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Mexican activist in missing students case killed near Acapulco | News | DW.COM | 10.08.2015

Jimenez had worked with families of the disappeared to find information and evidence, which he had then passed on to the authorities. “This area, we have always said it, it’s a cemetery,” he said in an interview last December.

Since the group began their investigations in November, 129 bodies have been found and handed over to the authorities for identification.

The 43 students are believed to have been arrested by local police on the instructions of the local mayor and his wife. They were handed over to a criminal gang and killed.

via Mexican activist in missing students case killed near Acapulco | News | DW.COM | 10.08.2015.

“On her sixth birthday, two of her friends came over and…

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“On her sixth birthday, two of her friends came over and brought her presents. One of the presents was big, and the other was small. The friend who’d brought the big present was laughing at the smaller present. It was so hard for me to not intervene. I was so used to telling my daughter how to act and what to say. But I decided that this time I’d sit back and see how she responded. “I like both my presents the same,” she said. And I remember feeling so proud, because I knew that what I’d been teaching her was working.”

(Karachi, Pakistan)

LOL – We Love LA! N.F.L. to Weigh Three Teams’ Proposals on Moving to Los Angeles – The New York Times

The Raiders, the Rams and the San Diego Chargers have unveiled plans to build stadiums near Los Angeles, a potential bonanza for the teams and the league. The concentration of fans and companies in the Los Angeles area, the nation’s second-largest market, could lift sales of tickets, merchandise and sponsorships and enhance the N.F.L.’s media rights.

But placing one or more teams in Los Angeles, where fans have many other diversions, is no guarantee of success, and it would mean abandoning Oakland, St. Louis or San Diego, which have been solid, if less lucrative, N.F.L. markets.

 

The Raiders? Oakland needs ya.

The Rams? Come on home!

The Chargers? This is where it all started – come on up!

On Monday, the six owners on the committee that oversees the league’s options in Los Angeles will weigh those factors when representatives from San Diego present their plan to keep the Chargers from moving. (Leaders from St. Louis have presented their plan already.) The next day, all 32 owners will hear updates on stadium proposals in Carson and Inglewood, Calif.

via N.F.L. to Weigh Three Teams’ Proposals on Moving to Los Angeles – The New York Times.

The Donald Is a Lot More Dangerous Than You Think | Dame Magazine

Like his White Populist predecessors, Trump is capitalizing on widespread anti-immigrant sentiment. And this kind of rhetoric is just a more socially acceptable form of anti-Black racism. Trump with his anti-p.c. stances and anti-Mexican rhetoric can rally his White troops against everything from #BlackLivesMatter to demands for the expulsion of ethnic studies out of our classrooms, for more prisons and police. He is the personification of White supremacy and patriarchy, cloaked in a mirage of the American Dream and its related ideology of American exceptionalism.

He is recycling a trusted playbook of demonizing immigrants of color, playing on the fears and anger from the White working- and middle-class people who have long supported the GOP since the introduction of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” which capitalized on White bigotry throughout the South while mobilizing White fears of Black crime by advancing an aggressive law and order platform.

His anti-immigrant and racist message is an old historical narrative. It worked from the Know-Nothing Party that mobilized around anti-Irish and anti-Black sentiments. It worked for countless Republican politicians who used fear of the “Yellow Peril” which led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, and the 1942 Bracero Agreement, a labor and wartime strategy that was used to maintain political power. And of course, racial fear has been fundamental to the maintenance of slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration and the amped-up militarization of the police who are disproportionately killing people of color and being acquitted for it.

via The Donald Is a Lot More Dangerous Than You Think | Dame Magazine.

Humans of New York

“On her sixth birthday, two of her friends came over and brought her presents. One of the presents was big, and the other was small. The friend who’d brought the big present was laughing at the smaller present. It was so hard for me to not intervene. I was so used to telling my daughter how to act and what to say. But I decided that this time I’d sit back and see how she responded. “I like both my presents the same,” she said. And I remember feeling so proud, because I knew that what I’d been teaching her was working.”

via Humans of New York.

Al Giordano responds to Project Censored’s Attack on Censored News

Al Giordano, publisher of authentic journalism at Narco News, responds to Project Censored’s hypocritical claim to own the words ‘censored news’ and its threat to file a lawsuit against Censored News

Dear Peter Phillips,

When in 2007 I rejected your Project Censored award I mentioned that I consider your organization a gigantic scam that abuses journalists and ordered you not to use

Resisting the Censors, Gatekeepers and Powermongers

Censored News Photos

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

It is more annoying than anything. First, Project Censored gives me an award in 2008. Then, they use my work without paying for it in a book. Then they use my work at other times without asking. Now, they threaten to file a lawsuit against me eight years after the award because they think they own the words ‘censored news.’ 
The whole

CENSORED NEWS: Al Giordano responds to Project Censored’s Attack on Censored News

http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/al-giordano-s-reactie-op-aanval-op-censored-news-van-project-censored

*AL GIORDANO’S REACTIE OP AANVAL OP CENSORED NEWS

DOOR PROJECT CENSORED

Al Giordano, uitgever van Authentic Journalism bij Narco News, reageert op de hypocriete aanspraak die Project Censored maakt op het woord ‘censored’ en zijn dreigement tegen Censored News.

