From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Mon Nov 2 13:45:08 2009 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:45:08 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Videographer arrested documenting Sunsara Taylor talk - call now 2 drop charges! Message-ID: <965237.57683.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please forward widely too! ?NEWS FLASH ? On Sunday, November 1st, plainclothes and uniformed police who had been called in earlier by officials of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC) dragged out, maced and arrested? a man for videotaping Sunsara Taylor as she stood near her seat and made a statement before the start of that morning's program about the shameful cancellation of her long planned talk to EHSC that day on the topic "Morality without Gods." ? The shocking incident took place at the insistence of the president of EHSC. About 40 people witnessed the videographer being brutalized by the police in the foyer of the facility.? An attorney demanded that the police stop brutalizing him when five officers piled on him as he lay face down on the floor.? 6 police cars arrived within minutes. ? The day before, during a workshop on the same premises which the president and other board members of the EHS were at, Sunsara explained very clearly that she would be attending the opening of the EHS's Sunday gathering and giving the EHS the opportunity to do the right thing and allow her talk to go forward, up until the last minute.? If the EHS still refused to let her give her talk, she explained that she would leave and give her talk in "exile" at the nearby home of one of the EHS members.? [This statement can be viewed on YouTube here.] ? In her brief statement at the EHS on Sunday morning, Sunsara Taylor challenged the very wrong decision to cancel her speaking engagement and pointed out how this is contributing to a chilling atmosphere in society as a whole and has happened all too frequently to people who challenge the dominant narrative (like Ward Churchill, Noman Finkelstein and the director of Milk who was recently "disinvited" from Hope College, etc.).? Taylor stated that while the group had the "bureaucratic right" to disinvite her, it didn't make it any more "right" than the voters in California passing Prop 8.? She also invited those who wanted to hear her speak to come to her "talk in exile" at the home of a member of the EHSC. ? At no point during her brief statement was Sunsara asked to stop speaking or to leave the premises.? And at no point was anyone who was there to support her, including the videographer, asked to leave.? It is telling that the only person singled out by the police, at the request of the president of the Society, was the man documenting what Sunsara was saying. ? The videographer was simply trying to document and guard the truth of what Sunsara was saying in her brief statement.? Sunsara's words had been grossly distorted and taken out of context by some members of the EHSC who were the driving forces behind canceling her speech. ? What kind of ethics and morals is the EHSC upholding and modeling through the great lengths it has gone to in suppressing Sunsara Taylor's talk on Morality without Gods?? A number of their own members expressed disagreement with the cancellation and a number of prominent people from around the country wrote statements in support of Sunsara's speaking and called on EHSC to rectify its wrong-headed decision.? Instead, the board fortified and increasingly defended its decision and created an atmosphere of anti-communist hysteria, fear and rumor-mongering that had no relationship to reality. ? The EHS had no legitimate basis to feel the police needed to be there in the first place, except for the rumors and hysteria that they themselves had created.? Then, by choosing to set the police upon the person filming they went after the one person who was documenting the truth of Sunsara's words and the fact that Sunsara and others there to support her were acting in no way to disrupt the replacement talk the EHS had planned. ? What kind of Ethical Humanist group would create a situation that led directly to the brutal arrest of someone simply for filming Sunsara giving a statement at that point with simply a cell phone?? In their zeal to suppress Taylor they went repeatedly against the stated purpose of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago which includes "the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society...Our commitment is to the worth and dignity of the individual and to treating each human being so as to bring out the best in her or him." ? This attack was in stark contrast to the day before at the EHSC where Sunsara led a well-attended and lively discussion with much audience participation on Women's Liberation and the Emancipation of Humanity.? This whole program was videotaped by the same volunteer videographer. ? To