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10-11-2007, 12:27 PM

kusudika

10-11-2007, 12:47 PM

Boycott designer Mark Ecko, who is also a distributor of G-Unit clothing! He has purchased the baseball Barry Bonds hit to break the home run record and he has pledged to deface the ball writing an asterisk on it to signify that it was done under the influence of steroids. Regardless of his opinion, Bonds was not charged with using steroids but Ecko, like many white men, think they have the right to rewrite history as they see fit and use their economic power to do so. Speak up against this arrogant and racist stance!

debra j

10-11-2007, 01:05 PM

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The schools here in Macon Georgia , are not safe at all. School officials are quick to send child protective services to parents home questioning a parent about a bruise or scrape. And thats fine with me , but when something happeneds at school They want even call the parents right away let alone the authorities. Example , this student has been molested at home and acting out what happens to him on other students in school . The principles did not report the child's behavior to DFCS , and they did not report that he had done this to other students including my son. Even with me reporting this the teachers and school officials are still working at this school :confused: . I don't get it, here in georgia by law teachers and school officials are suppose to report any suspected abuse . Can anyone tell me why they still have their jobs. when all of the documents prove that these children have been molested by this student. And why do I have to keep my son in a school thats clearly not safe. I can tell you this much if no one steps in nothing will be done about this .The school officials are not going to admitt that they did something wrong.I don't want my son to grow up and do what has happened in cleveland. http://www.americaiswatching.org under georgia school abuse

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zion

10-12-2007, 09:11 AM

A judge ordered a black teenager back to jail, deciding the fight that put him in the national spotlight violated terms of his probation for a previous conviction, his attorney said.

Mychal Bell, who along with five other black teenagers in the so-called Jena Six case is accused of beating a white classmate, had gone to juvenile court in Jena on Thursday expecting another routine hearing, said Carol Powell Lexing, one of his attorneys.

Instead, state District Judge J.P. Mauffrey Jr. sentenced Bell to 18 months in jail on two counts of simple battery and two counts of criminal destruction of property, Lexing said.

"We are definitely going to appeal this," she said. "We'll continue to fight."

Bell had been hit with those charges before the Dec. 4 attack on classmate Justin Barker. Details on the previous charges, which were handled in juvenile court, were unclear.

Mauffrey, reached at his home Thursday night, had no comment.

"He's locked up again," Marcus Jones said of his 17-year-old son. "No bail has been set or nothing. He's a young man who's been thrown in jail again and again, and he just has to take it."

After the attack on Barker, Bell was originally charged with attempted murder, but the charges were reduced and he was convicted of battery. An appeals court threw that conviction out, saying Bell should not have been tried as an adult on that charge.

Racial tensions began rising in August 2006 in Jena after a black student sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white students later hung nooses from the tree. They were suspended but not prosecuted.

More than 20,000 demonstrators gathered last month in the small central Louisiana town to protest what they perceive as differences in how black and white suspects are treated. The case has drawn the attention of civil rights activists including the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Sharpton reacted swiftly upon learning Bell was back in jail Thursday.

"We feel this was a cruel and unusual punishment and is a revenge by this judge for the Jena Six movement," said Sharpton, who helped organize the protest held Sept. 20, the day Bell was originally supposed to be sentenced.

Bell's parents were also ordered to pay all court costs and witness costs, Sharpton said.

"I don't know what we're going to do," Jones said. "I don't know how we're going to pay for any of this. I don't know how we're going to get through this."

Bell and the other five defendants have been charged in the attack on Barker, which left him unconscious and bleeding with facial injuries. According to court testimony, he was repeatedly kicked by a group of students at the high school.

Barker was treated for three hours at an emergency room but was able to attend a school function that evening, authorities have said.

Bell, Robert Bailey Jr., Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis and Theo Shaw were all initially charged — as adults — with attempted second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit the same. A sixth defendant was charged in the case as a juvenile.

Bell, who was 16 at the time, was convicted in June of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit that crime. LaSalle Parish prosecutor Reed Walters reduced the charges just before the trial. Since then, both of those convictions were dismissed and tossed back to juvenile court, where they now are being tried.

Charges against Bailey, 18, Jones, 19, and Shaw, 18, have been reduced to aggravated second-degree battery. Purvis, 18, has not yet been arraigned.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_re_us/jena_six