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Laney alumni in final walk-throughHigh school steeped in history is set to be demolished next week.
A Lucy C. Laney High School alumnus poses in front of a “Wildcats” mural in the lunchroooml. Former students shared memories and toured the building on Saturday, which is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new campus. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
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RAIN DELAY? NOT FOR THIS ARTIST: Vernis Brown of "V Browns Art" works on a sketch at his booth during First Friday on Broad Street. The event drew only sparse crowds downtown and rain caused the cancellation of some street performances. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
Miss Central Georgia, Ashley,
signs the “Pair Up” poster
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Historic Springfield Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia will celebrate its 226th Church Anniversary on Sunday, August 11, 2013. This Institution serves as one of the Mothers to the African American churches in this nation and holds steadfast to its claim as being the oldest black Baptist church in the United States, fostering con-tinued service to the community in the same location of its founding place. It is also the birth place of Morehouse College, as well as many other organizations and institutions.
The morning celebration service will be held at 10:00 am and the message will be given by Pastor Hardy S. Bennings, III- Pastor of Springfield Baptist Church. The afternoon celebration service will be held at 3:00 pm. The message will be presented by Rev. Dr. Jonathan C. Carter, Pastor of Siloam International Church, Atlanta, Georgia. The members of this church will be Springfield’s special guest.
As major components of the pre-cele-bration, Springfield Baptist Church will present a concert and a youth talent/
fashion show. The concert will feature Augusta native, internationally Renowned Lyric Soprano and Contemporary Music Star, Bernice Hogan-Hall. Mrs. Hogan-Hall has sung with the Capital City Opera Company, Phoenix Opera Company, Houston Opera Company, Atlanta Opera Company, Lyric Music Company, Atlanta Orchestra Company, and on international stages. In Augusta she presented a con-cert at the Morris Museum of Art and at the St. John’s Towers of St. John’s Methodist Church. The concert will be held at Historic Springfield Baptist Church on Saturday August 3, 2013 at 6:00 pm in the evening. Tickets for the concert are $20 per person.
The Youth Church will present a Fashion/Talent Show on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm, in the St. John’s Building of Springfield Baptist Church, in honor of the pre-celebration of the Church’s Anniversary. There is no charge for this event.
Please call the church’s office, 706-724-1056 or Deborah Austin, 706-294-3306 to purchase concert tickets.
Institution celebrates 226th Anniversary
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2012 SPARK winner Sassett West is hosting a special gath-ering to show appreciation to the local community that has accelerated the development of her creative career. This “Thank You” party, entitled “Links to Our Legacy” – will be held July 27th at the Kroc Center from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. This is a free event.
As the 2012 SPARK Winner, Ms. West received a $15,000 prize package that included professional services, creative development opportunities. She has also been given an opportunity to collaborate with some of the area’s most talented creative profession-als. During this night of cele-bration, she will present some of the end results of these collaborative efforts, in addi-tion to performing new liter-ary works.
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IN THE NEWS
Paine Collegen mourns death of faculty member
Sheriff’s plan D.O.A.?
By Frederick Benjamin Sr.UPW Political analysis
AUGUSTAIf it was a theoretical physics formula, it
would be called elegant. If it was a busi-ness plan, it would be called brilliant. If it was a Pentagon war plan it would be called a slam dunk. If it was a stock option, it would be called “in the money.”
However, Sheriff Richard Roundtree’s Downtown Security plan is none of those things. It is a craftily constructed sales presentation which, sadly, will likely be drawn into a political black hole the min-ute the Augusta-Richmond Commission gets to weigh in on the details.
Sheriff Roundtree is a pretty good salesman. While his presentation to the Public Safety Committee on Monday (July 8) was not “slick,” it was polished, well delivered and covered all the bases.
The sheriff remained true to his “com-munity-policing pedigree” with state-ments like “good lighting is the most effective deterrent to criminal activ-ity and “crime is not just the Sheriff’s Department’s problem, it’s everybody’s problem.”
