Sunday, January 4, 2015

Black Power Meeting & Tribute to Dr. Khalid Muhammad (Norfolk Virginia, Janruary 2015)

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1/17/15 Tribute to Dr. Khalid Muhammad
6:00 pm - Conscious Planet Book Store
Granby Street, Norfolk Virginia

Black Power Meeting
1/25/2015 @ 1:00 pm
The House of Consciousness Bookstore
Norfolk, VA 35th Street
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Friday, January 2, 2015

Invictus: Hazing and the Future of Black Greek-letter Organizations

In 2015, are we finally ready to have an informed discussion about hazing and work toward real solutions that will ensure BGLOs' long-term viability?
 
In a few months, I'll (gsp28@cornell.edu) publish a book on hazing within Black Greek-letter organizations. The book, Invictus: Hazing and the Future of Black Greek-letter Organizations, is intended to spark an informed, national dialogue and move toward real solutions vis-a-vis hazing within our groups. The book consists of my five years of research into one volume for those interested in working toward a solution. I will be blunt; what I write in this book is a bitter pill to swallow. It is largely empirical and a lot of legal analysis. Please see the table of contents attached. 
 
Section One: The history and evolution of rites of passage processes from around the world, a socio-cultural analysis of ritual, and BGLO hazing incidents found in the media and court cases from 1960-2014. 

Section Two: The evolution of criminal law and civil liability with regard to hazing--how individual perpetrators, chapters, fraternities/sororities, universities, and university leadership are implicated and sanctioned for hazing. 

Section Three: The individual, organizational, and cultural factors that motivate individuals to haze. 

Section Four: The factors that motivate an individual to allow him- or herself to be hazed, whether an individual can consent to hazing, and how such information can be used as evidence in litigation. 

Conclusion: The extent to which litigation, Millenials' mentality, and the insurance industry, may lead to bankruptcy.
 
At this point, the book is running about 500 pages and soft-bound. Copies will only be sold via pre-order. I plan to ship books sometime in February 2015. Until Saturday, 1/3/15, you can order the book for $33.00 here or a 4-pak for $125.00 here. Thereafter, $5.00 shipping and handling will be added to each individual book and $10.00 to 4-paks. 
 
Cordially, 
Gregory S. Parks, J.D., Ph.D.
gsp28@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law

INVICTUS
HAZING AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK GREEK-LETTER ORGANIZATIONS
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preface
Section I
The History & Evolution of Rites of Passage, Pledging, and Hazing
1. Of Rites and Rituals: The History of Hazing and Pledging
2. Hazing, Pledging, and BGLO Culture: 1900s – 1980s
3. The Beat Goes On: Hazing and BGLOs, The 1990s
4. Bring the Beat Back: Hazing and BGLOs, The 2000s
5. The Beat Continues: Hazing and BGLOs, 2010 – 2014
Section II
Legal Implications and Strategies
6. Hazing Litigation: Criminal and Civil Sanctions
7. Arbitration as a Response to the Litigation Dilemma
Section III
Understanding the Hazer: Legal and Social Scientific Perspectives
8. Organizational Deviance: The Role and Validity of Beliefs
9. Criminal Deviance: Personality, Drives, and Risk Awareness
10. Making Sense of the Violence: The Intersection of Race and Gender
11. Hazing and Organizational Culture
Section IV
Understanding the Hazing "Victim": Legal and Social Scientific Perspectives
12. Hazing Victimization: A Question of Personality Factors
13. Hazing Victim Consent?: A Psycho-legal Analysis
14. Hazing Victim Consent: An Evidentiary Basis
Conclusion: Is the End Near?

