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05/07/08
 

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"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."

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    St. Louis Schools Watch

St. Louis--April 30, 2008--Aproximately 100 people rallied in support of public education as the cornerstone of democracy at the Old Courthouse this evening. One of the speakers was SLPS parent Chad Beffa. Chad is a candidate for state representative in the 67th district of the Missouri House. Beffa's remarks follow.

"In 1778 and 1779, during the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson whom many consider the founder of the Democratic Party, proposed the creation of publicly funded schools with the Diffusion of Knowledge Bill. He sought to create a public school system in America for the good of all men, so that tyranny and oppression could be identified, and so that educated Americans could see to it that America suffer that pain never again. He thought of public education as the bed in which all other matters rested their validity.
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Ward CONNerly LOST his efforts to collect enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

OBS and its We CAN Coalition partners thank you for you efforts in getting the word out about CONnerly and his cronies to ban affirmation action in Missouri.

Victory is almost certain when we are unified!!

Death penalty on its death bed

by Jamala Rogers
Featured Columnist, St. Louis American Newspaper
April 24, 2008

In the last week, there’s been a flurry of activity around the death penalty. The death penalty is on its death bed, flailing and gasping for life. There are some who still want to give CPR to the increasing unpopular method. The most obvious are politicians who think support of capital punishment translates into votes.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s lethal injection method although leaving the door open for states who have documented problems with the procedure. (Missouri has problems aplenty.) The High Court also turned down Missouri Michael Taylor’s lethal injection appeal along with those of 10 other death row inmates across the country. click 2 continue >

The first casualty of war is truth.