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The root of all evil is not money it's a lie.
About CBJULIAN
How the USDA corrupted the US Government!
Injustice of the US Federal Judiciary – Criminal Enterprise.
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The Goss Usurpations of Treason, Tyranny, and Despotism.
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April 19, 2020 by CBJulian De Mala Care
Civil Rights Battle Against Whitey that Ultimately Imprisoned All Americans.
Phillip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph in 1925 organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly African-American labor union. In the early Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement, he was a voice that would not be silenced. His continuous agitation with the support of fellow labor rights activists against unfair labor practices in relation to people of color eventually led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 in 1941, banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II. The group then successfully pressured President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, ending segregation in the armed services. One has to wonder if this fueled the power grab of the 1940's by the federal judiciary. See: America's Fail From Democracy to Oligarchy.
In 1954 the Brown v. Board of Education decision is regarded as having sparked the modern civil rights era when the Supreme Court rules deliberate public school segregation is illegal.
Charles Sherrod
In 1954, Charles "Sherrod first participated in sit-ins at white churches with the goal to desegregate them.[1] He was a key member and organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Civil Rights Movement. He became the first SNCC field secretary and SNCC director of southwest Georgia.[2] His leadership there led to the Albany Movement. He also participated in the Selma Voting Rights Movement and in many other arenas of the 1960s movement era.[3]
In 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man. "Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the civil rights movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in Montgomery Alabama who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.
At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality."
Jack Brooks
In 1956 Republican Congressman Jack Brooks would refuse to sign The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) a document written in February and March 1956, originally authored by Strom Thurmond and completed by Richard Russell in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. The manifesto was signed by 101 congressmen (99 Southern Democrats and two Republicans) from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Herman Talmadge
"July, 23, 1956 No Senator from the South is so well equipped or so zealous to become the head and front of a sustained fight for segregation. " as former Governor of Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge. "He is hampered by no entangling alliances. He does not have to pull his punches. He is committed exclusively to the preservation of what he would call "the Southern way of life." Any changes which Washington may bring are likely to accentuate his single-mindedness and make him the choice and master spirit of racial reactionism in the Senate. His program of Southern solidarity advanced in You and Segregation will have a sounding-board in his Senate activities." [4]
November 1960 and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon loses Presidential election to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
February 1, 1960, Lunch counter sit-in by four college students in Greensboro, N.C. begins and spreads through the South. On April 17, 1960, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded by Ella Baker
1961, The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes Freedom Rides into the South to test new interstate Commerce Commissions regulations and court orders barring segregation in interstate transportation. Riders are beaten by mobs in several places, including Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama.[5]
Charles Sherrod dropped out of college to become a full-time civil rights activists and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A supporter of racial integration, he recruited white as well as black members to assist with voter registration efforts. In 1961 he was among one of four students, along with Diane Nash, J. Charles Jones, and Ruby Doris Smith, to drop out of college to become a full-time civil rights activists and members of SNCC. When the four students arrived in Rock Hill, they almost immediately engaged in sit-ins to fight back against segregation. After only one day in Rock Hill all four of the college students were arrested because of a sit-in they participated in, at a local diner. Like many activists, the students at the time chose jail with bail in an attempt to overcrowd the jails. They were sentenced to 30 days hard labor, however, Charles Sherrod did not take bail. Charles Sherrod was one of the first to practice the "jail- no bail" strategy.[6] [7 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]
Author Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden's "introduction to virulent southern racism came in 1961 when he ventured to Albany, Georgia, first to write an article about the Deep South organizing done by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC] and, second, to become a freedom rider on a train to Albany that December.
It was then he met, and came to admire, a brave young civil rights worker named Charles Sherrod, whom everyone in the movement simply called "Sherrod." Albany was a segregated town near Plains, Georgia, and the home of Hamilton Jordan who went on to become Jimmy Carter's chief of staff. Sherrod was the kind of front-line young militant who eventually brought about the New South of Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, among others. Sherrod had to face violence, and the possibility of death, every day in his effort to mobilize young people and their parents against the suffocation of fear.
Shirley Miller Sherrod
Sherrod, and his equally committed wife Shirley, made a conscious decision to stay in rural Georgia long after the voting rights laws were passed and the national media departed. I left Albany after my two brief and harrowing experiences in 1961, and never returned until I spoke at commemoration of the Albany civil rights movement a few years ago. The Sherrods were still there. She was engaged in programs supporting rural farmers, while he had served on the city council and was a minister in a nearby state prison. There were 500 people at the event, the stalwarts of the past.
January, 1962 the Albany movement responded with an intensified boycott of city buses, and the bus company was forced out of business.
So Shirley Sherrod's life cannot be reduced by a dishonest and amoral right-wing blogger into a few seconds of videotape 25 years old. She is one of many thousands who had the force of character to face racist abuse, and seemingly immovable state power, when they were demonized and disenfranchised. They were the trees standing by the water, and they would not be moved. They tried to bring their morality to politics, not accept the politics of Machiavelli." [8]
Albany now began a new round of encounters between Negro demands and official intransigence. A few days after the bus incident, Sherrod and Charles Jones were arrested for sitting in the Trailways lunchroom. Shortly after that the City Commission turned down the Albany Movement's petition for a redress of grievances. And in March the trial of the original "Freedom Riders" arrested on December 10 began.
As Charles Sherrod entered the courtroom to attend that trial, he walked to the "white section" in the front , and was immediately knocked to the floor by Chief Deputy Sheriff Lamar Stewart, who then pulled him back to the rear of the courtroom. When Bob Zellner, Tom and Sandra Hayden, and Per Laursen sat down next to Sherrod in the "Negro section," deputies pounced on them and dragged them out of the courtroom. Judge Carl E. Crow, watching all of this, told newsmen, "The officers were enforcing a rule of the court." SNCC The Abolitionist Pg 134, 35
1962, The United Farm Workers Union, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, organizes to win bargaining power for Mexican Americans.
"James Meredith becomes the first African American student admitted to the University of Mississippi." [9]
In April 1962 there was more trouble. Dr. Anderson, Slater King, Emanuel "Bo" Jackson, and Elijah Harris, four leaders of the Albany Movement, were found guilty of "disorderly conduct" for picketing downtown as part of a general boycott of stores which did not hire Negro employees. Also, Charles Jones, Cordell Reagan, and two others were sentenced to sixty days on work gangs for refusing service. And twenty-six more people were arrested in lunch counter sit-ins.
