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Makin Media Workshop to focus on Southern Human Rights Conference
by Renee Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006 at 12:24 PM
houston@indymedia.org.

Houston Indymedia wants you to help cover the 6th bi-annual Southern Human Rights Organizers Network Conference.

Houston Indymedia presents another...

Makin' Media workshop*
Tuesday, December 5 from 7-9 PM
Sedition Books (4420 Washington Avenue)
* Tasty vegan refreshments included

You're invited to...
- Learn about the history and philosophy of Indymedia
- Learn how to upload coverage to the website
- Learn basic writing, audio and photo editing skills
- Learn simple interview tips

We'll have a follow-up workshop the week after the conference to work on coverage for our website and radio show on KPFT.

Be part of the team that will cover workshops and talks on human rights struggles in the South. Help report on direct action related to local community campaigns. Past conferences examined the fight against urban removal and gentrification and the Immokalee workers in their boycott against Taco Bell. When the conference comes to Houston for for SHRON's 10th anniversary on December 8-10, it will focus on migrant farm workers rights and feature Angela Davis.









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Congrats On Education, But What About PC and Internet Access
by Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone Tuesday, Dec. 05, 2006 at 4:42 PM
USA

Congrats On Educatio...
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I would like to congratulate you on your efforts in educating the South East on how to be their own media. The mass media does not protect us the common and poor.

The weakness is that the poor do not have PC and Internet access often to be able to upload easily and do those things of the Indymedia news reporters.

I am in Mobile Alabama. I pity the poor here. We are not just black and white like the mass media portrays, we are the common, the poor. The USA government does not care for any color of the poor if they speak out against the ruling regime.

If you take a ride from Prichard Alabama, a now primarily darker region of the poor in Lower Alabama, and if you travel down highway 45 going East you see the poor of the more darker complexion and if you turn on Lott Road going left or South and follow it, you will soon see a city of trailers and such where the poorer of the lighter complexion in total live. It is not black and white. The color lines have faded. The government tries to tell us we are divided. We are one, we are the poor.

I know, I am from Prichard originally and grew up near the Lott Road area also. The mobile Alabama government denies my access to the city council meetings in violation of their open meetings law. I want all to be able to vote and enter government, regardless of color. i sent an email demanding entry and they said I was racist. I would consider it a blessing if the entire local government was executed if they close the door to us.

We can not vote, and those are primarily those of the darker complexion, but the lighter complexion of the poor are in the same predicament. We know they are not us.

I will be forming a political group with a military arm and a goodwill arm, known as the Humane Revolutionary Party. I encourage all people to come, regardless of complexion, income, or nationality or religion.

We will defeat our enemies or we will die trying. The United States government was taken over. There is a technological component. We need technological weapons to defeat the regime when they are sacked in their strong points by their enemies from abroad, who will likely release biological weapons and nuclear weapons.

I encourage men and women to see the beauty of our race, the human race, even if some of us appear different under X rays, such as having wing remnants or fins on our backs or even tails. It happens, Why I do not know.

I am one of those with what appar to be wing remnants on my spine or perhaps fins. I do not know why. I could have been an experiment. My great grandmother was adopted and I do not know her origin. Her skin was darker than mine and her nose was huge, and she loved her children.

We will overcome the beasts in the South Easts, even if we have to dry their hides in Hell. As we are better off extinct than to be subservient to our enemies in power.

Mobile Audit Club, at your service.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyordeath/index.html

In the picture is Reggie Copeland, a Mobile Alabama City Councilman who votes behind closed doors to allow me entry into government. The federal dictatorship backs him up. I had the Sheriff Jack Tillman fired for starving inmates, as he was stealing inmate food funds, over $350,000.

You can see my pictures and story at Mobile Audit Club. My pics are on the Mobile Audit Club Band page. I only come back to Mobile because I have family here. Otherwise, I would just leave the USA at this point.

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Correction on Post
by Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone Tuesday, Dec. 05, 2006 at 4:54 PM
USA, a nightmare state

Correction, Copeland votes behind closed doors to DENY my entry. The federal government backs him. to tour the poor areas also, start in Prichard on Highway 45, go West and on the outskirts of Prichard Turn Left going South On Lott Road, and follow it out.

Mobile Audit Club

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Why is it?
by Rancid Wednesday, Dec. 06, 2006 at 11:37 AM

Why is it that you see thousands of poor people work their way into the middle class and thousands of middle class become poor every year?

How is it that you have thousands of people immigrating from places like Asia with not much more than the clothes on their back and barely any English skills become successful small business owners within only one or maybe two generations?

You can read here (http://www.bonitanews.com/news/2006/jan/22/living_american_dream/?around_swfla) about a Vietnamese women named Suzanne Nguyen. She was orphaned in Vietnam when she was 6, and later in life locked up in a Communist prison for trying to flee the country. She finally made it to the US, broke and with no skills. She learned how to do nails, and now owns six salons and lives the "American Dream."

There is literally thousands of stories just like that, but somehow you just ignore them.

This is truely the land of opprotunity. Take advantage of it.

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