nutrition, heart disease and other health related issues

Be a part of a LIVE studio audience!
Join Dr. Monica Peek and Dr. Marshall Chin of The University of Chicago's Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes On The South Side Of Chicago team

The Jacinda Show

Saturday , November 12th

1pm-3pm

The Knapp Center

900 E. 57th Street

FREE Health Screenings
Admission is free!

Bible vs. Cell

2011-10-27T18:02:00.001-07:00

Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several time a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go... hmm... where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing.

Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being
Disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities? And no dropped calls!

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!
If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for
Him, forward this.

93% of the people won't forward this.

small biz empowerment!

2011-10-27T08:31:00.001-07:00

NASA, Defense, and Coast Guard Drop Minority Goaling
A recent Eblast from the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) included that Federal minority business programs are silently being eliminated. HUD, under the last administration had achieved 40% of its contracting to minority owned firms. Today, that number is a single digit.

NASA, Defense, Coast Guard, and FEMA recently dropped their minority goaling. According to the Acting Chief Procurement Officer for FEMA, "FEMA did not have small business goals for the recovery of Hurricane Irene and they do not maintain information on the percentage of black businesses receiving Government contracts." However, this is the same FEMA that worked with NBCC members to bring in over $3 billion in contacting after Hurricane Katrina.

The American Small Business League has reached out to the NBCC for help in stopping this legislation and the proposed rule to end the Minority Business Goals at the Department of Defense, NASA, and the Coast Guard. According to the American Small Business League this legislation will prevent job creation.

Parties interested in protesting this ruling, can formally lodge comments in the federal register by going to: https://www.ncmahq.org/NewsPublications/LegAlertDetail.cfm?itemnumber=10488. Written comments need to be submitted to the Regulatory Secretariat at one of the addresses shown on their screen on or before November 8, 2011 to be considered in the formation of the final rule.
For more information, contact Mr. Karlos Morgan, Procurement Analyst, at 202-501-2364 for clarification of content and for information pertaining to status or publication schedules, contact the Regulatory Secretary at 202-501-4755. Make sure you cite "FAR Case 2009-016."

UniverSoul Circus is in Chicago!

2011-10-03T12:55:00.001-07:00

If you haven't seen it, you don't want to miss it!
We've been going for years, and every year it's something new!
This year they have outdone themselves!

UniverSoul Circus is truly universal now!
Crew from Ukrain, Africa, Switzerland, Yogoslavia, Mediterranean, South America, etc.
You name it, they've got crew from that country!

They are all over the place! The lions, elephants and more!
Take the WHOLE FAMILY to see it!

YOU WILL NOT be disappointed!
You will want to go and get more tickets and see it again, and again....

Enjoy these excerpts!!

African Festival of the Arts Labor Day Weekend!

2011-08-30T08:14:00.001-07:00

2011 African Festival of the Arts

Friday Talent

8:00 to 10:00PM Al B Sure, Chico DeBarge, Jon B & Christopher Williams with Zzaje
6:30 to 7:00 PM Fela Queens (Fela on Broadway)
5:30 to 6:00 PM SPIRITS
5:00 to 5:30 PM DJ Kodjo (Traditional & Africa Popular Music)

Saturday

8:00 to 10 PM Bootsy Collins
6:30 to 7:30 PM Ronald Brown
6:00 to 6:30 PM DJ Kodjo (Traditional & Popular African Music)
5:00 to 6:00 PM AfroFlow
4:00 to 4:30 PM Afrinique Fashion Show
2:30 to 3:00 PM MUNTU Dance Theater
12 to 3:30 PM DJ Kodjo (Traditional & Popular African Music)

Sunday

8:30 to 10 PM Mary Mary
7:50 to 8:10 PM Cora Dunham/Drummer from Beyounce
6:30 to 7:30 PM Gerald Wilson
5:15 to 6:00 PM Selvy Singers of Ark
4:00 to 5:10 PM Joshua’s Throop
3:00 to 3:30 PM Taylor Mallory
2:00 to 2:30 PM DJ Kodjo (Traditional & Popular African Music)

MONDAY

8:00 to 10: PM INDIA ARIE
7:20 to 8:00 PM Awards & Recognition
7:00 to 7:20 PM Queen Cora Coleman-Dunham/Motivational Speaker, Author & Drummer for Beyonce
5:45 to 6:30 PM Joan Colasso
4:30 to 5:15 PM Kefee
3:30 to 4:00 PM SAMBA 1
2:15 to 3:00 PM Tambour san Frontiers
1:30 to 2:00 PM Tahurah
12:45 to 1:00 PM Senekeh

2011 African Festival of the Arts
Labor Day Weekend, September 2 - 5.
Washington Park Chicago.

speaking of Blacks in film...

2011-08-18T19:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/blackharvest2011

financial aid

2011-07-26T10:30:00.001-07:00

http://blackstudents.blacknews.com/

Super Man Movie Extra Casting in Chicago!

2011-06-26T14:52:00.001-07:00

Do you see yourself?

need $$$ 4 school

2011-06-02T22:13:00.000-07:00

Check out Tony Hogues, Host of MEN On Higher Learning
Interviewing National Louis University Outstanding Students
with Success Coach Monica Ramos!

empowerment at the dinner table..

2011-05-16T10:01:00.001-07:00

Nothing is more empowering than when you control what goes in your mouth!

Be sure and grab yourself a meal and watch this video!
Enjoy your breakfast, lunch and dinner!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24awRxUAFw0&feature=player_embedded#at=693

The Self Employment Expo

2011-04-06T15:42:00.001-07:00

The Self Employment Expo (www.SelfEmploymentExpo.com)
was recently held at the Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel
9330 S. Cicero Ave on Saturday April 2nd!

It was a bright crispy day and I want to personally say THANK YOU! to all the attendees who came out to the EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM:
How To Get Business Funding Seminar facilitated by
Zelda Robinson of the Higher Learning Network,NFP!

What a wonderful opportunity to have met so many soon to be entrepreneurs as well as businesses/vendors in attendance who really made a difference!

The high rate of unemployment brought many of the attendees out of their
comfort zone, in which this conference was designed especially for them.
It was such an awesome experience to see all the attendees in the class
with so many wonderful start up business ideas, as well as those already
in business!

We so look forward to helping many more!
You can view the seminar online at YOUTUBE!
Simply type in Higher Learning TV Show Self Employment Expo 2011!
Until 2012, here's some photos!

For those who still need grant money info, please email us:
Info@HigherLearningNetwork.org

real empowerment begins within...

2011-03-24T12:04:00.000-07:00

With unemployment at an all time high, this is your next best step to take!
Entrepreneurship!

Join CLTV's Zelda Robinson Traffic Producer for Coffee/Tea Morning Session
at 9A.M. to learn

How to Set Up a Non-Profit, Get Grant Money, Advertising,
Scholarships and more!

Saturday April 2nd
9am - 5pm
Oak Lawn Hilton Hotel
9330 S. Cicero Ave.

FIRST COME FIRST SERVE! LIMITED SEATING!

RSVP NOW!

www.SelfEmploymentExpo.com

GIRLS AND VIOLENCE!

2011-03-08T07:07:00.000-08:00

2011 GPD NORTHERN ILLINOIS
SMALL BUSINESS FORUM!

Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington
Claudia Cassidy Theater
March 14th 9am - Noon
Registration begins 8:15am

______________________________________________

GIRLS AND VIOLENCE!

Community Gang Education & Awareness Seminar Part III

Swedish Covenant Hospital AUDITORIUM
2751 W. Winona
Monday March 21st 6:30PM
ADULTS ONLY

RSVP by 3/18
Lori.trier@cookcountyil.gov

773-334-4046

empowerment begins with you

2011-01-27T14:26:00.000-08:00

Here's a small sample of how to eliminate the (K)Not from your life!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9bfshLnQXA

Nspirational conversations ready by Patricia

2011-01-21T08:47:00.001-08:00

empowered by food?

2011-01-16T16:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqQLGcy18g

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EMPOWERMENT SUMMIT

2011-01-10T11:59:00.001-08:00

2011 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
EMPOWERMENT SUMMIT
Thursday, January 20, 2010

1O: AM—2:PM
5555 W. Grand Ave.

25th District

Chicago Police Dept.

Auditorium

Guest Speaker & Domestic Survivor

Zelda Robinson,CSP, DMT

CLTV Traffic Reporter

CEO Higher Learning Network,NFP

Come And Receive A
* Greater understanding of Domestic Violence *
* The Police Respond to Domestic Violence *

* Community Awareness & Assistance with
Breaking The Cycle Of Domestic Violence
* A Holistic Approach To Empowerment and Self Sufficiency *
Great Resources

AND

information on

Grant Money for Domestic Violence Agencies, Churches, Pastors, Ex-Offenders, Publishing, Marketing,

Scholarships, and more!

Please RSVP By January 10, 2010
edenadvocacycdc@sbcglobal.net
And or leave a message at (773) 609-3336 or (773) 494-4980

Special Thanks To Our Planning Team
* Eden Advocacy CDC

* CPD Community Outreach Org. 11th District

* Youth Outreach Services

* CCSAO Westside Community Justice Center

* Sista’s Of The Hood

* CPD DV Program Office Of The Superintendent

*2nd Chance Housing & Development Ministries

N'Spirational Conversations Volume 2 Global Release!

2011-01-07T21:58:00.000-08:00

2011-01-07T21:32:00.000-08:00

true empowerment begins within...

2010-12-31T12:41:00.000-08:00

Upgrade Your Life 2011!

January 3rd

10am - 2pm

American InterContinental University

130 S. Franklin St. Chicago

FREE! Open to public!

U-p-g-r-a-d-e Your Life!
(Like you do your cell phone)

We pay more attention to our electronic gadgets in our lives
than we do to the people, places and things that keep us stuck!

What issue needs to be resolved in your life?
Relationships, Finances,Under-Employment, Spirituality?

Whatever your challenge is, it is something that can be resolved
or at least get a handle on. This session allows you to examine the
possibilities of MOVING FORWARD and Upgrading Your Life
so that you can begin to experience life on a more joyful level!

Higher Learning Network,NFP offers proven methods and techniques
that will assist you in the process. The best part: it's FREE!

Your facilitator will be Shelomith Yisrael aka Zelda Robinson,
Intl. Speaker/Trainer/Author/Media Consultant.
You may know her from radio/tv/print (WJPC, WNUA, V103, WGCI, Gospel Radio 1390AM, CLTV Traffic, NOIR Woman News,
Higher Learning Network TV Show, etc.)

She's spoken around the world, and now she'll be training right here in Chicago!

Reserve your space for the

January. 3rd - 10am-2pm
Life Changing Session at

American Intercontinental University
130 S. Franklin St.,

Chicago! USA

You can come and be a part of this

ground breaking, life changing
session at the beginning,

or come on your lunch hour!

You will be welcomed!

Bring a friend and receive a gift!
Limit to first 40 registrations!

Raffle! Prizes! Free Tickets!

DVD's, CD's and more!
The only thing you need to bring is:
1. You
2. Pen/Paper
3. Open Mind!

RSVP
Info@HigherLearningNetwork.org

Looking forward to the possibilities!
2011 is your year of leaven!

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Radio

www.WeightMattersRadio.com

Television

CREATE Your Own Job!

Using Your Natural God Given Gifts, Talents & Abilities!

see VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77z2XXxW0Pc

**********

Chicago - Sundays @ Midnight Channel 19

Wisconsin - Minnesota Channel 7

**Sundays Midnight Ch. 19 Chicago**

upgrade your life 2011

2010-12-19T08:32:00.000-08:00

Free Seminar January 3rd, 2011
details
www.HigherLearningNetwork.org or www.ZeldaSpeaks.com
click on CALENDAR!

2011 is here! will you be left behind?

2010-12-06T17:09:00.000-08:00

Technology is here, and constantly growing.

Be sure and pick up your copy of the latest copy HOT OFF THE PRESS!
N'Spirational Conversations 365 Days of Empowerment!

Unless you are up to date, in some fashion you’re going to be left behind, like I was. That’s why you must connect with those who are, like Social Media Expert/Master Blogger, Professor Sy Bounds.

I never would have purchased a Smart Phone until Sy informed me that we could produce LIVE TV Shows just by streaming, while we were taping in the studio. I had no idea I no longer had to switch back and forth from a regular cell phone to a camera, just to take a photo or capture video for our blogs and websites.

Working with today’s youth, you’ve got to stay abreast of trends. Working with youth will keep your mind refreshed and help you see life from a different perspective.

Join Professor Sy Bounds for a life changing experience. He has shown myself and many of my colleagues how to earn passive income, just by having a blog! Email SyBounds@yahoo.com, and tell him I sent you! Get connected!

know who made your way possible...

2010-08-15T12:40:00.000-07:00

The Duke's Music and Race in America

Black, Brown, and Beige

Duke Ellington’s music and race in America.
by Claudia Roth Pierpont
Source: TheNewYorker.com

The basement club was cramped, and the bandstand was so small that, by the drummer’s measure, it could hardly hold a fight. The clientele included mobsters, musicians, and star performers from the nearby Broadway shows, slipping in among the crowd from the time the band appeared, at about ten o’clock, straight on “until.”

The banjoist who provided the schedule could elaborate no further about how long the night went on: “Until you quit. Until period.” After 3 A.M., you couldn’t get a seat.

In the fall of 1926, the craze for Negro music was already sending savvy white New Yorkers up to Harlem, but the Kentucky Club, on West Forty-ninth Street, had the hottest band in town. Trumpets, trombone, saxes, clarinet, tuba, banjo, and drums—nine or so players, huddled on the stand beneath the pipes that ran along the ceiling, plus the handsome young piano player who led the group while
dancers surged around him on the floor.

But the band did more than keep the temperature high and the dancers moving; its arrangements were so startling that even a familiar number like “St. Louis Blues” sounded new. Variety capped a gushing review of the “colored combo” by noting that the club’s patrons—transfixed “jazz boys” and civilians alike—spent a remarkable amount of time just sitting around and listening.

Now that's food for thought!
Who will you make a way possible?

empower a Father!

2010-06-20T12:47:00.001-07:00

A store that offers fathers for those who don’t have them has just opened in Chicago,
where anyone of the female species may go to choose a father.

Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

WELCOME TO THE Father Store!!

You may visit the store ONLY ONCE!
There are six floors and the attributes of the men increase as the shopper ascends the flights.
There is, however, a catch... ! You may choose any man from a particular floor, or you may choose to go up floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!