call upon the EHSC to drop charges against the videographer and to continue to express your disagreement with their decision to dis-invite Sunsara Taylor, contact: office at ethicalhuman.org and call 847-677-3334. ? (For the background to this dis-invitation and statements of support for Sunsara, check her blog at http://sunsara.blogspot.com/). To find out how to make contributions to the legal defense, contact: sunsaratour at yahoo.com. REVOLUTION BOOKS 1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622 773.489.0930? revbookschi at pobox.com Go to?Chicago Revolution Books blog?for upcoming events. HOURS Tue-Sat: Noon-7pm?? Sun: Noon-5pm Stop thinking like an American, Start thinking about humanity! Read Revolution at www.revcom.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dimension04 at sbcglobal.net Mon Nov 2 22:02:30 2009 From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net (Connie Smith) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:02:30 -0600 Subject: [CitizensTruth] 9/11, original music, philosophy, etc. Message-ID: Would like to share: Pertaining to the 9/11 community, I wrote a song after the Oklahoma City bombing that (unfortunately) became equally passionately relevant after 9/11. It's based on my philosophy of a Bigger Picture and is meant to be a message of comfort. Further, a poem I wrote after listening to some white supremacists on TV made me contemplate "what if" reincarnation is true, and those guys all came back as black folks. I recently turned the poem into kind of a satire that I call Reincarnation Rap. These are available to listen to now on a website of recordings that we were pretty much in the middle of when my husband crashed with brain surgery in 1997. Recordings dug up now and never re-done as planned -- but good enough to lift a heart or two, here and there! In that spirit, I recommend to you -- first, the song Someday that appears at the #2 link on the webpage, and then the "NEW" link before it, which plays Reincarnation Rap. http://hcsvx.hcsi.com/cornucopia/ Ever in solidarity, Connie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aroyboy44 at hotmail.com Tue Nov 3 12:19:01 2009 From: aroyboy44 at hotmail.com (andrew ritter) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:19:01 +0000 Subject: [CitizensTruth] Videographer arrested documenting Sunsara Taylor talk - call now 2 drop charges! In-Reply-To: <965237.57683.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <965237.57683.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: FYI - Assuming she does not get thrown in jail for no reason, Sunsara will be speaking/debating this Sunday at the Best Church of God @ 1:00pm at the Lakeshore Theatre at Belmont & Broadway http://bestchurchofgod.org/.god/ A Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:45:08 -0800 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com To: citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net Subject: [CitizensTruth] Videographer arrested documenting Sunsara Taylor talk - call now 2 drop charges! Please forward widely too! NEWS FLASH On Sunday, November 1st, plainclothes and uniformed police who had been called in earlier by officials of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC) dragged out, maced and arrested a man for videotaping Sunsara Taylor as she stood near her seat and made a statement before the start of that morning's program about the shameful cancellation of her long planned talk to EHSC that day on the topic "Morality without Gods." The shocking incident took place at the insistence of the president of EHSC. About 40 people witnessed the videographer being brutalized by the police in the foyer of the facility. An attorney demanded that the police stop brutalizing him when five officers piled on him as he lay face down on the floor. 6 police cars arrived within minutes. The day before, during a workshop on the same premises which the president and other board members of the EHS were at, Sunsara explained very clearly that she would be attending the opening of the EHS's Sunday gathering and giving the EHS the opportunity to do the right thing and allow her talk to go forward, up until the last minute. If the EHS still refused to let her give her talk, she explained that she would leave and give her talk in "exile" at the nearby home of one of the EHS members. [This statement can be viewed on YouTube here.] In her brief statement at the EHS on Sunday morning, Sunsara Taylor challenged the very wrong decision to cancel her speaking engagement and pointed out how this is contributing to a chilling atmosphere in society as a whole and has happened all too frequently to people who challenge the dominant narrative (like Ward Churchill, Noman Finkelstein and the director of Milk who was recently "disinvited" from Hope College, etc.). Taylor stated that while the group had the "bureaucratic right" to disinvite her, it didn't