Trump's trying to build a prison (SOAD)

Native Americans BLAST Trump's Alligator Alcatraz ICE prison threatening reservation land

(System of a Down) "Prison Song"

Israel riots for its Jewish gay gang rapists

Israel’s torture and rape of Palestinian prisoners defended by Knesset members, far-right mobs

Do US Christian Zionists support biblical genocide by Israeli Zionist Jews? (activestills.org)

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(Democracy Now! Aug. 1, 2024) Guests: Oren Ziv, a reporter and photographer for +972 Magazine. and Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights attorney and former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

• Rioting for Jews' right to rape Palestinians: "Rioting for the Right to Rape Palestinians"
• "I spoke to Palestinians tortured by Israel. What they endured is unimaginable"
• Israel has taken an estimated 21,000 Palestinian hostages to torture without charges
• Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran as Israel's War on Gaza tensions spiral out of control (Newsweek)

ActiveStills.org (via Shoresh/Instagram)

Unrest continues to brew in Israel after a right-wing Jewish mob, including members of Israel's parliament (the Knesset) broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to PREVENT Israeli military police from detaining nine homosexual gang rapist soldiers who were under investigation for gang raping a male Palestinian prisoner at their notorious Sde Teiman prison/detention facility.

+972 Magazine's Oren Ziv, who was at one of the bases reporting on the events, says that the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the pro-prisoner riots, and the apathy of the military police all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers' charges are “the face of the state,” expressing what are “mainstream” views in Israeli society.

DN! also speaks to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights attorney who has interviewed some of the torture victims and says the extent of their abuse is “appalling.” She calls Sde Teiman a “concentration camp” that the entirety of Israeli society and the international community are “complicit” in. More

• NOT IN OUR NAME! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• IDF Soldiers spill the beans: breakingthesilence.org.il
• American Veterans for Peace
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Orthodox Jews against Israel
• شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
• American media criticized for US bias after using ‘wrong’ Olympic medal table to top China’s golds
• DemocracyNow.org/donate, Aug. 1, 2024; Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Kendrick Lamar in LA: Juneteenth (watch)

Kendrick Lamar becomes first rapper to win Pulitzer Prize for music (DNAindia.com)

Watch full set live from Kia Forum, Los Angeles (before it's taken down) professionally filmed:

With all this talk of joy (Buddhist piti) around Juneteeth, here's some sincere laughter at wokeness

It's time we bring Bloods and Crips together for a truce, peace, and music. It's a good day to see Kendrick at LA's Kia forum, singing about his bloody beef with Jewish Canadian rapper Drake, on Juneteenth. When he first hit big, singing about trying to quit alcohol in Compton and dreaming of jumping into pools of booze, everybody already knew him and all the lyrics to every song. We were at Staples, and everyone was jumping in the pit area so much that the floor sagged and bounced.

That punkazzbiznatch Drake, he's not like us.

It was scary and seemed like it could collapse. He had Dr. Dre as his special guest. Soon after that he pulled a stunt of coming to a sporting event on a bus for a free post-show concert. It turned into a riot -- a mob of fans and LAPD tactics and helicopters trying to beat down what they viewed as chaos. The Forum is right in the middle of "South Central" near LAX Airport, which is now converted to a gentrified venue and pricey parking. It's going to be madness.

Every shot Kendrick took at Drake at "The Pop Out" concert explained

(Pearl Fountain) June 20, 2024: Kendrick Lamar brought all the West Coast on stage to dance on Drake's grave last night, after sneak dissing him for four hours in a three-act show featuring Ty Dolla Sign, YG, Tyler the Creator, and every other West Coast rapper you can think of. Here's a breakdown of every direct and subtle diss from the show. Instagram.com/omarabdelhmd

White on white golf course bullying, Deep South

Back Off Challenge, Mississippi, USA

Dharma and Emancipation: Reflections on Juneteenth with Dr. Kamilah Majied

Author, former Ohio State University Prof, Alexander wins Heinz Award (WOSU Public Media)

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The Book of Joy (Dalai Lama)

(Tricycle) June 19th is called "Juneteenth," a holiday celebrating the end of American slavery. Although such slavery continues, at least it's mostly legal and bigger now than ever but transformed.

