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august
{COVER P 6
Obama Visits Seneca Falls, Speaks in
Syracuse
{local P 3 - 5
$50,000 Goes to North Syracuse
School District
Henninger High Students
Wait Hours for Obamas Arrival
Syracuse Festival Latino Americano
2013
16 Syracuse-area Contractors Fined for
Violating State Laws
Syracuse Celebrates Youth at Mary
Nelsons Back to School BBQ
Medical Answering Services Brings
Jobs Back to Syracuse
{national P 8
NSA Reveals More Secrets After Court
Order
{OPINIONS/EDITORIAL P 8-11
Russell Simmons, Harriet Tubman and
the History of Myopia

By Julianne Malveaux
Be an Advance Guard for Jobs

By William Spriggs
Dr. Kings Dream VS. Obamas
Realpolitick

By William Spriggs
In This Issue:
22-Spet 2
NY State Fair
Time: Gates open at 8:00 am,
buildings open at 10:00 am
Locaton: 581 State Fair Blvd.
Syracuse
Welcome to the Great New
York State Fair, where you can
Share The Bounty and Pride
of New York! For 12 days and
nights, from August 22 through
September 2, 2013 the Fair brings
together the best food, music,
rides, games, exhibits, animals,
agriculture and so much more of
all the things that make New York
State special! For more infor:
1- 800.475.FAIR 315.487.7711
newyorkstatefair@agriculture.
ny.gov ..Cost: $6 in advance; $10
at the door
September
3, 10, 17 and 24
Job Resource Assistance Drop-in
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Locaton: Central Library -447
South Salina St.
Receive help with online
job searching, resumes,
creatng profles and more. No
appointment necessary.Space is
limited and available on a frst
come, frst seated basis.
Call 315.435.1900 with any
questons.
4, 11, 18 and 25
FOR TEENS & ADULTS: GED
Classes
Time: 10:00 am
Locaton: Hazard Branch Library
- 1620 W. Genesee St.
Hazard Library and The Newland
Center have partnered to provide
GED instructon at the library.
If you would like assistance
preparing for the GED exam,
come to Hazard any Wednesday,
10:00 am.
5, 12, 19 and 26
Free One-on-One Basic
Computer Classes
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Locaton: Central Library -447
South Salina St.
Covers basic topics concerning
the Internet and Microsof Ofce.
Held in the Pass Computer Lab
on Level 4. Call 315.435.1900
to register or for more details.
Thursdays, by Appointment Only
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Haitan Exhibiton Feat
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Locaton: 805 East Genesee
Street
A graduate of the School of Art
of Bordeax, France, Dodard has
been
listed among the foremost artsts
in contemporary modernism by
New York art guild.
10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and
26
English for Speakers of Other
Languages - ESOL Classes
Time: 12:30 pm
Locaton: White Branch Library -
763 Buternut St.
These free English language
classes will teach grammar,
vocabulary, reading and writng
so that non-natve speakers
will learn to more clearly and
efectvely communicate in
everyday situatons. Register at
the Refugee Assistance Program
(Bobs School), 501 Park St., or
call 435-4984.
10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and
26
GED Classes
Time: 9:00 am
Locaton: White Branch Library -
763 Buternut St.
Catch these free study sessions
designed to help those who are
interested in obtaining their
General Equivalency Diploma,
the equivalent of a high school
diploma. Registraton is required.
Contact the Family Welcome
Center at Grant Middle School,
240 Grant Blvd., Room 356 or
call 435-6376 to get started on
your new future.
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Locaton: Storer Auditorium at
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$50,000 Goes to
North Syracuse School District
The North Syracuse Central School
District will be receiving $50,000 in
fexible funding from the state.
Assemblyman Al Strpe said he hopes
the money will balance out the school
programs and teaching cuts during an
announcement Thursday.
The districts frst budget proposal
in May was rejected by voters. An
amended budget adopted by the board
of educaton was passed June 25 for
the 2013-2014 school year. This new
budget removed 23 positons, a music
program, 25 coachers, eight teams
and cut the budget for extracurricular
actvites.
LOCAL
Alejandia Olive Figveroa
Fernando Courtney, Elsie Jackson,
& Courtney Mangan
Joey Binder
Pat Gill
Photos by LaVergne Harden
Adults, elected ofcial and students
of Henninger High School waited
hours to see President Obama speak
at Henninger High School during his
upstate New York bus tour.
Obama spoke to the crowd of
hundreds about his plan to bring
change to the natons colleges and
universites to ensure that all students
have the opportunity to atend college
and not be in debt for the rest of their
lives aferward.
Courtney Mangan, senior at Henninger
said she was one of the frst to make
it to the school to await Obamas
appearance. She said this event
is something that she will always
remember and she is grateful that
she had the opportunity to see the
president.
Waitng with her was fellow classmate
Fernando Ortz, who said that he can
brag to his friends that he was able to
see the president.
Obama spent the night in Auburn
and will contnue his bus tour at
Binghamton University and end the
tour in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Henninger High Students
Wait Hours for Obamas Arrival
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LOCAL
16 Syracuse-Area Contractors Fined for Violating State Law
16 contractors based in the Syracuse
area were fned up $1500 afer being
discovered that they violated the
New York State Home Improvement
Contracts Law by not providing writen
contracts to home owners.