make it any more "right" than the voters in California passing Prop 8. She also invited those who wanted to hear her speak to come to her "talk in exile" at the home of a member of the EHSC. At no point during her brief statement was Sunsara asked to stop speaking or to leave the premises. And at no point was anyone who was there to support her, including the videographer, asked to leave. It is telling that the only person singled out by the police, at the request of the president of the Society, was the man documenting what Sunsara was saying. The videographer was simply trying to document and guard the truth of what Sunsara was saying in her brief statement. Sunsara's words had been grossly distorted and taken out of context by some members of the EHSC who were the driving forces behind canceling her speech. What kind of ethics and morals is the EHSC upholding and modeling through the great lengths it has gone to in suppressing Sunsara Taylor's talk on Morality without Gods? A number of their own members expressed disagreement with the cancellation and a number of prominent people from around the country wrote statements in support of Sunsara's speaking and called on EHSC to rectify its wrong-headed decision. Instead, the board fortified and increasingly defended its decision and created an atmosphere of anti-communist hysteria, fear and rumor-mongering that had no relationship to reality. The EHS had no legitimate basis to feel the police needed to be there in the first place, except for the rumors and hysteria that they themselves had created. Then, by choosing to set the police upon the person filming they went after the one person who was documenting the truth of Sunsara's words and the fact that Sunsara and others there to support her were acting in no way to disrupt the replacement talk the EHS had planned. What kind of Ethical Humanist group would create a situation that led directly to the brutal arrest of someone simply for filming Sunsara giving a statement at that point with simply a cell phone? In their zeal to suppress Taylor they went repeatedly against the stated purpose of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago which includes "the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society...Our commitment is to the worth and dignity of the individual and to treating each human being so as to bring out the best in her or him." This attack was in stark contrast to the day before at the EHSC where Sunsara led a well-attended and lively discussion with much audience participation on Women's Liberation and the Emancipation of Humanity. This whole program was videotaped by the same volunteer videographer. To call upon the EHSC to drop charges against the videographer and to continue to express your disagreement with their decision to dis-invite Sunsara Taylor, contact: office at ethicalhuman.org and call 847-677-3334. (For the background to this dis-invitation and statements of support for Sunsara, check her blog at http://sunsara.blogspot.com/). To find out how to make contributions to the legal defense, contact: sunsaratour at yahoo.com. REVOLUTION BOOKS 1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622 773.489.0930 revbookschi at pobox.com Go to Chicago Revolution Books blog for upcoming events. HOURS Tue-Sat: Noon-7pm Sun: Noon-5pm Stop thinking like an American, Start thinking about humanity! 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URL: From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Thu Nov 5 13:31:19 2009 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:31:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Best Church of God debates Sunsara Taylor Sunday Message-ID: <672953.60519.qm@web33507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In This IssueComing this week to the BCOG Thieves of Christian Thunder Godnet Quote o' the Week Welcome, friends in Christ, to The Bi-Weekly Word, November 5th, 2009! If you have any comments, questions, or faith-based announcements, shoot us an email (or a prayer request) at savior at bestchurchofgod.org COMING THIS WEEK TO THE BCOG Join us this Sunday, November 8th for our Final Service*! It's your last chance to be saved before we go into Rapture Hiding... This week: Real-life famed atheist Sunsara Taylor challenges the BCOG to a debate! The tragic tale of Gus the Gay Why Jesus hearts violence Peter Pan miraculously transubstantiates So much more... Click here to learn more. *(If for some reason the Rapture doesn't come, then we'll return to the Lakeshore Theater to do some Holiday Services on December 20th and 27th at 1pm.) -top- THIEVES OF CHRISTIAN THUNDER In addition to attending the Best Church of God this Sunday, atheist hellion Sunsara Taylor was also scheduled to speak at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC) during her sinful stint here this week. The EHSC had recently banned Sunsara's talk on the topic "Morality