Happy Shopping!!!!

A woman goes to the Father Store to find a father
On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1: These fathers have children and take care of them.
If you’re looking for a man who loves children, this is a good choice.

The second floor sign reads:
Floor 2: These fathers have children, but are not with the mother, who has the children,
but he still takes care of them. This is a good choice also.

The third floor sign reads:
Floor 3: These fathers are single parent fathers, and looking for a woman with children to make blended family. Great choice!

"Wow," she says, these are great choices, but I don’t want to stop here, there may be something better! She goes to the fourth floor and sign reads:

Floor 4: These men are fathers with no children and looking for women with no children.
They are very good looking, sensitive and patient.

"Oh, My God!" she says to herself, "I can’t do this alone! I need help!
Too many good choices. Still, she goes to the fifth floor and sign reads:

Floor 5: These fathers look like Denzel, Samuel L. Jackson and
Richard Gere all rolled up into one.
They are simply drop-dead fine, love to help with the housework, homework
and massaging your feet!
Did I mention they are all very romantic?
They love to give flowers, write love letters, work long hard hours just to give
you and the kids everything you need and desire.

A woman never satisfied, she has to try the last floor because if it gets better than this,
she has to know about it.

After she reaches the last floor, the sixth floor, the sign reads:

Floor 6:
You are visitor 20, 130, 214 to this floor.

There are NO fathers on this floor.
They are all on the first five levels.
This floor exists solely as proof that most women think they know what they want,
but maybe not really sure due to what eveyone tells us what we want, desire,
deserve, etc. We really don’t know what we want,
thereby making it hard to please a woman with or without children.

So please be very grateful for the father in your life!
At least he’s there and you don’t have to go looking for him.
And if you do have to go looking for him, you probably know where he is.
If you can’t find him, spend some time with yourself, so when the right man/father/father figure shows up in your life, you can appreciate him on whatever level he’s on.

Thank you for shopping at the Father Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a Faith Filled Fantastic day! Please send this to everyone you know for a good laugh and to all the women who can handle the truth! If you see a community of fathers, give thanks for it! We can’t do it alone, so let’s stop pretending we can. We all need MALE energy to balance out FEMALE energy! He’s the yin, we carry the yang!
Stay on purpose,
stay empowered!
Stay tuned to MEN on Higher Learning, Ch. 19 Chicago. http://MENonHigherLearning.blogspot.com

Can'f Find a job?

2010-05-09T12:58:00.001-07:00

Create Your Own!

How To Create Your Own Job Using the Internet will be WEd. 12th
6-9pm

RSVP
Zelda@higherlearningnetwork.org

BEEP Building Employment & Entrepreneurial Partnerships

2010-04-26T14:11:00.000-07:00

We were all blessed with the opportunity to hear the MASTERS of their professional
explain to the community how to take control of their lives.

Master Blogger/Professor Sy Bounds, John Porter Jr., Jim (Tea Manufacturer) and Motivational Speaker Mr. Encouragment brought down the house.

If you missed this one, mark your calendars for the next one

Wed. May 12th 6-9pm We will be streaming LIVE on www.HigherLearningNetwork.org

email: HigherLearningNw@gmail for your seat in Chicago Downtown location.
MUST HAVE PRINTED CONFIRMATION TO ATTEND. Limited seating!

Until then, enjoy photos and video below!

the art of the fart...

2010-04-11T14:17:00.001-07:00

Old Fart Pride

I'm passing this on as I did not want to be the only old fart receiving it. Actually, it's not a bad thing to be called, as you will see.

Old Farts are easy to spot at sporting events; during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, Old Farts remove their caps and stand at attention and sing without embarrassment. They actually know the words!

Old Farts remember World War II, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Normandy, and Hitler. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Jet Age, and the Moon Landing. They remember the 50-plus Peacekeeping Missions from 1945 to 2005, not to mention Vietnam.

If you bump into an Old Fart on the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Fart on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old Farts trust strangers and are courtly to women

Old Farts hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection.

Old Farts seldom brag unless it's about their children or grandchildren.

This country needs Old Farts with their work ethic and sense of responsibility.

We need them now more than ever.

Pass share to all the Old Farts you know.

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self employment expo!

2010-04-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

If you missed this one, you'll have to wait until the fall!
It was so enlightening to see so many people come out and get the resources needed to begin their journey as an Entrepreneur!

Congrats to all those who stopped at the Higher Learning Network Booth to get FREE Grant Money Information, Self Publishing, etc. So looking forward to having you as NEW Authors on Higher Learning Network TV Show!

getting help when you need it takes courage...

2010-03-28T15:45:00.000-07:00

It doesn't make you weak because you need help. That's the work of the ego!

Seek help when you need it, and when you don't, share it with others.
Everyone is suffering in this economy. Help someone help themself.

Spread the word!
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Funds Available to States to Improve Participation in Summer Food Service Programs

In an effort to address childhood hunger and its impact on child development, health and learning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), are notifying states that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) can be used to assist families through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

Through this unprecedented collaboration, ACF and FNS are joining forces to help communities provide children with adequate, nutritious meals during the summer. The notice sent to States includes an explanation of how resources under the TANF Emergency Fund provided by the Recovery Act can be used to cover portions of costs associated with running a summer food service site that are not otherwise reimbursed. States can seek 80 percent reimbursement through the Fund for a range of expenditures including the cost of compensation for staff support to provide supervision and programming at summer feeding sites, transportation services to transport food and/or children to feeding sites, recreational activities to attract more youth to program locations and meal preparation costs that are not otherwise reimbursed under the SFSP.

“During these difficult economic times, it is more important than ever to work together across federal, state, and local offices to support children in need. We look forward to these Recovery Act dollars supporting children this summer since the lack of nutrition for children during summer recess can lead to long term concerns such as illness and other health issues throughout the school year,” said HHS Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Carmen R. Nazario. “HHS and USDA are working diligently to help ensure that TANF funds are available to states to expand participation in the SFSP and ensure that children return to school healthy and ready to learn.”

“One of our priorities for reauthorization of Child Nutrition Programs is strengthening the SFSP so that children aren’t left out just because school is out. Increasing access to more nutrient-rich foods for our Nation’s disadvantaged children is no simple task,” said USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon. “It requires government agencies, the private sector, non-profits and local communities to collaborate to ensure children get the proper nutrition that will help end childhood hunger.”

The Summer Food Service Program was created to ensure that children in lower-income areas can continue to receive nutritious meals during long school vacations when they do not have access to school lunch or breakfast. SFSP encourages communities to provide complete, wholesome meals for children that are served in safe, supervised locations where children can enjoy activities and playing with other children.

For more information and guidance on the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund please visit http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/.

For more information about the SFSP please visit

www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/summer

Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe'

2010-03-21T16:11:00.000-07:00

The rediscovery of an ancient relic has helped
bring the world's attention to the Lemba people
- a Zimbabwean group who claim Jewish ancestry,
writes the BBC's Steve Vickers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm

YJC Spring Job Fair

2010-03-07T15:05:00.001-08:00

Need a job? Don’t miss the YJC’s Spring Job Fair on Thursday, March 11th,
from 1-4 PM at the Evanston Public Library, located at 1703 Orrington Avenue
in Evanston (at the intersection of Orrington and Church, across the street from
the Hotel Orrington)

The event will feature a dozen local employers with retail and hospitality positions.
The job fair is open to all job-seekers 16 and up. The event will end promptly at 4 PM.
All interested job-seekers should arrive by 3:30 PM. Resume and appropriate
interview attire strongly recommended.

EMPLOYERS INCLUDE: Lowe’s, Payless, Rimland NFP, Manpower, Marshall’s, Mather Lifeways,
Food 4 Less, Home Instead Senior Care, Levy Security, Aerotek, & UPS!

For more information on the event, please contact Jordan Burghardt
at 847-864-5627 x22 or by email at jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org

Now is the time to find that summer or camp job. Don’t wait till May! It will be too late!

Jordan Burghardt
Employment Outreach Coordinator
Youth Job Center of Evanston
1114 Church Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Office 847-864-5627 ext. 22 | Fax 847-864-3098
jburghardt@youthjobcenter.org

the color of money...

2010-03-07T15:04:00.001-08:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123103495.html

when you empower others, you automatically empower others...

2010-03-07T15:02:00.001-08:00

congrats to Laura Washington Announced as Woods Fund President

Activist Journalist Laura Washington Selected as New Woods Fund of Chicago President

The Woods Fund of Chicago board announced today that it has selected longtime board member
and journalist Laura S. Washington as its new president.

Washington brings to the Woods Fund more than two decades of diverse experience in print and
broadcast journalism, urban affairs and social justice issues; 12 years of nonprofit management
experience; and numerous awards and honors for her exemplary journalism and civic activism.

“After an extensive search that included over 200 candidates from all over the country, we selected
Laura Washington, one of our nation’s leading experts in social justice issues, and someone with
deep experience in Chicago’s civic, nonprofit, academic and political communities,” said
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Chairman of the Woods Fund Board of Directors.

Washington joins the Woods Fund as it implements a new core principle of racial equity. The Woods Fund
chose to recently incorporate a racial equity perspective into its grant making. The Fund plans to focus
on ways in which race and ethnicity shape power, access to opportunity, treatment and related outcomes
in metropolitan Chicago. The foundation hopes this practice will inform solutions that will eliminate inequalities.

“I am honored to lead this illustrious foundation as we embark upon this pioneering effort focusing on
racial equity,” Washington said. “The Woods Fund plays an instrumental role in empowering and
increasing opportunities for the less advantaged communities in Chicago. We are well positioned to
combat structural racism, a fundamental barrier to enabling work and eradicating poverty in these
communities.” Washington is widely recognized as one of Chicago’s most influential and respected
journalists. She currently writes a column for the Chicago Sun-Times and regularly appears on
National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio and WTTW as an analyst and commentator on race,
politics and current affairs. She is also widely quoted and featured in national media, including Time
and Newsweek magazines, The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, the PBS News Hour and the BBC.

Washington launched her career in 1980 as a reporter at The Chicago Reporter. In the mid-1980s, she
served as Deputy Press Secretary to Mayor Harold Washington during his first and second terms.
Washington also worked as an investigative producer at CBS-2/Chicago and correspondent for
WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight.” She returned to The Chicago Reporter in 1990 and served for 12 years
as its editor, then publisher.

Washington’s academic career is equally extensive. She served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University
Professor at DePaul University and Fellow at DePaul’s Humanities Center from 2003 to 2009. She also
did stints as an instructor and lecturer at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University from
1987 to 2003. Washington earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in journalism from Medill.

Washington begins her tenure on March 1, after eight years as a Woods Fund board member and
three years as its chair. She takes over for former President Deborah Harrington, who is retiring
from Woods after 10 years of distinguished service.

####

The Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities
for less advantaged people and communities in the Chicago metropolitan area. Woods supports
nonprofits in their important roles of engaging people in civic life, addressing the causes of poverty
and other challenges facing the region, promoting more effective public policies, reducing racism
and other barriers to equal opportunity, and building community and common ground.

empowered by women you don't even know...

2010-03-07T12:48:00.000-08:00

Housewives League paved way for jobs, businesses

LARRY DAVIS
The Detroit News

Detroit's blacks in the 1930s pushed to make Detroit that better place they had hoped to find when they fled the South in the 1920s. Escaping overt racism and poverty, they arrived in Detroit and other Northern cities only to find themselves fighting for jobs, housing, education and first-class citizenship.

On June 10, 1930, 50 black women, led by Fannie B. Peck, wife of the Rev. William H. Peck, organized the Housewives League of Detroit and began a movement to promote economic growth in the black community.

The Housewives League -- a nonprofit sister group to the Booker T. Washington Businessmen's Association organized by her husband, the pastor of Bethel A.M.E. -- required members to support black businesses, buy black products and patronize black professionals, thus keeping black money in the black community. The effort received support from the NAACP and the Urban League.

Members, who had grown to 10,000 by 1934, picketed and boycotted, demanding that merchants employ blacks and sell black products. They also lectured and created exhibits emphasizing their position, issued Certificates of Merit to businesses that met the group's sanitary standards, gave tours and organized spending drives.

Their publications included the Semi-Annual Trade Guide that listed approved businesses, a calendar and a bimonthly Housewives League Bulletin. These publications were sometimes carried door to door during trade campaigns aimed at keeping black dollars in the community.

In addition, the group formed junior units for girls 5-15 in 1935, along with high school and college units for young men and women in 1946. They taught etiquette, scrapbooking, unity and achievement.

Betty Shabazz, who later married Malcolm X, was a member of a junior unit in Detroit.

The Housewives League became so popular that chapters sprang up in other cities, including St. Louis, Mo.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Frankfort, Ky.; Austin, Texas; and Baltimore, Md. In 1933 the leagues organized themselves into the Housewives League of America and Fannie Peck was elected president. Conventions were held in many states.

In the group's early decades their only source of money came from members' pockets, fundraisers, ads sold in their publications, and the sales of black newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Courier and Chicago Defender, said Lydia Hibbert, 81, a past Housewives president.

"We funded ourselves with patrons, not donations," Hibbert said.

During the Depression, the League's work was so successful that "in Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, Detroit, Harlem and Cleveland, (the League) relied on boycotts" to gain "an estimated 75,000 new jobs for blacks," wrote historian Jacqueline Jones in "Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present" (Basic Books, 1985).

Its impact was "second only to government jobs as a new source of openings," she added.

The League continued to work through the 1960s before fading out, ironically, just as the Black Power movement grew, Hibbert said.

"Integration diluted the buying power of black dollars," she said.

Dale Rich, MSU professor Darlene Clark Hine and the Detroit Public Library's Burton Collection contributed.

Additional Facts
Timeline
1930: Mrs. Fannie B. Peck founds Housewives League of Detroit on June 10.
1933: National Housewives League of America organizes in Durham, N.C.
1947: National Charter issued.
1949: Issues revised program outline, Trade Campaign Techniques and Purse-size Business Directory in Detroit.
1956: First national meeting in South Central Region in St. Louis, Mo.
1958: 25th anniversary celebration of National Housewives League in Durham, N.C.
1960: Joint sessions with National Business League and National Bankers Association in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1967: Arena J. Buggs elected president of the National Housewives' League of America Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1969: Gertrude Tolbert elected president in Washington, D.C.
Source: 34th annual meeting, National Housewives of America Inc. program (July 11-14, 1971)

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Black Everyday

2010-02-21T12:01:00.000-08:00

Empower yourself by knowing yourself!