The real challenge for Roundtree and city administrator Fred Russell, who helped put together the plan, is that there are so many moving parts. And while Roundtree emphasized that this is just a proposal for consideration, he is, in fact, prepared to implement it almost immediately.
The holistic nature of the plan – which
AUGUSTAPaine college is mourning
the loss of Rev. Dr. Jeffery R. Thomas. Thomas was an assis-tant professor of Religion.
Dr. Thomas had also served as Pastor for Trinity CME Church in Augusta.
“The Paine College and CME Church communities have suffered a great loss,” Brandon P. Brown, Vice President of Institutional Advancement said.
Dr. Thomas graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religion from Paine College in 2001. While at Paine, Dr. Thomas earned prestigious fellow-ships and became a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Fellow, Fund for Theological Education Undergraduate Fellow and an Andrew W. Mellon Social Science Research Council Fellow. Dr. Thomas also received numer-ous awards that included being named the UNCF Pre-Alumni Council Male of the Year (2000). He was induct-ed into the Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society; named to the National Dean’s List; and received the Paine College Distinguished Recognition Award.
Dr. Thomas was licensed to preach the gospel in 1995, ordained in 2002 and became an elder in 2006 in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. He served in various capacities of numer-ous churches including the Raise Bridge CME Church in Waynesboro, GA; Westwood United Methodist Church, of Los Angeles, CA and the Holman United Methodist Church, also of Los Angeles.
In 2001, Dr. Thomas received a Presidential Scholarship to attend the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California where he earned a Master of Divinity degree. During graduation ceremo-nies he was honored with the Church of the Good Shepherd Preaching Award and the Edwin and Frances Witman Pastoral Care Award.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 1 p.m. at Trinity C.M.E. Church located at 2930 Glenn Hills Drive, Augusta, GA 30906.
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DOWNTOWN SECURITY
Sheriff Richard Roundtree on the streets of downtown Augusta. Is his “proposal” for downtown security too comprehen-sive, too forward thinking and too costly for Augusta? Photo by Vincent Hobbs
MAIN FEATURES OF ROUNDTREE/RUSSELL DOWNTOWN SECURITY PROPOSAL
•Close Riverwalk after 11 p.m. (Cost: 0)•32 surveillance cameras along the Riverwalk and Broad Street (Cost: $342,000)•6 additional RCSO deputies, plus vehicles and equipment (Cost: $353,000)•Recreation and Parks Department cutting back trees and shrubbery (Cost: ???)•Creation of a Continually Patrolled [Tax] District (CPD) of downtown businesses to pay for increased security personnel. (Cost: ??)
makes is so elegant – requires that each element of the plan be approved in theory and then properly funded.
Those are the just the types of chal-lenges that this Augusta-Richmond com-mission has not been able to overcome.
Even while the plan was receiving the endorsement (4-0) from the city com-mittee, it still has to get 6 votes from the full commission in order for it to move forward. Those who are familiar with the way this commission operates knows what that entails and what is likely to happen to a final proposal.
Here’s a hint. It will likely be thrown back to committee for “discussion.” then it will likely be assigned to a special “work session” after which it will be sent back to the full commission for a vote. And that’s if everything goes smoothly.
By then, it will be probably be September and the plan will bear little resemblance to that which Roundtree and Russell origi-nally proposed.
That’s just how this commission rolls.Debate, delay, deride and derail.
Out of the gate, commissioners have questioned the plan’s boldest recommen-dation — that Riverwalk “park” be closed after 11 p.m. Some don’t want it closed at all and others would like to haggle about the time it closes.
There is also the matter of 32 surveil-lance cameras. They’re not cheap and what about the cost for maintenance and replacements. Who will sit there an moni-tor the cameras - and at what cost?
Sure, it’s easy to say that the Rec. Dept. will keep the vegetation along Riverwalk nicely manicured, but again, at what cost. Why wouldn’t the Rec. director turn around and request more funds for extra manpower and equipment?