Without Gods", which marked their first attempt to steal our Christian thunder. Punishing people for their beliefs is our job, you dirty humanists! To make matters worse, they tried infringing on our territory again on the day of the cancelled speech. During Sunsara's last ditch attempt to give her sinful whine for a no-God-world, a volunteer camera man was dragged out, maced, and arrested. The EHSC has chosen to keep the whole violent matter quiet, and we condemn them for that. Damn you again, you ethical elitists! When we beat people up, we make an example of it so nobody tries that funny business again. That's why the death penalty works. So to the losers at EHSC, next time you try to steal somebody's thunder, do it right. But hopefully, there won't be a next time. (Or at least, we won't hear anything about it...) -top- TWEET FOR JESUS Get alerted to when the Rapture comes FAST! By following us on Twitter. You'll be glad to find how Tweet it is to be loved by God. -top- ??????QUOTE O' THE WEEK "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God." ~2 Corinthians 3:4 Next time your boss tells you that you aren't competent, just tell them to stop insulting God and to get back to work. You are the Best*. (And we would know. God told us so.) -top- Stop thinking like an American, Start thinking about humanity! 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Hood details Message-ID: Here is a video that came out right after the shooting where the governor of Texas, who admits to being uncertain and unable to comment on most of the details, says with certainty that there are 3 shooters. 1 is dead and 2 are in custody The 3 shooters discussion has now disappeared from the MSM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IL61yoWnk4 Just a hunch but it sounds to me like Obama will need to keep widening the wars abroad and tightening security/limiting freedoms at home in order to properly deal with this incident. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjkirk12 at yahoo.com Wed Nov 11 15:34:12 2009 From: mjkirk12 at yahoo.com (Mike Kirk) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:34:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CitizensTruth] (Nuclear) swords into plowshares Message-ID: <87436.1432.qm@web83806.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> The US is using salvaged bomb material (Russian and US) to fuel power plants. It may encourage further nuclear disarmament - as a cheaper energy source. http://nucpros.com/index.php?q=node/7401 (excerpt): "Salvaged bomb material now generates about 10 percent of electricity in the United States - by comparison, hydropower generates about 6 percent and solar, biomass, wind and geothermal together account for 3 percent. "Utilities have been loath to publicize the Russian bomb supply line for fear of spooking consumers:the fuel from missiles that may have once been aimed at your home may now be lighting it. "But at times, recycled Soviet bomb cores have made up the majority of the American market for low-enriched uranium fuel. 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Friday, Nov. 13 in Oak Park, presentation on H1N1. -------- Original Message -------- Local contacts: 708-848-0116 847-428-7962 SWINE FLU & VACCINE SAFETY Sponsored by: Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition Presented by: Maureen Drummond, Founding and Directing Member of the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice; Former Oak Park Resident; Former co-director of the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition. Please join us for this educational forum on H1N1 influenza and vaccine safety. This presentation will call into question the safety of H1N1 vaccines and the limited scientific data to support mass administration. We will examine flu statistics and reveal what our top health officials know about the dangers and limitations of this mass vaccination program. The presentation will also bring to light, the swine flu debacle of 1976 and the probability of history repeating itself. FRIDAY: November 13, 2009 MEET AND GREET: 3:30 ? 4:00 p.m. PRESENTATION w/ Q & A: 4:00 ? 6:00 p.m. LOCATION: Oak Park Public Library Veteran's Room, 834 Lake Street, Oak Park Maureen Drummond is a long-time activist for vaccination choice. She considers the full disclosure of vaccine ingredients and side effects to be a critical to informed consent. She has provided free educational lectures and materials to thousands of people for nearly two decades. Maureen now resides in New Jersey as co-director of the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice, a statewide grassroots organization promoting education, community outreach and support on vaccination choice issues. As one of our country's leading vaccine safety advocates, Drummond opposes additional state-mandate vaccines. From futurenotwritten at yahoo.com Mon Nov 16 10:56:51 2009 From: futurenotwritten at