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Members of the University of Michigan Black Student Union said they would have to resort to “physical action” if a list of seven demands issued on Martin Luther King Day are not met within seven days, The Ann Arbor News reported. “If negotiations are not complete we will be forced to do more, beginning to increase valiantly our activism for social progress and take physical actions on the University of Michigan’s campus,” said senior Shayla Scales to a group of students gathered on campus, according to the Ann Arbor News. The seven demands, read aloud by an activist associated with...

Mr. President and Mrs. Clinton, Speaker Hastert, Reverend Clergy, Nuncio Montalvo, Dr. Graham, General and Mrs. Ralston, other head table guests and honored guests in the hall, ladies and gentlemen: To each and every one of you I say, Blessed be they who come in the name of the Lord. This morning, in this place, this very temporal city comes together to reach up to touch the timeless. It brings to mind the story of the man who is blessed to be able to speak with G-d, and in awe of the Lord’s freedom from human constraints of time and ...

---excerpt Part 1: **** The GEMSTONE FILE *** A SKELETON KEY TO THE GEMSTONE FILES MAY 1, 1975 1932: Onassis, a Greek drug pusher and ship owner who made his first million selling "Turkish tobacco" (Opium) in Argentina, worked out a profitable deal with Joseph Kennedy, Eugene Meyer, and Meyer Lansky. Onassis was to ship booze directly into Boston for Joseph Kennedy. Also involved was a heroin deal with Franklin and Elliott Roosevelt. 1934: Onassis, Rockefeller and the Seven Sisters (major oil companies) signed an agreement, outlined an oil cartel memo: Beat the Arabs out of their oil, ship it ...

Chicago Teachers Will Evaluate Parents By Susan Jones CNS Morning Editor 19 May, 2000 (CNSNews.com) - The teachers grade the kids, and starting next year in Chicago, they'll also grade the kids' parents - sending home checklists that evaluate how well mom and dad are doing in supporting their children's educational needs. Wire services quote Paul Vallas, the chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools: "The objective here is to help parents by continually communicating with them and sending home a checklist that can serve not only as an instructive instrument, but also as a reminder ... of what they ...

(excerpt from link above) "Just as it makes no sense to ask 'why people eat' or 'what they sleep for,'" writes Martin van Creveld, a military historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in The Transformation of War, "so fighting in many ways is not a means but an end. Throughout history, for every person who has expressed his horror of war there is another who found in it the most marvelous of all the experiences that are vouchsafed to man, even to the point that he later spent a lifetime boring his descendants by recounting his exploits." When I ...

Keyes: The Candidate We Can't Forget THE headlines say it all. In most people's minds, tomorrow's Super Tuesday GOP presidential Super Bowl has come down to a two-man race: George W. Bush and John McCain. In all but a few people's eyes, Alan Keyes, the candidate who has caught the attention of those of us on the sidelines, has been almost totally forgotten. In headlines after last Thursday's debates, even in this newspaper, the most exciting candidate in either the GOP or Democratic contest was left off the marquee. The Philadelphia Inquirer's front-page headline declared, "Bush-McCain debate revisits old themes." ...

I put together a poll. It is unscientific at best, but I thought it would be interesting to see what might happen under different scenarios, depending on who the nominations are. I didn't include Bradley, only because I don't see much difference between Bradley and Gore. Those that might be inclined to vote for Bradley can just go ahead and vote for Gore since the Party is the same. This poll is mostly to see what happens to the Republican votes, and what happens in various 3rd parties as well.

John Taylor Gatto *The Origins of Compulsory Education* copyright 1994 by Jim Martin Interview (April 1994) ------------------------------------ *********Introduction: After nearly 30 years in the public schools, John Taylor Gatto has quit his job as a schoolteacher to become one of the country's most articulate critics of American education. The author of Dumbing Us Down currently lives in New York City, where he is working on a book about the history of compulsory education called The Empty Child. During a telephone interview in 1994, I wanted to get John Gatto's opinions on President Clinton's edu-du-jour, which is called "Goals 2000". Rather ...

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991 Call me Mr. Gatto, please. Twenty-six years ago, having nothing better to do, I tried my hand at schoolteaching. My license certifies me as an instructor of English language and literature, but that isn't what I do at all. What I teach is school, and I win awards doing it. Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what ...

I received this e-mail a few minutes ago from a friend of mine that works for the USDA. This person received an e-mail from their boss. (the item that follows) A METROFARM.COM BULLETIN FROM MICHAEL OLSON.... "America, the most efficient producer of food in the world, is going out of the business because it can no longer compete." According to Steven Blank, Ph.D., in "The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio," America is going out of the business of agriculture and he has the numbers and projections to prove it. Blank, a professor with the Agriculture and Resource Economics ...

On Hannity and Colmes, they keep saying that Dr. Keyes was not invited to the Georgia debate in 1996. Some woman that spoke on C-SPAN said Dr. Keyes was a radical.. that he wasn't invited to the Georgia debate.

Abortion rights advocates praise ruling on doctors Judge blocks added licensing rules 12/31/1999 Associated Press AUSTIN - Abortion rights activists on Thursday cheered a federal judge's order that blocks the state from expanding licensing requirements for abortion doctors. U.S. District Judge John Rainey in Houston on Wednesday issued a temporary injunction to prevent the state from enforcing the licensing requirements that took effect Sept. 1. Passed by the Legislature in last spring, the law requires doctors' offices to be licensed if the physician performs more than 300 abortions a year. It also increases the criminal liability of doctors who operate ...

Fox News just aired a brief interview with Dr. Keyes. Dr. Keyes was asked about his message not generating much support (paraphrased), and he was asked about the race issue AGAIN.