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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Saturday, August 13, 2016
JEWISH PHILANTHROPIST BUILT MORE THAN 5000 SCHOOLS FOR BLACK CHILDREN
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Alex Bethea, the son of cotton and tobacco farm workers, was in sixth grade in 1965 when his family moved from Dillon, South Carolina, to the tiny town of Fairmont, North Carolina, where he attended a school called Rosenwald.
But it wasn't until this week, 50 years later, that Bethea learned that his school was named for Julius Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist who is the subject of a new documentary by Aviva Kempner. The film tells the little-known story of Rosenwald's contribution to African-American culture and education.
The revelation came at a July 14 session at the national convention of the NAACP, which drew several thousand delegates to Philadelphia. Bethea was one of some 70 people who attended a screening of the film, "Rosenwald."
"Julius Rosenwald had a great impact on my life, and I didn't even know it," said Bethea, now a vice principal at an elementary school in New Jersey. "This helps me put the pieces of the puzzle of my life together."
The philanthropy Rosenwald invested in African-American causes in the early 1900s changed the course of education for thousands of children in the rural South and helped foster the careers of prominent artists, including writer Langston Hughes, opera singer Marion Anderson and painter Jacob Lawrence.
Rosenwald, who made his fortune at the helm of Sears, Roebuck and Co., also provided seed money to build YMCAs for blacks in cities around the country. In addition, he developed a huge apartment complex in Chicago to help improve the living conditions for the masses who had migrated from the Jim Crow South.
"It's a wonderful story of cooperation between this philanthropist who did not have to care about black people, but who did, and who expended his considerable wealth in ensuring that they got their fair shake in America," Julian Bond, the renowned civil rights leader, says in the documentary.
Kempner told JTA that her new film on Rosenwald "celebrates the affinity between African-Americans and Jews" that started long before the civil rights movement and speaks to the powerful Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, or repairing the world.
Rosenwald, who made his fortune at the helm of Sears, Roebuck and Co., also provided seed money to build YMCAs for blacks in cities around the country. In addition, he developed a huge apartment complex in Chicago to help improve the living conditions for the masses who had migrated from the Jim Crow South.
"It's a wonderful story of cooperation between this philanthropist who did not have to care about black people, but who did, and who expended his considerable wealth in ensuring that they got their fair shake in America," Julian Bond, the renowned civil rights leader, says in the documentary.
Kempner told JTA that her new film on Rosenwald "celebrates the affinity between African-Americans and Jews" that started long before the civil rights movement and speaks to the powerful Jewish tradition of tikkun olam, or repairing the world.
Kempner joined Bond and Rabbi David Saperstein, the former head of the Reform movement's Religious Action Center who now serves as U.S. ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom, for a discussion after the screening at the NAACP conference. It was while attending a public program 12 years ago on Martha's Vineyard at which Bond and Saperstein discussed black-Jewish relations that Kempner first learned of Rosenwald's work with African-Americans.
She calls this film the last of a trilogy documenting the lives of "under-known Jewish heroes." The first two were about baseball legend Hank Greenberg and radio and TV personality Gertrude Berg.
Aviva Kempner: Film 'Rosenwald' is a celebration of 'the affinity between African-Americans and Jews.' (Courtesy of Aviva Kempner/ via JTA)
Interspersing archival footage with interviews with prominent African-Americans like Maya Angelou and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), both of whom attended Rosenwald schools, the documentary tracks the ascent of Rosenwald, the son of German immigrants who rose to become one of the most powerful businessmen and philanthropists in early 20th-century America.
His father, Sam, who came to America in 1851, began, like so many Jewish immigrants of his time, as a peddler. He eventually settled in Springfield, Illinois, where Julius grew up across the street from Abraham Lincoln's home.
Aviva Kempner: Film 'Rosenwald' is a celebration of 'the affinity between African-Americans and Jews.' (Courtesy of Aviva Kempner/ via JTA)
Interspersing archival footage with interviews with prominent African-Americans like Maya Angelou and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), both of whom attended Rosenwald schools, the documentary tracks the ascent of Rosenwald, the son of German immigrants who rose to become one of the most powerful businessmen and philanthropists in early 20th-century America.
His father, Sam, who came to America in 1851, began, like so many Jewish immigrants of his time, as a peddler. He eventually settled in Springfield, Illinois, where Julius grew up across the street from Abraham Lincoln's home.