The law requires contracts that
thoroughly detail the work being
done, a tmelines and total cost. It
also requires contractors to give their
customers notce of their unconditonal
three-day right to cancel the contract
without penalty.
Setlements were made with more
than 200 home improvement
contractors in the state by New Yorks
Atorney General Eric Schniderman
including the 16 in Syracuse.
Schneiderman said most of the
contractors that were being
investgated, violated the law and most
of the customers had no idea of the
contracts law.
Schneiderman ofered a few tps that
home owners should know such as:
Educate yourself about the required
permits dont rely solely on the
contractor
Shop around
Get references and check them
Get proof of insurance from the
contractor
Check licenses (if required)
Never pay the full price upfront
Always put work to be done in writng
Know where your payments are going
Never do business with a contractor
who is unwilling to abide by any of the
conditons above
Syracuse Celebrate Youth at Mary Nelsons Back to School BBQ
With the summer coming to a close
and the 2013-2014 school year about
to begin, youth and families from
all over Syracuse came together for
Mary Nelsons Annual Back to School
Barbeque Saturday.
Children and families were treated to
everything that is barbeque as well
as school supplies, book bags and
clothes to ensure that all youth were
prepared for classes from grades Pre-K
to college.
Mary Nelson started this event 11
years ago to deter the violence going
on in the neighborhood. Each year the
event atracts more residents, with
21,000 youth and families atending in
2012.
Cheryl Wilkins Mitchell
Craig Davis
Lekia K Hill & Sharlene Mckenzie
Maryn Ahmed
Serenity Powell
Mary Nelson
Romana Lavalas
Photos by LaVergne Harden
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PUZZLES
Across
1. Fab Four drummer
6. Hip-hop
9. Old tme Dads
12. No-no
13. Capitalize
14. Cofee holder
15. S. American cassava plant
16. Gas guzzle rate
17. Can be open or choppy
18. Swindle
20. Fellow
21. Behave afectedly
24. Beeper
27. Dry red wine
30. First act
34. Some reality show winners
35. Buterfy
36. Hindu festval
38. Perfume base
39. Get your ___ running.....
Steppenwolf
41. Keats creaton
42. Finale
45. ___ show tme!
47. Bother
48. Peruvian coin
50. ___ and desist
55. Forget it!
56. 5th for one
57. Operatc solos
58. If at frst you dont succeed, ____
again
59. Protectve covering
60. Get a new tenant for
Down
1. Messy place
2. Greek leter
3. 1970 Jackson 5 song
4. Bird of myth
5. Jungle sound
6. Cuban dance
7. Egyptan snake
8. Hit the nail on the head
9. Word on a door
10. Kind of rug
11. Zest
19. Select
20. Thick liqueur
21. Involved with
22. Ghana money
23. Suppose (old way)
25. Decision to move forward
26. Grandiose
28. Pack carrier
29. Norway seaport
31. Alliance acronym
32. Relatve of Oh, no!
33. Character
37. Player, in tag
38. Gallery display
40. Lubed
42. Out of the queston
43. Skunks defense
44. Decayed
46. Lastng efect
48. Fall guy
49. Fertlity clinic stock
51. Maid of Athens, ___ we part:
Byron
52. Have a bug
53. Returnable envelope, for short
54. Approx.
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LOCAL
Medical Answering
Services Brings Jobs to Syracuse
80 new call-center and management
jobs will be coming to Syracuse through
the Medical Answering Services, LLC.
The company is expanding and looking
to hire administratve, computer
programming and feld supervisors
from within the Syracuse community.
Governor Cuomo made the
announcement Thursday.
The expansion of Medical Answering
Services is an important development
for both Central New York and New
York State as a whole, Cuomo said.
This is a company that has helped
state and local governments save an
average of $1 million per month in
Medicaid expenditures, and it has
done so by employing and training
hard-working New Yorkers.
Since 2002, Medical Answering
Services has provided Medicaid
transportaton management services
in New York and has over operatons
in 24 countes throughout New York
State.
The company also helps local
governments discover Medicaid fraud
which saves millions of dollars for the
state and county as part of Governor
Cuomos Medicaid Re-Design Initatve.
Combining job growth with cost
savings is a great way to move the
states economy forward, Cuomo said.
I am pleased to welcome these new
jobs to the 3,500 created in Central
New York in the past year, and look
forward to the companys increased
role in helping the state achieve
savings from Medicaid expenses.
Onondaga County Executve Joanie
Mahoney, State Senator John A.
DeFrancisco, Senator David J. Valesky
andAssemblyman Bill Magnarelli have
all made statements of support.
Russ Maxwell, President of Medical
Answering Services, LLC said, We
are proud to announce these jobs,
and contnue our growth right here
in Central New York. We have some
of the best employees in the state,
and earning this latest contract is a
testament to their hard work. I want
to thank Governor Cuomo and our
local electeds. Without the help of
County Executve Joanie Mahoney,
Senator John DeFrancisco, Senator
David Valesky and Assemblyman
Bill Magnarelli this announcement
wouldnt have been possible.
900 people were in Ward Bakery Park
Saturday celebratng Latnos and their
contributon to the city of Syracuse at
the Festval Latno American 2013.
