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• The Jena 6 Movement

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:59 pm

  Tags: Racist Prosecution, Mychal Bell, Jena 6, Jenna Louisiana, Political Expediency, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Race, Racism, Power Games, Politics

  on and off school grounds. Police arrested a white man for punching a black teen. He pleaded guilty to simple battery. The skirmishes culminated with a fight in which the six black teens, star players on Jena’s champion football team, were charged as adults with attempted murder. The white student they’re accused of beating, Justin

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• Louisiana black caucus appeals to Gov. Blanco

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:38 pm

  Tags: Jena 6, Racist Prosecution, Jena Louisiana, Punitive Punishment, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Criminal Injustice System, Racism, Race, Racial Profiling, White Supremacy, Power Games, Politics

  Hat Tip: By Sherrell Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus asked Gov. Kathleen Blanco to intervene in the case of the Jena Six, but the governor maintains that state law prevents her from acting at this time. Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Juan LaFonta wrote Blanco a letter on Monday and said he spoke with the

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• Charges against Mychal Bell overturned in Jena 6 case

  Published: September 14, 2007, 11:16 pm

  Tags: Racist Prosecution, Racially Insensitive Remarks, Mychal Bell, Jena 6, Jena Louisiana, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Louisiana Politics, Racism, Race, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, White Supremacy, Politics

  Hat Tip: Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press, USA Today NEW ORLEANS A state appeals court on Friday threw out the only remaining conviction against one of the black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena. Mychal Bell, 17, should not have been tried as an adult, the state

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• We don’t live in a Democracy….

  Published: September 18, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: Andrew Meyer, Barack Obama, Corporate Media, Jena 6, John Kerry, Lennox Yearwood, Politics, Power Games, Race, University Of Florida, Capitol Hill Police, Firedoglake, Police Prosecutorial Misconduct, Police Brutality, Politics Of Fear, Racial Profiling, Racism, Star Span

  live in a racist police state. Case in point, the fake furor over the tasered student at a John Kerry speech at the University of Florida. While I won’t defend the obnoxious conduct of this kid that provoked a physical confrontation, it didn’t ever merit him being tasered while Senator Kerry told them to leave him be.

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