In 1878, his parents sent the 16-year-old Julius to New York to apprentice with his uncles in the men's clothing manufacturing business. He returned to Illinois to start his own manufacturing company, and through some business and family connections ultimately partnered with Richard Sears, one of the founders of Sears, Roebuck and Co. After Rosenwald took over the company in 1908, it became the largest retailer in the country.
Outside his business life, Rosenwald was heavily influenced by his rabbi, Emil Hirsch, the spiritual leader of the Chicago Sinai Congregation, and he became a major benefactor of Jewish causes.
The film's historians document the parallels Rosenwald drew at the time between the pogroms against European Jews and violent attacks on blacks in America.
The film's historians document the parallels Rosenwald drew at the time between the pogroms against European Jews and violent attacks on blacks in America. He was particularly moved by the race riots in 1908 in Springfield, which are said to have sparked the founding of the NAACP. Hirsch was one of the original leaders of the NAACP, and Rosenwald sponsored its first meetings at his temple.
Outside his business life, Rosenwald was heavily influenced by his rabbi, Emil Hirsch, the spiritual leader of the Chicago Sinai Congregation, and he became a major benefactor of Jewish causes.
The film's historians document the parallels Rosenwald drew at the time between the pogroms against European Jews and violent attacks on blacks in America.
The film's historians document the parallels Rosenwald drew at the time between the pogroms against European Jews and violent attacks on blacks in America. He was particularly moved by the race riots in 1908 in Springfield, which are said to have sparked the founding of the NAACP. Hirsch was one of the original leaders of the NAACP, and Rosenwald sponsored its first meetings at his temple.
He was also influenced by the writings of Booker T. Washington, a prominent black leader at the time, and became a funder of Washington's Tuskegee University in Alabama.
When Rosenwald gave a $25,000 gift to Tuskegee, Washington suggested taking a few thousand dollars to build six schools for young children. Until then, most black children didn't attend school, but instead spent their time working in the fields alongside their parents. The few schools that did exist were primitive shacks staffed mostly by untrained teachers.
Rather than donating all the money for the schools, Rosenwald gave one-third of the funds needed and challenged the local black community to raise another third and the local white community to contribute the rest. In the end, some 5,300 schools were built with seed money from the Rosenwald Fund.
The Rosenwald Fund 'was the single-most important funding agency for African- American culture in the 20th century'
The fund soon switched focus and began supporting promising black artists, helping catapult dozens onto the national stage.
The Rosenwald Fund "was the single-most important funding agency for African- American culture in the 20th century," poet Rita Dove says in the film.
When Rosenwald gave a $25,000 gift to Tuskegee, Washington suggested taking a few thousand dollars to build six schools for young children. Until then, most black children didn't attend school, but instead spent their time working in the fields alongside their parents. The few schools that did exist were primitive shacks staffed mostly by untrained teachers.
Rather than donating all the money for the schools, Rosenwald gave one-third of the funds needed and challenged the local black community to raise another third and the local white community to contribute the rest. In the end, some 5,300 schools were built with seed money from the Rosenwald Fund.
The Rosenwald Fund 'was the single-most important funding agency for African- American culture in the 20th century'
The fund soon switched focus and began supporting promising black artists, helping catapult dozens onto the national stage.
The Rosenwald Fund "was the single-most important funding agency for African- American culture in the 20th century," poet Rita Dove says in the film.
Kempner calls Rosenwald one of the greatest examplars of American Jewish philanthropy and says she hopes her film – whose official opening in theaters is scheduled for mid-August — will motivate others to continue that tradition.
"Not all of us can be Julius Rosenwald," she said, noting that he gave away a total of $62 million in his lifetime, but "we can all do something."
Times of Israel. 2015
CAMBODIA - MARC CHING RISKS EVERYTHING TO BRING MERCY
The story of Grace, it began the day she was pushed into the meat trade. Born to die. To be boiled alive. A survivor of some the most extreme torture practices. Tied to a pole and beat. The breaking of her ribs. The belief that beating a dog alive tenderizes the meat.
Out of 17 dogs I rescued in Cambodia that day, she is one of three that made it. Her adopting mother drove all the way to Los Angeles from Chicago.
As I kissed her on her head and walked away, I became tears that crumbled off of me. Not because I wanted to keep her. But because I could see the dying. I could feel it in her eyes. I could see it on her flesh as she rubbed against me. She does not know yet, how I know - that this is just the beginning.