The beautiful thing about the proposal is that it’s very community oriented. In order for it to work, the community has to pay for it, but getting the community to pay for it is not going to be easy.
It will require setting up a special down-town tax district which would require 51 percent of the business owners buying into the deal. Sound familiar? Here we go again.
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loCal news
By Vincent HobbsSpecial to UrbanProWeekly
AUGUSTAIf U.S. Congressman John
Barrow has his way, the inconveniences and hard-ships borne by the civilian workers at Fort Gordon due to sequestation will be a thing of the past.
The impact of the manda-tory furloughs rudely affect-ed thousands of Augustans who sat for hours in traffic while attempting to enter the post on Monday. Two of the four gates used to enter the post were closed on Monday. The Department of Defense simply did not have enough security personnel to moni-tor each gate.
Barrow, whose district includes Fort Gordon, intro-duced a bill in Congress to exempt civilian DoD person-nel from the furloughs.
“I’m not waiting around while Congressional leaders spend all their time blam-ing each other. My legisla-tion keeps civilian employees on the job, and forces the DoD to find cuts elsewhere in the budget. It’s responsible, and it’s the kind of solution the folks in the 12th District want,” Barrow said.
According to informa-tion in a press release from Barrow’s office, there are more than 3,200 employees being furloughed beginning this week in Georgia’s 12th District, until September 30, 2013.
“Folks in the 12th District are facing furloughs because Congress can’t get its act together long enough to replace these reckless cuts with more responsible sav-ings,” Barrow said.
Civilian employees, includ-ing those who monitor mili-tary base gate access, are los-ing one work day each week, and the pay that goes with it, for up to 11 weeks. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the decision to furlough 85 percent of DoD civilian employees in order to com-ply with the automatic budget cuts, according to Pentagon Press Secretary George Little.
Those losses are not taken lightly by civilian workers in Augusta. Maceo Smith, a recent US Army retiree, isn’t too happy about the fur-loughs. “A lot of money has been spent and wasted. They are not furloughing the mili-tary,” he said. “The people being squeezed are the little people. The ones that sup-port and make the mission happen.”
A second piece of legisla-tion, was also introduced by Congressman Barrow. It would exempt civilian Department of Defense employees from furloughs, if they’ve served on active duty in the Armed Forces — on or after the passage of the Budget Control Act.
“Welcoming veterans who served in action with fur-lough papers the minute they get home isn’t the way to treat these heroes,” Congressman Barrow said. “I won’t let Washington’s dysfunction trickle down to the folks who fight for this country every day. This is common sense legislation that will have a positive impact on folks in Georgia and all across the country.”
On Tuesday, Army officials addressed the gate access issue by shifting manpower to allow an additional gate
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Congressman John Barrow (center) at a recent gathering in Augusta. Barrow’s legislation would protect civilian DOD workers from sequestration prompted furloughs.
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Barricades warn motorists and pedestrians of the rapidly rising water from the Savannah River, which flooded parts of the Riverwalk in down-town Augusta. The marina parking lot was partially under water on Wednesday evening. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
Rising waters have river dwellers concernedBy Vincent Hobbs
Rain. And more rain. And even more rain.
Augusta and surrounding counties have been knocked about under a deluge of seemingly never-ending rain showers, thunderstorms and flooded streets.
The rapidly rising Savannah River has already placed Lock and Dam Park under water, as well as portions of the Riverwalk and the downtown marina. The still rising water is poised to deliver a crip-pling blow to riverside com-munities.
The US Army Corps of Engineers advised Richmond Count y Emergency Management on Wednesday that they will be increasing
the release from Thurmond Dam to 40,000 cubic feet per second. This will cause the river to rise and the creeks in Richmond County swell even further.
Corps officials say, this is done in preparation for any effects from tropical storm Chantal.
As of Wednesday night, (July 10) tropical storm Chantal had fizzled into a tropical wave (an elongated area of low pressure) and the National Hurricane Center posted its last advisory on Chantal at 5pm. All warnings and watches had been discon-tinued.
