"Thank you Miss Rosa" By Allen St. Pierre.
Posted byAllen St. Pierre on2005-10-26 16:20:00
One Brave Person Can Make The Crucial Difference
No one can predict when their single action or protest against an unjust law will create the needed tipping point that leads to greater organization and societal efforts against a self-evident, and often government-imposed, injustice. No one person can place themselves in the epicenter of the necessary social and political circumstances that create the immutable public tide.
Read Full Story... www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=862
From everyone at NORML, thank you Mrs. Rosa Parks, for all your strength, courage and for being such a potent symbol of what an individual and self-sacrificing act can accomplish towards a larger and higher goal.
Ever higher, Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
Member, Board of Directors
NORML/NORML Foundation
director@norml.org
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
*Sister Rosa
December 1st, 1955
Our freedom movement came alive
And because of Sister Rosa you know
We don1t ride on the back of the bus no more.
Now Sister Rosa
She was tired one day
After a hard day on her job
When all she wanted
Was a well-deserved rest
Not a scene from an angry mob
The bus driver said Lady you got to get up
Cause a white person wants your seat
But Miss Rosa said no, not no more
I1m gonna stay right here and rest my feet
Chorus: Yeah, Thank you Miss Rosa,
you were the spark
That started our freedom movement,
Thank you Sister Rosa Parks
The police came without fail
And took Sister Rosa off to jail
14 dollars was her fine
Brother Martin Luther King
Knew it was our time
The people of Montgomery
Sat down to talk
It was decided that all God1s
children should walk
Until segregation was
brought to its knees
And we obtain freedom
And equality
So we dedicate this song to thee
For being a symbol of our dignity
Thank you Miss Rosa By The Neville Brothers,
from the album Yellow Moon, 1989
"THE ROSA PARKS STORY"
ANNOTATED TIMELINE
The Racist Ganjawar
Race and Imprisonment in the Drug War
"Freedom Rides" in Texas against the racist drug war
Of the 43 people arrested, 40 were Black--amounting to 12 percent of Tulia's Black population.
Almost every Black person in town had a relative or friend on the indictment list.
Today Would Have Been Martin Luther King Jr.s 70th Birthday.
His Message Of Non-Violence Is More Important Than Ever.
1922 Mahatma Gandhi imprisoned for civil disobedience in India
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 194
was one of the foremost spiritual and political leaders of the 1900s. Slight of build, Gandhi seemed to have limitless physical and moral strength. To free his native India from British control, he used a unique method of nonviolent resistance. His writings and deeds inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez with his doctrine of nonviolent civil disobedience or satyagraha (meaning "holding to the truth"
. Gandhi, honored by the people of India as the father of their nation, was called Mahatma, meaning "Great Soul." An Indian who resented Gandhi's racial and religious tolerance assassinated him on January 30, 1948.
Racial Profiling Was Encouraged by the DEA
Says New Jersey. Surprise! Surprise!
The Racist Origins Of Canadas Marijuana Prohibition
Reported In the National Post.
Drug War McCarthyism in Syracuse
The rise of authoritarianism and the racist drug war
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
The Murder of Steve McWilliams
An Indictment, Not An Obituary. The Absurdity of Evil. Condolences from NORML.
Shadow of the Swastika
The Drug War Refugees
Silencing Political Dissent
Rachel Corey- R.I.P. March 17, 2003
(after being mauled by an Israeli Killdozer)
Cops Confiscations Maliciously Punish Amputee
What Is More Important, Prohibition Or The Patients?
The Death of Cheryl Miller Should Remind Us All To Demand A Change In Priorities. Should Pain Be A Crime?
Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001
America's New POWs:
A project of Human Rights 95 (HR95) and the Drug War exhibit
Prisoners of Conscience
* The FBI reported that, nationwide, there were 695,201 marijuana arrests made in 1997 alone. Of these, 87% were for possession.
* Since 1965, there have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States of America. The marijuana arrest rate right now is at an all time high.
* An estimated 37,000 marijuana prisoners are currently sitting in federal and state prisons and in local jails in the U.S.
Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Marijuana Policy Project
Steve Tuck Now Free and Getting Proper Medical Care
Will Return to Humboldt to Confront Medical Marijuana Cultivation Charges. The Many Issues In a Complex Case.
About 60% of federal prisoners are drug offenders.
Just 3% are violent offenders.
Whereas violent offenders serve an average of 54% of their prison term,
drug offenders are legally required to serve at least 85% of their prison term.
Source: US Justice Department Bureau of Prison Statistics
African-American Men
* Nationally, 1 out of 3 African-American males in their 20s are either in prison, on probation, or on parole. In Washington DC, that percentage is 1 out of 2 African-American men between the ages of 15 and 35.
* If current trends continue, more African American children will go to prison than to college when they grow up.
* If current trends continue, African-American children are more likely to go to prison than to college when they grow up.
