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Mary Seacole: Black British Heroine

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:02:32 GMT

clipped by: mickfinn
clipper's remarks: Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish soldier, and her mother a Jamaican. Mary learned her nursing skills from her mother, who kept a boarding house for invalid soldiers. Although technically 'free', being of mixed race, Mary and her family had few civil rights - they could not vote, hold public office or enter the professions. In 1836, Mary married Edwin Seacole but the marriage was short-lived as he died in 1844.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Mary Jane Seacole

was a mixed-race British nurse

Seacole was taught herbal remedies and folk medicine by her mother

of a nomadic disposition, on hearing of the terrible conditions of the Crimean War and certain that her knowledge of tropical medicine would be of use, she travelled to London and volunteered as a nurse

Although an expert at dealing with cholera, her application to join Florence Nightingale's team was rejected

She then borrowed money to make the 4,000 mile journey alone

she distinguished herself, treating the wounded on the battlefield, on many occasions treating wounded soldiers from both sides while under fire

Following the cessation of hostilities in 1856 she found herself stranded and almost destitute, and was saved from penury by the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces

Today she is noted not only for her bravery and medical skills but as "a woman who succeeded despite the racial prejudice of influential sections of Victorian society"

c.1850

"British Hotel" in Crimea

1873

Tags: mary seacole, crimean war

Do you care? Loss of Civil Liberties since 9/11

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:03:42 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: From website :: This is the History Commons project for the loss of US civil liberties under the current administration, and before. We are currently focusing on several topics, including the expansion of executive power (the “unitary executive”), the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, the use of “national security letters” to force information …

It will take more than 200 years to get them back.

Clip Source: www.cooperativeresearch.org

Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11

This is the home page for the Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11 investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website.

Civil Rights Act of 2008

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:11:12 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: This should be in the news every day ... instead of brittany effing spearz

Clip Source: civilrights.org

As the nation celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is fitting that Representative John Lewis, D. Ga., and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D. Mass., should introduce the Civil Rights Act of 2008 this week, just days after King's birthday. The Act would restore civil rights protections Americans have counted on for decades.

"The introduction of the Civil Rights Act of 2008 could not come at a better time," said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.

The bill will also hold state employers accountable for age discrimination, protect students from unlawful harassment in our schools, and improve the mechanisms of accountability for other civil rights and workers' rights violations.

Civil and human rights groups representing various communities applaud Sen. Kennedy's and Rep. Lewis' commitment to reversing the recent rollback in core civil rights protections.

Tags: civil rights, humanity, politics

Hate crimes on the increase

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:28:34 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: When the supreme court took it upon themselves to turn back the hands of time, many of us mourned, those of us who understood and appreciated history, struggle... many of us didn't care or understand the significance of that event, saying things like affirmative action was overrated. Well, it didn't take long for the %$!t to hit the fan.

Clip Source: story.news.ask.com

Hate Crimes Rose 8 Percent in 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hate crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent last year, the FBI reported Monday, as civil rights advocates increasingly take to the streets to protest what they call official indifference to intimidation and attacks against blacks and other minorities.

Police across the nation reported 7,722 criminal incidents in 2006 targeting victims or property as a result of bias against a race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin or physical or mental disability. That was up 7.8 percent from 7,163 incidents reported in 2005.

More than half the incidents were motivated by racial prejudice, but the report did not even pick up all the racially motivated incidents last year.

Tags: hate crimes, racism

Never accept a diamond ring from anyone under any circumstances.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:50:03 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: James Bond and diamonds... a sexy myth.

Clip Source: www.fguide.org

Econ-Atrocity: Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One

You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond.

Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value.

Diamonds Have No Resale or Investment Value.