Check it out this month before it's over!

February 27 & 28, 2010 at Gorilla Tango Theatre

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will you do the same?

2010-02-07T15:51:00.000-08:00

Ruth went to her mail box and there was only one letter.

She picked it up and looked at it before opening, but then she looked at the envelope again.

There was no stamp, no postmark, only her name and address.

She read the letter:

Dear Ruth:

I`m going to be in your neighborhood Saturday afternoon and I'd like to stop by for a visit.

Love Always,

God

Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on the table.... 'Why would the Lord want to visit me?

I'm nobody special. I don't have anything to offer.'

With that thought, Ruth remembered her empty kitchen cabinets.

'Oh my goodness, I really don't have anything to offer. I'll have to run down to the store and buy something for dinner.'

She reached for her purse and counted out its contents. Five dollars and forty cents.

Well, I can get some bread and cold cuts, at least.'

She threw on her coat and hurried out the door.

A loaf of French bread, a half-pound of sliced turkey, and a carton of milk...leaving Ruth with grand total twelve cents to last her until Monday...

Nonetheless, she felt good as she headed home, her meager offerings tucked under her arm.

'Hey lady, can you help us,lady?'

Ruth had been so absorbed in her dinner plans, she hadn't even noticed two figures huddled in the alleyway.

A man and a woman, both of them dressed in little more than rags.

'Look lady, I ain't got a job, you know, and my wife and I have been living out here on the street, and, well, now it's getting cold and we're getting kinda
Hungry and, well, if you could help us.. Lady, we'd really appreciate it.'

Ruth looked at them both.

They were dirty, they smelled bad and frankly, she was certain that they could get some kind of work if they really wanted to.

'Sir, I'd like to help you, but I'm a poor woman myself.. All I have is a few cold cuts and some bread, and I'm having an important guest for dinner tonight and I was planning on serving that to Him.'

'Yeah, well, okay lady, I understand. Thanks anyway.'

The man put his arm around the woman's
Shoulders, turned and headed back into the alley.

As she watched them leave, Ruth felt a familiar twinge in her heart.

'Sir, wait!'

The couple stopped and turned as she ran down the alley after them.

'Look, why don't you take this food. I'll figure out something else to serve my guest...'

She handed the man her grocery bag.

'Thank you lady. Thank you very much!'

'Yes, thank you!' It was the man's wife, and Ruth could see now that she was shivering

'You know, I've got another coat at home.

Here, why don't you take this one.'

Ruth unbuttoned her jacket and slipped it over the woman's shoulders.

Then smiling, she turned and walked back to the street...without her coat and with nothing to serve her guest..

'Thank you lady!

Thank you very much!'

Ruth was chilled by the time she reached her front
door, and worried too.

The Lord

was coming to visit and she didn't have anything to offer Him.

She fumbled through her purse for the door key. But as she did, she noticed another envelope in her mailbox.

'That's odd. The mailman doesn't usually come twice in one day.'

Dear Ruth:

It was so good to see you again.

Thank you for the lovely meal.

And thank you, too, for the beautiful coat.

Love Always,

God

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2010-02-07T15:41:00.000-08:00

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2010-01-24T17:53:00.001-08:00

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It's pretty hard when funds designated for...

2010-01-01T13:24:00.000-08:00

Community businesses in our community goes unfunded!

91% of SBA Stimulus Loans go to White Small Businesses

SBA data show Black, Hispanic businesses shut out of stimulus loans http://www.targetmarketnews.com/storyid12210901.htm

By Aaron Glantz
New America Media

Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses -- especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos -- according to data provided by the federal government's Small Business Administration (SBA) to New America Media.

On June 15, the SBA, using money from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, launched the ARC program, America's Recovery Capital, giving banks and credit unions 100 percent guarantees so they're taking no risk when they make loans of up to $35,000 to previously successful, currently struggling small businesses to help them ride out the recession.

Under the program, the borrower pays no interest and makes no payments for 12 months, then has five years to repay the loan. SBA charges no fees and pays interest to the lender at prime - the rate of interest at which banks lend to favored customers - plus 2 percent.

The Obama Administration does not report the racial breakdown of who's benefiting from these loans at Recovery.gov, but data obtained by NAM from the SBA found that of the 4,497 ARC loans where the race of the borrower was reported, 4,104 (over 91 percent) went to white-owned firms, 140, (3 percent) went to Hispanic-owned businesses, and 151 (3 percent) went to Asian- or Pacific Islander-owned businesses. Only 65, (1.5 percent) went to black-owned firms.

Overall, white-owned businesses received over $130 million in loans through the program, while Hispanic-owned businesses got $4 million and black-owned businesses less than $2 million.

In five states - Alabama, Arkansas, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Wyoming -- every single firm that received an ARC loan was white-owned. In eight other states, including Louisiana and Nevada, all but one loan went to a white-owned firm.

Civil rights groups and representatives of the minority business communities reacted with anger when told of NAM's findings.

"It's just horrendous," said Anthony Robinson, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Minority Business Legal Defense and Education Fund (MBELDEF). "During this economic recession, there is no recognition or sensitivity to the need to support and benefit people of color."

"The data raises troubling questions" and should trigger an investigation," says Oren Sellstrom of San Francisco's Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. "This should be a red flag for the SBA and the banks. It gives us the indication that something may be amiss and further explanation is warranted."

Census figures put black business ownership at 5 percent and Hispanic business ownership at about 7 percent -- more than double the numbers getting these SBA-backed loans.

At the SBA in Washington, spokesman Jonathan Swain argued racial disparities in the ARC loan program don't paint the full picture of the agency's lending practices. Many of the SBA's other loan products, he says, have large minority business participation. For example, he says, minority-owned businesses receive 29 percent of loans given through the SBA's regular lending program and 37 percent of Microloans doled out by the agency.

"It's hard to look at the ARC program by itself," he told NAM. "It's just one tool in the tool box, just one tool in the array to help small business in these tough economic times."

One reason for the extremely low level of minority participation in the ARC loan program, he maintains, is that the Recovery Act specifically prohibits the agency from allowing an ARC loan to be used to refinance a regular SBA loan, which minority firms are more likely to have.

That explanation isn't enough for minority business and civil rights groups, however.

Sellstrom of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights isn't convinced by that argument. "You would think that minority owned firms could use $35,000 for a lot of uses other than paying down SBA loans."

Sellstom said SBA's response only underscores the need for further investigation. "It's often the case that the first explanation leads to further questions," he said.

Javier Palomarez, the president and chief executive officer of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says the ARC loan program was poorly designed and "destined to fail."

When Congress was drafting the stimulus package, Palomarez said, his agency and other minority business groups argued the severity of America's recession should have led to the government handing out loans to struggling small businesses directly - rather than simply backing up loans from the very banks that caused the country's economic recession.

But the SBA and the banks lobbied against direct government financing of small business, he said, and so Congress devised a $35,000 loan program that requires a small business to wade through nearly the same paperwork needed to obtain one of SBA's regular $2 million loans.

Because of the paperwork and the small sums involved, "most banks don't want to participate in the loan program, and many of those that are participating are restricting applications only to long-term clients."

And those long-term clients often exclude small, minority businesses, which banks see as "risky."

"There's been a dramatic rise in the risk profile of small businesses," Palomarez said "and that is even more pronounced among minority entrepreneurs.

"African American and Hispanic entrepreneurs often self-financed their start-ups or expansions, meaning, that they tapped into their own net worth ... taking out home equity loans or second mortgages to invest in their communities and create jobs."

"These businesses did not get a bailout and, while the Administration has been generous with tax credits for struggling businesses, the banks that caused this problem are nowhere to be seen," he said.

James Ballentine, senior vice president of the American Bankers Association, told New America Media the banks have nothing to do with the racial disparities apparent in the stimulus' small business loans.

"When somebody comes to us, we don't look at their race," he said. "The can be red, white, brown, or green. The only thing we look at is their credit worthiness."

The main problem, Balletine, said, is "there's been a real lack of marketing and as a result, very few lenders have participated." He noted that in the six months since the ARC Loan program was first announced, the SBA has been able to underwrite fewer than 5,000 loans.

But Sellstrom of the Lawyers Committee says the bankers' analysis doesn't address the question of the racial inequities. The fact that there's been little marketing doesn't mean that nobody is being told about the opportunities. It just means that it's going on in less formal ways, and those informal channels are the ones that minority businesses are not privy to."

"The breakdown is that people of color are not present at the banks," added Anthony Robinson of MBELDEF." And the government that's pushing these benefits through are not sensitive to the fact that we are not involved in this distribution network.

"So to solve this problem we need to incorporate people of color into the distribution chain of banks, business, and government. Otherwise, the flaws of the system will only magnify the inequality that's at the center of our recession."

happy new year, new you, new yang!

2010-01-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

Self-empowerment begins within! Within you! Yes, it's within your reach!

Happy New Year, New You, New Yang!

WE are the answer to all our problems.
We are sharing the answers with you, hopefully you'll do your part and spread the word to help keep our kids off the street doing something positive!

The Link & Option Center Debuts Live Talk Show on CAN-TV21
“The Community Link Live Talk Show” airs Fridays through April 1

The Link & Option Center (TLOC), a non-profit human services organization that services
at-risk children, adolescents and their families in Chicago and south suburban Cook County,
is pleased to announce the debut of its live, call-in program, The Community Link Live
Talk Show, airing Friday, Jan. 8 on CAN TV21.

For the next 13 weeks The Community Link Live Talk Show will air every Friday at 4 p.m.
and feature special guests including community leaders, local government officials, and staff
and students from TLOC. Ms. Twin Green, founding President and CEO of TLOC,
will be the show’s first guest.

“This talk show is just one way we can communicate TLOC’s mission to a wider audience
and showcase our programs to families who may not be familiar with us,” said Ms. Twin Green,
founding President and CEO of The Link & Option Center. “Through our organization, we hope
to provide children and their families with progressive opportunities for learning, mentoring,
academic support and vocational training.”

Ms. Green founded TLOC in 1995 in response to the struggles her 8-year old son was experiencing
in school. His lack of focus and direction, due to the separation between he and his father, was
taking him down a negative path filled with failing grades and delinquency. As she worked with
her son, she discovered that this was what she was meant to do: to inspire and help unfocused
youth to stay in school, rise above their situations and strive to achieve their fullest potential.

“While helping my son and other youth in similar situations, I saw a growing need for structured,
academic tutoring in the community,” said Ms. Green. “Eventually, the needs of the community led
The Link & Option Center to expand its programming from providing only educational support
to offering mentoring services, family-centered referral services, computer training, an alternative
to school suspension program, anger management, 6th District Court diversion, and Juvenile Justice
mental health counseling.

The Community Link Live Talk Show’s format will focus on programming and services The Link
& Option Center provides to the community, which includes: Excel Beyond the Bell (tutoring program);
Alternative to School Suspension and Intervention; TeenREACH After School Program; Mentoring;
Mental Health Juvenile Justice Counseling; Mentoring Children of Prisoners/Caregivers Choice;
6th District Court Diversion (Peer Jury); and Adult Probation Treatment Services.

For more information on The Link & Option Center or the Community Link Live Talk Show,
please contact (708) 331-4880. To schedule an interview with Ms. Green, please contact Melissa Schuler
at (646) 752-6427 or melissa@link-option.com.

Top 10 Ways Merchant Companies Rip You Off...And How To Stop Them...For Good!

2009-12-06T15:00:00.000-08:00

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1st Taping of Men On Higher Learning TV Show in Chicago

2009-11-15T18:14:00.000-08:00

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Producer/host of HOT NEW MENS's SHOW:
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Thanks to my first full panel of men
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Gene "Air Man") Phillips, Radio Personality

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2009-11-01T20:51:00.001-08:00

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Project Brotherhood

2009-08-02T14:30:00.000-07:00

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Saving the lives of men, one brother at a time.
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last blog of the year! The Teen Esteem Program

2009-01-11T13:37:00.000-08:00

I know it's the first of the year and you say why am I writing the last blog of the year. I cannot write for 5 blogs and retain my sanity so I am compiling all blogs in one! See new one at end of this article. But before I go, I had to do as I always do and spread the word about FREE Education! I've said it a million times and I'll say it before, I put myself through 8 years of college with no doctorate's degree, (too busy playing bid whist 101!)

So here's the latest FYI!

The Teen Esteem Program

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Monarch Awards Foundation of Xi Nu Omega Chapter
presents its annual Martin Luther King Day Teen Summit
for Tweens and Teens
Bridging the Gap: From Dream to Reality Monday, January 19
10 am to 2 pm
New Friendship Baptist Church
844 West 71st Street
Chicago, Illinois

FREE - FREE - FREE
Entertainment - Refreshments (Lite Breakfast & Lunch) - WorkshopsGroups Welcome!* Workshop Topics Include
Teen Driving,
Teen Health,
Social Networking,
College Preparation
RSVP By 1/14/09 patricia1811@sbcglobal.net or
800.616.5708
*Group reservations should include organization
name, youth names, leader name(s), contact person, contact phone and email

Jazmyne Thomas - President, Teen Esteem
Patricia A. Hill - MLK Teen Summit Coordinator For The Monarch Awards Foundation:
Latrice E. Eggleston, Ph.D. -
Vice President & Program Chairman
Michele R. Willis, Ed.D. - President

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nothing empowereing about parking tickets

2008-12-21T13:39:00.000-08:00

I can honestly say this is worth writing about and applying for.
If you've ever been caught between a rock and a hard place and have a choice of food or paying a ticket, I'd pay the ticket and drink more water! Sounds crazy, but you can find a free meal anywhere. It's not often the city gives you anything, so take full advantage of it.

If you have a parking ticket and you did not pay it, the IL amnesty program will waive
50% of late charges if you pay in full by 2/14/09.

Just go to the link below for more information.

https://parkingtickets.cityofchicago.org/CPSWeb/web/SearchTickets.jsp

get to know your peers, they may need you..

2008-12-14T15:02:00.000-08:00

Students of any age!
Get to know your peers.
You may never know when you'll be called to assist them!

A great example are those who know Barack and Mechelle Obama!

Here's an article you might enjoy.