What ended was chattel slavery or treating people (Native Americans, Black, Caribbeans, and indentured servants from around the world) as "property" or chattel. Well, it didn't end for everybody. In Texas it continued an extra two years because no one bothered to tell the Black slaves that they were now legally free by federal decree under Pres. Abe Lincoln. That post-Civil War freedom is what Juneteenth is commemorating.

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  Buddhism/Afrikan Wisdom (Valerie Mason-John)

  More people are slaves under the new system that replaced chattel slavery in the form of mass incarceration, harsh threats to avoid court cases during prosecution forcing people to plead guilty for lesser sentences of longer probationary periods, and a probation system that tracks, monitors, and enslaves mostly Blacks in a new way. See:
• Professor Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Dr. Joy DeGruy's Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, 
• Valerie Mason-John's Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond.

Joyfully Just (Dr. Majied)

Juneteenth is an important federal holiday in the United States, a date celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans (and the many Native Blacks who were here before the Atlantic slave trade and not brought over, escaped, and assimilated to an utterly foreign environment. Blacks were in what is now the US 50,000 years ago when Austral-Aboriginals made it here from overseas.

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But there is so much more to Juneteenth that we can reflect on and unpack within that meaning. What is the significance of Juneteenth from a Dharma perspective?

White on white bullying at the golf course

Joy Degruy discusses PTSS, historical omissions

“Everyone can practice with and reflect on Juneteenth as a part of their liberation from the effects of enslavement, including waking up to the aspects of their lives that are impacted by the power, oppression, and privilege dynamics that are residuals of the enslavement of African heritage people,” writes Dr. Majied in her forthcoming book Joyfully Just, Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living.

Man, my struggle is for the ppl, the human ppl

“We can practice with Juneteenth as a portal to reclamation of connection and authentic living in the truths of our shared existence.”

In this hour-long conversation with Tricycle’s Associate Web Editor Amanda Lim Patton, Buddhist mental health therapist, professor of social work, and inclusivity and equity consultant Dr. Majied joins to explore how the residuals of slavery in this country and globally compromise our experience of and insight into interdependence, the connection we all share.

Can we laugh with Black comic's observations?

US Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

Dr. Majied discusses the significance of Juneteenth; what Buddhism says about emancipation, liberation, and freedom; the parallels between Buddhism and Black wisdom traditions; healing the ongoing impacts of intergenerational trauma and finding inner freedom, more.

Tricycle is glad to offer this event free of charge. One can make a donation here: tricycle.org/donate

(Lyrics) What is Kendrick Lamar rapping in "They Not Like Us"?

• Black Lives Matter
• American Civil Liberties Union
• RIP Willie Mays, greatest baseball player
• Dr. Joy Degruy discusses Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Pure joy helps us look younger? Think you're falling in love? Medieval monks had worms?

• Kendrick Lamar via and Mac Esayne, Zechs6437, and ISmokeHipHopLive; Pearl Fountain; Tricycle (YouTube), Juneteenth 2023; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Shauna Schwartz (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israeli Jewish soldier says: 'I was the terrorist'

Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Novara Media) [How the U.S. lets Israel get away with murder: According to Secretary of State Blinken and many Republican conservatives, there are no "red lines" because Israel can do anything (any war crime, any crime against humanity, any atrocity, or act of state sponsored terrorism) they want without risking the full support of United States, CIA, NSA, NSC, the White House, the mainstream corporate media, and the Pentagon's Department of War. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is the only voice in Congress, and she was silenced and censured to protect all the Israeli and American Jewish money flowing to congresspersons in the form of donations, incentives, and bribes.]