July 1962, national attention came to Albany again when Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy, called back to stand trial for leading the parade in December, were found guilty in Recorders Court and sentenced to forty-five days. Defense Attorney Donald Hollowell asked Judge Durden for legal citations on which his decision was based. He said he didn't have any, but that it was based on "general research of the law."
With King's arrest, Washington officialdom got busy as it had never done before in the Albany crisis, and somehow, through the payment of the fine by an unidentified man, King and Abernathy were released. They had wanted to stay in jail to continue dramatizing the Albany situation, but now they reluctantly left. Abernathy told a mass meeting that night: "I've been thrown out of lots of places in my day, but never before have I been thrown out of jail."
In November 1962 a special election was held in Massachusetts to fill the Senate seat vacated by John F. Kennedy who'd become President. The seat was won by his 30 year old brother Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy. Ted Kennedy was re-elected to a 6 year term in 1964 and later re-elected seven more times.
1963 June 11, President John F. Kennedy in his Report to the American People on Civil Rights asked for legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments", as well as "greater protection for the right to vote". Kennedy delivered this speech following the immediate aftermath of the Birmingham campaign and the growing number of demonstrations and protests throughout the southern United States.
Kennedy was moved to action following the elevated racial tensions and wave of black riots in the spring of 1963. Republican Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee would help write the Civil Rights Act"
Where is Sherrod?
"Brooks was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1952, where he served for the next five decades. As a member of the influential Texas congressional delegation, Brooks became a close friend of powerful House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson during the 1950s. He was a regular member of Speaker Rayburn's "Board of Education," a close group of congressional supporters.
June 20,1963, President John F. Kennedy meets with civil rights leaders, Future Congressmen from Georgia, John Lewis, Rev Martin Luther King, Jr. Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, and A. Philip Randolph at the White House in an attempt to call off the March on Washington scheduled for August.
A. Philip Randolph was the head of the March on Washington, which was organized by Bayard Rustin, on August 28, 1963 the March on Washington took place at which Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech. In the early Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans and show support for President Kennedy's Civil Rights Act. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King would deliver his historic "I have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. The march on Washington is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act.
On November 22, 1963, Brooks rode in the motorcade carrying President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Johnson, and many members of the Texas congressional delegation through downtown Dallas. Following Kennedy's assassination, Brooks was on Air Force One for Lyndon B. Johnson's swearing-in. He then flew with the new president, Lady Bird Johnson, and Jacqueline Kennedy back to Washington, D.C. During the Johnson Administration, Brooks remained a strong supporter of President Johnson and his legislative program. Throughout Johnson's presidency, Brooks and his wife Charlotte dined with the Johnson family at the White House on a weekly basis." [10]
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox's refusal to adjust to changes following the passage on July 2, 1964 of the Civil Rights Act manifested itself when he filed a lawsuit to continue his segregationist policies. Maddox said that he would close his restaurant rather than serve African Americans. An initial group of black demonstrators came to the restaurant but did not enter when Maddox informed them that he had a large number of black employees. On July 3, 1964 day after passage of the Civil Rights Act more African Americans attempted to enter the restaurant. Maddox confronted the group with a bare pickaxe handle.[11] Maddox provides the following account of the events:
Maddox with a gun July 3, 1964
Mostly customers, with only a few employees, voluntarily removed the twelve Pickrick Drumsticks [a euphemism for pickaxe handles] from the nail kegs on each side of the large dining room fireplace. They had been forewarned by the arrival of Atlanta's news media of an impending attempted invasion of our restaurant by the racial demonstrators and once the demonstrators and agitators arrived, the customers and employees pulled the drumsticks [pickaxe handles] from the kegs and went outside to defend against the threatened invasion.12]
Photo from CNN.com Inside Politics June 25, 2003
Marker at the spot of the Pickrick at Georgia Tech
The "invasion" Maddox referred to above was three black Georgia Tech students who had asked to be seated.[13]
Maddox gained the approval of segregationists by leasing and then selling the restaurant to employees rather than agreeing to serve black customers. He claimed that the issue was not hostility to blacks, but constitutional property rights. He even built a monument to "private property rights" near the restaurant.[14]
The Civil Rights Digital Library at the University of Georgia contains the following account of the closing of his restaurant:
Maddox closed the Pickrick on August 13, and reopened the business on September 26 as the Lester Maddox Cafeteria, where he pledged to serve only "acceptable" Georgians. During a trial for contempt of court on September 29, Maddox argued against the charges because he was no longer offering service to out-of-state travelers or integrationists. On February 5, 1965 a federal court ruled that Maddox was in contempt of court for failing to obey the injunction and assigned fines of two hundred dollars a day for failing to serve African Americans. Maddox ultimately closed his restaurant on February 7, 1965, rather than integrate it; he claimed that President Lyndon Johnson and communists put him out of business.[15]
The building was purchased by Georgia Tech in 1965; it was used for many years as the placement center, and was later known as the Ajax building.[16][17] It was demolished in May, 2009.
March 15, 1965 a black farmer Hosie Miller and Baptist deacon died ten days after he was shot during a livestock dispute with Cal Hall, a white neighbor, in Newton, Georgia.