But the rain isn’t stopping. The National Weather Service has forecast more showers and thunderstorms through-
out the weekend, which will bring even more water into the Savannah River Upper Basin.
The release of floodwaters from Thurmond Lake is pro-jected to raise the level of the Savannah River by several feet, leaving some residents worried. Augustan Danny Westall, a retired industrial mechanic who has owned a houseboat on the river for 16 years, said, “It’s pretty shaky
right now – I don’t like it when it’s this high.”
Westall said that he was seeing a lot of tree limbs and other debris traveling down the river, which was also worrisome to him. He pointed out a twenty-foot log near his houseboat that had floated in and lodged near the docks. “The river is going three or four times faster than normal. It puts a lot of strain on the lines,” Westall
said.On Thursday, the Corps of
Engineers will still conduct a test of all 23 flood gates - at Thurmond Lake Dam, Lake Hartwell Dam and Lake Russell Dam, by opening the flood gates and letting water flow through. The amount of water to be released was not announced, but with the heavy rains, it could be sig-nificant.
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More than a school, Laney was a cause, a mission and a spirit
Several generations of Lucy Craft Laney Comprehensive High School alumni gathered for
one last time on Saturday, July 6, before their beloved school becomes a cherished memory. In a few days the buildings will be razed to make room for the brand new Laney cam-pus buildings which will be ready in two years.
The festive affair was organized by the Laney H.S. Alumni Association and it pulled graduates from its first class in 1950 to its latest class of 2013.
The Laney faithful walked the halls, sat in the seats, posed for pic-tures before the iconic murals and must have pondered the disappear-ance of a landmark that meant so much to so many in Augusta.
The administrators and the politi-cians made their speeches, but the real event was the people — young and old alike garbed in their unique Laney t-shirts and caps —each with their own personal triumphs and defeats experienced on these grounds.
Laney was the first public high school for African Americans in the state of Georgia. Its graduates entered into and succeeded in every profes-sional endeavor where excellence was a requirement. A virtual Who’s Who in Augusta could be assembled from its successful graduates.
So many of the descendents of those graduates haunted those hal-lowed grounds for one last time.
Lucy C. Laney High School alumni pose in front of a “Wildcats” mural in the lunchroom. Former students and current shared memories and toured the building on Saturday, which is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new campus. Photo by Vincent Hobbs
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Laney HS central to struggle for equalityIt is difficult to measure the extent to which the buildings that house Laney High School stand on hal-
lowed ground. Laney was not just an historical artifact in a long rich heritage shared by thousands of Augusta families, it is at the epicenter of that heritage. Any discussion of Laney’s history must include Haines Institute, A.R. Johnson and Ware High School. Augusta’s often torturous journey toward equality in educational opportunity soared all the way the the Supreme Court in Cummings vs. The Richmond County School Board and that suit was based on the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision that legitmized the abusive separate but equal doctrine.
(Above)LANEY FAITHFUL ON
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A young student sits near a memorial plaque in front of Lucy C. Laney High School. The plaque commemorates the life and achieve-ments of Ms. Laney. Former and current students shared memories and toured the building on Saturday, which is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new cam-pus.
Photo by Vincent Hobbs
(Above)A woman talks on a cell phone in the hallway near a “Wildcat Pride” wall graphic at Lucy C. Laney High School. Former students shared memories and toured the build-ing on Saturday, which is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new campus.
Photo by Vincent Hobbs
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After 40 years jazz haven to closeBy Timothy Cox
ATLANTAWhen news spread that
one of Atlanta’s most nos-talgic restaurants was about to shut its doors - forever - lots of talk surrounded the unique ambiance of Dante’s Down The Hatch, a subur-ban Atlanta tradition for more than 40 years. Less talk noted that the July 30 clos-ing will end the longest-run-ning live-jazz music venue in the nation. Since 1970, Dante’s Down The Hatch has featured live jazz - six nights weekly.
