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See you at the Community Fair at the History Museum

March 27     Lindell Blvd. & DeBaliviere

 

OBS and other community groups will be set up all day with

information and materials to get you involved in the burning issues 

of the day. We will end the day with discussion on Clarence Lang's book Grassroots at the Gateway.

 

"The 40-year period highlighted by Lang in his book casts a spotlight

on several major episodes that get little attention among many contemporary civil-rights groups and activists."

 

Read more of the review by Jo Mannies at the St. Louis Beacon

 

Download leaflet on event


Save the Date! 

AFFIRMATIONS! OBS Women's Program

Sunday, March 28, 2010  4:00-7:00 pm


 

News & Updates on

OBS Coalition Work

 


 

 

Stay tuned for the latest

Think Before you Ink

Initiative.

 

 


 

Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression

 

 

 

Committee to vote on HB1601 Today!

 

Read OBS testimony for HB1601

 

A senate hearing on the local control bill is schedule for Tuesday, March 2 in

Jefferson City.

 

 

The next regular meeting is Thursday, March 11 at  7 pm. The meeting will be held at the Rowan Community Center.

 

For more information, email capcr_cob@hotmail.com.

 


Justice Institute

 

For Information and Reports

Click here to go to the JI Page

 

 Thursday, March 4, 2010  at 7 pm,

Rowan Community Center - 1401 Rowan Avenue,  St. Louis, MO

 

Study Sessions going on now.

 

More on the Justice Institute

HELL o
Why isn't America awake?
Have we been fooled into thinking the "one man theory?"
That once we have Obama, all will be alright?
That we don't need to keep his feet to the fire?
His feet and words are not aligned!
It is hard to fight with his hands tied behind his back.
 
Where are the demoRats?
Hiding behind the shame of racism.
Worried about reelection SO with one foot nailed to the ground
as they run around in circles doing nothing day in or day out....afraid
Did I see the repuGlicans doing that with Bush?
Oh HELL yes, however with subtleties--not so with the demoRats
Who stand for nothing and fall for everything!
Did I see bickering in Congress over the Medicare Drug bill
OR NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND?
No they stood behind Bush no matter how bad the plans
 
What do the repuglicans have to offer right now other than
sink Obama agenda
I see no other health plan,
just verbage that Obamacare is not what the america wants
How ignorant of history are we?
Repuglicans didn't want Medicare back in the day either
Called it Socialism then too
Imagine life without Medicare.
Now they are fighting to keep their limited, privileged heath care the same.
When it needs to be fixed NOW and available to all of us
I say They should of pushed the single payor system
So when compromise was going on it would of made the public option look good.
 
Worried about government taking over healthcare!
Worried about deficits!
Why now worry when Bush buired us in debt with not only one war
but two, both illegal and ill gotten as they lied their way over there.
They just didn't have a strategy other than GEORGE W'S "Get Back"
"you beat my daddy SO I'm going to finish what Daddy didn't."
However George the 2nd can't read the same book that George I read
 
Worried about the government taking over!
Hell the government watches us run red lights,
listens to our cellphone conversations,
reads our emails,
hears our private conversations.
They know how much we have in the bank
when we deposit and take out
They run the school system, public transportation, and the postal system
Why worry about healthcare?
Oh, yes, you may be help those who have been rendered UNFIT citizens.
 
Watch out!!  You may be held accountable for the neglect of centuries,
for the lack of EVERYTHING from education, jobs and heatlhcare.
Which should be a right NOT a privilege.
We can't continue to vote the bums out because what is the other bum gonna do?
Restart healthcare reform planning?
Hell, we invented that wheel once, how many times do we reivent that same wheel?
 
When will American people wake up?
I guess when we direct deposit our paychecks to the US government account.
And they give us $20 a week to live on
When our checks gets divided by 50% healthcare cost,
49% for housing and the other 1% for everthing else.
Doesn't leave much for the booze we like to consume
Doesn't leave much for the Esclades we love to drive
Doesn't leave much for the bling we love to wear
Doesn't leave much for the education of our children
Doesn't leave much for the health of the young and old
 
The supremelss court decision that equates a corporation to a person, an individual
Doesn't leave us a fair share for the fight against the moneyed corporation
That have been given the inordinate economic power based on the right to free speech
Damn, I never heard a Ford talk!
Never heard Chrysler utter a single word!
Never heard a Buick babble a single word!
However I have heard the lies told by others
and we continue to let these lies become truths
as we sit idly silent instead of outraged at such rulings
 
Think your vote doesn't count?
Think your voice doesn't count?
Well your activism--your community organizations will.
I often wonder where is the book that was written to take over the country.
I wonder what chapter we are on now?
How many more pages of history will be rewritten before the people are able to read
and truly get
That this government is supposed to be
 
of the people,
 for the people
 and by them
 
Grace E duMaine