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You may have seen the recent, misleading stories about property owned by our executive director, Patrisse Cullors. The news coverage and social media posts contain falsehoods and disinformation generated and hyped up by right-wing zealots at the National Legal and Policy Center. Our attorneys have sent Cease & Desist letters to NLPC to demand they correct the record and stop their destructive crusade.
To set the record straight, as volunteer Executive Director, Patrisse Cullors does not receive a salary or benefits from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
She has received a total of $120,000 since the organization's inception in 2013, for duties such as serving as spokesperson and engaging in political education work. Patrisse did not receive any compensation from the organization after 2019.
As a registered 501c3 non-profit organization, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation cannot and did not commit any organizational resources toward the purchase of personal property by any employee or volunteer. Any insinuation or assertion to the contrary is categorically false.
To be clear, this is an orchestrated campaign by NLPC and is a direct attack on our movement. They feel threatened by our work to end police violence and white supremacy and will do anything to create division and undermine us as an organization and the larger movement.
We want to make sure our supporters are aware of this and correct any lies or misconceptions you may have read.
We will keep you updated and appreciate your continued support.
In love and solidarity,
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation
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BLM Threatens Legal Action Against One Of Their Own Activists After Call For Probe Into
Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 - 12:10 PM
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,
The National Black Lives Matter organisation is threatening legal action against one of its own activists after he called for an independent investigation into how finances are being spent, following revelations concerning co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ property spending binge, and further money raking activities.
As we highlighted yesterday, Hawk Newsome, who heads up a Black Lives Matter group in Greater New York City, made the call for an investigation, telling the New York Post “If you go around calling yourself a socialist, you have to ask how much of her own personal money is going to charitable causes.”
Newsome said “black firms and black accountants” should conduct an audit on BLM Global Network Foundation to “find out where the money is going.”
“It’s really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement,” Newsome added.
After labelling the developments a “false and dangerous story” being pushed by “right wing forces” and “white supremacists”, it has now emerged that BLM is attempting to silence other black activists who are speaking out.
The Daily Caller sought comments from BLM, and the group claimed that Newsome “is not and has never been a part of the official Black Lives Matter organization, but continues to use BLM’s name even after sending him multiple cease and desist letters. Therefore, any mention of him as a leader is not factual.”
BLM’s communications arm further noted that “Only BLM chapters who adhere to BLM’s principles and code of ethics are permitted to use the BLM name.”
Responding to the comments, Newsome said:
“So the issue has become my affiliation and not the use of funds. Interesting.”
The Daily Caller report also notes that BLM does not own any rights to the name ‘Black Lives Matter’, that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office routinely rejects applications to trade mark the name, and that Newsome registered his own organization, Black Lives Matter Greater New York, as a business entity in December 2016.
“This movement belongs to the people,” Newsome commented, adding “It is for the people and by the people. It is the people that take to the streets and march in the name of BLM. No one has ownership of that. It is the equivalent of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. claiming ownership of the civil rights movement.”
When The Daily Caller presented these facts to the BLM spokesperson, the group began back peddling, noting “We are saying [Newsome] is not affiliated with BLM Global Network Foundation,”
“There may be individuals who include the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ in their organizational names, but they are not affiliated with BLMGNF. Does that make sense?” the spokesperson added.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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All lives matter.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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The “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually
The Federal Reserve is pursuing monetary policies that are explicitly designed to inflate asset prices. The rationalization is that ballooning asset prices will create the “wealth effect.” This is a concept Janet Yellen, when she was still president of the San Francisco Fed, propagated in a paper. In 2010, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke explained the wealth effect to the American people in a Washington Post editorial. And in early 2020, Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed the wealth effect all the way to miracle levels.
Today we will see the per-capita progress of that wealth effect – what it means and what it accomplishes – based on the Fed’s wealth distribution data through Q4 2020, and based on Census Bureau estimates for the US population over the years. Here are some key results. At the end of 2020, the per-capita wealth (assets minus debts) of:
• The Top 1% = $11.7 million per person (green);
• The next 9% = $1.6 million per person (blue);
• The 50% to 90% = $263,016 per person (red line at the bottom).
• The bottom 50% = $15,027 per person. That amount of wealth is so small it doesn’t show up on this per-capita chart that is on a scale of wealth that accommodates the Top 1%.
Changing the scale to show how the bottom half of America lives. This is an effective way to tear a country apart or in half:
More at https://wolfstreet.com/2021/04/12/i-now-track-the-most-important-measu
re-in-the-feds-vision-of-the-economy-the-wealth-effect-and-how-it-impacts-americans-individually/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yup. Easy street to wage slavery.
You can do an awful lot with very little if you're not paying any interest.
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Quote:Back in George Washington's time, voters had to own more property than 6ix does before they would be allowed to vote. In a democracy, income inequality should in theory correct itself. The poor majority should vote to tax the rich and divide the proceeds among themselves. But that’s not happening in the United States. In fact, inequality has been rising for decades. Poor voters oppose a policy of higher taxes and income transfers because they wrongly think they’ll be victims of it. Rather than expropriating the wealthy, low-income voters in several swing states helped put a billionaire in the White House who then slashed taxes on the rich.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Easy street to wage slavery.
You can do an awful lot with very little if you're not paying any interest.
What you don’t know can hurt you. In many countries — the United States included — most people simply don’t know how high inequality is or where they fall in the distribution. Nor can they say reliably how it’s been changing.
On many different surveys, answering a range of questions, the average respondent guesses right about inequality only slightly more often than chance.
Suppose that those with below average wages will favor income redistribution while those with higher wages or income oppose it. Clearly, a lot of Americans who fall below the true average think they are above it. That implies that many who would benefit from redistribution wrongly think that they would lose.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ecpo.12103
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Back in George Washington's time, voters had to own more property than 6ix does before they would be allowed to vote.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Easy street to wage slavery.
You can do an awful lot with very little if you're not paying any interest.
Nah...
https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/history-of-voting-in-america-
timeline.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_
States#1780s
Over 21... Check
White... Check
Landowner/Taxpayer... Check
Do you lie all the time on purpose, or do you just make things up when you speak?
A little of Column A, a little of Column B?
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Quote:Nazi dogwhistle. ^
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All lives matter.
It activates the low IQ racists like Nazi boy, here.
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Quote:The stupid marches on, so confident in its ignorance. ^
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Back in George Washington's time, voters had to own more property than 6ix does before they would be allowed to vote.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Easy street to wage slavery.
You can do an awful lot with very little if you're not paying any interest.
Nah...
https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/history-of-voting-in-america-
timeline.pdf
Over 21... Check
White... Check
Landowner... Check
Do you lie all the time on purpose, or do you just make things up when you speak?
A little of Column A, a little of Column B?
I'm not sure that owning the land your trailer is parked on is enough.
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:Nazi dogwhistle. ^
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All lives matter.
It activates the low IQ racists like Nazi boy, here.
Yup. Because there's something very inherently wrong with the phrase All Lives Matter.
You can actually spot insane people just by posting that and seeing similar reactions to the one above.
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