Diamond Miners are Disproportionately Exposed to HIV/AIDS

Open-Pit Diamond Mines Pose Environmental Threats

Diamond Mine-Owners Violate Indigenous People’s Rights

Slave Laborers Cut and Polish Diamonds

Conflict Diamonds Fund Civil Wars in Africa

Diamond Wars are Fought Using Child Warriors

Small Arms Trade is Intimately Related to Diamond Smuggling

Tags: diamonds, human rights, slavery, other bad things

A place to visit for all who believe in True Democracy

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:15:30 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo

Clip Source: www.ccr-ny.org

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Since 1966, the Center for Constitutional Rights has remained dedicated to defending and advancing the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our work began on behalf of civil rights activists in the Jim Crow South and the racist North, and over the last four decades CCR has played an important role in many popular movements for social justice.

Committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change

Tags: fairness, justice, civil rights, equal rights, equality, constitution, human rights, peace

Celebrate Courage ... 50 Years ago.....

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:25:04 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

US marks 1957 integration crisis

Bill Clinton hailed the courage of the Little Rock Nine

Ex-US President Bill Clinton is in his home state of Arkansas to mark the 50th anniversary of the integration crisis at Little Rock Central High School.

The crisis saw a three week stand-off between a group of nine black students and an angry mob who wanted to stop them attending the all-white school.

The event became a seminal moment in the civil rights struggle in the US.

The case there of jailed black high school children, with its allegations of unequal racially-based justice, has for some brought back memories of those earlier, less enlightened times being remembered in Little Rock, our correspondent adds.

Tags: racial harmony, racism, history, change, courage, diversity

O.J. is toast.... but what about Jenna 6?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:46:23 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: In our sound byte, brittany society, we can keep reading about stupid OJ but nobody knows that you can go to jail for a very long time for a school yard brawl.
When will we wake up?

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Blinded By The White: OJ Simpson vs. The Jena Six

Why is it that mainstream white media and white folks in general are so obsessed (once again) with OJ's guilt but paying little or no attention to the innocence of the Jena Six?

There was a series of violent incidents were white students attacked black students. The government and school administrators ignored those. But when a white student was beaten up by six black students in a schoolyard fight --- after provoking the black students with racist taunts --- the District Attorney charged the black students with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They were charged in adult court. Meanwhile, the white student they beat up suffered only minor cuts and bruises. One of the black students, Mychal Bell --- age 16 --- has been in prison since December. Last month, an all-white jury decided that Bell was guilty --- not guilty of beating up a student who racially taunted him, but guilty of attempted murder.

Tags: civil rights, racism, discrimination, court

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:24:40 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Visit the website for more info on stuff we should be doing and thinking about to make our Nation great.

Clip Source: www.mindfully.org

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal

Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal’s office.

Tags: government, politics, human rights, rights, civil rights

Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying for that

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:38:31 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: Welcome to New Russia
This wired article makes interesting reading if you care about your civil rights, right to free speech, all of those things written in the constitution for us that no longer exist.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

"One of them, I don't remember which one, asked me, 'Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying for that,'" recalls Murphy. "I said, 'No, but I did give a speech criticizing George Bush,' and he said, 'That will do it.'"

Tags: civil rights, freedom, censorship, homeland security

In previous wars, we sacrificed our underwear. Now it's just our civil rights.

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:57:15 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: In previous wars, we sacrificed our underwear. Now it's just our civil rights. I have been fuming for years about our civil rights being eroded while we just go about our daily tips to wal-mart and watching american idol.

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

STOP SAYING President Bush hasn't asked us to sacrifice anything for the war. He's asked us to sacrifice something enormous: our civil rights. To which the American people have responded: "Sure, whatever."

He's asked us to sacrifice the pride and joy that comes from knowing people all over the world look up to you. Yeah, what can you do? And he's asked us to sacrifice our future, because that's where all the real bombs he's planted — economic, environmental and security-related — are going to go off. Have a great weekend, everybody!

Do you feel good about America now? I'll give you my answer, and to get it out of me, you don't even have to hood me, hold my head underwater and have a snarling guard dog rip my face off. No, I don't feel very good about that.