Many music greats shuffled through Chicago schools
Alumnus compiles mix on iTunes to celebrate history, diversity of talent
By Carlos Sadovi | Tribune reporter
December 5, 2008

Imagine being a Chicago Public Schools student and having Rickie Lee Jones, the Staple Singers or Bo Diddley belting out songs alongside you at a school assembly?

Boasting musicians that also include Benny "King of Swing" Goodman and mega-Grammy Award winning rapper Kanye West, city schools alumni have put a major stamp on popular music during this century and last.

The district is trying to capitalize on these musical legacies by setting up an iTunes playlist spotlighting 53 songs by musicians who attended Chicago schools at one time or another during their lives.

Brad Harbaugh said he came up with the idea last spring after launching an alumni Web site—cpsalumni.org—and noting all of the artists on the district's "honor roll."

Chicago's musical soul Photos "I was struck by the number of famous musicians that we had who really changed the landscape of music," said Harbaugh, the site's editor.

Like any other registered iTunes user, Harbaugh cobbled together a playlist featuring music from Chicago schools alumni. It's accessible through the alumni site (cpsalumni.org/music) or iTunes under the iMix category. iTunes users have to pay for each of the songs, but Harbaugh said the district isn't seeing a penny of it. Instead, the district is getting attention by bragging about the number of musicians who have graced its halls over the years.

The playlist spans the decades, including "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" by Dunbar High School's Lou Rawls, "Renegade" by South Side rockers Styx, "I Feel for You" by Kenwood Academy's Chaka Khan and "Hey Mama" by West.

Harbaugh said he intended the project as a playful challenge to other urban school districts like Los Angeles and New York City, thinking those districts also might want to compile songs from their famous former students. He said he believes Chicago's district is the first to do so.

"What I take out of this is that from the Chicago Public Schools you can go anywhere and do anything," Harbaugh said. "We want students today and people today to know that the sky is the limit."

Along with Goodman, who attended Harrison High School and Shepard Elementary, and West, who attended Vanderpoel Elementary, the playlist includes soul great Sam Cooke, a Phillips High School alum. His song "A Change is Gonna Come" has been called an unofficial anthem of President-elect Barack Obama's campaign.

Harbaugh said he was most surprised to find that music great Quincy Jones had attended Raymond Elementary before moving to Seattle and starting his music career. Jones has two songs in the mix.

Not included on the list? Rap stars Twista, Rhymefest and Da Brat—all Chicago schools alumni.

"We were unable to find a clean version of songs we wanted to include," Harbaugh said.

csadovi@tribune.com

who's responsible for your well being?

2008-12-07T11:49:00.000-08:00

Of course the answer is you, but many like to spread the blame. It's so much easier that way! Being responsible for self requries courarge, consistency and a state of mind unlike others. It's hard to keep moving forward when everything around you seems to be falling down. I read this article and knew I had to share it with you!
Enjoy!

State of the Black World Conference Report: Accepting Our Responsibility

State of the Black World panelists: (Top) Ron Karenga, Rev. Wright, Willie Ricks, Louis Farrakhan, Don L. Lee, Ron Daniels, (bottom) Susan Taylor, Adelaide Sanford, Dudley Thompson, & Sonia Sanchez.
Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosState of the Black World: Accepting our responsibility

By Ashahed M. Muhammad
Assistant Editor
Updated Nov 26, 2008, 04:11 pm

NEW ORLEANS (FinalCall.com) - Beyond egos, competing agendas and differing ideologies, the Black Nation should unite behind common principles to more effectively serve the needs of Black people, The Honorable Minister Farrakhan said during his keynote address wrapping up the State of the Black World Conference II on Nov. 23 at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

After a stirring introduction by long-time activist and displaced Katrina survivor Mtangulizi Sanyika who described Min. Farrakhan as a “global evangelist, a theo-centric global humanist” and “a Muslim extraordinaire who loves Jesus profoundly,” the Minister immediately addressed the recent historic presidential election of Barack H. Obama and what it means to Black America.

“We have witnessed history being made and the history making event has placed on all of our shoulders a heavier responsibility,” said Min. Farrakhan. “I always try to see the hand of God in things that are happening so I can give the thing that is happening the proper respect,” said Min. Farrakhan adding that despite the fact that he cast his vote just before dawn on Nov. 4, he was “in doubt” that America would elect a Black president until late in the evening. The Minister said Mr. Obama’s victory is a sign that “God has not forsaken us,” and “is giving America a chance to redeem herself.”

“This is why I see Barack Obama as a mercy from God to the United States of America and a troubled world,” said Min. Farrakhan adding that America is in a fall from the pinnacle of power.

In a wide-ranging message also dealing with the state of Black leadership, organizations and the slave trade, Min. Farrakhan’s words brought laughter at times. His stern words filled with wisdom and guidance caused deep contemplation and reflection throughout.

The SOBWC II was first major gathering of Black leaders, thinkers, activists and scholars since the historic election of America’s first Black president.

Despite a severe economic downturn, and the typical financial challenges faced by many Black organizations, committed grassroots activists and legendary pillars of the Black Nationalist community made the journey to New Orleans, the symbol of Black suffering and poverty which came to the world’s attention after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Min. Farrakhan said the world’s recent events bring to mind the Biblical story of Moses who made a special prayer to God asking that He would “touch the wealth” of Pharaoh because the Children of Israel were so enamored with Pharaoh’s wealth, that they did not want to leave him.

Citing the recent collapse of several banking and financial giants, the “begging with a tin cup” by the “Big Three” American automakers—General Motors, Chrysler and Ford—and the fact that America is 10 trillion dollars in debt, it is clear that the wealth of America is in fact, being touched.

Well loved by the people of New Orleans, Min. Farrakhan has been a vocal and consistent advocate for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. He conducted a fact-finding mission immediately following the disaster and then shortly thereafter commissioned The Final Call to produce a documentary telling the hidden truth about what happened before, during and after Katrina.

Minister Farrakhan chided the crowd for always being victimized by those who consistently work to “destroy our meager efforts for (financial) independence” with a system of laws to keep Black men and women as share croppers. The enemy kept Blacks picking cotton using education, labor laws, other legal shenanigans and actual lynchings to prevent “true emancipation.”

Unknown to many in the audience, The Minister informed them that New Orleans was at one time the hub of the American economy and considered “ground zero” of the cotton and sugar trade.

“The ugly secret of America is that this is where many of the rich bankers obtained their extraordinary wealth and power,” said Min. Farrakhan adding that during slavery, cotton was to the world economy what oil is now. He also said many Blacks found themselves in a state of perpetual slavery by wicked and deceitful slave masters.

However, even after all of that, many of us are like the Children of Israel who did not want to follow Moses when he said “Let my people go!”

“We don’t want to let him go. He has already let us go, but he is not giving us a good send off,” said the Minister. “No one can dig America out of the abyss of economic collapse” due to the wrong headed policies of the Bush administration.

“You are the only people who seek political strength on the basis of nothing,” said Min. Farrakhan noting that the Italians, the Irish and the Jewish people all established economic power then began to exert political power. He said every time we achieve one milestone, whether it is education, business ownership or voting, Black people collectively still end up in a bad condition primarily because we need to “flush out” envy, stupidity, ignorance, jealousy and envy among our people.

Speaking of his long-time allies in the struggle for Black liberation, such as Dr. Conrad Worrill and Dr. Haki Mahdubuti, the Minister told the crowd that those men helped him the most, when he first set out to rebuild the work of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin sat in the front row and listened intently nodding in agreement many times during Min. Farrakhan’s message of self help and responsibility.

“I think it is tremendous what he said,” Mayor Nagin told The Final Call. “We as Black leaders throughout the country need to come together in unity to inspire our people to be positioned for all of the opportunities the President-elect is going to bring us. Forcing us to think differently and to get off of our duffs and move the state of Black America forward, and I got it. I received it.”

African scholar-warrior Dr. Leonard Jeffries recalled how during his travels, when he was under attack, Min. Farrakhan ensured that members of the Fruit of Islam protected him understanding the importance of “security for outspoken Black people.”

“The Minister has been a blessing. I appreciate him building on the foundation he got from Malcolm X, I appreciated him going back into the wilderness and rebuilding the work of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad,” said Dr. Jeffries in between teaching sessions, photos and autographs. “I never fail to be inspired.”

“The State of the Black World Conference is the continuation of the tradition of Black people convening to find strategies and tactics to fight the challenges of Black people in America and African people worldwide,” said Dr. Conrad Worrill of the National Black United Front. “It goes back to the 19th century—the Negro Convention Movement—and this follows in that tradition and its significance with the recent election of President Elect Barack Obama finds us challenged to rise to the occasion in our organizing efforts to find solutions.”

During the five day conference, several working sessions were held calling together the great scholarship and leadership within the Black community.

A Black agenda

A town hall meeting on Nov. 20 brought together those interested in crafting a Black agenda to be addressed by the Obama administration.

“We’re here today to discuss a new way and come together like we have never come together before,” said Radio talk show host Bev Smith.

Political scientist and author Dr. Ron Walters said that for the first time, Blacks voted at a higher level than Whites in an election and remarked that Black people have “turned a corner” and that the success of Barack Obama is one that Black people can look to with a source of pride.

Bennett College president Dr. Julianne Malveaux remarked that agendas have been presented to the Obama administration by other ethnic groups, why not a Black agenda?

“The celebration is about the symbolism, but what is the substance?” asked Dr. Malveaux. “We need to lay out an agenda and that agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs. The words ‘poverty’ and ‘urban’ were banned from the (presidential) campaign. It’s up to us to raise them again,” she added.

CEO of the National Urban League Marc Morial, who also served as mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 said he had faith in President Elect Barack H. Obama because he knows the reality of urban life, having spent time as an organizer in Chicago. He also cautioned against unrealistic expectations or complacency now that a Black man is headed to the White House.

“We made history (but) we didn’t elect a messiah,” said Mr. Morial “We didn’t elect a savior. We expect him to live up to the things that he committed to, but civic engagement does not end on Election Day,” he added.

Solutions and strategies

In the Pan-African policy forum titled “The Role of the Diaspora in the Development of Africa and the Caribbean” those interested came together to discuss ways to strengthen the relationship between Africa and Blacks in America.

Ambassador Dudley Thompson defined the term Diaspora as people of African descent who are not living in Africa and said that all Black people—especially in America—should refocus their thinking on their origins.

“Think of yourself as a non-residential African who happens to be living somewhere else,” said the 92-year-old Pan-African scholar pointing out that Africa’s financial situation keeps it powerless and still victimized by neo-colonialism. “If you are broke, you cannot be free whether you are a man or a country and that even applies to large (African) countries under the control of multi-national corporations,” he added.

As a board member of the TransAfrica Forum, moderator and award winning actor Danny Glover said Black people in America have a responsibility to do what they can to help the continent by involving themselves in “strategic and important dialogue” along with action. He also pointed to the youth as a key component in improving the educational and economic conditions in places like Haiti and on the African continent.

“Paul Robeson once said that every generation makes its own history. I think the generation of young people was represented by the election of Barack Obama,” said Mr. Glover. “But I think it’s more than just that. There are young people out here doing great and extraordinary work in the fight for justice. We need to invest in young people and young people need to stand up to make their own history.”

The importance of Black arts

In the intergenerational workshop titled “Reviving the Black Arts and Culture Movement” several members of the Black arts community participated in an intergenerational dialogue on the future of Hip Hop and the Black freedom struggle held on Nov. 22.

“I have been blessed to impact a lot of artists that exist today. That’s why I spend my time helping up-and- coming artists deal with having lots of money and their new found fame because many people don’t know how to handle it. I feel obligated to teach,” said Kangol Kid from the legendary rap group UTFO.

Poetess Sonia Sanchez added context to the freedom struggle of the sixties which continues to this day. “Back in our day, we had to fight so we challenged the system with our words,” said Ms. Sanchez. “We were told at times that our music and poetry wasn’t real but we kept pressing on. Our two greatest influences were Malcom X and (John) Coltrane. Those two men fed us and inspired us to write in the way that we did”.

Wordsmith NYOIL also weighed in on the current state of hip hop and the bias against rappers interested in social commentary.

“There are institutions out there that only pay big money for artists with a certain celebrity status, but those artists get on the stage and say anything. They won’t invite conscious rappers like myself and others who have something to say. We as younger people need guidance from our elders,” said NYOIL. “We can’t do this without you all and sometimes I feel alone in New York. Will you help us?” he asked.

Hip hop journalist Davy D has solutions for those who feel as though that which currently exists does not represent them or provide sufficient outlets for displaying their skills and talents.

“I believe it is that aloneness that people experience at times that creates institutions. If the goal for us is only to be on BET or CNN, then we are off in our thinking,” Davy D said. “We don’t have to depend on mainstream media to put out our story, when we can do it. There are people off the block and in the hood who can do great things if we start falling back in love with one another. We need to start utilizing the resources that we all have and network to build institutions

Jasiri X, who has done a lot to infuse real world events into his lyrics by creating anthems related to the “Jena Six” case and the case of Sean Bell, had several recommendations.

“If you or anybody you know is connected to institutions, why not invite positive rappers in? I have witnessed how organizations have certain positive initiatives that we offer to represent from a hip hop standpoint and we get shut down. It would make sense to use an artist who can reach young people with their message.”

Workshop moderator Dr. Kimberly Ellis, also called Dr. Goddess brought it all home in a unified manner.

“We are not going anywhere without our elders who paved the way for us,” said Dr. Ellis. “I believe our generation is powerful and if we have the guidance of those before us we will do even more. But there must be communication between the two and a level of respect.”

On the evening of Nov. 22, the Institute of the Black World held the Legacy Awards ceremony honoring those consistently on the front lines of the struggle for Black liberation. Among those honored was Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright. After graciously thanking many of those joining him on the stage, he delivered special words of thanks and appreciation on behalf of Black people for Minister Farrakhan and the two men embraced to the cheers of the crowd.

“One of many things that the media got angry about back in April is that I would not let them tell me who my friends were, and because the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan is a friend of mine,” said Rev. Wright adding that during the controversy, the Fruit of Islam provided security for him and other Nation of Islam members stood in support of him. “While they were using me as the whipping boy, they were waiting on him (Farrakhan) to say anything. Anything. He held his peace in order that Barack may be our president. My brother, we owe a debt of gratitude that we can never repay.”

Dr. Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World called it an “incredible and powerful moment” that many at SOBWC II will not soon forget.