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18 year old Antonio Martin shot dead by cops near Ferguson

Black Teen Fatally Shot By Police 2 Miles From Ferguson
 




CORRECTION: A previous version of this story included an interview with a man claiming to have been at the scene of the shooting and friends with the deceased. As police have released statements saying the second person involved in the incident has fled the scene, the source is now suggesting he was never there.
A Missouri teen was fatally shot by an officer on Tuesday night just two miles from Ferguson, Mo., police said.
Antonio Martin, 18, was shot at a Mobil gas station in Berkeley, Mo., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The alleged victim's mother, Toni Martin, spoke to The Dispatch and confirmed that her son had been shot by police.
It was originally reported that the shooting occurred early Wednesday. However, according to The Associated Press, the incident actually took place late Tuesday:
County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman says a Berkeley police officer was conducting a routine business check at a gas station around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday when he saw two men and approached them.
Schellman says one of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer. The officer fired several shots, striking and fatally wounding the man. Schellman says that the second person fled and that the deceased man's handgun has been recovered.
The Berkeley Police Department requested that St. Louis County Police Department's Crimes Against Persons Unit handle the investigation, The St. Louis County Police Department noted on its Facebook page.
"At this time, we cannot confirm the identity of the deceased subject. The investigation is on-going and further details will be provided as the investigation proceeds," the Facebook notice said.
The hashtag #AntonioMartin is trending on social media. Those at the scene, along with The Dispatch, report approximately 60 to 100 people have gathered around the gas station where the shooting took place.
Livestreams at the scene show residents verbally clashing with police. A woman identified as Martin's mother could be heard sobbing "That's my baby!" on the feed.
The gas station appears to have security cameras trained on the parking lot, the Dispatch reported, so there may be a video of the incident. However, at this time, the situation on the scene remains volatile.
This is a developing story. Story has been updated with a time change, police statement and a clarification about the witness. More to come...

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Looking for Story Ideas for the NEW LIBRadio




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Just as we promised, www.LIBRadio.com has returned to daily broadcasts with a 2-hour broadcast from 11 AM Eastern / 8 AM Pacific, and an additional 1-hour broadcast of the 7MAC University from 8 PM Eastern / 5 PM Pacific.
We came out gangbusters with a detailed review of 43 important news stories from 2014 that do have impact on our lives.  Many of these stories were overlooked and some were just told very badly by the corporate media.  We take personally the responsibility to tell our own stories, teach our own people and the create the vitally necessary institutions that give power to our global family of 1 billion African-ascended people.
Now we want you to share your vision of what type of programming will best inform our listeners.  Culture, consciousness, history, entertainment, economics, education, health, labor, law, politics, spirituality, family, conflict - these and more are the substance by which the Lion is now risen to tell our perspective of an important and ongoing world history.
Perhaps you would like to be a guest on LIBRadio.  Call me at 323.902.2919 between 11 AM and 4 PM Pacific to arrange your appearance and share your critical research and activities with the larger community.
If you missed our inaugural broadcast of the new (Roman calendar) year, check it out.  Realize that our ultimate success is dependent upon a large support from our many listeners.  Thanks to the subscribers and to those who purchase from our catalog for doing your part to maintain our integrity.
2014 African World News Recap: 43 Stories that Captivated Our Attention (or SHOULD Have) - We take a month, by month look at the stories that dominated the media, capitivated our attention and focus, as well as a number of stories that were overlooked by the corporate-controlled media, but still were very important to the development of African progress within the U.S. and around the world. Beyond merely repeating these stories and our responses, we put into context most of these stories and expose critical details which were excluded from the mainstream coverage. This was a very eventful year yet when the year ended it was hard to point to those areas where we actually made progress. Well, those who heard this show now know just how critical this year was to the growth of our long term self-determination.
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The day that black lives did not matter in Panama