The end-of-month clos-ing abruptly ends the longtime run of The John Robertson Trio, featuring vocalist Rosemary Rainey. Robertson, a Florence, S.C. native, has made it his mis-sion to continue Atlanta’s little-known jazz tradition much like his mentor, Paul Mitchell, the jazz pianist/bandleader who originally performed at Dante’s from 1970 until Robertson’s trio took over in 1989. Robertson came to Atlanta in the mid-’70s and studied music under Mitchell, a music professor at Morris Brown University. Mitchell passed away in 2000.
Since then, Robertson, who is a very accom-plished pianist with classi-cal roots, has carried on a tradition forged by other jazz luminaries like Oscar Peterson, Nat “King” Cole, Erroll Garner and George Shearing. Robertson’s vocal approach is reminiscent of King Cole and Cole’s young-er brother, Freddie Cole, another Atlanta jazz legend who still performs nation-ally. Robertson and his wife/vocalist Rainey, said they plan to keep the band intact while staying committed to traditional jazz. The trio is
Atanta’s Dante’s Down The Hatch is the nation’s longest -running live jazz venue
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rounded out with drummer Terry Smith and acoustic bassist Edwin Williams.
“We’ve always appreciated ownership’s jazz commit-ment,” Robertson said. “We
plan to continue with our mission.” His wife adds, “Music is in our future and we plan to keep working,” said Rainey, noting that the couple’s two musician sons
are equally dedicated to the jazz genre and are college music majors. Rainey’s vocal style reflects the late Betty “Bebop” Carter, one of her many influences.
Mea nw h i le , Da nte Stephensen, owner of the restaurant, said he was forced to sell the busi-ness due to increasingly rising property values in the suburban Atlanta. The restaurant is located in the heart of Buckhead, near upscale retail out-lets such as Lennox Mall and Phipps Plaza, home to Nordstroms and Saks Fifth Avenue. The restaurant will be replaced by a high-rise apartment complex, Stephensen said.
Along with quiet, clas-sic live jazz, the eatery was also known for its unique
interior design, similar to an 18th century Mediterranean ship. Meat, vegetable and cheese fondue dinners complemented a 55-selec-tion list of premier, inter-national wines. Stephensen said JazzTimes magazine confirmed that his busi-ness became the nation’s oldest jazz club after two New Orleans-based clubs closed following Hurricane Katrina’s wrath in 2005. Stephensen says he hopes to relocate Dante’s Down The Hatch in the Atlanta region, but did not disclose immedi-ate plans.
EDITOR’S NOTE: If planning to visit Dantes
Down the Hatch before July 30, call 404-266-1600 or access http://www.dantes-downthehatch.com/.
Marquee notes jazz club’s closing date.
96.3 Kiss FM will host the fourth annual Kiss Family Reunion on Saturday, August 31st; 1p-7pm at the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds. The event offers a place where old friends and close family, alumni associations and social clubs can meet up for great fun, good food and R&B musical performances by both national and local artist and more.
This day long outdoor festival will offer a smorgasbord of ven-dors, adult recreation and fun, a health and wellness pavilion, a car and bike show, old school art-ists, new school R&B and popular local bands along with a feel good “party” atmosphere. The line up includes national and local enter-tainment, Marshall Tucker & the Chi-lites, Hi-Five, Theodius Ealy,
The Klass Band Brotherhood, and Eric Mayweather just to name a few.
For vendor details and VIP pack-ages call 706-396-6000 Ext 113. Tickets are on sale now at www.Etix.com and both locations of Pyramid Music & Video (Gordon Hwy and Broad Street). Group tickets are ten or more for $10 each and regular tickets are $12 each.
Portions of proceeds from Kiss Family Reunion benefit local chari-ties and organization from here in the CSRA. Get additional details about Kiss Family Reunion 2013 online at 963kissfm.com. Kiss Family Reunion is brought to you in part by Virginia College, Vic Hawk Law Firm, and the East Central Health District Hypertension Management Outreach program.