This year the festvals theme was
centered on health and educaton.
Festval Coordinator Fanny Villarreal
said, It went great. I was amazed at
the people that came. I think it was a
great opportunity for the community
to learn about the services we have
and a great opportunity for us to show
our culture.
Music, educaton, food and dance
from the CNY Saleros dancers flled the
park bringing a sense of community to
the park.
Villarreal said, Were working on
bringing the festval back to its roots.
It started 23 year ago where he had
a festval of 12,000 people from
Syracuse, Bufalo and the surrounding
areas. It will grow as it goes.
Syracuse Festival
Latino Americano 2013
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COVER
WASHINGTON (AP) Calling higher
educaton an economic imperatve,
President Barack Obama is pushing
for an ambitous new government
ratng system for colleges that would
judge schools on afordability and
performance and ultmately determine
how federal fnancial aid is distributed.
The ratng system, which the president
wants implemented before the 2015
school year, would evaluate colleges
on several criteria, including average
tuiton and student loan debt,
graduaton rates, and the average
earning of graduates. Obama says he
will ask Congress to link the new ratng
system to the way federal fnancial aid
is disbursed, with students atending
highly-rated schools receiving larger
grants and more afordable student
loans.
Its tme to stop subsidizing schools
that are not producing good results and
reward schools that deliver American
students of our future, Obama told
a crowd of more than 7,000 at the
University of Bufalo.
Obama detailed his proposal on the
frst stop of a two-day bus tour through
New York and Pennsylvania. The tour
underscores the White Houses desire
to stay focused on domestc issues,
even as foreign policy crises in Egypt
and Syria vie for his atenton.
The backdrop for the presidents
rollout will be colleges and high
schools throughout New York state
and Pennsylvania. He traveled from
Bufalo by armored bus to Henninger
High School in Syracuse, N.Y., and
press pool reports say that the
motorcade stopped in Rochester for
an unscheduled visit to a deli there. He
later dropped in for 45 minutes at the
Womens Rights Natonal Historic Park
in Seneca Falls.
The White House has confrmed that
the president will stay overnight in
Auburn. Then the president will hold
a town hall Friday at Binghamton
University, then travel to Scranton, Pa.,
for an event at Lackawanna College.
Vice President Joe Biden, a Scranton
natve, is scheduled to join Obama in
his hometown. Biden spent much of
the week in Houston, where his son
Beau underwent a medical procedure
at a cancer center.
For Obama, who has made no secret
of his desire to get out of Washington
when he can, the bus tours have
become a favorite method for
reconnectng with the public. Beyond
his ofcial events, the president
ofen makes unscheduled stops at
local restaurants and businesses, and
sometmes pulls of on the side of the
road to greet cheering crowds.
In 2011, the Secret Service purchased
a $1.1 million bus for Obamas frst bus
tour as president. The impenetrable-
looking black bus has dark tnted
windows and fashing red and blue
lights.
Throughout the summer, the White
House has been seeking to keep the
presidents public agenda centered on
middle-class economic issues as a way
to rally public support for his positons
ahead of looming batles in the fall
with congressional Republicans over
the budget and raising the natons
debt limit. On Thursday, he tried to
draw a clear distncton with some of
his Republican opponents.
Rather than seeking, keeping focus
on a growing economy that creates
good middle-class jobs, you know,
weve seen a facton of Republicans in
Congress suggest that maybe America
shouldnt pay its bills that have already
been run up, that we should shut
down government if they cant shut
down Obamacare, Obama said.
Obama said a big part of middle-
class security includes fundamentally
rethinking how to pay for higher
educaton.
Higher educaton cannot be a luxury,
its an economic imperatve, he said.
Every American family should be able
to get it.
The White House chose the University
of Bufalo because it is part of the State
University of New York system, which
the Obama administraton credits as a
leader in afordability and innovaton.
The atenton to school costs comes
afer Obama and Congress recently
cooperated on a new law governing
student loans. But Obama said loan
amounts arent keeping up with
skyrocketng college costs.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force
One Thursday, Educaton Secretary
Arne Duncan said the middle class
needs the security of knowing they
can aford to send their kids to college.
Theres a growing sense that college
is for the wealthy, for rich folks and not
for hard working people who are doing
the right thing every day, he said.
The presidents plan aims to beter
inform consumers and provide
incentves for colleges and universites.
We need much greater transparency
for the public, Duncan said.
According to Obama administraton
estmates, average tuiton costs at
four-year public colleges have more
than tripled over the last three
decades. The average student loan
borrower also graduates with over
$26,000 in debt.
To keep schools from gaming the
ratngs by enrolling only high-
performing students, the president
is also proposing legislaton to give
colleges a bonus based on the
number of students they graduate
who received Pell Grants. The goal is
to encourage colleges to enroll and
graduate low- and moderate-income
students.
We want to make sure its baked into
the analysis so we dont create the
wrong kinds of incentves out of this
ratng system, Cecilia Munoz, director
of the White Houses Domestc Policy
Council, told reporters Thursday.
The Republican chairman of the House
commitee that oversees educaton
did not embrace the proposal but said
he would examine it.
