Many people stood up at the Martin Luther King Jr Monument last Friday
and spoke.
Here they are (we may have missed a few).
At the MLK Monument —Occupy Valdosta
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman
for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
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On
CUEE’s board web page
there’s a link,
See a list of community supporterswhich we cited back in August. It now gets 404 “No Such URL at This Domain”.
However, we know who they used to be, because that list got copied by Vote No for the Children to the two very interesting charts below, which show real estate and Valwood connections with CUEE.
So what’s going on? Did CUEE’s website get termites, and we should trust the public schools to a group that can’t keep track of its own supporters? Or have some of CUEE’s supporters defected Continue reading
Dear Media:Continue readingI am sure you are aware that the vote of whether or not to consolidate
the Valdosta City Schools into the Lowndes County School System will be held November 8, 2011. The City only is being asked to vote on whether to dissolve the Valdosta City School charter. The proponents of the referendum had a choice between putting the referendum in front of the county and city or the city alone. The Lowndes County Board of Education asked
At the MLK Monument last Friday, I brought up private prisons.
Most of the 150 people marching to
Occupy Valdosta
did not know that
the Industrial Authority is helping
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) build a private prison
in Lowndes County.
Even though it would not decrease unemployment, it would compromise
public safety, and it would probably compete with local labor.
We don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia. Spend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.
Here’s the video:
No Private Prison —John S. Quarterman
We are the 99%,
Marching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
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Here’s the contact page for the
Georgia Public Service Commission.
PSC Commissioner Lauren McDonald
has been the most vocal about wanting Georgia Power to do solar.
Commissioner Chuck Eaton and Tim Echols have both
said in public they want more solar.
PSC staff member
Tom Newsome
tried to get gapower to accept a better nuclear profit deal.
Don Parsons, chair of the energy committee of the Georgia House of Representatives, wants to write an energy plan for Georgia. A real one; not that bogus one from 2006 that nobody followed anyway.
Doug Stoner, Georgia State Senator,
has said that
Georgia Power wasn’t
building nuclear plants with private money; they were using public money,
and that even a public utility is a subsidy.
So it appears he gets it.
Scott Holcomb, Georgia State Representative, wants a state energy policy, and has said:
So we should get on with a real energy strategy for Georgia.Our lack of an energy policy is an absolute Achilles heel of our national policy.
Click on the pictures of each of the legislature members for their contact information. Even better, contact your state representative or senator. Or federal, since I think the new Plant Vogtle construction gets federal subsidies, too. Or write your local newspaper, or your local TV station, or the AJC.
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Never before in the history of Valdosta have its citizens been met with a greater challenge. The most powerful business interests in our city have conspired to deceive us with a scheme to dilute the black vote, and thereby rob our community of the political and economic benefits to which we are rightly entitled.Continue readingWe make up 55 percent of the city’s population. However, we are only 34
percent of the county’s population. If the city and county governments are consolidated, which is the real goal of the Committee for Educational Excellence (CUEE), we will lose forever the opportunity to have access to the millions of federal dollars that will come to Valdosta, with which we can rebuild our community; monies that we are now going to the North side.
This is, and never has been, about school unification. However, legally
TO: Georgia General Assembly Members (Respectively)Continue readingAll Georgia Elected Officials, Internet, blog and Beyond.
Wal-Mart workers marching in Bentonville, Arkansas, 12 October 2011
Video by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I.Why is the State of Georgia still an “At Will To Work State?” Wherein, a Georgia worker can be terminated from their job for “good
cause, bad cause or for no cause at all. And Georgia Employers are not required to provide workers with a reason for being terminated.
As a Retired United States Armed Forces Military Veteran; I was a
victim of a wrongful termination. Yet, after 3 1/2 years, 30 letters, 30 You Tube Videos, 34 pages of documented proof to the President/Board of Directors with documented proof from a former employee to the company president but no response from the company.
What is the Georgia General Assembly or any other
From: JC CunninghamContinue readingPlease read the message by Rev. Rose and then mark your calendar for Oct. 22, 2011. On that day we will have the largest March/Rally in the
history of Valdosta. This will be the March that will show everyone in Georgia and America that we the Citizens of Lowndes-Valdosta, know how to come together and we will no longer stand for the Lies, Greed, and Disrespect from Cuee. We will for once and for all tell Cuee and the Chamber that “Our Children are not for Sale” This March will show Cuee and the Chamber that when we all stand together; Democrats, Republicans, NAACP, SCLC, White, Black, Hispanic, Rich, Poor, Young and Old we show what true democracy is all about. Cuee has tried everything to break our spirit with negative campaign ads and misleading information, but they did not. They cannot break the solidarity that has grown throughout this community over the past two months.
To watch Republicans and Democrats set aside their
For those of you concerned about nuclear energy, here are some quick, meaningful actions you can take today. Maybe you aren’t concerned about nuclear energy. I bet you ARE concerned about $$$$.Learn more about how Georgia Power is getting your money at the state and federal level. All US taxpayers all over the US are basically cosigning a loan for $8.3 B for the Vogtle reactors. Simultaneously, Georgia Power is raising your electric rates to fund the pre-construction costs by pulling the same advanced cost recovery scheme as SC and FL. You can learn more about the controversy surrounding the loan guarantees here
Calculate how much Vogtle is costing you on your monthly bill
(Look for “Nuclear Construction Cost Recovery Rider:”)
-Mandy Hancock
On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Friends of Valdosta City Schools are planning a “Vote No for School Consolidation March”at 9:00 am. The March will begin at 9:30 am at the Old Tommy Griner Parking lot (across the street from the Lowndes/Valdosta chamber of commerce – Ashley Street) and end at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument at the corner of MLK and Ashley. We will have several speakers to encourage our Community to band together for a Common Cause. Please plan to attend and
invite everyone that you know to join us as we tell cuee and chamber that we will not fall for their untruths and misleading ads. Please join in the March for the Cause. Keep in mind that at the end there is no Runoff.
Keep in mind that the Ballot Question does have “Consolidation” on it now, but the answer remains the same. NO! NO! NO!
Please send to your FriendsI believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.-Sam Allen