December 20, 1989: The Day that Black Lives Did Not Matter in Panama


by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
 
December 20, 1989 is a day of infamy for the people of Panama. On that day, the most powerful military in the world descended on poor black communities in the middle of Panama City and carried out one of the most brutal war crimes of the late 20th century. Many in the U.S. have forgotten or never even knew that when George H. Bush ordered U.S. troops into Panama, Panamanians experienced their version of 9/11. By the time the carnage ended a few weeks later, U.S soldiers had murdered more than 3,000 Panamanians – changing the lives of Panamanians forever.
The attack was a brazen expression of 'cowboy justice' by a rogue state that took no heed of international constraints and instead took it upon itself to carry out an "arrest" of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the de facto head of the sovereign state of Panama.
In the process of this "arrest," the largely black community of El Chorillo, with a population of more than 25,000, was decimated by the U.S. military. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed in an act that predated and mirrored the destruction of Fallujah that would take place some twenty five years later in Iraq. Reports from human rights organizations indicated that beyond the attack, which in itself constituted a war crime, U.S. troops committed numerous other war crimes, from summary executions to the wanton destruction of civilian property and the failure to distinguish between civilian and military targets.
Buildings known to be inhabited by civilians were fire on by troops and there was the deliberate bombing of apartment buildings by the U.S. Air force. Survivors described how bodies were piled up and "disappeared" by U.S. troops. All of this death and destruction was carried out so that U.S. officials could demonstrate to the world that they were going to enforce their hegemony through force of arms – and to shed President George H.W. Bush's image as a 'wimp.'
The black lives taken by the murderous assault on Panama 25 years ago should be a sober reminder that U.S. state violence is not confined to ghettos and barrios of the U.S., but is a central component of the racist, colonial, capitalist project that is the U.S.
"The call for a demilitarization of Black and Brown communities cannot be made without a demand to demilitarize U.S. foreign policy."
That connection is being made by the activists who have entered into political consciousness and taken up the tradition of black internationalism that has always informed radical black resistance and the struggle for our collective human rights. As brother Robin Kelly points out, the young organizers involved in the current resistance against the actions of the police in the U.S.:
"…remind us, not only that Black lives matter – that should be self-evident – but that resistance matters…. The young people of Ferguson continue to struggle with ferocity, not just to get justice for Mike Brown or to end police misconduct but to dismantle racism once and for all, to bring down the Empire, to ultimately end war."
The invasion of Panama, the torture report, the ongoing occupation of Haiti, mass incarceration in the U.S. – all are linked by the global web of U.S. and Western institutions of domination. The understanding of those links, an understanding that has always characterized the anti-oppression lens of black resistance, recognizes that the call for a demilitarization of Black and Brown communities cannot be made without a demand to demilitarize U.S. foreign policy, to stop supplying arms and logistical support to terrorists in Syria under the guise of supporting a "moderate opposition," to end support for Israeli colonial repression of Palestinian people, to stop the training and supplying of repressive police and militaries around the world, and to end the military occupation of dozens of countries with U.S. military bases.
The black victims of El Chorillo are still calling for justice and accountability. We stand in solidarity with those calls. We must remember them and keep their terrible experiences close to us. We will not forget them or the countless victims of this mad, rogue state that is only exceptional in its brutality and hypocrisy. Black lives matter when WE make them matter through the positive assertion of our collective humanity in the course of our fight for self-determination, people-centered human rights and the global defeat of a system of white supremacist colonial/capitalist hetero-patriarchy. History requires nothing less of us.
Ajamu Baraka is a human rights activist, organizer and geo-political analyst. Baraka is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is a contributor to "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence" (Counterpunch Books, 2014). He can be reached at www.AjamuBaraka.com
 
 
 

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The Movement Can Take the Initiative, Blue Coup in NYC, Cuba in the American Imagination: BA Report for Dec 24, 2014

Taking the Initiative Back For the Movement After the Brinsley Killings


by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

The killing of 2 NYPD officers by Ismaaiyl Brinsley were the occasion for fascist cops, mostly Republicans and authoritarian liberal politicians, mostly Democrats along with their black civil rights and media spokespeople, to seize the initiative from the movement against police murder and brutality. But the movement can take the mic back. This issue of Black Agenda Report, is mostly about the movement response to the NYPD killings, along with some timely information on Cuba's present and past role in African liberation, and a remembrance of the US invasion of Panama 25 years ago, which leveled several African neighborhoods in Panama City.
We'll be taking a break next week, and back the first Tuesday or Wednesday in January. Happy holidays and peace, to those who fight for it, and everyone else.
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Cops Threaten a Blue Coup in New York City