I remain concerned that imposing
an arbitrary college ranking system
could curtail the very innovaton we
hope to encourage - and even lead
to federal price controls, Commitee
on Educaton and the Workforce
Chairman John Kline of Minnesota said
in a statement.
The administraton will also seek to
require colleges with high dropout
rates to disburse student aid over the
course of the semester as students
face expenses, rather than in a lump
sum. The aim is to prevent wastng
grant money by ensuring that students
who drop out do not receive funds for
tme they are not in school.
Obama is also renewing his call for a
$1 billion college Race to the Top
competton that would reward states
that make signifcant changes in
higher educaton policies while also
containing tuiton costs.
The bus trip unfolds as Obama also
confronts a turbulent internatonal
scene, with tensions in Egypt and
contnuing bloodshed in Syria. The
Syrian regime was contnuing a
military ofensive in eastern Damascus
Thursday where the oppositon said
the regime had killed over 100 people
the day before in a chemical weapons
atack.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest,
aboard Air Force One, defended
the presidents decision to leave
Washington despite the foreign
challenges.
As were weighing these domestc
policy positons and foreign policy
decisions, the president puts the
interests of the United States of
America frst, Earnest said. The fact
that we are doing this bus tour is an
indicaton that the president has his
priorites straight.
The backdrop for the presidents
rollout will be colleges and high
schools throughout New York state and
Pennsylvania. Hell hold his frst event
Thursday morning at the University of
Bufalo before traveling by armored
bus to Henninger High School in
Syracuse, N.Y. The president will hold
a town hall Friday at Binghamton
University, then travel to Scranton, Pa.,
for an event at Lackawanna College.
Vice President Joe Biden, a Scranton
natve, is scheduled to join Obama in
his hometown. Biden spent much of
the week in Houston, where his son
Beau underwent a medical procedure
at a cancer center.
For Obama, who has made no secret
of his desire to get out of Washington
when he can, the bus tours have
become a favorite method for
reconnectng with the public. Beyond
his ofcial events, the president
ofen makes unscheduled stops at
local restaurants and businesses, and
sometmes pulls of on the side of the
road to greet cheering crowds.
In 2011, the Secret Service purchased
a $1.1 million bus for Obamas frst bus
tour as president. The impenetrable-
looking black bus has dark tnted
windows and fashing red and blue
lights.
(AP Photo/Mike Groll). President
Barack Obama speaks about
afordable college educaton at
Henninger High School on Thursday,
Aug. 22, 2013, in Syracuse, N.Y.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama
administraton has given up more of
its surveillance secrets, acknowledging
that it was ordered to stop scooping up
thousands of Internet communicatons
from Americans with no connecton
to terrorism - a practce it says was
an unintended consequence when it
gathered bundles of Internet trafc
connected to terror suspects.
One of the documents that intelligence
ofcials released Wednesday came
because a court ordered the Natonal
Security Agency to do so. But its also
part of the administratons response
to the leaks by analyst-turned-fugitve
Edward Snowden, who revealed
that the NSAs spying programs went
further and gathered millions more
U.S. communicatons than most
Americans realized.
The NSA declassifed three secret court
opinions showing how it revealed to
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court that one of its surveillance
programs may have collected and
stored as many as 56,000 emails and
other communicatons by ordinary
Americans annually over three years.
The court ruled the NSA actons
unconsttutonal and ordered the
agency to fx the problem, which it did
by creatng new technology to flter out
buckets of data most likely to contain
U.S. emails, and then limit the access
to that data - and destroy it every two
years, instead of every fve years, as
mandated by the court for other U.S.
records gathered by the NSA. The
NSA stll may retain Americans phone
records and in some cases copies of
their Internet trafc for fve years or
even longer in some circumstances.
The director of natonal intelligence,
James Clapper, released the
informaton Wednesday in the
interest of increased transparency,
and as directed by President Barack
Obama in June, according to a
statement accompanying the online
documents. Obama pledged to
Americans in comments before his
summer vacaton to give them more
informaton on how U.S. intelligence
agencies were gathering their data, in
answer to critcs including lawmakers
on Capitol Hill who have proposed
more than a dozen pieces of legislaton
aimed at trimming NSAs spying powers
since the Snowden leaks began.
Wednesdays release of court
documents was also in response to
a 2012 lawsuit won by the Electronic
Freedom Foundaton, an Internet civil
libertes group. Only afer yesterdays
documents were disclosed to reporters
did an Obama administraton ofcial
acknowledge that the release of some
of the documents was prodded by
the groups 2012 lawsuit. The ofcial
insisted on anonymity because he was
not authorized to discuss the release
with a reporter by name.
The release Wednesday of the FISA
opinion, two other 2011 rulings and
a secret white paper on the NSAs
surveillance came less than two weeks
afer a federal judge in Washington gave
government lawyers a tme extension
in order to decide which materials to
declassify. The EFF had been pressing
for a summary judgment that would
have compelled the government to
release the secret FISA rulings, and the
governments most recent extension
expired Wednesday, the day it released
the once-secret FISA court rulings.
This was all released in response
to the courts orders, said Mark
Rumold, an EFF atorney involved in
the litgaton.