BLEAK NEWS FROM THE DRUG WAR
by Michael Fitzgerald, 28 Oct 2005 California
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
Posted byAllen St. Pierre on2005-10-26 16:20:00
One Brave Person Can Make The Crucial Difference
No one can predict when their single action or protest against an unjust law will create the needed tipping point that leads to greater organization and societal efforts against a self-evident, and often government-imposed, injustice. No one person can place themselves in the epicenter of the necessary social and political circumstances that create the immutable public tide.
Read Full Story... www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=862
From everyone at NORML, thank you Mrs. Rosa Parks, for all your strength, courage and for being such a potent symbol of what an individual and self-sacrificing act can accomplish towards a larger and higher goal.
Ever higher, Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
Member, Board of Directors
NORML/NORML Foundation
director@norml.org
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
*Sister Rosa
December 1st, 1955
Our freedom movement came alive
And because of Sister Rosa you know
We don1t ride on the back of the bus no more.
Now Sister Rosa
She was tired one day
After a hard day on her job
When all she wanted
Was a well-deserved rest
Not a scene from an angry mob
The bus driver said Lady you got to get up
Cause a white person wants your seat
But Miss Rosa said no, not no more
I1m gonna stay right here and rest my feet
Chorus: Yeah, Thank you Miss Rosa,
you were the spark
That started our freedom movement,
Thank you Sister Rosa Parks
The police came without fail
And took Sister Rosa off to jail
14 dollars was her fine
Brother Martin Luther King
Knew it was our time
The people of Montgomery
Sat down to talk
It was decided that all God1s
children should walk
Until segregation was
brought to its knees
And we obtain freedom
And equality
So we dedicate this song to thee
For being a symbol of our dignity
Thank you Miss Rosa By The Neville Brothers,
from the album Yellow Moon, 1989
"THE ROSA PARKS STORY"
ANNOTATED TIMELINE
The Racist Ganjawar
Race and Imprisonment in the Drug War
"Freedom Rides" in Texas against the racist drug war
Of the 43 people arrested, 40 were Black--amounting to 12 percent of Tulia's Black population.
Almost every Black person in town had a relative or friend on the indictment list.
Today Would Have Been Martin Luther King Jr.s 70th Birthday.
His Message Of Non-Violence Is More Important Than Ever.
1922 Mahatma Gandhi imprisoned for civil disobedience in India
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 194
was one of the foremost spiritual and political leaders of the 1900s. Slight of build, Gandhi seemed to have limitless physical and moral strength. To free his native India from British control, he used a unique method of nonviolent resistance. His writings and deeds inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez with his doctrine of nonviolent civil disobedience or satyagraha (meaning "holding to the truth" . Gandhi, honored by the people of India as the father of their nation, was called Mahatma, meaning "Great Soul." An Indian who resented Gandhi's racial and religious tolerance assassinated him on January 30, 1948. Racial Profiling Was Encouraged by the DEA
Says New Jersey. Surprise! Surprise!
The Racist Origins Of Canadas Marijuana Prohibition
Reported In the National Post.
Drug War McCarthyism in Syracuse
The rise of authoritarianism and the racist drug war
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
The Murder of Steve McWilliams
An Indictment, Not An Obituary. The Absurdity of Evil. Condolences from NORML.
Shadow of the Swastika
The Drug War Refugees
Silencing Political Dissent
Rachel Corey- R.I.P. March 17, 2003
(after being mauled by an Israeli Killdozer)
Cops Confiscations Maliciously Punish Amputee
What Is More Important, Prohibition Or The Patients?
The Death of Cheryl Miller Should Remind Us All To Demand A Change In Priorities. Should Pain Be A Crime?
Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001
America's New POWs:
A project of Human Rights 95 (HR95) and the Drug War exhibit
Prisoners of Conscience
* The FBI reported that, nationwide, there were 695,201 marijuana arrests made in 1997 alone. Of these, 87% were for possession.
* Since 1965, there have been over 11 million marijuana arrests in the United States of America. The marijuana arrest rate right now is at an all time high.
* An estimated 37,000 marijuana prisoners are currently sitting in federal and state prisons and in local jails in the U.S.
Sources: FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Marijuana Policy Project
Steve Tuck Now Free and Getting Proper Medical Care
Will Return to Humboldt to Confront Medical Marijuana Cultivation Charges. The Many Issues In a Complex Case.
About 60% of federal prisoners are drug offenders.
Just 3% are violent offenders.
Whereas violent offenders serve an average of 54% of their prison term,
drug offenders are legally required to serve at least 85% of their prison term.
Source: US Justice Department Bureau of Prison Statistics
African-American Men
* Nationally, 1 out of 3 African-American males in their 20s are either in prison, on probation, or on parole. In Washington DC, that percentage is 1 out of 2 African-American men between the ages of 15 and 35.
* If current trends continue, more African American children will go to prison than to college when they grow up.
* If current trends continue, African-American children are more likely to go to prison than to college when they grow up.
BLEAK NEWS FROM THE DRUG WAR
by Michael Fitzgerald, 28 Oct 2005 California
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