yahoo.com (Jay Becker) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:56:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: [CitizensTruth] Drop charges on the videographer, Nov 18, Skokie Message-ID: <295328.36726.qm@web33503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Everyone who's heard Sunsara speak and appreciates her contributions, everyone who values discussion of differences over suppression and calling in the law, your support is needed in the courtroom Wed, 1:30 pm. You can get there on public too - from Chicago, take the Skokie Swift to its end station and from there, the CTA bus 54A (Skokie Courthouse).? Schedules and routes at transitchicago. com We received the following announcement from Sunsara Taylor's Chicago tour coordinator (sunsaratour@ yahoo.com). The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago has acted unethically and now a man is facing criminal charges stemming directly from their attempts to cover up and justify their actions. Come to Skokie on Wednesday, Nov 18, at 1:30 pm to demand criminal charges be dropped against the videographer arrested while recording Sunsara Taylor's statement on Nov 1 at the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago. ? When: Wednesday, November 18, 1:30 pm Where: Skokie Courthouse, Room 104 ?????????????? 5600 Old Orchard Road, Skokie, IL ? The "Ethical" "Humanist" Society of Chicago (EHSC) is shamefully pressing charges against the videographer who was arrested and brutalized while documenting Sunsara Taylor's statement to the EHSC on November 1, before the start of their scheduled program. (Read news flash here.) ? Sunsara Taylor had gone to EHSC to make a statement explaining why it was wrong for them to have disinvited her from her long-scheduled talk on "Morality Without Gods" because some disagreed with her analysis and perspective, and the broader chill in society to which this act contributed when a group such as this suppressed rather than debated controversial opinions. She planned to leave EHSC to give her talk "in exile" at the nearby home of an EHSC member and invite all who wanted to hear it to join her. (See http://sunsara. blogspot. com/2009/ 11/sunsara- taylor-on- ethical-humanist .html.) She had announced her intention to do this the day before at a well-attended workshop she gave at EHSC on "The Liberation of Women and the Emancipation of Humanity." (See her statement here). This same videographer had taped that workshop, without incident and working with members of the Society to do so. ? In a move that defies any logic other than the continued cover-up and unethical suppression of Sunsara's views, EHSC had the police arrest the videographer, whose only action was recording her words in a "Michael Moore moment." If EHSC felt Sunsara was causing some harm through her 2-minute statement before the start of their program, why did they not ask her to stop? Why did they instead arrest the videographer? ? That the EHSC is willing to trample on the future, health and freedom of a man simply to justify and cover-up their dis-invitation of Sunsara Taylor is itself even more profoundly immoral and unethical -- and it must be stopped. ? As Sunsara put it in her statement, "Today, progressive and radical thinkers across the country are routinely dis-invited, their speech is routinely suppressed, they are pressured to self-censor, they are fired or denied tenure, and the discourse of this society is routinely kept within 'safe' limits that do not challenge a bloody status quo. To go along with this, and contribute to this, is to do great harm. Indeed, the ideas that are allowed to circulate in society and the ideas that are suppressed, have everything to do with whether the crimes of this world will be allowed to continue or whether these will be called out, resisted and stopped. I ask that each of you reading this now add your voice against this act of suppression. ... Write and call the EHSC and Skokie police department to demand that charges be dropped against my videographer. " ? Come to the Skokie courthouse Wed. Nov. 18 to show your support and demand all charges against the videographer be dropped. Write to EHSC at office at ethicalhuman .org to demand they drop the charges.Please contribute whatever you can to the costs of his legal defense by sending a check, earmarked "videographer defense," to Frankel and Cohen, 77 W. Washington, Suite 1720, Chicago, IL 60602. ? For more information see "Sunsara Taylor on the 'Ethical' Humanist Society of Chicago, or...Why I was Dis-Invited, Why I Did Not Just Shut Up And Go Away, and Why It Still Matters" and eyewitness statements at sunsara.blogspot. com. REVOLUTION BOOKS 1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622 773.489.0930? revbookschi@ pobox.com Go to?Chicago Revolution Books blog?for upcoming events. NEW FALL HOURS Wed-Sat: Noon-7pm?? 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