In life there are miracles. In life if we try and believe, we get second chances. While there is no happiness in what I do. No winning of the war. On days we cannot breathe, lost there upon the ground - we find miracles.
All my love to you Grace. That place in my heart that you bled into, I will forever remember. Thank you for trying to save me.
#animalhopeandwellness #MarcChing
Thursday, August 11, 2016
THERE IS A BOUNTY ON THIS SADISTIC MONSTER
Robbie Chopper Cotterill
CHINA
This is the (Savage), who hooked a dog to the back of his car, and dragged it until the poor dogs feet had rubbed off and its guts were spilling out,
There is a $10'000 Bounty on the (Monster)
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
DONALD TRUMP'S MOB CONNECTIONS
DONALD TRUMP'S MOB CONNECTIONS
EXCERPT FROM DEMOCRACY NOW ON PBS, AUGUST 10, 2016
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Senator Rubio and, before him, Donald Trump. And, of course, then there recently Joe Scarborough, the talk show host who's a former Republican conservative congress member, saying he heard from an international diplomat who was advising Donald Trump—Trump said to the person three times, "If we have nuclear weapons, why don't we use them?"
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, this is indicative of Donald doesn't know anything. I mean, if Marco Rubio, who is pretty much an empty suit, has to school you on something this basic, that should have screamed to people back in December, "This man has no qualifications!" He doesn't qualify to be in Congress, much less be president of the United States. On the other hand, in his own mind, of course, Donald is the greatest living person. And, Amy, if you don't appreciate that, Donald has a word for you: "Loser!"
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: David, I wanted to ask you about this issue which we discussed previously with Wayne Barrett, as well, on the issue of Donald Trump's relationship to the mob and his connections over the years to mobsters. And you've also looked into that, as well.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes, and it's not just the traditional Mafia families in New York. First of all, Donald Trump's father had a business partner who was a mob guy. I'm sure Wayne talked about that. But Donald has done business with people with the Russian mob. He's done business with con artists. The guy who supplied his helicopters and managed his personal helicopter, called the Ivana, from his first wife back then, was a major cocaine trafficker, who actually handled the drugs. And after he went to prison, Donald wrote a letter pleading for mercy for him, so he got 18 months as the head of the ring. The little fish who delivered the drugs, they got 20 years. Donald continued to do business with him after he was indicted. Donald has done business all his life with mobsters and criminals, because it's a way to make money.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about Joseph Weichselbaum?
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes, that's the guy. Joseph Weichselbaum is this mob associate. He once—he used to do Cigarette boat racing in Miami, and he once was—came in third, right behind Charles Keating, the infamous financier who ripped off people for a billion dollars. And Weichselbaum provided helicopters to the Trump Organization, even though there were better-capitalized, better-run companies. Donald rented an apartment to Weichselbaum and his brother under very unusual circumstances.
When Weichselbaum was indicted, it was for a drug operation that went from Miami to Ohio. When he agreed to plead guilty, the case was mysteriously moved to New Jersey. And who did it come before? Federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald's older sister. No one knows how this happened. Now, she removed herself from the case, but imagine, Amy, that you, or one of the listeners, you're the chief judge, and the judge comes to you and says, "Oh, I can't handle this case, because I fly in this drug trafficker's helicopters. My husband flies in them every week. My children have flown in this drug trafficker's helicopters." You know, it helps explain how this guy got a light sentence.
And the question we have to ask is: Why did Donald Trump need to write that letter, which could have cost him his casino license? Because he needed this guy to be his friend and not his enemy. What was going on that Donald Trump needed a drug trafficker to be his friend and not his enemy? And that's a question no one in the news media has been asking.
AMY GOODMAN: You got a call -
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Except me.
AMY GOODMAN: You got a call from Donald Trump over this?