Empire Files: Israeli Army veteran’s exposé: “I was the terrorist”

What made you go through a profound transformation and realizing that Israel is wrong and was not previously interested in Zionism (the belief that moving to the Middle East and stealing the land of Palestinians/Arabs or whoever is living there when we arrive, which is called settler colonialism, is a good idea to be defended and to kill for)?

(TeleSUR English) March 6, 2017: In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin (Empire Files) interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier [brutally police state "policing" Palestinians on their own land] who served as an occupier in Palestine’s Hebron City. Eran Efrati (breakingthesilence.org.il) spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but he has since become an outspoken critic of Israel's apartheid and occupation of Palestine. Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how Israeli war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no doubt be accelerated under Republican administrations.

teleSUR is funded in whole or in part by multiple Latin American governments. 

Hell on Earth: World's Worst Prisons (video)

Best Documentary, 9/6/23; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Best Documentary) Sept. 6, 2023: The worst prisons in the world | full documentary

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  Side with abused or abusers?

  00:00 The Worst Prisons in the World
• 01:39 Children as young as 10 are being held in overcrowded and unsafe prison cells in Quezon City, Philippines
• 10:23 Katrina, a European woman, is incarcerated in a prison with overcrowded cells and poor conditions, where she feels unsafe but finds solace in her cellmates
• 19:29 In a prison, the inmates discuss the limited resources they have and the potential dangers they face, including the risk of infection from prohibited items
• 31:29 The largest prison in Europe, Fleury-Mérogis, is struggling to control the connections between inmates and the smuggling of prohibited items

Social media: Facebook.com/BestDocumentary...

Prosecute Killer Cops (website)

ProsecuteKillerCops.org; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Southern lynchings had their Red Record.

This is the contemporary Red Record, inspired by the work of the powerful Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Like the Red Record of 1895, this website (prosecutekillercops.org) has been built to expose police who murder.

Data spans from January 2013 to the present, covering the time ineffectual Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey has been in office failing to prosecute any killer cop.

The number of police-murders in L.A. County is the highest of any place in the nation. But Lacey has refused to so much as charge -- much less actually prosecute -- officers in all but one case.

Why do good people hate bad cops?

Most of these killer cops still work in law enforcement; a number of them have killed more than once. These murders are dangerous and regularly target Black and Brown people and others.

Families of victims whose lives have been stolen are routinely sidelined by public officials. Standing in solidarity with these families, demand justice, transparency, and action.

We'd be glad to kill you, old man. Die!

This website is an effort to expose police who murder and demand that they be held accountable, beginning with prosecutions and building toward a reimagined systems of public safety. See the identity of 679 killer cops.

• Contact email: PKCLA@protonmail.com

Exposing gay RAP hip-hop culture (video)

WARNING: Profanity! Celebrity secrets! Graphic descriptions of gay sex, prison, sexual rituals!

Exposing truth about the rap music industry

I luv how accepting rappers secretly are of gays.

While it may seem difficult to believe that the most popular form of American music is rife with homosexuality, prison rules, gay hazing rituals, drug abuse, Satanism, and childhood sexual trauma, here are the artists confessing or bragging about it themselves.

More often they are seen "acting out" while intoxicated or frustrated or yearning to be honest rather than feel shame and hide secrets.

Catholic priests are not the only ones preying.

The truth comes while suddenly-famous artists are being interviewed by fans trying to learn more about their experience, how they achieved their success, how they are handling being in the music business, and what they plan for themselves. One has to see it to believe it.

The compilers of these clips seem to be attempting to warn aspiring newbies as to what's really in store for them if they are to succeed and play ball with the other successes, who themselves were subjected to these hazing rituals and abuses.

"I discovered the...planet was being lied to and was put upon a spell to keep us unaware of it."

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It's tough to sell out and still fight the power.

It's good to shed light on the behind-the-scenes activities. Those who say, "Anyone who reveals these secrets should not" is advocating keeping everyone in the dark, promoting ignorance and hypocrisy when things leak or someone dies/is killed.

