Solidarity with Rev. Pinkney and the 99%

The Rev. Pinkney Blogtalk Show looks and sounds like America! This nation must work the lumps out of its melting pot to make liberty and justice for all a reality. Find out about this dynamic mission in this article and twenty-one(21) links herein. On the February 5 show, guests were black, white, and Latino people who share a zeal for justice. LISTEN at this link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rev-pinkney/2012/02/05/pinkney-to-pinkney -  We recognize that only through UNITY in ACTION will We the People be victorious over corporate greed and government misdeeds that put America out of work and foster mass incarceration with concentration camps planned to be filled with people under NDAA, the new indefinite detention bill that allows victims no opportunity of trial.* Benton Harbor is blessed to have Rev. Pinkney as president of its NAACP and director of B.H. BANCO organization. He gives voice to the voiceless and works dutifully to advance democracy.
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Support H.R.3785, a bill to REPEAL NDAA's indefinite detention Section 1027. Write your representatives about that and other concerns at this link: http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Rev. Pinkney's advocacy built the NAACP in Benton Harbor, Michigan, but he is now under attack BY the NAACP.  Pinkney needs our help fighting to keep his NAACP position. There is apparently a program underway to oust Rev. Pinkney and perhaps install someone with less dedication to promoting justice in his stead. Let's make some noise for Rev. Pinkney, who continually fights for the 99% of all races throughout America. Please email your support for Rev. Pinkney to naacp.michigan@gmail.com and to nscott@naacpnet.org and to   jreide@naacpnet.org . You and I do not live in Benton Harbor to actually vote for Rev. Pinkney during its NAACP election, but our emails to NAACP officials will cast our votes for this champion for freedom after the order of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"We cannot run society for the privileged and allow a significant proportion of the population to be marginalized. It impacts the quality of life for all of us. If we have throwaway people, a justice system which tolerates injustice is doomed to collapse. I am truly ready for action. Call or write me anytime about anything! Phone 269-925-0001 banco9342@sbcglobal.net ." Do you have your minister's personal phone number and email address? Does your minister address foreclosures, job losses, systemic racism, and other injustices like renowned human rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. did? Please support the People's Pastor, Reverend Edward Pinkney. Help him to help more people. send contributions to Reverend Pinkney at 1940 Union St., Benton Harbor, MI 49022.

In addition, I urge everyone to go to the B.H. BANCO website at this link http://bhbanco.blogspot.com/ . Stay abreast of what is happening in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the first city in America where democracy has been set aside in order for a corporation to rule. All the city officials were essentially fired last year, and Michigan's governor set a city manager over The People in that city. Benton Harbor residents now have taxation without representation. The excuse was that Benton Harbor had a budget shortfall in the approximate amount of a bailout that state officials made to Whirlpool Corporation. 

Hundreds more city managers are being trained, perhaps one for your town. FIRST, they come for the disenfranchised and minority areas, but if Americans allow this atrocious takeover in Benton Harbor to go unchallenged, Such encroachments on Liberty will be your personal problem soon. RECOGNIZE that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere (MLK). Benton Harbor's fight against corporate dominance is your fight. Please support The People's Pastor by sending emails to the NAACP and by making financial donations to BANCO organization at 1940 Union St., Benton Harbor, MI 49022. Rev. Pinkney's mission is to uphold JUSTICE in America for the poor and working class of every race in Michigan and throughout the country. Let us STAND with him and for him as he stands for us. Please support Rev. Pinkney by sending emails to the NAACP and financial contributions to BANCO that will enable Rev. Pinkney to help more of The People who call on him for help daily, including families of missing and murdered people, the wrongly convicted, teachers who are treated unfairly by the school system, workers who are being replaced by shipping jobs overseas and behind prison walls, and activists like myself who advocate for human rights for prisoners and all Americans. We appreciate your solidarity against oppression.

"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. . . Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all." ~ Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1986
 

Is the NAACP Attempting to Oust Rev. Pinkney?

After fighting for the right to vote for over 100 years, is the NAACP now ready to disenfranchise Benton Harbor members?

Last August 22, 2011 MI NAACP president Yvonne White asked Rev. Pinkney for the Benton Harbor chapter's 2010 "Branch Election" report. He emailed it to her that same day and received this email reply:

Rev. Edward Pinkney,
Your Officer's Report has been received and will be filed at the state office. Thank you!
Juanita Taylor, Secretary, MI State Conference NAACP

Now, five months later, Yvonne White has emailed Pinkney stating that the MI NAACP will come to BH on Feb. 25, 2012 to hold elections. Rev. Pinkney was elected branch president by wide margins in both 2009 and just five months ago, August 13, 2011.White says this coming election will be forced on the BH branch because the report Pinkney sent last August, which sec'y Juanita Taylor accepted, was not signed (how does one sign an email?), and a 2010 election was not held by the branch. According to White, the BH branch is no longer in "Good Standing."