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: I got a call related to this, yes. I wrote a piece for Politico magazine back in April about all of Donald Trump's connections. And Donald finally called me. He's had my home number for years. He's called me at home in the past. And he said to me, "Well, you know, you've written a lot of things I like. But if I don't like what you're writing, I'm going to sue you." I said, "Well, Donald, you're a public figure." In America, that means that he would have to prove that I deliberately, knowingly told a lie about him. And he said, "I know I'm a public figure, but I'll sue you anyway." And it's one of the reasons the news coverage of him has been so soft. He has threatened to sue everybody. That Politico piece that I wrote, I've been an investigative reporter for almost 50 years; I've never been lawyered like I was for that piece. And it didn't have anything that hadn't been published before. He has intimidated the news organizations, and they're not willing to talk about that.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, in your book, you go into a story, not about his father, who's been well known and covered previously by other publications, but about his grandfather. Talk about Donald Trump's grandfather.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Donald Trump's grandfather, Frederick, when he turned 16 in 1885, was subject to mandatory military service in Germany, so he fled the country and came to America. And then he followed Horace Greeley's advice: "Go West, young man." And he went into the whorehouse business. And he ran bordellos in Seattle, in Everett, Washington, and in the Yukon Territory, until the Royal Canadian Mounted Police showed up. He then took his fortune, went back to Germany, married a young woman his mother didn't approve of, came back to America. His wife didn't like it. They went back to Germany. He figured, with all his money, he could buy his way in. And they said, "You're a draft dodger. Get out," and sent him back to America.
AMY GOODMAN: And then, talk about his father, Fred Trump.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, Fred Trump, whose father died when he was 12 or 13 years old, was a very industrious guy. When he was 15 years old, he started a business - technically owned by his mother, because he couldn't sign contracts—building garages in the outer boroughs of New York for these newfangled thing called automobiles. When the market collapsed because of the Great Depression, he invented one of the first grocery stores. People used to have clerks give them their canned goods and stuff. He opened one where you did your own, and then sold it for a profit.
He built housing during World War II for shipyard workers and is said to be the first person in line to get federal money to build worker housing. He was a profiteer. Dwight D. Eisenhower personally went into a rage over what he had done, how he'd ripped stuff off, and he had a creative explanation when he was called before the U.S. Senate to justify what he did. He said, "I didn't profiteer. I didn't take the money. It's in the bank account." Strange way to think about things. And, of course, they discriminated against everybody who wasn't white, and were proven to have done this in the '50s and in the '70s. And Woody Guthrie, the folk singer, "This Land is Your Land," he wrote a song, which is in the book thanks to the generosity of the Guthrie family, about one of the all-white outer suburb projects owned by Fred Trump.
AMY GOODMAN: That he had an apartment in.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes, that's right, that he lived in.
AMY GOODMAN: You tell a story about Fred Trump's son, his older son, Donald Trump's brother, and what happened to his family, and particularly his grandchild -
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: - after the father, Fred Trump, died, and what Donald Trump did to him.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: So, keep in mind he sought mercy for a drug trafficker. So, Freddy Trump Jr. died of alcoholism early. And when Old Man Trump died, he had a new grandson - a great-grandson, who was born a few days later - very sickly child, nearly died several times, huge medical bills. Everyone in the Trump family gets medical insurance from the Trump Organization. Donald is a big believer in healthcare. It's one of the positive things you can say about him. And the line of Freddy Trump Jr., when they realized they'd been effectively cut out of the will, filed a lawsuit. "Hey, you know, you guys are dividing the money up four ways instead of five." Donald immediately cut off the healthcare for this sickly child.
AMY GOODMAN: This is his grandnephew.
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: His grandnephew. And he's asked about this. And he says, "Well, I don't like people who sue my father." And he was told, "Well, don't you think this will look cold-hearted? You're putting the life of this child in jeopardy." "Well, what else am I to do?" And that's an essential element to understanding Donald Trump. You don't exist, Amy, I don't exist, as a person. That's why he talks about women the way he does, in these degrading terms. Donald doesn't see other people as people. He sees them as things to be used. And put the life of a child in jeopardy for more money? Donald thinks nothing is wrong with that. That's - of course you would do that, if you're Donald. If you wouldn't do it, what's wrong with you? That would be Donald's attitude.
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MUZZLED BY FACEBOOK. MURDERED BY POLICE
Facebook deactivated her profile on police request. Then police killed her.
Facebook just took away one of the most important tools we have to help hold police accountable – social media.
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, at the request of police, deactivated the social media accounts of Korryn Gaines, a 23-year old Black woman shot to death by Baltimore County police last Monday. She was broadcasting the standoff on Facebook that led to police shooting her 5-year-old son and killing her.
Social media and shareable videos have been crucial not just for raising awareness about the injustices Black folks like Korryn and her son face every day from police, but in allowing us to control our own stories and narratives.Without access to social media, the police control the narrative. And when police control that narrative we're always portrayed as people who deserved to die. This is a dangerous precedent.
To keep our message from getting out, police are going to keep taking our social media out.
To keep our message from getting out, police are going to keep taking our social media out.
Demand Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stop censoring users at the request of the police.
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