Homosexual/Gay Hip-Hop Agenda Exposed

After, Americans in general are more willing than ever to accept homosexuality. Few, however, are willing to accept lies, hypocrites (those who say one thing while doing another), or tricking (conning, hustling, snaring) young newcomers as if they were arriving in prison, newcomers who had no idea what was in store in this industry.

The closet is crowded. Just look at Tyga or Sean Puff P Diddy Combs or Drake or Will Smith or LA radio DJ Big Boy or Li'l Wayne and the women of hip hop and rap. The truth wouldn't hurt if we hadn't been lied to to begin with.

"Party of the First Part" (Bauhaus)

Those for whom it is too hard to bear, maybe it's all taken out of context and not bisexuals. And maybe none of this is new in show business, as the animated video shows.

• SAINt JHN "Roses"; Stranger Than Fiction, XSplit, BBM Young Diesel, 3/19; Bauhaus "Party of the First Part," The Devil and Daniel Mouse; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Racism was in the past. Get over it. (video)

Ed Bradley, Radutzky, Simon, 60 Minutes; NBC; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

I'm not racist. This [N-word] is on the force, too.

All racism was in the past. Everything was in the past. A lot of it is in the present, too. And we're willing to bet it will be with us in the future. That's why we talk about it so much. How can anyone "get over it" when after all the attention drawn to Mr. George Floyd, another would-be killer cop was caught on camera attempting to commit murder by use of the carotid artery choke hold? Will he be charged with attempted murder, reckless disregard, a violation of use-of-force policy?

Modern police were born from old slave patrols.

Not likely, but he may be sent out for additional training on how to apply violence to anyone he doesn't like, which may include blacks. At least one of the other officers on the black man at the time told him to lay off so that the victim of the police brutality was not killed on the street like so many others have been.

Officer Derek Chauvin: I'm going to squeeze.

Here the ever-bland 60 Minutes looks at the case of shocking racism in policing, the use of prison and parole as the modern means of legally enslaving blacks, mass incarceration, and complete racial bias in policing and the courts.

(NBC News) Today, it's not just racist implicitly biased white men. It's women, too, the "Karens."

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A white informant is hired by police with federal money to round up as many black citizens of Tulia, Texas, as he can under the mantle of "the war on drugs."

Violence is not a crime if police do it [to blacks].

There were no drugs being sold, and no evidence that any law had been broken -- other than the word of one white man (Tom Coleman). The court saw fit to mete out hundreds of years of prison time with just that racist white man's word. Is he just "one bad apple," or are the police, courts, and judges many rotten apples in a rotten system?

• Casual racist Adam Corolla defends Jimmy Kimmel's old racism: "We were joking[?]"
• Protesting and demonstrating against racism (Do L.A.)
• Tom Coleman is not the biggest racist in America Tom Coleman [was] a white freelance undercover agent who had busted about 46 blacks...
• TULIA 46: Impacts 20 years later - KLBK July of [2019] will mark 20 years since a racist crime was perpetrated against innocent blacks by undercover officer Tom Coleman.
• Undercover cop [Tom Coleman] convicted of perjury (2005) Tom Coleman was acquitted of testifying falsely in a 2003 hearing...going into detail about the Tulia busts
• Undercover Deputy Tom Coleman convicted of perjury Tom Coleman was on top of the world after being honored as the Texas Department of Public Safety's 1999 Outstanding Lawman of the Year.

Can the police be defunded? (comedy)

Professor D; Trevor Noah, The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 2016); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Humans treated like chattel: personal property

De-funding the police is interesting and may work in many places, but would it work in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, a 50 square mile area of just about the biggest population in the world?

It's going to take a lot more than some much needed defunding to fix a corrupt and racist system of "slave patrolling" in the north.

Slave patrols were official racist police agents.

Slave patrol are what modern police forces originated from. In the north they have had a long and storied career "union busting." The only slaves to patrol in the north are "wage slaves."

