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Inspirational
Quote of the Month
 "If
violence is wrong in America, violence is
wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent
defending black women and black children and
black babies and black men, then it is wrong
for America to draft us, and make us violent
abroad in defense of her. And if it is right
for America to draft us, and teach us how to
be violent in defense of her, then it is
right for you and me to do whatever is
necessary to defend our own people right
here in this country."
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May 10,11 - 22nd Ward Canvassing for Nora Neal
May 16 - Iraq Moratorium Day (wear black)
May 17- 22nd Ward Canvassing for Nora Neal
May 17- Ask the Attorney
May 18 - African Liberation Day/Malcolm X Birthday
June 20-22 Black Radical Congress*
10th Anniversary National Conference
August 5 -22nd
Ward Committee Election
*Visit United Front page for links
to these groups
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To build a movement that fights for
political empowerment and economic justice and the cultural
dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black
working class.
OBS Vision:
To contribute
to the creation of a society free of all forms of exploitation
and oppression.
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Save Our Schools
St. Louis
Schools Watch
St. Louis--April 30, 2008--Aproximately 100
people rallied in support of public education as
the cornerstone of democracy at the Old
Courthouse this evening. One of the speakers was
SLPS parent Chad Beffa. Chad is a candidate for
state representative in the 67th district of the
Missouri House. Beffa's remarks follow.
"In 1778 and 1779, during the American
Revolution, Thomas Jefferson whom many consider
the founder of the Democratic Party, proposed
the creation of publicly funded schools with the
Diffusion of Knowledge Bill. He sought to create
a public school system in America for the good
of all men, so that tyranny and oppression could
be identified, and so that educated Americans
could see to it that America suffer that pain
never again. He thought of public education as
the bed in which all other matters rested their
validity.
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Ward CONNerly LOST his efforts to collect enough
signatures to qualify for the November ballot. OBS and its
We CAN Coalition partners thank you for you efforts in
getting the word out about CONnerly and his cronies to ban
affirmation action in Missouri. Victory is almost certain
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What do we tell Sean Bell's children?
by Jamala Rogers
Featured Columnist, St. Louis American
Newspaper
May 7, 2008
The recent acquittal of NYPD undercover detectives Michael
Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper can be likened to
throwing a Molotov cocktail in a room full of powder kegs - and
missing this time.
The incendiary cocktails are the legal justifications by the
U.S. courts of state-sanctioned abuse and murder; the powder
kegs are the innumerable acts of injustice, neglect and violence
heaped upon communities of color. It is inevitable that one of
those tosses will land squarely on its target.
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The first casualty of war is
truth.
 Cost of the War in Iraq
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