Rev. Pinkney says there are two untruths in White's most recent email: She claims it had been explained to the BH membership that the 2009 election was only good until 2010, and that the state NAACP "attempted to work with the Branch to schedule that election. However, for various reasons this never took place." Pinkney says these things never happened.

White also stated: "It is also my understanding that the Branch has not met in more than six months and there are no current Executive Committee members." It would be almost no effort for her to discover that BH NAACP has a slate of officers and meets every single month.

Do Benton Harbor NAACP members have to fight the organization that supposedly stands for free and fair elections for all? Why should the August 13, 2011 election be tossed out? Is this really about silencing Pinkney? It certainly wouldn't be the first time! It's extremely distressing to see an organization such as the NAACP act like Emergency Manager Joe Harris, who already disenfranchised all Benton Harbor voters! Is the NAACP the new Emergency Manager?

(For the record, the BH chapter is called Twin City Area Branch NAACP #3155.)

MESSAGE FROM REV. PINKNEY:

Spread the word! Marcus Robinson liaison for Cornerstone Alliance and Whirlpool is illegally attempting to take over the NAACP!

Marcus Robinson have been communiciating with President Yvonne White and Vice-President James Gill plotting to take over the Benton Harbor Branch. Marcus Robinson then met with Rev James Atterberry his job is to get over the Churches to be against Rev Pinkney. Then he met with Jett, a sell out!  We value our vote! TELL THE NAACP! Send emails to  naacp.michigan@gmail.com and nscott@naacpnet.org and jreide@naacpnet.org . 

My MaryLovesJustice Facebook announcement for the Rev. Pinkney Blogtalk Show posted on February 5, 2012, is below (edited):

Rev.Pinkney Show is on Blogtalk NOW, Sun. 5-6pm (347)994-3644 Our taped shows are online at http://t.co/UNpfYWY - Benton Harbor, Mich. is America's first city officially taken over by a corporation. All elected officials were ousted by the governor! Democracy is dead there. Hundreds more city managers are being trained to replace government by The People throughout the USA. Tune in every Sunday for updates as The People fight back. Mass murder is happening in Benton Harbor. People are going missing, and police refuse to drag the lake. We also discuss NDAA, Internet censorship, mass incarceration, racism, and the need for the 99% of every race to UNITE for liberty and justice for all. Esteban Garcia [founder/director of the TX and MO Writ Writers Association at this link - http://www.missouriwritwriters.com/ ], author of "U.S. Jailhouse Lawyers Manual" is to be a guest today, along with Benton Harbor's former mayor. Interesting guests join the convesation every week. Co-host is Ralph Poynter, a political activist and retired New York teacher and union organizer, Poynter is husband of political prisoner and former NY attorney Lynne Stewart - http://LynneStewart.org/ . Libby gives weekly reports regarding attacks on liberty in Benton Harbor every week. I am "America's Most Censored, Mary Neal" http://MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com/ - Rev. Pinkney is director of BANCO org. and president of Benton Harbor's NAACP. I hope NAACP is not trying to oust Rev. Pinkney because he refuses to censor my advocacy for HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS. He affords me the opportunity to share information about the direction of America every Sunday.

SUPPORT LEADERS WHO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE

“The thrust [of the county courthouse] is to physically remove and destroy families through the use of the criminal justice system. Every person they can put in jail; every person whose voting rights they can revoke with a felony conviction; every person they can cause to lose their job by putting them on probation; every person they can cause to lose the ability to pay for basic necessities through imposing ruinous court costs and probation is all part of the process. In the 1960s, it was called Negro removal. In Bosnia, it was called ethnic cleansing. It could be called genocide, the removal of the minority population for the purpose of redevelopment of the land. That’s what’s happening in Benton Harbor, and the foremost leader of the resistance is Rev. Edward Pinkney.” -Atty. Hugh "Buck" Davis

Blessings from Mary Neal, director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) at http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi - Visit my blogs for more information on the subjects I discuss on the Rev. Pinkney show on Sundays at FreeSpeakBlog http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ and at MaryLovesJustice blog http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/ . Read about my struggle to advocate for 1.25 million mentally ill inmates and to conduct my family's justice quest regarding my lynched disabled brother, Larry Neal, at Justice Gagged blog http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/ - It is time for all good men to unite and peacefully resist oppression. Do not be like 1940s Germans and wait until fascism has conquered liberty in the USA. Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address:  MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com - I am censored, but some emails reach my box Try to email me. My phone is usually prohibited from receiving calls by the SS, but you can try to call me at 678.531.0262 Around 1,600 people were able to break through the Iron Curtain and follow me at Twitter where I am @koffietime - http://twitter.com/koffietime - Stalkers deleted around 500 of my followers over time. They mostly delete African Americans, media, public figures, and people or orgs with huge lists of followers. They are afraid such persons will RT my tweets and expose my advocacy and circumstances. PEACE.