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		<title>By: Lara Johnstone</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2657</link>
		<dc:creator>Lara Johnstone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not sure if anyone here is interested in this conversation, but since it refers to this &#039;Community Organizer&#039; blog and issues related hereto, I&#039;m posting it as a matter of transparency and disclosure; for anyone whose interested in some radical honesty conversation, or not. 

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The toxic passive aggressive sycophantic hypocrisy of black (on black) racism by liberal progressive ‘Africanist community organizer’ black activists. 

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
~ Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin ~

Blacklooks is a blog started by Sokari Ekine “primarily focusing on anything to do with African women – a very broad term for a whole continent” addressing human rights issues, ‘challenging stereotypes and discussing gender, sexuality and racism and how these are constructed and manipulated by culture.’

According to Ms. Ekine, these “are areas that can make people feel uncomfortable because they reach to our core, revealing the hidden truths deep within ourselves, because talking about racism, ethnicity and sexuality can be threatening, because they require people to consider the possibility that they may have racist or homophobic feelings and attitudes.”

Furthermore Ms. Ekine views the world as moving further and further to the right, and she wants to write from a radical and progressive standpoint challenging not only the right but also the liberal community. Black Looks contributors are ‘all progressive Africanists and activists with a strong belief in the power of the pen to bring about change.’

With this in mind Ms. Ekine wrote a blog tagged ‘Assault on Dissent’, I am a Community Organizer, as part of Slant Truth and the Obama Democratic ‘I am a Community Organizer’ bloggers in support of ‘the great work community organizers do.’

Briefly, Ms. Ekine&#039;s blog focused on the vigils that have been held at various Brazilian Embassies calling for the safe return of the abducted Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and protesting Brazil’s failure to lead the UN Stabilization for Haiti mission (MINUSTAH). Ms. Ekine concluded with a quote from the Black British poet Benjamin Zephaniah criticising the UN, for his recent loss of faith in it’s work, and urging all caring people to shout Lovinsky’s name out loud at every opportunity.

I had originally visited Black Looks, following an eco-food blog post, Biofuels take over farmland, which documented how multinationals were rushing in to invest in Eastern and Southern Africa&#039;s farmland, to produce biofuels. Local farming communities are being promised jobs, schools etc., and the realities with virtual certainty shall be far different, considering geopolitical population policy issues in light of peak oil and peak food and consequent fall in food production issues, which necessitates an urgent need for either a serious reduction in birthrates, or in the absence thereof, a serious increase in death rates.

Accordingly I responded with:

All part of the Committee of 300 plan Sokari:

“At least 4 billion “useless eaters” shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation.”

As Henry Kissinger said: ‘If you control the oil you control the country; if you control the food, you control the population.’

By the time the ‘useless eaters’ wake up — it will probably be too late. 

Subsequent to posting my response, I noticed the ‘I am a Community Organizer’ post, and went to have a look. In response thereto, I posted:


Sad.

Benjamin Zephaniah unfortunately either won’t go to the heart of the matter; and speak up on root cause issues; or he has yet to confront his denial. Many ‘community organizers’ are yet to face these realities. Perhaps they shall one day wake up, and listen to those who have been where they are now, and if so, real change can occur.

What is real change? FTW said it best:

“From FTW’s perspective, as we have said so consistently, until we change the way money works, solutions to Peak Oil, food shortages, collapse and sustainability remain unreachable from a national or cultural level because it is simply more profitable to let people die and accelerate collapse through excessive consumption than it is to behave like a species that wishes to survive.

Like most who decide that something is really wrong and said, “I’m going to do something about this”, Aaron Russo has pulled one worm out of the can and is slowly realizing, even now, that with one worm, you get all the rest of its cousins, aunts, nieces, nephews and parents.”

Die-off is here, like a frog in a warm bowl of water, and it’s slowly being heated up, and by the time most wake up, they will be ready for the blood sucking parasites.