L.A. has the biggest prison-industrial-complex in the entire world. ("Mass Incarceration, Accountability, and The Wire" with Prof. James Forman Jr., earwolf.com).

Prison-industrial complex's incarceration rates

In short, it'll take us more than simply defunding, for there are too many vested interests we need to stop from benefitting from the system as it is.

There's also the fact that police are currently being asked to do everything, which essentially gives them a lot more power than they should have ever had.

Why the criminal system is this way (audio)

Yale Prof. James Forman, Jr. and Host Adam Conover, Factually!; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Factually! w/ Adam Conover (Ep. #54.5, 6/3/20) Mass Incarceration, Accountability, and The Wire

Yale Prof. of Law James Forman, Jr., author of the book Locking Up Our Own, joins Host Adam Conover to discuss the history of how mass incarceration became distorted, juvenile court, confronting problems in the criminal justice system, and more.

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, this is one of the NY Times Book Reviews' ten best books.

"This superb, shattering book probably made a deeper impression on me than any other this year." ―Jennifer Senior, NY Times

"A beautiful [Pulitzer Prize-winning] book... gives us the origins and consequences of where we are..." ―Trevor Noah, The Daily Show

Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color.

Here he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in our nation’s urban centers.

Prof. Forman shows that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder (who later became attorney general in the Obama administration), feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness ― so they embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics.

In the face of skyrocketing murder rates and the proliferation of open-air drug markets, they believed they had no choice. But the policies they adopted would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods.

Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, community activists, police officers, defendants, and crime victims. He explains why our society became so punitive and offers important lessons about the future of race and the U.S. criminal justice system.

"Just Mercy" attorney faces racism (audio)

Host Terry Gross (Fresh Air, MLK Jr. Day, 1/20/20), Harvard attorney Bryan A. Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative), TED Talk 2012; Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Just Mercy attorney asks U.S. to reckon with our racist past and present

Bryan Stevenson is the author of the memoir Just Mercy, which was recently adapted into a film starring Michael B. Jordan.

The third Monday of every January is a U.S. federal holiday honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. But two Southern states — Alabama and Mississippi — also use the day to celebrate General Robert E. Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Attorney Bryan A. Stevenson

Public interest lawyer NY School of Law Professor Bryan A. Stevenson (CBS interview) lives in Alabama and is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which works to combat injustice in the U.S. legal system.

The new movie Just Mercy is an adaptation of his 2014 memoir of the same name. He says that the fact that his state honors Gen. Lee at all — let alone on the same day as Rev. King — is a sign that America has not acknowledged the evils of its past.

• Author Interview: One lawyer's fight for "Just Mercy"

White + KKK = racist USA (iStock.com)

"In the American South, where I live, the landscape is littered with the iconography of the Confederacy," Stevenson says. "We actually celebrate the architects and defenders of enslavement. For me, that has to change if we're going to get to the kind of healthy place I think we need to get to."

Stevenson has traveled the world, observing how other cultures address the injustices of the past. He notes that Johannesburg, South Africa, has a museum and monuments that "talk about the wrongfulness of apartheid."

Just Mercy movie poster

In Berlin, he says, "You can't go 200 meters without seeing markers and stones placed next to the homes of Jewish families that were abducted during the Holocaust."

"But in this country," he says, "we don't have institutions that are dedicated and focused to making sure a new generation of Americans appreciates the wrongfulness of what we did when we allowed lynching to prevail and persist, what we did when we created racial apartheid through segregation."

In 2018 Stevenson and his organization opened the Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, both dedicated to the legacy of

• slavery,
• lynching,
• segregation, and
• mass incarceration in the U.S.

We're human! Treat us as human beings!

For Stevenson, the museum and the monument are an effort to address the past — and to change the future.

"I just felt like we had to introduce a narrative about American history that wasn't [being] clearly articulated," he says. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again' to racial bias and bigotry." More

(The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) Michael B. Jordan & Jamie Fox

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