Shirley Sherrod, revealed her version of the events shortly after the controversy surrounding her resignation as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.[18][19][20] Shirley [Millers Daughter] reported that Miller, who owned 500 acres (2.0 km2) in Baker County, Georgia on which he grew corn, cotton and peanuts, would sometimes argue with Hall, whose cows would wander into her family's pasture.[21] She said that Hall confronted Miller about six or seven cows Miller claimed belonged to him.[22][23] According to Sherrod, when Miller told Hall that they could settle the matter in court, Hall shot Miller in front of three witnesses.[24][25]
The shooting occurred on the night of March 15, 1965 and, according to the death certificate, Miller died on March 25 from gunshot wounds to his chest, abdomen and liver.[26][27] Hall, who claimed he killed Miller in self-defense, was charged at least three times in connection with Miller's death and a grand jury declined to prosecute him each time.[28]
Civil rights attorney C.B. King represented the Miller family in a civil suit against Hall seeking monetary damages for lost income, medical, and funeral costs.[29] King, asserting that the jury panel was predominately white despite the 1960 census showing that the majority of the county's over 2,000 residents were black, attempted to have the Baker County Board of Jury Commissioners redraw jury lists.[30] Judge Emeritus Carl E. Crow went forward with the proceedings and on September 12, 1966, the jury found in favor of Hall.[31]
Grace Miller, Hosie Miller's wife, said she was distantly related to Hall.[32] Hall died in 1976.[33]
In 1966, Charles Sherrod left the SNCC after its recently elected chairman Stokely Carmichael expelled white members. He moved north, to New York City, where he received his master's degree in sacred theology from the Union Theological Seminary. He then returned home to direct the Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education with Shirley Sherrod. In 1969, Sherrod, his wife Shirley, and some other members of the Albany Movement helped pioneer the land trust movement in the U.S.,[34][35] co-founding New Communities, a collective farm in Southwest Georgia modeled on kibbutzim in Israel. [36]
"In 1969, New Communities received a planning grant from Office of Economic Activity OEO the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda. New Communities was encouraged to expect substantial funding for implementation, but Governor Lester Maddox would not permit further funds for the group to come into the state." [37]
President Jimmy Carter
During this period, Jimmy Carter was motivated to oppose the political climate of racial segregation and support the growing civil rights movement. He became an activist within the Democratic Party. Carter was in favor of racial tolerance and integration—at one point, the local White Citizens' Council boycotted his peanut warehouse when he refused to join them—but he often kept those feelings to himself to avoid making enemies. By 1961 he was a prominent member of the community and the Baptist Church as well as chairman of the Sumter County school board, where he began to speak more loudly in favor of school integration.[38] A state Senate seat was opened by the dissolution of Georgia's County Unit System in 1962; Carter announced his run for the seat 15 days before the election. Rosalynn, who had an instinct for politics and organization, was instrumental to his campaign. The initial results showed Carter losing, but this was the result of fraudulent voting orchestrated by Joe Hurst, the Democratic Party chairman in Quitman County, with the aid of the Quitman County sheriff.[39] Carter challenged the results; when fraud was confirmed, a new election was held, which he won.[40] The civil rights movement was well underway when Carter took office. He and his family had become staunch John F. Kennedy supporters.
In 1966 Carter ran for Governor of Georgia the result was a sharp blow to Carter, who was left deeply in debt. His attempt to rescue the race from Callaway had resulted in the unlikely election of the segregationist Lester Maddox, which he considered an even worse outcome.[41] Carter served in the Georgia State Senate, and in 1970, he was elected as Governor of Georgia, defeating former Governor Carl Sanders in the Democratic primary on an anti-segregation platform advocating affirmative action for ethnic minorities. That same year Lester Maddox would win election to Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.
From these historic accounts of history, it's known, Charles & Shirley Sherrod were founding members in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Charles spent thirty days in jail protesting a sentence for participating in a lunch counter sit-in in Rock Hill South Carolina, Tom Hayden ventured to Albany Georgia in December 1961 to become a freedom rider on a train to Albany where he met Charles Sherrod. Charles Sherrod's Freedom ride activism that December brought him to a court appearance before Judge Carl E. Crow.
In 1964 a group of black demonstrators came to the restaurant of Lester Maddox but did not enter when Maddox informed them that he had a large number of black employees. By any chance did SNCC Charles and Shirley Sherrod precipitate, or participate in the sit-in of Maddox Pickrick restaurant? Lester Maddox closed the restaurant on February 7, 1965, rather than integrate it. On March 15, 1965, a black farmer and Shirley Sherrod's father Hosie Miller a Baptist deacon died ten days after he was shot during a livestock dispute with Cal Hall, a white neighbor. Every attempt to hold Hall accountable for the murder was blocked by whites and the same judge Sherrod had faced regarding the December Albany freedom rides in which Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy had participated Judge Carl E. Crow.
In 1966, Charles & Shirley Sherrod were married and left the SNCC after its recently elected chairman Stokely Carmichael expelled white members and Jimmy Carter lost his bid for Governor to Lester Maddox. At the time John Lewis was the youngest of the "Big Six" leaders as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Had the run in at the Pickrick with Lester Maddox resulted in the murder of Shirley's father, the expelling of white members in the SNCC, Jimmy Carter's losing to Lester Maddox. Did Charles and Shirley depart to New York where he pursued a master's degree in sacred theology as a non violent response to these events?
Albany a segregated town between Plains and Newton Georgia, home of Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter, Charles an Shirley Sherrod, and Hoosie Miller respectfully. Carter a farmer in Plains Georgia and prominent member of the Baptist Church. Charles Sherrod a baptist minister first participated in sit-ins at white churches with the goal to desegregate them. Hoosie Miller Shirley's father a black farmer and baptist deacon. Jimmy Carter a baptist politician, a staunch supporter of Civil Rights, and affirmative action. Charles a baptist minister with the SNCC involved in voter registration and non violent activism. Is it likely that Charles and Shirley worked to get out the vote in support of Jimmy Carter's political efforts?
Having returned to Georgia in 1969 and after the murder of Martin Luther King did Charles and Shirley work on getting out the vote for Jimmy Carter's winning bid for Governor in 1970? Is there any question Jimmy Carter, Lester Maddox, Charles and Shirley Sherrod, Hoosie Miller, John Lewis, and the minister from Georgia Martin Luther King were all acquainted?
In 1969 did the relevant past of these events play a significant role in Lester Maddox blocking the Sherrod's funding for the development of New Communities? Do you think perhaps once Jimmy Carter became Governor he attempted to help the Sherrods? Did Maddox as Lieutenant Governor stop him?
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Federal By-elections - Fall '13/Spring '14?
ctrl190
It's unfortunate that Jen Hollett has her back against the wall. She is a very strong candidate - activist, journalist, Much VJ, Harvard MPA - but doesn't have a fighting chance against the Liberal upper crust Rosedale and Church Street machinery. Especially frustrating considering the potential vacancy in Trinity-Spadina next year.
terrytowel
Especially frustrating considering the potential vacancy in Trinity-Spadina next year.
Don't you mean in TWO years? The election is not until 2015
OnTheLeft
terrytowel wrote:
I feel sorry for George Smithermann. First losing Mayor, now this.
Why? He's a neo-liberal and a dick.
OnTheLeft wrote:
So you are happy with Ford as Mayor?
edmundoconnor
Lens Solution wrote:
edmundoconnor wrote:
I have to wonder why Freeland has chosen Toronto over Edmonton.
