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| BRIEFING
MEETING ON THE MICHIGAN CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE |
You
are invited to participate in a meeting to learn more
about the status of the "Michigan Civil Rights Initiative"
and the efforts underway by One United Michigan and other
organizations to defeat the proposal if/once it is approved
for the November, 2006
general election ballot.
Date: Friday, September 16, 2005
Location: Ypsilanti Marriot Hotel,
Private Dining Room on the Lower Level
Time: 8:00 - 10:00
Presenters:
One United Michigan Representatives - David Waymire
and Trisha Stein
A continental breakfast will be available for purchase. .
Please RSVP to AOL email address:
lpmonts@aol.com
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It
is time for ABPAFS elections, so if you or someone
you know wants to be an officer (President, Vice President,
Secretary, Treasurer)
Please send the names to
Elzora
Holland
(ardora@umich.edu)
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KATRINA
AND THE XAVIER CAMPUS
This is from the Xavier web site
1.)Approximately
350 students who did not evacuate the campus were
supervised by more than forty (40) Xavier administrators
and staff who volunteered to watch over the students,
including armed campus police.
2) The staff and
students had ample provisions of all essential items
including food, drinking water, security and –
for a while – electricity, until the city’s
power grids failed. In fact, staff members ferried
hot cooked meals to the dormitories by boat until
the day before their evacuation (meals that had been
prepared by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament staying
inside their convent.)
3) Floodwaters
rose to nearly six feet across the campus after some
of the city’s protective levees failed, but
none of the students’ living quarters were ever
threatened – contrary to some rumors that circulated
- thanks to the structural integrity of those buildings.
4) The primary
plan for evacuation of the Xavier students was developed
by the president of Grambling State, his staff and
Xavier personnel on Wednesday, August 31; with additional
participation later from Southern University. Eight
buses (8) left the Grambling campus at 6:00am the
following morning, heading toward New Orleans. They
were joined later by three additional buses provided
by Senator Cleo Fields, to assist in transporting
the nearly 400 Xavier evacuees safely to the Southern
and Grambling campuses.
5) The students
and staff were rescued from the flooded campus by
amphibious units later in the morning on Thursday,
September 1, and were relocated on the Interstate-10
Expressway so that they could await transportation
to safety by bus. A contingent of New Orleans police
officers was dispatched to reinforce the campus police
while the Xavier evacuees waited approximately twelve
hours to be rescued (not for three days, as some media
reports suggested.)
6) Because of
the worsening transportation conditions following
the hurricane, the buses did not arrive until around
10:00pm; they were escorted by armed Louisiana State
Police and National Guard units to ensure the students’
and staff members’ continued safety out of the
city.
7) The students
and staff were safely evacuated, as noted, to the
campuses of Southern University in Baton Rouge, and
to Grambling University. Special thanks is owed to
the presidents and staff of both Southern and Grambling
State for also providing food, shelter, fresh clothing
and other services to our evacuees until they made
arrangements to return home and rejoin their families.
8) There is one
sad note to report. The husband of a retired, longtime
Xavier employee (Mrs. Eloise Simmons) suffered a heart
attack and died while he and his wife sought shelter
on campus before the hurricane. Our sympathies have
been offered to Mrs. Simmons, who spent 50+ years
as an employee and has continued to volunteer her
services to Xavier.
9) For reasons
that should be obvious, we have not been able to conduct
a genuine assessment of damages on the campus. We
do know, however, that there was wind damage to several
building and extensive flooding damage to most of
our buildings on the ground floor level. These flooded
areas include the central plant, which would be critical
to any plans for reopening the campus even on a limited
basis.
10) We are already
evaluating the prospects for repairing the buildings
on campus, and we continue to hope that the City of
New Orleans and emergency authorities will allow us
to return sooner than currently projected, for assessment
and rebuilding purposes.
We thank all for
their patience, and we offer our sincere gratitude
to staff members for their heroic and humanitarian
efforts. Likewise, our host institutions will forever
be in our prayers and our debt.
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Obituary
Dr. Jo Anne Hall, 1949-2005
Librarian, 1984-1994
Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
The University of Michigan
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know
our heritage-to know who we are and where we came from.
Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow
yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there
is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most
disquieting loneliness. - Alex Haley
Creative and generous; a scholar, mentor, and leader;
a proud member of the African American community in
Michigan - Dr. Jo Anne Hall graced our lives and left
us a deep and powerful legacy of knowledge and understanding.
An historian and librarian, she enriched us through
her work as the head of the library at the Center for
Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of
Michigan and as a tireless volunteer in the local community.
She answered our yearning, filled that emptiness, and
brought us together in the knowledge of our heritage.
Her doctoral dissertation and her long career of
service showed us how librarians act as agents of change.
She was our guide to the great river of research on
Black American families published in the 1960s through
the 1980s. Long before computers made data processing
so much simpler, Dr. Hall was the steady hand sorting
great volumes of information for a national study of
Black college students. Ever the innovator, Jo Anne
Hall was our videographer, recording the oral histories
of African American women and organizations and capturing
major events at the University for posterity - including,
for example, Alex Haley's keynote address for the 1992
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program, on African
and Afro-American storytelling and oral traditions and
how they compare with contemporary mass media disseminations
of stories and information.
A graduate of Holy Ghost High School in Jackson,
Mississippi, the University of Dubuque, the State University
of New York, and the University of Michigan, Dr. Jo
Anne Hall was Historian for the Delta Psi Omega Chapter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and assisted in a major
research and historical documentation project on the
leadership services and outreach programs of the sorority
in Michigan, Western New York, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania,
and West Virginia. She was a founding member of the
African American Cultural and Historical Museum in 1993,
and a founding member of ABPAFS.