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

New York City's cops "threaten mutiny if the State does not stick up for the men and women who do its dirty work." The police say they are now on a "wartime" footing – as if a state of a war has not existed between police and Black America for the past two generations.
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Freedom Rider: Cuba in the American Imagination

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

The imperial mentality is not limited to the right wing of the American political spectrum. Some purported leftists greeted the opening to Cuba as if recognition by the U.S. was the greatest thing that ever happened to the island nation. The Cubans don't see it that way, although they wanted the deal. "President Raul Castro stated in no uncertain terms that Cuba will remain socialist and will not extradite Assata Shakur or anyone else granted asylum by the government."
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By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist

Ex NYC Mayor Bloomberg used to call NYPD his army. Facist thug cops are acting the part, publicly feuding with corporate media and liberal authoritarians like the mayor, the attorney general and the president over the degree of their immunity and impunity. DC's Hands Up Coalition, like the rest of the real movement, expresses sympathy and solidarity with the family of Shaneka Thompson, and vows that the demonstrations and public pressure will continue.

Anti-Police Violence Organizing After Ismaaiyl Brinsley's Death

by Michelle Matisons

The three deaths in New York this past weekend – two cops, one young Black man with a gun – do not alter the issues and imperatives of the movement against police repression in Black America. However, "the corporate state's policing apparatus will do everything in its power to use this event as a further call to arms against protesting U.S. residents and communities of color."

by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka

Twenty-five years ago, the U.S military bombed, shot and burned to death 3,000 people in the mostly Black neighborhood of El Chorillo, in the capital city of Panama. It was a war crime, within the larger crime of foreign invasion. "U.S. troops committed numerous other war crimes, from summary executions to the wanton destruction of civilian property and the failure to distinguish between civilian and military targets."

Bloody hands of state

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner

Young and strong, marching
All night long on search and
Destroy missions, uprooting,
Overturning, anything decayed 
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Despite Deaths of Two Officers, Movement Against Police Brutality is Just

by Johanna Fernández

"The police are already using the killings of these cops as an opportunity to declare war against the black community and to criminalize the growing movement against police violence."
In real-world America, cops are rarely killed, yet their institutional behavior is central to the "crazy-making" of a racist society.
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A Comparative Tale of Two Cop Killers - The Millers VS Ismaaiyl Brinsley

by Davey D

When a white couple killed two Nevada cops earlier this year, draping a tea party flag and swastikas on one of the corpses before being gunned down, we didn't hear a nationwide outcry about how cops feared for their lives. There was no pressure on open carry and tea party folks to denounce the killers. What does this kind of selective outrage tell us?
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The Politics of Language Pt. 1: Six Concepts For This Movement's Continued Political Education

by Danny Haiphong

The battle against the Black Mass Incarceration State will move forward through both organized, concrete action and spontaneous rebellion. The goal is social transformation. "Capitalist ideology is merely window-dressing for a genocidal, racist system built on the graves of Black America and the material conditions that brought the #BlackLivesMatter movement to life."
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Why Shaneka Thompson's Life Matters

by Thandisizwe Chimurenga

In their haste to seize a political opportunity with the killing of 2 NYPD officers by Ismaiyil Brinsley, corporate media, cops and politicians have shown once again whose causes and lives really matter. Brinsley's first victim was Shaneka Thompson. Remember her name. Her life matters too.
Read this article on Black Agenda Report...
 

