Day: July 12, 2009

July 11 Lincoln Memorial Public Awareness Event – Orange Ribbon Campaign Kickoff for Equality And Liberty

On July 11, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) members held a public awareness event at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool steps to promote equality and liberty.  This public awareness event was the official launching of our Orange Ribbon campaign for equality and liberty.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) Orange Ribbon Campaign for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty
Orange Ribbon for Equality And Liberty

We addressed the issues of equality and liberty which are so critical to our human experience, including:

— in America, the urgent need for the support and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, and inviting the public to our August 26 event at the Freedom Plaza

— the recognition of the global hate crime of misogyny and the need to treat misogynist actions as hate crimes

— the 1 billion that continue to suffer under Communist oppression in Communist China with over 1,000 “forced labor camps” imprisoning 6.8 million, the Communist oppression of people in North Korea including millions starved to death and also put in “forced labor camps”, and continuing Communist oppression of people in Vietnam.  We also promoted the July 19 Million Minutes of Meditation rally for freedom in China and for the Falun Gong to be held on the National Mall

— the continuing Racial Supremacism based out of the same institutionalized hate that denies our universal human rights, with thousands members of over 900 racial supremacist hate groups in America today.  We pointed to our warning about such racial supremacism in April at our last Lincoln Memorial event, and the tragic murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum since that time by white supremacist Neo-Nazi Von Brunn.  We pointed to those who praised Von Brunn as “an intelligent man” right after the attack, and how hate continues to get a platform in America.   We also invited the public to join our public awareness event challenging racial supremacism on August 28, the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial;  our August 28 public event challenging racial supremacism will be held at the Robert E. Lee Memorial.

— the challenge of religious extremists using “religious arguments” as a disguise for those whose institutionalized hate leads to violence against women, homosexuals, religious minorities around the world on a regular basis – and why such hate against our fellow human beings must never be legitimized or rationalized as anything other than hate.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty continues to offer a solution to such injustice, inequality, and institutionalized hate – and we believe that the answer is LOVE.

We believe that Love Wins and will ultimately prevail over all forms of institutionalized hate and injustice.

We call on our fellow human beings to be Responsible for Equality And Liberty and join our Orange Ribbon campaign to promote public awareness of the urgent need to continue to defend our universal human rights, through our love for our fellow human beings.

Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Promotes Equality And Liberty Through Love as the Answer to Institutionalized Hate
Responsible for Equality And Liberty's Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Responsible for Equality And Liberty’s Jeffrey Imm Addresses the Need for the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) at the Lincoln Memorial
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights - Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Orange Ribbon for Universal Human Rights – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

Mauritania: Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election

(Mauritania) Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania’s presidential election
— Daily Telegraph reports: “More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania”
— “A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.”
— “like thousands of other slaves and freed slaves across the Saharan country, her hopes are fixed on an inspirational candidate, a man born to slave parents who has sworn to put an end to the practice of ‘owning’ humans if he is elected president.”
— “That candidate is Messaoud Ould Boulkheir”…. “there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country’s 3.2 million people”

North Korea: U.S. seeks amnesty for two held in North Korea — Laura Ling and Euna Lee

(North Korea) U.S. seeks amnesty for two held in North Korea — Laura Ling and Euna Lee
— “The United States has dropped its request that two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea be released on humanitarian grounds, and is seeking amnesty instead, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said”
— ” A plea for amnesty implies forgiveness for some offense.”
— “The women — Laura Ling and Euna Lee — were sentenced in June to 12 years in prison on charges of entering the country illegally to conduct a smear campaign”

Iranian Christian leader fears more violence – killing of “Iranians who’ve left the Islamic faith”

(Iran) Colorado Springs Iranian Christian leader fears more violence
— KOAA reports: “The Colorado Springs leader of the group ‘Iranian Christians International’ fears the violence in Iran may get worse.”
— “ICI tries to help Christians who are being persecuted in Iran. Abe Ghaffari is the president of ICI. He became a Christian, fled Iran and founded the international group to help Iranians who’ve left the Islamic faith.”
— “‘Just like you see the protestors in the streets of Tehran, they are taking their lives into their hands so to speak, these Muslims who become Christians, they have no protection under the Islamic constitution of Iran,’ he told News First.”
— “He says Muslims who convert to Christianity in Iran can be killed and the murderer not punished.”