JMCSwans last blog post..Gladio (&quot;The Sword&quot;), by Allan Francovich, BBC Timewatch

And subsequently the following exchange of comments occurred between myself and Ms. Ekine:

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lara Johnstone &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://farmer-greean.blogspot.com/2008/09/secret-team-cia-allies-in-control-of-us.html&quot;&gt;The Secret Team: The CIA &amp; Allies in Control of US &amp; World, by USAF Col. Fletcher L. Prouty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not sure if anyone here is interested in this conversation, but since it refers to this &#8216;Community Organizer&#8217; blog and issues related hereto, I&#8217;m posting it as a matter of transparency and disclosure; for anyone whose interested in some radical honesty conversation, or not. </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>The toxic passive aggressive sycophantic hypocrisy of black (on black) racism by liberal progressive ‘Africanist community organizer’ black activists. </p>
<p>“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”<br />
~ Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin ~</p>
<p>Blacklooks is a blog started by Sokari Ekine “primarily focusing on anything to do with African women – a very broad term for a whole continent” addressing human rights issues, ‘challenging stereotypes and discussing gender, sexuality and racism and how these are constructed and manipulated by culture.’</p>
<p>According to Ms. Ekine, these “are areas that can make people feel uncomfortable because they reach to our core, revealing the hidden truths deep within ourselves, because talking about racism, ethnicity and sexuality can be threatening, because they require people to consider the possibility that they may have racist or homophobic feelings and attitudes.”</p>
<p>Furthermore Ms. Ekine views the world as moving further and further to the right, and she wants to write from a radical and progressive standpoint challenging not only the right but also the liberal community. Black Looks contributors are ‘all progressive Africanists and activists with a strong belief in the power of the pen to bring about change.’</p>
<p>With this in mind Ms. Ekine wrote a blog tagged ‘Assault on Dissent’, I am a Community Organizer, as part of Slant Truth and the Obama Democratic ‘I am a Community Organizer’ bloggers in support of ‘the great work community organizers do.’</p>
<p>Briefly, Ms. Ekine&#8217;s blog focused on the vigils that have been held at various Brazilian Embassies calling for the safe return of the abducted Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, and protesting Brazil’s failure to lead the UN Stabilization for Haiti mission (MINUSTAH). Ms. Ekine concluded with a quote from the Black British poet Benjamin Zephaniah criticising the UN, for his recent loss of faith in it’s work, and urging all caring people to shout Lovinsky’s name out loud at every opportunity.</p>
<p>I had originally visited Black Looks, following an eco-food blog post, Biofuels take over farmland, which documented how multinationals were rushing in to invest in Eastern and Southern Africa&#8217;s farmland, to produce biofuels. Local farming communities are being promised jobs, schools etc., and the realities with virtual certainty shall be far different, considering geopolitical population policy issues in light of peak oil and peak food and consequent fall in food production issues, which necessitates an urgent need for either a serious reduction in birthrates, or in the absence thereof, a serious increase in death rates.</p>
<p>Accordingly I responded with:</p>
<p>All part of the Committee of 300 plan Sokari:</p>
<p>“At least 4 billion “useless eaters” shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation.”</p>
<p>As Henry Kissinger said: ‘If you control the oil you control the country; if you control the food, you control the population.’</p>
<p>By the time the ‘useless eaters’ wake up — it will probably be too late. </p>
<p>Subsequent to posting my response, I noticed the ‘I am a Community Organizer’ post, and went to have a look. In response thereto, I posted:</p>
<p>Sad.</p>
<p>Benjamin Zephaniah unfortunately either won’t go to the heart of the matter; and speak up on root cause issues; or he has yet to confront his denial. Many ‘community organizers’ are yet to face these realities. Perhaps they shall one day wake up, and listen to those who have been where they are now, and if so, real change can occur.</p>
<p>What is real change? FTW said it best:</p>
<p>“From FTW’s perspective, as we have said so consistently, until we change the way money works, solutions to Peak Oil, food shortages, collapse and sustainability remain unreachable from a national or cultural level because it is simply more profitable to let people die and accelerate collapse through excessive consumption than it is to behave like a species that wishes to survive.</p>
<p>Like most who decide that something is really wrong and said, “I’m going to do something about this”, Aaron Russo has pulled one worm out of the can and is slowly realizing, even now, that with one worm, you get all the rest of its cousins, aunts, nieces, nephews and parents.”</p>
<p>Die-off is here, like a frog in a warm bowl of water, and it’s slowly being heated up, and by the time most wake up, they will be ready for the blood sucking parasites.</p>
<p>JMCSwans last blog post..Gladio (&#8220;The Sword&#8221;), by Allan Francovich, BBC Timewatch</p>
<p>And subsequently the following exchange of comments occurred between myself and Ms. Ekine:</p>
<p><abbr><em>Lara Johnstone &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://farmer-greean.blogspot.com/2008/09/secret-team-cia-allies-in-control-of-us.html">The Secret Team: The CIA &amp; Allies in Control of US &amp; World, by USAF Col. Fletcher L. Prouty</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: CityzenJane</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2636</link>
		<dc:creator>CityzenJane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Full link