The court opinions show that when
the NSA reported its inadvertent
gathering of American-based Internet
trafc in September 2011, the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered
the agency to fnd ways to limit what
it collects and how long it keeps the
material.
In an 85-page declassifed FISA
court ruling from October 2011, U.S.
District Judge James D. Bates rebuked
government lawyers for repeatedly
misrepresentng the operatons of the
NSAs surveillance programs.
Bates wrote that the NSA had advised
the court that the volume and
nature of the informaton it had been
collectng is fundamentally diferent
than what the court had been led to
believe, and went on to say the court
must consider whether targetng and
minimizaton procedures comport with
the Fourth Amendment prohibiton
against unreasonable search and
seizure.
This court is troubled that the
governments revelatons regarding
NSAs acquisiton of Internet
transactons mark the third instance
in less than three years in which the
government has disclosed a substantal
misrepresentaton regarding the scope
of a major collecton program, Bates
added in a footnoted passage that had
portons heavily blacked out.
Bates also complained that the
governments submissions make clear
that the NSA was gathering Internet
data years before it was authorized by
the USA Patriot Acts Secton 702 in
2008.
The NSA had moved to revise its
Internet surveillance in an efort to
separate out domestc data from
its foreign targeted metadata -
which includes email addresses and
subject lines. But in his October 2011
ruling, Bates said the governments
upstream collecton of data - taken
from internal U.S. data sources - was
unconsttutonal.
Three senior U.S. intelligence ofcials
said Wednesday that natonal security
ofcials realized the extent of the NSAs
inadvertent collecton of Americans
data from fber optc cables in
September 2011. One of the ofcials
said the problem became apparent
during internal discussions between
the NSA and Justce Department
ofcials about the programs technical
operaton.
The problem, according to the
ofcials, was that the top secret
Internet-sweeping operaton, which
was targetng metadata contained
in the emails of foreign users, was
also amassing thousands of emails
that were bundled up with the
targeted materials. Because many
web mail services use such bundled
transmissions, the ofcial said, it was
impossible to collect the targeted
materials without also sweeping up
data from innocent domestc U.S.
users.
Ofcials said that when they realized
they had an American communicaton,
the communicaton was destroyed. But
it was not clear how they determined to
whom an email belonged and whether
any NSA analyst had actually read the
content of the email. The ofcials said
the bulk of the informaton was never
accessed or analyzed.
As soon as the extent of the problem
became clear, the ofcials said, the
Obama administraton provided
classifed briefngs to both Senate and
House intelligence commitees within
days. At the same tme, ofcials also
informed the FISA court, which later
issued the three 2011 rulings released
Wednesday - with sectons blacked
out - as part of the governments latest
disclosure of documents.
The ofcials briefed reporters on
conditon of anonymity because they
were not authorized to do so by name.
The gathering of innocent Americans
communicatons was happening when
the NSA accessed Internet informaton
upstream, meaning of fber optc
cables or other channels where
Internet trafc traverses the U.S.
telecommunicatons system.
The NSA disclosed that it gathers some
250 million Internet communicatons
each year, with some 9 percent from
these upstream channels, amountng
to 20 million to 25 million emails
a year. The agency used statstcal
analysis to estmate that of those,
possibly as many as 56,000 Internet
communicatons collected were sent
by Americans or people in the U.S.
with no connecton to terrorism.
Under court order, the NSA resolved
the problem by creatng new ways to
detect when emails by people within
the U.S. were being intercepted
and separated those batches of
communicatons. It also developed
new ways to limit how that data could
be accessed or used. The agency also
agreed to only keep these bundled
communicatons for possible later
analysis for a two-year period, instead
of the usual fve-year retenton period.
That means the U.S. material is stll
gathered and kept, but is treated with
stricter protocols.
The agency also, under court order,
destroyed all the bundled data
gathered between 2008, when the FISA
court frst authorized the collecton
under Secton 702 of the Patriot Act,
and 2011, when the new procedures
were put in place.
The court signed of on the new
procedures.
The once-secret documents were
posted on a new website that went
live Wednesday afernoon. The front
page of the site said it was created
at the directon of the president of
the United States (and) provides
immediate, ongoing and direct access
to factual informaton related to the
lawful foreign surveillance actvites
carried out by the U.S. intelligence
community.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest
said the program is specifcally to
gather foreign intelligence, not spy on
Americans.
The reason that were talking about
it right now is because there are very
strict compliance standards in place at
the NSA that monitor for compliance
issues, that tabulate them, that
document them and that put in place
measures to correct them when they
occur, Earnest said.
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(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - Every
tme I hear the
voice of Russell
Simmons, I hear
a cool, clean,
clear meditatve
voice, especially
on Twiter where
he drops his yoga
knowledge in a
refectve way. I
guess he wasnt
folding his legs
and saying a centered Om when he
decided to ridicule an African woman.
How did his voice distort itself to
decide that he would post a You-Tube
video on a space where everybody
could watch Harriet Tubman in a
sexual context? How could he, this
forward-focused man, decide to
demean an emancipaton heroine?
Choose to demean her by making her
a sexual object? Even as he took the
ofensive tape of his website, please
tell me, somebody, what the brother
Simmons was thinking? (In my frst
draf of this column, I called this man
a brother, but really I mean the
brother from another mindset).
