Occupy The PGA
May 23-27 (big day: Sat. May 26) - Benton Harbor, Michigan
Demonstrate in protest of land stolen by Whirlpool Corporation
“The thrust [of the county courthouse] is to physically remove and destroy families through the use of the criminal justice system. Every person they can put in jail; every person whose voting rights they can revoke with a felony conviction; every person they can cause to lose their job by putting them on probation; every person they can cause to lose the ability to pay for basic necessities through imposing ruinous court costs and probation is all part of the process. In the 1960s, it was called Negro removal. In Bosnia, it was called ethnic cleansing. It could be called genocide, the removal of the minority population for the purpose of redevelopment of the land. That’s what’s happening in Benton Harbor and the foremost leader of the resistance is Rev. Edward Pinkney.” -Atty. Hugh "Buck" Davis

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Thoughts for the day

It was shortly after that episode that [Justice Charles Evans] Hughes made a statement to me which at the time was shattering but which over the years turned out to be true: "Justice Douglas, you must remember one thing. At the constitutional level where we work, ninety percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reason for supporting our predilections. Source: William O. Douglas. The Court Years, 1939-1975

All men are equal but only as long as those who have do not have to sacrifice anything to those who have not. Raja Shehadeh, The Sealed Room: Selections from the Diary of a Palestinian Living Under Israeli Occupation

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968) 
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