JOIN “THE MARCH FOR JOBS AND JUSTICE”

JOIN US, ON AUGUST 28, 2013, AS WE MARCH ON THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Given the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman, this “March for Jobs and Justice” takes on even greater significance. Indeed, our permit (issued by the D.C. Police Department) to peaceably march on the Department of Justice on August 28, 2013, gives us an opportunity to send a message to Attorney General Eric Holder that we support a Department of Justice investigation into civil rights violations by Mr. Zimmerman.

“There is clearly precedent for this kind of investigation and prosecution by the Department of Justice”, said Van White, civil rights lawyer and founder of the Center for the Study of Civil and Human Rights Laws. White noted that “In 1964 when Mississippi state officials failed to prosecute the murderers of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) the Department of Justice successfully prosecuted the killers with conspiring to deprive the three civil right workers of their civil rights.”

“Similarily, a strong argument could be made that Zimmerman deprived Trayvon Martin of his civil rights when he took his life. Hopefully, citizens from across this country will join us in making that point at the steps of the Department of Justice on August 28, 2013.” White said. The March for Jobs and Justice (which begins at 8:30 am on August 28, 2013 at 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.) is just one of any number of events which celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and which also draws attention to the serious issues which continue to frustrate a great many Americans fifty years after the ’63 March on Washington.

Jonathan A. Meyers

Everything is linked. To separate is to weaken that which binds us. Blinds us.

I want Justice. For everyone. That begins in each person’s heart.

Our nation has been hijacked by Corporations. We are indentured servants. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches legitimize their domination.

As George Carlin said, “The American Dream, you have to be asleep to
believe it.”

To demand clean water, safe food, breathable air for my children, the end to inhumane conditions for animals, the cessation of GMO foods brands me an environmentalist – an Enemy of the State. Or, in eight agricultural states with AgGag laws, a terrorist.

Poverty and Race are inconvenient to non-existent discussions on any level of government. Republicans now use Jesus as an excuse to deny assistance to
those with less than I.

Americans are busied with iPhones, texting, and the acquisition of stuff. Consumerism confused with Democracy.

I am a child of the 1960s. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated I was 9. I am 59.

When Martin Luther King spoke for the Rights of All People and opposed the War in
Viet Nam President Johnson banned him from the White House. In 1967 I met Robert F. Kennedy in the Capitol Building. In June of 1968, King was dead and RFK had just
been assassinated.

It’s time to take back our country.

Washington isn’t going to aid us.

Nor will Republican dominated state governments allow this…

We can be…”I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.”

Or, we can be…”I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and
you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in.”

As Martin Luther King ended his speech that glorious day…

“And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom
ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring
from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the
heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we
will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be
able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
“Free at last! free at last! thank God
Almighty, we are free at last!”

Do what you can. Nothing good is too small an action. No donation is too
small for if a million people give $1 to fight hunger it is One Million Dollars.

As Dark as times seem
Good Will Prevail.
or as Queen and David Bowie so elegantly wrote…

Pressure
Pushing down on me
Pushing down on you
no man asked for…
Under Pressure
burns a building down
splits a family in 2
puts people on streets

it’s the Terror of knowing what
this world is about
watching some good friends
screaming, “Let Me Out!”

turned away from it all
like a blind man
sat on a fence
but it don’t work…

why can’t we give love one more chance
why can’t we give love one more change
why can’t we give love
give love
give love
give love…
one more chance…”

Helping to make Our world better.

Jonathan A. Meyers
Ohio
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  At 59, I relate to what you wrote. We must study Gandhi and other who fought and won when they were up against overwhelming force, AS WE ARE NOW. And we can expect great struggle and sacrifice. The sooner we come out in huge numbers the better (and hopefully less sacrifice.) Thanks for your words and courage.
E Patricia Debrick

We must demand that officers speak to our young with Respect Zimmeman never ID himself. Plus Trayvon ask him what up an Adult said “What UP WTH YOU” Trayvon questioning the suitation himself. When Zimmmeman pull something out of his pocket, Trayvon said defend himself from a black car following him and an Adult who said what up with you .Who Broking BAD??? An adult or man with something else on his mind. Why is it that a part time officers never ID himself as a good person of faith would .Adults need not talk to the young ask young do. Zimmeman started an argument by not ID himself. Self defend for Trayvon
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bgal4

Facts and analysis of the case by a competent South African journalist:

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=398112&sn=Detail&pid=71616
The hunting of George Zimmerman
August 14, 2013
James Myburgh on what the Trayvon Martin case says about the US media and judicial systems

….In the chapter on “national delusions” in his 1852 work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay noted how “In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. ”

The Trayvon Martin story is a case study in how, even in the modern day, an advanced industrialised democracy can completely lose its senses; and how difficult it is for it to then recover them. In this particular matter a whole society seemingly fixed its mind on the one object of having George Zimmerman arrested, convicted and sent to jail
for life, in reckless disregard of the evidence and the law. The mainstream media, so-called civil rights organisations, the Democrat President of the US, the US Attorney General, the Republican Governor of Florida and his Attorney General, and State Attorney Angela Corey all combined forces in an effort to destroy a single, isolated individual.

Yet, as documented above, we now know that the incendiary claims made by the Martin family team – which ignited and then fuelled this state of national hysteria – were almost all bogus. Zimmerman’s legal team came very close to proving, beyond reasonable doubt, that their client had acted in reasonable fear of his life and great bodily injury in
shooting Trayvon Martin; an inversion of the usual burden of proof. The Sanford police knew from the beginning that the evidence tended to support Zimmerman’s self-defence claim which is why they had been reluctant to make an arrest.

The failures of the mainstream media in their reporting on this case were manifold. The claims of the Martin family team should have, from the beginning, been treated with some degree of caution. Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, and their lawyers, had two motivations in campaigning in the way that they did for the arrest of George Zimmerman. The one was obviously vengeance, the other greed. Following the arrest of Zimmerman Benjamin Crump sent a letter on May 9 to the Retreat at Twin Lakes’ Homeowners’ Association announcing the intention of Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton to file suit. This had always been the intention of the Martin family and their
lawyers. Natalie Jackson had sent a letter to the HOA on March 14 2012 demanding that they preserve any evidence relating to the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The Martin team reached a settlement agreement with the HOA’s insurers in early April 2013, which Zimmerman’s lawyers estimated amounted to over a million dollars.

Such precautionary skepticism should have been redoubled once the Martin family team had been caught out, very early on, lying about Trayvon Martin’s school record and the existence of and reasons for his multiple suspensions. Instead, they were repeatedly given a free pass, even by the more critically minded journalists and commentators.
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IvLiberty

It is a shame how the only way a person can even come close to getting justice is if the media gets involved. There are many of us who are fighting for our rights only to be ignored because there is no army behind us.

I am a victim of police misconduct and brutality and eventually retaliation once I complained. Everything I have experienced is unconstitutional and contrary to law but who is there to come to my defense? I have complained to the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, senators, the national black caucus, congress, and many others. No one cares because harassment and racial profiling is not a big deal unless/until they kill me.

My life has been destroyed and I have been diminished as a person due to repeated prosecution even though I have never been involved in any criminal activity. This system and structure are intentional–the mass incarceration is for profit purposes and I am worth more in jail to a state–I am just a commodity.

Civil rights are just a joke and the constitution only applies to some–the rest of us live under marshal law.
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