Because that's where the by-election is ?
Absolutely. She's being an opportunist. Although she will struggle to put it in those terms. I'd take her more seriously if she had decided to run in Alberta, and put the party before her personal ambition. She could probably have had her pick of nominations in Alberta, and slogged away for years as a good party soldier, with absolutely no recognition except from a few in the party. Who knows, she might even have improved Albertans' sewer-level opinion of Liberals. Here she's got a quick hit, and if all goes well, she's off to the Commons in less than a year. Yeesh.
Michael Moriarity
Ms. Freeland is a highly paid and highly trusted long time servant of the very oligarchs she purports to expose in her book. She hob-nobs with them at Davos. None of what she wrote seems to have bothered them enough to harm her relationship with them. It would seem to me that the only reasonable inference from these facts is that her actions are all part of the plan for continuing and increasing their strangle hold on money and power. She should be a perfect fit for Justin Trudeau's Liberals.
socialdemocrati...
I held my nose and voted for Smitherman for Mayor. He was a pathetic candidate who blew the election for Ford. He will now make tens of thousands of dollars through his political connections. Of all the people out there who have been fucked by successive Liberal and Conservative governments, you feel sorry for *him*?
ctrl190 wrote:
Rosedale maybe--but re Church Street, I think Hollett's MM background may give her more of an upper hand than you think...
So you'd be happy with the anti-worker "lesser evil" who would still [url=http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2010/03/03/george_smitherman_backs... services[/url], including the tax revenue lucrative and very affordable [url=http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/03/05/hume_privatizing_not_the_answ... Parking Authority[/url]?
Yep. Ford had a message: stop the gravy train, eliminate waste. Smitherman, seeing Ford in the lead, decided to take on the same message. He was "me too", but couched in conditionals and exceptions. It's not a surprise that he lost. Too bad he's not running in Toronto Center. It would have made for an easy NDP pick-up.
Lens Solution
Running against Smitherman would not have been easy, actually. NDP has never won the seat before, and Smitherman has strong name recognition and organization from his days in office.
He would have been connected to some of the McGuinty scandals and the baggage, yes, but it's by no means a certainty that he would have lost.
Quite the contrary... the seat is a red anomaly in a sea of orange. It was Bob Rae's credibility with the "progressive non-partisan" (would vote NDP, would vote Liberal, take it on a case-by-case basis) that allowed them to hang onto the seat. Otherwise it would have gone the way of the neighboring ridings. Smitherman is tainted by scandal, and people don't like voting for losers.
But prior to the 2011 red wipeout, most of the seats in the area were red. It's hard to know whether the 2011 red wipeout was part of a new pattern, or more to do with revulsion towards Ignatieff.
Btw, it was just reported that another candidate is running for the Liberal nomination. I'm not familiar with her, but her name is Diana Burke and it appears she is a Former RBC senior VP.
http://www.dianaburke.ca/about/
Will be interesting to see how she does against Chrystia Freeland (since that's presumably who Justin Trudeau is privately supporting).
Smitherman is the Hazel McCallion of Toronto Centre. IF he got the Liberal nomination, he wouldn't even have to campaign.
It would be a walk in the park for him to win, no campaiging necessary.
You obviously don't know the city of Toronto very well. Once they lop off Rosedale, Smitherman wouldn't stand a chance.
I don't don't know if terrytowell lives in Toronto Centre, but I do.
I was privately hoping that Smitherman would be the Liberal candidate because I regard him as very beatable. Probably his party does too which is why he was told not to run.
He is perceived as having run a very bad campaign for mayor, veering unsuccessfully to the right to outflank Rob Ford and squandering a huge lead to a fool. Many people regard him as responsible for Ford winning.
Then there is his lamentable record in the McGuinty government. He was closely connected with E-Health and Ornge. he would also have been punished for the gas plant scandal, just as the government was in the by-elections.
May I suggest to terrytowell that George would have a better chance running in Halifax.
Aristotleded24
nicky wrote:
Please don't.
The last poll done in Toronto Centre (June 2013) show the Liberals 25 points AHEAD of the NDP. There are only five points separating the NDP and Conservatives.
Nicky obviously doesn't know Toronto Centre that well, despite living in the riding.
Again with polling like that, it would be a walk in the park for any candidate carrying the Liberal banner.
I suggest George run in Halifax too! He'd be a shoe in.
janfromthebruce & nicky wrote:
Why not? Since Liberals are polling at 49% in Nova Scotia, while the NDP are barely hanging on to double digits at 12%. Even the Conservatives are ahead of the NDP in Nova Scotia, so there would be no shot on splitting the progressive vote in NS.
Terry, I suppose you can put your June 2013 polls with your August 2010 polls and have a really pleasant dream.
janfromthebruce, nicky & Aristotleded24 wrote:
I said nothing of the sort. Please retract.
PrairieDemocrat15
Of course there won't. How can the progressive vote be split when there is only one progressive party?
Linda McQuaig enters NDP race in Toronto Centre. www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/08/06/columnist_linda_mcquaig_enters_nd...
Erin Weir, former SK NDP leadership candidate, criticizes Freeland. His last sentence, especially in light of McQuaig announcing, is very interesting (hat-tip to Alice Funke):
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2013/08/02/is-chrystia-freeland-prog...
And Susan Delacourt in TorStar also seems to take a swipe at Freeland in Toronto Centre byelection tests Justin Trudeau's 'open race' vow
In June, Freeland was in Ottawa just as Bob Rae was getting ready to announce he was stepping down as MP for Toronto Centre and triggering the byelection.
Freeland, who has lived and worked in New York for the past decade, was in Canada to speak at a conference of the National Union of Public and General Employees, which was held from June 14-16. She had breakfast with Trudeau and they talked about her being a candidate for his team — Trudeau was aware that Rae was leaving, a decision the former Ontario premier announced June 19 .
"I had this sort of long-term desire to come home, and then with my book, Justin's team reached out to me," Freeland said in an interview with the Star. "Everything that they had to say about a middle-class agenda, putting that at the centre of what they want to do — and also the positive vision of politics — that really resonated with me."
George Smitherman, the former Ontario health minister and Toronto mayoralty candidate, obviously reached a different conclusion. In a tactfully worded column in the Huffington Post last week, Smitherman strongly hinted that he would be fighting Trudeau if he decided to contest the nomination against Freeland.