Harriet Tubman is credited for freeing
more than 400 enslaved people. She is
credited for pulling a gun on some who
ambivantly embarked on the Under
Ground Railroad, then wanted to turn
back to massa. Its complicated, but
no mater how complicated it was,
the depicton of Harriet Tubman a
sex object is not only disparaging to
a freedom fghter, but to every Black
woman who stands on her shoulders
Nearly 20 years ago, Professor Anita
Hill stared down a Senate Commitee
and spoke of the sexual harassment
she experienced from now Justce
Clarence Thomas. The judiciary
commitee dismissed her claims as
erotomania; interestngly others
who had similar claims were not
allowed to testfy. Despite the best
legal representaton out there, Hill
was excoriated in the media. From my
perspectve, her best statement was
They dont know me in response
to those who used minuta to claim
special knowledge of her life and daily
living.
When you dont know African-
American women, it is easy and lazy
to reduce us into stereotypes. Does
Russell Simmons know Harriet
Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells,
Anna Julia Cooper, Sadie TM Alexander,
and Mary McLeod Bethune? Does he
know Coreta Scot King, Myrle Evers,
Bety Shabazz, C. Delores Tucker?
Does he know us, or does he simply
see us as the fodder of parodies?
The Simmons drama is especially
ofensive because when we have
African-American people lifed up, the
lifing is mostly about men. Stll, Dr.
Martn Luther King Jr, would not have
made it without the enthusiasm of
Coreta Scot King.
Harriet Tubman saved hundreds
of enslaved people; yet her name
is rarely lifed when we speak of
emancipaton. African-American
womens role in our history is neither
admired nor appreciated. When our
brothers call the roll, she is given no
credence, unless it is an aferthought.
Brother Simmons if you just picked
up a history book, youd fnd African-
American women who have made a
major diference in our lives and in our
movement.
Russell, do you know Ella Baker, the
stalwart sister who stood beside
and behind Dr. King and others to
do organizing work? Do you know
Professor Joyce Lander who before
being an academic was a treless
civil rights worker? Do you know
Alice Walker, Congresswoman
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Maxine
Waters? Or a bit younger, do you
know Congresswomen Yvete Clark,
or Donna Edwards? The work these
women have done and contnue to do
is possible because they stand on the
shoulders of Harriet Tubman and our
other ancestors.
Your apology doesnt address the
mindset that allowed this parody in
the frst place, the dozens of editors,
producers, and assistants who saw
nothing wrong with this, and the
many Simmons fans who laughed
at the depicton of a historical fgure
like Harriet Tubman as a sexual object
who used her vagina for freedom. It
is as if you are laughing at every Black
woman who was enslaved and had no
choice when massa decided to rape
her repeatedly. It is as if you do not
recognize the painful history of every
Black woman who was raped, not only
during slavery, but thereafer, when
the goal was to keep Black men in
line by violatng Black women. It is as
if you put myopic blinder around your
eyes, and chose to ignore history and
its resultant pain. Can you imagine
(ofen happened) the violaton of a
child, a violaton so intense that baby
girls who dreamed of being mothers
were told they could not have children?
Russell Simmons, once upon a
tme, you were the ambassador of
a generaton. Even now, people are
mesmerized by your gentle manner,
your quest for peace and spirituality
and your practce of yoga and Pilates.
Wrap your spirituality around your
video and tell us where the two
intersect. How could you? Why would
you? How dare you?
When you diminish our legacy for
entertainment purposes, pulling
the video is not enough. You need to
work at eliminatng a mindset that
makes you and others think that
the denigraton of African-American
women is okay.
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Russell Simmons, Harriet Tubman and the History of Myopia
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - In August
1963, as was the
case 100 years
earlier when the
cemetery for
the heroes of
Getysburg was
dedicated, many
speeches were
delivered; but
one stood out
as a galvanizing
moment to
redefne and repurpose a movement.
Lincolns Getysburg Address,
delivered in November 1863, clearly
defned the issue of the Civil War to be
whether states rights could trample
the rights of anyone. Similarly, Dr.
Martn Luther King Jr.s speech came to
defne the civil rights movement of a
century later.
It has come to be interpreted as a call
for a colorblind society, instead of a
call to end racial injustce. His vision
was more powerful than the sanguine,
not judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character,
interpretaton that has seen right-
wing conservatves quotng Dr. Kings
speech to justfy racial disparites; in
the same way that tea party members
embrace Lincolns government of
the people, to somehow mean no
government at all.
The 1963 march was the March for
Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King, who
would become a strong champion for
reforming Americas economic system
so it worked to advance people-not
crush them in poverty as sacrifces
for progress-did not use the word
jobs that day or make menton of
the millions of Americans who were
unemployed. Dr. Kings body of work,
his push to end poverty in America,
is clearly part of his legacy. He stands
as a drum major for justce, not just
racial justce but economic justce.
But, his I Have a Dream speech was
an artculaton of how the civil rights
movement was a fulfllment of the
founding principles of America in line
with the Declaraton of Independence,
the Consttuton and the Getysburg
Address. It clearly argued that racial
injustce was so incompatble with
American ideals that it could not be
defended.