Writings by Dr. Hall
Black American Families, 1965-1984: A Classified,
Selectively Annotated Bibliography
Book by Walter R. Allen, Richard A. English, Jo Anne
Hall; Greenwood Press, 1986
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INNOVATIVE OR CHANGE
AGENT CHARACTERISTICS OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS AND THE EXISTENCE
OF CHANGE IN SELECTED ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN
UNITED STATES
HALL, JO ANNE
DEGREE PhD
SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
DATE 1984
Evans Young, Assistant Director, 1989-1999 Center for
Afroamerican and African Studies The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Two-In-Three
Critical Of Bush's Relief Efforts
Huge Racial Divide Over Katrina and Its
Consequences
From
The
PEW Research Center for the People and the Press
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Half of those polled (50%) say they have felt angry
because of what happened in areas hard hit by the hurricane.
But overall opinion on this measure obscures a substantial
racial divide in reactions to the disaster as many as
70% of African Americans say they have felt angry, compared
with 46% of whites. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to
know people directly affected by the hurricane and are generally
much more critical of the government's response to the crisis.
Blacks and whites draw very different lessons from
the tragedy. Seven-in-ten blacks (71%) say the disaster shows
that racial inequality remains a major problem in the country;
a majority of whites (56%) say this was not a particularly
important lesson of the disaster. More striking, there is
widespread agreementamong blacks that the government's response
to the crisis would have been faster if most of the storm's
victims had been white; fully two-thirds of African Americans
express that view. Whites, by an even wider margin (77%-17%),
feel this would not have made a difference in the government's
response.
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| FIRST
LEGO League |
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WCC is in the process of organizing interested young
people (ages 9 - 14 years old) to participate in the Fall
2005, For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) LEGO League
Competition.
The FIRST LEGO League:
* Inspires children,
ages 9-14, to participate in science and
technology
* Engages kids in
playful and meaningful learning
* Provides a fun,
creative, hands-on learning experience
* Challenges kids
to solve real-world problems using robotics
* Teaches children
to experiment and overcome obstacles
* Builds self-esteem
and confidence
Detailed information about FIRST LEGO League is available
[online] at,
http://www.usfirst.org/jrobtcs/flego.htm
Participation involves after school meetings (2-3
hours) 3-4 afternoons per week.
If you have a 9-14 year old interested in participating in
the
FIRST LEGO League Competition,
PleaseCLICK
HERE, by Monday, September 12, with:
* the child's name,
* age,
* where they are attending school,
* and a contact telephone number.
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College
Student's Bush Comments Prompt
Federal Probe
Kentucky Man Could Face Threatening Charge
POSTED: 8:57 am EDT September 8, 2005
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LOUISVILLE,
Ky. -- A college student in Kentucky may face a federal
charge of threatening the president of the United States for
remarks he posted on a Web site.
The controversy stems from comments made by University
of Louisville student Phillip Bailey, 21, on a Web site message
board, Louisville television station WLKY reported Wednesday.
Bailey is chairman of the University of Louisville
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. He said he posted
a message on a Web site in response to someone else who suggested
that looters in New Orleans should be shot.
Bailey wrote that many people were simply trying to
find necessities to stay alive. In his response, Bailey wrote
that families stranded by the storm should take anything needed
to stay alive, adding, "shoot every cop, National Guard (member)
and politician who stands in your way, including George W.
Bush, if need be."
"I still stand by those statements," Bailey said Wednesday.
"Because of the context, that conversation fits in perfectly
with the response, too."
Bailey was talking about his response on a message
board for a Web site called Soulution.com,
created by black students as part of an independent newspaper,
WLKY reported. Writing about the situation in New Orleans,
there was a post called "Animals In New Orleans."
The writer talked about what he called the transformation
of poor blacks in New Orleans and Mississippi into primitive,
ruthless animals, and went on to write, "if we shoot some
of those scumbags, most of the looting would subside."
In Bailey's response, entitled "Devils In Washington,
D.C.," he wrote that looting is a matter of survival.
"The statement is not a call to violence," he told
WLKY. "It's a call for survival."
But federal investigators may not see it that way.
On Tuesday, a Secret Service agent interviewed Bailey, and
a spokesman for that agency said Bailey could face a federal
charge of threatening the president.
It's now up to the U.S. attorney's office to decide
whether Bailey should be charged with making threats against
the president. He could get a 5-year sentence, if convicted.
"I think this just shows how far to the right this
conversation has gotten, and how far to the right this country
has gotten, to take it to this extremity," Bailey said.
Ricky Jones -- the chairman of the University of Louisville's
Pan-African Studies program, and Bailey's mentor -- stands
behind his student.
"I have no problem with what he said, and we welcome
any investigation that is very public," Jones said. "I think
these are intimidation tactics and moves made by extreme political
ideologies to suppress free speech in this country."
Bailey and Jones each are slated to speak at a forum
to promote non-violence at a Louisville-area church this month.
"The conversation is about police officers keeping
people from getting food and water, and basic living necessities,"
Bailey said.
Local activist Christopher 2X, also scheduled to speak
at the forum, said Bailey might want to reconsider his words
before he speaks publicly again, WLKY reported.
"He didn't take into consideration how to master any
rage he might have felt from the comment, and that's very
unfortunate," 2X said.
Distributed by Internet Broadcasting
Systems, Inc. The Associated Press contributed to this
report. All rights reserved.
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INTERESTING WEB PAGES
1. American
Red Cross
The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led
by volunteers, guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental
Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide
relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare
for, and respond to emergencies.
2. THE SOULution
is a newspaper publication that centers around Black issues
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