"Fighting with Liberals isn't my strong suit," Smitherman wrote. "First comes loyalty to the leader." He also said he wouldn't be a candidate in 2015.
Freeland grew up in Alberta and worked for two years as a senior editor at the Globe and Mail, but most of her career has been spent out of the country — leaving her open to accusations that she is a parachute candidate, or, as some critics say, the new version of former leader Michael Ignatieff.
She says, however, that she has kept her Canadian connections and indeed, in her book, Plutocrats, she thanks people such as former prime minister Paul Martin, former deputy prime minister Anne McLellan and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney for their help.
Yes Paul Martin of Canadian Shipping lines who had his ships fly under a foreign flap so his company didn't have to pay all those Canadian benefits and pensions. The same Liberal Martin who did the liberal austarity which was so right wing and in which PC Mulroney only dreamed of. Remember the same Liberals who took workers' employment insurance money to balance the liberal budget - how progressive is that?
Oh I could go on but freeland has good company for fake progressive values.
So glad that Linda McQuaig is running.
Great news! I predict Linda will win the nomination and the seat. Perfect match.
Kady O'Malley reports that Freeland has an impressive set of campaign managers in place, including current Toronto Centre MPP Glenn Murray and former Toronto Centre MP Bill Graham. Looks like she means business and has brought in the big guns. Won't be a campaign of amateurs, anyway.
I wondered why she needed all this heavy guns. Now we know. She probably heard through the grapevine about Linda McQuaig and is running scared. No one is going to like a parachute candidate, and someone who hasn't lived in the riding. She will probably get the 'just visiting' label.
This is going to be an interesting race.
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[url=http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/08/06/columnist_linda_mcquaig_en... McQuaig enters NDP race in Toronto Centre[/url]
Finally, some good news! Thanks for this, josh. [PS I fixed the link - your original one didn't work for me...]
felixr
I was excited about Susan Hollett running but Linda McQuaig seems so eloquent. Her career also makes a great contrast with Chrystia Freeland. Linda McQuaig is like Chrystia Freeland if she had lived in Canada and wasn't right-wing. Maybe there is a connection there.
Here is a list of testimonials about Linda McQuaig. Kevin O'Leary's alone is almost enough to get my suppport:
http://lindamcquaig.ca/endorsements/
Ironic that Freeland wrote a book called "Plutocrats" given that she is going to be parachuted in from abroad into a Liberal safe seat by a Trudeau. What do you call that?
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I'd call that the best news that the NDP could get!
Or if you're referring to Freeland herself, what about Iggy 2.0?
The ironies abound - to the extent that Toronto Centre is a "safe Liberal seat" at all (and that remains to be seen), its only because the plutocrats of Rosedale vote massively for Freeland's beloved Liberal party!
Policywonk
I'm don't think the Post's (as opposed to the Post columnists) testimonial was supposed to be complimentary either. She will make an very interesting candidate and MP.
You can't use that one Forum poll to predict the Toronto Centre by-election. The by-election won't be for a while yet (knowing Harper he will drag it out) and the highs of Trudeaumania may have subsided.
However, it may also be the case that the closer race in 2011 in Toronto Centre was more to do with Layton's popularity and revulsion towards Ignatieff. It's possible that now Trudeau is leader and Mulcair has replaced Layton that the NDP may not do as well as it did in the area under Layton.
Or the fact that the losers in that last ONtario byelections was the Liberals and pollsters, particular Forum. Having real names and candidates really changes those numbers.
Take for example London West byelection. It was highly considered a Liberal or Conservative romp but the NDP riding association in the area picked Peggy Sattler a well known person with integrity and many times elected as a school trustee and former chair, and my goodness she won big time.
So far the NDP has some pretty high profile candidates running in Toronto Centre, for example, well known entities and that in itself is a game changer.
So there are now 4 women running in Toronto Centre - 2 for each party.
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2013/08/meet-y...
Looks like the next MP for Toronto Centre will be a woman, whoever it is. Will that be a first for Toronto Centre? I think they've been all men so far.
Jonathan Kay: Two income-equality experts converge in Toronto-Centre: The epicentre of inequality
The O'Leary quote is delicious!
LS: They've all been men, ever since the riding was a riding. Susan Wallace is the only Labour/CCF/NDP candidate to have cracked 30%. If the NDP gets either McQuaig or Hollett (and especially McQuaig) as their candidate, and the Tories run an actual candidate, rather than a fence post, to soak up the right wing Liberal wobblers who find Freeland's ideas a bit too spicy for their money, then this race could get very interesting. Neither of the announced NDP candidates is going to have trouble attracting volunteers for the nomination and subsequent campaign, especially for a riding that the NDP would so love to get, but hasn't yet.
In the concluding chapter of The Trouble with Billionaires, McQuaig makes her policy recommendations very clear: She advocates a marginal tax rate of 60% for incomes above $300,000, and 70% for incomes above $2.5-million — plus an inheritance tax, the eradication of high-end tax-shelters, and the creation of a tax on speculative investments. That may sound radical, but it's not so different from some of the progressive policies implemented by the (economically healthy) nations of Scandinavia. The question is: Will Thomas Mulcair give her the green light to campaign openly on this sort of thing?
Jonathan Kay wrote:
The question is: Will Thomas Mulcair give her the green light to campaign openly on this sort of thing?
My definition of "good question" is, a question whose answer isn't perfectly bleeding obvious. This question is not a good question in my dictionary.
Here's a good question:
Why is it up to Thomas Mulcair? What kind of party with "democratic" in its name periodically picks a Pope who makes every single decision, large or small, accountable only to some inner circle?
Ok, that's two questions.
Yeah, that's a smart and successful policy. In Scandinavia it would also be safe and moderate. Here, it's radical, because we have a neighbor to the south that thinks tax cuts for the wealthy are good for everyone, and taxes on the wealthy are bad for everyone. I would love to see the NDP campaign on this, but they're going to need a push.
socialdemocraticmiddle wrote:
I would love to see the NDP campaign on this, but they're going to need a push.
Where and how would that "push" be applied? It's up to Mulcair and Mulcair alone, right? Letters and emails addressed to him?
Well in a constitution of the party there is responsibilities and duties which give certain authority to the leader. We don't run the party, for example by group decision making - nothing would happen.