It's been said that evil happens when good men do nothing. And as the Democrats prove, it also happens when mediocre people do nothing

In previous wars, we sacrificed our underwear. Now it's just our civil rights.

Tags: war, politics, bush, america, civil rights

Our freedom is linked to others

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:40:02 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.miami.com

This is for a reader who demands to know why I write about gay issues. His conclusion is that I must secretly be gay myself.

Anyway, to get back to the point, I'm not here to argue sexuality. I just find myself intrigued by the idea that if you're not gay, you shouldn't care about gay rights.

The most concise answer I can give is cribbed from what a white kid said some 40 or so years ago, as white college students were risking their lives to travel south and register black people to vote. Somebody asked why. He said he acted from an understanding that his freedom was bound up with the freedom of every other man.

GAYS KNOW ABOUT BIAS

I know also that some folks are touchy about anything seeming to equate the black civil rights movement with the gay one. And no, gay people were not kidnapped from Gay Land and sold into slavery, nor lynched by the thousands. On the other hand, they do know something about housing discrimination, they do know job discrimination, they do know murder for the sin of existence, they do know the denial of civil rights and they do know what it is like to be used as scapegoat and boogeyman by demagogues and political opportunists.

Among the things we seem to have lost in the years since that white kid made his stand is the ability, the imagination, the willingness, to put ourselves into the skin of those who are not like us. I find it telling that Vice President Dick Cheney hews to the hard conservative line on virtually every social issue, except gay marriage. It is, of course, no coincidence that Cheney has a daughter who is a lesbian. Which tells me his position is based not on principle but, rather, on loving his daughter.

It is a fine thing to love your daughter. I would argue, however, that it is also a fine thing and in some ways, a finer thing, to love your neighbor's daughter, no matter her sexual orientation, religion, race, creed or economic status -- and to want her freedom as eagerly as you want your own.

Tags: homosexuality, fear, bias

A Gag On Free Speech?

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:55:35 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The Bush administration is trampling on the First Amendment and well-established criminal law by trying to use a subpoena to force the American Civil Liberties Union to hand over a classified document in its possession. The dispute is shrouded in secrecy, and very little has been made public about the document, but we do not need to know what’s in it to know what’s at stake: if the government prevails, it will have engaged in prior restraint — almost always a serious infringement on free speech — and it could start using subpoenas to block reporting on matters of vital public concern.

There are at least two serious problems with the government’s action. It goes far beyond what the law recognizes as the legitimate purpose of a subpoena. Subpoenas are supposed to assist an investigation, but the government does not need access to the A.C.L.U.’s document for an investigation since it already has its own copy. It is instead trying to confiscate every available copy of the document to keep its contents secret. The A.C.L.U. says it knows of no other case in which a grand jury subpoena has been used this way.

If the A.C.L.U.’s description of its secret document is correct, there is no legitimate national defense issue. The document does not contain anything like intelligence sources or troop movements, the group says. It is merely a general statement of policy whose release “might perhaps be mildly embarrassing to the government.” Given this administration’s abysmal record on these issues, this case could set a disturbing and dangerous precedent. If the subpoena is enforced, the administration will have gained a powerful new tool for rolling back free-speech rights — one that could be used to deprive Americans of information they need to make informed judgments about their elected leaders’ policies and actions.

Tags: politics, government, power, over, reaching

Clipmarks | NonStatQuo's 'civil rights' clips

Mary Seacole: Black British Heroine

Do you care? Loss of Civil Liberties since 9/11

Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11

Timelines filtered by category

Civil Rights Act of 2008

Hate crimes on the increase

Never accept a diamond ring from anyone under any circumstances.

Econ-Atrocity: Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really Want to Give You One

A place to visit for all who believe in True Democracy

Celebrate Courage ... 50 Years ago.....

O.J. is toast.... but what about Jenna 6?

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal

Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying for that

In previous wars, we sacrificed our underwear. Now it's just our civil rights.

Our freedom is linked to others

A Gag On Free Speech?