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Serenity Charity Club, Inc and Augusta Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club, along with Augusta Recreation and Parks Department and KISS 96.3, will be holding their annual Back-to-School Supply Giveaway on Sunday, August 12, 2013 from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm. The giveaway will be held at Brigham Community Center on Golden Camp Road, Augusta, GA.
Pamela Perry, the founder and president of Serenity Charity Club, Inc. said, “Due to the financial strain that has been placed upon many fam-ilies, the excitement and promise of having the basic back-to-school sup-plies is just not a reality. Therefore again this year, we are asking the community to come together to pro-vide backpacks, school supplies, and basic need items for our children!”
Suggested items include #2 pen-cils, spiral notebooks, 8- or 24-count boxes of crayons, washable glue or glue sticks, full-size boxes of tissue, anti-bacterial wipes or hand sanitizer, etc. Donations of gift cards to office supply stores or retail vendors are also welcomed and will be used to purchase supplies that are needed.
Our goal this year is to provide school supplies for over 500 children (drawstring backpacks filled with school supplies will be given to the first 250 children). Supplies will be given until gone. Children must be present to receive supplies. This event will also provide free haircuts for the boys; nail polishing for the girls; and FREE refreshments for the kids.
If you would like to donate sup-plies, you can drop them off at Brigham Community Center or contact Ms. Thompkins @ 706-699-1071; Ms. Perry @ 706.755.0357 or Mr. Smalls @ 706-825-4449! Deadline for donations – August 7, 2013. Donations made to Serenity Charity Club, Inc are tax deduct-ible. If you would like to mail a donation, you can mail it to: Serenity Charity Club; PO Box 8; Hephzibah, GA 30815.
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The event will be held on Saturday, July 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Liberty Park and Community Center, 1040 Newmantown Rd., Grovetown, Ga.
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Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
by Daniel Ellsberg
Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago.
After the New York Times had been enjoined from publishing the Pentagon Papers — on June 15, 1971, the first prior restraint on a newspaper in U.S. history — and I had given another copy to The Post (which would also be enjoined), I went underground with my wife, Patricia, for 13 days. My pur-pose (quite like Snowden’s in flying to Hong Kong) was to elude surveillance while I was arranging — with the cru-cial help of a number of others, still unknown to the FBI — to distribute the Pentagon Papers sequentially to 17 other newspapers, in the face of two more injunctions. The last three days
of that period was in defiance of an arrest order: I was, like Snowden now, a “fugitive from justice.”
Yet when I surrendered to arrest in Boston, having given out my last copies of the papers the night before, I was released on personal recogni-zance bond the same day. Later, when my charges were increased from the original three counts to 12, carrying a possible 115-year sentence, my bond was increased to $50,000. But for the whole two years I was under indict-ment, I was free to speak to the media and at rallies and public lectures. I was, after all, part of a movement against an ongoing war. Helping to end that war was my preeminent concern. I couldn’t have done that abroad, and leaving the country never entered my mind.
There is no chance that experience could be reproduced today, let alone that a trial could be terminated by the revelation of White House actions
against a defendant that were clearly criminal in Richard Nixon’s era — and figured in his resignation in the face of impeachment — but are today all regarded as legal (including an attempt to “incapacitate me totally”).
I hope Snowden’s revelations will spark a movement to rescue our democracy, but he could not be part of that movement had he stayed here. There is zero chance that he would be allowed out on bail if he returned now and close to no chance that, had he not left the country, he would have been granted bail. Instead, he would be in a prison cell like Bradley Manning, incommunicado.
He would almost certainly be con-fined in total isolation, even longer than the more than eight months Manning suffered during his three years of imprisonment before his trial began recently. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture described
Manning’s conditions as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.” (That realistic prospect, by itself, is grounds for most countries granting Snowden asylum, if they could withstand bullying and bribery from the United States.)
Snowden believes that he has done nothing wrong. I agree whole-heartedly. More than 40 years after my unauthorized disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, such leaks remain the lifeblood of a free press and our republic. One les-son of the Pentagon Papers and Snowden’s leaks is simple: secrecy corrupts, just as power corrupts.