Though not talking much to the media over the past few months, Rev. Wright told The Final Call that it was an evening of “mixed emotions” the night he heard the news that Barack H. Obama had been elected president.

“It was like it was all worth it,” said Rev. Wright. “I told one of the reporters from the Los Angeles Times, that I had been supporting Barack for years long before many of them could even pronounce his name and to see all of that hard work come to fruition was a sign of hope with my biggest hope being that all of those that worked so hard to get him elected will continue to work (because) he can’t do this all by himself,” Rev. Wright added.

Rev. Wright also said that on the night of the election, when his family was celebrating Mr. Obama’s victory, it was painful when his name was still being tarnished in the media and that he could not be present in Grant Park for the celebration.

“It was great feeling—it was painful in that I couldn’t be there because of his support(ers) hating me—many of them—and my presence being something that would hurt him, that was painful because long before they knew him, I was pushing him and supporting him. It was like seeing one of your children finally make it to the big stage, but you can’t be there with him. It was a mixed emotion kind of night. In fact, as I was celebrating and enjoying the moment CNN mentioned my name in a negative light—that night! They won’t let it go, but it was good seeing that come to pass.”

“To see these giants coming together and to show these two men that we have their backs to see that they have each other backs,” said Dr. Daniels “We may never see that in a collective setting like this again, it was just incredible.”

Reflecting on Min. Farrakhan’s Sunday message, Dr. Worrill said Min. Farrakhan’s participation in this event as a representation of the continuation of the struggle for Black liberation, and at the same time, preparation for the passing of the torch.

“In 1970 Minister Farrakhan was the keynote speaker at the Congress of African People meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Ron Daniels, Mtangulizi Sanyika and myself, Conrad Worrill were there, and these same activists are still on the front lines, trying to make the connection with the next generation to take our place, so it is prophetic and profound that the Honorable Minster Louis Farrakhan would be speaking at a gathering that has such great tradition in our movement,” Dr. Worril added.

(Jesse Muhammad contributed to this report. Look for more coverage of the State of the Black World Conference II in the next edition of The Final Call.)

be like mike?

2008-11-30T15:45:00.000-08:00

Not me, I want to be like President-Elect Barack Obama!
Do the things THEY say couldn't be done!
Be who you are, no matter what!
Do what you love!
Do what you're passionate about and watch what happens!

Barack Obama did it. So can you!

Now if that's not empowering enough for you, I don't know what to tell you!
Read one of his books, maybe that will inspire you!
Contact www.HigherLearningNetwork.org to get your copy of the 2009 Collector's Edition Calendar or one of his books. Donations Tax Deductable to the fullest extent of the law!

The Chicago, Illinois Diversity Job Expo

2008-11-02T14:30:00.000-08:00

There's nothing more empowering than to be able to take care of yourself and family. Tell everyone you know that's looking for a job!

Wednesday- November 12th, 2008
11:00 A.M. To 3:00 P.M.
@
The Navy Pier
600 East Grand Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611

FREE ADMISSION

FREE RECRUITING SEMINARS

Excellent Career Opportunities with Top Employers! Simply Attend This Event Anytime Throughout The Day - BUSINESS ATTIRE IS REQUIRED and MUST Bring Plenty of RESUMES. This event is no cost. Entry level to Senior level positions available.
Job Opportunities Compensation: $30,000.00 To Over $200 ,000.00 Annually

Here Are A Few Of The Employers Attending:

All Inclusive Concierge 24/7

BP Corporation

Illinois State Police Department

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DiversityjobsUSA.com & Diversity Job Expos (USA)
The Latin American Association

WIN $500.00 In CONTEST RAFFLE DRAWING,

For More Information On This Recruiting Event:

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TheBlackList

2008-11-02T13:43:00.001-08:00

Sites for electorial projections

These are site many politicos are using to keep up with the US electorial races,
both national and state.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

http://electoral-vote.com/

Ron Brown Scholars Program

2008-10-19T13:10:00.000-07:00

mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!

If you know child that is about to graduate from High School this year you may know someone who can use a little help in this arena.

The Ron Brown Scholars Program seeks African-American high school seniors to receive $10,000 annually for four (4) years
to attend an accredited four-year college or university in the US. Deadlines: November 1, 2008 and January 9, 2009.
Mail application (attached), transcripts and recommendation letters in one package.

For information, contact
Ron Brown Program,
1160 Pepsi Place, Suite 206,
Charlottesville, Va. 22901;
434-964-1588;

.

Randreta N. Ward-Evans
Director of Development Harlem Hospital Center
212-939-1390 / 212-939-1126 (fax)

Nobel Laureates in Science support for Senator Obama

2008-10-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

This is too good to pass up!
Be sure and tell everyone you know to read this!

65 U.S. Nobel Laureates in Science send an open letter to the
American people strongly urging support for Senator Obama.
The letter marks the largest number of US Nobel Laureates - 'the nation's greatest minds' -
ever to endorse a political candidat e. Note: these are all Scientists who are concerned
about America's Economic decline.

October 14, 2008

An Open Letter to the American People,
This year's presidential election is among the most significant in our nation's history. The country urgently needs a visionary leader who can ensure the future of our traditional strengths in science and technology and who can harness those strengths to address many of our greatest problems: energy, disease, climate change, security, and economic competitiveness.
We are convinced that Senator Barack Obama is such a leader, and we urge you to join us in supporting him.

During the administration of George W. Bush, vital parts of our country's scientific enterprise have been damaged by stagnant or declining federal support. The government's scientific advisory process has been distorted by political considerations. As a result, our once dominant position in the scientific world has been shaken and our prosperity has been placed at risk. We have lost time critical for the development of new ways to provide energy, treat disease, reverse climate change, strengthen our security, and improve our economy.
We have watched Senator Obama's approach to these issues with admiration. We espe cially applaud his emphasis during the campaign on the power of science and technology to enhance our nation's competitiveness. In particular, we support the measures he plans to take - through new initiatives in education and training, expanded research funding, an unbiased process for obtaining scientific advice, and an appropriate balance of basic and applied research - to meet the nation's and the world's most urgent needs.
Senator Obama understands that Presidential leadership and federal investments in science and technology are crucial elements in successful governance of the world's leading country. We hope you will join us as we work together to ensure his election in November.
Signed,

Alexei Arikosov Physics 2003Roger Guillemin Medicine 1977
Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
John L. Hall Physics 2005
Sidney Altman Chemistry 1989
Leland H. Hartwell Medicine 2001
Philip W. Anderson Physics 1977
Dudley Herschbach Chemistry 1986
Richard Axel Medicine 2004
Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
David Baltimore Medicine 1975
H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
Baruj Benacerraf Medicine 19 80
Louis Ignarro Medicine 1998
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Eric R. Kandel Medicine 2000
J. Michael Bishop Medicine 1989
Walter Kohn Chemistry 1998
N. Bloembergen Physics 1981
Roger Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Michael S. Brown Medicine 1985
Leon M. Lederman Physics 1988
Linda B. Buck Medicine 2 004
Craig C. Mello Medicine 2006
Mario R. Capecchi Medicine 2007
Yoichiro Nambu Physics 2008
Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
Marshall Nirenberg Medicine 1968
Stanley Cohen Medicine 1986

Douglas D. Osheroff Physics 1996

Leon Cooper Physics 1972
Stanley ;B. Prusiner Medicine 1997
James W. Cronin Physics 1980
Norman F. Ramsey Physics 1989
Robert F. Curl Chemistry 1996
Robert Richardson Physics 1996
Johann Diesenhofer Chemistry 1988
Burton Richter Physics 1976
John B. Fenn Chemistry 2002
Sherwood Rowland Chemistry 1995
Edmond H. Fischer Medicine 1992
Oliver Smithies Medicine 2007
Val Fitch Physics 1980
Richard R Schrock Chemistry 2005
Jerome I. Friedman Physics 1990
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Physics 1993
Murray Gell-M an Physics 1969
E. Donnall Thomas Medicine 1990
Riccardo Giacconi Physics 2002
Charles H. Townes Physics 1964
Walter Gilbert Chemistry 1980
Roger Tsien Chemistry 2008
Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
Daniel C.Tsui Physics 1998
Donald A. Glaser Physics 1960
Harold Varmus Medicine 1989
Shel don L. Glashow Physics 1979
James D. Watson Medicine 1962
Joseph Goldstein Medicine 1985
Eric Wieschaus Medicine 1995
Paul Greengard Medicine 2000
Frank Wilczek Physics 2004
David Gross Physics 2004
Robert W. Wilson Physics 1978
Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry 2005

The views expressed in this letter represent those of the signers acting as individual citizens.
They do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions with which they are affiliated. The
Medicine award is for 'Physiology or Medicine.'
You tube and pdf of letter available here:http://scienceblogs.com/voteforscience/2008/10/all_2008_us_nobel_laureates_in.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link& utm_content=channellink

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/14/65_US_Nobel_laureates_endorse_Obama/UPI-87491224015215/

Reality check from Joe Biden

2008-10-19T11:26:00.001-07:00

Self empowerement begins by trusting the voice inside of you, not outside of you!
Trust the voice that tells you the truth, not B.S!

Anyone who tells you this election is already decided is dead wrong. Let's not forget the 2000 election, when Al Gore was up by double digits in October.

The surest way to lose a race is to slow down with the finish line in sight.

We're taking no chances. We've planned the biggest get out the vote operation in history, and we need to make sure that every voter has their voice heard.

That's why we've set the goal of bringing in 100,000 new donors by Friday at midnight.

If you step up and make your first donation today, it will be matched by a previous donor.

Will you make a donation of $5 or more today and double your impact?

This campaign has fought for every inch, and now is not the time to take anything for granted.

To get out the vote, we need to knock on hundreds of thousands of doors and make even more phone calls.

This campaign has built the largest field operation in history, and we need to mobilize it in these remaining days to get every single voter to the polls on Election Day.

Because that's what it comes down to -- counting every last vote.

Make a matching donation today to make certain that when everything is on the line, we are stronger than ever:

https://donate.barackobama.com/match

We've come too far to hold back now.

Thank you for everything you're doing,

Joe

Paid for by Obama for America

not going to the back of the bus...

2008-10-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

If you haven't had the pleasure of hearing this sister speak or read any of her works, you have no excuse not to now! I love her book "Cooking With Greese!
Sistergirl sets the kitchen and the house on fire speaking from the heart about the bullshit (yeah I said it!) of politics.

You gotta see this!

So!
You really don't have to sit on the back of anything, unless you want to.

Donna Brazile: "Not going back to the back of the bus:"

http://jezebel.com/5059945/donna-brazile-is-not-going-to-the-back-of-the-bus?autoplay=true

what do you think about congress bailout for the economy?

2008-10-05T14:14:00.000-07:00

We all have an opinion, none more important that the other, but it sure doesn't hurt to know what someone else thinks. Hear this!
Democratic Congresswoman's Appraisal of the Bailout

This is outstanding...
Clear - Straightforward - Brutal

copy and paste this address in your browser!

http://dmiessler.com/blog/brutal-appraisal-of-the-bailout
-i-didnt-know-who-marcy-kaptur-was-but-i-do-now

you're the boss, who would you hire?

2008-09-28T16:49:00.001-07:00

With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.

Let's look at the educational background of your two options:

Obama:
- Occidental College - Two years.
- Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
-Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Biden:
- University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
- Syracuse University College of La w - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

McCain:
-United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 of 899

Palin:
-Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
-North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
- University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
-Matanuska- Susitna College - 1 semester
- University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism

Now, which team are you going to hire

empower yourself at the polls, don't be fooled

2008-09-28T16:01:00.000-07:00

Don;t be fooled by the tactics of the republican party!

The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the
McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications
to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are deliberately
misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town.
What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you
for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee.

These ballots are only being sent out in 'purple states' and this is a big deal.. This is called voter caging,
and is a huge problem.

The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak. Please get this information out to as many people
as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their
city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately.

Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.

The main stream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign
to get the word out to our voters.

White Privileges: Where do they come from?

2008-09-21T11:52:00.000-07:00

I DID NOT write this one!
Someone shared it with me, I am sharing it with you.
Peace and blessings!

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
9/13/08

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn't added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you.

White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto is "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college and the fact that she lives close to Russia--you're somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to get to a hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be viewed as a great mom whose commitment to her children is unquestionable, and whose "next door neighbor" qualities make her ready to be VP, while if you're a black candidate for president and you let your children be interviewed for a few seconds on TV, you're irresponsibly exploiting them.

White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which you talk about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out no substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to be considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives an hour speech the week before, in which he lays out specific policy proposals on several issues, is still criticized for being too vague about what he would do if elected.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good church-going Christian, but if you're black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then to Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as just an average guy (George W. Bush) while being black, going to a prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then to Harvard Law, makes you "uppity," and a snob who probably looks down on regular folks.

White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your college class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.) and that's OK, and you're cut out to be president, but if you're black and you graduate near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you can't be trusted to make good decisions in office.

White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she's disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you're black and married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is viewed as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other are called "terrorist fist bumps."

White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and still be viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with the maturity to be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them, makes you "dangerously naive and immature."

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among the "lesser adversities" faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin explained in her convention speech.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren't sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it's just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

African American Women Evolving

2008-09-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

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Our mission is to increase the activism and leadership of Black women and girls in the Reproductive Justice Movement. AAWE believes that women need full knowledge and total access to as much information as possible to make informed decisions about their lives and bodies. AAWE does this by providing a critical analysis of the intersections between race, class, gender, and reproductive health. Topics in this training will include: access to reproductive healthcare, new prevention methods in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other STI's, harmful effects of feminine hygiene and other cosmetic products, sex and sexuality and becoming active in the political process.

Highlights: Understanding the legislative process. The Reproductive Justice movement. Black women and reproductive health activism. Reproductive Health 101. Healthy Sexuality. Contact Tamarra Coleman-Hill for more info: tcolemanhill@aaweonline.org

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Gustav empowerment?

2008-09-05T14:24:00.001-07:00

Bad things that happen to good people all the time.
Sometimes people are empowered because of challenges.
Let us keep the families in prayer who are experiencing tragedy.
In the meantime, be sure and read this info that was sent to me.

New Orleans, September 2, 2008

The good news is that nearly two million people evacuated and were spared the direct hit of Gustav. Our sisters and brothers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who were not able to leave the point of the storm, lost over 100 lives. The people of the U.S. were fortunate to be able to leave.

The bad news is that most people have not been allowed to return.