Instead of getting on high horses here we should be excited that Linda wants to run for the NDP, and moreover, her application to be a candidate has been vetted and accepted. That would be a good indication that the NDP executive and the NDP by extension likes her economic positions.
Linda's outlined position in the book, I'ts the Crude dude is very much the position the NDP has taken and is alined progressively.
Ideally, it would be a movement. Which is easier said than done. But it's what you need for a shift this big.
The high leverage, targeted strategy is pretty limited. Even if you can persuade that small party elite that your idea is right, your champion(s) will inevitably run up against the apathy (let alone antipathy) of everyone else.
Even to get a nominal wealth tax in Ontario, it took an Occupy Wall Street sized movement, with spin offs in Canada, plus institutional support in the form of U.S. and Canadian media, not to mention a business-friendly U.S. President passing his own wealth tax. It was enough to give the Ontario NDP a spine to fight for it, and a provincial Liberal minority some cover for making that concession.
We'll need at least as much of a movement to achieve a $2.5 million tax bracket. (And this time, we'll be up against a media who says "hey, didn't we already raise taxes on a tiny wealthy population for the first time in a generation? Once is enough!")
For what it's worth, Mulcair (and many New Democrats) have come out in favor of a financial transaction tax, which is a revenue tool AND a way to cool the ridiculous speculation. But this one is always framed in the context of an international solution. So that one's going to need an international movement.
We could also just nominate and elect more New Democrats like Linda. But that will take a movement too.
There are rumours that more Tory MPs could step down and cause more byelections. In particular in Palliser, SK where the Tories beat the NDP by just 500 votes, the Tory incumbent Ray Boughen is very old and ailing and there is speculation the Tories may get him to quit now so they can defend his "rurban" seat now and get a new incumbent, as opposed to waiting until 2015 when the new map will create an NDP leaning seat out of most of the riding.
Noah Evanchuk was the NDP candidate who came so close last time and I would imagine that if there is a Palliser byelection, he would be the one to watch for the NDP.
Palliser is about to become part of several ridings. And Evanchuk would most likely be running in the newly formed Regina-Lewvan riding. Most of Palliser is turning into Moose Jaw - Lake Centre - Lanigan. Boughen may be old but he is tough and I have heard nothing about him stepping down early.


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Bad news can be good for a government's soul.
Ontario's auditor general has revealed road-building blunders, eHealth excesses, hospital horror stories, and cap and trade troubles.
Queen's Park is wasting massive amounts of public money, as governments are wont to do (See also: federal auditor general's report this week). The provincial auditor makes many sensible suggestions for reform.
But there's a more contentious tenor to this year's audit. And a sharper tone to the government's response.
Between the lines — and there are a lot of lines in a two-volume report totalling 1,063 pages — a war of words is underway. It pits auditor general Bonnie Lysyk, an officer of the legislature, against a Liberal government that now views her as a rogue officer.
It's a battle of attrition and repetition.
The auditor attacks, the government counterattacks; she recapitulates, the Liberals reprise; she drowns the media in detail, the government deluges reporters with an unprecedented lineup of five senior cabinet ministers at a news conference.
Case in point: In three consecutive reports, the auditor keeps condemning a government decision curbing her power to vet advertising spending. It was a controversial move, but the Liberals made an arguable case that the auditor's clumsy screening was gumming up government ads.
It was the Liberals who first gave the auditor final say on its ads; a decade later, they decided to dial it down a bit, which is their right — right or wrong. The government argued that Lysyk's office was reflexively rejecting ads merely for having too much (Liberal) red in depictions of apples or bricks. They reduced her discretion, but reinforced the rules preventing politicians from appearing in ads or inserting their names.
Today, Lysyk is still fighting the advertising vetting battle she lost long ago — and won't let it go. She claims Ottawa is getting better on advertising while Queen's Park is getting worse, but as the fine print in her own report acknowledges, the federal government is only slowly catching up to where Ontario is today — still with the toughest rules in Canada.
When does the natural tension between auditor and audited cross the line from bottom lines to battle lines? Consider the case of the disappearing hard drives.
Lysyk sounded the alarm last summer in a special report on the Pan Am Games, claiming that officials had not handed over their hard drives as requested. On cue, the opposition pounced on the presumed coverup of deleted emails, demanding outside investigations (call in the OPP!).
But in a September report, the information and privacy commissioner found no deliberate attempt to thwart the auditor general before the leased hard drives were returned (their contents were retained online). The auditor's allegations didn't add up.
Against that backdrop of audits, allegations, and attrition, the Liberals are increasingly wary of Lysyk's modus operandi. And have come up with their own countermeasures to inoculate themselves.
When the auditor started poking around eHealth, the Liberals assigned their high-profile problem solver, retired TD Bank CEO Ed Clark, to pre-empt her with a report of his own. His predictable conclusions (eHealth is worth billions and has potential to do great good) were matched only by her predictable allegations (eHealth hasn't lived up to its potential and has cost billions to date).
Now, a bigger dispute is going well beyond headlines to the bottom line — potentially setting the government back billions of dollars. Once again, the Liberals are trying to discount her accounting methods.
Last summer, just as the government was coming within reach of a campaign promise to eliminate the budget deficit, Lysyk decided to move the goalposts further back. No longer could the Liberals claim certain pension surpluses as "assets" (even though pension deficits must still be counted as liabilities). Her accounting change added $2.2 billion to the current deficit, and billions more to Ontario's overall debt.
Civil servants vigorously disputed her change of heart — the auditor general's office had long endorsed the old accounting method going back to the Tory era. At an impasse, the government agreed to provisionally change the books, but promptly appointed a panel of four top accounting and pension experts to review the dispute.
In her latest report, the auditor tries to pre-empt the government's end run around her, devoting dozens of pages to her technical arguments. Lysyk's bottom line, however, is to withhold full approval for the government's books in the previous year (issuing only a "qualified audit opinion"), blaming the Liberals for using the old accounting method that she signed on to at the time.
Amid uncertainty, an auditor can issue a "qualified opinion." Not so easy for a newspaper to publish "caveat columns." But it's hard to know who's right or wrong in this high-stakes dispute until the expert panel issues its report in the weeks ahead.
The only political certainty is that this war of attrition and repetition is now an annual auditor's affair.