But, the march was a March for Jobs
and Freedom. The march was the
dream of A. Philip Randolph, who was
the senior statesmen of the major
civil rights leaders. In 1963, Randolph
was 74 years old, King was 34, and the
only living major speaker of the day
is Rep. John Lewis, then the head of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinatng
Commitee, who was 23. Randolph,
the president of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, was a union
president and saw economic rights as
inseparable from civil rights. And so it
was Randolph who wanted the march
to be a march for jobs.
As the leader of the march, Randolph
opened the ceremonies at the Lincoln
Memorial and was the master of
ceremonies for the day of speeches.
His characterizaton of the march
was, we are the advanced guard of a
massive, moral revoluton for jobs and
freedom. While acknowledging racial
injustce, he said, We want all public
accommodatons open to all citzens,
but those accommodatons will mean
litle to those who cannot aford to use
them.
And most importantly, he pointed out
that equal opportunity to jobs means
nothing if we have an economic
system that is destroying jobs. A
simple yardstck would suggest that
the civil rights changes since the march
have exceeded what could have been
imagined. In 1963, very few blacks
were registered to vote, there were no
Black members of Congress from the
South and few local elected ofcials.
Yet, today, both John Lewis and one of
Dr. Kings lieutenants, Andrew Young,
have served as members of Congress
representng Atlanta, and there are
Black members of Congress from
every Southern state. In 1963, mostly
limited to Historically Black Colleges
and Universites, only about 4 percent
of the Black populaton had college
degrees; today about 21 percent of
African-Americans have a college
degree and atend every fagship public
university in the South. But, the March
for Jobs and Freedom was launched
when the Black unemployment rate
stood at 10.9 percent, today it stands
at 12.6 percent.
The march did usher in many economic
changes. The Civil Rights Act that
passed the following year in 1964 made
employment discriminaton illegal,
ending practces of major newspapers,
like The Washington Post, postng
help wanted ads for nurse (practcal)
white, for small nursing home. This
was followed by President Johnson
issuing Executve Order 11246,
requiring frms contractng with the
federal government to take afrmatve
actons to ensure compliance with the
Be an Advance Guard for Jobs
WiLLiaM
sPriggs
11 www.cnyvision.com | august 22 - 28| 2013
(TriceEdneyWire.
com) - Even
when pressed by
the demands of
inner truth, men
do not easily
assume the task
of opposing their
g o v e r n me nt s
policy, especially
in tme of war.
Nor does the
human spirit
move without great difculty against
all the apathy of conformist thought
within ones own bosom and in the
surrounding world. Moreover, when
the issues at hand seem as perplexing
as they ofen do in the case of this
dreadful confict, we are always on
the verge of being mesmerized by
uncertainty. But we must move on.
Rev. Dr. Martn Luther King, Jr. April 4,
1967
As America commemorates the 50th
anniversary of the historic March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom I
am compelled to ask the following
queston: Would Dr. King be invited
to speak at upcoming events to
commemorate the March?
If you get past the marketed Dream
reference in the I Have a Dream
speech and understand that it was an
indictment of America or read Beyond
Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence or
Dr. Kings last book Where Do We Go
From Here, Chaos or Community?;
you can rest assured that today
Dr. King would be in oppositon to
Americas backing of the assignaton
of Muammar Gaddaf, drone atacks,
indefnite detenton at Guantanamo,
NSA wiretapping, mass incarceraton,
and the Obama administratons
failure to speak forcefully about
poverty in America. From that premise
one can only conclude that if Dr. King
were alive today, those within the
African-American community who are
engaged in stfing honest, fact-based,
critcal analysis of the administratons
policies would not allow Dr. King on
the dais.
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King stated,
Five score years ago, a great American,
in whose symbolic shadow we stand
today, signed the Emancipaton
ProclamatonOne hundred years
later, the colored American lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of
a vast ocean of material prosperity.
Today according to the Bureau of Labor
Statstcs, the natonal unemployment
rate stands at 7.6 percent and 15
percent in the African-American
community. Today, in the midst of
a vast ocean of material prosperity,
according the Bread for the World,
14.5 percent of U.S. households
nearly 49 million Americans, including
16.2 million childrenstruggle to put
food on the table and more than
one in fve children is at risk of hunger.
Among African-Americans and Latnos,
nearly one in three children is at risk of
hunger.
President Obama has claimed to be
a champion of the middle class but
rarely speaks to the plight of the
poor in America. Dr. King would not
stand idly by and allow this to go
unchallenged. As America spends
billions of dollars on its drone program,
children contnue to go hungry. In his
1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time
to Break Silence Dr. King stated, A
few years agoIt seemed as if there
was a real promise of hope for the
poor, both Black and White, through
the poverty programThen came the
buildup in Vietnam, and I watched
this program broken and eviscerated
as if it were some idle politcal play
thing on a society gone mad on war.
And I knew that America would never
invest the necessary funds or energies
in rehabilitaton of its poor so long as
adventures like Vietnam contnued to
draw men and skills and money like
some demonic, destructve sucton
tube. If you replace Vietnam with
Afghanistan and the War on Terror I
believe Dr. King would be engaged in
the same analysis and saying the same
things today.