The Police and the Massacre of Afro-Brazilian Youth

by Brian Mier

Brazil has the largest population of black people outside Africa, leads the planet in police murders of young blacks. Like their US counterparts, murderous Brazilian cops enjoy immunity and impunity. Besides the article published below, our friends at This Is Hell interviewed Brian Mier...
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Jamaica and the Politics of Debt Trap

by Jeb Sprague

In Jamaica, as in so much of the formerly colonized world, debt strangles development and negates national sovereignty. "Jamaica's two main political parties are largely concerned with remaking Jamaica into a more globally competitive platform for transnational capital."
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Cuba - An African Odyssey, Parts 1 and 2

 

A Cuban Odyssey: Cuba's key role in the struggle for African Liberation

An indispensable film by by Jihan El-Tahri.

From its beginnings, the Cuban Revolution has been the indispensable ally of liberation forces on the African continent.
This is part of the history that most Africans, and certainly every Cuban knows, but which few of us in the US, even activists and scholars are aware. It's also key to understanding the implacable hostility of the US to the Cuban Revolution.
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Listen to Black Agenda Radio, Week of Christmas Eve, 2014

Counter-Revolution in Cuba by Other Means
The U.S. is establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba for the first time in nearly 55 years, but Washington is still up to no good. "I think the people in the Obama administration have decided that this is just another way to overthrow the Cuban revolution," said Netfa Freeman, of the International Committee for Freedom for the Cuban 5. "They still have the same disposition about Cuba, but they want to change how they go about destabilizing it." The remaining three members of the Cuban 5, who were imprisoned in 1998 on espionage charges, were freed as part of the diplomatic breakthrough.
Ferguson as Truth-Teller to the World
Russians were shocked at Michael Brown's killing and the scale of protests that followed, said Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, just returned from a conference of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russian, in Moscow. "The small suburb of St. Louis is now known around the world," said Kimberley, "and the people of Ferguson have really done an amazing thing in telling the world the truth about life in the United States, particularly for Black people." Kimberley traveled as part of a delegation from UNAC, the United National Anti-War Coalition.
U.S. Power Structure Searching for Slick Black Hope
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, the BAR editor and columnist, renowned whistleblower and activist with the Hands Up Coalition-DC, said U.S. rulers confront a huge challenge: "How do we take control of the movement and provide it with a leader that will be accepted among the young?" Obama favorite Al Sharpton and much of the traditional civil rights leadership are vying for the job. The power structure "needs these organizations to provide a diversion away from people asking very fundamental questions about whether capitalism can meet the needs of Black people in this country."
The Ever-Morphing Police State
New York police commissioner Bill Bratton, architect of the "Broken Windows" philosophy of policing, has other tricks up his sleeve, said Josmar Trujillo, of New Yorkers Against Bratton. "He's here to figure out new, innovative ways to get into our lives," such as "predictive policing," a "muscled-up, proactive" approach that provides yet more forced encounters between cops and their Black and brown prey. "The police state that communities of color live in is, literally, killing people" – such as "Broken Windows" victim Eric Garner.
Mumia Abu Jamal Daughter Dies
Samiyah "Goldie" Davis Abdullah, the 35 year-old daughter of political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, has succumbed to cancer. The mother of two girls and spoken word artist had just finished earning her masters degree in social work at the University of Pennsylvania. At Frackville State Prison, Abu Jamal told Prison Radio that his daughter "remains with us, echoing in our souls. She is a song we will sing forever."
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:00am ET on PRN. Click here to download the show. Length: One hour.
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Why I Don't Do Kwaanza

 

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Ron Karenga, the man who invented Kwaanza, headed the US organization, which was responsible for the murder of 4 Black Panthers in Southern California as a tool of COINTELPRO, and the torture of two of its own female members. Kwaanza may now be bigger than its inventor, but Karenga's crimes do cast a shadow on the holiday for many of us.
Read this article on Black Agenda Report...
 

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1/2/15 - 5th annual conscious social - House of Consciousness, Norfolk, Virginia



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TONIGHT, 5th annual conscious social starting 7pm! POTLUCK (bring a dish) and come prepared for FUN!
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