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PRESS RELEASE:

People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources

October 26, 2005

Mr. Ashton Cumberbatch, Jr.,
Police Monitor – City of Austin
301 W. Second Street
Austin, TX 78701

RE: Reschedule Daniel Rocha Public Hearing

Dear Mr. Cumberbatch:

PODER staff, board members and volunteers are asking that you
reschedule the Citizen Review Panel hearing on the fatal shooting of
18-year-old Daniel Rocha from Halloween night to another night.

We are upset, mad and disappointed that you would try to get the
general public out on a night that most families are involved in
communities activities for children. We are also upset that you want us
to fight the Halloween traffic that occurs in the downtown area each
year around Halloween. This shooting happened in East Austin and you
could have had the public hearing in numerous places in East Austin and
not on Halloween night!

The Texas Coalition Advocating Justice for Juveniles (TCAJJ)
rescheduled their Round Table discussion at Austin Community Campus on
Webberville Road because we were told that the Public Hearing for
Daniel Rocha was going to be taking place on Wednesday, October 26,
2005.

Do you want public input? You know that having a Public Hearing on
Halloween night is an insult to the community? Well it is!! We demand
that you change the date.

Respectfully,

Susana Almanza
PODER

Erika Gonzalez
PODER

Janie Rangel
TANK Assoc.

Tommy & Bertha Williams
Stuart Circle Assoc.

Marie Govea

Calmar Cove Assoc.

Danel Llanes
Red Bluff Assoc

Corazon Renteria
Larch Terrace Assoc.

Xc: Mayor Wynn & City Council Members,
Toby Futrell-City Manager,
Rep. Eddie Rodriguez,
Senator Barrientos,
NAACP-Nelson Linder,
LULAC,
ACLU,
Action Group

PODER
P.O. Box 6237

Austin, Texas 78762-6237
Email: poder@austin.rr. com

website: http://www.poder-texas.org

From the Supreme Court ruling (p. 103):

Neither the structure nor the operation of the funding system
prevents it from efficiently accomplishing a general diffusion of
knowledge. The State may discharge its duty to make suitable provision
for free public schools through school districts by relying on local
tax revenues, even as heavily as it now does. Such reliance, especially
given the multitude and diversity of school districts, inevitably makes
it difficult to achieve efficiency because of the vast disparities in
local property wealth, but efficiency is not impossible. We have
suggested that these difficulties might be avoided by fundamental
changes in the structure of the system, but the possibility of
improvement does not render the present system unsuitable for
adequately and efficiently providing a public education. Accordingly,
we conclude that the system does not violate the constitutional
requirement of suitability.

December 25, 2005

Dear Friends:

On behalf of Ramsey – "Tezcatlipoca" Irma "Citlalmina"
and our families, we thank you for the love and support that
you have given us. Know that I will travel to
Springfield, Missouri again to be with my husband from
December 29 through January 1.

We also thank you for bringing forth the spiritual/cultural
movement of the 21st century. This movement is one that
pertains to the masses of our people and is to be taken
seriously. Life is serious, and as you well know I have
learned the significance of this. Below is Ramsey’s message.
I know that these words are for his people whom he loves.
He states the following:

"The pain that I feel for my people is so great and I’m unable
to cry as a Mexicano. I would like to cry, but I have no more tears.

We must take the time and thank God for giving us life once more. I’m
convinced now that He has a mission not only for us, but for those
around us. Citlalmina, I cannot find the words to share with you that
my heart, my love, my spirituality is like never before in my life.
Every night it is a new vision and/or dream that He brings to my life
for me to share with you and those close to our hearts.

He has shared with me that one day soon we will be totally free
from the chains and shackles of the oppressor. He took my life and gave
it back to us. Now it is our destiny to bring life, love, liberation,
and justice in the same way that our beloved brother, Jesus did on this
day of His birth."

Amor,
Tezcatlipoca

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www.freeramsey.com

Email from Irma Muniz (Dec. 21, 2005)

By Greg Moses

Whip lashed by serial collisions of imperial power, dissident movements
in the USA brace for the next shocking thing. We have been hijacked
into a crashing invasion of Iraq, slammed around by evasive maneuvers
in New Orleans, and now along the borderlands of the Southwest USA,
signs warn that a highway of accommodation is about to end, dumping us
head-on into deserts of aggression upon Latin American peoples.

Into each new crisis, empire roars forward, pumping high
octane into its five-piston engine. Whether stirring borderland
provocations at home, fighting wars of aggression abroad, or exploiting
crises of colonized communities anywhere, the five pistons of empire
always work the same. Full article posted at Peacefile