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All .war files are versioned, ex:
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The problem is that following directory is not cleaned after deployment:
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As the result there are many directories left from older deployments.These directories take to much disk space on server.
Is there a possibility to force weblogic to delete non-used folders in this directory? Or maybe modify deployment process, so older folders will be deleted after deployment?


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Leading rice brand Laila has announced a global, multi-million pound rebrand, unveiling a new strapline and butterfly motif this week at Gulfood, Dubai 2019.
Building on the introduction of 100% recyclable packaging across its entire range of smaller bags last November, the brand has updated its strapline, replacing 'Love Rice, Love Laila' with 'Love Laila Naturally'.
The brand's signature heart has evolved into a butterfly motif, reflecting the transformation of the brand as it doubles its efforts to attract a mainstream audience while celebrating its 'natural, environmentally friendly' credentials.
The motif will start appearing on packs from April, with a brand new Laila website in support of the major rebrand going live around the same time.
This is the first major rebrand since the brand was launched in 1996.
The move comes as Laila adds more than £3 million year on year to the rice category with sales growth of 34.6 percent during the last year. With annual sales now edging toward £12 million, Laila has achieved the biggest branded growth among the Top three UK dry rice brands for the second year running.
Laila owners Surya Foods has also seen a return of its Salaam rice brand to the UK Top 10.
"2018 was another remarkable year for Laila, however, we remain ambitious with our growth targets and this rebrand is very much about taking Laila to a mainstream audience," said Harry Dulai, managing director of Surya Foods.
The brands said a 360 degree integrated marketing campaign is underway in support of the launch and includes TV advertising, tactical radio campaigns, PR & Print advertising, shopper promotions and events, sampling, merchandising, as well as activity across Laila's digital and social media platforms.
The rebrand also highlights the brand's CSR initiatives, further reflected by its affiliation with World Food Aid – a UK charity playing its part in tackling world hunger.


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Brand: Engine Kid
Every single beautifully heavy note Engine Kid ever recorded. Equally deafening loud as eerily quiet. Six vinyl lps.
Both full length albums: "Bear Catching Fish (2xLP) & Angel Wings (2xLP)" as well as material from split albums, EPS, 7"s, comp tracks and more.
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Color Vinyl version edition of 500.
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5. Astronaut
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7. Furnace
Bear Catching Fish 2xLP
1. Bear Catching Fish
2. Rockford Files
4. Cabin Fever
5. Quarter Mile Thunder
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Angel Wings 2xLP
1. Holes To Fight In
2. Windshield
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5. Anchor
6. Herbie Hancock
7. Expressionists
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9 Stitches
10. A Quinn Martin Production
11. Angel Dust
12. Lies Like Knives
13. Olé
Split w/ Iceburn & Everything Left LP
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3. The Shining Path
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Engine Kid was born in Seattle, WA 1991. The band's original lineup consisted of guitarist/vocalist Greg Anderson (Southern Lord, Sunn O))), Thorr's Hammer, Goatsnake), drummer Chris Vandebrooke & bassist Art Behrman. The three had all been in hardcore/punk bands around town and all had a burning desire to create a sound that was unlike anything they had done in the past. After just a few months of existence they quickly recorded and self-released the Novocaine 7". Circa 92' a close friend and bassist Brian Kraft (Krafty) replaced Behrman, and at that moment the entire aesthetic and execution of sound became heavier, darker and extremely dynamic. The power trio was picked up by local label C/Z records and set out upon recording the new music they were quickly creating. In 1993 the band had two releases on C/Z. Their first offering was the Astronaut five song EP recorded by John Goodmanson. The songs were primitive and exemplified the bands worship of Slintand their loud/quiet song dynamic In the summer of 93' the band drove all the way to Chicago to record with their hero Steve Albini in the basement of his house. They emerged with the eight song album they called: Bear Catching Fish. Albini intuitively captured the band exactly as they were at that moment: RAW, VULNERABLE, & MAMMOTH.
Shortly after the albums' release Jade Devitt replaced Vandebrooke on drums. This transition was extremely crucial in the "second phase" of the group. Devitt was an absolute beast and his power helped launch the band miles beyond where they had ever been before. The sound of "The Kid" started to transform into a sound much more of their own. The three dudes were hellbent on pushing the bounds of sonic exploration to its absolute fullest. Suddenly there was an abundance of depth within the sounds they were creating. Eclectic influences of punk/hardcore (Black Flag, Die Kreuzen), Metal (Entombed, Carcass) and even jazz (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis electric era) were in a full collision course with the already dynamically heavy foundation of the band. The levee had broken and the resulting flood of sound completely saturated everything in its path.
Engine Kid toured relentlessly. They were constantly on the road playing every nook and cranny they possibly could. Any moment not spent on the road was instead spent focused on making their new material as potent as possible. Early in 94' the band decided to pay homage to their mutual love of jazz/fusion and recorded three instrumental pieces that would become a split album with like minded powerhouse Iceburn. The Engine Kid/Iceburn album showcased each group's love of jazz loosely framed by the intense enthusiasm of underground music. The album was released by Revelation records in 1994.
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Can religious Jews celebrate Sigd? If not, why not?
My kids' school did an awesome thing last week. At least, I think so. Read on and tell me if you agree.
And before you go on – I just want to add. This isn't about politics. It's not about liberal / conservative. It's not about Orthodox Zionist / Haredi. It's just about how we treat one another, and our stories.
Author and scholar Thomas King has said, "The truth about stories is, that's all we are." We are our stories, and our nation is our stories. And this is about whose stories get heard… and whose don't.
So here's what happened:
Last week, my son's school sent out an invitation via WhatsApp (if you don't live in Israel, you might not be aware of the wonders of WhatsApp -- for those who live here, it's the main way many of us communicate with the world beyond our homes, especially if we have kids in school...) to their annual commemoration of Sigd.
This was the main holiday of the beta Israel, the Jews of Ethiopia, commemorating their longing to return to Israel as well as their return to Jewish observance after years of persecution, and it was made a national holiday (albeit one with no day off) by the Knesset in 2008.
Here's the actual invitation. I've redacted the name of the school for privacy.
Fortunately, they also sent a Hebrew version which I can understand a little better!
The Hebrew version reads, in part,
Torah Reception Ceremony
in honour of the Sigd festival
We invite you to come at 8:30 for a festive event
in the presence of Kess (Rabbi) Ephraim Lawi
Wear white shirts
Come and rejoice!
