In the early 1990's, I studied with a coven called HOMECOMMING COVEN. I was with them for a year. I hear voices now on the mental plane saying I was "secretly initiated" in the high priestess' bedroom. Later on, the high priest threw me out of the group. When I recently revealed their identities in the Craft, my life went to shit. I was never initiated by that coven, so the rule of revealing the names of these two witches did not apply to me, but my magic tools still turned against me. This is bogus. I am now a solitary Wiccan
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Update on Portland, Oregon homelessness.
This is a quote from the People Project:
"In Portland, Sisters Of The Road (Sisters) and Street Roots have been at the forefront of resistance to “quality of life” measures, including a camping ban and sit/lie ordinance. In 2003, Sisters and Street Roots launched the Right to Sleep Campaign, urging City Hall to look at alternatives to criminalization measures that target individuals living on the streets. In their newspaper, Street Roots highlighted the civil rights issues faced by people experiencing homelessness through in-depth reporting on private security in downtown Portland and how it relates to the criminalization of homelessness. Over the years, the newspaper reported on a number of criminalization efforts, including alternatives to the camping, sit-lie, and Drug Free Zones. Due to community pressure and legal challenges, the sit/lie ordinance was twice struck down as unconstitutional in 2004 and 2009.
In 2010, the city proposed another version of the sit-lie law called the Sidewalk Management Ordinance. In response, Sisters organized an action in celebration of sidewalks being for everyone that was attended by over 200 unhoused and housed allies who then marched to City Hall to testify against the measure. Sisters exposed the classism and bias of the new ordinance in a public statement they used in their media work, outreach to the community, and in City Council hearings.
Photo Credit: Michael Lloyd/Oregonian
Sisters also gave a presentation to the city’s Human Rights Commission on the history of the two previous sit/lie ordinances, how it had been used against homeless people, and how the Council was manipulating the issue to make the new ordinance seem like it was about mobility rights for “differently-abled” people. They specifically objected to the way the ordinance used the Americans with Disabilities Act. Homeless people were targeted for blocking sidewalk access for people with disabilities even though the Portland Housing Bureau recently found that 47% of homeless people had a high risk of mortality caused by untreated disabilities.
A week after the presentation, the Human Rights Commission took a public stand against the ordinance. At the next City Council hearing on the ordinance, three Commissioners testified that it violated human rights and the City Council should vote no on it.
Despite these efforts the ordinance passed. Sisters immediately switched gears and launched a “know-your-rights” campaign. They did street outreach that included handing out 2,000 flyers to educate Portlanders on their rights under the law and invited them to organize with them to oppose the ordinance. Sisters’ organizer Chani Geigle-Teller notes, “Largely because of this organizing on the streets, conversation by conversation, our weekly Civil Rights Workgroup consistently has over 12 volunteers who come in throughout the week to help us carry out this work!”
The City of Portland, including the business alliance have been kicking street people out of their businesses because they look dirty. The City of Portland furthermore always try to resurrect the "Sit-lie" ordinace that was found unconstitutional in 2009. The Portland police harass and "shake down" the members of the homeless community. All big cities have "tent cities". In 1929, they were called "Hoovervilles". Even Dignity Villiage in Portland is just one of the kinder Hoovervilles. By the way, President Herbert Hoover was blamed for the 1929 stock market crash and the great depression.
Friday, June 3, 2011
FBI and LA County Sheriff raid activist
FBI and LA County Sheriff raid veteran Chicano activist Carlos Montes
 link to www.stopfbi.net |
| On May 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff?s Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. The SWAT Team smashed the front door and rushed in with automatic weapons as Carlos slept. The team of Sheriffs and FBI proceeded to ransack his house, taking his computer, cell phones and hundreds of documents, photos, diskettes and mementos of his current political activities in the pro-immigrant rights and Chicano civil rights movement. Also taken were hundreds of historical documents related to Carlos Montes? involvement in the Chicano movement for the past 44 years. Carlos was arrested on one charge dealing with a firearm code and released on bail the following morning. His first court appearance is set for June 16, 2011. This attack on Carlos Montes is part of the campaign of FBI harassment taking place against the 23 peace and justice activists which has until now been centered in the Midwest. Carlos Montes? name was listed on the subpoena left in the office of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee last September 24. When Carlos Montes was placed in the LA County Sheriff's car, an FBI agent approached and asked him questions about the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Carlos Montes has done nothing wrong. This is an attack on him and an attack on the Chicano movement for equality. Carlos has been involved and a committed leader in the immigrant rights, anti war, solidarity, and quality education movements his whole adult life. Stop the Attacks on the Chicano and Immigrants Rights Movement! We demand all charges be dropped against Carlos Montes. We call for the immediate return of all his property. Please call and write US Attorney General Eric Holder (202) 353-1555 and demand Hands Off Carlos Montes and other activists. Join the LA Committee Against FBI Repression on May 24, 2011, at 7 PM to hear first hand about this attack and discuss the FBI repression targeting political activists and movements. The program will take place at F Square Printing, 519 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013. http://www.stopfbi.net/organization/committee-stop-fbi-repression Freedom Archives 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 415 863-9977 www.Freedomarchives.org |
homepage: http://www.stopfbi.net/organization/committee-stop-fbi-repression
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