This week’s CityBeat will be a collector’s item for any fan of The Cincinnati Beacon (in fact, maybe I should make myself available in public to autograph copies!).  Two stories touch on our efforts here with our web site and our new print newspaper—with Justin Jeffre even making the front cover!  Thank you, CityBeat!  Here are some excerpts and some additional thoughts.

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For Democratic supporters of the regressive sales tax to build a big new jail, those non-Republicans opposed to the plan have been hoodwinked.  They maintain that groups like the NAACP have been manipulated by anti-black Republican interests who just want to jail people without giving them treatment options.  Nevermind the fact that the NAACP voted to oppose the tax before ever talking to COAST, Pat DeWine, or others. 

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In a recent editorial in The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sheriff Simon Leis says we need a new jail:  “Because of the current space limitations, the Sheriff’s Office was forced to early release more than 8,000 prisoners in 2006.”

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Here is a copy of the report where the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction not only found Queensgate compliant with 62 areas, but they found that the jail was operating at almost twenty beds under capacity. The Ohio DRC also commended Queensgate for continuing to work to upgrade their facility.

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The following is a part satiric, part serious interpretation of what the pro-jail tax people must be thinking.

Okay, black people, listen if you know what is good for you.  We are going to put you in jail.  You understand that, right?  We’ve been doing that for years now, and we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.  We pull you over for traffic stops more, we search you for drugs more—we’re always looking for a reason to bust you.  So that’s why we find a higher proportion of you doing something wrong. Maybe we would find lots of white lawbreakers if we subjected them to such scrutiny, but that’s not the point.

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Guest column by Scott A Morgan 
                        
The United States has once again been asked to decide the outcome of an African Crisis. But instead of the State Department or the Pentagon making the decision the investigating body will be the Central Intelligence Agency. 

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Walter Cronkite says, “Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasters are practicing thorough and ethical journalism”. I point to this list & say they aren’t practicing thorough or ethical journalism. 

Posted by Justin Jeffre
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Last year, The Cincinnati Enquirer ushered in the summer swimming season by suggesting good Samaritans use the Heimlich Maneuver on near-drowning victims.  Such a position is in stark contradiction to accepted medical protocol, and we exposed their life-threatening error in this article.  The story was even picked up by veteran newsman Ben Kaufman in his monthly CityBeat column.  This year, it looks like The Enquirer has learned its lesson.

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Todd Portune recently distributed a mass email (which we posted online here).  In the message, Portune provided extensive rebuttals to common disagreements with the Jail Tax Proposal.  There are some key issues, however, that seem to have been neglected in this discussion—so I would like to take this opportunity to outline those neglected, but significant, points.

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The Coalition for the Rights and Dignity of Immigrants (CODEDI), a three-year-old, Cincinnati-based organization made up of Latino immigrants expressed its opposition to the Senate immigration bill.

“The Senate’s bill is not acceptable to Latino immigrants,” said Sylvia Castellanos, spokesperson for the group. “While the bill would legalize nearly all immigrants now here, it imposes high economic penalties amounting to at least five thousand dollars for each immigrant, long waiting periods to achieve permanent residence and citizenship, and it includes guest worker programs that would keep hundreds of thousands in conditions of virtual servitude.”

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Clergy’s Civil Disobedience Sparked by Leading Cleaning Firm’s 2-Year Opposition to Job Improvements for Poverty-Wage Janitors
 
Indianapolis—In a plea for dignity and economic equality, a half dozen local clergy members were arrested at Market Tower as they ramped up their support for janitors employed by Executive Management Services, a cleaning company that for two years has refused to allow its janitors to choose a voice on the job by forming a union. EMS janitors, other service workers, and their community supporters in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus are seeking to lift themselves out of poverty through the Three Cities One Future Campaign.

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Student activists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison say why they’re excited about the upcoming conference: “SOCIALISM 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century.” being held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare, June 14-17, 2007. See http://www.socialismconference.org for more details.

SOCIALISM 2007 will bring together socialists and activists who are involved in struggles across the country--from opposing the war to organizing against the death penalty--and share a vision of rebuilding the left. 

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Robert Greenwald’s film Mother’s Day for Peace features a reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation. Mother’s Day was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War. She created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.

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Yesterday afternoon, Students United for Peace raised more than a few eyebrows by resting for peace in the schools free speech zone. Students were lying on the grass (one on the sidewalk) with anti-war messages all around (banners and chalk on the side walk).  Many had simulated blood painted on their bodies and clothes.

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In the event you have not been following Nate Livingston’s stellar research about the Charter Party at The Cincinnati Black Blog, I wanted to repost some excerpts. I know many readers have lots of personal opinions about Livingston, but facts are facts—and Livingston has uncovered some facts about The Charter Party that indicates the group is falling apart at the seams.

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