Since the storm, New Orleans and numerous other coastal communities have continued 24 hour curfews and prohibited people from returning by posting law enforcement at all entrances. Officials argue that neighborhoods are without electricity and return would be challenging due to the presence of downed trees and power lines.

Locking people out is quite a hardship and also very challenging for the hundreds of thousands of displaced working families. As one local resident put it, “I understand that most public officials are saying for us to stay away as a safety aspect, but they do not realize that some of us cannot afford to stay away that long.”

Garland Robinette, a respected radio voice of WWL radio, was also pleading with elected officials on air this afternoon, “What are you going to do about the poor people who can’t afford another hotel room?”

When the average weekly wage for workers in the hotel and restaurant business is less than $400 a week, the least expensive hotel, plus gas and meals for a family since last Saturday or Sunday, can eat up a week’s wages in no time. Additionally, tens of thousands of people have also lost a week of work because most workers are not paid for the time during evacuation. That puts families two weeks of wages behind.

That it why there are widespread reports of families now parked on the side of the highway or in parking lots waiting for permission to come home.

Over 60,000 people are in 300 shelters across the South. Those who came by publicly paid buses will not be allowed to return until perhaps the weekend.

People who cannot come home are now being told to contact the Red Cross and local churches to see if they will provide bed space.

Despite our continuing problems, we are all thankful for the good fortune we have had. We are also grateful for the help of our neighbors, families and friends who have put us up, given us money for gas, and allowed us to shower and use their phones.

Nearly two million people cooperated in the evacuation. New Orleans and other coastal communities reported only a handful of arrests. This has worked really well so far. But unless officials are sensitive to the serious financial crunch that working and poor families are in, the risk is that next time large numbers of people will be less likely to evacuate.

(Note: BC recommends Bill Quigley's column about the 3rd anniversary of Katrina: Katrina Pain Index.)

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Bill Quigley, is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans. He has been an active public interest lawyer since 1977 and has served as counsel with a wide range of public interest organizations on issues including Katrina social justice issues, public housing, voting rights, death penalty, living wage, civil liberties, educational reform, constitutional rights and civil disobedience. He has litigated numerous cases with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Advancement Project, and with the ACLU of Louisiana, for which he served as General Counsel for over 15 years. Bill is one of the lawyers for displaced residents. Additionally, Bill is the author of the forthcoming book, Storms Still Raging: Katrina, New Orleans and Social Justice. Click here to contact Mr. Quigley.

Any BlackCommentator.com article may be re-printed so long as it is re-printed in its entirety and full credit given to the author and www.BlackCommentator.com. If the re-print is on the Internet we additionally request a link back to the original piece on our Website.

Your comments are always welcome.

obama empowers us all

2008-08-31T13:10:00.000-07:00

If he can do it, so can we! There is no preference in God's eyes!
If a black man from the south side of Chicago can go to the white house, imagine what you can do! See some of the photos from his travels.

Kudo's to Metropolis for sharing this historic footage!

On the road with Barack

Traveling to Denver with Barack

Keep checking the home page for more pictures of Barack and his road to Denver.
Updating as often as possible.

www.bronzevillemetropolis.com/Ready%20or%20Not.html

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Leila Khaled
Editor/Publisher
Metropolis
1900 S. Clark Street, Suite 101
Chicago, IL 60616
312-719-3515 phone
312-604-3226 fax
www.bronzevillemetropolis.com

an email from anthony robbins foundation

2008-08-24T13:52:00.000-07:00

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.

FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.

SIX.. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say 'God bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson .

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Resp ect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.

self empowerment sometimes begins by keeping thoughts to self

2008-08-17T12:30:00.000-07:00

I recieved this one from Essence Magazine. Enjoy!
Feel free to voice your own comments.

Jesse Jackson Speaks On Obama, Race, and the N-word
Civil rights activist addresses his controversial off-air remarks about the senator and explains why he’s still relevant
By Cynthia Gordy and Tatsha Robertson

More than a month has passed since the Reverend Jesse Jackson uttered remarks about Senator Barack Obama “talking down to Black people” and “telling n—s how to behave.” The comments, picked up by a microphone during a break for a Fox News interview, prompted critics to dismiss the civil rights activist and two-time U.S. presidential candidate as a relic from the past. In a candid conversation with ESSENCE editors Tatsha Robertson and Cynthia Gordy, Jackson responds to the backlash and explains why he thinks he’s just as relevant as ever.

ESSENCE.COM: Will we see you at the Democratic National Convention?
JACKSON: Absolutely.

ESSENCE.COM: Will you be playing any role at the convention?
JACKSON: No, not any particular role. I’ll be there as an Obama supporter. I have spoken at the last six Democratic conventions, so I wanted to certainly make room for more speakers and broader participation.

ESSENCE.COM: Both candidates have spoken at length on issues such as the war and the economy. Are there other issues that you’d like them to focus on more?
JACKSON: Well, I think the war is the premier issue of our time. The war is costing money, almost a trillion dollars. It’s costing lives. The war has alienated America in the world community. On the other hand, it’s not enough to stop investing in the war. Let’s now reinvest in America. We need an urban policy within our cities. Nearly fifty percent of Black men in New York City are unemployed. Bridges are collapsing, levees are being overrun. There must be some real plan to reinvest in America.

ESSENCE.COM: What about the criminal justice system, or social justice issues in general?
JACKSON: Well, that’s a big piece of it. You know, 2.3 million Americans are in jail. Close to 40 percent of them are Black, and nearly 20 percent are Latino. It is devastating to our families, as well as the crack-sentencing disparity.

ESSENCE.COM: Why do you think those issues are not being mentioned as much?
JACKSON: I think that becomes our job, the civil rights community, to keep the issues on the front burner that concern us the most, just like labor puts workers’ rights on the front burner, and Hispanics put on the agenda the road to citizenship, bilingual education and immigrant rights. We must keep on the agenda the issue of education, employment, social justice, and some plan to deal with the disparities of Blacks in infant mortality and short life expectancy. We’re [more susceptible to] home foreclosures, number one in unemployment.

ESSENCE.COM: You make a good point about the job of the civil rights community. But many younger African-Americans have been complaining that the old guard civil rights leaders focus too much on African-Americans as victims rather than moving the race forward. What do you think about this point of view?
JACKSON: This “old guard, new guard” is an unhealthy division. Politics must be inter-generational. You need Barack on the one hand to talk, you need Charlie Rangel, chair of House Ways & Means [Committee], and John Conyers, chair of our House Judiciary [Committee]. In politics you grow by adding and multiplying, not by subtracting and dividing. So “old guard vs. new guard” is not a healthy combination. The reality is that we achieved the right to vote, we achieved freedom, but we didn’t achieve equality, and that is the remaining civil rights work.

ESSENCE.COM: The rapper Nas and writer Kevin Powell, who is running for Congress in Brooklyn, have said that you particularly, and other civil rights leaders, are no longer relevant and need to step aside. How do you remain relevant to this newer generation?
JACKSON: The reality is that if you’re running for Congress, you need the votes of senior citizens. You need the votes of churches. You are not getting in Congress on a youth vote. That’s not the mass that you need to win a congressional seat. You need an intergenerational, multicultural coalition. And that experience cannot be thrown away. In Dr. King’s time, Dr. King was 34, but he reached out to A. Philip Randolph. It took both A. Philip Randolph and Dr. King in tandem to make the March on Washington take place.

ESSENCE.COM: Are you going to reach out to some in the younger generation to make them feel that you are relevant?
JACKSON: All you really can do is continue to serve. Who’s relevant and heroism is a matter of perception. You might take a certain hip-hop magazine—they should not say ESSENCE is not relevant; it’s just different. The divide is not the key to growth. The key to politics is growth, and if there’s growth, everybody wins.

ESSENCE.COM: Earlier on you made an argument about the need to push for social justice. A lot of these tend to get branded as “Black issues,” and some argue that Senator Obama, in particular, must tread carefully in that area, to be representative of all of America. What are your thoughts on that?
JACKSON: That’s what we did in the Rainbow Push Coalition campaign. We focused on family farmers and urban workers; a comprehensive health care plan for everybody; equal access to public education—that is a way to frame the debate. Some issues that are being pushed as “Black issues” are not. Affirmative action, for example, is not a Black issue; it’s a majority issue. Affirmative action is [a part of] Title 9 and affects majority white women. Even the voting rights struggle that has made Barack’s candidacy possible was always broader than just Black. When we went to Selma to vote in 1965, White women couldn’t serve on juries; farmers who couldn’t pay a poll tax couldn’t vote—that was not for Blacks only.

ESSENCE.COM: It’s interesting that you describe your platform as inclusive because oftentimes your presidential runs are framed as having been centered on Black people. And now Senator Obama is heralded as being very different from that—
JACKSON: We won Vermont, Alaska and Michigan because we reached out. What’s different today is not that Blacks have changed, but Whites have changed. Whites who once terrorized us and denied us the right to vote are now voting for us. Many Whites are maturing and becoming less insecure in the voting process. But we’ve been reaching out for a long time.

ESSENCE.COM: We’ve seen you champion African-American issues and fight against injustice. Many people simply want to know, when you mentioned the N-word in your off-air remarks about Obama last month—why? They want you to tell them, as an African-American, why did that happen?
JACKSON: It should not have happened. What was private talk became public controversy, and I am embarrassed by that. There is no virtue in that kind of talk, and it should always be discouraged. My appeal even then was that responsibility is a significant message, but our needs require real government intervention and private sector incentives to address the issues of unemployment, building affordable housing and making education more affordable, which really was my point. It was a very painful period for me to have gone through that. The good news is that it’s behind us now.

ESSENCE.COM: Have you talked to Obama about it?
JACKSON: Yes. As a matter of fact, he sent me a welcome to the convention and made credentials available to me. We’ve gone on to the next stage.

ESSENCE.COM: Your son disagreed with you (on the off-air comments). What do you think about your son’s comments? Is it further evidence of you not reaching a new generation?
JACKSON: Well, Jesse’s a co-chair of the campaign, and he’s also a congressman. He felt that pain of that too. He’s free to express himself, and it does not bother our relationship as father and son at all. He was taught to give his opinion in our household, and he did it in love. He’s tough, he’s smart. He has a future in politics. He didn’t want the impression to be that that my faux pas was his faux pas, because it was not. I respect his right to express himself.

ESSENCE.COM: In Senator Obama’s speech that he gave at a Chicago church this past Father's Day, he urged more Black fathers to be involved in their children’s lives. He received backlash for that—
JACKSON: Well, the message of responsibility should be broadly applied and not appear to be just directed to Blacks. Black men need to be responsible—they also need to be employed.

ESSENCE.COM: So would you say that children without fathers in the home is not that critical an issue in the Black community?
JACKSON: Men across the board must be more responsible. But again, in the context of the Black situation, we have a requirement for governmental intervention. You’ve got a million blacks in jail with three or four kids apiece; that’s a state of emergency. I think that responsibility was always embraced. But we’ve got some real structural inequality and exploitation that must also be addressed; that’s all.

ESSENCE.COM: As Senator Obama moves forward in the campaign, do you have any words of advice for him?
JACKSON: I think we have an outstanding candidate. We have the burden now to fully register and vote. There are still maybe 6 to 8 million Blacks unregistered who should not miss this hour, this opportunity. Now that we have a who, let’s focus on the what. What is an urban policy that can begin a renewed commitment to educate our children and to employ adults and provide public health care? These are the issues he has embraced. We have a candidate who has a good grasp of the issues that matter. But the burden is upon us now to maximize registration and output.

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The main problem in the African American community is that we can not be proud of one another other. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is a great example of that. He is so use to being in the limelight and the "leader" of the community that he doesn't know how to just share the stage. Barack knows how to communicate with all races and that's why he is where he is today. What the Rev. said off air on the Bill Reilly show came from his heart. I've watched that piece over and over and there was a weird kind of hatred that erupted from Jac

-B Free

We are so disappointed in Rev. Jackson. First of all Reverend is his title. His comments and behavior do not live up to the title. He said how he feels about Obama. The timing, the place, the words--there is no explaining his way out of this one. Please Rev. Jackson, back away!

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Rev. Jackson is a wolf in sheep clothing. What is done in the dark will come to the light. Rev. Jackson comment that he made towards Ombama came from his heart.

-Dottie

One of America's premeire race hustler's puts the proverbial "foot in his mouth". Guess he had a big problem with Barack's "responsibility" speech because if it took root, he might find himself out of a job.

-Anonymous

the monroe foundation does it again!

2008-08-10T14:39:00.000-07:00

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE! PLEASE EMAIL FORWARD! PLEASE BRING FAMILIES! PLEASE POST!

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TIME: 11A.M. TO 4P.M.

FREE "BACK TO SCHOOL" IMMUNIZATIONS PROVIDED BY THE BLUE CROSS BLUE
SHIELD OF ILLINOIS "CARE VAN".

NOTE: MUST BE UP TO DATE IMMUNIZATIONS RECORDS TO CARE VAN TO RECIEVE SHOTS!

Additionally, The "MENU Project" Event Will Provide information on:

- Eating Food Selection and Eating For Children W/MENUS for Food Selections

RSVP TO:

Mother Anita @ P.E.A.C.E. Center at (773) 677-7272

The MENU Project is funded by a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

Sponsorship Welcome.

For More Information, Contact Elder Otis Monroe @ (773) 315-9720 or
email: omonroe@themonroefoundation.org

WE ARE ASKING ENGLEWOOD COMMUNITY GROUPS AND CHURCH TO LET US KNOW IF
THEY WILL BRING CHILDREN AND PARENTS AFTER CHURCH.

Please Let Us Know by contacting Elder Monroe @ (773) 315-9720

Elder Otis C. Monroe, III

author sheila agnew

2008-07-20T16:39:00.000-07:00

Sheila will appear at the Indianapolis Black Expo in the Meijer Authors Pavilion
for book signings and panel discussions
Indianpolis, IN
July 18-20, 2008

www.mobetterpublishing.com

Hank Stewart's
7th Annual White Linen
Literary Cafe
July 26, 2008
11:30 am - 3:30 pm
Atlanta Downtown Hilton Courtyard
Atlanta, GA
For Complete details on the Weekend Events
www.hankstewartwhitelinen.homestead.com

Mentoring with a Purpose Perhaps one of the greatest mentoring stories can be found in the Bible in the book of Ruth. This chronicles the story of Naomi, a wise woman, who provided guidance to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, after the deaths of their husbands that led them to fulfill their purpose. Naomi's plan was to send her daughter-in-law back to her family, leave Moab and return to her home country of Bethlehem in her old age. God had another plan. While attempting to depart, Ruth clung with persistence and pleaded to go with Naomi. Naomi agreed after witnessing her faithfulness and they proceeded on the journey together.

