Thursday, January 31, 2008
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]
Filed in MS Gulf Coast, Weblogs, breaking news, class and poverty, environmental justice, friends, human rights, katrina, race and racism
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Also tagged alphonso jackson, cdbg, fema, gulfport, haley barbour, hud, katrina
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Filed in Weblogs, breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, louisiana, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention
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Also tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Exciting developments in the notorious case of the 1964 murders of the three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Jerry Mitchell reports in the Clarion Ledger:
Authorities should reopen the Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers because of newly discovered evidence, family members say.
“Without a doubt,” said Ben Chaney of […]
Filed in breaking news, civil rights movement, neshoba murders, race and racism
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Also tagged ben chaney, clarion ledger, david goodman, jerry mitchell, jim hood, ku klux klan, murder, neshoba county, philadelphia, racism, rita schwerner bender
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