MLK KNOWS BEST

THINGS TO REGULATE

THE RESCUING HUG

This picture is from an article called “The Rescuing Hug”. The article details the first week of life of a set of twins. Each were in their respective incubators and one was not expected to live. A hospital nurse fought against the hospital rules and placed the babies in one incubator. When they were placed together, the healthier of the two, threw an arm over her sister in an endearing embrace. The smaller baby’s heart stabilized and temperature rose to normal.

Source: nrlc.org

via: @mrcrhisdavis 

DRONE WARFARE: KILLING BY REMOTE CONTROL

• The Washington Post reports President Obama has granted a CIA and U.S Military request to launch drone attacks even if it does not know the identities of those who will be killed. The so-called "signature" strike policy went into effect earlier this month. It is widely expected the number of U.S. drone strikes will see a radical jump with the new policy in place.

—Democracy Now

• The Bureau has identified credible reports of 168 children killed in seven years of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas. These children would account for 44% of the minimum figure of 385 civilians reported killed by the attacks.

—The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

• The number of civilians killed in US drone strikes were probably 40 percent higher than what the US was actually reporting. Between 2004 and 2011, they put the estimate of civilian deaths at a figure of 385, but added in the research that the toll could actually come close to tallying 775 casualties.

—RT

• At least 48 civilians have been killed in 27 U.S. strikes inside Yemen since 2009. Between 2006 and 2011, about 500 people were killed in Gaza and the Occupied Territories by Israeli drones.

—Democracy Now

• “The proliferation of drones not only in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, but the expansion of drone bases to places like Kuwait and Oman and Ethiopia, Seychelles, Australia, Turkey. This is a campaign that’s out of control in the hands of the CIA, the Joint Special Operations Command, both in secret, away from the eyes of the American public.” 

—Medea Benjamin; Co-founder of CODEPINK and on of the organizers of the Drone Summit

Info Source: Democracy Now, RT and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Photo Credits: Messay Shoakena

What Do SOPA, PIPA And NDAA Mean?

SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act  & PIPA: Protect IP Act:

• These laws, "Apparently aims to stop the piracy of copyrighted material over the internet on websites based outside the United States. But critics say the bills would profoundly change the internet."

—DemocracyNow.org (01/17/12)

• "We call these the censorship bills, because effectively what we would have is a situation where the government and private actors could censor the net. So, U.S. citizens would basically get a different version of the internet, different from what you might get in, say, Italy or even China."

—CORYNNE McSHERRY (She is the intellectual property director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 01/17/12

• "We’re going to do surgery on the internet, and we haven’t had a doctor in the room tell us how we’re going to change these organs. We’re basically going to reconfigure the internet and how it’s going to work, without bringing in the nerds, without bringing in the doctors"

—REP. JASON CHAFFETZ (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives) 12/15/11

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#NDAA: National Defense Authorization Act

• Forget about the idea of Innocent Until Proven Guilty. This "would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists."

—Forbes.com

• "This is so broadly written, it would become a permanent feature of United States law, so that 10 years, 20 years down the road, any president could still use this power to have the military pick up people and indefinitely detain them without charge or trial, potentially for years, potentially for life.”

—CHRI ANDERSON (American Civil Liberties Union) 

"It is your responsibility, right and obligation as an American and a World citizen to warn your friends and family, and create awareness about these issues."

• “In the absence of peace and love, we teach war and hate as an escape from the problems we are too lazy to solve.”

MLK

In Memory of: 

•Martin Luther King Jr.• 

(1929 – 1968)

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MLK

In Memory of: 

•Martin Luther King Jr.• 

(1929 – 1968)

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Steve Jobs' Vision of the World

• "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

—STEVE JOBS

—“They say they’re building a wall because too many of us enter illegally and won’t learn their language or assimilate into their culture…”

Humor is a good way to portrait reality. In this case it helps make the invisible, visible.

• "Don't like same sex marriage?... Then don't have one."

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE:

• "By a single stroke, every law where rights depend on marital status—such as employment discrimination, employment benefits, adoption, education, healthcare, elder care, housing, property, and taxation—will change so that same-sex sexual relationships must be treated as if they were marriage."


Source: DailyKos.com—Religious establishment bigots sound alarm against loving same-sex marriages.
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—Why are you so offended by your own anatomy?