When in Bethlehem, Ruth continued her dedication to Naomi by insisting she work in the barley fields to support them. Eventually, under Naomi's mentorship, Ruth found favor in the sight of Boaz, a man of great wealth, who recognized her love and commitment to Naomi calling her a virtuous woman. He took her as his wife and through the birth of her son Jesse; she became the great grandmother of King David. Ruth and Naomi fulfilled God's purpose. Their relationship was the prelude to Ruth becoming one of the great women of the Bible.

Giving consideration to becoming a mentor can often be a challenging decision, particularly because people believe mentoring requires us to give up something we value most, time. In reality, mentoring can be rewarding and less time then we imagine. In our daily lives as leaders, teachers, entrepreneurs, career professionals and ministry, we become role models that people look to for advice and direction. Providing the same energy and focus to one person or a group of people to obtain a positive goal is essentially the basic quality for mentoring. Often without realizing in your interactions with people, you routinely listen, offer advice, guidance, and provide basic solutions to motivate others. If this sounds slightly familiar, it's probably because it sounds like you. Add a little time and you are a prime candidate to become a mentor. As a voice of invaluable assistance, you are utilizing simple communication skills.

Being involved in mentoring programs ranging from education to entrepreneurial programs for several years, I have experienced first hand the reward in lending your time and expertise to a worthwhile endeavor. Whether a day, week, month or year, please consider becoming involved in mentor programs at church, work, school or your community. You may be fulfilling your purpose.

Sheila L. Agnew
DC Curry Restaurant Opening in ATL

My good friend, Don "DC" Curry, actor, comedian and entrepreneur opened his restaurant, STAR in Atlanta.
It's a great combination of cajun food, jazz and blues in a quaint, adult atomosphere. You can see and hear DC singing Blues and Soul at the restaurant when he is not on tour. For great food and a lot of fun, visit STAR at 177 Peters Street, SW in ATL, 404-522-6139.
Finding Your Authentic Voice
I recently attended an inspiring free conference conducted by Norma T. Hollis an accomplished speaker, entrepreneur and author who says that Authenticity is the key to greater communication effectiveness and fulfilling your life's purpose. Her unique training sessions prepare you for public speaking by encouraging you to listen to your inner voice, outer voice and expressive voice to think, do and communicate. If you are a public speaker, worship leader or simply want to improve your communication skills, check Norma out at www.NormaHollisSpeaks.com

WARM WISHES TO ALL,
Sheila Agnew
Author, Speaker, Event and Project Management Mo Better Publishing
www.mobetterpublishing.com

obama empowerment

2008-07-13T14:54:00.001-07:00

Dear shelomith,
A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama. From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.
Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges -- including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis. Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America.
This moment and this election are too important to let pass without taking action.
That's why I am asking you to join me in showing your support by making a contribution to this campaign today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/gore
Over the past 18 months, Barack Obama has united a movement. He knows change does not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. It begins when people stand up and take action.
With the help of millions of supporters like you, Barack Obama will bring the change we so desperately need in order to solve our country's most pressing problems.
If you've already contributed to this campaign, I ask that you consider making another contribution right now. If you haven't, please take the next step and own a piece of this campaign today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/gore
On the issues that matter most, Barack Obama is clearly the right choice to lead our nation.
We have a lot of work to do in the next few months to elect Barack Obama president, and it begins by making a contribution to this campaign today.
Thank you for joining me,
Al Gore
LIVE TONIGHT -- 8:30 p.m. EDT: Watch streaming video of Al Gore and Barack Obama at a rally in Detroit, Michigan:
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Those born 1930-1979

2008-07-06T13:00:00.000-07:00

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO.
IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930s, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who, while they were pregnant;
Took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or D VD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this
.For the rest of us...pass this on.

Higher Learning Network

2008-06-10T16:20:00.000-07:00

self empowerment via the arts

2008-06-10T14:54:00.001-07:00

10, 2008

what we're working on

In preparation for the upcoming summer events, we've neglected writing a lot. For more info be sure and visit our other blog http://higherlearningnetworknfp.blogspot.com

Also, we've got lots of new shows coming this fall including the 2008 Printer's Row Book Fair, where you'll see lots of behind the scenes footage of just about everything we've filmed including but not limited to the following:

2008 Tribunes Printer's Row Book Fair
2007 Radio Personalities Conference in Miami Florida

Upcoming Interviews with
Tina Turner
Chaka Kahn
Stevie Wonder
L.L. Cool J
Comedian's George Wilbourn
Steve Harvey
Jermaine Dupri
Jill Scott
Effie Rolfe
Sundance
Bionce Foxx
Doug Banks
and so much more,
so be sure and set those Tivo's and VCR's
Sundays @ Midnight on Channel 19 and on the world wide web!

www.HigherLearningNetwork.org
www.ZeldaSpeaks.com
www.InspirationalConversations.com

be sure and pick up your copy of N'Spirational Conversations in the Weekend Edition of The Chicago Sun-Times
Monthly publication of NOIR WOMAN NEWS
Read N'Spirational Conversations by Zelda Robinson, Intl. Speaker/Author/Media Personality

empowerment tools

2008-05-12T11:01:00.000-07:00

If you want to experience life on another level,
then do yourself a favor and get a copy of this book.
I promise you that you'll IMMEDIATELY begin to
see life differently. You'll begin to see that you've been
asleep for a very long time.

This book is about an awakening process.
It will show you ways in which you can begin
to live life from the inner truth of who you are,
not the label you've been given as mother, father,
sister, brother, aunt, uncle, child, worker, student,
and any other label you currently wear.

It's so good, you'll have to re-read it several times
becuase you just can't grasp the depth of it in on
reading. Oprah's read it 4 times already, I'm on my
second read, now it's your turn.

If you want something different, you gotta do something different!
Enjoy the journey!

self empowerment thru writing

2008-05-11T11:03:00.000-07:00

Get that story out of your head, and into print! This was the them of our recent television taping at Can TV last week for the FREE SELF PUBLISHING SEMINAR.

It was great to see that there are still some serious folk out there who want to make a difference and get their story out of their head, onto paper, so they can get paid!''

Thanks to all the wonderful guests in the audience who made this show a success!
Looking forward to see what the rest if the classes will be like, as we make our mark on the world.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out the website again for details at www.HigherLearningNetwork.org or

CALL THE HOTLINE FOR UPCOMING EVENTS 312-409-6619

are you in pain?

2008-04-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

Pain has become so acceptable in our society, and it doesn't have to be. My friend, Master Blogger, Sy Bounds, introduced me to a young man by the name of Dr. Frank.

Dr. Frank is a doctor who believes in holsitic health.

Dr. Frank believes in the power (with scientific facts to prove it) of healing thyself.
He even went so far to prove it!

I told Dr. Frank about a pain I had, and he showed me how to get the energy flowing in my body, just by pressing on certain pressure points on my hand.

It's so simple, I can do this on my own.
Wow!
Who needs prescriptions?
With the cost of pharmaceuticals at and all time high, I was simply estactic! You will be too!
You've got to show up, every Monday at the Chetwyn Rodgers Development Center, Madison and Cicero (google it for exact address) and watch him work!

In the meantime, visit his blog and TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
You don't have to get a prescription for all your aches and pains.
Take the time and do some WORK ON SELF. GET TO KNOW YOUR BODY and yourself by learning to heal yourself with your hands.

It's an ancient art, scientifically proven.
For those who don't believe, oh well!
Proof is in the healing hand.
Visit his blog and be blessed!

http://womenandchildren1st.blogspot.com

from the movie FILM MAKER OF SICKO

2008-04-22T08:11:00.000-07:00

from film maker michael moore

My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

I don't get to vote for President this primary season. I live in Michigan. The party leaders (both here and in D.C.) couldn't get their act together, and thus our votes will not be counted.

So, if you live in Pennsylvania, can you do me a favor? Will you please cast my vote -- and yours -- on Tuesday for Senator Barack Obama?

I haven't spoken publicly 'til now as to who I would vote for, primarily for two reasons: 1) Who cares?; and 2) I (and most people I know) don't give a rat's ass whose name is on the ballot in November, as long as there's a picture of JFK and FDR riding a donkey at the top of the ballot, and the word "Democratic" next to the candidate's name.

Seriously, I know so many people who don't care if the name under the Big "D" is Dancer, Prancer, Clinton or Blitzen. It can be Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Barry Obama or the Dalai Lama.

Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!

Yes, Senator Clinton, that's how you sounded. Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity. How sad that I would ever have to write those words about you. You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you.

But that can't happen. You cast your die when you voted to start this bloody war. When you did that you were like Moses who lost it for a moment and, because of that, was prohibited from entering the Promised Land.

How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. That day will come -- but it won't be you. We'll have to wait for the current Democratic governor of Kansas to run in 2016 (you read it here first!).

There are those who say Obama isn't ready, or he's voted wrong on this or that. But that's looking at the trees and not the forest. What we are witnessing is not just a candidate but a profound, massive public movement for change. My endorsement is more for Obama The Movement than it is for Obama the candidate.

That is not to take anything away from this exceptional man. But what's going on is bigger than him at this point, and that's a good thing for the country. Because, when he wins in November, that Obama Movement is going to have to stay alert and active. Corporate America is not going to give up their hold on our government just because we say so. President Obama is going to need a nation of millions to stand behind him.

I know some of you will say, 'Mike, what have the Democrats done to deserve our vote?' That's a damn good question. In November of '06, the country loudly sent a message that we wanted the war to end. Yet the Democrats have done nothing. So why should we be so eager to line up happily behind them?

I'll tell you why. Because I can't stand one more friggin' minute of this administration and the permanent, irreversible damage it has done to our people and to this world. I'm almost at the point where I don't care if the Democrats don't have a backbone or a kneebone or a thought in their dizzy little heads. Just as long as their name ain't "Bush" and the word "Republican" is not beside theirs on the ballot, then that's good enough for me.

I, like the majority of Americans, have been pummeled senseless for 8 long years. That's why I will join millions of citizens and stagger into the voting booth come November, like a boxer in the 12th round, all bloodied and bruised with one eye swollen shut, looking for the only thing that matters -- that big "D" on the ballot.

Don't get me wrong. I lost my rose-colored glasses a long time ago.

It's foolish to see the Democrats as anything but a nicer version of a party that exists to do the bidding of the corporate elite in this country. Any endorsement of a Democrat must be done with this acknowledgement and a hope that one day we will have a party that'll represent the people first, and laws that allow that party an equal voice.

Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Every time she does this I shout at the TV, "Say it, Obama! Say that when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky, who did she and Bill bring to the White House for 'spiritual counseling?' THE REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT!"

But no, Obama won't throw that at her. It wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be decent. She's been through enough hurt. And so he remains silent and takes the mud she throws in his face.

That's why the crowds who come to see him are so large. That's why he'll take us down a more decent path. That's why I would vote for him if Michigan were allowed to have an election.

But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.

Pennsylvania, the state that gave birth to this great country, has a chance to set things right. It has not had a moment to shine like this since 1787 when our Constitution was written there. In that Constitution, they wrote that a black man or woman was only "three fifths" human. On Tuesday, the good people of Pennsylvania have a chance for redemption.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MichaelMoore.com
MMFlint@aol.com

smokey says it best

2008-04-13T16:10:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KKyw8V-l0

the holy alphabet

2008-03-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

from Yolanda Jackson:

Whoever came up with this one must have had some divine guidance, I think I need to review this daily!!! Have a great day!

Although things are not perfect Because of trial or pain Continue in thanksgiving
Do not begin to blame
Even when the times are hard
Fierce winds are bound to blow
God is forever able Hold on to what you know Imagine life without
His love Joy would cease to be
Keep thanking Him for all the things Love imparts to thee
Move out of "Camp Complaining"

No weapon that is known On earth can yield the power
Praise can do alone Quit looking at the future
Redeem the time at hand
Start every day with worship To "thank" is a command
Until we see Him coming Victorious in the sky
We'll run the race with gratitude X alting God most high
Y es, there'll be good times and yes some will be bad,
but...
Z ion waits in glory...where none are ever sad!

"I AM Too blessed to be stressed!"
The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
between your knees and the floor. T
he one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.
Love and peace be with you forever, Amen.
Much Love ~YoBe Blessed and Be A Blessing To Others
www.yolandajackson.bravehost.com
"Life is Like a Deck of Cards -You don’t deal with the hand that you were dealt, it's all in how you Play with the hand you were dealt. Optimal words “Deal” and “Play”. If you deal with it, you may never win, never overcome, never achieve higher levels. But if you play, you will lose some, you will win some, therefore you become a Player of life and not live a life whereby you are Played" - Written By, Yours Truly :-)

another ztv viewer on the case

2008-03-23T05:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq2kJ56hSqo

camp for girls

2008-03-23T03:55:00.000-07:00

It's FREE and they provide breakfast and lunch for the participants.
Applications are due May 30, 2008 acceptance will be announced by June 13, 2008.
Eligible applicants for the metro area camp would be in grades 10-12.

There is a URL at the end of this page that allows you to view scenes from previous camps and videos created by participants promoting the camps. This will be a great opportunity for our young ladies. Microsoft is once again requesting our assistance in getting young women to apply for their DigiGirlz Summer Camps. Camps will be held this year in the following eight locations: Charlotte , NC Chicago , ILL Fargo , ND Irvine , CA Las Colinas , TX Redmond , WA (corporate) Stony Brook , NY Washington , DC We are now accepting applications to Microsoftâ€™s DigiGirlz High Tech Camps. We are requesting your assistance in promoting this learning opportunity for high school girls.

The camp was developed to provide girls with a better understanding of what a career in technology is all about. This exciting three to five day experience provides opportunities to learn about careers in technology, talk with Microsoft employees about their life experiences, and enjoy hands-on computer and technology workshops.