Daniel Ellsberg was put on trial in 1973 for leaking the Pentagon Papers, but the case was dismissed after four months because of government mis-conduct. He is the author of “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers.”
By Lucia Brown, Common Dreams staff intern
Almost 4,000 North Carolinians stormed the state house Monday demonstrating that, despite repeated attacks by the GOP-led legislature, the opposition is growing ‘ever fiercer and stronger.’
Marking the tenth “Moral Monday” action, participants rallied in the capital against an anti-choice abortion law that passed the state Senate last week in a GOP ‹sneak attack› on reproductive rights.
Organizers estimated that roughly 4,000 people had joined the action in “one of the largest” demonstrations yet. 64 people were arrested for refusing to leave the state house, bringing the total arrests since the protests began in April to over 700.
“This state has gone to hell and it’s hurting my fam-ily,” said Tanya Glover, a N.C. resident, as she lined up to be arrested alongside her father.
Fellow participant and Asheville city councilman Cecil Bothwell, who arrived with 100 of his constituents, expressed his grievance with the GOP saying, “It amazes
me that they claim they don’t want government interven-ing in health care issues, yet they want to tell women what to do with their bodies.”
Among those arrested was President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina Janet Colm. In an op-ed published by the Huffington Post, Colm explained why she took part in the action, writing, “This is how we make our state better.”
“It’s not just that they are playing with women’s lives,” she added. “I want these politicians to see that with every attack, they are creat-ing a fierce and ever stronger opposition. We’re making it impossible for politicians to ignore us, no matter how hard they try.”
The overwhelming number of arrests has raised ques-tions about the legality of police officers’ motivations. House Democratic Leader Larry Hall was prompted to ask, «Who do they work for? They work for whoever is in the majority in the House and the Senate, who are responsible for the messages sent to them from the top.”
The Nation reporter Allison
NC statehouse protests growing
Kilkenny elaborated on this, writing, “all of this raises the question: what’s the point of living in a democracy with a First Amendment if law-
makers are going to sneak legislation through in the middle of the night and have concerned citizens arrested when they try to object?”
Moral Monday organizers say that next week’s action will focus on women’s issues and will be led by female speakers.
“I want these politicians to see that with every attack, they are creating a fierce and ever stronger opposition.”
– Janet Colm, Planned Parenthood
Arrests have totaled more than 700 since the protests began. Jerry Broome AP
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Like so many people across the country, I have followed the mur-der trial of George Zimmerman very closely. As we enter what is probably the last week of the trial, I am sure that everyone is anxious about the outcome.
For the past 16 months, I have proudly supported the courageous parents of Trayvon Martin as they have fought for justice for their son. I have greatly admired the grace and humility that they have exuded throughout this entire tragic ordeal. For them, the day of judgement in the courtroom will be a very difficult day and I certainly will say a prayer for them when that day comes.
Even with this important day com-ing soon, I remind myself that we have already accomplished a tremendous amount in the memory of Trayvon. All we ever asked for was for equal justice for the young man who was killed that drizzling night in Sanford, Florida. If George Zimmerman had rights, so did Trayvon Martin. And that is why Mr. Zimmerman was prop-erly arrested and charged with mur-der in the second degree. He will soon be judged by a jury of his peers,
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Their inspiring leadership has already led to action. In 2012, for the first time in 8 years, not ONE state in our nation passed a new “Stand Your Ground” law. The power of the NRA and their gun-toting cronies in busi-ness were stopped in their tracks by the Justice For Trayvon Martin move-ment. That is an incredible accom-plishment. That is the mission we must continue after this trial is over. Led by the heroism of Trayvon’s par-
ents, we will support their efforts to not only block new laws from being enacted, but also repeal the laws in the 25 states who already passed “Stand Your Ground” type legislation. And we will certainly support their healing process, as they have become great protectors of our nation’s com-passion. It is the future that needs to be protected and everyone who stood up for Trayvon plays a part in
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