Civil Liberties / Human Rights

Rochester Indymedia and Open Mic are going to be cross posting and collaborating in the coming months on various stories. This is one of the first pieces to be cross posted. We're excited to be working with Open Mic! Check out the original article here: http://www.openmicroc.com/exploring-mayor-lovely-warrens-time-in-office/

Sharing the background of many of Rochester’s black residents, Mayor Lovely Warren’s grandparents migrated north seeking better economic opportunities. And like many of our grandparents, hers didn’t find it either, settling instead for labor.

Graduating from the Rochester City School District, she went on to college, law school, then became a lawyer before working in the community and later leading City Council as the youngest to ever do so.

And then that granddaughter of migrators, sharecroppers, laborers, became Rochester’s first black female mayor.

Mayor Lovely Warren took office in January 2014. However, it hasn’t been an easy three years. In fact, the first year of her term saw a number of scathing reports and criticism from the community. She created security positions in her office, claiming she was being threatened, and then gave them to family members. She was constantly criticized for her handling of the press and many were worried that she wasn’t as good of a pick for Rochester as they’d first hoped.

Going into 2017, Warren hasn’t announced yet if she’ll campaign for re-election. Already James Sheppard, County Legislator for the 23rd District, has announced his campaign for her seat and Rachel Barnhart who recently lost a bid for the State Assembly against Rep. Harry Bronson is toying with a mayoral run as well. Both have charged that Warren has made no change, prompting OM to look at Warren’s time in office.

We looked at four pillars as we examined her “legacy:” development, social justice, violence and crime, and putting Rochester on the map.

Members of Anonymous show support to Standing Rock Pipeline protestors. (Photo: Michael Israel)

For those who do not yet realize the basis for my referring to the fbi as human monsters see the following data.
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Assaults by the fbi are the most sinister and purely criminal that I have ever seen or read about in my life. Psychological Operations (‘psyops’) by the fbi are achieved by sociopaths who watch the victim (me) 24/7, follow him everywhere, destroy his property, make him homeless, and other atrocities that I describe in many of my reports.

Enough Is Enough is reading and discussing the essay "Ella Baker and Models of Social Change" by Charles Payne for the month of April. Feel free to check out the reading below and offer your constructive criticisms and affirmations on their reading group Facebook page or come to a meeting on Tuesdays, 7-9pm, at the Flying Squirrel Communtiy Space (285 Clarissa St.)!

On April 4, 2016, a protest was held against the Erie County Holding Center and Sheriff Timothy Howard demanding answers and accountability for the murder of Rochester native and Buffalo resident India Cummings.

usa as overthrown by fbi/cia:

The two premier murderous agencies in the world, the fbi/cia, in their dirty deeds are so far beyond control that no one, no legislator/judge/president, citizen can disrupt or challenge their destructive and murderous methods and rule. All other authorities in the USA (including the police) submit to cia/fbi authority as needed.

The chief tools used by the fbi/cia to control people globally are: threat of retaliation, torture, forced suicide, harassment, character assassination and killing/mass murder.

See my report which outlines the fbi's continuation of egregious offenses together with police and judges.

This interview was originally published by the Party for Socialism and Liberation at: http://www.liberationnews.org/from-inside-attica-interview-with-jalil-muntaqim/

Apartheid Attica.

Solitary confinement, brutality

and beat downs—prisoners

toe the line doing the time

for being Black in America,

the legacy of slavery, Black

Codes and Jim Crow.

Do Black Lives Matter?

Excerpt from Jalil Muntaqim’s poem “Apartheid Attica”

I have shown by incontrovertible evidence for the past fifteen years that the employees of the fbi and the cia (including their agents, operatives, police associates, informants and often co opted members of the general public who take directives from the intelligence community) are *traitors because they engage in the following practices against our people: harassment, threats, 24/7 psychological assaults designed to drive the subject (i.e., Target) insane, mayhem, torture, forced suicide, impr