What Participants Can Expect ·
Hands-on learning sessions to educate ·
Keynote Speaker series to inspire ·
Career/technology tours to heighten awareness ·
Resume and interview workshops to prepare ·
Employee panels to answer questions
Testimonials Here is what some DigiGirlz had to say about their experiences at the camp:
[The event was] very empowering and I know that I can accomplish anything! "It definitely had a positive impact on me. It got me inspired to get involved and really gave me confidence to live out my dreams. It gave me great ideas and I am so excited to continue on!"

Even in the short time I was at Microsoft I learned so much about technology, but more about how people can achieve professions that they love and enjoy. Everyone's enthusiasm about their professions inspired me to find what I love and pursue it -- not only in technology, but in life."
"I am now much, much more interested in technology-related careers. They are so much fun." Application Details To apply, girls need to complete the online application form which is available at: https://www .microsoft.com/about/diversity/programs/camps.mspx

In addition to providing contact information, the girls will be asked to answer two essay questions. After being selected into the program, they will receive a packet of information with additional forms for completion. They will also be asked to submit a letter of recommendation from a teacher or counselor. The documents must be completed and returned in order to be fully registered for the camp. Girls must currently be in 9thâ€"12th grade to be eligible.
This camp is free of charge to participants. Visit https://www.microsoft.com/about/diversity/programs/camps.mspx for more information .

ladies beware! from a reader

2008-03-09T12:58:00.000-07:00

A reader sent it us, we're simply passing it on hoping it will save a life!

Subject: U..R..G..E..N..T..
This is krayzie & to all be careful!!!!!
U....R..G...E..N..T!!!:

Rape at Crobar in Chicago Body:

Body: -PLEASE RE-POSTU....R..G...E..N..T!!!:

Rape at Crobar in ChicagoA

woman at the nightclub Crobar onSaturday night was taken by 5 men, who according to hospital andpolicereports, gang raped her before dumping her. Unable to remember theevents of the evening, tests later confirmed the repeated rapes alongwithtraces of Rohypnol in her blood, with Progesterex, which isessentiallyasmall sterilization pill.

The drug is now being used by rapists atparties torape and sterilize their victims. Progesterex is available to vetsto sterilize large animals. Rumour has it that Progesterex is beingusedtogether with Rohypnol, the date rape drug. With Rohypnol, all theyhave to do is drop it into the girls drink. The girl can't remember athing the next morning, of all that had taken place the night before.Progesterex, which dissolves in drinks just as easily, is such that
thevictimdoesn't conceive from the rape and the rapist needn't worry about
havinga paternity test identifying him months later. The drugs effects arenot temporary- They are permanent!

Progesterex was designed tosterilize horses. Any female who takes it will never be able toconceive. Thebastards can get this drug from anyone who is in vet school or anyuniversity. It's that easy, and Progesterex is about to break out bigevery where.Believe it or not, there are even sites on the Internet telling peoplehow to use it.

Please COPY this to everyone you know, especiallygirls.Be careful when you're out, and don't leave your drink unattended.Please make the effort to pass this onto all you know......Guys,pleaseinform all your female friends and relatives

Oprah and the BIG GIVE!

2008-03-08T18:00:00.000-08:00

wanna be like Oprah?
start at home.

you've got something in your
closet, kitchen, basement, spare room
that you really don't use,
that someone else could benefit from.

see how easy this is?
now where will you start?

the clintons

2008-03-02T17:05:00.000-08:00

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This is disgusting! This is really disgusting...be sure to read it all...
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If Hillary wins in 2008 and Bill is 'appointed' to fill her Senate seat and either live to retire 'they' (together or alone) would get two US Presidential retirement checks, two US Senate retirement checks, and a retirement check from the State of Arkansas. About the only thing they MIGHT NOT get is a Social Security check....but I wouldn't bet on it...
I understand ole Bill has earned $40,000,000 in the past six years.
What a guy!

AND THE REST OF THE STORY... "Hitlary" Rotten Clinton , as a New York State Senator, now comes under the 'Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan,' which means that even if she never gets reelected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies. (Would it not be nice if all Americans were pension eligible after only 4 years?)

If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess who pays for that?

It's common knowledge that in order for her to establish N.Y. residency, they purchased a million dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua , New York Makes sense! They are entitled to Secret Service protection for life.
Still makes sense. Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence 'had' to be built within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents.
The Clintons charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is about equal to their mortgage payment. This means we, the taxpayers, are paying the Clinton 's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security, as well as the salaries for their 12-man staff -- and this is all perfectly legal!
As she runs for President, will YOU vote for her?

How many people can YOU send this to? Then send this to ALL of them

IS CHRISTIANITY A FRAUD? BIBLE AUTHORSHIP CHALLENGED: BLACK WOMEN ORIGINAL AUTHORS

2008-02-24T10:53:00.000-08:00

IS CHRISTIANITY A FRAUD?
BIBLE AUTHORSHIP CHALLENGED: BLACK WOMEN ORIGINAL AUTHORS
By Vivian Hunter-Hindrew, M.Ed.

In honor of Black History Month, author, and traditional African chief priestess, Vivian Hunter-Hindrew, M.Ed. has put together a slide show challenging the authenticity of the bible's claims of authorship. She proposes that African women were the original authors of what is known as "bible prophecy." Hunter-Hindrew also claims that this knowledge has always been known by the Roman Church, but kept hidden (some in plain-view) for centuries.
Hunter-Hindrew has created an awe-inspiring slide presentation as a trailer to her ground breaking new book:
The Sibyls: the First Prophetess' of Mami (Wata): Demystifying the Absence of Black Women in Bible Prophecy. MWHS 2007.

In it Hunter-Hindrew argues that:
For 6,000 years, Africa was ruled by a powerful order of Sibyl matriarchs. They produced the world's first oracles, prophetess and prophets. Known as "Pythoness," they worked the oracles in the Black Egyptian colonies in ancient Greece, Rome, Turkey, Israel, Syria and Babylon. Their holy temples were more numerous than the churches of today. In ancient Rome, they first established the "holy seat" of the Vatican advising the world's heads of state. Centuries before Christ, they cured epileptics, the blind, lepers and "caste out demons."

It was a Sibyl who called-up the spirit of "Apostle" Samuel. Their "pagan" prophecies were used by the emerging Roman papals to create a "western theological" foundation and became the undisputed precursor for the Christian Bible. Previously published in "Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled," and supported by solid evidence, African women's religious history is finally being unearthed, exposing shocking revelations buried for more than 2000 years.
Hunter-Hindrew further states that:
"For centuries Black men and women have been taught to not question the Bible's authenticity for threat of "an eternity in Hell." The Roman Church was the main orchestrator and profiteer of Slavery and the deliberate impoverishment of Africa. How is it possible for this same institution to be the sacred vessel and vehicle for the "truths of God?" Hunter-Hindrew further contends that "Black men and women have been taught to accept the legitimacy of the western Bible, " especially the New Testament." What they do not realize is that the New Testament is a historical chronicle of the final destruction of the emerging Christian cult's biggest rival, that being the powerful African religious orders that dominated the ancient world since time immemorial. Especially the African matriarchs. Just as Black resistance to slavery, these holy African temples and prophetess mothers resisted the emerging "Christian" cult's imperialist's ambitions toward world domination.

Yet, millions in the Diaspora do not know that the "pagans, witches, and idolaters" that St. Paul speaks of converting in the New Testament were their ancient religious mothers and fathers. Finally, Hunter-Hindrew states that "the enslaved minds of the Diaspora are the last and most enduring stronghold that the West preys upon in keeping them in subjugation.
This slide show trailer is a must-see for everyone especially the African-American community. You can view it here:
THE LOST AND HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN SIBYL PROPHETESS Pt.I&II
www.amengansie.com/Sibyls.html (PART I)www.amengansie.com/Sibyls2.html (PART II)
For further info contact:MWHSP.O. Box 211281Martinez, GA 30907(706) 267-3324

now in the chicago sun times

2008-02-17T17:21:00.000-08:00

inspirational conversations in chicago sun-times

be sure and visit
www.chicagosuntimes.com

click on columnists
scroll down on left and see Columns
click on Colums
click on stella foster
click on PINK NOIR WOMAN LOGO (to the left of her photo)
click on page 6 - wah lah! N'Spirational Conversations!
enjoy!

pick up your copy SOUTH of Roosevelt Road and South Suburbs!

don't believe everything you read

2008-02-16T17:21:00.000-08:00

Another listener/viewer/reader sent it to me, and I had to share it!

Enjoy!

Dear YAll
My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this past year........

I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat shit in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.

Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown);
who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000
that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program ....
Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $70 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me,
and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.

I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer can buy petrol without taking a friend along to watch the car so a serial killer
won't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up.

I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a aftershave sample and rob me. I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan .

Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum.

And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the $50.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a la rge dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump.
I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician's relative once removed.

By the way....a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.
Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late!

Remember, I didn't write this one, just shared it with you!
peace

summer jobs

2008-02-03T13:11:00.001-08:00

http://www.bluelake.org/staff_positions.html#

Party with Obama!

2008-02-03T12:35:00.001-08:00

Chicago, IL -- Senator Obama will host a primary night event in Chicago on February 5th.
Primary Night Event with Barack Obama:
WHO: Barack and Michelle Obama
WHAT: Primary Night Event
WHEN: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Doors open to the public: 6:00 pm
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Chicago 151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, IL
Details: Tickets are free and available on a first-come, first serve basis. Please visit: http://my.barackobama.com/primaryparty to request a ticket.

Self Empowerment Means VOTING!

2008-02-03T12:20:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO, IL – With just two days left until critical February 5th contests across the country, Obama campaign surrogates continued reaching out to voters to talk about Obama’s movement for change and why he’s the best candidate for the future.

On Sunday afternoon, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama and Caroline Kennedy will come together to fire up Los Angeles voters at a GOTV rally on UCLA’s campus.

The free public event at Pauley Pavilion will help engage new voters and bring them into the presidential process.In Alabama, actor Forest Whitaker will join with former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus to Get Out The Vote at a rally in Birmingham.

Governor Mabus will be visiting churches earlier in the day and will host a Birmingham Pre-Super Bowl Meet and Greet, while Whitaker will continue his day meeting with Montgomery residents at the campaign’s local headquarters. General Scott Gration will host an event at the Warner Robin VFW in Georgia, before firing up supporters at the office in Macon. He will be joined in the state by Representatives Gwen Moore (WI) and GK Butterfield, as well as Dennis Archer, the former Mayor of Detroit. And in Memphis actress Kerry Washington will visit churches throughout the city before heading to Little Rock, Arkansas to kick off a canvass and an Obama Super Bowl Party.

In the Midwest, Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie will reach out to voters in Bismarck, North Dakota before hosting a Super Bowl party in Dickinson. Representative David Loebsack (IA) will spend another day visiting with volunteers and supporters at campaign offices across Minnesota, and Senator Dick Durbin will host a Lincoln, Nebraska house party and a town hall in Omaha.Momentum is gaining!

Will you participate in the change needed in this country, or sit back and accept it the way it is? The choice is yours!

money doesn't buy everything

2008-01-19T16:52:00.000-08:00

Thanks to all our ZTV/Higher Learning Network Viewers, thanks for all the great stuff you send us! Keep'em coming! This one I had to share with you, just because you mean that much to us!

Chinese Proverb about money:

with money
you can buy a house
but not a home

with money
you can buy a clock
but not time

with money
you can buy a bed
but not sleep

with money
you can buy a book
but not knowledge

with money
you can see a doctor
but not good health

with money
you can buy a position
but not respect

with money
you can buy blood
but not life

with money
you can buy sex
but not love

with money
you can buy a book
but not knowledge

that end's the quote, and here's my 2 cents:
quote from ancient scripture: "In all your getting, get knowledge and understanding."

There are many things you can buy in this life to make your life pleasant, but none more important than wisdom, knowledge and understanding!
Peace!

sweet poison

2008-01-06T16:09:00.000-08:00

Sent to me from a viewer!

Read this article because it is very important.

Never eat or drink anything that is diet that has the drugs in it.

.

----- Forwarded by Trina M Dunson/FirstEnergy

Fw: SWEET POISON - if you are
suffering symptoms of illness this
is a "must-read" been around but
worth the reading

SWEET POISON **
A MUST READ *
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had
stomach
spasms and she was having a hard time getting around.
Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out
of
bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and
was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not
determine
what was wrong with her.
She was in so much pain, and so sick.she just knew she was dying. She
put her house, bank accounts, lifeinsurance, etc., in her oldest
daughter's
name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.
She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
(basically in a wheelchair) for Ma rch 22nd.
On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she
said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.
I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my
sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of
fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.
I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!
I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.
My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and
told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!
The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure
felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this
article
and would call me when she got home.
Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to
call
all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners
of
any kind.
In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet
soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and
that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a
complete recovery.
And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.
If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and
'Spoonful.'
In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United
States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and s ystemic
lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this
to
be rampant.
I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that
subject.
I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of
this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME
converts
to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic
acidosis.
Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol
toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple
sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in
error.
Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity
is!
Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does
not know that the Aspa rtame is the culprit. He or she continues its use;
irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
life-threatening
condition.
We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken
off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the
symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and
hearing loss improved markedly.
This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet,
Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety
attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME
poisoning!"
People were jumping up du ring the lecture saying, "I have some of
these
symptoms. Is it reversible?"
Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on
food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious
problem.
Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be
symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse
stated
that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been
diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!
Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple
SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you
crave
carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! *
*
These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat
cells,
particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin
andis
used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products we use every
day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet
products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost
an
average of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics.
We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient
with
retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame.
The Aspartame drives the bloodsugar out of control. Thus diabetics may
suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and
phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids
necessary for a good balance.
Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the
Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrieran d it then deteriorates the
neurons
of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures,
depression,
manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage.
Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as
well.
Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children
diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their
behavior
when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called
"behavior
modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others)
are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the
first
place!
Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the
very foods that were "better for them than sugar."
It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet
Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women figh ting in the Gulf War,
may
be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.
Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early
pregnancy.
Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should
NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case
histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other
neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases
directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."
Herein lies the problem:
There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100
different products and strong objection was made concerning its use.
Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings,
and
still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep
pockets.
Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!
There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this
deadly
chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a
"piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of
Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.
And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American
Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference
of the American College of Physicians?
This has been recently exposed in the New York Times.
These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their
link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are
required to endorse their products.
Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would requir
e
label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute
independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the
general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry,
neurological changes and behavioral symptoms.
The bill was killed.
It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible
for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting
and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO
KNOW!
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Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends.
They have a right to know too *
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