Dr. King said that the people of Vietnam
must see, Americans as strange
liberatorsthey languish under our
bombs and consider us, not their
fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy
What do the peasants think as we ally
ourselves with the landlords and as we
refuse to put any acton into our many
words concerning land reform? What
do they think as we test out our latest
weapons on them? Today, Dr. King
would be asking the same questons
about Americas actons in Libya,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, and the
contnued US support for the Zionist
government in Israel as it contnues to
build setlements on Palestnian land
in violaton of internatonal law.
Lets be very clear. I have used actons
of the Obama administraton to
highlight many of the contradictons
that we face and to demonstrate how
the man we now revere, the icon that
will be lauded at the 50th anniversary
of the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom would not be invited to
speak. Thats the symptom of a greater
problem.
To gain great insight into the real
problem you have to examine the
work of Edward Bernays and the rise
of the propaganda industry in the
1920s. [The] American business
community was also very impressed
with the propaganda efort (created
by Bernays). They had a problem at
that tme. The country was becoming
formally more democratc. A lot more
people were able to vote and that sort
of thing. The country was becoming
wealthier and more people could
partcipate and a lot of new immigrants
were coming in, and so on. So what
do you do? Its going to be harder to
run things as a private club. Therefore,
obviously, you have to control what
people think. There had been public
relaton specialists but there was never
a public relatons industry. - History as
a Weapon Noam Chomsky - 1997.
The business community as Chomsky
discussed or the corptocracy in todays
parlance uses propaganda to co-opt
the American politcal landscape and
has contributed to the decline of the
American politcal lef. The politcs and
policies of the Obama administraton
are examples of that decline, not
responsible for it.
At the 50th anniversary of the March
on Washington, pay very close
atenton to what is said and even
closer atenton to what is not (August
27, 2013 is the 50th commemoraton
of the passing of W.E.B. DuBois).
Understanding the moral basis of Dr.
Kings analysis, he would be standing
today for the very things he stood
for then. He would be critcal of
the current administraton, and as
such, great eforts would be made to
shut him out of the natonal debate
since many in the African-American
community see honest, fact-based
critcism of Obama administraton
policy as antthetcal to the interests of
the African-American community.
Dr. Kings Dream was signifcant
because of its juxtapositon against
the reality of the Negros nightmare
but Bernaysian propaganda keeps the
focus on the Dream.
Dr. Wilmer Leon is the Producer/ Host
of the Sirisu/XM Satellite radio channel
110 call-in talk radio program Inside
the Issues with Leon Go to www.
wilmerleon.com or email:wjl3us@
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Dr. Kings Dream vs. Obamas Realpolitik
dr. WiLMer J.
Leon iii
Civil Rights Act in their hiring. And, the
call to raise the minimum wage was
answered with an eventual boost to
$1.60 an hour in 1968-the equivalence
of $10.70 today, and the minimum
wages highest value. The minimum
wage coverage was extended to
state and local government workers,
boostng the earnings of Black workers
who gained entry to low-wage public-
sector employment.
The result was that the median
earnings of black men rose from below
poverty for a family of three at $16,051
in 1963 to a peak of $23,135 in 1973,
way above the poverty level. And, the
black unemployment rate fell to 6.4
percent in 1969. So, not surprisingly,
the poverty rate for black children
fell from 65.6 percent in 1965 to 39.6
percent in 1969. In 2010, 39 percent
of Black children lived in poverty, the
median income of Black men stood
at $23,475 in 2011, and today the
unemployment rate for Black men is at
12.5 percent.
Today, the challenge remains for
civil rights to fght against the mass
incarceraton of black men, protect
the Votng Rights Act from actvist
Supreme Court judges on the right
and prevent vigilante acts coded into
Stand Your Ground laws that killed
Trayvon Martn. So, let us hope that
this current generaton, armed with
social media, can outperform the
generaton of typewriters and index
cards in putng hundreds of thousands
into a march to redeem the dream in
Dr. Kings speech to end racial injustce.
Thanks to the successes of the 1963
march, todays young people will not
be asked to march in the middle of the
week as was the case in 1963. Afraid of
a large gathering of protesters, the
march organizers were forced to hold
the march on a Wednesday to keep
the crowd down and to agree that the
marchers would all leave Washington
by sundown. So, holding the march on
a Saturday, and with the freedom to
stretch the message longer than sun
up to sundown, this generaton has
overcome those barriers of the past.
But, let us also hope that this
generaton will see that they must
again mount a campaign for jobs.
If more than 250,000 Americans
marched on Washington when the
unemployment rate was 5.7 percent
demanding full employment policies
are at the center of economic policy,
how will this generaton respond?
If more than 250,000 Americans
marched on Washington demanding
a raise in the minimum wage when
its value was $9.54, how will this
generaton respond?
To encourage this generaton, the
AFL-CIO sponsored a scholarship
competton to grant 60 scholarships
to young people willing to commit
themselves to recommit America
to the demands of the 1963 March
for Jobs and Freedom. Each of the
students will be receiving a one-tme
$5,000 scholarship to help them
aford college this fall. The 150th
freshman class of Howard University
will be at the march this Saturday. So,
some young people are commited to
respond.
Will our politcal leadership respond?
Will it pass a new Civil Rights Act? Will
it pass a Full Employment Act? Will it
raise the minimum wage?
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