›››“Depressing inability to appreciate that in our land of cultural pluralism, there are many who think, act, and talk differently from the Members of this Court, and who do not share their fragile sensibilities.”

     —Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall

Challenge The Status Quo

—"He who wants the world to remain as it is doesn't want it to remain at all." ________________

Photo credits @justsette / via instagram

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• On 1865, Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States. Almost 150 years have passed, yet slavery in the United States still exists.

—Help prevent slavery and human trafficking / News-Press.com

According To The United Nations (U.N):

•› Someone becomes a victim every 30 seconds.

› Over half of the victims are children around the age of 13.

› 8 out of 10 are females being traded for sex exploitation

› The average victim is raped up to 30 times a day.

• “The trafficking of human beings is tied with arms dealing as the second largest criminal industry in the world and the fastest growing” (after drug trade).

—United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees/ unhcr.org

• DEFINITION: Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery “where people profit from the control and exploitation of others.” For sex, domestic or farm labor.

—PolarisProject.org 

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Photo Credits: Kellie Owens / via. Flickr (Uploaded with instagram)

—"We Fight Today For A Better Tomorrow."

It has never been easy and it never will be... But it is possible ... It requires clear goals, cooperation, coordination, patience, persistence, and above all NO violence.

NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT (N.D.A.A)

• "President Obama will go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in U.S. law." — "This is so broadly written, it would become a permanent feature of United States law, so that 10 years, 20 years down the road, any president could still use this power”

—CHRIS ANDERS / American Civil Liberties Union 

Source: www.democracynow.org/2012/1/3/headlines

• “ Without a trial, there is no chance to tell a judge that the government has no evidence.”

—Change.org

This law is that it originally exempted U.S. citizens, but the Obama administration asked to REMOVE the exemption for citizens.

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#NDAA #Obama #Congress #Justice #Freedom #Liberty #Politics

• “ Without a trial, there is no chance to tell a judge that the government has no evidence.” —Change.org

This law is that it originally exempted U.S. citizens, but the Obama administration asked to REMOVE the exemption for citizens.

CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE.

• Unlike you and I, "Corporations spend unlimited amounts in political expenditures."

—LAWRENCE LESSIG / Professor of Law at Harvard 


• In September 2011, an analysis of over 43,000 transnational corporations (TNCs) has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

— Globalissues.org



In any of our social media pages you will find a couple videos we posted with recent statements about Corporation's personhood made by Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.



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Mitt Romney- Corporations Are People!

• Romney is the leading candidate for the Republican Party.

• It is very likely he will become the next president of the U.S.

Only The Now Matters...

• "What is actually important is here and now. Now is definitely now.... 
There is no point in thinking that a past did exist that we could have now... 
And from that nowness, however, arises a sense of intelligence always that you are constantly interacting with reality one by one....
It is so powerful that we can’t face it. Therefore, we have to borrow from the past and invite the future all the time."

— Chögyam Trungpa, Segments from Zeitgeist: The Movie.


Have a great week.

—”Another World Is Possible.”

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

—Dignity and Equality for all sexes, creeds, races and classes.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

President Obama Declared “January To Be National Slavery And Human Trafficking Prevention Month."

—USA Today

DEFINITION: “Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others.” For sex, domestic or farm labor.

—PolarisProject.org

According to the United Nations:

• Someone becomes a victim every 30 seconds. 

• Human Trafficking is the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world (after drug trade).

• Human Trafficking is modern slavery. Todays: 

› It is approximated that 27 million people are currently enslaved worldwide (80% are females).

› Over half of the victims are children around the age of 13 (Every 2 minuted a child is being prepared for sexual exploitation).

› 85% of them are being traded for sex exploitation (The average victim is raped up to 30 times a day).

• The U.S is one of the top nations involved in human trafficking.

• In the U.S, it is estimated that around two hundred thousand minors are forced into sex trafficking every years (the average age of entry into prostitution is 13 y/o).

"Trafficking networks operate both domestically and trans-nationally, and although abuses disproportionally affect women and girls, the victims of this ongoing global tragedy are men, women and children of all ages."

—President Obama

• Today, there are more slave than there have ever been in the history of humanity.

–"A million it's just a statistic until you meet the one"

Video Recommended: “ Be Her Freedom” by The A21 Campaign.