Here's what I wrote when I shared this invitation happily on Facebook.
Is YOUR kid's Jewish school celebrating Sigd this week??? If not, why not?
I'm personally so happy and proud because the teacher posted the Amharic version to the WhatsApp group BEFORE the Hebrew version.
I'm not going to pretend it's perfect here. Kids from Ethiopian families have it harder in so many ways. And I believe more routine correspondence needs to go out from the school in Amharic, not just once a year. But it's a start, and a much better place for my kids to grow up as equals among Jews from all kinds of backgrounds...
And here's the reaction:
Little did I realize that some of the people in our community were not nearly as happy as I was.
To some extent, as these things do, this blew up. I don't have permission to use these individuals' words, but I will try to paraphrase their arguments without ridiculing them:
"We" are "acting like" it's a "real" Jewish holiday when Ethiopian Jews were very removed from tradition for too many years for it to be authentic (I'll come back to all those quotes in a minute – no, they don't count as ridicule)
The origin of Sigd is unclear so it's not part of the "unbroken chain" that the rest of us follow
They should not wear white shirts, as that denotes an "official" Jewish occasion
They should not have called the event a "tekes kabbalat hatorah," which I translated above as "Torah Reception Ceremony," because it can also mean "Receiving of the Torah," and therefore it seems to supplant Shavuos / Shavuot, an official Torah festival
It's confusing to kids to celebrate one particular group's custom
I want to reiterate that these are not the actual words, so if anything in these words offend you, it might well be my paraphrase. But let's take a look at those quotation marks in the first bullet point argument for a second.
"We" – one person referred to "our Ethiopian brothers" –assuming families of Ethiopian origin have as much right as Ashkenazim and Mizrachim to determine what's taught in schools, this isn't about us "letting" Ethiopians have their holiday so much as it is about parents wanting the curriculum to reflect their own children's heritage and values, period. Something probably no Ashkenazi family would argue with, as demonstrated by the vast numbers of Israeli high schoolers who fly to Poland every year with school groups, even though "we" Ashkenazim are a minority here.
"Acting like" – some people mentioned that this "pretending" to celebrate Sigd gives it some legitimacy it should not have. More on this later.
"Real" – as if all the rest of us (ugh) pursue only Jewish activities that are wholly legit, and in fact, if we found out that something we were doing was not "real," of course we'd drop it like a hot potato.
I hope I'm representing these views accurately -- but I still believe these are almost entirely wrong.
There are so many things that we do as Jews even though we're unclear about their origins, or even when we know that their origins are not part of the "unbroken chain."
Bar Mitzvah is a good example of that (14th century), something that we hold (almost?) sacred which earlier generations never heard of. Yom Haatzmaut (20th century) is another, maybe less commonly accepted. Kitniyot (13th century), which many Torah-observant Jews (maybe a majority!) frankly consider against the Torah and ridiculous, worthy of mockery. I observe all of these and more with my family and yet I expect, even demand, respect from klal Yisrael even though my traditions are outside of halacha and not normative.
More examples? Yarmulkes. Hair covering for women. I'm sure there are dozens more. The origins of all these things are lost in our distant and murky past. We can argue all we like that we've "always" done them, in an unbroken chain since Har Sinai, but it's not too easy to back up that claim. Just as beta Israel cannot back up their claim, but that doesn't render their history any less legitimate.
Notice I'm not talking about halacha, and neither is the school administration.
As far as I know, the boys in the school wore white shirts but didn't say Hallel, for instance, or daven Mussaf. I believe that would clearly have been the wrong thing. Those situations are for something very specific that Sigd doesn't meet. On Yom Hashoah we don't add them either.
(For comparison, they do wear white shirts for Yom Hashoah – just as they do, in this particular school, every single Friday, which isn't a Jewish holiday last I checked. It's just done out of respect.)
I think it's actually very fitting to celebrate a civic / national holiday (Sigd was recognized as a national holiday by the Knesset in 2008) in a white shirt. To celebrate by learning Torah from a respected elder who has helped lead his people back to Yiddishkeit after such a long celebration? Absolutely nothing in there to get our stomachs knotted up over. Unless you're worried because that elder happens to have dark skin?
Let's not go there.
Every year, we ask Ethiopian Jews here to stand and be quiet for a minute while we remember European and other Jews who died during the Shoah. Why can't our kids put on a white shirt and shut up for fifteen minutes or whatever while the Kess talks about their lives and their community?
(Whether or not the boys at my son's school actually did shut up, which of course they didn't!)
I see accepting one another, listening to each other's stories, as a huge part of life in a multicultural Israel.
In the heat of the debate, someone suggested, maybe facetiously, that it would be a good idea to invite the Yemenites in to talk about their heritage, and I say go right ahead. Invite the Moroccans, too. And the Bene Israel, of which there's a substantial group in my daughter's school. Invite anyone who wants to help preserve the stories and legends from every corner of galut (exile) within a framework of halacha and Jewish tradition.
The Torah is strong and it's what brings us together as we cling to it faithfully. We have absolutely nothing to lose and there is absolutely no threat in any of this. Intended or perceived, in my opinion, by most dati le'umi Jews in Israel.
Telling each others' stories makes us stronger as a people. Like I said, it's not about politics or religion… it's just about sitting down and listening to one another.
I wish you all malkam amet bahal! מלקם עמת בהל! חג סיגד שמח!
(Sigd photo credit (c) Olevy via Wikimedia)
Labels: dati leumi, ethiopians, government, haredim, jewy, kids, olim, schools, thots
marshall deltoff November 8, 2018 at 6:22 AM
Well said. it is arrogant and folly to say that only the Torah Judaism that one practices is the singular right way.
Tzivia November 17, 2018 at 2:45 PM
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the support.


March is Women's History Month and over at "kidlitblog" they are celebrating all month. Every day a different teacher, author, librarian, or historian, is adding a post about Women's History in Children's Books.
I've been reading the posts every day, learning about all those amazing women they didn't teach us about in school, but should have, and discovering more books to add to my to-read list. So many books, so little time!
I'll be posting about Emma Lazarus on March 26. And suggesting a link to a really wonderful short music-film on Women's History. Don't miss it!
Don't worry about arriving in the middle of March; start from today and read backwards, or go back to March 1 and go in order, or jump around and pick and choose by topic.