THE RASTAFARI COLLECTIVE--AUGUST ARCHIVES

THE MONTH OF

THE RT. HON. MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY

FREE AFRICA

FREE THE WORLD!!!

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THE PROBLEM OF TODAY

"We believe in human justice and in human rights.  We can only prosper and live peacefully when we give to the other fellow what is his, and expect him to give what is ours.  Now, let us come to a common sense expression of this American problem.  We are in troubled waters.  Later on, somebody is going to drown, somebody is going under.  There was a calm, and there is a storm coming on.    If the storm does not stop immediately, somebody is going overboard and be drowned.  We are in troubled waters.  What do I mean?  We in America have evolved into a new state, a new mental state.  Here we have fifteen million people, the product of four million slaves of sixty years ago, people who could not decipher their own names, who could not conjugate a verb, who knew nothing of the science of the language they spoke; who had no outlook on life; who were mainly satisfied to be serfs and peons and slaves, believing that to be their fixed position in life by the dispensation of the Great God who created them.  Here we are, an improvement on such people, and such thoughts.  We are now higher in culture and in civilization, in education, we are capable of holding our own against all comers.  It is a fixed law that you cannot educate a man and keep him down.  If I am ignorant I will be satisfied to go around probably half-cald, living in a log cabin and sleeping on a rough bed or walking for ten or fifteen miles to perform my daily task; but after you have educated me and brought me within reach of culture and civilization, I must have good clothes and board; I must live in good surroundings; my home must be comfortable, my furniture good, and if I have to go to my employment fifteen miles away I should be able to take the street car to go there or drive in my automobile.  That is what education has done for me; and I look around and see the other fellow has not more education than I have, and I see him becoming President.  Therefore, I ask why should I not be President also.  That is what education has done for me, and for the fifteen million of our race today.

Brothers, we are in troubled waters; we are in the fixed mood and mind, to demand justice, because we are educated to the appreciation of democracy, liberty and equality in all things.  Now, this education of ours cannot be destroyed.  To do so you would have to destroy the entire Negro race, because the mind is the thing that fixes a man's outlook.  To destroy that outlook, you have to destroy the man."

-Excerpt from "Speech by Marcus Garvey"

Washington, DC...January 15, 1924

HAIL THE PROPHET JOHN MARCUS GARVEY, WHO TAUGHT INI ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY

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UNGRATEFUL "HEROES"?

"ANGRY COPS TALKING 9/11 STRIKE OVER PAY

By LARRY CELONA

N.Y. Post...August 8, 2002 -- City cops are talking about walking off the job on Sept. 11, angry that their pay raises may only equal those recently given other city workers.

Officers told The Post they know it's illegal for them to strike - but they say the 5 percent annual raises arbitrators are said to be proposing in a new two-year contract are too small.

Also proposed is that cops work an additional 10 shifts a year.

"On Sept. 11, we were heroes - and today we are just civil servants," a Manhattan officer said.

"With one hand they pat us on the back," said a Brooklyn North cop. "And with the other they pick our pocket."

"The city has let us down," said an officer from Queens. "We worked for eight years to turn this place around, and they never rewarded us.

"We don't want to get rich. We just want to pay our bills."

Because a police strike would be illegal, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association officials wouldn't even discuss the issue.

And a gag order prevents the union and the city from discussing the contract talks.

Sources close to the negotiations say the state Public Employment Relations Board's expected recommendation of a 5 percent raise in each of the two years of the new contract is in line with what the city first offered.

The PBA sought arbitration from the board as talks dragged on.

The arbitrators' ruling will be binding.

Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the city doesn't have the money to grant cops the raises they want.

"I don't think anybody should make the mistake that we have extra money in this city to pay as much as we would like," Bloomberg said.

"I think it's not just true of the police. It's true of the Fire Department. It's true of the teachers. It's true of every municipal worker I've had the pleasure of working with."

Bloomberg spokesman Ed Skyler and a spokesman for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly both declined to comment on the possibility of a cop walkout.

Police officers have been without a contract since June 2000.

When negotiations for a new two-year contract began, the PBA hoped for a raises of 39 percent over two years that would put New York police pay at parity with officers in Newark.

But City Hall never offered near that much - so the PBA sought state arbitration, which it hoped would result in a better deal.

Pay for New York police officers now starts at about $31,000 annually and grows to $50,000 after five years."

Institutions that seek one day veneration can become the most reviled.  Are the revered heroes now seen as ungrateful Americans?  We, who have had the unfortunate dealings with the law, only smile at the rumor of dissension.  Will the public stand for such unpatriotic behavior of officers of the law, whose duties include the "heroic" actions of 9/11?, for they surely are not punished when they act outside of the law.   

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It's Still the Economy, Stupid!

The present day economical situation globally is withering away at the same rate of speed in which it came.  The shift of economical power is being given a great push by the corporate fraud phenomena.  Being that most of the world wants to use the capitalistic standard, they are witnessing the colossal downside.  Again, this international corporate robbery of the hard working have-nots and those who are not even reflected in the destruction is equal to a biblical catastrophe.  Countries who have never profited from any economical boom, have grown even angrier to only now awake to the idea, their labor is in vain.  Self-help persons who collectively build a self-help community stand the greatest chance of survival.  Maybe now the world will see that existing in a rich country does not guarantee prosperity and accepting to dwell in poverty is ignorance.  For the common man who is still incarcerated with more time for the least of crime, watches man commit the greatest crime and live in freeness.  So when the children ask, "Why do they hate us so much?", your guess will be as good as mine.  

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