| From the Villa ge of Brook ly n |
OUR TIME PRESS THE L OCAL PAPER WITH THE G LOBAL VIEW
| VOL. 21 NO. 32
August 10 – 16, 2017 |
Since 1996
Two Fronts in the Same War: Voter Participation, Voter Suppression
This year marks the Centennial of Fannie Lou Hamer’s birth (October 6) and the 40th anniversary of her death (March 1977). Our Time Press remembers her as the personification of the reason Black America should vote, and one of America’s greatest examples of the class the country lacks in its leadership today. (OTP)
Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer, the Voting Rights Heroine of Freedom Summer
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he last of 20 children, the Mississippi tenant farmer, leapt to national prominence during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, when she eloquently challenged Mississippi’s segregated Democratic primary on national television. In 1962, she had become a leader of the African-American voting rights movement in Mississippi that culminated in 1964’s Freedom Summer. Forced off her land when her landlord demanded that she take her name off the voter registration list, Hamer was repeatedly jailed and beaten during her voting rights activities. “The only thing they could do to me was kill me,” Hamer said, “and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.” I didn’t know anything about voting; I didn’t know anything about registering to vote. One night I went to the church. They had a mass meeting. They talked about how it was our right, that we could register and vote… about (how) we could vote out people that we didn’t want in office, we thought that wasn’t right. That sounded interesting
Universal Hip Hop Parade “The Unauthorized And The Legacy of Marcus Garvey Psychoanalysis of Donald Trump” ■■
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By James C. McIntosh, M.D.
Prologue Section 7 of the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics of 1973 reads as follows: “On occasion, psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.” There is no rule I have ever been happier to have been accused of violating than this one when I published the first 7 chapters of my book, “The Unauthorized Psychoanalysis of Rudolph Giuliani” in the Amsterdam News and the Daily Challenge newspaper in the seven weeks between March 28, 2000 and May 12, 2000. That ➔➔ Continued on page 11
By Kazembe Batts
he Universal Hip Hop Parade (UHHP), an annual educational and cultural to be held this Saturday, August 12 (the Saturday before Marcus Garvey’s August 17 birthday event) celebrates the great activist’s enormous legacy of recognizing popular culture as a tool to empower people and encourage the growth of Black institutions. The parade holds the distinction of being the world’s longest celebration of Hip-hop culture. It covers all the traditional elements of Hip hop including rappers, break dancers,
singers and actors performing both on floats and on foot. Additionally, graffiti artists and deejay’s perform at different locations along the parade route. The parade also presents other examples of the vibrant artistic and cultural life of the community including stilt walkers, motorcycle & van clubs, graffiti banner displays, marching bands, sound trucks, dancers and more. Additionally Hip-hop legends, elected officials, community activists and legendary MC’s have participated. The parade also serves to display the emerging neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, including its arts, culture and
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By David Mark Greaves
Bad Times There are two psychotic world leaders armed with nuclear weapons yelling at each other in evermore threatening rhetoric, such as attack by “fire and fury like the world has never seen before” is one such bellicose phrase. One of these is the president of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, from whom such words are not unusual and over the years have approached comedy, but coming from the mouth of the president of the United States, delivered with arms held tightly across his chest as though in a straightjacket, which unfortunately was not in use at the time,
they are bone-chilling and enough to make the military, the Congress and the people hit pause for a moment and think. The military has to look in the mirror and say they will not obey an unlawful order. The Congress has to confirm to the military and make public to the world that only they can authorize a war and any use of military force must be approved and nuclear weapons are off the table. The Congress then has to admit that the world can’t wait until 2020 to remove this man from office. There are 10 million people in Seoul, South Korea and another 160,000 in Guam
enough to me that I wanted to try it. I had never heard, until 1962, that black people could register and vote. . . Well, when I first tried to register it was in Indianola. I went to Indianola on the thirty-first of August in 1962; that was to try to register. When we got there—there was eighteen of us went that day—so when we got there, there were people there with guns and just a lot of strange-looking people to us. (When I got back home) the landowner said, “you’ll have to go down and withdraw your registration, or you’ll have to leave this place.” I didn’t call myself saying nothing smart, but I couldn’t understand it. I answered the only way I could and told him that I didn’t go down there to register for him; I went down there to register for myself. This seemed like it made him madder when I told him that.” (Source: Interviewed by Neil McMillen, 4/14/72 and 1/25/73; Courtesy of Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive McCain Library and Archive, University of Southern Mississippi HistoryMatters.gmu. edu) growing commercial district to the residents from other neighborhoods of New York City as well as other visitors to the area. Local organizations showcase their artistic creativity, membership and colors while promoting their services, events and products. Neighborhood businesses and institutions along the route play music and distribute giveaways to help create a festive environment. Residents and visitors alike are urged to participate and join the parade procession.. The Universal Hip Hop Parade was founded by this writer, Charles Barron, Freedom Williams and a host of activists in the fall of 1999 to celebrate the African American cultural social activist roots of hiphop culture. It is an outgrowth of the work ➔➔ Continued on page 6
☞ INSIDE Thinker's Notebook Paradox of voting ➔➔ page 5
Lawyers Condemn New Voter Purge Program ➔➔ Page 5
Outrage at NYS Giving Voter Information to Feds ➔➔ Page 5
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