Beste Peter Philips

Toen ik in 2007 uw Project Censored award geweigerd heb, heb ik u mijn mening gegeven over uw organisatie.

Ik beschouwde uw organisatie als een gigantische zwendel die journalisten misbruikt; tevens heb ik u het verbod opgelegd om mijn verhaal te publiceren in het boek waarmee uw organisatie mijn werk probeerde toe te eigenen uit winstbejag.

Nu, acht jaar later bewijst u dat mijn oordeel over u en uw parasiterende frauduleuze ploeg volledig correct was, waarvoor dank.

Narco News en al onze bondgenoten van de School of Authentic Journalism zullen aandachtig volgen of u de bedreiging tegen journalist Brenda Norrell zal uitvoeren, en uw voortdurende pogingen om haar het zwijgen op te leggen en te censureren.

Kerels die kwistig woorden zoals “ cease and desist” rondstrooien, zijn gewoonlijk diegenen die hun eigen raad moeten opvolgen en moeten stoppen met zulke infantiele en hebzuchtige pogingen om een journalist te intimideren, en door haar de Native Amerikaanse bewegingen waarover zij en Censored News ongekende en essentiële coverage levert.

De suggestie dat, omdat u “Project Censored” bent niemand anders het woord “Censored” mag gebruiken omdat het uw ‘handelsmerk’ is, is gewoon zo lachwekkend dat het verwerpelijk is.

Het woord is “part of your lexicon?”

Bezorg me a.u.b. een kopie van uw geregistreerd handelsmerk Censored News, voor het artikel dat ik aan het schrijven ben over deze aanval op persvrijheid te voordele van censuur.

Liefst volledig met de datum van registratie die aantoont dat u geregistreerd bent voor Mrs.Norrell met haar publicaties begon.

Zonder dat hebt u geen zaak, Sherlock, en u weet het.

Dit is enkel een poging om een journalist, waarvan u de steun van andere journalisten duidelijk hebt onderschat, te intimideren.

Volhard u in uw poging om het gebruik van de woorden te censureren en wees niet verwonderd dat u eens te meer de pispaal wordt van de hele internationale journalisten gemeenschap, alleen nog meer dan voorheen, omdat deze laatste stunt zo heerlijk hypocriet is dat het beneden alle menselijke waardigheid is.

Oh, en verder nog een prettige dag, Mr. Philips, jij miserabele sukkel.

Oprechte groeten,

Al Giordano

Uitgever, Narco News

http://www.narconews.com

“Cease and Desist” brief van Project Censored, nadat ze mij in 2008 een prijs hadden toegekend en mijn werk, zonder vergoeding hebben gepubliceerd in hun boek .

Censored News werkt voor inheemse volkeren en grassroots mensenrechtenactivisten.

Publiceert zonder advertenties of subsidies.

Brenda Norrell,

Uitgever Censored News

Van Peter Philips

8 augustus 2015

Beste Brenda Norrell

Project Censored gebruikt de titel “Censored” nieuws en het gebruik van deze term door u doet iedere normale mens geloven dat zij verband houden met Project Censored.

Stop onmiddellijk (Cease and desist) met het gebruik van deze titel in uw blog.

Media Freedom Foundation Inc. is de wettige eigenaar van de naam Project Censored.

De termen Daily Censored, Censored news, Censored logo en Censored Notbook maken deel uit van onze lexicon.

U mag termen zoals ‘unreported news’ of ‘hidden news’ gebruiken voor uw blog, maar gebruik het woord Censored niet.

Wij hopen oprecht dat wij niet genoodzaakt zijn om juridische stappen te ondernemen.

Peter Phillips Ph.D.

President Media Freedom Foundation

P.O. Box 571

Cotati, CA 94931

707-874-2695

NAIS zal deze verwerpelijke zaak blijven volgen.

Wij steunen onvoorwaardelijk Brenda Norrell en Censored News.

Brenda Norrell staat volledig ten dienste van Native Amerikaanse grassroots, milieu- en mensenrechtenactivisten.

Dit zonder een enkele vergoeding te ontvangen.

Net zoals NAIS weigert zij principieel alle advertenties, zij ontvangt geen subsidies en steekt haar kleine inkomen volledig in het volgen en publiceren van acties die door de reguliere media worden doodgezwegen of verdraaid.

Wij roepen iedereen op om Censored Nieuws te steunen!

via CENSORED NEWS: Al Giordano responds to Project Censored’s Attack on Censored News.