Category: Uncategorized

People Organized in Defense of Earth and her Resources

Department of Justice Requested to Investigate Civil Rights Violations

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 marks the fifth (5th) month anniversary of the shooting of Daniel Rocha, an 18 year-old Mexican American youth that was shot in the back and killed by Police Officer Julie Schroeder on June 9, 2005.

PODER will hold a Press Conference on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 10:00 am at the Austin Police Department (intersection of 8th & IH 35) to announce their Civil Rights Complaint under Title VI against the City of Austin and the Austin Police Department. PODER is seeking the withholding of federal monies to the City of Austin and its police department for its historical pattern of excessive force, unnecessary deaths, and abuse of search powers against people of color.

President John F. Kennedy, in his message calling for the enactment of Title VI, 1963 stated, "Simple justice requires that public funds, to which all taxpayers of all races contribute, not be spent in any fashion which encourages, entrenches, subsidizes, or results in racial discrimination."

"We have no choice but to invoke our rights under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to stop the racial discrimination by police acting above the law. Whether by abusing people of color or shooting them to death", stated Max Rangel.

"Since the arrival of Chief Stan Knee in 1997, there have been fourteen deaths by police officers. Only one individual was Anglo the rest were all Latinos and/or African Americans. At a time when police officers have mace, tasar guns and rubber bullets at their disposal, they have chosen to use lethal force. This shows a pattern of racial discrimination", stated Susana Almanza.

www.poder-texas.org

Letters from the Editor of the Texas Civil Rights Review

The Jan. 9 statement that announced the revocation of “legacy” considerations in the admissions process, said, “not one student of the more than 10,000 who were admitted was admitted solely on the basis of legacy.”

If legacy has long been an admissions criterion and nobody has ever been admitted “solely” on its basis, then what about race? Wouldn’t it also be true that during the long years of considering race as an admissions factor, nobody was every admitted “solely” on the basis of race?

(more…)

Gates: Expects Flood of Emails as Mays Fails to Return Calls

Gates said he was prepared for a flood of e-mails on the subject and that he hopes most Aggies see this as the “next logical step” in a new approach to picking the A&M student body.

“My guess is that a lot of former students don’t really appreciate how little impact legacy has had on the process in the real world,” he said. “If the reality is that legacy helped 300 get in, the perception of some Aggies is probably that it’s 3,000.”

(more…)

Civil Rights does not mean equal opportunity, it means equal results. We do not even have equal opportunity in many situations (education, job income, etc.) and even if we did, IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH. It is time to take back from the white man what he has taken from us for so long. Affirmative action is a first step, but we must go further. We MUST require quotas for corporate America and educational institutions to ensure we get what we deserve and are entitled to. Texas A&M should be stripped of all state funds until it establishes an affirmative action policy, and if black students don’t exceed the percentage of the general populace within 4 years, funds should be revoked PERMANENTLY. First steps to freedom! [tsmith5001@yahoo.com 1/9/2004]