http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/jesus-community-organizer-gop-hits-the-wall/

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;CityzenJane &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/karl-rove-election-rigger-time-to-prosecute/&quot;&gt;Karl Rove - Election Rigger - Time to Prosecute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Full link</p>
<p><a href="http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/jesus-community-organizer-gop-hits-the-wall/" >http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/jesus-community-organizer- gop-hits-the-wall/</a></p>
<p><abbr><em>CityzenJane &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/karl-rove-election-rigger-time-to-prosecute/">Karl Rove &#8211; Election Rigger &#8211; Time to Prosecute</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: CityzenJane</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2635</link>
		<dc:creator>CityzenJane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a post that is a collection of video responses to the attacks on my site called
Jesus=Community organizer, GOP hit the Wall which features the best Youtube responses as well as videos featuring my favorite projects.

If you have videos of your efforts on Youtube let me know and I will post another list!

Thanks for this site!

If you hear the dogs...keep going!

CZJ

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;CityzenJane &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/karl-rove-election-rigger-time-to-prosecute/&quot;&gt;Karl Rove - Election Rigger - Time to Prosecute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a post that is a collection of video responses to the attacks on my site called<br />
Jesus=Community organizer, GOP hit the Wall which features the best Youtube responses as well as videos featuring my favorite projects.</p>
<p>If you have videos of your efforts on Youtube let me know and I will post another list!</p>
<p>Thanks for this site!</p>
<p>If you hear the dogs&#8230;keep going!</p>
<p>CZJ</p>
<p><abbr><em>CityzenJane &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://cityzenjane.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/karl-rove-election-rigger-time-to-prosecute/">Karl Rove &#8211; Election Rigger &#8211; Time to Prosecute</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: prof bw</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2632</link>
		<dc:creator>prof bw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Kevin. These are my two new pieces:

announcement &quot;Serious Political Work&quot;: http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/serious-political-work/

&quot;Community Organizers: a Small Town Girl and a Powerful Political Presence&quot;:

http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/community-organizers-a-smalltown-girl-and-a-powerful-political-presence/

My initial response to Palin from a week ago is here:

http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/community-organizers/

thanks for getting the word out about the blog day!!!

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;prof bw &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/community-organizers-a-smalltown-girl-and-a-powerful-political-presence/&quot;&gt;Community Organizers: A Small Town Girl and a Powerful Political Presence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Kevin. These are my two new pieces:</p>
<p>announcement &#8220;Serious Political Work&#8221;: <a href="http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/serious-political-work/" >http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/serious-political-work/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Community Organizers: a Small Town Girl and a Powerful Political Presence&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/community-organizers-a-smalltown-girl-and-a-powerful-political-presence/" >http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/community-organizers-a-smalltow n-girl-and-a-powerful-political-presence/</a></p>
<p>My initial response to Palin from a week ago is here:</p>
<p><a href="http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/community-organizers/" >http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/community-organizers/</a></p>
<p>thanks for getting the word out about the blog day!!!</p>
<p><abbr><em>prof bw &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://profbw.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/community-organizers-a-smalltown-girl-and-a-powerful-political-presence/">Community Organizers: A Small Town Girl and a Powerful Political Presence</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: Black Looks</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2631</link>
		<dc:creator>Black Looks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Organising within my multiple communities&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Organising within my multiple communities&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: sokari</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2629</link>
		<dc:creator>sokari</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just seen this but will post a short short piece

