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POPSindian owners of black slaves this is one of those subjects that self-righteous minority member or fake guilt-ridden majority members do not want to get anywhere near. races and cultures are no different than their members, people are people, sometimes good, sometimes bad, too often go-along to get-along indifferent. i'll throw some gas on this fire by pointing out that free men and free women of color in louisiana owned slaves.
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POPSNational ID Card: Mark of Beast? 16 And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; 17 and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name. Rev 13:16-17 (ASV) You tell me what you think.
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POPShe Cove wins Best Documentary Oscar I really gotta see this movie.I've been following this tragedy at Taiibi village of the doulhin slaughter and Orca capture for years. It's great that it won an Oscar for best Documentary. Maybe it will mobilize more people to end this serious Japanese tragedy of cetacean slaughter and slavery.
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POPSCelebrities Do U.S. History Following up on news of some big names in Hollywood doing some refreshing and honest updated work on U.S. history, led to this site: The People Speak. It has videos of big name celebrities doing bits, reading raps from significant moments in USA social and political history. I just discovered it so can't say much more but I was impressed to see it's home page had links to video clips from Native American Indian moments, slavery resistance, woman's rights, immigrant and (in)justice issues, and core U.S. documents and beliefs. This looks like 'the good stuff." not the crap from the Bush-Cheney years or what the rabid right would like to to think. This is the content that leads to making better days and feeling good.
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POPSFree the Slaves - Home slaves are our dirty little secret- they allow us the cheap goods that we buy.........and demand......without thought or care to the lives being used and wasted behind these commodities--------------go to this site to find out more about present day slavery
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POPSVIS | Forgiveness defined as a 'cancelled note' I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note"torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." Henry Ward Beecher ___ SOURCE | http://tiny.cc/altacities457 ___ SEARCH | http://tiny.cc/altacities765 ___
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POPSAn Ancestry of African-Native Americans One does not read in history books that many people who were Choctaws – and the Choctaws were actually the first group that migrated, in the winter of 1830 and 1831 – sold personal property to be able to purchase slaves to take with them to Indian Territory. Pull up any history book or just Google “map reflecting slavery,” and you’ll always see the map of what is called “the South” and you see that empty spot that Oklahoma, and it looks as if there was no slavery taking place there. When the treaty of 1866 finally abolished slavery in Indian Territory, the fact is that a community thrived – a community of people who were not slaves of the United States, and they were Freedmen.
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POPSGoel Ratzon, Israeli 'harem messiah', arrested in Tel Aviv
In addition to turning over all their wages, the women were forbidden from making telephone calls or talking to men other than Mr Ratzon. If they broke the rules they would pay a fine or receive physical punishment. Mickey Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, said that Mr Ratzon convinced his victims that he had godlike status. “The women didn’t really understand what their situation was, they didn’t understand what freedom was,” Mr Rosenfeld said. In one case, police raided a three-bedroom apartment where 10 women and 17 children were found living in “horrible conditions”. The women wore conservative orthodox dresses covering their entire bodies and bore tattoos of their captor’s face — and name. He was married to 17 women but it was unclear how many others he had relations with, police said. All his offspring had names with a variation on his — Goel, which means redeemer in Hebrew. Mr Ratzon’s family had been known to the Israeli public for some time. Last year he an
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POPSUSA History in Haiti People were moaning this week: "How could Haiti arrest our wonderful USA missionaries." But calling themselves 'missionaries,' is like a mask. The facts are criminal acts. Thinking we're the 'saviors,' of Haiti also a Mask. This article, printed yesterday, is a good summary of USA involvement in Haiti. It's great that Anyone does Anything to help Haiti out but thinking the USA is their 'friendly big brother,' or something is way off the mark. A summary from the Aristide days sums it up: QUOTE: "Since the election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2000, the United States has moved to sabotage Haiti's fledgling democracy through an economic aid embargo, massive funding of elite opposition groups, support for paramilitary coup attempts, and a propaganda offensive against the Aristide government. Hidden from the headlines for years, this campaign has now become an open effort to destroy a popularly elected, progressive government." http://www.haitiaction.net/HFTH/
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POPSIdeology And Tactics
What particular ideology are we speaking about here? If it is the strategy of acquiring power and wealth and control as opposed to the rush from day one to hand over to corporate buddies every piece of public land, every vital government function this isn't bolted down, entrusting the environmental regulation to the polluters, the huge federal debt King George left us, the widening wealth gap between the top and the bottom--actually top and middle--which Republicans are not merely indifferent to, but I believe quite pleased about. Did I forget trying to block or reverse every bit of social and political progress we have made? If they had their way at each step, we'd still have slavery, aristocracy, and monarchy everywhere; little freedom of speech, the press, no social safety net. Now--while all of this works quite well for powerful interest groups, it is not working for the American people or our economy and it never did no matter how many times they package it differently.
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POPSGay Couples Not Monogamous I'm shocked! Shocked! We actually are redefining marriage, and that's ok. We do not have to be locked into the institutions of the past/present. Slavery was once an acceptable institution and acting as if your wife was your property was once acceptable. We can and do change and our institutions change. Institutions were created for people, not the other way around.
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POPSWhen Haiti Falls Apart: Making Sense of Mass Tragedy | Care2 Healthy & Green Living Haiti is decidedly the country that just can’t get a break. The country has fallen victim to just about every blight and impediment a developing nation could care to know (colonialism, famine, slavery, disease, political corruption, occupation, neglect, and global profiteering) and I know that had the infrastructure as well as the general well-being of the county was in place, we would have avoided the startling severity of this tragedy (to put it into perspective, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay Area registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, comparable to the recent Haiti quake, and killed only sixty-three people instead of the hundreds of thousands).
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POPSThe Earthquake Didn't Kill Hundreds of Thousands of Haitians. We Did. People driven to destitution and grinding poverty (on purpose) by 100+ years of economic abuse and forced debt by the worlds richest, most powerful nations are not going to do well when a massive earthquake hits them. Fuck you, Pat Robertson. If there's a Devil behind Haiti's misery, he's carrying an International Monetary Fund briefcase and is backed by the G7.
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POPSFrance's Sarkozy says time to end Haiti's "curse" I don't know what Sarkozy means by 'curse,' France has a huge obligation to Haiti. While listening to the radio today I heard that after fighting for and winning their freedom, Haitian's were forced to pay reparations to France. In effect, former slaves had to further purchase their freedom from France, ( principal plus interest). I think that the debt wasn't paid until the early 20th century and the Haitian government had to borrow to pay the interest. As far as I know, newly independent Haiti had no friends; George Washington repaid the loan from France to finance the American Revolution by sending the money and arms to slave owners in Saint Domingue (Haiti). Fact checking in progress ...
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