Peace and love

sokari

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;sokari &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blacklooks/mUCi/~3/385703301/make_amends_now_or_fall.html&quot;&gt;Make amends now or fall!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just seen this but will post a short short piece</p>
<p>Peace and love</p>
<p>sokari</p>
<p><abbr><em>sokari &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blacklooks/mUCi/~3/385703301/make_amends_now_or_fall.html">Make amends now or fall!</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: Something Within &#187; I&#8217;m A Community Organizer, and I Bet Your Are Too</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2626</link>
		<dc:creator>Something Within &#187; I&#8217;m A Community Organizer, and I Bet Your Are Too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] join progressive bloggers today in honoring the great work that community organizers do and in saying that, contra Sarah [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] join progressive bloggers today in honoring the great work that community organizers do and in saying that, contra Sarah [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Labor Rights</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2623</link>
		<dc:creator>Labor Rights</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for organizing this!

There is a post on the recent attacks on community organizing at the &quot;Labor is not a commodity&quot; blog here: http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2008/09/attacking-organ.html

This blog is a collaboration of several labor rights organizations: International Labor Rights Forum, STITCH, SweatFree Communities and US LEAP.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for organizing this!</p>
<p>There is a post on the recent attacks on community organizing at the &#8220;Labor is not a commodity&#8221; blog here: <a href="http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2008/09/attacking-organ.html" >http://laborrightsblog.typepad.com/international_labor_right/2008/09/a ttacking-organ.html</a></p>
<p>This blog is a collaboration of several labor rights organizations: International Labor Rights Forum, STITCH, SweatFree Communities and US LEAP.</p>
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		<title>By: Jessica Gottlieb</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2621</link>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Gottlieb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s my post

http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/08/i-am-a-community-organizer-i-am-a-mom/

Sent you lots of link love. Hoping for lots of visits.

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica Gottlieb &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://jessicagottlieb.com/2008/09/07/overheard-at-dinner/&quot;&gt;Overheard at Dinner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s my post</p>
<p><a href="http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/08/i-am-a-community-organizer-i-am-a-mom/" >http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/09/08/i-am-a-community-organizer-i-am- a-mom/</a></p>
<p>Sent you lots of link love. Hoping for lots of visits.</p>
<p><abbr><em>Jessica Gottlieb &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://jessicagottlieb.com/2008/09/07/overheard-at-dinner/">Overheard at Dinner</a></em></abbr></p>
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		<title>By: frau sally benz</title>
		<link>http://slanttruth.com/2008/09/07/i-am-a-community-organizer/comment-page-1/#comment-2618</link>
		<dc:creator>frau sally benz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I &lt;a href=&quot;http://takeajump.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-community-organizers-should-be.html&quot;&gt;posted about community organizers last week&lt;/a&gt; after all of the RNC crap pissed me off. Hopefully I will have some time to write another post today, but I did encourage everyone today to take part in this. =)

&lt;abbr&gt;&lt;em&gt;frau sally benz &#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&quot;http://takeajump.blogspot.com/2008/09/calling-all-community-organizers.html&quot;&gt;Calling All Community Organizers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I <a href="http://takeajump.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-community-organizers-should-be.html">posted about community organizers last week</a> after all of the RNC crap pissed me off. Hopefully I will have some time to write another post today, but I did encourage everyone today to take part in this. =)</p>
<p><abbr><em>frau sally benz &#8217;s last blog post..<a href="http://takeajump.blogspot.com/2008/09/calling-all-community-organizers.html">Calling All Community Organizers</a></em></abbr></p>
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